Transforming Succubus: Almost Doomsday

At this moment, Zhou Baiyu's mind was flooded with an abundance of memories.

This was highly illogical.

Because Zhou Baiyu, the possessor of the All Gods' Treasure Void Dream, was basically immune to mental invasions.

A deluge of memories about the "newbie" poured into Zhou Baiyu's brain, memories that would establish new values and thereby influence Zhou Baiyu's choices.

Zhou Baiyu only felt a sharp pain in his brain.

Countless voices were calling out in his mind—

"Choose A! Choose A! Choose A! I need money! I need a lot of money!"

The thought was so intense it was as if hundreds of newbies were incessantly clamoring.

Zhou Baiyu took a deep breath and quickly reminisced about his parents.

The faces of Wang Shufen and Zhou Zeshui flashed through his mind, and he soon calmed down.

"It seems, it's not just Fang Xuan..."

Though his brain throbbed with pain and the memories brought great turmoil, Zhou Baiyu managed to sort out some clues in a very short time.

"After defeating the Eternal Night, I obtained the All Gods' Treasure Void Dream, whose ability granted me immunity to most forms of mental invasion."

"But now, I've truly been implanted with the memories of a newbie, which must be the result of some rule, rather than an individual's doing."

"So from this, we can infer..."

"Honest folks, upright people, busybodies, smart alecks, femme fatales, peacemakers, flatterers... and newbies, have all seemingly been turned into a game."

"It's not just Fang Xuan alone, every single person in the entire company has been turned into a game."

"And as this game progresses to a certain stage, one will gain the memories of another."

This was undoubtedly a very frightening thing.

An important aspect of the game is role-playing. A good game, whether it's the best-in-class P5, another top-rated Zelda, or even God of War 5 and its series of sequels...

All game designers actually consider two core aspects: gameplay and immersion.

The latter is actually critical, perhaps even more moving to some gamers than the former gameplay aspect.

Because once you're truly immersed, you might regret killing the wrong person in a game intensely.

But absolute immersion does not exist.

You are fundamentally different from Trevor, Franklin, and Michael, and you know you are not that all-permissive assassin; in reality, you're even less likely to encounter many gruesome events.

So in a game, you tend to make calm decisions.

But what if...

You were to possess the true memories of a "game character"?

At this moment, this was the case for Zhou Baiyu, who now truly held the "newbie's" memories.

Even as he repeatedly told himself in his mind—I am Zhou Baiyu, my parents are not those of a newbie, my mother Wang Shufen and my father Zhou Zeshui are doing well, there's no need for me to engage in anything particularly difficult...

Another part of his memory still desperately longed to choose A.

Eventually, Zhou Baiyu made the choice to select A.

But this was an inevitable outcome, one that had to be chosen both rationally and emotionally.

"The sense of immersion brought on by the memories is indeed powerful, but fortunately, perhaps due to my status as a forerunner experiencing much, I can still distinguish clearly which memories are implanted and which are genuinely mine."

"I can't choose B. If this were a single-player game, choosing B might be an option, to end the game early with no threat to life, at the expense of my safety, and maybe a lower completion score."

"But Xinkui and the others are still here; I can't abandon them. To learn more of the story, I can only choose A."

Zhou Baiyu had now completely calmed down.

He also noticed one piece of information—

The newbie's past had similarities with Fang Xuan's.

Both of them liked "mature older sister" types of women. It had to be said, this was quite an insight. As the saying goes, "Youth doesn't know the appeal of an older sister," finding the right answer so young meant they had less of a detour than others.

"Newbie and Fang Xuan are completely different people, so the one thing they have in common is very worth paying attention to, both men like the same type of woman..."

"And also, there was an option before, where Newbie saw the femme fatale and thought she was beautiful, and overtime didn't seem so bad."

"Doesn't this imply that the femme fatale is precisely the type that Newbie likes?"

"What about the others? Do they also have this option? If they have this option... then wouldn't it be, that this entire company, every man has the same preference?"

Although this was speculation without evidence, Zhou Baiyu still followed this line of thought for a while.

He suddenly felt a chill thinking about it.

Honest folks, upright people, flatterers, busybodies, smart alecks, peacemakers, newbies.

Seven different characters with a commonality, all in the same company.

Wasn't that a bit too coincidental?

Fang Xuan must have conducted investigations on each of them. But why?

He must have been aiming to perform some kind of test.

Just like at the moment, the Newbie "I" was playing received a challenge.

Zhou Baiyu took a deep breath, and the answer became increasingly clear:

"It seems that Fang Xuan is hoping to find different people to perform various tests, to obtain the result he desires?"

This question provided Zhou Baiyu with a substantial amount of information, not only about the Newbie's memories, but also because during the previous school level, Zhou Baiyu had learned about Fang Xuan's past.