Infinite Job Transfers Starting from Mechanic-Chapter 804 - 405: The Time Mechanic’s First Battle! (Part 2)
Truly a dilemma.
"The key question now is, if I go back the same way and get caught again, can I wake up?"
A question popped up in Su Yu’s mind.
This question is crucial!
If he can find a way to wake up each time, then there wouldn’t be real danger.
He could even use it to deplete the Ghost Emperor’s strength.
But if he can’t ensure he will definitely wake up, returning would be risking his life.
Su Yu carefully recalled everything that had happened, remembering how he woke up. He needed to figure out whether it was luck or inevitability that saved him before.
Finally, Su Yu concluded, "At that time, I was destined to wake up!"
Thinking of this, a wave of joy rose in Su Yu’s heart.
Now he was relieved.
As for why he was destined to wake up, it’s because of the Power of Time!
Earlier, when Su Yu fell into the Ghost Emperor’s trap, be it the Power of Nihility or the Power of Sunshine, neither responded, leaving him in despair.
But in the final moment, when Su Yu wanted to commit suicide and travel to the moment of the doomsday battle, he used the Power of Time.
In that instant, his consciousness briefly detached from the timeline, and then the Power of Sunshine activated, waking him up.
So the key wasn’t the Power of Sunshine, but the Power of Time that temporarily took him off the timeline, allowing him to awaken.
It seems that while the Ghost Emperor’s spiritual power is invisible and unavoidable, it still has flaws.
That is, it cannot cross the timeline!
Or rather, it has much less influence on the will outside the timeline, making it easier to escape.
Even if Su Yu got trapped, as long as he used the Power of Time to leave the timeline, he could wake up.
Although if Su Yu got trapped and didn’t use the Power of Time, he wouldn’t wake up.
But since Su Yu had just become a Time Mechanic, encountering anomalies would surely prompt him to use the Power of Time to look at the past and future, triggering the previous process.
So Su Yu was destined to wake up before, with no luck involved! 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺
Thinking of this, Su Yu smiled slightly to himself.
Just now, he was inwardly cursing the Ghost Emperor’s treachery as insidious and unavoidable.
When in fact, Su Yu’s own Power of Time isn’t much worse, being just as tricky and unavoidable.
"In that case, I can safely return."
"As for what to do after returning? Then..."
Su Yu’s mind shifted, and his consciousness detached from the Thought Space, returning to normal space-time.
When he returned, the time was still in that instant, and his body remained in place.
After Su Yu’s consciousness returned to normal space-time, it first stayed outside the timeline and then was about to fall into the timeline and enter his body.
At this moment, his consciousness was still outside the timeline, temporarily unaffected by the Ghost Emperor’s spiritual power.
However, as soon as his consciousness fell into his body, he would get caught again.
In that instant, Su Yu forcibly stopped the process, then activated the Power of Time, looking back to two minutes ago.
Two minutes ago, Su Yu had not yet returned to the Mechanical City and had not yet been trapped.
With a thought, Su Yu propelled himself two minutes back in time.
Two minutes ago, Su Yu had just discovered something wrong with the Mechanical City and was preparing to go back and check.
At this moment, a thought suddenly crossed his mind, and images from two minutes ahead, the process of getting caught, flashed through his mind.
Su Yu had already used the Power of Time to travel back to the time point two minutes earlier.
This time travel was completed by Su Yu himself using his own Power of Time, meaning he shouldered the cost and backlash himself.
But because the "distance" of travel was very short, the Power of Time consumed was not much, and the backlash was minimal, temporarily not affecting Su Yu’s actions.
Su Yu smiled slightly and continued his journey toward the Mechanical City, maintaining the same path.
At the same time, he took out thirty Mechanical Energy Towers from the Manifestation Space! These were Su Yu’s means of time travel!
All of these Mechanical Energy Towers were of the Third Rank.
Earlier, in the Dark Space-Time, because he frequently needed to experiment with time travel, Su Yu built many such towers. After each journey, the towers would break down and need rebuilding, so he made several extra as backups.
Now they could be put to good use!
Su Yu flew on while having Nuonuo fuse and enhance these energy towers to the Fourth Rank.
Then, Su Yu threw these energy towers out.
At this time, he was still over a thousand kilometers away from the Mechanical City.
Once released, these energy towers flew rapidly in all directions, even faster than Su Yu could fly!
Nuonuo had a flight capability itself; after fusion, these Mechanical Energy Towers also flew, and quickly, so Su Yu didn’t need to transform them.
Su Yu wasn’t flying at full speed, but these energy towers, boosted fully by Nuonuo, were incredibly fast.
By the time Su Yu was halfway there, all the Mechanical Energy Towers were in position.
They formed a wide circle over a thousand kilometers away, surrounding the Mechanical City and burrowing deep underground, completely hidden.
Once the Mechanical Energy Towers were positioned, Su Yu immediately received a signal.
"Such a strong resonance! It really is a planetary energy node!"
Su Yu thought to himself.
These Mechanical Energy Towers needed the resonance of planetary energy to achieve time travel.
They all had a strong sensing ability for planetary energy.
And now, from the signal Su Yu received, the resonance was very strong because the position of the Mechanical City was a node of planetary energy, with intense fluctuations.
Every moment, these fluctuations continued incessantly. Even though these energy towers were thousands of kilometers away from the Mechanical City, they could clearly sense the planet’s energy fluctuations.
Using these fluctuations, those Mechanical Energy Towers could enable Su Yu to complete time travel, bearing the cost and backlash, without Su Yu needing to expend his power.
Moreover, this kind of crossing doesn’t require waiting for specific time nodes of planetary energy fluctuations; it can be achieved at any time because the planetary energy fluctuates constantly.
However, these planetary fluctuations are relatively mild, so the "distance" of time travel is relatively short.
At most, it can travel about a dozen hours, less than a day.
Unless Su Yu specifically looks for moments of intense energy fluctuation, but that is unnecessary.
Ten hours are more than enough, and even ten minutes would suffice.
Besides, such short distance time travels result in minimal backlash, so these Mechanical Energy Towers won’t break down after a single use and can be used multiple times.
Once everything was prepared, Su Yu felt reassured, smiled slightly, and flew toward the Mechanical City: "This should count as the Time Mechanic’s first battle, right?"
"Ghost Emperor, let me see what tricks you’re up to..."
Two minutes later, as time progressed, it reached [now].
Su Yu followed the original historical path and arrived near the Mechanical City; the previous arrangement of energy towers didn’t take him much time.
He still followed the original development to reach here.
This was Su Yu’s carefulness; he worried that Ghost Emperor could detect changes in history, so he tried not to alter history. As for those energy towers, being thousands of kilometers away, the Ghost Emperor probably didn’t know.
So, theoretically, the Ghost Emperor hadn’t noticed anything unusual yet.
According to the original historical development, Su Yu at this point used the Power of Time to observe the future of the Mechanical City, then saw the doomsday battle happening half an hour later, unavoidable, and immediately felt despair.
Now, it should replay again!
"I should be trapped now!"
Although Su Yu didn’t feel anything unusual, he knew he definitely got caught.
Then, Su Yu forgot all his previous arrangements and instinctively activated his time sight, looking at the Mechanical City.
Then, Su Yu saw doomsday again, saw mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and fell into endless despair!
And then...
Su Yu woke up! Remembered everything!
It was the Mechanical Energy Towers, arranged far away, that started as per the pre-set program, taking Su Yu’s consciousness off the timeline, waking him!
Outside the timeline, Su Yu smiled slightly.
Then, with a thought, Su Yu re-entered his body and returned to [now].
But after returning, Su Yu remained awake and then flew another second toward the Mechanical City.
Then again, Su Yu fell into despair.
Then the Mechanical Energy Towers activated once more, waking Su Yu again!
After several repetitions, the secretly observing Ghost Emperor could no longer sit still.
How could it be that Su Yu fell into the trap several times yet seemed completely unharmed?
