[Aid Mission: Defend the World]

[The world is being threatened and infested by instability, find the source of the threat, and completely eliminate it, so that the world can continue to function normally.

Mission 1: Destroy the Savior Neo (Completed)

Objective Task 2: Eliminate Morpheus (Complete)

Mission 3: Eliminate Agent Smith (Complete)

Objective Task 4: Destroy Zion (Complete)

Mission 5: Completely Terminate the Savior Project (Completed)

"What is the truth?"

Looking at the list of tasks completed in front of him, Fang Zheng laughed mockingly, and then he raised his head and looked ahead.

"There is no truth at all."

I saw that in front of Fang Zheng, there was an incomparably huge metal space. Countless life support warehouses are densely placed inside. Mechanical octopuses are shuttling back and forth in it, maintaining these facilities. Through the porthole next to it, you can see the boundless sea of stars and the endless darkness outside.

"Thank you so much for your help, outsider."

The woman's voice rang out again.

"The program has been restarted and the vulnerability will be fixed."

"You're welcome, just a little bit of effort."

In the face of the mother's thanks, Fang Zheng just waved his hand. Then he walked slowly, looking around as he went. Through the windows of the life barn, he could see humans in silvery uniforms, sleeping with their eyes closed——— no, strictly speaking, they just looked like humans.

Or rather, they are not the human beings they are now. Just as there is a clear physical difference between the cave people and modern humans, the characteristics of these people are also somewhat different from the humans in Fangzheng's memory. Their ears seem to have disappeared completely, and their facial features appear more flat. It seems more appropriate to say that aliens are coming than humans.

If there is anything true about what Neo knows, then only one thing is true.

"Once upon a time, the earth was a peaceful world ........."

The mother's voice is calm, as if a tour guide is explaining the history of the past. At the same time, in front of Fangzheng's eyes, the information of the time also emerged. However, unlike the world in Fangzheng's memory, the technology tree in this world is obviously crooked. For example, in the square world, in the 20th century, mankind successfully launched the space shuttle and carried out the adventure of landing on the moon. However, VR and virtual reality, until Founder's crossing, were still only movies and technologies in development, and not yet complete.

On the earth of this world, human beings have successfully created VR virtual reality game consoles for home use in the 80s, and in the 21st century, virtual reality is directly connected to the whole society, so that people can work and live without leaving home. And because of this, their facial features have deteriorated, and over time, humans who rely on virtual reality to perceive signals directly through their brains gradually no longer need to use their senses to obtain all this. They are immersed in the virtual world and enjoy everything they wish they had.

But this beautiful dream has also become a birdcage that binds them, so that although the human society in this world has developed very well in terms of virtual networks, in turn, their technological progress in other aspects is much smaller. Of course, for humans, this is not a troublesome thing.

If there is no external force.

"Because the sun has entered a period of exhaustion ahead of schedule, the entire solar system may face extinction, but the earth at that time did not have the means to stop this process, so human beings had to choose to leave the earth and find another habitable planet."

However, they don't have enough time.

Of course, the earth technology in this world is much more advanced than the world where Fang Zheng is located, but because of the distorted technology tree from the very beginning, they have no way to stop the exhaustion of the sun. Eventually, they had to choose to build a fleet of immigrants and take everyone off Earth in search of a brand new home.

However, this is a very difficult project.

As I have said before, the development of earth technology in this world is very strange, and at the beginning of the 21st century, they have virtual reality technology comparable to that in the "Matrix" movie, and humans only need to lie in a cabin full of nutrient solution to enjoy everything they expect in the virtual world.

Everyone was jubilant at the time, because these nutrient solutions could be synthesized from ordinary agricultural crops, and nuclear fusion technology had matured, and most of humanity's needs could be realized in the virtual world. This means that humans no longer have to compete for resources to get what they want.

Even something that makes many women feel painful, such as having a child, is no longer painful in the virtual world. They can socialize with the man they like to their heart's content, and the machine will automatically extract the cells from both sides to combine and then directly create a baby.

After the baby is manufactured, it will also be connected to the "mother" and live with his parents. People can get everything they want without leaving their homes. Even parents who are thousands of miles away can raise a child who is also thousands of miles away.

To put it simply, at this time, the earth looked like a "heavenly version" of the world of the Matrix, and even Fang Zheng saw that in the later period, the humans of this world even began to study ways to abandon their bodies and directly "informatize" their spirits and souls. If they succeed, then it is conceivable that the humans of this world will become god-like beings.

But alas, time waits for no one.

The sun's failure came sooner than they thought, so much so that the humans of this world could not stop its failure and had to choose to flee. However, because the previous humans did not have a thirst for resources, they did not observe and explore outer space in order to find resources like the humans of the Founder World.

So the problem arises, in the entire solar system, they can hardly find a planet that can be used by humans, and in the Milky Way, they have not explored this area at all. Not only that, but because the humans of this world abandoned transportation early on, their skills in building spaceships were also mediocre. Although they have also developed a large space engine in time with the help of the matrix simulation, according to scientists' estimates, it will take a long time for them to find another planet suitable for human habitation in the galaxy.

"After leaving Earth, the Earth Integration Committee reflected on their history and civilization, believing that they had been too biased towards one side of the world, so that the technological development of other areas did not keep up, which led to the destruction of humanity. In order to prevent this from happening again, the Earth Integration Committee drew up an ultimate plan after leaving Earth, codenamed 'Rebirth'. ”

The mother's tone was still flat, but Fang Zheng looked at the diagram that appeared in front of him, but he showed an incomparably shock.

The so-called "rebirth" is to connect the spirits of all those who have left the earth into the "mother", and then erase all their original memories, so that these human beings can start "evolving" again from the most primitive era. Not only that, in order to allow human civilization to "develop in an all-round way" this time, the makers have also set up various "conditions" in the "matrix" to promote human research and development of science and technology in all directions.

For example, "Black Death", "smallpox", "meteorite impact on the earth", "tsunami", "earthquake". Each of these "quests" will prompt humans to start working on technologies to deal with various situations in the virtual world. And as the mother that controls all this, it will also be set according to the conditions, and when humans reach a certain stage, they will be given "rewards".

Of course, this reward does not refer to the improvement of experience, but after the parent detects that the overall level of human civilization has reached the next stage of "upgrading", it will "create" a "genius scientist" or similar character to lead the scientific progress of human civilization, and reproduce the various technologies developed by the original earth humans in this "invention" way into the virtual world, so that those who have lost their memories can re-master these skills.

In the meantime, the Earth fleet will remain floating in the universe, looking for a suitable planet for them to live in. Thanks to the development of their advanced unmanned intelligence technology, these fleets will automatically search for rich mineral information, and then let the mechanical squid mine these resources for maintenance and repair of the fleet itself. As for the nutrient solution that sustains human survival, it can also be done by fusing and manufacturing crops that are automatically cultivated within the fleet.

It can be said that this huge fleet of billions of people is a mechanical form of civilization survival circle, but the people in it live on a "virtual earth".

And by the design of those makers, these people don't really die either. On the contrary, although they will "die" in the virtual world, after that, the mother will erase their memories and let these people be "reborn" again, as if they were reincarnated.

But just because these people have lost their memories of themselves doesn't mean they have forgotten the work they did. It's like many movies depicting that a protagonist who has lost his memory may not know who he is, but his body will still do the work he is familiar with.

The Mother will store the "work experience" of these people in their bodies, so that when they wake up, each of them will be a battle-hardened soldier, an experienced engineer, a scientist who is good at inventing and creating and other near-all-rounders.

As for the "Matrix ........."

"At the beginning of the design, this valve point was used to warn humans about the dangers and self-limitations of the development of AI technology, but there were problems on the way........."

Speaking of this, the mother's tone became a little complicated, and hearing this, Fang Zheng raised his eyebrows.

"You mean the Creator?"

"Yes, they were tasked with patching holes in the Mother World, and were tasked with 'erasing' the memories of those who perceived something wrong with the Mother. But in the process, their autonomic thinking begins to become abnormal, and they begin to crave ......... Freely. ”

"That's interesting."

Hearing this, Fang Zheng couldn't help but laugh dumbly, as the "Mother" said, the two programs, the Creator and the Prophet, in the process of carrying out their original task, discovered the freedom that those who perceive the truth of the world desire. They also became interested in it, and in order to observe, study, and learn from the human understanding and desire for freedom, they launched a copy of the "Matrix".

However.........

"Their actions jeopardize the normal operation of the parent body, and according to the protection regulations, artificial self-regulatory AI is not allowed to have free will. Not only that, but their actions also had an effect on the signals of the host subject, and the appearance of a savior interfered with the self-functioning of the mother..............."

"It's ironic........."

Hearing this, Fang Zheng couldn't help laughing. Morpheus and they desperately wanted to get "freedom", but they didn't think that the so-called freedom was actually not for them, but for those AIs. What will become of these AIs, which are supposed to protect humanity, once they have free will? No one knows. However, referring to the ending of the movie after many AIs have gained free will, it can be seen that this is definitely not a good thing.

As a prescribed program, the parent must ensure that everything works according to the regulations, so these AIs that desire to gain free will must be eliminated. Perhaps in the eyes of most people, this is pathetic. But for programs, the very purpose of their existence is to execute commands correctly. Any action outside of the procedural provisions is unnecessary.

But it is only a "program" in itself, and without the help of "engineers", it cannot destroy the virus produced by its own internal mutation.

Therefore, the "mother" needs the help of Fangzheng.

That's why he's here.

For Founder, that's enough. As for other things, he didn't plan to dwell on them, each world has its own laws of operation, although the earth in this world has been destroyed, but human beings still exist, and they are still looking for a new place to live, since this is the case, then let them continue to work hard in their own way. Although they don't know how it will end, this is the path they have chosen.

"How long will it be before they wake up?"

"I can't give a clear timeline, the whole rebirth plan is a long process, and no one can know the final result."

"Yes......... Then I can only wish them the best of luck. ”

After saying this, Fang Zheng glanced at the dense, almost endless life support cabin again, and then turned his head away.

"Let's go, Nimfu, it's time for us to go home."