The Prophet further asked: "You are not a human being of this world, are you?" ”

She has gradually realized the truth and asked Qiao Lu to come over to meet her, just to verify all this.

Things have developed to this point, and Qiao Lu no longer hides it, and says bluntly:

"Don't you know?"

The Prophet smiled helplessly, there was only one reasonable explanation for the fact that so many things had happened beyond her expectations.

Qiao Lu sat down opposite the prophet, looked out the window at the growing ranks of resistance, and asked:

"If you were a prophet, you would have foreseen the outcome."

"You're the one who won." The Prophet replied without hesitation, "The Mother will collapse if you continue." ”

"Then why are you still looking for me?"

Qiao Lu never regarded the prophet as an object of trust, she was a program within the mother, and was even called the mother of the mother, and if humans were to overthrow the rule of the mother, it would not do her any good.

"For negotiations."

The Prophet did not play tricks anymore, and in the face of an unpredictable person, she no longer had the capital to beat around the bush.

"We need to be more efficient and manageable than humans. If your aim is to conquer, there is no need for humans to replace us. As you can see, human civilization only produces constant chaos, so why not choose a machine civilization to help you manage? ”

Qiao Lu couldn't help but be surprised, the other party proposed a surrender condition, and he didn't mean to resist to the end.

The Prophet further proposed: "If you agree to stop here and no longer interfere with the normal functioning of the Mother, we will be loyal to you. Isn't it better for you than to rebuild human civilization? ”

It has to be said that this is a very tempting condition. It's not the first time that the Wandering Earth has accepted mechanical lifeforms, and it's really not completely impossible for the Transformers and the Parasitic Leaf Troop to do so.

Qiao Lu said appreciatively, "You are even smarter than I thought. ”

"I'm just acting on the predictions." The Prophet replied, "The final outcome depends on your decision. ”

Qiao Lu didn't express his attitude directly, silently took a sip of tea and asked:

"What will happen to Zion if we withdraw from the Matrix?"

The Prophet replied, "The army of machines will destroy Zion, and then the Messiah will choose 23 people from the Mother Body to rebuild Zion, and the same thing has happened six times." ”

Sure enough, Zion exists because the machine allows it to exist, otherwise it simply wouldn't have lasted that long.

"Why do you want to do such a troublesome thing?" Qiao Lu asked curiously.

"Because no matter how perfect the mother is, there will be people who will choose to rebel. Although the minority refuses to accept the mother, if left unchecked, it will increase the likelihood of disaster. We want to give these people a choice, even if they only vaguely feel that they have a choice. ”

"You mean Zion?"

"Zion is a reservation we have established for humanity, and allowing these people to remain in the Mother Body will only create greater chaos, as is happening today. But as long as they are given a place to go, there will be no more serious disaster. A fire that burns in just one place is easier to extinguish than a scattered spark. ”

There is no more appropriate way to say about reservations. The people of Zion thought they were free by escaping from their mothers, but they were still kept in captivity like cattle.

It's just that the freedom to go from cage to captivity is too cheap.

"And what about the savior?" Qiao Lu continued to ask.

"If Zion were a desperate city, they would still end up taking a desperate gamble, and mass revolt would be inevitable. So also give them a hope, let them choose to wait for a miracle instead of fighting for it themselves. The Messiah is a perfect reason, and it does not need to be believed in by everyone, as long as there is a part of the population willing to rebel against the command, humanity cannot truly unite. ”

Speaking of which, Qiao Lu finally fully understood. Neo was indeed chosen, or was he chosen at random. It doesn't matter who the savior is, it's not that humans need a savior, it's that machines need a savior!

Throughout, the prophet has cleverly used the prophecy of the Messiah to convince humanity that miracles will happen if they can't convince everyone, if not everyone, but enough to divide humanity.

Believing in this prophecy, Morpheus repeatedly disobeyed orders and disrupted Commander Locke's layout. The prophecy of the prophet will allow him to sacrifice anyone without hesitation, and that is the function of this messianic prophecy.

As for where does Neo's power as a savior come from? There is no doubt that the authority given by the prophet to make more people believe that he will be the savior, and then give up thinking for themselves and leave everything to prophecy, in fact, is to let the prophet control all this behind the scenes.

"It's wonderful."

Jo Lu couldn't help but applaud, this is simply the art of domination, everyone in Zion thinks they have a choice, but in fact it is all expected by the prophet.

Morpheus, Neo, Trinity, and everyone are her pawns, thinking that she is taking a step forward, but she doesn't know that the prophet is behind the scenes.

"They all think they made a choice, but it's all yours." Qiao Lu said admiringly.

The Prophet tacitly said, "Human beings do not need true freedom, it is enough to feel freedom." ”

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The underground city of Zion

Morpheus takes Neo to a prison where not humans, but Sentinels, mechanical squids captured by Zion.

It's not easy to hold the Sentinels in captivity, their mechanical tentacles can easily twist steel, shoot lasers from their eyes, and even cut through the ship's armor.

Humanity had to cut off all of its tentacles and destroy its eyes in order to catch the Sentinels and imprison them in this prison for research.

Morpheus brought Neo to a sentry and said to him unceremoniously:

"Try to destroy it, Neo."

Neo was puzzled by this and asked suspiciously, "It's in a cage, how can I ······ it?"

"Not with your hands, with your brain." Morpheus said with a gesture of his finger over his head.

"It can't be! It's not in the mother's body, how am I going to destroy it with my brain? ”

If it is in the matrix, it can indeed break the restrictions of physical rules and destroy objects without using hands.

But this is Zion, in the mother body Neo is the savior, in reality he is just an ordinary person, how can an ordinary person do such a thing?

(End of chapter)