Transforming Succubus: Almost Doomsday

Trial Requirements: The seven Demon Emperors held friendly and in-depth negotiations with leaders of the demonic creatures of all races. They reached a unanimous view on how to enhance the initiative among demonic creatures and strengthen the spiritual civilization of the demon race. With the consent of the leaders of each race, the first Demonic Creatures Entertainment Competition was launched.

You are about to head to the Demon Race's Entertainment Competition as an item providing entertainment for the demon race. Please survive twelve hours in the massive amusement park with many demonic creatures participating.

Punishment for challenge failure: Pioneers will commit suicide in a random manner in the 1.0 version of the world.

Reward for challenge success: Please contact the intermediary after successfully completing the challenge.]

"Jiang Xianwu, what's wrong with you? What happened? Why aren't you talking?"

Zhou Baiyu was at a loss for words.

My heart is tired. Right now, I am extremely weary.

Version 2.30 is one thing, but why am I even going to a demon race amusement park?

He could probably guess what all this crap about demonic spiritual civilization building was all about.

Wasn't it just a bunch of demons taunting humans in more "human" ways?

If it were just pure puzzle-solving that would be fine, but now, he felt that this trial was probably more suited to unique talents like Tongchen and Guang Tongchen, who were more combat-focused.

The most critical point was...he had encountered a special mode once again.

As everyone knows, there are five Heavenly Kings despite the traditional four. It seems that the traditional four special modes are no longer enough.

The new mode in parentheses seems to indicate that the fifth, sixth, seventh, and various other bizarre modes have emerged.

The only solace was that these new modes would only appear after version 2.30.

But how coincidental, he was conscripted into version 2.3. And this Friendship-Ending Mode... just the sound of it feels like he's going to be betrayed.

"Brother Duan, please help me find Zhang Haoyun. If I manage to come back alive, I'll definitely go find someone to marry. Hmm, I'll retire after this battle. I definitely won't lose. With props like these, how can I lose with a dragon riding on my face?"

Zhou Baiyu was frantically setting flags like a walking human porcupine. His current thought was to fight poison with poison. Plant a few more flags, and maybe he could somehow reverse-curse himself to life.

When people are pushed to a dead end, they tend to believe in mysticism.

After setting various flags, Zhou Baiyu hung up the phone amidst the stunned look of the person on the other end, who seemed to be caught in a surreal dream.

Next... he needed to figure out exactly what Friendship-Ending Mode was.

As for Zhang Haoyun, his intuition told him that she probably was not a threat anymore. Although letting this girl walk among the crowd would certainly be dangerous.

But he really didn't have the energy to deal with it anymore.

...

...

At the transfer station.

When Zhou Baiyu appeared again, his entire demeanor resembled a kneeling soldier or a weary horse, with a look of frustration.

Sister Lin said:

"This time it's blue wine. Well, I can only say that your luck is quite average."

Purple wine resulted in the downfall of the Saint Udier, and orange wine brought forth the God of Death and Reincarnation's teasing, but the effect of blue wine will be much lower.

Zhou Baiyu had no choice. For the upcoming challenge, he must give his all. He had to gamble on every possibility that could enhance his performance.

Raising his wine glass, Zhou Baiyu drank down the wine in one gulp.

[The Troubles of the Great Pioneer Kuang Xun. As blue wine, you cannot receive blessings from gods or saints, but getting a blessing from the Great Pioneer is not too bad.

As one of the earliest pioneers, Kuang Xun was always troubled by how to piece together all the Pioneers' information, how to prevent Pioneers from stagnating due to fragmented information. He died with this trouble in mind...

Effect: In the upcoming conscription, you can initiate three memory exchanges, select certain memories, and exchange corresponding memories six times with the target to obtain a greater amount of information.]

Memory exchange? That's a pretty decent ability, considering there's an excess of irrelevant, meaningless memories.

After all, eighty percent of a person's lifetime is made up of inconsequential memories.

However, Sister Lin quickly added another blow:

"If it were another profession that received this blessing, they could precisely obtain useful memories."

"But for the Mutator, well, the same words apply, our god doesn't like stability, he relishes randomness, so although you can decide what memory to discard, whether the memory you get in exchange is useful, or whether it will drag you down... that's uncertain."

Zhou Baiyu was already accustomed to this, but still, he was quite curious:

"A memory that drags you down?"

"The exchanged memories will become your own, even though the actual events occurred in someone else's life. You might come to believe that these memories happened to you, and some memories can even change your habits."

Damn...

Baiyu realized once more that gambling comes with risks, given Sister Lin's explanation.

What does this mean? Many of human behaviors are actually triggered by memories.

It's like if I exchanged memories with some pervert, I might end up picking up some of their perverse tendencies, like a fetish for cross-dressing.

"This ability is indeed not bad, it might provide you with crucial information for clearing the challenge, but... I must warn you, in that place, there are demonic creatures, humans and animals bullied into mental corruption... and the degenerated kind."

"You can't expect them to be mentally healthy... you might suddenly develop a taste for cannibalism, or get into acts of hunting oddities like same-sex battles."

Zhou Baiyu decided to mark this day as his unluckiest yet.