I was so busy that it was dark, so busy that my eyes were black, and I was so busy that I couldn't remember how much time had passed. Fortunately, Yuan Hao is not alone after all, with the help of Sarah, Pingyuan, Honghou, Zuoger, Huang Yun and others, things have finally been solved one after another.

This was already a year after that war. Because of Yuan Hao's intervention, the plot of the Matrix, which should have been terminated, is still going on at this time. It's garbage time, the big conflicts are silent, and the small ones are still ongoing.

For Zion, for the Human Resistance, this year is their idea of great development. Countless people have been awakened and rescued - their participation has allowed the hackers to grow their ranks. They all thought they saw hope for victory in the war.

"If this continues...... We will surely overthrow the rule of the machine. "A lot of people say that.

"Maybe we can do it on our own?" and among the many people, another handful of people said.

This year, Zion's operations were very smooth, and basically there was a harvest if there was an attack. Without the perverted interference of Smith, the average agent is not necessarily a match for the hackers who have grown up rapidly. The two sides have done several games, and they can be regarded as having contacts and injuries. But overall, the hackers are doing a lot better than they were at the beginning.

Victory after victory has improved their morale a lot, and the ability they have exerted in the matrix has become more and more powerful. What is superman like, they also have some experience.

Unprecedentedly powerful, unprecedentedly smooth, which makes some of them a little fluttery.

So, when they re-examine something, they inevitably think that they have given too much and gained too little.

Arrogance, jealousy, greed, laziness...... The negative thoughts of human beings have never disappeared, and some are only temporarily suppressed.

Originally, Zion was in a precarious situation, and under the strong pressure of the matrix, they naturally tried hard to survive, but now that the pressure of survival has decreased, some ideas that they don't have naturally have emerged.

These are not so good signs.

Yuan Hao obviously felt that Zion's atmosphere had changed a little, but he didn't say anything more because of this. It's none of his business, hanging high, Yuan Hao is not the kind of person who easily takes strangers' affairs to heart and has an absolute sense of justice. Especially when it comes to things like this that aren't about survival.

To put it simply, Yuan Hao will help someone because of that person's pity, but he will not do it because of someone's self-willingness.

Thankless things, he will think twice.

The situation in the world has changed slightly in the midst of such stability, and many people are unaware of it, and the dark tide is surging.

At this time, several forces on the earth: Zion, Yuan Hao, Matrix, and some inexplicable beings are secretly accumulating their own power. They are all waiting for the right opportunity to launch. For them, now is the time to compete for patience, and it is their inevitable choice to do their own thing.

Zion is busy playing with the GI Rescue Plan, the Matrix is watching from the sidelines in proper retreat, Yuan Hao is farming, and someone else is secretly expanding his own ethnicity in the Matrix.

Then, after another two months, a message reached Yuan Hao's ears through the Red Queen, who had traveled back and forth between reality and the matrix to learn technology from the Creator: Smith had taken control of the mechanical city in the European part of the Old World.

"How did he do this?" Listening to the message from the Red Queen, Yuan Hao asked puzzled.

"Assimilation ......" the red queen said simply: "Use the mobility of the program itself to assimilate people from one city after another...... Now at least 30 million people have been assimilated by him. ”

"What? 30 million? Doesn't that mean?" Yuan Hao couldn't help but be a little shocked when he heard this number: "How many people died all of a sudden." ”

"Dead? They weren't dead, but they were worse than dead. Smith's assimilation is the assimilation of the human spirit, but there is no action on the human body, which means that the body of those people is still providing energy for the matrix. "The little Lori of the red queen has a rather indifferent tone, saying the truth that makes people sound horrible.

"In other words, their souls and bodies are being used by others?" said Yuan Hao, his face twitched, and he couldn't tell whether he was sad or cold.

"What does the Creator mean, does he want us to help put down the rebellion?" Yuan Hao was silent for a moment and asked.

"No, it's not this ......" The red queen shook her head: "The creator said he wanted to play a game with us!"

"Game?" Yuan Hao raised his eyebrows: "What game?"

"He wanted to see what humans were capable of...... He will let Smith's assault on Zion and see what our humans can do to resist. This decision is for Zion, but also for us—the Creator says we can help Zion. The Red Queen calmly relayed the words of the Creator.

"We help Zion?" Yuan Hao pondered for a moment and asked puzzledly, "Why did he suddenly want to do this?"

"This ...... I don't quite understand either. The Creator didn't elaborate, I just saw him alone muttering: "Time is running out and something." The Red Queen spoke of her observations.

"Time is running out?" Yuan Hao's eyes lit up when he heard this, and his heart suddenly lit up.

This world is governed by the Matrix. The Matrix pursues absolute sanity and logic, but these are deadly to life. Absolute reason and logic can withstand machinery, but humans cannot......

So the matrix of the first generation perished because of this.

The matrix has discovered the cause of the matrix collapse through various investigations, and has concluded that human feelings are the result of the matrix's largest variable.

Variables, uncontrolled variables are the biggest problems that cause perfect calculations and logic breakdowns.

To address such variables, the Matrix designed Zion, designed the Savior, and designed the evolution of the Matrix.

So there is a series of problems today.

Up to now, there are four major forces on this small earth: the creator's mechanical city, Smith's mechanical rebel, the human Zion City, and Yuan Hao's forward base.

If the gap between these four is calculated by force, and the Creator's mechanical city is 100, then Smith's mechanical rebel army is 35 forces, the human Zion City is 20, and Yuan Hao's forward base is 30.

This is the current situation. In fact, as time passes, the strength of Smith and Yuan Hao will continue to increase.

Smith's augmentation is built on digging into the corners of the matrix owned by the Creator.

And Yuan Hao's enhancement was based on Yuan Hao's integration and excavation of his own strength at this time.

For Smith's rebellion, the Creator is also a headache. However, because of Smith's special status as a savior, it is impossible for the Creator to deal directly with Smith.

The Creator found it even more difficult for Smith to change his practice of acting alone and wandering the world as he pleased, and to begin to steadily establish his own turf. Now Smith is spreading like a real virus, and has his own basic disk.

This is considered cancerous, and it is becoming more and more troublesome cancerous.

The Creator thought that he could control everything, so he made that agreement with Yuan Hao, but now Smith's actions forced him to break the contract.

Because he can't control Smith at all now.

"Trouble!" Yuan Hao thought to himself, and he also understood that the creator had actually been kidnapped by Smith's anomaly.

The creator himself did not want to continue targeting Yuan Hao, but he could not control the thoughts of Smith, who had in some sense already broken away from the matrix. With his own territory and his own troops, Smith wants to continue to deal with Zion and Neo, but the creator can't stop him.

There is no way, and the creator can only helplessly inform Yuan Hao of the situation and let him prepare accordingly.

"Hey...... I knew it wasn't that simple. Yuan Hao hugged his chest with one hand, propped up his arm and supported his chin, thought about it carefully, and said, "In this way, the creator plans to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight." ”

"I'm afraid that's the ......," the red queen nodded slightly.

"Since that's the case...... It seems that there are some things that we have to change. Yuan Hao thought about it for a moment and quickly issued an order: "Let Pingyuan pay close attention to the monitoring of seismic waves...... If Smith really planned to do something to Zion, he would surely dig a tunnel from the ground. ”

"Ah...... Is that so?" the Red Queen was also a little surprised. He didn't know how Yuan Hao had come up with this. Yuan Hao didn't say it, and she couldn't think of it for a while. Yuan Hao said, she thought about it carefully, but nodded silently: "Well, this possibility is still very big." ”

However, there is still a rather troublesome problem that needs to be solved. It's a tunnel to connect the two places, and you have to know where your destination is. Zion is underground, and if Smith wants to use a tunnel to connect the past, he must get the specific coordinates of Zion underground—longitude, latitude, and depth!

The coordinate creator of Zion must know about it, after all, every reincarnation is arranged by him, but the creator knows it doesn't mean that Smith knows.

In this case, how did Smith, who had defected, know where Zion was?

The red queen asked Yuan Hao this question.

"Is this difficult?" Yuan Hao asked rhetorically with flickering eyes.

"This ......" the red queen hesitated.

"Don't forget that Smith is capable of assimilating people. As long as it is in the matrix, those who do not reach or exceed his strength may be assimilated. Yuan Hao directly named this.

"You mean...... "The red queen suddenly understood. However, she was still a little puzzled: "Can the assimilated soul data also be returned to the human body?"

"Isn't the soul of the human body all data in the matrix? Smith's assimilation is actually the modification and erosion of data. He can assimilate the data into his own, and naturally he can disguise the data as someone else's. With the addition of the Consciousness Connector, he will naturally be able to follow his teammates back to the real world. Yuan Hao squinted his eyes and said.

"It turns out that this consciousness connector is such a terrifying existence. Suddenly, she seemed to think of a more insane role in the consciousness connector: "If that's the case...... Can we also project one's soul consciousness onto another body? If we make a copy of the soul consciousness and keep it in a safe place, and use the backup body to build a body to use, put the backup body in it...... Is it possible to achieve some level of eternal life?"

“...... You ......" Listening to the red queen's muttering, Yuan Hao's face also changed over and over again. The more he spoke, the more excited he became, and he hurriedly stopped: "Stop, this is not something we should be thinking about now." This kind of sacrifice should never be done as a last resort. ”

"Oh! I see!" the red queen's voice suddenly lowered. She was really interested in what had just come to mind. It's just that this interest was forbidden by Yuan Hao, which made her feel like a child who had been robbed of her toys, and her heart was full of grievances.

"Don't think too much!" Yuan Hao clapped his palms: "Strengthen the monitoring of seismic waves, and take another time to report this matter to Zion's side." ”

"Okay!" the red queen replied weakly, and then went offline.

The Red Queen left, and she had her own way to inform Pingyuan and Zion. As an ally of Zion, Yuan Hao did his duty in doing so.

However, the notice from Yuan Hao's side and the feedback from Zion's side were depressing. On Zion's side, except for a few captains who had a good relationship with Yuan Hao, others, including Commander Locke, didn't believe Yuan Hao's words. Commander Locke is better, at most he will be skeptical, but others ...... All kinds of cold words flew over. They didn't believe what Yuan Hao said at all.

"Has the relationship between Zion and us developed in a cold direction?" Yuan Hao listened to the feedback of the red queen and smiled bitterly, but he didn't know what to say.

Because the existence of Zion is related to the upgrade of the matrix, it is impossible for Yuan Hao to watch Zion being destroyed. It was to help Zion get through this difficult time, which was what he had to do.

It's just that he's not a masochist, and he doesn't have a penchant for hot faces and cold asses.

In the end, he could only make this decision: "Open up a corresponding storage space in the middle of the trade channel with Zion, and transfer a part of our forces to the past, so that we can support Zion at the most suitable time." ”

Of course, this is a secret order.

On the surface, Yuan Hao and Zion's statement is: "In order to facilitate the transaction between the two parties, we decided to establish a transit warehouse." This is indeed a reasonable explanation, and it is accepted by Zion's side.

So, the war preparations on Yuan Hao's side began. Because the next battle must be fought in an underground environment like Zion City, Yuan Hao began to prepare the most suitable equipment for the war.

Yuan Hao didn't know how many troops Smith would put on the battlefield, and out of the idea of anticipating the enemy's leniency, Yuan Hao prepared at least 200,000 Terminators and 1,000 Jim Guards for the next battle.

Time passed little by little, and the pace of war gradually approached.

Zion's side finally felt that something was wrong.