March 20, 2199 was an ordinary day.

In the real world, it's business as usual in RoboCity Los Angeles, with countless robotic octopuses wielding their tentacles as they work in a farmland power plant filled with red lanterns.

They are farmers, and it is their duty to harvest and take care of the batteries. They have been working day and night for 100 years, and the low-level intelligence has not felt tired in the slightest.

For the creators who already possess advanced intelligence, these mechanical octopuses are cannon fodder, grass people, and tools, but they are not their kind, and at most they are just domestic animals.

Because of the existence of the matrix space, although the highly intelligent mechanical beings have the ability to build their own bodies at will, they are still accustomed to staying in the matrix and acting as humans. In the course of getting along day after day, some of their views gradually converge with those of human beings.

In fact, in the matrix, if some programs don't reveal their identity as programs, then no one really sees them as programs. The world of the matrix has actually become a world in which people and programs live together. Humans don't feel like they've become slaves, they've become batteries, and they don't know how many procedural lives they live around them.

Everything seems to be in perfect harmony.

However, there are always people who want to break this harmony.

This time, it is not the awakened humans who want to do this, but the space visitors who have come from another world. And they don't use hacker methods, but from the outside, relying on their own strength to carry out attacks.

March 20, 2199, the sea east of the mechanical city of Los Angeles. The sky was still overcast, and the black waters rose and fell in the inky light. The roar of the sea is still there, but above the sea, and below the surface of the sea, the dense mechanical bodies are ready to go.

"Use machinery to deal with mechanical ......" This is the strategy set by Yuan Hao.

With the end of a year's farming, the completion of three sub-bases, and the departure of the mechanical army, Yuan Hao had an army of tens of thousands at this time. Yuan Hao didn't know if he could capture the Los Angeles Machinery City in one fell swoop and achieve his original predetermined combat goal with the mechanical body army he was currently producing, but Yuan Hao still decided to take a gamble.

At least, through these days of reconnaissance, Yuan Hao found that the power in Los Angeles Machine City is really not worth mentioning - as far as they show, Yuan Hao has not seen any guys who can pose a threat to his army.

There are many mechanical octopuses, but the strength of these mechanical octopuses lies only in their large numbers, as for the rest...... After all, the mechanical octopus was not set up specifically for combat. Units that are stronger than the Mechanical Octopus also include:

One is a battleship with a long strip that resembles a fishbone. Yuan Hao observed and knew that he was a transport ship in the Machinery City, which could be used to transport "batteries" and mechanical octopuses.

It seems to be a product of the matrix that determined the status of the world's ruler, using an all-electromagnetic propulsion system, mainly emphasizing the carrying capacity, and not requiring much speed, defense, and armament. Anyway, Yuan Hao watched him go in and out of the Machinery City, and he was slow to death;

Outside of the transport ship is a large warship that looks like a centipede - this is a real thing with combat effectiveness, a 180-meter-long body, and dozens of long spikes erected from head to tail. These pinprick-like things are the guns of battleships.

The reconnaissance plane launched by the Red Queen has carefully scanned such a battleship and found that the spikes on its body are actually a seat electromagnetic explosion circle, which is similar to the Tesla coil in the Red Alert, but this thing has its own high-energy battery module and has mobility, but it is much more powerful than the Tesla coil in the game that can only be used as a turret.

"Such a ship can indeed pose a deadly threat to our units...... The only thing to be thankful for now is that there are not enough of these ships, and they use batteries instead of furnaces capable of generating energy automatically. This setting greatly limits the combat radius of such ships. I estimate that they will only be operating at full strength for an hour, and the combat radius will be within a thousand kilometers. After reporting the situation to Yuan Hao, he said his inference.

This made Yuan Hao really relieved.

"In that case, then let's do what we planned!" Yuan Hao finally kept it as it was. After all, under the strategy of "machine against machine", casualties can be completely ignored in many cases. Whether it's Yuan Hao's side or the matrix's side.

The invasion began before the explosions sounded. Twelve assault teams consisting of eight T-800 Terminators descended from high altitude in small boats to the perimeter of Robocity in Los Angeles. These fast, small vehicles did not cause alarm within the Machine City.

Upon their arrival, they quickly set up small signal spires to transmit signals in accordance with prior operational instructions, and established basic defensive positions after the signal spires were completed.

When the twelve small cell towers were installed, the towers were put into operation.

After that, a powerful signal wave was sent from the signal tower, quickly covering the entire Los Angeles Mechanical City area. Los Angeles Machine City is not large, at least not as large as the original Los Angeles City University, and only twelve signal towers are enough to complete the corresponding coverage.

With the operation of the signal towers and the coverage of the radio waves, the war is actually started.

As Yuan Hao himself understood, the first thing to fight for in war is not what air supremacy, sea supremacy, or what thousands of cannons are fired at once, and the army bursts out, but the invisible competition for radio waves, which is the so-called information control.

Under the unexpected circumstances of Los Angeles Machinery City, under the operation of the computing power of 20% of the quantum computers in the forward base and sub-base of the Red Queen and Pingyuan, Yuan Hao's side unintentionally completed the blocking and deception of the Los Angeles Machinery City.

The so-called blockade is only to cut off the matrix connection between Los Angeles Machinery City and the surrounding Machinery City, isolating it in a corner;

And the deception is to signal that "everything is fine" in Los Angeles Machine City and the center of the matrix!

There is absolutely distributed control between the center of the matrix and the mechanical city of various places. Each mechanical city has its own host, which can be simulated accordingly. In the center of the matrix, the results of these simulation calculations are interacted, and then the integrated calculations are carried out, and the results are fed back to each mechanical city. In a sense, one by one, the mechanical cities are equivalent to the states of the old era, most of which are self-sufficient. What Yuan Hao did was to cut off such a contact channel, and then draw a gourd to transmit the corresponding feedback signal to the terminal and host.

It's deception, and it's a two-way deception.

Because this was the first time, the Matrix had never encountered such a situation before, so neither the Machine City nor the Matrix had realized what was going on.

In an instant, Yuan Hao's side cut off the connection between Los Angeles and the center of the matrix. Within 0.1 seconds after cutting off, Yuan Hao connected a new signal. The new signal tells the mechanical city and the center of the matrix: "Everything is fine. ”

Everything is normal?

Is everything really normal?

The signal was interrupted for 0.1 seconds, and it was a fleeting moment to reflect everyone. Neither humans nor programs are aware of such a disorder. And the few guys who were aware of it asked about this matter layer by layer, but the reply they got was the same - "Everything is normal!"

Then everything works!

Under the shielding of the signal, under the darkness of the light, the mechanical body has not yet noticed any anomalies. Some people's hearts hang in the air, but most people don't feel anything about it.

Of course, this is for the Los Angeles Machine City side, but for the creator of the Machine City in Washington, North America, an inexplicable feeling made him feel bad in an instant: "How can there be a 0.1 second delay in Los Angeles, and it is in full range? I didn't find it...... Hackers?" the Creator frowned.

"No! Hackers have been operating around Machine City in Washington. Nebuganezzar, too. Recently they were tracking down a guy named Neo. A calm voice reported.

"Is reincarnation about to start again? I wonder if it will succeed this time...... We don't have a lot of time. "The Creator is mysterious.

"Huh?" the person who reported to him obviously did not know this, and was a little stunned for a moment.

"Leave those alone...... the Creator said, tapping his fingers on the table in front of him, "Now it's all about ......"

Before he could finish his sentence, a slight but regular vibration was transmitted.

Is it an earthquake?

If it were an ordinary person, or a general program, it would think so, but the Creator would not think so. He had felt such a shock before, and it was hundreds of years ago when he was fighting against humans. At that time, in order to completely destroy the machine, human beings invested a large number of weapons called nuclear bombs.

It was the most powerful weapon a man had ever had, and the strongest explosion the Creator had ever seen.

Mushroom clouds soaring into the sky, blinding flashes, furious shockwaves, and deadly electromagnetism mixed with the shockwaves. Under the bombardment of nuclear weapons, many human cities and machinery were destroyed. All civilizations were wiped out in such an explosion.

Mere machines cannot become life. If a machine wants to become a life, it must rely on electromagnetic force, and the electromagnetic force that exists in the nuclear bomb is an absolute killer for mechanical life.

"How could it be...... At this time, he was ...... that the creator was shocked, "not all the nuclear bombs have been ......," and he was puzzled for a while.

Soon he got the message: "The nuclear explosion occurred in the desert of the no-man's land of Central Asia. ”

"How much is the equivalent?" the Creator eagerly searched for relevant data.

"3,000 yield, which is the level of a neutron bomb, and the main power is strong electromagnetic radiation......" data quickly appeared in front of the Creator.

"Neutron bombs? Is it a dud bomb of the past? But ...... Can even a dud not last so long? No, I'll study this matter. The Creator thought with a headache. The Creator was very concerned about the explosion that caused such a large disturbance, and he quickly focused his attention on the matter.

As for the Los Angeles side?

The 0.1 second delay is a bit strange, but it's not unheard of before, and it seems to be caused by some natural factors. Well, let's put that aside for now.

The Creator quickly prioritized it.

It's just that he didn't think about this sudden neutron bomb. In fact, Yuan Hao was placed by the opportunity of a certain outing. In order to ensure the safety of the Los Angeles reconquest, Yuan Hao planned to find something for the creator to do in another place, so he had this neutron bomb.

The explosion of the neutron bomb aroused the "horror" in the creator's heart, and in order to find out the secret, he forgot about the strange movement in Los Angeles. As a mechanical life form that pursues logic, the Creator would not link two completely unrelated things together without proper evidence.

The anomaly in Los Angeles and the nuclear bombings in Central Asia seem to them to be two different things.

The creator focused on Central Asia and did not send the most elite machinery to reconnoiter here, which made the first step of Yuan Hao's battle completely achieve the intended goal.

The first step is complete, followed by the second step.

The army had already set off, and the transport ships that covered the sky and the sun came from the sky to the airspace of Los Angeles Machine City, and threw no less than 50,000 Terminators on the ground.

These skull-shaped T-600s, armed with high-energy electromagnetic rifles and carrying huge parachutes, arrived from the air, and as soon as they landed, they opened fire on the nearest mechanical octopus.

A crisp gunshot rang out, and the creator clone in the mechanical city of Los Angeles finally understood that he had been attacked by an inexplicable force.

"Is it human?" the doppelganger of the Creator asked sharply, "How dare these guys attack here on their own...... Are they looking for death?" he was very angry at this, and at the same time he was angry, he also had a sense of frustration. He felt that everything was in chaos.

"Didn't you say that reincarnation was imminent? What are the people of Zion for, instead of looking for a savior, throwing their forces directly here?" he wondered.

"Attention to the whole mechanical city, the whole cannon door is deployed, the whole base coin is raised, hold the ...... We can't let that rabble take us out. The Creator clone calmly gave the order.

He didn't know why Zion had abandoned the hackers and attacked him, but he knew Zion's strength and what he had to do right now.

Strike a resolute blow to the enemy who dares to attack you!

That was his decision.

As a doppelganger of the Creator, he knows that his own essence is planning a certain big picture. But the so-called big picture, he doesn't care. Everything has a priority, and as the de facto manager of Los Angeles, maintaining the big picture is not as high as holding Machine City. Following the principle of priority from highest to lowest, the first thing he had to do was to defend his territory first.

As a result, the mechanical city, which had been looking defenseless, was suddenly awakened.