Infinite Job Transfers Starting from Mechanic-Chapter 787 - 397: 1000 Cycles, Return to the Future!
Su Yu had already taken the profession of the Time Mechanic to the final step, just one bit away from successfully completing the profession and mastering the Power of Time.
Yet he hadn’t anticipated that there would be one final calamity awaiting him.
"... I should have thought of it earlier."
Su Yu shook his head in his heart.
From the beginning, Su Yu intended to pioneer the Time Mechanic profession because he was concerned about backlash from Subspace.
Extracting energy from Subspace always faced terrible backlash.
Would mastering the Power of Time also have its anomalies? How strong would the backlash be?
So Su Yu planned to use machines to replace human effort, creating a time machine to bear the backlash.
But now, Su Yu found that he couldn’t avoid it at all, and he himself had to endure this backlash.
Perhaps after Su Yu successfully completed the profession, the machine could substitute him in enduring it.
But to succeed in the profession, he first needed to withstand a backlash using his own body.
This became a chicken-or-egg problem, with no way around it.
Now that Su Yu had lost the future, it was as if he were dead—a dead man!
The question now was, how to come back to life?
"Ah, the Power of Time is indeed difficult to grasp... Luckily, I have time to slowly find a way."
Su Yu thought to himself, without getting overly flustered.
Su Yu’s consciousness was like a "snake" twenty years long, coiled on the timeline.
Time seemed to have lost its meaning for him.
He could endlessly repeat the cycle on this twenty-year-long timeline segment, providing him with endless time to think.
Sufficient for him to come up with a solution.
"Perhaps my time isn’t really endless..."
Su Yu pondered for a while, then suddenly sensed something in his heart, identifying the [Now], and moved forward by one second.
Su Yu had a vague understanding.
He was within history, theoretically already beyond time.
But time did not change with his will and continued to move forward.
The mark of time moving forward was that the [Now] was still developing.
But Su Yu’s time had ceased to move forward, eternally halted at the moment after the experiment where his body disappeared.
Therefore, the temporal node of [Now] was moving further away from Su Yu.
This distance was not spatial but temporal.
"This being the case, in a year or ten years... when I am too far from the [Now], is it possible I will no longer be able to maintain consciousness, and truly die then?"
Su Yu speculated in his heart.
His current state was neither dead nor alive, living in history, as if the real time had lost its meaning for him, equating to immortality.
But immortality isn’t that simple, even in this highly restricted alternative form.
If Su Yu’s guess was correct, then as the [Now] continuously moved forward and the distance grew, he would gradually lose power.
Ultimately dying completely, becoming a phantom in history.
Fortunately, the [Now] had only moved forward a few minutes; Su Yu still had plenty of time to think of a solution.
"What should I do?"
Su Yu pondered deeply.
He quickly had a train of thought.
Su Yu existed in the [Past], and the time machines he had previously built all traveled to the past, never once going to the [Future].
Now that the [Past] had been almost fully researched, the [Now] had disappeared.
To break through, it seemed only possible to start from the [Future].
"Thus, I must continue experimenting, creating a time machine, to travel from the [Past] to the [Future]."
Su Yu had come up with a solution.
He needed to conduct a new time machine experiment in history again.
This time, however, it wasn’t to travel back to the past but forward into the future!
Having thought of a specific solution, Su Yu felt much calmer.
He suddenly had another idea: "First travel back to the past, then travel from the past to the future... Could this be the complete Time Mechanic ritual?"
"It’s very likely!"
Su Yu thought that his ritual might never have been entirely complete, returning to the future might be the crucial final step.
The Time Mechanic was a profession Su Yu created himself, and the ritual was also his own design, so he couldn’t be certain if there were any flaws.
Now it seemed, this ritual indeed had flaws.
Earlier he thought he had completed the ritual, but he had been happy too soon.
Only by completing an experiment in returning to the future can it be considered successful!
Thinking this, Su Yu felt more at peace.
Since it was a destined difficulty to encounter, there was no need to overthink it—just strive to overcome it.
Mastering the Power of Time wouldn’t be so simple; having such difficulties was normal.
If it were too easy to succeed, Su Yu would instead be suspicious if there was something wrong.
And so, the historical Su Yu began his research.
Traveling from the [Now] to the [Past] took Su Yu a full twenty years to succeed.
Now wanting to travel from the [Past] to the [Future], naturally, was not a simple task.
Even though there was prior experience, it wasn’t something that could be easily applied.
The difficulty lay in the fact that the future wasn’t determined!
Su Yu had previously traveled back to the [Past], knowing the energy activities of the past planets, allowing him to specifically create Energy Towers to resonate with the energy fluctuations of the planetary time nodes in the past.
But regarding the future, Su Yu had no idea how the planetary energy would behave.
Although he could foresee the future through being Quantumized, he could only see a tiny bit.
And it wasn’t far, only a fraction of a millisecond into the future.
This amount of time was too short to meet his requirements.
