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HMS Normandy.

[Choke——! 】”

When Anderson is woken up from the frame by some kind of noise, he discovers that the crew members who were watching around him before he entered the virtual world are gone, only Trinity is still around, as if she is helping to wake him up.

"Good fight, Neo," Trinity smiled at him, "Passing three training programs at once at least proves that you're a good fit to be one of us." ”

“…… Pass? Anderson asked rhetorically.

"The world record for the long run and jump is nine metres, and your final time on the rooftop jump was 23 metres – a figure that doesn't add the extended distance of the fall." Trinity opened the glass cover of the frame, intending to help Anderson out.

"Alright," Anderson politely helped her down, but didn't do much, "I heard Morpheus say that you guys seem to be in trouble?" ”

The noise rang out again, and it seemed to be a little louder than before.

"We were spotted by Grox's battleships, but it wasn't a big problem, the big bugs couldn't catch up with us." Trinity replied unconcernedly.

"Big bugs?" Anderson looked up, "Their cries are quite chic." ”

"You can't make a sound in space," Trinity looked at Anderson a little helplessly, "It's the Normandy's sound compensation system, and the louder the sound, the closer they are to the ship." ”

"Sound compensation, of course," Anderson decided not to speak out in his non-professional field: "So we're going to run away?" ”

"Come with me, you can see more intuitively in the star map room." Trinity turned and walked towards the automatic door.

Snort –

At the same time as the metal hatch opened, the bald mustache that Anderson had seen before walked in, and his name seemed to be "Password"?

"Trinity, the 'Pioneers' who are coming in this pursuit have used a new jamming technology, I'm going to use the frame, you see......" he said.

"You can use it, you don't have to report it to me." Trinity waved her hand absently and led Anderson out of the room.

Not......?

Anderson paid a little attention to the "password" before leaving.

Maybe it's because I'm alone, but what does it have to do with interfering with technology and connecting programs?

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Command deck.

The noise was loud and quiet, and the crew on deck were busy running back and forth, except for Morpheus, who was in the captain's uniform, holding the star map with his hands unmoving.

Trinity brought Anderson to his side, walked to one of the operating stations that came with the "Star Chart Table" and sat down, and began to receive messages that rolled like water.

"It looks like we got a little bit of a tail in our rescue operation," she said, after a moment's pause, "These chasing guys didn't patrol or scan the whole time. "Sissy

"It's okay, they can't catch up with us." Morpheus responded with a familiar word.

Anderson didn't comment, just leaned over to the star chart table and looked at the virtual starry sky.

The zoom of the star map at this time is at the galaxial level, and you can see from it that the silver-white shuttle representing the Normandy is running in circles with ease under the pursuit of four "giant black lobsters".

If the attitude and movements it exhibits are correct, it only proves that the shock absorption and gravitational systems of the spacecraft under its feet are doing a good job.

"[choke-]"

The strange sound, which was already somewhat familiar, sounded again, and Anderson noticed that a new large black lobster was coming in from outside the circle that symbolized the edge of the galaxy, and so far there were enough large bugs involved in the pursuit of the Normandy, if not only.

Perhaps finally feeling the pressure, the Normandy did not continue to circle with the lobsters, but sped straight to a location in the galaxy that looked like an "arch".

"What's that?" Anderson asked, "I know the scale of these legends doesn't match reality, but the door? ”

"It's a 'stargate' that connects different galaxies," Morpheus responded, "and while it's designed to have a fixed destination, we're hackers, and not only can we choose any destination, but the big bugs are completely untraceable." ”

Sassy ——!

Upon approaching the stargate, the spindle icon suddenly elongated, and then flew out of the galaxy like a fragmented arrow, and then the entire star map suddenly shrank to the "galaxy light spot level".

It was only then that Anderson felt a slight shaking and tugging.

"It's ...... Milky Way? Anderson had seen this ratio once before, but he couldn't help but be amazed when he saw it again.

It was a very standard oblate cluster of countless points of light at different intervals and colors, and, perhaps artistically, the cluster was still slowly rotating—a rotation that would have taken at least tens of thousands of years to see if it were a normal universe.

"According to the current information, there is a huge void fault on the periphery of this star cluster, and maybe there are galaxies outside, but the engine of the Normandy cannot cross it, that is, it cannot escape," Morpheus said: "Since we are facing a whole galaxy of robots, we can't win at all from the real level, and we can only hope to destroy it at the virtual level." ”

"Uh......" Anderson was speechless for a moment, and suddenly thought of something: "But we can't rely on this one ship to fight the entire galaxy, don't we have a base camp or something?" I remember you said that there were ancestors who were saved from the matrix? ”

"Of course," Morpheus raised his hand to press on the star map, and the familiar shuttle icon reappeared, but this time, several zigzag lines extended outward from the star map, and these lines eventually reunited on the other side of the galaxy, connecting a deliberately exaggerated galaxy icon.

"That's Zion, our home and refuge." Morpheus sighed in an aria-like tone.

"Is it a planet?" Anderson was puzzled: "If you have a fixed base, aren't you afraid of being found by the matrix?" ”

"Maybe the number of stars confuses you, Neo," Trinity explained, this time "while they are indeed occupied by Grox, in reality, most of these systems are merely an observation outpost for the blind. ”

"The jump paths of these stargates are the 'safe routes' that we have drawn from many tests, and there are almost no reinforced reconnaissance and anchored Grox fortresses along the way, which is enough to ensure that the Normandy can return to Zion without being tracked, but it doesn't matter if the tracking is not lost, the stargate key to the Zion system is constantly changing and irregular, only the captain of each ship knows about it, and there is almost no possibility of a smooth arrival without a direct voyage through the stargate."

"Oh? So isn't Grox everywhere in the galaxy? That's really good news. Anderson keenly sniffed out some of the inside information from these popular science.

"But that means that some key areas will be heavily guarded, and the losses will be great in the event of an encounter or a forced attack," Trinity said with a few quick clicks of her hand, and the road map connecting the Shuttle icon to the Zion system was left alone.

Morpheus cooperated and patted the star map, on which the shuttle, the symbol of the Normandy, began to slowly but resolutely head towards its destination, Zion, along its intended route.

"Welcome to the Queen's Tea Party, Mr. Alice." He said to Anderson.