Transforming Succubus: Almost Doomsday

The next day.

Awoken by Mark's dream infusion and verbal hints, Zhou Baiyu realized she was caught in a loop.

It was six in the morning, and this time, Zhou Baiyu was still clueless.

Although Mark would tell her what had happened, her own memory had been reset, so many of her problem-solving approaches were likely to be repeated.

First, she thought of gathering everyone. Then, she considered going to the transfer station.

But she had already tried these things.

"Not only my memory is reset, but everyone's memories are reset. I can instruct the president and the others to do certain things... but that means the annotations needing to be added will keep increasing."

"At the end of the day, Mark said the only things that can be remembered are my own experiences, but I can't control other people's experiences."

"Moreover, the real world is vast... The pollution source has been contaminating for more than twenty days, strengthened three times already. It seems that even if the pollution source isn't in Linxiang City, it doesn't matter."

"Even... the pollution source might not be in this world at all, because from what we've seen, all the forerunners can't enter the Advanced World."

"Before that, I need to run an experiment."

Zhou Baiyu thought of a possibility. But it would take a bit of time to verify.

For now, she still got up early to wash up, then informed everyone, and told all those living with her where to search and where had already been searched.

Zhou Baiyu noticed the president's knife, but soon realized that it wasn't enough to break the cycle.

Indeed, the Dark Verdict could sever certain conceptual rules. But this required a massive number of slayings with Guang Tongchen, which involved living beings.

However—without access to the Advanced World, Guang Tongchen surely couldn't slay the living beings of the real world.

After some thought, Zhou Baiyu decided to proceed with the experiment in the evening.

...

Nightfall.

After a busy day, everyone indeed found no clues.

Yet in the human world, people are born every day, and people die every day.

In the loop, Zhou Baiyu verified the first thing she wanted to check today—

Life and death were included in the cycle.

Those who died that day due to crime, disaster, or illness would be resurrected the next day and die again for the same reasons.

Zhou Baiyu decided to try intervening in these people's life and death to see if it would change anything.

But she also knew that most likely, besides altering their day's causality, nothing else would change.

If they didn't die today, they would tomorrow. For now, she had no other option; she could only try more experiments to see if there were any bugs in the loop, any force higher than the loop that the loop couldn't repeat.

This was the first thing Zhou Baiyu verified.

The second thing Zhou Baiyu verified was that, at a little past three in the morning, she went to the transfer station.

The middlemen never rested.

Divided into "countless parts," middlemen could recover their strength through a portion of their avatars resting.

But Lin, the middlewoman in charge of Zhou Baiyu, never rested.

Upon Zhou Baiyu's arrival at the transfer station, Lin guessed what he was up to, just by the time.

"It's no use, little brother," Lin sighed resignedly.

Zhou Baiyu didn't expect Lin to dismiss his idea before he even spoke.

"There's a limited amount of time you can stay in the transfer station, and that's why it's called a transfer station. It's a space that doesn't belong to the Advanced World nor the real world, but at the same time, it belongs to both the Advanced World and the real world."

That statement was somewhat contradictory, and Lin slowly explained:

"When you enter the transfer station from the real world, then the transfer station, just for you, becomes a part of the real world."

"When you return to the transfer station after completing a summoning in the Advanced World, then the transfer station, just for you, is a part of the Advanced World."

Zhou Baiyu understood.

"Unless you are summoned, when you enter the transfer station from the real world after being summoned, the transfer station, for you, becomes a part of the Advanced World."

"That's why I can only make you a drink only after you've completed a summoning and returned to the transfer station from the Advanced World, or when you are entering the transfer station after being summoned."

"The transfer station can shield many rules, but there are some quite forceful ones it can't. The effects brought by the defense mode are among those."

"Lastly, even though you've reached the third tier, extending your time in the transfer station by a few hours, you ultimately can't stay all day in the transfer station."

"This method won't work."

Even so, Zhou Baiyu didn't feel dampened by the cold water thrown on him. Some things, even knowing they'll fail, are worth trying. The process and manner of failing can also lead to some deductions.

At 4:29 and 50 seconds in the morning—Zhou Baiyu seemed to think of something.

"Lin, you don't have to worry too much. I just remembered, we have a friend who might be able to help us."

Lin didn't have time to ask.

Because 4:30 in the morning arrived.

The reset time was at 4:30 in the morning. In that instant—

Zhou Baiyu's figure disappeared.

The next instant, Zhou Baiyu was back in her bed.

Because the template of the repeating day dictated she should be sleeping at this time, the moment the loop started, she would be forcibly returned to that state—memory, mental state, physical state—all reset.