Transforming Succubus: Almost Doomsday

With Zhou Baiyu's hints, many found that Zhou Shou was indeed in great pain.

Some of the more seasoned pioneers had even witnessed with their own eyes someone revealing too much information, only to be erased by the rules, bleeding from all seven orifices until they met a terrifying death.

Zhou Shou now had a bit of that look about him.

"A person can talk a lot, can be very foolish, can be arrogant enough to think they have it all in the bag. But would a person really spill so much substantial information on purpose, knowing full well about the erasing rules?"

Tianxia Wuer began to ponder internally.

He certainly wanted to avenge Dafeng Qi Xi, who was one of his most trusted subordinates.

But Zhou Shou, he was acting very strangely.

And Guang Tongchen, who felt indifferent towards that Dafeng Qi Xi, was even more neutral, having already noticed many oddities.

Moreover, Guang Tongchen seemed to have a tacit understanding of "Jiang Xianwu".

Not long ago, he saw through Jiang Xianwu's fabricated persona at a glance. Now, he easily understood the true intention behind Jiang Xianwu's words.

So Guang Tongchen spoke up:

"I think Zhou Shou is somewhat mad, but he certainly shouldn't be foolish."

"In these contents, Zhou Shou revealed that he is a Reverser, capable of walking backward through the rules of time."

"He revealed that there's a one in ten thousand chance he might arrive in version 1.0."

"He revealed he works for seven suspected mighty demons."

"He revealed that he comes from version 2.49, and also hinted that a treasure is hidden in Linxiang City."

"He almost told us everything—the coordinates, the purpose, the crisis, the opportunity, and even the mastermind behind the scenes."

"Jiang Xianwu is right, Zhou Shou's words are too much, far too much—so much so that he almost got erased by the rules. This is illogical."

Zhou Baiyu was inwardly grateful, Guang Tongchen was so perceptive!

Guang Tongchen seemed to have a deep insight into Zhou Baiyu, while Zhou Baiyu also had a thorough understanding of Guang Tongchen's intentions—

This person was speaking up for him.

Zhou Baiyu sent Guang Tongchen a friend request.

But interestingly, Guang Tongchen did not immediately accept.

In another hub station, as a follower of the Dark Night and Concealing God, who has already reached the third tier and was on the verge of the fourth, the Concealment Owl, who shares a characteristic with Guang Tongchen—Trace of Words.

He could sense the genuine emotions of others through their words, even if it was just text.

So he was very aware that the fear in Jiang Xianwu's words on the Pioneer Voices was somewhat different from that of ordinary people. Although it was fear, it seemed different from the source of other people's fear. It even had a hint of excitement.

So he began to ponder the reason for this fear.

He quickly came to a conclusion—Jiang Xianwu knew Zhou Shou.

This was getting interesting.

Guang Tongchen's first thought was whether the exceptionally outstanding Jiang Xianwu was actually a Reverser hiding among the pioneers?

But being a betting man, Guang Tongchen decided to make a wager. Because Zhou Shou had revealed too much information, he chose to bet on the possibility that Zhou Shou was Jiang Xianwu's informant.

So he decided to see the good deed through.

He intended to use his status in the pioneer community to take care of the aftermath on behalf of Jiang Xianwu.

Zhou Baiyu, far away at the God of Difference and Chaos's hub station, showed a meaningful smile.

"Guang Tongchen, truly an interesting person. Normally, it's only others who are transparent before me, but I always feel like this person seems to see right through all of my thoughts."

"This is too amusing."

Guang Tongchen began to gradually convince everyone that Zhou Shou's behavior was contradictory, to make Zhou Shou seem less despicable, guiding them towards thinking in a certain direction.

Zhou Baiyu didn't speak, only continuously expressed his agreement.

He actually didn't know whether Zhou Shou was truly a "double agent".

To Zhou Baiyu, his only connection to Zhou Shou was a mysterious hall in the realm of consciousness, which housed a statue of Zhou Shou.

But perhaps like the attendant's memories, it was also affecting Zhou Baiyu…

Zhou Baiyu, who should not have taken the risk, still saw Zhou Shou as his brother.

If the younger brother caused trouble, shouldn't the older brother step in to settle it?

Zhou Baiyu began to recall the past of the "attendant".

The two brothers, orphaned at a young age, wandered outside in an era where humans were no different from animals, never daring to approach cities.

Because all cities had been occupied by demons.

Along the way, as the older brother, he always prioritized giving the edible stuff to his younger brother.

Tree roots, grass, Guanyin clay, there was nothing the two brothers hadn't eaten before; within the corpses of dead animals, the older brother would dig out some relatively clean meat, then cook it over a fire, giving most of it to his younger brother.

Sometimes, he would suppress his hunger, telling his younger brother he wasn't hungry, only to be mercilessly betrayed by the growls of his stomach.

The younger brother's dependency on his older brother probably started at that time.

It seemed that apart from offering his own flesh and blood to his brother, the older brother had done all that he could.

Unlike the people in the Tower of Gu, those brothers truly represented the light of humanity in the post-apocalyptic world.

Finally, after much hardship, the two brothers arrived outside Linxiang City and found a human settlement.

This place was already ruled by demons, demanding regular human sacrifices.

The brothers were quite young at that time and not aware that after the version 2.0 post-apocalyptic era, places where people gathered rarely housed good souls.

Or rather, good and bad had lost their basic meaning. Everyone was engaged in the same activity—survival.

Surviving at all costs, with all their wits, by any means necessary.

The villagers seemed to have some other plans for the two brothers, who aside from their daily hard labor, had not experienced any trouble. But the older brother was very aware that one day, they would encounter malice from other humans.

The wheels of fate began to turn.

A man who proclaimed himself a "Reverser" took a liking to a particular trait of the younger brother and decided to take him as his Disciple.

The older brother agreed.

Because he had long known that the villagers would one day turn against them, and he could not always protect his younger brother.

In the village, there were always some good-looking individuals who... mysteriously disappeared.

Thus, the younger brother left. Not long after, the older brother, growing increasingly handsome, was coveted by the third-class human livestock of the village.

That's where the tragedy began; the brothers who once depended on each other for survival—

One became an experimental subject for the Devouring Demon.

The other became an attendant, soaked in a medicinal bath, stripped of his consciousness.

They had agreed to reunite, but the reality was... from the moment the older brother became an attendant, he had already become the living dead.

Without the Reverser's "turning back" mechanism, the attendant's ultimate fate would have been to become a love swaying in the wind, created by Midel.

Zhou Baiyu's thoughts returned to the present.

Currently, on the page of the Reverser's Voice, two opinions were already present—

"We don't know if Zhou Shou is helping us, but the fact that he killed Senior Da Feng Qi Xi is indisputable. Murder demands a life in return, what else is there to say?"

This was the first opinion, and the second opinion—

"Zhou Shou indeed has many issues, but the information he revealed is too much, almost as if he is intentionally reminding us. I believe Zhou Shou is complicated and we cannot simply label him as our enemy."

The two factions argued incessantly when Guang Tongchen finally accepted Zhou Baiyu's friend request:

"I've done what I should have done, now it's time for you to show what you can do."

Zhou Baiyu understood perfectly. Whether Zhou Shou was a friend or foe, a solution had to be provided.

There needed to be a representative from the Reversers to approach Zhou Shou, deal with him, and demands a reasonable explanation from him.

And that person could only be Zhou Baiyu himself.

~~~~~~~~~~End of Chapter~~~~~~~~

(It's been over a dozen days since the book was released, and I've written 120,000 words, which is quite a lot for the timid me. It seems I haven't asked for votes yet, so taking advantage of the beginning of the month, I'm asking for some now, with more updates tomorrow.)