Transforming Succubus: Almost Doomsday

The cold blue liquid seemed to hide endless possibilities.

Zhou Baiyu stared at the tube of injectable serum, and information emerged in his eyes.

"The mysterious Dr. A dedicated himself to researching a special serum, but he found that perhaps only by immersing himself in corruption could he understand it.

Thus, he became a kind of the corrupted species. Corruption brought him power and wisdom, and his brain seemed clearer than ever before.

With the help of modern medicine, biology, and the mysterious powers of corruption, simply put, a mix of science and theology, he created a strange serum that, he claimed, could reverse the corruption in people.

But most of this serum has been destroyed, and now only two tubes remain."

"Remark: This item cannot be used in the current scenario, serving only as an informational prop.

The challenger's subsequent performance and the clearance evaluation will determine whether the challenger can bring this item back to the real world and unlock the permission to use it."

Zhou Baiyu was stunned.

"No item name? No specialties introduced, no status..."

This was very strange; the serum should have been something that could mutate.

But even the typical notations for something a Mutator would transform were absent.

It meant that this item was non-mutatable, not in the sense of lacking the required level to be mutated.

But rather, it was something that, by the rules, could not be mutated—an organism.

The serum in the bottle... contained an "organism" that couldn't be mutated.

"Something's not right. Even an attendant stripped of sentience could be mutated, so why can't this serum be mutated?"

"Could it be... it has a consciousness?"

Zhou Baiyu felt a chill run down his spine. What kind of item had he come across?

It felt extremely dangerous.

"The remarks I see must pertain to the gamified scenario, not those from my Mutator talent."

"So this remark is very formal."

"That makes it somewhat more reliable. Since the remark mentions that the item cannot be used right now... maybe it won't break easily, right?"

Yet inside, Zhou Baiyu felt somewhat disappointed.

He had hoped for a powerful weapon like the one owned by the guild leader Guang Tongchen.

But clearly... his luck this time seemed just a tad off.

"Logically, my performance was the best, but the item I received... can only be used in reality and is unusable in the Advanced World."

The greatest significance of this item was that it provided a background story.

Zhou Baiyu could only hope that within this background story lay achievements enough to unlock an SSS-level clearance evaluation.

After securing the item, Zhou Baiyu was ready to move to the next location. He had already reached the "Next" door.

"I've completed mutation, you just need to report hearts. With the durability we have, this game is a sure win."

The sudden prospect of an easy win made everyone feel a bit off.

They had indeed never seen such a reliable Mutator before.

Even though Guang Tongchen had proven his reliability, in the second round at the casino, almost all were relying on followers of the God of Gambling to show off.

"This... this doesn't seem challenging enough for a Level A corruption zone," Three Fish Fishing took a step forward, beginning the gamble.

Guang Tongchen was not surprised.

During the first round of gambling, Jiang Xianwu had truly relied on luck. If Jiang Xianwu had failed, then mathematically speaking, the team might have lost three to four members.

But Jiang Xianwu didn't drop the ball and succeeded in positive mutation right from the first round.

By the second round of gambling, with so many stamina cards, turning the tables was almost a certainty.

He smiled.

This newcomer might indeed become immeasurable in the future.

As a rare pioneer who was greatly appreciated by the intermediaries of both Concealment and the Night God, Guang Tongchen received some valuable free information.

For example, among the nine intermediaries, the intermediary for the God of Difference and Chaos was a woman with a fierce style.

She had a disarming appearance, liked to smoke, seemed voluptuous and unambitious.

But her strength was definitely among the most terrifying.

Mutators were very weak. Other professions saw obvious improvements with each progression, but Mutators hardly showed any significant improvement even by the third tier.

This profession was too demanding on one's fundamental qualities. In other words, an individual's basic talent for mutation as well as their adaptability and personality.

Among the existing second-tier Mutators, there were only about a dozen. Even so, when Storm Recruitment held recruitment, they still looked down on them.

As for first-tier Mutators, basically, those who had not joined a guild and were acting solo were first-tier Mutators.

Most of them were still living on the edge of survival, dreading the call to conscription, living every day as if it were their last.

But this also demonstrated the rarity of fourth-order Mutators. The harder they are to reach, the more valuable they are to cultivate.

Guang Tongchen also wanted to see, firsthand, just how terrifying a fourth-order Mutator that made the middlemen apprehensive could be.

But this, undoubtedly, required both him and Jiang Xianwu to work extremely hard and be incredibly lucky.

Luckily, he was a betting man, and it seemed Jiang Xianwu was too.

...

...

The door bearing the "Next" label slowly opened.

After everyone passed through the casino, they arrived at a large hall.

This was a coffee shop, a place for a short break outside the casino. A jukebox played a strange song automatically, but Zhou Baiyu listened closely and couldn't recognize any master's piece.

At the end of the ornate coffee shop, there were three doors.

Three doors meant three paths.

"How should we choose?" the monstrous woman asked.

The snow demon stepped forward:

"The left one is a hot spring inn, and here's the introduction—"

"The hot spring connects to hell; countless resentful women seem to be fixed in the springs, becoming part of a rockery for rich, fat tycoons to admire and play with."

"After corruption took hold, they gradually merged into an indescribable monster."

"Come to the hot spring inn, my lord, let us 'serve you'."

Everybody got goosebumps, even though they couldn't see what was inside the hot spring inn.

But just thinking about the countless women turned corrupt, their bodies fused together, that disgusting scene made them hesitate to move forward.

"The greater the risk, the greater the reward. Could it be that the hot spring inn hides many treasures?" Three Meals a Day said.

Guang Tongchen shook his head:

"Snow demon, keep going, what does the middle door lead to?"

The snow demon nodded:

"There's not much introduction for the middle one..."

"Through the silent death road, you will encounter three Gatekeepers guarding the exterior of the library; all who enter shall die."

She then looked towards the right:

"The right is the sports gym, and here's the description."

"Would you like to experience sports with twisted rules? Here you can find soccer strikers who roar like tigers, tennis players who can serve black holes, and basketball players who can enter the zone. Although it's dangerous, defeating them might yield good items."

Hot spring inn, library, sports gym. Each place hid different monsters.

Zhou Baiyu guessed that these monsters were different from the oddly consistent forms of the corrupt lingering outside.

At least from the information given by the snow demon... Those fused female bodies were already a new type of corruption.

In short... The monsters in these three locations were boss-level entities.

Zhou Baiyu looked at Guang Tongchen and said:

"One has monsters stitched together from countless female bodies guarding the hot spring inn, one has three monsters guarding the library, and one is a sports gym with peculiar rules..."

"President, which one should we choose?"

Guang Tongchen countered:

"What do you think? I'd like to hear your opinion."

Zhou Baiyu said:

"I think if the hostage is hidden on this ship, in the hot spring inn or the sports gym, she would be dead already."

"Although the hot spring inn and the sports gym seem to offer many good items, there must be many such places inside this huge cruise ship."

"What we need to consider is to gather information, find out where the hostages are hidden. And the place most likely to have information has to be the library."

The people on board were all tycoons, and surely many of them were highly educated, advanced intellectuals.

Such people might have left clues in the library.

Even in the midst of danger, Zhou Baiyu was always concerned about one thing—

Finding documentation to confirm the version 1.01, the time when corruption invaded.

And on this cruise ship comparable to an Ark, gathered was a group of tycoons who fancied themselves the elite of humanity...

Perhaps they really would have left some clues about the coming of the apocalypse.

Guang Tongchen immediately said:

"We're going to the library."