Infinite Job Transfers Starting from Mechanic-Chapter 799 - 403: Conflict Between Humans and Machines, The Anomalous Mechanical City
Su Yu immediately looked around and found himself on a desolate area of Ruins Star.
His gigantic figure stood tall on the wasteland, exuding a powerful aura that startled a group of Radiation Beasts into fleeing in all directions.
"Crossing time and space, so it includes the body too?"
"That makes sense, the point in time I crossed is [now], so if I’ve successfully traversed, it’s real, and there’s no need to spend extra Power of Time to condense a body..."
Su Yu thought to himself.
This time, his traversal was different from before. It was crossing from one time-space’s [now] to another time-space’s [now], inclusive of the body.
This indeed spared Su Yu the hassle.
Originally, he had prepared, if only a will returned, it would require additional power of time to condense a body, but now it wasn’t necessary.
Then, Su Yu checked the Manifestation Space and found it had accompanied him back. Everything was intact, and the Galaxy Warriors and others inside were unharmed by the space-time traversal.
They weren’t even aware of the fact that they had crossed over.
Most ordinary people had long been asleep in the sleep pods Su Yu prepared, only the Galaxy Warriors remained awake, focusing on meditation and training.
"They’re really worry-free."
Su Yu smiled slightly, feeling relieved.
Then, he dissolved the Sunshine Transformation, returned to his normal size, and deeply inhaled the familiar air.
"Finally back!"
The air of Ruins Star still carried the same scent—it wasn’t exactly fresh, but to Su Yu, it was very familiar.
In this so-called normal time-space, there were Evil Gods, Radiation Beasts, planetary blockades, and so forth...
But it was much better than that dark and hopeless space-time.
And in the Dark Space-Time, with Su Yu successfully traversing back, the Mechanical Energy Tower he newly built there had exploded after a single use, turning into cosmic dust.
This thing had endured the backlash of Su Yu’s traverse, and since Su Yu had intentionally designed a self-destruct system during its creation, it destroyed itself right after use, and very thoroughly, leaving almost no trace, turning into microscopic molecules.
This thing, unlike Nuonuo, was just a temporary tool, discarded once used.
Anyway, being across space-time, Su Yu couldn’t retrieve it. Keeping it would occupy the shared position of Su Yu’s Subspace Domain and could easily be exploited by certain existences in the Dark Space-Time, so destruction was preferable.
It’s just a pity that its materials were completely lost.
After all, this was a Fourth-Rank Mechanical Creation, and when Su Yu built it, he used materials generously, depleting almost all high-level materials left in the Manifestation Space.
But it was necessary to return.
"Speaking of which, that previous place..."
After confirming his return to normal time-space, Su Yu dared to release his thoughts, recalling the previous Mysterious Land.
Even with Su Yu’s strength, he couldn’t quite fathom the nature of that Mysterious Land. Now successfully out of it, he naturally wanted to sum up the experience to avoid encountering it again.
"In that Mysterious Land, time and space didn’t exist."
"It didn’t seem like a real place, more akin to a Thought Space deep within one’s mind..."
Recalling all prior encounters and the words of that shadow, Su Yu gained an insight.
The Mysterious Land wasn’t somewhere else, but his own Thought Space from deep within!
As for why such a Thought Space appeared, Su Yu thought it was because he briefly transcended the constraints of time and space during his traverse.
At that time, around Su Yu, there was no time, no space; time and space didn’t exist—there was nothing.
No past, no present, no future, no timeline; all vanished, ceased to exist.
Because there was no existence of time and space, Su Yu’s consciousness, to maintain its own existence, instinctively constructed a Thought Space to accommodate his will.
Because the nonexistence of time and space is a very frightening circumstance.
Previously, Su Yu, when studying the Subspace Analyzer, tried to close off his senses and thoughts, sealing off all perceptions of the outside world and his body.
And he nearly killed himself.
Human consciousness requires stimulation from information to sustain itself.
Completely shutting off senses is tantamount to suicide.
And nonexistence of time and space isn’t just the loss of external perception.
Everything external ceases to exist, which is more extremely frightening than blocking perception.
If it weren’t for Su Yu’s strong will, immediately constructing a Thought Space, his consciousness might have dissipated as a result.
It’s like when a person is asleep, closing their eyes to darkness, seeing nothing, the brain will construct a Dream World based on the information in the mind.
The previous Mysterious Land was akin to a kind of Dream Realm.
That’s why Su Yu had a semblance of "wish fulfillment" ability there.
And in such a Thought Space, theoretically, the control was entirely in Su Yu’s hands.
Yet, in this Thought World belonging solely to Su Yu, appeared that shadow of Su Yu.
Even that shadow of Su Yu initially held stronger control than Su Yu himself.
The manifestation was that the shadow could speak, whereas Su Yu couldn’t.
Fortunately, Su Yu, as the true master there, having comprehended everything, quickly controlled his mind and reversed, annihilating the shadow.
Thinking of this, Su Yu felt somber.
It seemed that the shadow of Su Yu had silently and imperceptibly corroded him from deep within.
