Transforming Succubus: Almost Doomsday

The conversation between Bai Ye and Bai Ling must have taken place when Bai Ling was only a few years old.

Therefore, Zhou Baiyu quickly realized there was something amiss.

Bai Ye started wandering with his daughter and wife shortly after the apocalypse began.

Then they found a refuge.

But Bai Ye said that he had come into contact with the All Gods' Language a long, long time ago?

This seemed implausible.

Could it be possible that Bai Ye knew about the All Gods' Language before the apocalypse?

But then Zhou Baiyu thought again, why couldn't he? Maybe Bai Ye really did have such an opportunity.

However, if Bai Ye did know about the All Gods' Language before the apocalypse began,

would Bai Ye... really have experienced the collapse of the scientific concept?

Having been pre-emptively inoculated, would Bai Ye truly feel that the fall of science meant life was hopeless upon the apocalypse?

Or was it...

that all of this was just Bai Ye's pretense?

The only answer seemed to be that Bai Ye was feigning madness.

No, not madness, but despondency. Pretending to be crushed.

In order to evade certain gazes.

But who might that be? Whom was Bai Ye's deception designed to fool?

Seamer?

No, that can't be right. Bai Ye had already adopted the despondent "science is dead" persona before he met the Seamer.

A?

That didn't seem to be the case either, as A had always been encouraging Bai Ye to come to terms with it, to learn how to study and exploit the corruption.

The current information was not sufficient to deduce the outcome. However, Zhou Baiyu could be certain that Bai Ye was definitely not a person who committed reckless suicide for his daughter and wife only to die at the hands of the Seamer.

Bai Ling quickened her pace, walking ahead of Zhou Baiyu, then turned her head to look back at Zhou Baiyu and said:

"Why are you asking all this? Is the reason you brought me into the tower just to find out some things about my father?"

"If so, does that mean my father was involved in something very important?"

Bai Ling spread her arms, blocking Zhou Baiyu's path on the endless staircase.

Zhou Baiyu stopped in his tracks:

"I can't tell you why just yet. Because everything I presume about your father is just speculation."

"Perhaps your father is involved in something grand, or perhaps... he is working on something others would consider a delusional fantasy."

Bai Ling's voice trembled:

"He's not, already dead?"

"Who knows? You didn't see it with your own eyes, did you?"

Zhou Baiyu's calm response was meant to prevent giving Bai Ling false hope.

But the calmer Zhou Baiyu appeared, the more someone as astute as Bai Ling sensed he was confident.

"Tell me, Jiang Xianwu, what exactly happened to my father?" Bai Ling still blocked Zhou Baiyu's path.

Zhou Baiyu shook his head:

"I'm just certain that a person who can decipher such languages is definitely not someone who is at a total loss when facing corruption."

"That's all I can tell you for now, but I promise you that as soon as I have news of your father, I will inform you immediately!"

Bai Ling looked at Zhou Baiyu for a long while.

Guang Tongchen also remained silent throughout this process, realizing that Zhou Baiyu's connections were truly bizarre.

He always managed to know all sorts of odd people.

In fact, Guang Tongchen had heard something before: all major professions have two branches, the original upgrade path and the walker path.

Overlord, Dark Walker, different walker, Fate Walker...

These branches are the second developmental paths pioneered by the nine ancient Gods, seemingly to deal with some disaster.

And the different walker is quite special. Ji Ye, the intermediary of the Dark Night and Concealing God, once mentioned in casual conversation with Guang Tongchen:

"Put simply, the different walker path requires friends."

The difference between the Overlord and the Sea Breaker is that the Sea Breaker follows the path of destruction,

while the Overlord follows the path of mental power.

Hence, Guang Tongchen felt that the walker path represents another possibility for each profession, as well as the ancient Gods' fallback plan to counteract the twilight of the gods.

But he had never imagined that the prerequisite for becoming a different walker was friendship.

This God of Games and Entertainment really doesn't play by the rules. At that time, Guang Tongchen truly didn't understand why "friend" was the key element for a Mutator to evolve into a different walker.

But now, Guang Tongchen seemed to finally understand.

So-called friends weren't referring to friends in the usual sense.

Instead, it referred to "those who are different."

Corrupted beings, demonic races, polluted species, Reversers, Fate Walkers. Even, the gods themselves.

To humans, all these are different.

Yet it seemed Zhou Baiyu welcomed them all without exception.

As a result, when Zhou Baiyu stepped onto the second level, he triggered the path of the different walker.

But why would that god choose "friend," or perhaps "different species," as the second branch?

Bai Ling finally stepped aside and accepted Zhou Baiyu's reasoning.

The scenery in front of them was finally no longer an endlessly ascending staircase.

Bai Ling, along with Guang Tongchen and Zhou Baiyu, were all shaken by the sight at the end of the staircase...

It was a square.

The ground of the square was paved with black Crystal Stones, which also constructed hundreds of statues.

If a Mutator were here, they would probably recognize many of the famous new gods' statues.

These black Crystal Stone statues were as lifelike as terracotta warriors.

Each statue was roughly three meters tall.

The myriad new gods weren't all in human form; most of the new gods were formed through Divine Endowment by corrupted beings.

So many of the new gods had a look that said, "I'm gradually understanding everything," possessing a certain cool aesthetic.

In short, they looked quite novel.

Bai Ling and Guang Tongchen, looking at all kinds of new god statues, were immensely shocked.

Although they didn't know these were gods.

But it seems the statues still retained some of the deities' majesty.

They could all feel that the people corresponding to these statues were ones who had once commanded great power and respect.

"I always feel like that statue looks a lot like you..." Guang Tongchen said to Bai Ling.

Bai Ling looked toward the statue Guang Tongchen pointed at, then paused and stared intently.

She found it did indeed resemble her quite a bit.

With short hair, cool eyes, and bandages wrapped around her body. Only the attire was different. And perhaps due to the craftsmanship, there were some slight differences in the facial features.

"Just a coincidence."

After noticing some differences, Bai Ling didn't pay too much attention.

However, there was one statue that also captured Bai Ling's attention.

The feature of this statue — it had no shape.

Yes, at first glance, it seemed as if the statue didn't exist.

But with careful observation, one could see some details of the statue from the reflections on the black Crystal Stone statues around it.

After a long look, Bai Ling realized it was a long-haired man with his hair down, with some kind of talisman carved on his face, in the act of drawing his sword.

Neither the hairstyle nor the clothing was similar to Guang Tongchen.

But Bai Ling felt subtly that this statue greatly resembled Guang Tongchen.

Zhou Baiyu's focus was completely different from the two of them.

In the vast square, countless statues stood tall.

This scene was very much like the Memory Palace in Zhou Baiyu's mind.

Or to put it another way, Zhou Baiyu's mind's "gacha pool."

But in reality, there was still a big difference from the gacha pool.

It's just that the structure was very similar, both being very spacious places with many statues.

However, the palace in his mind was full of people he might recognize.

As for this palace, Zhou Baiyu was sure that those standing here were all gods.

There were old gods as well as new gods. He couldn't recognize them because there was no additional information beneath the statues.

The new gods were in the center of the hall, and the deeper into the hall, the fewer gods there were.

Walking to the back of the hall, Zhou Baiyu discovered some "familiar" gods.

Although he couldn't recognize them, or rather had never seen the new gods,

yet, by looking at the god holding a game controller and wearing VR equipment, dressed fashionably, Zhou Baiyu was immediately reminded of that god who was turned into a laughingstock by a jester god —

The God of Games and Entertainment.

Therefore, Zhou Baiyu could confirm that after arriving at All Gods Square from the endless staircase, the deeper into the square one went, the more powerful the corresponding gods of the statues became.

He looked ahead.

The first row.

There were only eight statues in that row.

The eight great old gods.

Among them, in positions four and five, Zhou Baiyu hadn't seen, but looking at the death scythe and the giant clock behind...

Zhou Baiyu guessed that these two gods must be the God of Death and Reincarnation, and the Time and Space God.

And the other six gods were the rest of the eight great old gods.

Zhou Baiyu was somewhat surprised, where was that "jester god"?

Zhou Baiyu's gaze continued to move back, but still didn't see that jesting god.

But at this time, the Book of Chaos seemed to react.

In Zhou Baiyu's mind, the sound of pages turning echoed.