Infinite Job Transfers Starting from Mechanic Chapter 1226 - 678: Humanity
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Right now, Su Yu brimmed with a fierce killing intent.
Shortly afterward, the submission process for the super-quality crystal kicked off.
Submitting the super-quality crystal meant nothing less than true submission.
To achieve this, the super-quality extraction instrument got reversed, switching from pulling downward to pushing upward toward the Upper Dimension.
Su Yu intended to grab this chance and pinpoint the space-time belonging to the real super-quality civilization.
By now, the super-quality extraction instrument had been flipped, and Su Yu vaguely perceived a vast higher-dimensional space-time beginning to unfold.
The super-quality crystals inside the extraction instrument started vibrating, poised to surge upward and escape this dimension.
"This feels a lot like my Transcendence Domain..."
Su Yu pondered silently.
He triggered both his Hunting Instinct and Transcendence Domain at once, probing the high-dimensional macroscopic space-time.
One by one, the crystals in the super-quality extraction instrument disappeared, and a thrill surged through Su Yu—he had locked onto it!
In a flash of thought, he prepared to ditch his current body and rise into the higher dimensions alongside those super-quality crystals.
At the same time, he swept his consciousness outward, aiming to wipe out those four "miners."
Yet right then, he noticed something odd about the condition of those four "miners."
Their forms appeared to be crumbling apart.
The leader among them spoke slowly, "Quality 1005... 53... Our lifespan is coming to an end. You’ve just been born, your lifespan is still long, live well and someday you might evolve into a true super-quality, don’t end up like us..."
Its words barely ended when their bodies fully disintegrated, and simultaneously, Su Yu sensed his own form growing firmer and more nimble.
The "super-quality" from those beings got absorbed into Su Yu.
To be precise, Su Yu hadn’t pulled it in himself; rather, the creatures had offered it up willingly.
At the same time, within the super-quality they bequeathed, Su Yu detected a strand of warmth and hope.
Staring at the place where they vanished, Su Yu stood speechless, his burning killing intent easing a bit.
"Even these warped and grotesque beings possess emotions..."
Su Yu reflected inwardly.
Before, Su Yu had never viewed these entities as genuine intelligent lifeforms, since they were purely machine-made, rough and nightmarish.
Plus, their super-quality mining had obliterated countless surviving civilizations, deepening Su Yu’s revulsion.
Yet after taking in the super-quality they left behind upon dying, he understood that despite their strange looks, they were truly sentient, emotional intelligences.
Though without genders, names, or anything beyond serial numbers, these four "miners" had shared enough time to form a family bond.
In fact, Su Yu’s own body was the final member of that family—their offspring.
As their lives reached their end, they had crafted a child from a knowledge-rich super-quality crystal to carry on their "mine," including the two machines inside.
Then they perished, filled with expectations for their progeny.
This left Su Yu with no outlet for his seething killing intent.
He froze briefly, his heart stirring faintly.
Even if these four had ravaged endless universes and civilizations, from their viewpoint, they were just carrying out routine duties.
Like a farmer tilling soil, unknowingly slaying myriad ants, insects, and soil dwellers, without seeing it as evil.
With that in mind, Su Yu’s eyes chilled once more.
From the farmer’s angle, no sin had been committed.
But to the ants and insects, the farmer was the ultimate vile fiend and foe.
And not long ago, Su Yu had been one of those "ants," so he couldn’t possibly align with the farmer.
"They perished by themselves, sparing me the effort..."
"I wonder if I can bring along those two machines..."
Now the sole survivor in the entire "mine," Su Yu dropped all pretense of restraint, ready to claim anything worthwhile.
With a mental command, Su Yu tried packing those two machines into the Manifestation Space.
It proved challenging—immensely so.
Though compact in size, those machines contained vast quantities of "super-quality" essence, forged by cutting-edge tech.
In terms of Su Yu’s home space-time, each machine matched the mass of innumerable universes combined.
Compressing countless universes into the Manifestation Space exceeded what Su Yu could manage in his present state.
Luckily, he wasn’t the old Su Yu anymore; as a "super-quality," his core had transformed, and it seemed all his powers had evolved too.
After intense struggle, he succeeded in stashing the machines into the Manifestation Space.
Following the dimensional coordinates he’d sensed amid the crystal submission, Su Yu performed a temporal super-quality conversion to climb into an even loftier macroscopic dimension.
With experience from before, this Ascension flowed far more easily for Su Yu.
Quickly, he pierced through hundreds of thousands of dimensions and entered a fresh space-time.
This new space-time towered hundreds of thousands of dimensions above the prior mine, leaving Su Yu reverted to frailty once again—drained of energy and matter, barely more than a specter.
But as a super-quality now, Su Yu could employ super-quality conversion to rapidly rebuild energy and body in any dimensional space-time, provided super-quality existed.
Still, leaping another few hundred thousand dimensions demanded even greater super-quality for the conversion.
Su Yu held off on activating it right away, opting first to survey his environment and assess the lay of the land.
And that’s when Su Yu spotted... humans?
Yes, in the ruins of this so-called "super-quality civilization" post-Infinite Universe’s Destruction, Su Yu beheld humans!
This sight left Su Yu mildly stunned.
Su Yu scanned a fairly large area; scaled to the Primordial Universe, it might stretch across hundreds of kilometers.
Populating it were throngs of beings.
These beings... were human!
"No! Not genuine humans, just lookalikes—humanoid at best..."
A closer look revealed that the "humans" moving through this space were mere facsimiles.
At their core, they consisted of "super-quality," with internals jumbled and lacking true human biology.
Or put another way, they were "pseudo-humans."
"The life-manufacturing tech here must be superior, able to craft such lifelike pseudo-humans..."
After watching a bit longer, Su Yu witnessed a "pseudo-human" emerging from a machine.
Clearly, these "pseudo-humans" mirrored the earlier four miners in origin—all produced by machines.
However, the creation methods were far more sophisticated and precise, yielding incredibly detailed "humanoids."
Still, Su Yu refused to call them real humans, sticking to "pseudo-humans."
"Why would a super-quality civilization shape bodies as humanoids? Could it be..."
Su Yu’s focus sharpened abruptly as he gazed upward.