Infinite Job Transfers Starting from Mechanic

Chapter 1248: Chapter 700: A Name and an Identity

Although Su Yu attempts to create the Book of Narrative through exhaustive methods, it doesn’t mean he truly abandons thinking for complete brainless enumeration; rather, he’s constantly analyzing and collecting data.

Each experiment helps him exclude incorrect options and accumulate data.

Moreover, the process of those spacetime dimensions being downgraded from the current narrative layer is also important data.

After countless experiments, Su Yu finally found something useful.

"I see..."

Su Yu observed that when those experimental spacetimes were downgraded, their spacetime structures and even their basic super quality, which is existence, all disintegrated and disappeared.

But they didn’t completely vanish; rather, they transformed into a state that Su Yu temporarily couldn’t understand or access.

In this state, their "existence" seemed to become false, no longer real.

According to Su Yu’s prior understanding, "existence," which is super quality, is the most real and credible thing in the world.

If a thing exists, it has existence.

Then its existence is undoubtedly real.

If its existence isn’t real, then it fundamentally doesn’t exist, and so it doesn’t have existence.

Since it fundamentally doesn’t exist, naturally there’s no issue of real or unreal.

Therefore, the so-called "false existence" itself should be something that doesn’t exist.

But now, Su Yu did witness that "false existence" indeed exists.

This is a certain essential manifestation of the narrative layer.

According to what that genius in the transcendence council previously said, everything in the current narrative layer is fictional, false, and nonexistent in the upper narrative layer.

But within the current narrative layer, everything is real.

As a result, these things simultaneously possess both false and real attributes.

Therefore, the "false existence" phenomenon occurs.

"It seems the key to the Book of Narrative lies in this ’false existence’ or it could be called ’narrative existence’..."

Su Yu finally found a part of the key, found the research direction, and felt rather excited.

He named the false existence "narrative existence" to indicate the connection between this existence and the narrative layer.

Starting is always difficult; with the direction of "narrative existence," things will become much easier going forward.

Soon Su Yu conducted countless more experiments.

After an unknown period, Su Yu finally captured part of the essence of "false existence."

"I see, the key is... ’being named and recognized’..."

Su Yu finally understood why that genius from the transcendence council could produce the Book of Narrative.

Even though Su Yu repeated the experiments countless times, he couldn’t achieve it.

Because that genius had a special characteristic, which was "being named and recognized."

That genius was essentially a protagonist-like figure.

If the current narrative layer is a world within a story, then surely there are protagonists, supporting characters, and various events.

They can be said to simultaneously exist at the upper and lower narrative dimensions, being both characters in the story and connected to the upper layer.

These protagonists and supporting characters are the so-called "being named and recognized," truly mentioned in the story.

These protagonists and supporting characters possess "narrative existence."

As for other characters and events, they exist outside the story, and their existence is naturally much weaker.

And that genius is undoubtedly the real protagonist, the protagonist of the "story" in the transcendence council.

His narrative existence is strong, this existence can transcend narrative layers.

Thus, this genius was able to create the Book of Narrative earlier.

This could be because he inadvertently used the narrative existence within him; it might also simply be his "plot" as a story protagonist.

Subsequently, he couldn’t replicate the experiment or produce a new Book of Narrative, possibly because his narrative existence was depleted, insufficient.

It might also be because his "plot" is over, and he doesn’t have any further role.

Or perhaps, both possibilities are essentially the same.

In any case, now it’s Su Yu’s turn.

However, Su Yu felt somewhat gloomy.

Because if that genius from the transcendence council is the protagonist,

creating the Book of Narrative is "plot," then all the current happenings might be arrangements from some "Book of Narrative" in the upper narrative layer.

If the upper narrative book doesn’t continue the arrangement, wouldn’t he be forever unable to complete the experiment or take the position?

Yet, Su Yu didn’t dwell on this, after all, such suspicion is meaningless, unverifiable, and irrefutable.

Moreover, most importantly...

According to this theory, Su Yu himself should also be a "story protagonist," possessing powerful narrative existence, after all, he has come to be the most formidable existence in the current narrative layer, able to create and destroy countless spacetimes with a mere thought.

Such a person couldn’t possibly still be "unnamed and unrecognized," just a walk-on part in the story, right?

But theoretically, if Su Yu is "named and recognized," possessing powerful narrative existence, then after going through countless experiments, he should have already completed the experiment and produced the Book of Narrative.

But he still hasn’t been able to complete it.

"So it seems, in the story of the upper narrative layer, I’m afraid I’m not really just a walk-on part..."

Su Yu thought to himself.

But he wasn’t disappointed, instead he felt a bit amused.

If he’s truly just a walk-on part, then it would be interesting.

Either he has grown so powerful, possibly just to become a major villain or a backdrop, used to fulfill some real "protagonist," such as that genius from the transcendence council.

Or... it’s the upper narrative layer where certain existences have used their narrative book to deliberately write, deliberately diminishing Su Yu’s existence, making Su Yu "unnamed and unrecognized," becoming a backdrop and walk-on part.

In this way, Su Yu would be forever unable to complete experiments and rituals, unable to ascend to the upper narrative layer.

The story might even arrange a true "protagonist" to kill Su Yu, to totally eliminate him.

However, now Su Yu is too strong; it’s impossible for the current narrative layer to birth a being that can rival him, so they can only intentionally diminish his existence.

"So it seems they are really scared of me ascending..."

Su Yu thought with a cold smile.

He doesn’t really believe he’s some mere walk-on part; that’s likely just the result of deliberate writing from the upper narrative layer.

After all, Su Yu is currently the most likely to transcend the narrative layer, to reach the upper layer.

With Su Yu’s experience, if he could ascend to the upper narrative layer, he would soon have immense power there; no wonder the upper narrative layer would deliberately write to prevent his ascent.

Besides these two possibilities, there’s another that is: Su Yu is fundamentally not in any story, so it doesn’t matter whether he’s a protagonist, supporting character, or walk-on part...