Zion, known in the Catholic Bible as Sion, generally refers to a place where a certain Tifa represents.

But in this world, Zion is the last city.

Nowadays, there are very few human beings born from the reproductive process, and the rest of them are cultivated in the nutrition chamber of the machine, like bunches of potatoes, supplying the machine with energy and simulating.

Through relentless research into the brain, intelligent machines have developed a system that can physically connect with cranial nerves – the matrix.

The mother transmits a virtual signal to the humans in the culture chamber, making them think that they are living in the era of the turn of the century 2000.

Most people are born without knowing that they are living in a virtual world, and only a few people with extraordinary talents can perceive the strangeness of the world.

The first Awakened to awaken from the Mother World, under the leadership of a savior named The One, break free from their shackles and become the ones who truly know the truth of the world.

They establish shelter on Earth and gradually rescue the awakened cyborgs from their mothers.

After an unknown number of years of development, Zion now has a population of hundreds of thousands, and they have united to collect the new awakened and find the existence of the Savior.

After all, only the savior can rely on his own will to change the laws of the virtual world at will and 'lead' humanity to victory against the mother.

But that's all for the rest of the story, and the main task of Task Force 141 now is to find the hundreds of thousands of people huddled underground on this completely barren and machine-occupied planet.

If it were a normal planet, Task Force 141 could slowly search for it with drones and satellites, and even trigger a leyline oscillation to explore unusual locations in seismic wave transmission.

But now that the planet has been overrun by the automaton, there are few free humans left, so they can only search slowly in the safest way possible.

The safest way is to manually survey the ground and explore underground structures with shallow nuclear explosions.

According to the fixed combat radius, the mobile suits began to open a skirmish line of about 50 kilometers on the surface of the earth, and then used the cold nuclear fusion bombs they carried with them to create flashes of light on the surface of the planet.

This move was part of the tactical planning, Zion's location must be underground, and it needs to be close to the mother's biochemical culture pod in order for the awakened to be rescued as soon as possible.

The Zion Resistance's aircraft are electromagnetic levitation devices, which need to rely on the underground pipeline network of ancient cities to move freely.

Mobile Suits should be located first close to the biochemical culture pod, and secondly, beneath the previous large cities with large underground networks or transportation systems.

This narrows the location of Zion by an unknown amount.

And the detection of nuclear explosions from the surface of the earth has disturbed Zion.

Zion is an underground columnar city, and the industrial engineering control area at the bottom integrates all the equipment required for the underground city, water treatment systems, air purifiers, power conversion supply equipment, food synthesis, automation systems, and so on.

Now, the shallow surface earthquakes produced by the nuclear explosion have caused the geothermal energy harvesting system below to shake like never before.

The Engineer yelled, "Inform the Presbyterians!" The changes in the geothermal system are transmitted layer by layer to the upper layers of Zion.

The Council of Elders, consisting of twelve members, is the autonomous organization of Zion, responsible for the management of the city and the provision of resources for the fleet's expeditions.

The Presbyterian Church is not a dictatorship, nor is it a group above other creatures, but they are committed to sacrificing their egos for the survival of humanity.

By the time the problems that had arisen in the ground were placed on the Presbyterian table, only a dozen seconds had passed.

"Spread the fleet, and never let them come back until Zion is stable!"

Fleet? The few remaining forces in Zion are spaceships called floating ships, and now the ships are scattered to prevent Zion from falling and leaving a fire for humanity.

After giving the order to dispatch the fleet, and seeing that the captains had gathered their men to prepare for action, the Council of Elders sat down again and began a new round of discussions.

"Did you find out what the problem was? Are Zion's geographical coordinates exposed to the machine? Who was the last captain to come back? ”

A series of anxious inquiries revealed the danger of Zion's current situation, and in their opinion, if humanity was exposed to the eyes of the machine, it would inevitably be destroyed.

And the last captain to go out to explore, it is possible that he did not find the tailgating machine, and leaked the coordinates of Zion.

The captains of Zion have power second only to the Council of Elders, and to some extent, the Council of Elders is in the service of the captains when they go out to explore.

But now in the face of unprecedented circumstances, the Presbyterian Church must be held accountable for all of Zion.

The militia, armed with rapid-fire guns and electromagnetic launchers, found the last captain to return, and Morpheus was forced to stop what he was doing and command the crew to stop moving.

Morpheus, who had just returned, was about to introduce the Savior Neo he had found and identified him as the savior to the Presbyterian Church, but as soon as he got off the ship, he was told to make an emergency move.

Now that he was restricted by the militia and told the elders to look for him, all of this puzzled Morpheus.

He didn't even need to go to the location of the Council of Elders, who had already come to the dockyard in whole to find him in person.

Looking at the other ships that were faintly moving around, the surrounding ships faintly surrounded his ship, which made Morpheus have a bad expectation.

"Morpheus, have you betrayed Zion!"

As soon as the Council of Elders came up, they asked a bombshell question, which made everyone around them regard Morpheus as an enemy, and even the APU mechs on standby aimed their 30mm cannons at Morpheus's ship.

Just as Morpheus wanted to argue and prove his loyalty to humanity, Zion shook overall.

As if someone was knocking on the door from outside, the shaking Zion was greeted by an outside visitor.

Then I saw that the metal on the top side of the dock began to redden, and the metal wall was in danger.

"Enemy attack! Prepare for battle! ”

No one cared about Morpheus now, and he was escorted to the outside of the dock. Others began to climb onto the APU mechs skillfully and panickedly, preparing for the battle that was about to take place.

The children became logisticians, and at an early age, they skillfully stuffed cannon bullets longer than their own arms into the chains, and then handed them over to the other children.

Larger children became transporters, holding the handles of the carts, breathing heavily, ready to feed the ammunition boxes into the APU mechs.

The first batch of APU mechs were ready, and they were stationed in a circular position on the outside of the dock, with their cannons aimed at the molten metal façade.

The molten metal had already flowed to the ground and even fell on an APU mech, scalding the driver without the slightest protection.

But the driver did not waver, and he did not even bother to observe the burn wound.

A square metal coffin squeezed into the molten cavern, the shield of the stand next to it smoothing everything out rough.

Zion's APU driver clenched the joystick, but was careful not to press the launch button.

Bullets are precious to Zion, and they can't afford to waste a single shot until they identify the enemy.

With a bang, the front of the metal coffin fell directly, revealing the mobile suit on standby inside.

In an instant, the APU mechs in the entire dock opened fire in unison, and the overwhelming bullets instantly submerged the entire front of the assault boat.

However, the undispatched Mobile Suit hid in the assault boat's standing shield, and as soon as he observed his surroundings, he fully understood the situation.

As a field commander, Soap looked at the APU mecha with nostalgia on his face.

As the first systematic large-scale firepower projection platform of the Space-Time Authority, the APU mecha became the supporting equipment of Task Force 141 from the beginning.

As soon as they appeared, they repelled the newly resurrected Immorton with an unrivaled metal storm.

Even today, this fully hydraulically powered walking machine plays an important role in logistics and starships.

"Okay boys, deal with the firepower projection platform outside, don't hurt the people inside!"

The requirement for soap is not a problem at all for these battle-hardened mobile suits, and they know the APU mechs well, and the miss is the laughing stock.

The two mobile suits standing at the front ejected a projectile from their wrists, and both of them threw it at the same time, a black smoke glowing with a blue electric current completely obscured the landing range.

This was followed by a red glow that flickered intermittently in the middle of the black smoke.

Mobile Suits' standard Crystal Light Sword, in the air-piercing plasma explosion, is like a stream of red lightning, cutting off all the APU mechs that attack them.

The APU mecha is hydraulically driven, and there are hardly any point-to-point transmission nodes except for the power equipment.

This comes from not knowing the equipment of centuries ago, and it is the helplessness of human beings to fight against intelligent machines.

It looks like a heavy, sturdy machine with an industrial feel, and although it can be operated flexibly with mechanical transmission, the design flaws make its power equipment concentrated in the lower part of the mecha.

This is to ensure the stability of the fire projection, and at the same time allow the driver to better use his physical strength to control the combat two-arm steering.

The concentration of power equipment allows the transmission equipment to be concentrated in the waist and back of the mecha.

So Task Force 141, which knows the APU mechs well, will naturally not let go of this fatal weakness.

With the speed with which humans could not react, Mobile Suit's Crystal Lightsaber accurately cut the mechanical transmission from the back of the APU mech, making them scrap metal that could not even lift their hands.

Zion only has a few hundred mechs in the blockade of intelligent machines, and the heavy firepower that humans rely on is useless in an instant.

The Mobile Suit allowed ordinary firearms and electromagnetic weapons to hit his shield, carefully avoiding the children, and finding the savior that Morpheus had brought back.

The Council of Elders stopped all acts of resistance at this time, and the fact that the seemingly mechanical inside was a human face, and the fact that the other party did not kill anyone showed the goodwill of existence.

Everyone waited silently, and the dock, where the guns had just roared, was silent at the moment.

Standing in front of Neo, who was at a loss, the mobile suit's chest opened and spit out the armor suit inside, and the armor suit opened again, revealing the nano biochemical suit inside, and as he took off the helmet of the nano biochemical suit, the human face inside was revealed.

Soap looked at Rorschach's hand-drawn photo, compared it with the current Neo, and asked suspiciously, "Are you called the savior?" ”

(End of chapter)