Chapter 360: The Light of Hope
Neo savored the food on his plate, a slight farewell food that Zion hastily made with the fresh ingredients he had just brought in with soap.
Compared to the food in the parent virtual world, the taste is not even as good as the meal that Neo has prepared for in the virtual world.
You can't expect a wheat-only Zion to have a great culinary staff, and they can't even tell how much lemon juice should be put to taste.
But it was the best meal Zion could have.
In front of Morpheus was a piece of 'Jeffrey's bread', which he had tasted as a toddler when he was freed from his mother's womb, and heard Jeffrey's story.
This is why he pinned his hopes on the Savior, hoping that the Savior would change the times.
Although the savior is the wedge of the mother's reincarnation, although this truth is too cruel for human beings.
But Neo and Morpheus are now really ready to do what a savior should do.
Morpheus broke the bread in his hand and gave it half to Neo, who pushed his meal between the two.
Without saying a word, the two silently wiped the remaining traces of seasoning on the plate with the last bit of bread.
"Morpheus!"
"Neo!"
The two of them walked towards Morpheus's floating ship, the Nebuchadnezza, which was already filled with people on both sides of the dock passage.
While the captains all had the task of leading the way, the Nebuchadneza had a more important and dangerous mission.
The crew of the Nebuchadneza had been waiting, but Morpheus, the captain, refused to accompany them.
"I need to be able to drive this ship alone!"
Morpheus, who was standing in the hatch of the ship, completely left all his crew members behind in a tone that could not be refused.
Even though the crew tried to follow, the rest of the captains stopped them.
This is a mission to the death, and there is no need to consume Zion's precious population.
Morpheus and Neo closed the hatch, completely isolated the crew, and took the front and passenger seats.
Communication Test ......
From the cabin came the voice of Nikolai, the escort of the Nebuchadneza.
Once a full-scale counteroffensive begins, it will inevitably be desperately resisted by machines, and the actions of the Nebuchadnezzar must be protected, but before ensuring the safety of the remaining humans, to prevent the machines from dying and breaking the net, humans should not show too much force.
So the orbital assault ship is the vanguard, and the Nebuchadneza is the main force.
"Roger, good communication, we can go!"
The float slowly floated to the dock and made its way along the open passage. The orbital assault boat followed the float out of the dock.
When the dock was resealed, everyone prayed silently in their hearts, blessing the new era that was about to begin.
"The countdown to combat readiness begins! As soon as the orbital assault craft begins to engage the enemy, we act, and once we successfully guide the strike, we begin to save humanity. Everybody's moving! ”
The voice of Locke, the commander of Zion, resounded in the air, and the entire 250,000 people of Zion, men, women, and children, all took action.
Although Soap had told them that the Space-Time Authority had completed its training and that there would be someone in charge of training the personnel in the cabin.
But Locke and Zion did not hesitate to reject Soap's plan.
"This is Zion's mission!"
Although it is a surviving city under the control of the Mother, Zion's mission is to free humanity from the bondage of the Mother.
The rest of the floating ships slowly moved along the pipeline, and behind them were the humans supporting each other.
Task Force 141, which was supposed to be the rescuer, became support personnel, and they only guarded the crowd to avoid possible trouble.
The Nebuchadneza did not have the slightest cover, and sped directly on the surface.
The blue magnetic levitation electric light cut through the darkness and stabbed towards the mother.
After the floatship flew by, the dormant sentinels on the ground were gradually activated.
The patches of red light come from the compound eyes of the mechanical sentry, a squid-like flying unit.
Sentinels are the most feared enemies of the human resistance in reality, but they are actually a group of workers who maintain the bio-battery incubator.
The Sentinels had no offensive weapons on their bodies, and the only thing that terrified humans was their mechanical tentacles and the welding torches they used to maintain them.
Even the Sentinel's round-up of humans is only a part-time patrol, and in the eyes of the parent body, humans are just expendable simulacrums.
Patches of red light converged into a torrent of water that stuck tightly behind the Nebuchadnezzar, and the sentinel at the front had even stretched out their welding guns to the stern of the Nebuchadnezzar, ready to cut through the outer armor of the floating ship.
Two plasma rounds exploded behind the Nebuchadnezza, temporarily interrupting the Sentinel's pursuit.
The torrent was cut off, and the mechanical sentinels sent more units in the direction where the plasma was flying, but to no avail.
The mechanical sentinels re-caught up with the Nebuchadneza, and two more plasma rounds prevented them from boarding.
Now even a mechanical mind can understand that there are invisible enemies stopping them.
As a result, the Mechanical Cake changed its behavior tree and activated more units.
They appeared in front of the Nebuchadnezza, squid tentacles clinging to each other, like winter nets, laying a metal net low above the surface.
Morpheus and Neo on the Nebuchadneza saw the enemy intercepting in front of them, and when they were about to activate the weapons on the floating ship to open a passage, Nikolai in the communication network shouted: "Don't stop, charge with all your might!" ”
Neo, who had already put his hand on the weapon control button, looked at Morpheus, who nodded slightly, not agreeing with Neo to activate the weapon, but preparing to choose to believe in Nikolai.
Abandoning his weapon, Neo and Morpheus worked together to maximize the power output of the Nebuchadneza Float.
The floating ship's maglev system has a tendency to collapse under violent piloting, but this also allows it to reach its speed limit.
The blue light of the floating ship directs the mechanical torrent behind it, and it is loaded with a net of hope in front of it......
Moments before the impact on the Nebuchadneza, the orbital assault craft appeared before them.
The perfectly invisible orbital assault boat lost its protection after crashing through the squid net, and the Nebuchadneza followed closely behind, the shattered body of the mechanical sentinel slamming into its hull.
"Don't stop, rush to the mother!"
Nikolai's voice stopped behind them, and the orbital assault boat that had been spotted needed to be cut off for the Nebuchadnezsa.
The orbital assault boat is only the transport equipment, and the mobile suit inside is the fire output unit.
But that doesn't mean the Orbital Assault Boat is defenseless, the two twin turrets in the cockpit can fire plasma clusters, and the hot melt turret in front of it will not only open the way, but also burn all enemies.
The plasma cannon, which was supposed to be fired one at a time to cool down, was now completely unprotected, and the high-temperature blue glow became an explosion barrier in the void.
Any mechanical sentry that dared to overtake the orbital assault boat was mercilessly suppressed by Nikolai.
Until the plasma turret overheats, the hot air is transferred to the upper part of the cockpit.
Nikolai looked up and saw the completely burned turret, no longer able to hold the plasma, allowing the plasma to fall low on the cockpit canopy.
In the cockpit, which already felt hot, there was a sneer on Nikolai's face.
Hot Ray On!
The Molten Ray is a weapon that melts down the enemy ship's armor so that the orbital assault boat can ram the enemy ship and complete the gang jump.
Turning the direction of the airship, the scorching red beam of light in the bow of the ship drew a line of death that could never be crossed in the mechanical wave.
Successfully intercepted most of the mechanical sentinels, but only for a split second.
The hot melt ray could not be launched for a long time due to power problems, which meant that the orbital assault boat had lost all means of defense.
However, Nikolai did not choose to evacuate, he still had the last weapon, the strongest hull of the orbital assault boat!
The assault boat, which was born only to ram enemy ships, began to maneuver and roll with mechanical sentries in the roar of its engines.
As the Nebuchadneza grew farther and farther away, the mechanical sentinels were allowed to use real weapons.
It was a towed bomb in the shape of an insect, which was thrown by a mechanical sentry onto an orbital assault boat by inertia, and the arthropods of the insect bomb were firmly attached to the assault boat before exploding.
The flash of the explosion illuminated the back of the Nebuchadneza, but Morpheus and Neo didn't have time to turn back, or even feel sad in their hearts, before they crashed headlong into the mother's body.
The shattered cockpit stood straight in the matrix, and the mechanical sentinels that followed dismantled the cockpit and exposed the two people inside.
However, Neo and Morpheus did not panic in the slightest, but laughed heartily.
Neo stretched out his right hand to the mechanical sentinel's red compound eye in front of him, and then his flipped right hand turned into an erect middle finger.
“F**K YOU!”
Sending a cordial greeting to his mother, Neo collapsed in the driver's seat as if he had lost all his strength.
A light appeared in Neo's eyes, as if he had seen the future, and the black sky was illuminated.
An artificial sun appeared above their heads, illuminating the Mother Body and countless mechanical sentinels below, as well as the hearts of Morpheus and Neo.
Although the flash of light produced by the nuclear explosion was fleeting, although it caused severe burns to Neo and Morpheus......
But that's the light!
It is on this planet that has lost its light for six centuries!
It is the light of hope to see the future!
As the flash of the nuclear explosion faded, the light in the eyes of Neo and Morpheus grew brighter and brighter!
Then they saw a puff of green smoke explode above the Matrix......
The green smoke floated slowly in the air, gathering together and then dispersing in an instant, as if judging the surroundings.
Then the smoke stretched out its tentacles in the direction of gravity, and when it touched the metal shell of the mother, it couldn't wait to start devouring everything around it.
All the metal was swallowed into it to grow itself, and the smoke that grew stronger and stronger suddenly dispersed outwards as a tidal wave after completing its brief accumulation.
A nanobomb from the world of Special Forces and Transformers, the absolute weapon of the Cybertron Life Celestial Venerable Quintasha has completed its mission in the Matrix......
When the mother body was devoured by nanoworms, the array of culture chambers around Zion also ushered in a total power outage.
People in the virtual world are forced to log out of their accounts and reawaken in reality.
"Quick! Take action! ”
Those who were already ready began to run, metal railings or crowbars in their hands, slamming them under the pod, allowing the liquid to flow out.
The matrix has been defeated, and the machine's counteroffensive is about to begin.
But there was no need for humans to hide it, sonic booms were generated above human heads, landing pods pierced the darkness overhead, and countless portals opened here.
Marven and the NS5 robot brought blankets and clothes, and they gently picked up the people in the culture cabin and dried the culture liquid on their bodies.
Locke looked at the robot's help, and subconsciously wanted to pinch the trigger of the APU mecha, but he reacted that it was not an enemy, and he forced himself to let go of his hand violently.
I saw that Locke's APU mecha became the appearance of pointing at the sky with one finger in the sky, and behind it was a landing capsule that cut through the darkness......
Humans and less familiar robots save their compatriots, and the devastating blows of machines follow......
There was a tremor in the earth, and the weapons of war buried deep in the ground poured like a tidal wave towards humanity.
In 2139, the machine won an absolute victory, losing the unique creativity of humans, which made it difficult for the machine to make a breakthrough.
At least the fact that the machines have not been able to fly out of the atmosphere until now shows that the strength of the machines is not the match of the Temporal Authority.
The Mobile Suits began to jump, planting sparkling fireworks behind them.
Locke wanted to chase after the Mobile Suit, but the weak athleticism of the APU mech made him watch the Mobile Suit jump farther and farther.
"Stop chasing, you won't be able to protect you any further!"
The sound of soap appeared behind Locke, who realized that he had left flashing devices under the mobile suits who had just walked away.
Carefully raising the APU mecha's hand, Locke leaned forward, only to find that the APU mecha seemed to have touched a tough and soft barrier.
"What is this?"
"Identification of Friend or Foe Area Defense Equipment ......"
Just as Locke was about to ask why he wanted to establish a friend or foe identification zone, he saw a green wave coming from the ground in the distance.
The wave engulfed all the pavement, and the machine that was originally started is now like a fleeing rat, and once it falls behind, it will be swallowed up by the green wave behind it.
When the green wave came to Locke, there were no more machines to escape.
The wave lightly brushed the top of Locke's head and threw itself into the distance, and behind the wave, only a shattered earth remained.
"Nanoworms are the best weapon against mechanical creations, and they can grow exponentially as long as there is enough metal. It is estimated that it will take 4 days to engulf a normal world, and this planet should be faster. ”
Listening to Soap's introduction, Locke stared blankly into the distance, although under the closed sky, he could only see a little in front of him.
But in fact, Locke saw blue skies and white clouds, flowers and green grass, majestic mountains, and rushing rivers that can only be found in books or virtual worlds......
And the noisy voice behind him has become a child's frolic......
This is the new hope......
Today, I am in charge of hospital escorts, and I can only write so much, I hope you will forgive me.
(End of chapter)