Infinite Job Transfers Starting from Mechanic
Chapter 403 - 205: Setting Out to Investigate Jiguang City! _2

Chapter 403: Chapter 205: Setting Out to Investigate Jiguang City! _2

According to the knowledge that Su Yu knew, this is a natural phenomenon caused by charged particle streams emitted from the sun entering the planet’s magnetic field.

He had only heard about it, and now it was the first time he witnessed it personally.

"What a beautiful sight, it was worth coming here..."

Su Yu admired the aurora, clicking his tongue in praise.

However, after a moment, he suddenly focused and noticed that in the distance, the aurora was faintly forming a somewhat distorted pattern as it transformed.

That pattern seemed to be a ferocious human face?

Su Yu was about to observe carefully when the visage disappeared.

"It seems that this place is indeed not very peaceful."

Su Yu knew that with his current strength, what he had just seen couldn’t possibly be an illusion.

Something seemed to be hidden within that aurora.

The Jiguang City Lord truly made the right decision in asking Su Yu to come over.

Su Yu flew for a while longer and finally saw a city on the ground.

This city looked similar to an ordinary modern city, with tall buildings and bright lights.

Its scale was about the same as Illusion City.

Quite rare in such a bitter and cold place.

"Jiguang City, Electromagnetic Vanguard..."

Su Yu muttered to himself.

The Jiguang City Lord was a middle-aged man named Zhao Shuangming, with the profession of [Electromagnetic Vanguard], skilled in manipulating electromagnetic energy.

After taking a few glances, Su Yu maneuvered his armor and landed at the gate of Jiguang City, deactivating invisibility and revealing himself.

As soon as he appeared, he was immediately detected by Jiguang City’s surveillance equipment.

"Alert! Alert!"

"High pollution energy reaction! Level... eight-star!"

The piercing alarm immediately sounded.

"Jiguang City’s defense system, could it be the same design as Illusion City?"

Su Yu listened to the familiar alarm, somewhat amused.

Last time he visited Illusion City, it was the same commotion.

Fortunately, this time, the alarm quickly subsided.

Then a voice came through the speaker: "May I ask if this is Mr. Su Yu?"

Su Yu recognized it as Zhao Shuangming’s voice and replied, "It’s me."

Shortly after Su Yu spoke, he saw a streak of electric light flicker from the city.

The electric light flickered a few times, approaching the city gate from the city center, and in another flash, it was out of the city, heading towards Su Yu.

Su Yu’s eyes focused, seeing within the electric light, the silhouette of a middle-aged man, Zhao Shuangming!

This middle-aged man seemed unremarkable at the previous gathering.

But now he appeared extremely imposing, his body blazing with dazzling flashes, hair standing upright, and eyes blazingly white, like the Thunder God from myths, coming with a storm of sparks and lightning, arriving in front of Su Yu in the blink of an eye.

Crackle... crackle...

The electric light flashed, whipping through the air.

A smell both burnt and fresh came, ozone generated by ionizing oxygen.

"At least four times the speed of sound..."

Su Yu was somewhat surprised in his heart; Zhao Shuangming’s speed just now was extremely astonishing, able to run at four times the speed of sound on the ground.

Worthy of being an [Electromagnetic Vanguard].

When Zhao Shuangming reached Su Yu, he immediately dissipated his power, reverting back to that ordinary middle-aged man, and said excitedly, "Mr. Su Yu, you’ve come, that’s wonderful!"

Hearing this, Su Yu frowned immediately: "What happened?"

Su Yu noticed Zhao Shuangming’s demeanor was somewhat off, being so anxious; it seemed something had occurred in Jiguang City.

Upon hearing, Zhao Shuangming’s face flashed with an expression of terror, as if remembering some unpleasant past.

After a while, he began speaking slowly: "It’s like this, after the gathering concluded, I immediately started inspecting the whole city, and then discovered... that there were no longer any living people in Jiguang City..."

Zhao Shuangming’s revelation shocked Su Yu.

No living people? What happened?

What followed was a somewhat chilling tale told by Zhao Shuangming.

As the City Lord of Jiguang City, Zhao Shuangming had been ruling this city for over two hundred years.

Although he was not exactly affectionate towards the people, he treated the residents fairly well.

Under Zhao Shuangming’s protection, this city had a very flourishing population of over eight hundred thousand in this harsh land.

Usually, Zhao Shuangming didn’t manage affairs often, leaving the residents to govern themselves.

He led an isolated life, busy every day enhancing his own power.

In fact, Zhao Shuangming hadn’t appeared before the residents for over ten years.

Having ascended to seven-star status for several centuries, with no descendants, and friends long gone.

So he had no deep bond with the ordinary residents, merely fulfilling the duties of a City Lord, quietly protecting this city without interacting with the residents.

Even if strong Radiation Beasts occasionally besieged the city, Zhao Shuangming would suppress them from afar without appearing personally.

Of course, as City Lord, he could always use spiritual power and various equipment to monitor the city’s dynamics.

The residents couldn’t see him, but he could see them.

To him, over the past ten years, Jiguang City had been running very well.

There were no crises, the residents lived and worked peacefully, and among hundreds of thousands, even fights and disputes were rare.

This gave him great satisfaction.

Having such a harmonious large city, brought a certain pride to his heart.

Relying on his power to shelter so many people and give them a good life, provided Zhao Shuangming immense gratification.

He thought it would continue like this forever.

Until the previous gathering, where Su Yu informed everyone that a secretive force might be targeting major cities.

Only then did Zhao Shuangming wake up and began inspecting.

Then he discovered that the entire city, at some unknown time, had become an empty city, a dead city!

Through surveillance and spiritual sensing, he saw the city residents living, studying, exercising, fighting... everything seemed normal.

But when he approached and interacted with the residents, he was horrified to find that these people were merely illusions.

Upon contact, these people instantly transformed into light and vanished!

The entire city was under an illusion.

All residents were fake!

Even the traces of their lives were fake!

Once the illusion faded, the entire city was empty, with no living people, no traces of life.

Only a dead city remained.

Zhao Shuangming was the only living person in this dead city.

This situation persisted for an unknown duration.

Perhaps for a year or two, or even ten years or more...

While narrating, Zhao Shuangming used equipment to project images.

In the images, Zhao Shuangming walked up to a resident, reached out to touch this person.

In an instant, the person exploded into a mass of light like a bubble, disappearing into the air.

And like a chain reaction, the others around this person also burst one after another, vanishing completely in a short time.

"Mr. Su Yu, can you imagine? I, a seven-star Transcendent, now feel chilled to the bone."

"My city has turned into a dead city, and I don’t know why."

"I even suspect if I’ve gone mad, whether Jiguang City ever had living people, whether it ever existed, or was it all my imagination..."

As Zhao Shuangming said these words, his emotions were somewhat agitated.

Even as a seven-star Transcendent, he couldn’t quite control it.

"City Lord Zhao, don’t get agitated."

Su Yu consoled him.

He could understand Zhao Shuangming.

If this had happened to Su Yu, discovering that the residents of Mechanical City were all illusions, he would probably be quite startled as well.

"Phew..."

"Please excuse my rudeness, Mr. Su Yu."

"Mr. Su Yu, please follow me into the city to see the current situation."

Zhao Shuangming took a few deep breaths to calm his emotions, then spoke to Su Yu.

Su Yu nodded and followed Zhao Shuangming into the city.

The two quickly entered the city.

Walking on the empty streets, Su Yu looked around, finding that it was indeed as Zhao Shuangming described, without any living people, just an empty city.

There wasn’t a single trace of life, and the entire city was so clean, it seemed as if it had just been built.

However, as Su Yu continued observing, his vision suddenly blurred, and the previously empty street suddenly became bustling, crowded with people and vehicles.

Even though the city’s temperature was very low, the vibrant atmosphere of life greeted him warmly.

But with another blink, these people disappeared once more, turning into light and dissipating instantly into the air.

Along with them disappeared Zhao Shuangming.

"Interesting..."

After a moment of silence, Su Yu smiled.