Chapter 41: The Dungeon of Zion
The Resistance's spaceship relies on the principle of magnetic levitation to achieve flight, and the spacecraft itself has limited energy, so it must return to Zion base regularly to recharge.
At present, the Nebuchadnezzar spaceship has not run out of supplies, but Morpheus promised to give Tang Feng a set of knowledge loading equipment, and he must return to Zion in advance.
Although there is also a set on this spaceship, when the team members who enter the matrix perform a mission, they will temporarily input a certain skill, and this set of equipment cannot be moved.
To Zion?
"Okay!"
Of course, Tang Feng readily agreed, because the fourth system task had a clear requirement that at least half of the rebels must be taken away from this world.
There is no mandatory system task in the transition world, but it is still necessary to complete it as much as possible, after all, there will be the most valuable skill point reward.
The Holy City of Zion sits deep underground, and it takes several hours for the ship to fly down an intricate underground pipeline.
The flight speed is not fast, because the underground passage is too narrow, and the winding and twisting need to be constantly turned, and the speed is too fast and it is easy to collide.
The underground pipeline project extending in all directions is unimaginable, and how it was formed is not clearly introduced, which can be understood as the special background of this world, and there is no need to be more serious about it.
Along the way, Tang Feng discovered several layers of defense lines of the rebels, all of which were heavy artillery like a phalanx, which could be called a man's pass.
It can be seen that if the machine army wants to kill Zion through these ready-made routes, it will inevitably pay a great price.
Therefore, in the original plot, the machine army simply avoided this type of defense line, and used a super-large drill to dig all the way down, directly attacking Zion by digging through the earth.
The robot's total attack should be six months later in the original book, but Tang Feng speculated that because of his own intervention, it would definitely be much earlier.
It's hard to say what the intelligent matrix will think, but for many things, it will only be advanced, and it is impossible to postpone.
Zion, it's here!
As the heavy gate opened, the Nebuchadnezzar slowly flew into the underground survival base.
If it were the first time for other people to come here, they would definitely feel that such an underground city was extremely spectacular and extremely shocking, but Tang Daju had walked the rivers and lakes for more than a hundred years, and had seen too many majestic organs, and the eggs of a planet about the size of the earth were all made by himself, and such a hole in the ground was a fart.
"Home!"
A natural person like Tank has never entered the Matrix World, and will only regard the Holy City of Zion as his home, and every time he comes back alive, he will be quite emotionally excited.
"Don, look, this is our home, it's amazing, isn't it?"
The tank's expression was full of pride, and the Morpheus on the side were also silently paying attention to Tang Feng and Neo's reactions.
When Neo first came to Zion, he was of course shocked by this almost miraculous project, but at the same time he wondered: is it really good for humans to live in this kind of place for a long time?
Tang Feng didn't fluctuate at all, but said flatly: "Living in the crypt like a mouse is the happiness you are pursuing?" ”
"It's only temporary."
Still clinging to his dream, Morpheus replied firmly, "One day, humanity will return to the surface and live under the true sun." ”
"I didn't want to hit you."
Tang Feng sighed softly: "But I said more than once, one day often means not living that day." ”
"But someone has to keep going."
Morpheus has not given up on winning Tang Feng over, and hopes to instill in him the concept: "It doesn't matter if we don't live, as long as the generations never give up, our descendants will ......"
Tang Feng interrupted him with a wave of his hand, he didn't want to say anything, he just muttered in his heart: I can only stay for two years, and I can't wait for your generation after generation.
In just two years, it will definitely not be possible to save billions of people in this world, and billions of people who live in subsistence warehouses, with muscle atrophy all over their bodies, and live by intubation, will definitely be a big trouble.
To put it cold-bloodedly, our prison world really can't take care of so many hemiplegia, especially at the beginning stage, and you have to die of exhaustion when you feed them one bite at a time.
According to the requirements of the fourth task, receiving 50 million is barely enough, and it has to be awakened and treated in batches.
The ship docks, and Morpheus takes Tang Feng and Neo to meet with the commander-in-chief of the rebels and the members of the council, and tell them the important news of the arrival of the Savior.
But Locke, the commander-in-chief in the original book, is not a superstitious person, and has always scoffed at the savior's statement, and his idea is that the power of unity prevails over all, not the kind of individual heroism.
So next, when I saw Locke at the headquarters, he looked serious, he didn't have a good face, and he only regarded Tang Feng and Neo, two strange faces, as rookies who had just been rescued from the life support warehouse.
"Don't tell me anything savior! Morpheus, not everyone will believe your ......"
Locke glanced at Tang Feng and Neo coldly, not even wanting to ask which of them it was.
Morpheus sighed, he had expected this, and then he just made an application: "This return, in addition to normal supplies, also needs a new set of knowledge loading equipment. ”
"What do you want to do?"
Locke frowned and asked, "Is that set on your ship broken and can't be repaired?" ”
Morpheus, a principled man who would not lie about such things, replied truthfully, "It's just a deal, and I must fulfill my promise to give him this set." ”
"Who?"
Locke's gaze followed Morpheus's gaze and fell on Tang Feng's face.
"That's right, it's me."
Tang Feng had already dragged a chair to sit down, while Morpheus and Neo were still standing, and there were only two chairs in this dirty office, and the other was under Commander Locke's ass.
As a result, Locke's first impression of him was very bad: in my office, you dare to sit down without my orders?
Locke belongs to the standard military style, and in his eyes, the whole of Zion, except for the dozen or so special councillors, everyone else is his subordinates.
Zion does not raise waste, everyone is a soldier, and he must obey his orders and take up arms to fight at all times.
"Stand up!"
Locke's expression was grim, and he shouted at Tang Feng: "As a newcomer who has just awakened, what you have to do is to learn the rules and discipline here as soon as possible!" ”
What a mess of trading?
In Zion, no one is qualified to say this, and all are to obey commands and obey orders.
Tang Feng didn't bird him, let alone stand up, but just turned his head and said to Morpheus: "If you say something good, you must do it, if you can't give it something, I can only grab it." ”
Morpheus's expression changed, and of course he could imagine what kind of chaos this guy would bring to Zion once he went berserk.
So Morpheus immediately turned around and said to Locke in the most upright posture and in the most serious tone: "This is my promise, and indeed it is what I must do." If you don't agree, I'll have to tear down the set from the ship and pay him. ”
Locke frowned, and based on Morpheus's abnormal reaction, he realized that the situation should not be as simple as he thought.
He looked at Tang Feng carefully for a few moments, and then turned to Morpheus: "Who is he?" What happened? ”