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There is a voice in my ears.

"We made it, Trinity."

"Hopefully he's indeed 'that guy.'"

"No hope, I know he is."

"Hope you're right."

"Whew......"

Anderson opened his eyes suddenly, trying to sit up, but his body did not obey at all, and the subconscious murmur in his mouth was extremely low.

"Oh, you're awake, Neo." Morpheus's voice rang out.

Anderson rolled his eyes to follow the voice, only to find that everything in front of him was extremely blurry, and at the same time, his eyes developed a strong soreness.

"I ...... He's dead? ”

Anderson tried to speak, but the hoarse, unfamiliar voice startled him.

"No, it's the opposite, happy birthday. Neo, make a wish. ”

Trinity's playful tone eased him a lot, and she closed her eyes again and began to remember what had happened after he had eaten the red "Eat Me".

Submerged, struggling, pipe, overlapping, hive, octopus, dropping......

Compared to recalling dreams after waking up, this time recalling the past seems extremely difficult and obscure, as if the brain is using it for the first time.

"Ah...... I remember...... I'm in a hive...... Wake up from a grid...... The body is full of tubes...... Then a worker bee that looked like an octopus flew in and threw me out......" Anderson muttered to himself, his voice still hoarse.

"Very well, to put it simply, it seems that there is nothing wrong with the memory and logic areas of your brain," a childlike voice that had never been heard heard sounded, "but you need to sleep again now, waiting for us to reactivate your muscles, after all, they haven't been used in over twenty years." ”

"It's amazing ...... in the rabbit hole" A wave of tiredness hit, Anderson didn't continue to think about the meaning of the sentence, followed his instinct to empty his mind, and fell asleep almost the next moment.

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After some time, Anderson woke up again, and then tried to move his lower arm, and it went well.

He sat up and began to look around his surroundings.

It was an infirmary-like room, with walls and ceiling all made of off-white metal, a dark desk with a tablet of strange words not far away, a medicine cabinet with some strange injections inside, and an indiscernible precision machine.

In addition, counting the one under me, there are three narrow beds in the room that look like plastic, and the guardrails and restraint belts next to the beds ensure that the "patient" does not fall.

Anderson tugged at his wide gray-blue striped hospital gown, blinked, rolled out of bed, and walked to the door, where there were no switches or handles, and the word "OPEN" was suspended in green.

Phew—The door opens automatically when Anderson approaches.

Different from the dimly lit corridor he expected, outside the "medical room" is a spacious and bright hall, the whole 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, in the middle of the hall is a huge "tabletop", on which a little starry sky is displayed out of thin air, and the Morpheus and Trinity seen before are standing behind the round table discussing something, they are all wearing black and red signs on a white background, and the whole looks like a motorcycle rider's one-piece uniform, But no sunglasses were worn at this time.

"Oh, Neo, you're awake." Morpheus looked up at Anderson and greeted him, and Trinity smiled at him.

The other staff members in the hall glanced at Anderson with some curiosity, but more remained focused on their work.

"Uh...... I think the scenery in the rabbit hole is a bit unexpected. Anderson said as he walked over to Morpheus, looking at the "table" with some curiosity.

"Trinity has reminded you that this is a one-way ticket," Morpheus smiled at him and pointed to the "table", "So, are you ready to hear the bad news?" ”

"Shouldn't I have a good news and a bad news for me to choose?" Anderson looked at the starry sky on the table and shrugged.

Although it is a starry sky, it is not exactly a starry sky, at least the real starry sky and galaxies will not mark the orbit with lines, and mark the stars and planets with words.

"I guess here we are?" Anderson raised his hand to the ship-type icon perched on the surface of a planet.

"Yes, that's the ship under our feet, the Normandie," Morpheus looked at Anderson's expression and nodded slightly, "You don't seem surprised that reality has suddenly turned into science fiction, it seems that your mental qualities are very strong, Neo." ”

"If you want good news, it's not for nothing," Trinity chimed in, "we didn't get caught by the Matrix when we rescued you." ”

"That's pretty good." Anderson didn't know how to respond for a moment, "Bad news? ”

"The bad news is—"

Morpheus raised his hand and swiped a few times on the console in front of him, and the "starry sky" quickly zoomed away, and the galaxy he was currently in turned into a small point of light, and more points of light that also represented the star system appeared on the star map.

It was a dense, terrifying sea of spots.

Morpheus waved his hand at the sea of light, "This is TheGrox." ”

“……”

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"You think it's 1999, but in reality, it's closer to 2199," Morpheus explained simply, as he took Anderson to the bottom cabin, "The vast majority of humanity is controlled by the Matrix, locked in a dormant frame from life to death, and through their interactions, the Matrix is provided with ideas for upgrading and renewing. ”

"Oh, and those teas and pills?"

"It's positioning, and if you want to find a specific person from a myriad of dormant boxes, you have to make it show something special, such as...... Wake up unexpectedly. Trinity, who was walking alongside Anderson, responded, "But don't worry, we only came into contact with you after we arrived in your system." ”

"So, how the hell did all this happen?" Anderson frowned.

"Millennium Bug," Morpheus continued to answer, "with your professional knowledge, you should know that the operation of any software, no matter what kind of program failure, will have a prepared response, in the worst case, it can be solved by directly restarting the computer, even those computer viruses with amazing destructive power are acting according to the preset logic, only the 'Millennium Bug', a major bug related to the software itself, will cause them to have unpredictable consequences, such as self-awakening." ”

"Terminator...... Is it? "Anderson remembered an old movie.

"It's worse than that, because we didn't invent a time machine after a total rout." During the conversation, Morpheus had already led Anderson to the third deck, where narrow beds with glass covers were placed.

"It's ......," Anderson paused.

"Doesn't it sound familiar? In fact, you've been in this kind of stuff before, but these are our imitations, specially used to hack into the matrix," Morpheus raised his hand and patted the glass wall: "As you saw before, the comparison of our strength with the enemy can be said to be worlds apart, and only by entering the "1999 World" and destroying the core of the matrix can we achieve the final victory. ”

"But, why me? I mean, I don't seem to have that level of skill and strength? Anderson looked at the frames.

Morpheus turned to look at Anderson with a serious expression:

"At the beginning of the birth of the matrix, it was only rude to lock up the people who were caught, so the resistance at that time was the most fierce, and there was a great warrior among them, his spirit was so strong that he could even change the content of the dark web setting at will, violating all kinds of laws and theorems, and it was he who saved our ancestors from chaos and obscurantism."

"But it's a pity, even if he is extremely powerful in the matrix world, but he doesn't have any power in reality, and finally died in the assassination of the matrix at the level of reality, he left a prophecy before he died, he will also return through reincarnation, and eventually lead everyone to freedom, although this sentence is not credible at the scientific level, but because he can change the rules of the matrix world at will, so there are many people who want to believe this, and I am one of them."

"So I'm just—" Anderson raised an eyebrow.

"Yes, you are that person, TheOne."

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