Transforming Succubus: Almost Doomsday

Zhou Baiyu was very happy.

He was going through intense blind dating.

After finishing the second round of defense mode, people quickly digested all the gossip revealed when Ryan was still alive.

No one noticed that the world had briefly been "sincere."

Everything went back to normal.

In the transfer station, people discussed how the pioneering legend Jiang Xianwu managed the defense mode, wondering what exactly this newly acclaimed legend had done.

But Zhou Baiyu didn't care about these things; he even lied to his teammates at his real-world base.

Since he hadn't been summoned, Zhou Baiyu had been slacking off in the reality of Linxiang City for these past few days.

As befits the reputation of Aunt Wang from Yikexincheng, his mother Wang Shufen arranged dozens of blind dates for Zhou Baiyu.

Zhou Baiyu was no longer resistant and thoroughly enjoyed the battle of wits between single men and women of a certain age.

There's an old saying that blind dates involve the men who are worst at handling women trying to impress women who are hardest to win over by men. This saying is somewhat biased.

But from another perspective, many things are actually quite interesting.

Despite having been a savior, being in a regular coffee shop on a blind date was a peculiar feeling for Zhou Baiyu.

Especially, he enjoyed the feeling influenced by the temperament of the God of Difference and Chaos.

This process, of being inherently disliked and then gradually changing attitudes through one's characteristics, made Zhou Baiyu feel like it was a leveling-up experience.

Each party took their turn to speak, asking about the other's conditions with offense and defense switching numerous times, and truth intermingled with lies.

It can be said that once one overcomes social anxiety, this game becomes very interesting.

However, Zhou Baiyu wasn't always idle.

During these days, he and his team members had been continuously investigating various pollutants. Because of their previous memories, their search efficiency was exceptionally high.

Linxiang City was long missing, returning to a completely unpolluted state.

In the meantime, Guang Tongchen, Waking Dreams, and Snow Demon all attended a summoning once, with Snow Demon almost getting killed. But relying on the extraordinary luck of "One Shot Soul," Snow Demon survived at the last moment and completed the summoning with a C-grade score.

Zhou Baiyu himself encountered a seven-day countdown.

As always, every time the countdown appeared, Zhou Baiyu treated it as potentially the last summoning of his life.

The unpredictability of life says no one can be sure whether they'll come back alive from the next summoning.

But this time was different from before; with two hours left before the countdown ended, when he saw the update contents and the summoning details, he even doubted if he had read it wrong.

[Version 1.22 update announcement.]

The update was about minor numerical changes, nothing particularly noteworthy.

Having experienced versions starting with 2 before, these numeric changes gave Zhou Baiyu a feeling of going back to the past.

He found it strange; this was the first time he had encountered such a low version number.

Especially when he saw the summoning area was a C-level corrupted zone, he suddenly felt like his luck had finally returned to that of a normal person.

[Guild Trial Round Two, difficulty: D-level. Corruption level in the area: C-level.]

[In a secret gaming house in Songjiang City, there are a few corrupted creatures hiding. With their bizarre rules, they have caused changes to the video game house.]

[Would you like to experience those interesting games? Maybe you will find the true meaning of the world, or perhaps, find a prop inside the game.]

[Trial requirements: Survive successfully in the gaming house for eight hours or find hidden content and complete it.]

Dazed.

Zhou Baiyu had never thought he'd see such an ordinary version update announcement, such a common summoning trial content.

What does that feel like?

Although nothing is absolute, accustomed to versions starting with 2, accustomed to A and S-level difficulty...

Suddenly encountering version 1.2, suddenly seeing letters like C and D, especially when he currently has plenty of items and many trump cards... Zhou Baiyu felt like he was on a fake trip.

It was as if the company said someone was being sent on a business trip that would be very tough and far, only to find out it was actually a business talk in the Maldives with all expenses paid.

He felt that probably blind dating was more difficult than this.

Of course, Zhou Baiyu was confident but not conceited, and certainly not careless.

He treated every summoning as if facing a great enemy, so as always, he ended his journey of blind dating and headed to the transfer station once again.

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...

Under the pink lights, Sister Lin smoked, lounging on the bar like an opium smoker from the late Qing dynasty.

She looked particularly decadent, but probably the other intermediaries were very envious of Sister Lin.

In the Voice of Pioneers, within the guild channel, several newbies were asking for help.

"Help! Version 1.22... It's that death game house, I never played games as a kid, I'm doomed!"

"The pass rate for that place is only thirty-two percent, and there are five of us participating this time, things are looking bad."

"Does our team not have any clairvoyants?"

"What do we do now?"

Mutator Xinkui suddenly said:

"Don't panic, haven't you noticed we have Jiang Xianwu in our team?"

Xinkui was also in this Guild Trial.

He was much calmer than the others because he knew very well how reliable Jiang Xianwu was.

Ever since return from the Land of No Light, Xinkui had caught up on a lot of history, spending many of his pioneer points on buying guides.