Infinite Job Transfers Starting from Mechanic

Chapter 1266: Chapter 718: The Ultimate Goal

"But... this hasty? You’re just letting me lead a tactical squad and become a Commander like this?"

Su Yu led this tactical squad, feeling a bit weird inside.

He’d just joined the Human camp, and somehow he was already an officer.

And he was in charge of three hundred thousand humans.

There were three million humans on the mothership. In this Star System, there were aliens on seven planets, and seven squads had been dispatched to purge them. Su Yu was leading one of them.

And this human squad had no objections at all to being led by Su Yu, this "Sub-human."

Since none of them objected, Su Yu naturally had no objections either, and directly led them off the mothership in a transport ship, flying toward that alien-infested planet.

In this Star System, a new kind of alien lifeform had emerged. It looked like a transparent worm, parasitizing other organisms’ bodies and controlling them to fight.

All the natural life in the Star System had already been parasitized by these aliens and Transformed into bio-weapons.

Natural lifeforms were those that had evolved naturally on the planets. They basically had no real intelligence, let alone civilization, so they didn’t count as aliens.

But once they were parasitized and Transformed by these new worm-aliens, that was a different story.

So they needed to be cleansed.

All the way there, the three hundred thousand warriors on the transport ship were extremely excited. It was as if being able to fight aliens was the meaning of their lives, their great mission. Even dying for it would be nothing.

Watching these warriors, Su Yu felt even stranger.

These human warriors seemed like they’d been "preset" from the start, with nothing in their heads but fighting aliens. Aside from that, they basically didn’t care about anything.

Even a monster like Su Yu becoming their Commander didn’t really bother them. One by one, they didn’t feel like real people at all.

And the so-called Imperial memories in these warriors’ heads were a bit odd too.

The Human Empire had existed since before the Universe was born. Why? The warriors didn’t know.

Who was the great Emperor? They didn’t know that either.

Why were they fighting aliens? They still didn’t know.

Su Yu even suspected that these warriors were just "walk-on parts" written by that behind-the-scenes being via the Book of Narrative, not real people at all, but fake illusions.

But through observation and Mind Reading, Su Yu could see that these human warriors were normal intelligent humans, with normal thinking.

It was just that the environment they’d lived in since childhood—or rather, their "background story"—made them born with an unshakeable, intense mission to fight aliens.

By now, the transport ship had already reached the skies above that alien planet and entered the atmosphere.

The alien worms on the planet immediately sensed the danger and controlled the bio-weapons they’d parasitized and Transformed to fire off hundreds-of-kilometers-long plasma bolts, actually trying to shoot the transport down directly.

The entire transport ship immediately shook violently.

Seeing this, Su Yu secretly shook his head. "Why not just do an orbital bombardment? Why bother with airdrops?"

From Su Yu’s perspective, this space airdrop operation was completely pointless.

That mothership possessed power close to the Fifth-Order. One shot would be enough to melt the surface into glass, and those worm-aliens would be dead beyond dead.

But they just had to send three hundred thousand troops down and fight those worms in close quarters.

This would obviously cause casualties, yet the warriors seemed not to care at all, treating death as if it were nothing.

"Looks like all of this must be part of a written story. There are all sorts of inconsistencies, but with the Book of Narrative’s power, they all get forcibly glossed over..."

Su Yu thought to himself.

Based on his observations, everything here should be a story written by some behind-the-scenes being.

That was why there were so many oddities.

The Power of Narrative was overwhelmingly strong. As long as it sounded barely plausible on the surface, no matter how strange it was, the story would keep running.

Which raised the question: if the behind-the-scenes being created such a complex world, what was the point?

To scheme against Su Yu?

But Su Yu felt that didn’t quite fit either. It seemed that long before he arrived, the story here had already unfolded for billions of years.

This wasn’t a world hastily constructed just because Su Yu appeared.

So the existence of this world had to have a purpose.

It couldn’t just be that the behind-the-scenes being wanted to watch humans and aliens fight nonstop for fun, right?

Although that was indeed possible—after all, Su Yu had no idea what race that behind-the-scenes being was, or what personality it had.

But Su Yu still felt that was unlikely. Otherwise that being would be way too bored.

What’s more, previously Su Yu had been guided by the story, turned into a brain monster, and almost joined the aliens’ side. That only made it clearer that the behind-the-scenes being had a purpose in designing this story, that there was deeper meaning in it.

The question was: what purpose exactly?

Su Yu couldn’t help thinking back to when he was still in the lower Narrative Layer.

Back then, Su Yu created an even lower Universe and, through the Book of Narrative, manipulated the life and civilizations in that Universe, letting them evolve.

Through that, Su Yu studied the secrets of the Narrative Layers.

At that time, Su Yu himself was the "behind-the-scenes being" controlling the lower Universe, and the purpose of his experiment was to cross the Narrative Layer.

Now, Su Yu had finally succeeded, successfully reaching the upper Narrative Layer.

But he’d ended up falling into stories written by the behind-the-scenes being one after another.

So what was this behind-the-scenes being after?

Putting himself in the other’s place, Su Yu quickly came up with a possibility: maybe their goals were the same!

Previously, Su Yu’s experiments—creating Universes and writing stories—were meant to cross the Narrative Layer.

And now, that behind-the-scenes being might be writing stories and creating worlds for the same reason: to cross the Narrative Layer and move to a higher level.

After all, if Su Yu could move from a lower Narrative Layer to an upper Narrative Layer...

Then it should also be possible to move from the upper Narrative Layer to an even higher one!

The layers of Narrative might also have no limit—endless and unbounded, with every "above" having another "above."

"But it probably isn’t just that."

"And even if it is, it doesn’t seem very meaningful..."

Back when Su Yu was in the lower Narrative Layer, he had already transcended countless dimensional levels and ultimately reached the "Uppermost Layer" of spacetime dimensions.

But after reaching the Uppermost Layer of spacetime dimensions, he discovered that above that Uppermost Layer, there was still the existence of Narrative Layers.

Now Su Yu had successfully broken through that barrier and entered the upper Narrative Layer.

Only to find that within the upper Narrative Layer, the behind-the-scenes being wielding the Power of Narrative might still be trying to reach an even higher Narrative Layer.

That made it seem endless, never-ending. What was the point?

"Unless..."

Su Yu’s heart tightened as he thought of a possibility.

That the behind-the-scenes being wanted transcendence from everything.

Even if there were endless Narrative Layers, It wanted to stand above all of them, no longer controlled by any "story" at all!

This guess had no evidence, but Su Yu just felt it was highly likely.

Because that was what he himself wanted too!