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Normandy, landing deck.

Anderson had barely sat up from his frame in a daze when he heard bursts of applause coming from all around him.

Mouse, switches, pagers, tanks, bulldozers, and a few other crew members who were somewhat familiar but could not be named were looking at him with reverence and clapping their hands desperately.

"Savior!"

"What a savior!"

"It turns out that he is not just a talented warrior."

"Those tricks are not something ordinary people can do!"

"......" Anderson looked at them speechlessly, could it be that they only recognized themselves as saviors in Morpheus's face before?

"I never doubted it, but it's a surprise that you're able to do it to this extent." Morpheus's black face didn't show much expression, but his tone sounded quite pleasant.

"My heart almost stopped when you were caught by the agents just now, but I'm glad you're okay." Trinity hugged Anderson's arm and didn't let go.

Anderson twitched his hand a little awkwardly, but didn't twitch.

"Neo, I recorded your heroic posture of defeating Smith, and sent it back to Zion's intranet, guaranteed red~" The mouse squeezed his eyebrows.

I'm not sure about the specific form of expression, but you have to code that scene, right?

Anderson raised an eyebrow, remembering what had happened in the matrix earlier.

Obviously, in that virtual world, in addition to "believing that you will die", there is also a way to die is "the matrix thinks you will die".

That move belonged to the half-step collapse fist of Bajiquan, if it was in the training program, Anderson had a hundred ways to deal with it, but the matrix thought that he would die if this punch continued, so he "died".

Apparently a contest of willpower and moves against ordinary agents, in Smith's case, it becomes a confrontation of procedural priorities, which is generally referred to by the victim as -

Permission Dog!

If it hadn't fallen into that strange bug space, I, the savior, would have died.

The little hostess in that space didn't seem to be very happy with Smith's bullying behavior by virtue of her authority, so she gave herself a second chance.

When Anderson woke up, he still had severe pain and injuries in his chest and abdomen, but he had no problem fighting back against an enemy who carelessly turned his back towards him.

So, after Anderson rolls to take the pistol from Agent Makull and hold it against Smith's back, the outcome is no longer in doubt due to the fact that the two have the same authority.

However, the other party's death is still very terrifying.

Unlike normal reactions to being hit by bullets, Smith didn't make a big hole in his back and then fell to the ground and vomited blood, he froze directly in place, centering on the part hit by the bullet, and continued to spread turquoise and green flames to other body parts, and when those dense cracks covered Smith's body like a spider web, the agent exploded from it, blowing up the originally straight corridor like a wave of water.

It seems that Agent Smith was killed before he could even use the "castling", but Anderson didn't think he could be defeated so easily, and the reactions of the other agents who turned around and ran at the time told him otherwise.

Then, the bell in Room 303 rang again, and Anderson picked up the phone and returned to Normandy, where he was applauded by the crew. Zero-One Reading Network

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Star Map Command Room.

Although Anderson was amazed at his performance in the Matrix, it was of little use to the Normandy itself, and it was a matter of firepower, speed, and armor shields to really encounter the Grox spacecraft.

So, after complimenting Anderson, the crew went back to work and began to prepare for their return to Zion.

Naturally, Morpheus pressed his hands on the huge star map table again.

"Is there a special reaction in the matrix? What's going on with Grox? Morpheus asked as he planned a route to Zion.

"[The dispatch of the helicopter gunship was interpreted as a movie, and the accident of the 'hive' was ignored by the public," the tank still inside the surveillance matrix responded: "[As for the hotel where Neo finally broke out, it is said that criminals caught fire there, causing a gas explosion and was temporarily locked down. 】”

"[There is no sign of the Grox approaching us, so we can tell that they have not been able to find where we are accessed,] "The mouse in the cockpit responded, "[However, the density of patrols has increased, and some routes have been reduced in security and may be intercepted.] 】”

"In that case, we'll abandon those lines," Morpheus sketched on the star map, "and the Matrix has suffered a big loss this time, and it will be troublesome for them to discover the general location of Zion." ”

"[Roger]."

"Hey, Link, what kind of place is 'Zion'?"

As the crew members were busy at their posts, Anderson, who was new to the ship and had no duties of his own, was too embarrassed to disturb, so he accosted the dark-skinned operator who was also idle next to him.

Although Trinity probably didn't care about his interruption, he didn't plan to provoke the public for the time being.

After all, there are not too many women in Normandy, and there are even fewer who are as dazzling and active as Trinity, and she is afraid that she has a lot of fans before she gets on the ship, although she is currently compatible with the aura of a "savior", but ...... Let's wait until we get to Zion.

"Zion, that is the last hope of humanity, the front line and the last position of resistance to the domination of the Matrix, the home we must protect, we must love her as we love our own eyes." Link read in a poetic tone.

"......" Anderson was speechless for a moment.

Link was the Normandy's external liaison and occasionally made a cameo as an operator, and he is said to be a couple with the brother Tank and Bulldozer, the younger sister who stayed in Zion, and was always suffering from a moralistic illness from time to time.

In addition, the sister of the tank and the bulldozer has to be a tractor or an excavator according to common sense, but unfortunately, the girl's name is Zelda, and Link calls her Zee, and she often shows off to others.

If he is a character in those TV series in the matrix, he must not survive three episodes.

"I'm asking about geography, climate, population ecology, and management systems." Anderson interrupts Link's poetry reading.

"You don't know?" Link looked at Anderson.

"I should know?"

"Okay," Link shook his head, "Zion is 150 million kilometers from the star, with an inclination of 23.26 degrees, an equatorial radius of 6,300 kilometers, and a surface area of 510 million square kilometers, 71% oceanic and 29% terrestrial ......"

"Wait?" Even if Anderson's geography is not very good, the more familiar these data are, why is it exactly the same as the earth?

Apparently Link wasn't going to stop, he winked at Anderson and uttered the last sentence:

"Total population: 7,053,000,000."