Infinite Job Transfers Starting from Mechanic Chapter 1158 - 610: Awakened, Something’s Off
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Su Yu's 'Space-Time Paper Boat' executed a mighty leap, spanning an astonishing ten billion light-years in one bound.
Once the jump concluded, he found himself in an unfamiliar stellar territory.
Without pausing, he reactivated the Space-Time Paper Boat and persisted in leaping forward.
Following ten successive leaps, he came to a halt. By then, he neared his intended target.
The Empire designates this region as the 'Withered Nether River System,' a place noted in the star chart Su Yu had secured previously.
This zone lies outside the Human Empire's territory, devoid of any imperial colony stars.
Hence, the star chart's entries rely solely on telescopic surveys, providing approximate coordinates, distances, and basic details for the area.
Detailed data remains absent, including even the count of stable stars.
Though the Empire commands an expansive domain, it holds finite boundaries. A galaxy system so distant, at a hundred billion light-years, obviously falls beyond its reach.
Perhaps Su Yu stands as the inaugural human explorer to venture here.
Gazing upon the gradually spinning Withered Nether River System ahead, Su Yu engaged the Space-Time Paper Boat's low-velocity navigation mode, venturing inside the galaxy at what it deemed 'low speed'—a thousandfold the speed of light.
Concurrently, he initiated the holographic scanning feature to hunt for the space gate concealed within the river system.
Before long, Su Yu located that space gate in a stable star cluster of the Withered Nether River System, just as shown in the destiny vision.
Next, he boosted the Space-Time Paper Boat's velocity and surged toward it.
Throughout this journey, Su Yu employed the holographic scan to collect data on the river system.
Given that the candidate ceremony's space gate lurks in this river system, one would expect unique traits here.
Yet, after Su Yu conducted a broad scan over portions of the full river system, he discovered it appeared utterly ordinary.
The sole exception, if any, involved the total absence of life forms throughout the river system—merely diverse cosmic bodies cycling eternally under universal laws.
'The Withered Nether River System... evidently, the Human Empire's initial designation carried deep significance...'
Su Yu mused inwardly.
By now, he had reached the precise spot of that space gate.
The space gate floated amid the void of a constant star system, emitting a faint blue glow, formed in a circular shape spanning tens of thousands of kilometers across. Its round portal oriented toward him, observable from every direction.
Concerning the portal's destination? Total mystery prevailed; Su Yu's holographic sensing probes entered yet returned no response.
Su Yu positioned the Space-Time Paper Boat to idle in front of the space gate, patiently lingering without hasty entry.
Since the destiny vision portrayed other 'candidates' accompanying him through this space gate.
He needed to await the arrival of those candidates to proceed together, fulfilling the destined rite.
'Su Yu! Su Yu!'
In that instant, a recognizable voice roused Su Yu from his trance.
It belonged to the Mechanical God.
He abruptly snapped alert, recalling how the Mechanical God had repeatedly summoned him, imploring a cease.
Yet he showed no hesitation whatever, hurtling across a hundred billion light-years directly to the Withered Nether River System's space gate.
All the while, the Mechanical God persistently attempted to deter him, beseeching a stop.
He acted as if unaware, completely ignoring the pleas.
To accomplish this voyage, Su Yu even devised the 'Space-Time Paper Boat,' an ingenious device enabling the traversal of a hundred billion light-years in mere moments.
Only at this juncture did the Mechanical God succeed in pulling him back to awareness.
'What occurred just moments ago?'
Su Yu experienced a jolt of alarm.
A sense of unease washed over him.
He had acted with excessive fervor, blindly chasing the alleged path to becoming the God of Objects, overlooking all inherent perils.
He had even compliantly journeyed here, prepared to linger for unidentified 'companions' to join him in breaching this enigmatic portal.
During the whole ordeal, Su Yu detected no irregularity, deeming his conduct entirely rational.
However, now stirred awake, he grasped that something was profoundly amiss!
Impulsiveness and rashness do not define him; he would never naively embrace such a direct route to divinity.
Should he hold genuine faith in it, he would meticulously assess risks and benefits, prepare thoroughly, gather intel, confirm all safeguards, then embark.
Yet earlier, Su Yu pondered scarcely at all, his thoughts fixated solely on hastening here, breaching the space gate, and enacting the candidate ceremony.
Thus... precisely what transpired back then?
Awakened, Su Yu's face hardened with chill resolve.
He promptly queried the Mechanical God, seeking to reconstruct the prior events through its viewpoint.
Upon noting Su Yu's return to clarity, the Mechanical God exhaled in relief, proceeding to recount every anomalous detail it had detected before.
As a shard of the God of Objects, the Mechanical God's form excels at capturing spacetime data with exquisite subatomic precision.
While hailing Su Yu previously, it had been methodically logging the data stream.
Presently, Su Yu absorbed this vast trove of information.
Su Yu forthwith commenced dissecting the data.
Quickly, he arrived at an inference.
'Earlier, did some form of [setting] envelop me?'
Su Yu contemplated silently.
He remembered the incident in the Azure Star System, where Qi Chen invoked the notorious Chaotic Evil God Dream.
Within that dream domain, all individuals, Su Yu included, underwent [setting] alterations.
Billions across the globe lost their true selves, adopting fabricated personas entirely.
At that time, Su Yu struggled merely to counter the dream's coercive framework, and subsequently, he wielded comparable authority.
Through the Time-Space Mechanic's prowess, Su Yu could alter spacetime details, mimicking those outcomes.
Nevertheless, now an analogous force had stealthily and seamlessly imposed itself on Su Yu, implanting a 'pursue the path of the God of Objects' [setting] that propelled him over a hundred billion light-years to this spot.
This revelation proved deeply unsettling.
Given Su Yu's present power level, which entity could covertly deploy such influence to sway him?
The Three Highest Gods? Perhaps a concealed entity within the subspace?
Throughout the episode, Su Yu perceived neither psionic essences nor ethereal ripples, and even post-awakening, no such detections registered.
The mechanism of that force eludes him still.
The deeper Su Yu delved into his reflections, the icier they became.
Evidently, someone had orchestrated his reentry into the Primordial Universe from the outset.
Initially, he clashed with the Cultivator Civilization, then inexplicably slew the Supreme Consciousness fragment, acquiring the candidate status.
Subsequently, urged by this [setting], he arrived at the Withered Nether River System.
What grand scheme lurks beneath these events?
Su Yu vigilantly scanned his environment, bracing for lurking threats.
Simultaneously, he endeavored to trace the origin of the prior 'setting' force.
'This force appears unrelated to spiritual energy, manifesting instead as a raw physical phenomenon.'
'The Supreme Consciousness perished before, serving as the universe's observer...'
'Thus, what influenced me was no [setting] tweak, but rather... the [Observation] power?'
'Via an observer's influence, it forced my state to quantum collapse into a novel configuration—the pursuit of the God of Objects path!'
An epiphany struck Su Yu, unveiling a potential truth.