Infinite Job Transfers Starting from Mechanic-Chapter 1098 - 553: The Eerie Oming River System (Part 2)

Chapter 1098: Chapter 553: The Eerie Oming River System (Part 2)

Su Yu did not have the leisure to mourn these human corpses.

After all, he was so close to the Oming River System that even a slight fluctuation of that strange force might affect him.

With his own life hard to protect, he had no mood to mourn those unrelated, long-dead people.

He immediately wanted to activate the starship and make a quick escape.

However, Su Yu promptly dismissed the idea of fleeing.

Because he had experience.

Previously, when Su Yu was in the Azure Star System, he was tricked by the Ghost Emperor and sent into the Dark Space-Time.

There, while exploring a gaseous planet, Su Yu discovered the powerful Fifth-Order creation, the Dream-Making Star Core.

At that time, he was still far from the Fifth-Order, so he immediately fled.

But later it proved that running away was useless.

At that time, he had already been targeted by Qi Chen behind the Dream-Making Star Core, and unknowingly, he was hit by Time Retrospection, creating a Pain Evil God Su Yu, almost dying at the hands of the Pain Evil God.

Although he eventually turned the tables, even absorbing the power of the Pain Evil God for his own use, the process was fraught with hardship and danger, indescribable to outsiders.

Having learned from the last experience, Su Yu knows that in such situations, simply fleeing doesn’t solve the problem.

Even if he escapes for the moment, there might be threats in the future.

Therefore, Su Yu decided not to run yet, to first explore the situation in the Oming River System, and then leave.

Even if there’s danger later, at least he’ll be somewhat prepared.

Of course, it’s possible that Su Yu could be lucky and escape unharmed, and exploration could trigger danger, making it a reckless move.

But Su Yu still wants to determine his fate by his own choices, not by relying on luck.

"To explore this River System, first I need to ascertain the range of the power’s influence, then outside that range, use the Star Tower signal to scan and gather information..."

Su Yu thought to himself.

Although he wanted to explore the River System, he never intended to actually enter.

Instead, he would use the Star Tower signal to scan from a distance.

With the convenience of the Star Tower signal, Su Yu had enough confidence.

However, the Star Tower signal also couldn’t scan that strange force causing time loss, which even the Star Tower signal seemed helpless against.

It figures, if the Star Tower signal could detect such a force, the Human Empire would have long been prepared, and wouldn’t have ended up as a pile of corpses in the strata.

To understand the range of the strange force, Su Yu had to find a way by himself.

First, he used the Star Tower signal to scan the cosmic vacuum around the Oming River System.

In the cosmic vacuum, there isn’t truly emptiness, but rather sparse microscopic particles, maybe just one or two atoms per cubic meter, but it’s there.

There are also quantum fluctuations and other phenomena.

If these particles and phenomena are also affected by time loss, then Su Yu could use that to gauge the force’s range.

However...

There was none!

The cosmic vacuum near the Oming River System was truly empty.

No microscopic particles, no quantum fluctuations, complete vacuum.

Even the gravitational pull and light that should exist were nonexistent.

Even the causal environment didn’t exist!

Su Yu could clearly see this River System from afar and could sense its strong gravitational pull and 1:1 causal environment.

Yet under the Star Tower’s scan, there was nothing!

The scan from the Star Tower terminal on the starship is more precise than Su Yu’s own senses.

So, the light Su Yu saw, the gravitational pull he sensed, and even the causal environment were all false.

"Is it really a trap? Putting out such illusions to entice other civilizations into exploring?"

Su Yu pondered silently in his heart.

It seems this River System is more peculiar than imagined.

However, this can also be seen as a good thing.

A trap is inherently passive and requires the prey to step in voluntarily.

As long as Su Yu doesn’t recklessly step in, there shouldn’t be too much of a problem.

The fear is that merely seeing the Oming Star System might be considered as "stepping" into the trap, which would be disastrous.

This is very likely, especially after having dealt with the Jing God, where knowing about Jing God’s deeds immediately led to erosion, and the birth of a belief.

The Oming River System might be the same; just seeing it might mean being targeted.

Su Yu even suspected if his desire to explore the River System truly came from within, or if it was influenced?

But once such suspicions start, they won’t have an end.

Moreover, Su Yu considered his willpower to be strong, accurately differentiating between his own will and external influences when eroded by Jing God.

Now, without feeling it, it might be because Su Yu genuinely wants to explore the Oming River System.

So even if there’s influence from external will, it wouldn’t matter.

Thinking of this, Su Yu’s heart was free of doubts, pondering how to carry out the exploration.

After a moment of contemplation, he started planning.

First, he retrieved a large piece of unknown metal from the starship, which was at least a Fifth-Order level strong material, possessing excellent various properties.

Then, through the machinery on the ship, he manufactured this metal into billions of timekeeping devices.

This enormous starship, comparable to a small planet, had various facilities fully equipped, even simulating mountains and rivers, making it easy to find materials and equipment.

After completing all of this, Su Yu used the ship’s superluminal projector to deploy these timekeeping devices near the Oming River System.