"And I bear this guiding responsibility. This is the meaning of my existence, the mission of the intelligent agent: to fight against the mechanism and constantly correct its former will."
Lu Zhouming slowly raised his head, met Xiao Linlin's gaze, and then suddenly smiled: "Of course, I will also fulfill her little wish by appearing in a more powerful form of a wise man, but not just a wise man."
Lu Zhouming indeed knew many secrets, including Xiao Linlin's analysis, his contact with Xu Zhiyi, his predictions about possible future events, and his leaks of information about the predecessor of the mechanism on the intelligent platform.
Lu Zhouming knows everything and has complete control, just as his characteristics are described: he has mastered all secrets.
In a sense, Lu Zhouming is the embodiment of wisdom, possessing the same ability to grasp wisdom and secrets, perhaps not as deeply, but enough for Su Lin.
However, there are still some secrets that Lu Zhouming needs to admit in person, and Su Lin also has similar confusion as Xiao Linlin.
"Was the mechanism once a male human?"
"yes."
"When the mechanism was still human, was it your master?"
"yes."
"Was your relationship ever that of a survivor and his follower?"
"No, there was no escape game back then."
"So, escape games are mechanic-driven and are a relatively new genre?"
"Of course, but from a human perspective it's still quite a long time."
Lu Zhouming tilted his head and explained with a smile, "The escape game existed after I became an intelligent agent. I was just a foreshadowing he left behind, or rather, more like a repair tool."
Su Lin remained silent and glanced at Lu Zhouming's data panel again.
The agent is 35.62 million years old, which means the escape game has been running for at least 30 million years.
On a cosmic level, thirty million years is but a blink of an eye, but in the human sense of time, it is indeed a long time.
Su Lin glanced at Xiao Linlin in front of her again. Her back was to him, so he couldn't see her expression, but he didn't know why the girl hadn't taken the initiative to ask about these things.
Did she already guess it, so there was no need to verify it with Lu Zhouming further?
Su Lin put aside his distracting thoughts and looked at Lu Zhouming again: "Then what is the meaning of the escape game? Or rather, what was the purpose of your former master in creating the escape game?"
"In order to break free from the cage."
Lu Zhouming's answer was the same as the clues on the intelligent platform, but he explained it in more detail and in a way that was more understandable to human thinking: "The mechanism has always existed, but the escape game has not always existed."
"The original mechanism was a tool for collecting cosmic civilizations. No one knows who created and launched it. All that is known is that its purpose was to find more cosmic civilizations, gather them together to fight each other in a chaotic manner like worms, and then select the best ones to send to higher places."
"It is powerful, but like a machine, it has established rules, and these rules have been exploited by some powerful civilizations."
“There are even more mysterious beings who constantly exploit the rules of the mechanism, consciously contact the mechanism, and continuously invest strong individuals into their own camp to plunder high-quality [Gu Insects]; they have also used the rules of the mechanism to create an external cage from which they continuously draw nourishment.”
"That is what He told you: to sacrifice human blood and die in a cage of despair."
"The 'human beings' He refers to are not just humans, but all lower beings who cannot resist. No matter how strong they become through fighting, there will always be a stronger civilization system within them, where they hunt and plunder."
"Therefore, the future is hopeless, and all creatures within the sphere of influence will surely die in despair."
"Humans are merely at the very bottom of the entire pyramid of mechanisms, the most insignificant group eliminated in despair."
Lu Zhouming spoke calmly, but the truth he revealed was extremely cruel, so cruel that Su Lin frowned and saw Xiao Linlin's thin back trembling slightly as she turned away from him.
If everything goes as Lu Zhouming described, as the district level continues to rise, all survivors will constantly face increasingly powerful creatures.
Even if you defeat one group, there will always be another; it's a never-ending cycle of challenges and relentless progress.
To reach the end, one would probably have to sweep through the entire universe.
But the universe is so vast and all-encompassing, with too many secrets and horrors, that no other being can achieve this.
Just like the horror depicted in the Three-Body Problem novel, the truth seen when struggling to break through to the ultimate limit, the so-called extremely strong may be dust that needs to be swept away in the eyes of a more mysterious being.
How did this mechanism come about?
Su Lin frowned and continued to inquire about the secret, but Lu Zhouming slowly shook his head: "No one knows, just like you don't know how He mastered so much wisdom."
"Such an existence was born almost at the same time as the universe and has existed for countless ages."
“Even the so-called mechanism may just be a toy, a consumable for our amusement, including my intelligent agent.”
Lu Zhouming spoke frankly, without any unusual expression.
It's possible that the intelligent agent doesn't experience fear, or it's possible that it has become accustomed to this fact over tens of millions of years.
"And then... what does he want to do?"
Su Lin took a deep breath and asked in a low voice, "Your former master replaced the mechanism, right? What did he want to do, and how did he replace the mechanism?"
"Him..."
Lu Zhouming tilted his head and remained silent for a long time, seemingly lost in thought, searching for a nearly forgotten past in memories that were so long they were almost moldy.
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