Anderson opened his eyes suddenly and tried to sit up, but his body refused to obey him at all, and the subconscious murmur in his mouth was extremely low.
Anderson rolled his eyes and looked around, only to find that everything in front of him was extremely blurry, and his eyeballs felt a strong soreness.
"I am dead?"
Anderson tried to speak, but the hoarse, feeble and unfamiliar voice startled him.
"No, on the contrary, happy birthday. Neo, make a wish."
Trinity's playful tone made him relax a lot, so he closed his eyes again and began to recall what happened after he ate the red "Eat Me".
Compared with the usual recalling of dreams after waking up, recalling the past this time seemed extremely difficult and obscure, as if the brain was being used for the first time.
"Ah... I remember... I woke up in a beehive... from a cell... covered in tubes... and then a worker bee that looked like an octopus flew over and threw me out..." Anderson
He muttered to himself, his voice still hoarse.
"Very good, to be concise. It seems that there is no problem with the memory and logic areas of your brain," an unheard voice like a child said: "But you need to sleep again now and wait for us to reactivate your brain."
Muscles, after all they haven't been used in more than twenty years."
"It's so wonderful in the rabbit hole..." A feeling of fatigue came over, and Anderson did not continue to think about the meaning of this sentence. He followed his instinct to think freely, and almost fell asleep in the next moment.
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After an unknown amount of time, Anderson woke up again and tried to move his arm, which went smoothly.
He sat up and began to look around.
This is a room similar to an infirmary. The walls and ceiling are all made of gray-white metal. Not far away is a dark desk with a tablet displaying strange words. Next to it is a medicine cabinet containing some strange injections. Next to it is a medicine cabinet with some strange injections inside.
It's a precision machine with no apparent purpose.
In addition, including the one under him, there were three narrow beds in the room that looked like plastic. The guardrails and restraints beside the beds ensured that the "patient" would not fall.
Anderson tugged on the large gray-blue striped hospital gown, blinked, rolled out of bed, and walked towards the door with no switch or handle visible and a green word "OPEN" floating on the surface.
Chi - the door opens automatically when Anderson approaches.
Different from the dim corridor he expected, outside the "medical room" is a spacious and bright hall, which is wide at the back and narrow at the front. There are many staff on both sides who are busy with many screens with numbers and letters scrolling constantly. The hall
In the center is a huge "table", which displays stars in the sky out of thin air. Morpheus and Trinity, who were seen before, are standing behind the round table discussing something. They are all wearing white with black stripes and red logos.
It looks a bit like a motorcycle rider's uniform, but he is not wearing sunglasses at this time.
"Oh, Neo, you're awake." Morpheus looked up at Anderson and said hello, and Trinity smiled at him.
Some of the other staff in the hall glanced at Anderson curiously, but most were still focused on their work.
"Well... I think the scenery in the rabbit hole is a bit unexpected." Anderson said as he walked towards Morpheus and looked at the "desktop" curiously.
"Trinity has reminded you that this is a one-way ticket," Morpheus smiled at him and pointed to the "desktop": "So, are you ready to hear the bad news?"
"Shouldn't I be given a choice between good news and bad news?" Anderson looked at the starry sky on the table and shrugged.
Although it is a starry sky, it is not entirely a starry sky. At least the real starry sky and galaxies do not use lines to mark orbits or words to mark stars and planets.
"I think, are we here?" Anderson raised his hand and pointed to a spaceship-shaped icon parked on the surface of a planet.
"Yes, that is the spaceship under our feet, the Normandie." Morpheus looked at Anderson's expression and nodded slightly: "You don't seem to be surprised that reality suddenly turned into science fiction. It seems that your psychological quality
Very powerful, Neo."
"If you want good news, it's not impossible," Trinity interjected: "We were not discovered by the Matrix when we rescued you."
"That's really good." Anderson didn't know how to respond. "Bad news?"
"The bad news is-"
Morpheus raised his hand and swiped a few times on the console in front of him. The "starry sky" zoomed away rapidly. The current galaxy turned into a small light spot, and more lights also represented the star system.
Dots appear on the star chart.
It was a sea of light spots so densely packed that one could not help but be frightened.
Morpheus waved his hand towards the sea of light: "This is [The Grox]."
"..."
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"You think it is 1999, but in fact, the current time is closer to 2199," Morpheus was taking Anderson to the bottom cabin and explained simply: "The vast majority of human beings are controlled by the matrix.
They are locked in a dormant frame from birth to death, and through the interaction between them, they provide ideas for upgrades and updates to the matrix."
"Oh, and those teas and pills?"
"It's positioning. If you want to find a specific person from countless dormant frames, you must make him show something special, such as... waking up unexpectedly." Trinity, who was walking side by side with Anderson, responded: "But don't worry, we are
I only made contact with you after arriving in your galaxy."
"So, how did all this happen?" Anderson frowned.
"Y2K," Morpheus continued to answer: "With your professional knowledge, you should know that no matter what kind of program failure occurs when running any software, there will be prepared measures to deal with it. In the worst case, just restart the computer.
It can be solved that even those computer viruses with astonishing destructive power act according to preset logic. Only the 'Y2K' bug, a major bug related to the software itself, will cause them to have consequences that no one can predict, such as,
Self-awakening.”
"The Terminator...?" Anderson thought of an old movie.
"It's worse than that, because we failed to invent a time machine after the total defeat." During the conversation, Morpheus had already taken Anderson to the third deck, where there were pictures with glass covers.
Narrow bed.
"This..." Anderson paused.
"Does it look familiar? In fact, you have been installed in this kind of thing before, but these are our imitations, specially used to hack into the matrix." Morpheus raised his hand and patted the glass wall: "Just like you
As we have seen before, the comparison of strength between us and the enemy can be said to be worlds apart. Only by entering the "world of 1999" and destroying the core of the matrix can we obtain the final victory."
"But, why me? I mean, I don't seem to have that level of technology and strength?" Anderson looked at the frames.
Morpheus turned and looked at Anderson with a serious expression:
"At the beginning of the birth of the Matrix, they just roughly locked up those they caught, so the resistance at that time was the most intense. Among them was a great warrior whose spirit was so powerful that he could even change the content of the dark network settings at will, violating various regulations.
All kinds of laws and theorems, it was he who saved our ancestors from chaos and ignorance."
"But unfortunately, even though he was extremely powerful in the matrix world, he had no power in reality. He eventually died of an assassination by the matrix in the real world. Before his death, he left a prophecy that he would return through reincarnation and eventually lead
Everyone is free. Although this sentence is not credible on a scientific level, because he can change the rules of the matrix world at will, many people are willing to believe this, and I am one of them."
