Transforming Succubus: Almost Doomsday

"When Blue lost control last time, causing several workers to go missing, was there any anomaly with those kids... Cough cough cough..."

Responding to the director was a middle-aged woman's voice:

"No, we've already transferred Blue to the surveillance area."

"Good, well done. Blue's powers are too aggressive; it's best to keep them sealed for now. These children... they're all treasures, cough cough cough... cough cough..."

The director was coughing, sounding very agitated.

Zhou Baiyu felt a strange sensation in his heart as he experienced this memory.

Who is the director?

What exactly is the Holy Sanctuary for? Where did it originate?

If the gods are at the apex, then what are these children?

In the Nightmare Bridge, if the people who were saved are considered, then in theory, these individuals' powers should be far greater than those who saved them.

Zhou Baiyu suddenly remembered: had Huang Miu been pretending all along?

Could it be that the real enemies the Sanctuary's Children, those colorful gourd kids, are trying to evade are not the demons?

Zhou Baiyu felt increasingly that the version 2.0 of Nightmare Bridge, this intermediate version, seemed far more important than his understanding.

Unfortunately, he had not been involved.

If the demons knew just how important these individuals codenamed after colors were, they would surely stop at nothing to capture them.

Given the strength of the forerunners at that time, they definitely wouldn't have survived a full-scale search by the demons.

And at that time, Huang Miu and the others... seem to have chosen different directions.

Huang Miu's disguise might have stemmed from a kind of... self-awareness.

He was very aware that if his value were known, it could lead to some disturbances.

At that moment, Zhou Baiyu had an urge to summon the strange train and see Huang Miu again.

"By now, only Bai Ye hasn't awakened yet, right? It seems that among all the kids, his awakening is the slowest. He doesn't socialize much and appears somewhat aloof."

"Judging by the order, his powers should be at the bottom of the group."

The director's tone seemed somewhat disappointed.

From the director's words, it appeared that the order of awakening of the seven Children of the Holy Sanctuary was very important.

The first to awaken signifies the strongest.

Was Huang Miu the first one?

Zhou Baiyu found this laughable.

The Blue Hole seemed much stronger than Huang Miu.

Is Bai Ye the last one?

Then, the woman's voice rang out:

"Except for Huang Miu being the first, we cannot clearly determine the order of the others. As you know, these children are compliant with us... but without exception, aside from Huang Miu, each child has reservations and hides something from us."

"They are all trying hard to conceal their powers."

"Baiyu was the last one whose powers were discovered, but her powers...are also the most elusive, so it is possible that she was not the penultimate one to awaken; she was just the second to last to be discovered. The same inference can be made for the others."

"Except that Huang is the first to awaken, we are uncertain about the rest. Even... we should strengthen surveillance on Bai Ye, has he really not awakened?"

After a long silence, accompanied by his cough, the director slowly said:

"Cough cough, the adults outside are still searching for a way to break the barrier. Before that happens, we must maintain our facade."

"We can't have another incident like with Blue. Gaining the children's complete trust is what you need to focus on. If the children keep distrusting you..."

"Then use Blue to shift those perceptions."

"Before the adults enter, we need to have the children completely obey us."

The memory ended there.

Zhou Baiyu pieced together clues from the content of the memory—

If he wasn't mistaken, the director seemed to have allied with a power outside the barrier and was plotting something.

The children of the Holy Sanctuary seemed more like some form of leverage. It was at this moment that Bai Ye's voice emerged:

"Humans, pioneers, the corrupted breed, the demon race, and we, in a sense, are all searching for the true method to avert the apocalypse. Mr. Zhou Baiyu, our importance may far exceed your understanding. The forces we are up against are more formidable than you can imagine."

"Gods turned into rules, but every god has a trick up their sleeve. Anyone who has reached the level of a god has their contingency."

"Beneath the gambles of the rules, you pioneers, the Purists, and we have emerged."

"We are not enemies. On the contrary, since your mission is to protect us, you can see... we are on the same path."

This speech made Zhou Baiyu feel something was not quite right.

But for the moment, Zhou Baiyu had no rebuttal.

The memory was still playing.

"Actually, my ability awakened second fastest after Huang Miu. As I said, I'm the gardener."

"My ability is to bring out the abilities of others, to help them grow."

After Bai Ye finished speaking, Zhou Baiyu saw a peculiar scene.

The view focused on an insect in the grass—a beetle.

The beetle looked formidable, its thick shell gleaming with a dark luster, intimidating to some people. Its size was colossal compared to ants; it was truly a behemoth.

But this beetle was dead.

An ant had bitten through the beetle's belly and crawled out from within the beetle.

Zhou Baiyu thought he was witnessing the famous "ants overpowering an elephant."

But the reality was different from what he had imagined—

Because there were only two ants. Two ants had killed a beetle.

This sounded incredible, like an ordinary person managing to knock down a tiger with a sliding tackle.

Zhou Baiyu understood the metaphor.