Infinite Job Transfers Starting from Mechanic-Chapter 896 - 451: The Dead Silent Mechanical City (Part 2)

Chapter 896: Chapter 451: The Dead Silent Mechanical City (Part 2)

These people developed within the Mechanical City, accumulating quite a population.

Later, as civilization advanced, many people from outside would come back to visit relatives, among other things.

Many people have special feelings toward the Mechanical City—it’s their Holy City, their hometown. After leaving, they longed to return every day.

Especially the elders like Yang Lie, they would stay in the Mechanical City for most of the year.

But starting more than thirty years ago, many people gradually moved away and stopped living in the Mechanical City.

There didn’t seem to be any particular reason; they just wanted a change of environment, after all, the three hundred cities outside had far more variety and novelty compared to the unchanging Mechanical City.

After these people moved away, they never returned.

Moreover, as more people moved away, the Mechanical City increasingly felt deserted, almost like a "Ghost City."

Until ten years ago, even the last batch of residents couldn’t take the city’s atmosphere anymore and moved away one after another.

Now, the entire Mechanical City, apart from Su Yu, is uninhabited, and no one comes back to visit.

This is a gradual process, and those immersed in it didn’t find anything amiss.

But now, when they arrived at the gates of the Mechanical City and saw the empty city, they all felt incredulous.

How could such a Holy City have all its inhabitants move away, turning into an empty city?

This is definitely abnormal, but previously, they didn’t notice anything.

Actually, over the years, people occasionally thought about coming back to take a look, but they were always busy with various things and eventually gave up.

They planned to return and take a look when they had free time, but then kept waiting until now.

"Turns out, we actually had issues long ago..."

The people murmured to themselves, each feeling a chill in their hearts.

After a moment of silence, Yang Lie spoke, loudly addressing the gates of the Mechanical City: "Mr. Su Yu, are you there? We’ve come back to visit!"

The voice echoed with no response.

Yang Lie tried using his personal terminal to send information to the Mechanical City.

It was fine not sending it, but once he did, boom!

Inside the Mechanical City, some intense explosion occurred! Flames soared up to the sky! Under the sweeping shockwave, buildings in the city collapsed one by one.

Then, the display interface of the personal terminal instantly showed snowflakes, symbolizing a signal interruption!

Everyone looked at each other, realizing a fact: something major had happened!

The signal of the personal terminal had never had issues over the years, whether it was the exchange system or the personal space, which could be used normally.

This meant Su Yu’s power could still uphold the operation of this system.

This had always been Yang Lie and others’ reassurance, as Su Yu’s power was always with them.

But now, even the signal is having problems!

Everyone exchanged glances, seeing the shock in each other’s eyes.

They no longer cared about anything else and quickly flew toward the site of the explosion in the city, which was also the city’s center.

The Mechanical City hadn’t activated its shield; though there were city walls, they were like non-existent to these Fourth-rank Fusion People.

They quickly flew to the city center, hovering in mid-air, staring at the blazing flames, all plunged into silence.

"This... seems to be the signal tower? How did it get damaged like this?"

Everyone discovered the location of the explosion was the Mechanical City’s core signal tower.

The tower had a unique shape, spiral, made entirely of high-energy alloy, containing powerful signal transmission capability which could transmit various signals of the Mechanical City globally without loss.

Due to the technology of data, energy, and material transformation, this signal transmission equaled energy transmission, and equaled material transmission.

The entire Azure Star civilization, the new Mechanical Empire, was built on this system.

But now, this system has collapsed!

The signal tower was completely destroyed in the explosion, leaving only half of the wreck.

More bizarrely, that half of the wreck didn’t seem to be freshly destroyed in an explosion but appeared to have been abandoned for tens or hundreds or even thousands of years with obvious signs of erosion.

Due to the tower’s peculiar material, everyone couldn’t determine how many years it had been abandoned.

They could only assert it definitely wasn’t just freshly abandoned.

After all, that dust-covered ancient and eroded aura isn’t formed in a short period.

These 37 Fusion Strong Persons all possess Fourth-order combat power.

With a slight scan of spiritual power, they could see the remaining half of the wreck had already lost functionality.

It became strange; the signal tower had long since lost its functions, so where did the signals they received over the years come from?

Everyone was suddenly both amazed and shocked.

"Is it the Power of Time?"

Someone murmured softly.

The others, upon hearing this, also recalled the various legends of Su Yu.

They all more or less heard of Su Yu having the Power of Time, enabling time travel and resurrecting the dead.

Even many of them had died once before and were revived by Su Yu with his potent force.

With the signal tower being so eerie, it might also be influenced by the Power of Time.

Possibly before they came, the signal tower was still functioning normally.

But after Yang Lie sent that signal, the signal tower was invaded by some unknown Power of Time, instantly passing through hundreds or thousands of years, turning into ruins.

The explosion just now was because its internal energy pipes leaked due to time erosion.

Thinking of this, everyone felt even heavier in their hearts.

The Power of Time! This power must be Mr. Su Yu’s power!

Who else could have such capability?

Mr. Su Yu is indeed abnormal, using such power to destroy the signal tower—what is he trying to do? Does he still have reason?

Would Mr. Su Yu use the Power of Time to attack them?

Everyone had already pushed their spirit to the limit.

Even though they had 37 Fourth-rank combat powers collectively, they didn’t know how to respond.

Though a few people’s professional abilities were special, like Feng Ying’s gravity, Wei Jiu’s space, which may barely relate to time, could possibly counter the erosion of the Power of Time.

But having never actually fought, no one could guarantee it would work.

Actually, Su Yu, theoretically, was also just Fourth-rank.

But even with so many Fourth-rank allies, they didn’t feel any sense of security.

In fact, they hadn’t thought about defeating Su Yu at all, only about meeting him and awakening him!

Everyone held their breath and waited for a moment; onsite, there was only the signal tower burning and no other sound.

At this moment, the location of the Mechanical City was at night; aside from here, there’s no light in the entire city, appearing somewhat eerie.

Everyone faintly felt there was something terrifying watching them, causing them not to dare to breathe.

Afraid that a slight disturbance would attract some unknown power, aging them to death instantly.

Fortunately, that terrifying scene didn’t occur.

After a moment, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.

They exchanged glances, wiped the sweat off, then Yang Lie softly spoke, "Next, let’s go to Mr. Su Yu’s residence and check it out."

Everyone nodded and then flew downward.

Su Yu normally didn’t live on the city’s surface because he needed to conduct various experiments and control planetary energy, so he resided underground for a long time.

The underground of the Mechanical City houses massive mechanical laboratories and factories, where Su Yu spends most of his time.

With no trace of Su Yu on the surface now, he should be underground.

The entrance to the underground was right in front of them.

After the signal tower was destroyed, it revealed an entrance leading underground.

Everyone gathered their spirits and flew into that dark entrance.

"Something’s amiss! Why is it all dark here too?"

The underground, being home to the mechanical factory and laboratory, was always brightly lit, producing many exchangeable items from the exchange system.

Now even there has fallen into darkness.

Various mechanical devices had long since been dust-covered!

Although mere darkness doesn’t affect actions for these Fourth-rank stronger, this situation still made them extremely uneasy.

After quickly patrolling the underground, no discovery was made, only various remnants of mechanical equipment.

"Only one last place remains unseen; it’s the main control core of the Mechanical City."

"Mr. Su Yu... should be there!"