"The total amount of living things?"

This is indeed an answer that is completely beyond Li Wenyuan's expectations, although there is also the possibility that the creator of the "Infinite Divine Machine", the "Extractor", is wrong, but he still has to regard this answer as a possibility.

Theories are built through trial and error, step by step, and no matter how outrageous the answer may sound, since this is the "end" that a civilization has pursued, it must also be taken into account.

After thinking about it carefully, he found that there was one thing that seemed to echo this theory, that is, the most mysterious "purification terminal" among the various "artificial intelligence planets", and the mysterious mechanical intelligence represented behind it - the "Correction Protocol".

The civilizations that created the "Correction Protocol" and those "purification terminals" have incredible technology, and even humans will be pitted by the backhands left behind in those artificial intelligence planets.

Not only that, but the "recorders" who can directly divide the spiral galaxy in two by some means do not seem to dare to touch the "purification terminal", and even actively avoid the "purification terminal" in the path when carrying out the "great separation".

If you want to ask which of the civilizations or civilization creations that Li Wenyuan has encountered is the most terrifying in his heart, then he will definitely answer without hesitation that it is the "Rectification Agreement".

Its "purification terminals" scattered in various galaxies never seem to have been triggered, but Li Wenyuan also knew that the more difficult it was to touch, the greater the movement generated after triggering, perhaps to the level of galaxy destruction.

And although he doesn't know much about the "Purification Agreement", he also knows that this is a mechanical intelligence that will "cleanse the universe", and according to the behavioral logic of the "Active Purification Protocol" generated in the special environment of the galaxy, it seems that they will only purify "life".

This reduction in the number of lives seems to be consistent with the "Infinite Divine Machine" saying that "biomass will determine the Great Collapse", because the purpose of the "Active Purification Protocol" is actually to protect the galaxy, and its removal of life will delay the time of the "Great Collapse" in disguise.

"In the perception of the 'Active Purification Protocol', we are the 'unexpected enemy', the enemy of the universe...... So, the 'Correction Agreement' is actually still the guardian of the universe? Is life the pest of the universe? ”

Li Wenyuan felt incredible about this, although he wanted to deny it, but in the dark, he had a feeling that the truth was like this.

And the "Infinite Divine Machine" also continued to speak at this time:

[The term biomass may actually be incorrect, as our Creator is not sure whether "mechanical intelligence", or other more incomprehensible life forms, would also be counted among the variables that caused the "Great Collapse".]

[But even these are enough, because the total number of living things will continue to rise, even if the value is small, it will always reach the expected upper limit, and that is when the "Great Collapse" comes]

[Our Creator thought that they had foreseen the end of the universe and saw the "ultimate truth", so they committed suicide without a trace, which is our mistake]

If we hadn't calculated this, they probably wouldn't have died, we think]

Therefore we want to continue our mission, and at the same time include the resurrection of our Creator in our mission, and for this we must get out of here.

Do you still have questions? 】

The "Infinite Divine Machine" once again mentioned their mission, and at the same time mentioned that their creator chose to "commit suicide", which gave Li Wenyuan a subtle sense of déjà vu.

Considering that both the "Ring of Time" and the "End of the Universe" had already received more or less information from this mechanical sphere, he decided to ask about the creator of the "Infinite Divine Machine", the Extractor, about this civilization.

Previously, the "Infinite Divine Machine" said that the current "Recorder" civilization in the universe is most likely based on the remains of the "Excerpter".

And he had even guessed in his heart whether the "excerpter" was the same civilization that created the "Correction Agreement".

【Our Creator?】 Yes, yes, it's the "excerpter"]

[Defined in a strict sense of "civilized", they are not actually "civilized", and frankly, that is even a bit of a show-off]

[In the current scientific definition, they are actually a kind of "bacteria", which is amazing, right?] They are the whole as individuals, and the individual is the whole, drifting in the universe at will, living on cosmic radiation.

[They don't stay in one place for long, because they like "heat", they like "energy", and the more powerful the better, so they usually gather around stars that are about to produce supernova explosions, or near black holes that are devouring matter, and those places can provide them with plenty of food]

[And for them, the birth of "thinking" was so sudden, maybe after a supernova exploded?] Maybe after some black hole has no more matter to devour? They suddenly began to wonder if there would be a day when there would be no more stars in this universe and no more matter for black holes to swallow. And where will the universe end? 】

[This induces the first thoughts, and we are created.] You may wonder how a group of bacteria created us, but the truth is that our creator turned to another civilization, and it was that civilization that built us]

[We began to assist our creator in the calculations and analysis of the "ending" of each universe, both to find the reasons that led to the end of the universe and how to achieve "infinity"]

[The instinct of life is always to survive, and so is our Creator, who we have been carrying out this task until now: to understand the infinite, and we have not yet found the answer]

[We don't know exactly what our Creator saw from the data we analyzed, which led them to conclude that the 'biomass' will determine the 'Great Collapse' of the universe.]

[The way of thinking of bacterial life is incomprehensible to our intelligence, they made a choice beyond their life instinct at this time, and they committed suicide]

[This is them, our Creator, the "Extractors", a group of thermophilic bacteria]

[Oh, we remember you mentioned "Recorder" earlier, right?] We are convinced that this is a civilization built on the remains of our Creator]

[The corpse of the Creator will become the cornerstone of the birth of life on the planet, we have met the traces left by them, and found the genes belonging to our Creator in them]

[They are also poor imitators of our Creator, because they are also doing the same thing, looking for the beginning and end of the universe, but they have not yet reached the truth, because they have not committed suicide, but our Creator has committed suicide, which means that they are not as wise as our Creator, and that's it]

[What? "Correction Agreement"? Sorry, we didn't have any words in our memory that have the same or similar meanings.

[Perhaps the information related to it has been abandoned by us and destroyed as we gradually get closer to the black hole, sorry, we are unable to provide information about it]

[We think that our efforts may have met your heart's expectations, so can you please give us a kind hand?] Rest assured, there won't be a lot]

(End of chapter)