Rewind time to daylight.

When Jiang Lu finally entered the B area of her heart, what caught her eyes was not the paradise she had fantasized about countless times.

Those soap bubbles in the sky fold the light into colorful colors.

People once thought that above the bubble, there was the happiest country that could only be introduced by the Io-sama.

But this world, anything built on top of a bubble, will only burst more easily than a bubble.

Jiang Lu did remember that under the guidance of Lord Io, she kept stepping on the stairs along the way.

But she didn't know that the upward journey in life was not always getting better and better.

When she saw the swirling door, Io said in a commanding tone:

"Thank you for your laughter in Area A, Jiang Lu, my good boy, after going to Area B, continue to laugh, your laughter will become our favorite music."

At that time, Jiang Lu didn't know what he was facing.

She really thought it was a blessing. But I never thought that this was a vicious mockery.

Zone B of the Land of Joy. When Jiang Lu arrived here, what he saw was as if he had been burned red and ate red soil.

What I saw was a myriad of scrawny human figures, with only a wrinkled human wrapped in bones.

There is no glimmer of light in the eye sockets on everyone's face, and everyone's stomach is attached to their backs.

They were like zombies, staggering, staggering, and laughing "hahahaha" from their mouths.

Jiang Lu also let out a hahahaha laugh.

She was in pain.

In just an instant, when the whirlpool door disappeared, Jiang Lu felt endless tiredness and pain hit her.

The real pain made her whole body bleed.

She realized that she shouldn't laugh, but for some reason, as a human being, she seemed to only smile at all.

Her skin is drying up at a rate visible to the naked eye, and all the nutrients in her body are constantly overflowing.

Hair began to become greasy, wheat-colored skin lost its luster, and little by little, little by little, the little tiger teeth began to fall off the increasingly dry and atrophied gums.

She didn't know why, but she didn't know how to express her pain and fear, she only knew that her current situation was very bad, but she was still laughing.

Hahahaha, hahahaha......

What a joyful laughter, in such a place, like an optimistic person rejoicing in suffering.

"What the hell are we happy about?"

The pain distorted her face, and her smile was as deformed as it could be.

Occasionally, someone would look back at a strange and powerful laugh and find that it was a new face, and after noticing the other person's deformed expression, they would turn their heads again and continue to walk aimlessly.

There is no exit here.

When the vortex disappears, the world is like a Möbius ring, and as long as you keep moving forward, you can walk through the places you have walked before.

Never-ending, forever tormented, forever on the opposite side of happiness.

Until this moment, Jiang Lu hadn't understood how the huge feeling of hunger, emptiness, and pain came about.

It was as if she had naively thought that Lord Rozan could use her divine power to conjure up a castle of food.

She never knew one thing, this world, everything is an equivalent exchange, and everything has a price.

All beauty and joy also have their opposite.

……

……

Late at night.

Listening to Jiang Lu's plea for help, everything in Zhou Baiyu's mind ran through.

"Jiang Xianwu, I'm so sleepy, I'm very hungry during the day, I've never been so hungry...... It's cold and sleepy now, but I just can't fall asleep, hahahaha, hahahaha......"

"Help me hahahaha, I'm so uncomfortable, my body hurts, hahahaha, hahahaha......"

She laughed weaker and weaker, but she just couldn't stop laughing.

Through the picture transmitted by the local phone, Zhou Baiyu saw countless people laughing desperately like Jiang Lu.

Jiang Lu's expression became confused, and despair was hidden under the smile, like two different pigments intertwined, mixed into a color that had never been seen before.

Ugly and dazzling colors, the girl with small tiger teeth, at this time, in an ugly, blood-covered posture, let out an even uglier smile.

On the scorched red earth, the huge idol of the god has revealed its true face-

is a beautiful woman.

But the magic horn and tail made Zhou Baiyu realize that this was not a human being.

"Poluk is a succubus? How can this be a succubus? ”

This is a bit in conflict with some of Zhou Baiyu's inner guesses, how can she be a succubus?

In Zhou Baiyu's opinion, Po Luke is more likely to be a demon.

In fact, he had already remembered what that familiarity was.

After meeting Poluk, Zhou Baiyu kept thinking about where that familiarity came from.

Not long ago, he finally understood-

Poluk's eyes are the most beautiful eyes of his ideal woman.

At that time, Zhou Baiyu guessed that everything here was related to lust and demons.

Everything here is also related to "desire".

But at this moment, he saw that in the center of Area B, there was also a huge statue of the god.

The idol is no longer wrapped, but takes on the form of a succubus.

At the same time, next to the huge statue of the succubus god, there is also a staircase that winds up.

This made Zhou Baiyu a little puzzled. Of course, whether it is a succubus or a desire demon, even if he has a good relationship with Midel, but he has done such evil deeds to humans, he must be eradicated.

He was faced with an extremely important choice.

By alienating Jiang Lu's cup, Jiang Lu has the right to summon Zhou Baiyu.

Zhou Baiyu wants to figure everything out, but that means he may have to go to Area B.

He closed his eyes and pondered what to do.

To be honest, Zhou Baiyu was actually a little afraid of the scene in Area B.

This is a living hell on earth.

Everything here seems to indicate that once you enter Area B, you may be like the double dream of the Land of Light, suffering and becoming a prop to provide "experience" for the treasures of the gods.

He was struggling. Because he was a little afraid of Area B, and he was also a little afraid that Area A would have more problems after he didn't have himself.

But Jiang Lu's state, I'm afraid I may not be able to continue to contact myself next time.

He had already seen the confusion on Jiang Lu's face.

Only a dozen seconds passed, but Zhou Baiyu felt that it was a little long.

At the end of my thoughts, I am awake to the impermanence of my dreams and the face of the same dust as the light.

"I'm worried about my teammates, but I should trust them."

Zhou Baiyu has always been relieved, and always feels that the work of several partners in the "North District" is too targeted.

But he thought about it, since fate had made these people his teammates, then he should believe in them.

Nor can the path of reversing the end of the world be the path of one person alone.

He finally raised his head, like a gambler finally betting:

"Jiang Lu, listen to me, you can invite me to Area B through this cup, and now you will do as I say."

"Don't be afraid, I'll come to your rescue right away."

……

……

Zone B.

When she lost contact with Jiang Xianwu, Jiang Lu was terrified, but she couldn't vent that fear.

Because she lost that ability.

Those fears have become a desire that can never be filled.

She craves food, sleep, a warm hug, and quiet.

But her belly was only filled with endless hunger, her eyes were bloodshot but she couldn't sleep, her body was extremely cold, and her ears were full of noise.

She wanted to scream loudly, like a human screaming in pain.

But she couldn't, she could only use her mouth with her teeth out of her mouth to let out a shrill laugh - hahahaha, hahahaha.

The essence of happiness is actually the satisfaction of the desires of the heart. The feeling between fleeting pleasure and long-term stable happiness.

But in essence, whether it is long-term stability or fleeting, whether it is contentment or self-comfort, behind any kind of happiness is the satisfaction of desire.

Some people chase carnal desires, glass houses satisfy their needs, some people chase appetites, and gourmet castles bring them happiness,

There are also people who chase something higher, and when carnal desires and appetites are no longer able to bring them a higher experience, there is a spiritual pursuit.

For example, in the temple, instructing other people in the maze.

For example, for those children who almost went astray, explain the detours they have taken.

There are also people who like to guard.

The meaning of his life is to protect the weak, and it is the law of nature that the weak eat the strong, but the establishment of civilization must require the strong to protect the weak.

When he fights bloodily and challenges what ordinary people can't do, he immerses himself in a higher level of pleasure.

Looking at the beauty of this world, he will be deeply aware of his own importance, his sense of existence.

This is the essence of happiness, the root of happiness - desire.

Desire is also the cornerstone of the evolution of another thing—the mystical treasure [Eternal Laughter].

This is a mysterious treasure that is difficult to guard against.

Its power lies in the fact that once the contract is formed, it can use the [Eternal Laughter] to create a gentle trap

When people get pleasure because of the fulfillment of their desires, happiness constantly drives out other emotions.

It's not so much that the other emotions are gone, but rather that they are absorbed by the mystical treasures [Eternal Laughter].

It's like the mystical treasure that created the night, the Dream of the Void. [Dream of Void] is a treasure in the dark night, but it needs to constantly absorb light.

To create joyful eternal laughter, we need to absorb emotions beyond joy – fear, anger, sadness.

When people are happy, fear, sorrow, and anger are constantly deprived of mystical treasures. Let people be immersed in joy, and finally become a slave who can only be happy.

The most terrifying thing about the mystical treasures [Eternal Laughter], compared to the [Dream of the Void], which is also a mystical treasure, is this-

People will resist the darkness, but they will not resist joy and will even actively pursue it. The Gentle Trap is always the most difficult to guard against.

……

After arriving in Area B, Zhou Baiyu finally solved a puzzle.

He had never figured out what was the point of Pauluk's deprivation of sadness, anger, and fear.

Why would she let these people only smile?

But when he actually got here, he finally figured out all the puzzles!

The shocking darkness is all hidden in Area B.

The value of the existence of these emotions is actually to satisfy people's desires.

Humans want to scream when they are frightened, and they want to cry out loud when they have lost a loved one or when they are suffering and lonely.

This is actually the same as wanting to fill one's stomach when one is hungry and wanting someone to accompany one when it is empty.

Therefore, in the face of great sadness, there is a saying that "crying will be fine".

But people in Zone B can't do that.

If you can't vent negative emotions for a long time, people's inner desires will continue to expand.

All those who have been deprived of other emotions, who have been completely reduced to laughter, will be sent to that hellish world, Zone B.

In Zone B, when they are afraid, they can only laugh because they are deprived of the right to fear.

When they griev, they can only laugh because they have been deprived of their right to grieve.

When they are hungry, they cannot express their hunger with sadness, they can only laugh.

When they are in pain, they are also unable to express their pain with the corresponding emotions, and can only laugh.

People who lack all abilities except laughter are like deformed monsters in Section B.

No matter how twisted the torture is, you can only let out a "hahahaha" laugh.

What a hell of joy, what a shrill laughter.

The desires of the heart are constantly expanding.

These desires for emotions other than joy have been transformed into desires, absorbed by the mystical treasures [Eternal Laughter].

Poluk even cruelly made some kind of special connection between Area A and Area B.

Everyone who enters Zone B is suffering the price of a person in Zone A to vent their desires.

In the food castle in Area A, there is a person who seems to be bound to Jiang Lu in some way.

When the people in Zone A are feasting, the people in Zone B are crazy hungry.

During the day, Jiang Lu was so hungry that her chest was pressed against her back, and she let out a hahahaha laugh.

When Jiang Lu let out a laugh, someone in Area A also laughed, but it was a contented laugh as the food broke down in the stomach.

Similarly, when this person indulged his desires and lingered with the women in the glass room, Jiang Lu still laughed the same as him.

It's just that what she feels is an endless emptiness.

While another person in Area A rested comfortably, feeling the warmth of the sun penetrating the soap bubbles and falling on his body, Jiang Lu felt that his body was as painful as a pinprick and extremely cold.

It wasn't a hallucination, it was a real pain, and her skin began to crack and the blood kept burrowing out of her skin like a worm that had bitten through the epidermis.

She wanted to cry, she wanted to scream to vent the pain.

But as always, she let out a "happy" laugh.

The laughter of the two worlds is so synchronized.

It's as if heaven is hell and hell is heaven.

At night, the desires that had accumulated during the day did not disappear, and Jiang Lu was still painful, hungry and empty.

But more often than not, there is sleepiness.

When someone in Area A fell into a sweet dream and laughed happily, Jiang Lu, who also laughed, never had a moment so eager to sleep.

Not only Jiang Lu, but everyone in Area B is suffering from similar despair and pain.

They are trapped in a black hole of desire, all desires cannot be satisfied, and laughter only makes their existence appear more deformed and ugly.

Hahahahahahaha......ha

In the hell of revelry, no one is happy, and laughter is not the epilogue of joy, but a cycle of pain.

People ...... about food, warmth, companionship, sleep The various desires have formed a huge desire.

These desires are the "divine experience points" of the eternal laughter of the mystical treasures.

At the same time, these desires are the real source of food in the food castle!

How much the desires of the people in Zone A are satisfied, how big the gaps in the desires of the people in Zone B will be, no, hundreds of times the gap.

Under the design of Poluk, under the effect of the eternal laughter of the mystical treasures—

The laughter of everyone in Zone A is built on the despair of the people in Zone B.

All of this, being in Zone A, and never really coming to Zone B to experience, will never know.

When Zhou Baiyu finally arrived in Area B, when at that moment, he forcibly established a connection with someone-

He finally felt the pain.

Endless emptiness, hunger, sleepiness, pain, all hit!

For the first time, he felt that he was concerned about food, for warm clothing...... The desire to satisfy the most basic needs of survival is so strong!

The most ironic thing is that the people living in Zone B can only laugh.

How they longed to shed tears, how they longed to let out a miserable wail in pain.

It can't be done.

All of this has been deprived of them in the process of satisfying their desires and getting pleasure.

Zhou Baiyu raised his eyes and looked, every "person" around him was more distorted and deformed than the prisoners he had seen in his nightmares.

They were already like hungry ghosts of hell, their blood had scabbed over, their mouths were always open, they had forgotten their human language, and they were just laughing mechanically.

In the whole world, in the huge B area, among tens of thousands of people, only Zhou Baiyu was full of anger with his hands clenched into fists.

"Jiang Xianwu, save my ......"

Jiang Lu is still smiling happily, but her body is weak, her nutrients are lost, and she is tortured by desire......

She no longer has half of the appearance of that energetic girl.

How ugly she is.

It's like someone has smashed all your teeth, it's like someone has dented your eye sockets with an iron fist, and it's like someone has drained your blood and sucked your bone marrow dry.

She was so weak that she could only hold Jiang Xianwu's thighs and smile:

"Hahahaha, hahahaha......"

Under the laughter, the anger in Zhou Baiyu's heart suddenly exploded.

Once at Dr. A's place, he was given a putrefaction inhibition potion, and he had a certain resistance to corruption, distortion, and pollution.

This also makes Zhou Baiyu's pain and despair not as strong as others.

If his body stays in Zone B for too long, it will gradually be sucked dry by the twisted rules, and he will be reduced to an "experience pack" for the mystical treasure [Eternal Laughter].

But I have to say that A may have a complicated position, but as an intermediary, A is qualified.

The huge advance value cost, and the things that A gave to Zhou Baiyu were all the crystallization of his wisdom as the god of survival and evolution.

Although Zhou Baiyu felt the torture of desire, there was no obvious change in his body.

Anger spread silently.

Zhou Baiyu's aura is completely different from all those who can only laugh.

It was also at this moment, under the darkness, that an old man standing by the stairs let out a hoarse laugh:

"Zone A numbs the will with joy. Zone B consolidates their rule with joy, hahahahahaha...... Hahaha......"

"Young man, you seem to ...... It's different, hahahaha, do you want to listen to a story? ”

"It's about the stairs, it can, get you out of here......"

Zhou Baiyu looked at the old man in surprise. He hadn't noticed that there was such a person before.

The old man's body seemed to have dried up his blood and was as thin as firewood.

His body felt as if it was buried in the crimson soil, but he didn't bury it.

It was his legs - amputated. As for his arms, they were so thin that at first glance, Zhou Baiyu thought that the old man had no hands, just two clothes floating on his hands.

In such a state, such an aging person can still be alive.

What a strong determination is this?

But Rao is like this, when the old man speaks, whenever there is an emotion, he just keeps laughing:

"Hahaha...... I know how to get out of here......"

"Everyone who enters here, I will observe, hahahaha, see if they are qualified enough, take us away!"

"That coward of Poluk, in order to prevent me from climbing the stairs, to prevent me from ringing the bell hahahahahaha, she made Io break my leg! Hahahaha, hahaha, let Rozan suck my arms dry, flesh and bones, all of them have been worn out a lot! ”

"Hahahaha, but I'm alive! I'm alive! Hahahaha! I know, I'll definitely wait for someone! Like that hero back then! He walked up the stairs step by step! ”

"Ring that bell!"

"Hahahahaha......"

"Hahahaha......"

Memories bring intense emotions.

Zhou Baiyu looked at the withered skin with a smile on the old man's face, thinking about this old man, probably sad and angry, if he hadn't become a slave to laughter.

When he said that I was still alive, he probably wanted to grit his teeth and roar, but the old man couldn't do it, so he could only laugh.

Zhou Baiyu's fists clenched more and more.

He used to think that the exploitation of human beings by monsters, the existence of the medicine boy, was the limit.

But in the Demon Race, he refreshed the monsters' disregard for the lives of the human race.

But in the endless night, he once again felt the "full use" of monsters to human beings.

Now, standing in this hell of laughter and laughter, looking at these human beings whose dignity has been trampled underground, even sadness and anger cannot be expressed......

Zhou Baiyu sprouted a fierce hatred.

One day, he will kill all the monsters that have ravaged mankind in the advance world.

As if seeing the determination in Zhou Baiyu's eyes, the old man smiled even more happily.

"Hahahahaha Hahahaha That's anger! Hahahahaha, that's good......"

This is probably the first time in so many years that he has laughed because he wants to laugh in Zone B.

Because the man he was waiting for finally appeared.

More and more people, hearing the laughter of the old man, began to limp closer, and their speed was slow because their bodies were weak.

Those who have only been here for a short time can still limp over, and those who have stayed here for a long time, but did not die in the end, are like ants and insects, squirming and crawling over.

Some of them had heard the story told by the old man.

But they don't believe there is that person.

They were already in despair, as dry and decaying as their bodies.

But when Zhou Baiyu appeared, when the old man's hoarse voice sounded again-

They still can't help but come and see.

Recalling the days here, whether it was fear or anger, they could only come with weak laughter.

Hahahaha, hahahaha...

Dense laughter poured in from all over the world. Maybe they weren't trying to see this flesh-and-blood young man climb the ladder.

They just want to see what the anger in the old man's mouth is like.

As human beings, they obviously had these things, but now they can't remember anything.

The sound of footsteps, laughter, and the sound of flesh wriggling on the crimson background all came together to form an incomparably terrifying and sad accompaniment.

Zhou Baiyu, who stood straight outside the stairs, was like a lamp.

All the humans around them are like moths attracted by the faint light of fire.

Zhou Baiyu nodded slowly, he picked up Jiang Lu, whose face had become extremely ugly, and approached the old man step by step.

Then he gently placed Jiang Lu aside, sat on the ground, and the people around him slowly gathered little by little.

It is only in the middle of the night, when everyone is asleep, that other desires are not so strong.

At this time, the desire that torments everyone the most is sleepy desire.

People in Zone B will never be able to satisfy their desires.

Their desires will be transformed into the divine experience of [Eternal Laughter].

They can't sleep, they can't eat, they can't snuggle up to each other for warmth, laughter is their only expression, and they torture each other.

But at night, when the people of Zone A are no longer satisfied with other desires, there will always be a little space for the people of Zone B.

This is also why Jiang Lu can only contact Zhou Baiyu in the middle of the night.

The old man looked at Zhou Baiyu's face:

"That's nice, hahahahaha, it's not an illusion, right? Hahaha, hahahahaha, not an illusion! Not an illusion, hahahahaha......"

The old man laughed for a long time, and there was not much of his vitality left.

All along, he has been holding on to his breath, in order not to let himself die, in order to wait for someone, just like the man who carried everyone's grief and anger back then, created a ladder to the sky, and rang the bell.

The man...... It almost worked!

The scene at that time would always be played over and over again in the eyes of the old man.

He knew very well that when he finally saw that person, it was when this breath was exhausted.

But he didn't care, at the end of his life, he only hoped that this human being was the human being he was waiting for:

"After being ruled by laughter, there are people like you who have not sunk in laughter...... There used to be heroes here, too. ”

"Listen to my last story, young man......"

(The good news is that it will be done in two or three chapters, just like writing Endless Nights before, there will be a huge chapter, and that part will be written in one sitting.) But there is still one problem that has not been clarified. And then the bad news is that I may take a leave of absence tomorrow, because I went on another expedition, and I saw the fourth girl in a month and a half, well, stand up, this is the last one. ）

(End of chapter)