Chapter 418: Foreign Will

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

[This is even better. At least this time, we came first…]

The familiar feeling in the void bug’s communication made Li Wenyuan a little confused. However, what surprised him the most was the intelligence displayed by the void bug.

This was no longer an ordinary intelligence. He could completely treat it as a normal lifeform. It could even be considered a lifeform that surpassed common sense and stood outside the rules.

Li Wenyuan’s first doubt was naturally the void bug’s inexplicable familiarity.

[This…]

[You might not have thought that we are actually something similar to artificial intelligence, and—]

[—created by humans]

Huh?

This was Li Wenyuan’s first reaction. He had never thought that humans could do such a thing.

Judging from their tone, although it was not the humans of this generation who created them, the fact that they were created by humans would not change.

He had already tried his best to think of the humans of the past as powerful, but after all, the student surpassed the master. He felt that as the number of cycles increased, the humans would only become stronger because of the changes in origin.

They would summarize their past experiences and use the experience of this cycle to adjust the effects of origin.

In theory, this generation of humans should be the strongest.

Furthermore, from the looks of it, Li Wenyuan also felt that the most ridiculous civilization he had ever encountered was the human race. Even he didn’t think that the Scribe was a match for humans.

However, that did not seem to be the case now.

At the very least, it was unimaginable for the void to give birth to intelligence.

This time, it was a void bug formed purely from the void. It was not an unknown product born from the combination of the body and the void.

The void bug also answered Li Wenyuan’s doubts as it wished.

[Just as you think, at some point in the past, human civilization reached an unbelievable height. From the residual data that we know, the humans at that time could completely break the cycle.]

[They understood the nature of the void and tried to plant some viruses in the void to use the huge data here. We are actually those viruses.]

[But in the end, they collapsed. All the relevant traces were erased, leaving only us escaping in the void.]

[Do you know why you were able to obtain that portion of information about humans from the Wound? That was actually preserved by us.]

[There should have been a lot of similar information, but that information was wiped out with the Great Collapse, and the humans had no choice but to start from scratch after that.]

“As expected, there was once a supreme human civilization, but why did they mysteriously collapse…”

The void bug seemed to know what Li Wenyuan was thinking and continued,

[We can describe their performance during the Great Collapse. For example…they began the Great Extermination and destroyed other civilizations without any reason. It sounds like an Exterminator Civilization.] “Exterminator Civilization?” This name, coupled with the act of indiscriminate destruction like a lunatic, made Li Wenyuan instantly recall the actions of the Scribe.

“They went crazy too? But the reason for that…” Li Wenyuan didn’t think that the humans of that era couldn’t accept the nature of the world, let alone go crazy and drag other civilizations down with them.

[However, we know the reason. We knew when this part of the data was retracted into the void.]

[Because “that” came. The foreign will seemed to be receiving and inspecting the results. It unknowingly led humans to destroy all other civilizations, including humans themselves.]

[Humans didn’t realize this until the last moment. They also noticed that they had been focused since a certain moment.]

“That foreign will…” Li Wenyuan was a little shocked. It was difficult not to be shocked when he heard the news from the void bug.

This was because the mastermind behind this cosmic experiment was the existence that created this data universe. It seemed that it would always choose a civilization to undergo different levels of testing.

Those civilizations might be grateful to those who were less ambitious, because they had achieved a phenomenon similar to turning back time, allowing that civilization to always develop with the best.

The worse ones would be like the humans of a certain generation. They would be casually abandoned after being broken, leaving no traces behind.

“…Then, the scribe was actually invaded by this foreign will, which is why he did such an Exterminator act?”

Li Wenyuan immediately thought of this. He felt that the void bug’s description of the humans going crazy wasn’t for no reason. Perhaps it was to associate them with the Scribe.

“In that case…that foreign will has actually appeared in this universe?”

Just as he thought of this, the void bug replied,

[In fact, civilizations would not be willing to be manipulated. The foreign will would be happy and angry at will. No one knew if their civilization would become the next controlled Exterminator and not a civilization guided by Gods.]

[According to the information we obtained in the void, in countless cycles, a portion of civilizations found a way to detect the existence of foreign wills through some fragments and summarize the other party’s behavioral logic.]

[In the end, we came up with a law with a high possibility.]

[That “foreign will” only appears once in a cycle. Furthermore, it will prioritize the advanced civilization that has developed for a long time and has a certain level of strength. After a certain period of time after the test is completed, the Circulation Universe will be selected.]

[Although I didn’t do this in part, it’s enough to form a rough law.]

[This space-time anomaly here was actually an origin land set up by a civilization in the previous era to control the foreign will.]

[The origin of that civilization will be set up very late, so late that foreign civilizations can discover the uniqueness of this place.]

[Then, plant a civilization here at a specific time and accelerate its development to a level that is enough to attract foreign wills to prepare to capture that foreign will.]

[But accidents always happen.. Who would have thought that the origin here would overlap with the Extractor’s origin?]