Zion.

The ancient Hebrew word for temple or sanctuary, in the Jewish holy scriptures, where the Creator dwells.

In the world of The Matrix, Zion is the last gathering place of humanity for survivors, located deep underground.

As the old saying goes: the predecessors planted trees, and the descendants enjoyed the shade!

On the contrary, the predecessors dug the pit, and the future generations suffered!

Once, in order to cut off the robot's main energy source, humans used black fog to obscure the sky. As a result, robots didn't do anything, and humans themselves lived underground and relied on geothermal energy to make a living due to lack of energy.

This is probably the highest level of death!

After a few days of sailing, the Nebuchadnezzar made several stops to play hide-and-seek with squid, and arrived in Zion, which was buried deep underground.

The last city of mankind.

Zion and the Mother are like those inside and outside the wall, those outside the wall laugh at the people in the wall for not being free and are slaves at the mercy of others, and those inside the wall laugh at the people outside the wall for being precarious and having a difficult life, and they are not as good as a dog in the wall.

The most direct example of this contrast is the cypher, when he was in the wall, he longed for freedom, and when he climbed over the wall, he was surprised that the situation was wrong, and I wanted to go back to being a dog.

This reaction is inevitable because it is so hard to live in Zion.

Dilapidated, backward, lacking in resources, people live in a limited space, no different from prison.

Under the command of the control center, the Nebuchadnezzar docked at Dock 7, where Morpheus left the ship with the crew and handed over the ship to the maintenance crew.

By the way, the traitor Seifer was handed over and transferred to a professional for interrogation to obtain information about the agent.

Russell followed him down the ship, and standing next to him was Neo, who was looking at the sky depressedly, with a red slap print on his face.

Looking at the shape of the hand, you can know that this slap was not made by Russell.

A few days ago, Neo was guided by Russell to recognize his heart.

That's right, he and Trinity have just known each other, and they haven't said a few words, where did they get any love.

The reason why he cares about Trinity so much is that he is different from others is purely because of his long legs.

If you are greedy, there is nothing to be embarrassed about, seize the time to act, and take down the goal is the last word.

Figuring out the key, Neo immediately set about acting, and the effect was average, Trinity ignored his love, and seemed to have some disgust in it.

Every time Neo happens to be alone with her, or spends half an hour blocking the door, and comes to a casual chance encounter, Trinity flashes decisively, as if Neo has bad luck and will be infected if he runs slowly.

Frustrated, Neo again approached Russell, an emotion expert, for technical guidance.

Russell wondered, it stands to reason that this situation is very small, people are visual creatures, and men's first impressions of women are divided into two types, good figure, good looks, temperament, and ugly.

To put it bluntly, there are always advantages to be found if you are beautiful, and if you are not good-looking, the advantages are automatically blocked.

It sounds a bit based on appearance, but it's the same on the woman's side, handsome guys will be classified as boyfriends and blue-faced confidants, and ugly ones are uniformly called 'big brothers'.

With Neo's fairy appearance, there is no reason to be included in the 'big brother' option, which Russell is very sure of, because he is the same, he has never had the trouble of 'big brother'.

Russell didn't know why, lest his excellent performance be too outstanding, suppressing the originally shining Neo, causing Trinity to empathize and fall in love with him.

Give up, we have no future!

Russell decides to talk to Trinity, so he uses telepathy to spy on her true thoughts.

If it was really as he thought, it would definitely be a quick knife to cut through the mess and let her stop daydreaming.

It turned out badly, Russell found himself thinking too much, and his evaluation in the depths of Trinity's heart was not friendly, the strength was perverted, and the people were ......

After all, when the two sides met for the first time, Russell was dangling on the roof of the building without clothes, and he basically couldn't wash it in vain.

Russell was both happy and sad, and his mind was complicated to respond to that sentence, I can refuse you, but you can't dislike me.

Continuing to peek into Trinity's heart, he finally found out the root of the disease, and the reason why Trinity's horror of Neo was due to the prophet.

The Prophet had told Trinity that she would fall in love with the Savior, and she had always remembered it.

As a result, the truth was revealed, and the prophet was not the light that led mankind to resist, but the villain.

Her words, Trinity naturally will not believe a word anymore, and even implicate Neo and avoid it in various ways.

Of course, because Neo is handsome, Trinity is also a little interesting to him.

That's bad!

Russell was not convinced, obviously he and Neo were as handsome, but Trinity's evaluation of the two was very different.

Just like you, you still want to sprinkle dog food?

Phew, dream!

Russell looked serious: "Neo, Trinity likes you very much, but your softness and decisiveness make her insecure. She likes tough men, you're too soft, go ahead, take out your male charm and conquer her with a tough stance! ”

Neo seemed to understand whether he understood or not, and left excitedly with Russell's encouragement, and when he appeared in front of Russell again, there was an extra slap mark on his face.

Russell turned a blind eye to Neo's grievances and let him be tough, not so tough.

Blocking the girl in the corner of the wall in broad daylight, not saying anything, pulling hands and pulling them into the room, a slap is considered light.

Russell smiled secretly in his heart, probing Trinity's evaluation of Neo, and found that after refreshing, the favorability did not move at all, and there was no sign of decline at all.

It's too real, you can really do whatever you want if you're handsome.

Russell, who gritted his teeth, once again persuaded with kind words: "Neo, it's not enough, be tougher!" ”

Neo rolled his eyes, he bet that if he was tougher, the whole ship would come and beat him, eighty percent...... No, it must be Russell taking the lead.

Seeing that Neo didn't believe it, Russell didn't say anything more and looked around.

Zion is divided into two levels, the lower floor is a residential area, inhabited by 250,000 remnant human beings, and the upper level is a military fortress or 'dock', which is a necessary port to enter the residential area of Zion, and ordinary people are forbidden to set foot in this place.

At this time, in addition to the Nebuchadnezzar, there were three other ships docked in the dock, two ships to supply necessary daily necessities, and one to repair the hull damage.

Pitiful to say, Russell regarded it as a ragged hovership, the main means of transportation and defense of Zion.

Walk the post-war ruins, mainly the underworld, under the captain's command, to find available resources, rescue humans from the Matrix, and monitor the movements of the robot army.

What's even more pitiful is that the robot army has never seen hovership as an adversary, and its main enemy is the mechanical octopus, a maintenance arm of a machine civilization.

After all, these ships just suck.

Take the Nebuchadnezzar, Russell's most familiar example, where survivors rummaged through the ruins of the war, pieced together and welded with equipment from different eras, many of which were antiques from more than 100 years ago.

It was no easy task to keep this start-up grandfather-level spaceship up and running, so the limited space on board didn't keep the idlers there, and every crew member had to be proficient in equipment repair and maintenance.

The daily life of the Nebuchadnezzar is basically open while repairing, and it may lie on the spot at any time.

But even so, the Nebuchadnezzar had to return to Zion every other month to recharge, repair damage, resupply logistics, and report on work.

For example, this time, the mission of the Nebuchadnezzar was to monitor the movement of the machine army and ensure that Zion was ready for war in the first place.

Although the result of knowing and not knowing is the same, they are all allowed to let the robots go in and out, but the surface work still has to be done, otherwise Zion Command will have nothing to do except play cards all day.

Morpheus disobeyed the order, did not stick to his post, indulged in the prophet's so-called savior theory, and succeeded in bringing back two saviors, so he had to go to the command first to report and receive two hours of spittle.

Not to mention anything else, if the crime of dereliction of duty alone is convicted, he will not want to live a good life in the future.

Morpheus didn't care, proving that Neo was the savior needed to connect the matrix, proving that Russell was much simpler, just give him a hammer and let him knock it casually.

"Mr. Russell, would you like to go with me to meet the Commander?" Morpheus asked.

Zion's commander is named Locke, who is Morpheus's superior, and it doesn't matter if Russell meets with him, the people he should meet are the councillors.

"No, that thing is your rival, I went with you, maybe I will be implicated by you, causing him to speak loudly to me......"

Russell waved his hand, and for Commander Locke to stick to the front intact, he couldn't go.

“……”

This is a big problem, but from Russell's mouth, Morpheus feels that there is nothing wrong with it.

The few say goodbye to Morpheus, Russell and Neo are new to the city, and they don't even have a place to stay, and the Tank Brothers are assigned as guides to familiarize the two with the situation in Zion.

Taking the elevator, Neo watched Trinity leave first, although her body was still in the elevator, and her heart flew away with her.

"Neo, wipe it quickly, your saliva is going to run down." Russell Friendly Reminder.

Neo hurriedly raised his hand when he heard this, but instead of saliva, it caused Tank and Dorze to laugh.

The elevator stops on the fourth basement floor, where the Tank Brothers live, both of whom are jackless humans born in Zion who have long since settled and have families of their own.

Russell and Neo don't want to disturb the time for the two to be reunited with their loved ones, so they leave together to hang out in the underground city.

Zion has no monetary system, no economy, and all supply and demand are distributed according to the head, and Neo looks at the prison with mixed feelings.

"Russell, what are you doing?"

Coming back to his senses, Neo found that Russell didn't say a word for a long time, and he had a bad premonition in his heart.

Under normal circumstances, Russell is digging a pit when he speaks, and he is so angry that people grit their teeth, but when he doesn't speak, it is even more terrifying, he is digging a big pit with a big move.