Infinite Job Transfers Starting from Mechanic Chapter 1221 - 673: Tracking Mode—A Civilization?

Right as Su Yu mulled over his thoughts, a sudden shift happened!

Su Yu sensed, even more than saw, something wrong with his created Hunting Domain.

This Hunting Domain served as a camouflaged universe, looking full of life but actually wholly artificial.

The tech and society inside it were all invented, still able to radiate a true feeling of "intelligent existence."

Plus, this phony universe and its society released "intelligent existence" that felt exceptionally pure and plentiful.

Should a society, via its own bio-tech, fully grasp its universe and start venturing outside it.

Such a society would undoubtedly possess great wisdom.

Its "intelligent existence" would naturally overflow.

Yet now, Su Yu detected the "intelligent existence" in this artificial universe mysteriously waning!

Tech across the universe started malfunctioning and fading from memory without reason.

Creatures' smarts appeared to drop as well, becoming agitated and dumb, far from their prior composed and sage state.

Su Yu snapped to attention at once, certain that prey had shown up!

An unidentified entity was gobbling up the "intelligent existence" inside this Hunting Domain universe.

Should this persist, the Hunting Domain universe's "intelligent existence" would get fully consumed.

Then every tech in the universe would crumble and vanish, stripping all lifeforms of smarts.

In the end, the entire universe would degrade into mindless brutes akin to those old Cosmic Hunters.

This had to signal the prey "biting the bait."

This Core Specialization truly shone, living up to its panel-born status.

Oddly though, Su Yu couldn't pinpoint the prey's location, not even his hunter's instinct picked it up.

The Hunting Domain also failed to detect that mystery entity, showing no "hunting reaction" as hoped.

Luckily, despite lacking detection, Su Yu held a surefire way.

The whole Hunting Domain's "intelligent existence" came from Su Yu's Core Specialization disguise.

All the tech inside was pure invention, lacking any real basis.

The bio-societies lacked true thought too.

It was all Su Yu's "existence" in disguise, bait laced with "poison."

"Let's see if this bait reveals that mystery entity..."

Su Yu waited calmly, keeping watch.

With passing time, the consumption in the Hunting Domain intensified.

The universe's society plunged into heavy regression, creatures' intelligence or "reason" steadily eroding.

Now, since Su Yu stayed hands-off, the mystery entity grew lax, slowly unveiling bits of its real shape.

It looked like hazy strands of dark energy enveloping the Hunting Domain.

This dark energy writhed and pulsed, hinting at some shape, though indistinct.

It flickered into view for just a moment before vanishing.

By then, every bit of "intelligent existence" in the Hunting Domain stood devoured.

The full Hunting Domain universe ground to a halt.

All tech had rendered useless.

Every creature devolved into senseless, unreasoning husks.

Were this a regular universe, it'd count as ruined, destroyed at least in civilized wisdom terms.

No smart society could arise again later, as all wisdom-linked elements got eaten.

Yet soon after, the Hunting Domain universe stirred back to life.

Su Yu had remotely infused some of his "existence" into the Hunting Domain, granting fresh "energy."

Thus, the Hunting Domain transformed anew.

The bio-tech society inside, post-restart, recovered their reason.

They acted as if recalling prior events, and upon reason's return, swiftly set to reconstructing society.

Once society rebuilt somewhat, they probed the past incident, particularly analyzing the devouring mystery entity.

Of course, this was mere pretense.

In truth, the Hunting Domain's core mechanism operated here.

As a snare for "existential creatures," the Hunting Domain packed every needed feature.

First came the lure phase, disguising as a legit universe emitting near-authentic "intelligent existence," or truly authentic "intelligent existence."

This drew in the prey.

Once prey arrived, the snare flipped to hunting mode right away.

To be precise, the universe's bio-society would launch the ultimate scheme, striving to capture the prey.

Escape by prey triggered pursuit mode, using the fake "existence" it bore to follow its trail.

On the face of it, these seemed like the bio-tech society's own logical moves.

Hunting or chasing alike wouldn't touch the lurking Su Yu or betray his position.

That's how an ideal snare worked.

Like a baited beast trap: devour the bait, and it snaps shut to seize the animal.

Even a sly beast dodging capture after snacking fled no issue; the snare tracked via bait-scent on the prey.

But here, the mystery entity's scant trace kept hunting mode from firing.

So post-departure, the snare switched to pursuit mode, seeking the entity's position.

After all, that entity had swallowed the "bait," and those sham "intelligent existences" proved tough to process.

Su Yu bided his time patiently, staying concealed.

Next, he watched the fake bio-tech society speed up progress, forging fresh tech rapidly, venturing outer voids, hunting the prior mystery entity.

At last, after vague time and countless tests, this society snagged a weak lead.

They then wielded universe-spanning power, morphing the whole cosmos into a weird organism.

This being extended tentacles, groping blindly through surrounding cosmic emptiness, until one tentacle abruptly vanished, gone who-knows-where!

A thrill of excitement hit Su Yu! He had it!

Still, he held back, letting the Hunting Domain play out its role.

The Hunting Domain's inner bio-society cheered wildly, soon spotting a peculiar channel via the lost tentacle.

They sent warships plunging into the channel.

The next instant, the entire Hunting Domain blinked out of sight!

At the same time, from the last data burst before the Hunting Domain's fade, Su Yu glimpsed... a civilization?