At this moment, Su Yu was contemplating while staring intently at the Qiu Demon.
He wanted to see what this guy was really up to.
He didn’t continue to send messages to the believers, fearing it might be detected by the Qiu Demon.
Qiu Demon could hide within other people’s memories, an ability far too insidious.
If others knew that Su Yu was not dead, it would be equivalent to the Qiu Demon knowing.
So, Su Yu thought it was better to keep it hidden for now.
At this point, the Qiu Demon was still talking to itself:
"The profession I created, [Time Drifter], requires the memories of powerful ancient Spiritual Users as anchor points to travel through time, to go back to the past."
"Su Yu, oh Su Yu, your death was just too perfect!"
"Although you’re dead, you forever live in others’ memories; that’s my best ritual sacrifice..."
"Heh heh, once my ritual is completed, I will become the new Su Yu!"
"This entire Mechanical City and so many people will be under my control, then watch how I torture them!"
"Imagine the despair and pain these people would feel being skinned and flayed by the very respected Mr. Su Yu! Haha, I can’t wait..."
The Qiu Demon chattered on about its grand scheme.
Listening to it made Su Yu’s killing intent burn even hotter.
Yet, Su Yu found it a bit odd.
This Qiu Demon, if it wanted to do something, why not just do it? What’s with all this babbling?
Just then, the Qiu Demon suddenly shouted: "Su Yu! Stop hiding! Do you really think your false death trick can fool me?"
Upon hearing this, Su Yu was startled.
Could it be that the Qiu Demon discovered that he wasn’t dead?
However, Su Yu quickly realized that, after shouting, the eyes on the Qiu Demon’s tentacles turned toward the Subspace Analyzer, seemingly believing Su Yu was hiding there.
Yet, it did not look at Su Yu’s Quantum Body.
"So it was trying to bluff me."
"It seems it was worried I might be pretending to be dead and hiding in the Subspace Analyzer, so it babbled before to purposely lure me out?"
Su Yu couldn’t help but shake his head.
And then, after the Qiu Demon shouted and waited for a while without any response,
it wasn’t just waiting; a strange power emerged from its body, seemingly using a kind of powerful Spiritual Energy to sense everything.
"The Memory Space is completely silent; it seems this Su Yu really is dead."
The Qiu Demon seemed assured, believing in its own abilities.
"Heh heh, good riddance! No wonder, he was seeking death by researching that strange equipment, dying with no grievances!"
"Thinking back, I also acquired some Empire relics..."
"At the time, trying to research without a clue about the risks, I nearly died there. Is such a millennia-old Empire relic so easy to study? Su Yu got himself killed, he can’t blame anyone else."
"That being the case, from now on, this place is my stage..."
The Qiu Demon laughed insidiously twice, then raised a tentacle and aimed it at Tie Long, Xiao Shengyin, and others.
Su Yu noticed and felt a bit tense.
He worried that the Qiu Demon might immediately harm these people.
If that happened, he might not be able to hide anymore, and would have to come out to fight this guy.
Fortunately, the Qiu Demon merely pointed a tentacle at the crowd for a while and did not unleash any aggressive power.
"It... seems to have strengthened their memories?"
Watching all this, Su Yu secretly guessed.
Just now, when the Qiu Demon aimed its tentacle at the crowd, a strange power emanated from it, covering them.
Su Yu sensed this power from afar and found it seemingly harmless.
On the contrary, this power seemed to benefit the crowd in some way.
Merely sensing it from afar, Su Yu noticed that his own memories seemed to have become clearer.
Events that had faded now appeared vividly, as if they had just happened.
It seemed the Qiu Demon’s power could enhance memory.
And after being enhanced by the Qiu Demon, Tie Long, Xie Yitian, Xiao Shengyin, Yang Lie, Huang Ying, Feng Tian... all suddenly froze.
Simultaneously, they recalled Su Yu’s "voice and appearance" in their minds.
They remembered the various help and benefits Su Yu had given them.
Then they remembered that the revered Mr. Su Yu was no longer with them!
Suddenly, a wave of sorrow hit them.
Tie Long, Yang Lie, and others had blood-red eyes, wishing they could immediately find the enemy and fight a battle for Su Yu’s revenge.
Huang Ying, among others with rich emotions, even burst into tears.
Even the Mechanical Spirit and the Mechanical City were stirred into memories.
Even these Data Lives were immersed in sadness and remembrance.
The Qiu Demon, seeing this, sneered.
Then it raised its tentacle again, casually spreading the memory-enhancing strange power around.
Under normal circumstances, people would notice their memories being strengthened.
But now, because they were already emotionally agitated by Su Yu’s "death,"
when their memories were enhanced, they just thought they were overly sorrowful, lost in past memories, without realizing anything was amiss.
As time progressed, the strange power spread by the Qiu Demon began to disperse around, spreading throughout the entire Mechanical City.
Everyone in the Mechanical City had their memories strengthened.
And the Qiu Demon’s enhancements seemed targeted.
The memories in people’s minds now all related to Su Yu.
These memories, vastly strengthened by the Qiu Demon, slowly overflowed from the consciousness of their minds, reaching the outside world, and began to fuse.
In the air, the memories of millions about Su Yu fused into an image of Su Yu.