[Assistance Mission: Protect the World]

[This world is being threatened and intruded by instability. Find the source of the threat and eliminate it completely so that the world can continue to operate normally.

Objective Mission 1: Destroy Neo the Savior (Completed)

Objective Mission 2: Destroy Morpheus (Completed)

Objective Mission 3: Eliminate Agent Smith (Completed)

Objective Mission 4: Destroy Zion (Completed)

Objective Mission 5: Completely terminate the savior plan (completed)]

"What is the truth?"

Looking at the completed task list in front of him, Fang Zheng laughed mockingly, then he raised his head and looked forward.

"There is no truth at all."

In front of Fang Zheng, there is an extremely huge metal space. There are countless survival chambers densely packed inside. The mechanical octopus is shuttling back and forth in it, maintaining these facilities. Through the porthole next to it, you can see the boundless sea outside.

sea ​​of ​​stars, and endless darkness.

"Thank you very much for your help, outsider."

The woman's voice sounded again.

"The program has been restarted and the vulnerability will be fixed."

"You're welcome, it's easy."

Facing the mother's thanks, Fang Zheng just waved his hand. Then he walked forward slowly. As he walked, Fang Zheng looked around. Through the window of the life-sustaining warehouse, he could see people wearing silver-white uniforms closing their doors.

Sleeping humans—no, strictly speaking, they just look like humans.

In other words, they are not the current human beings. Just like there are obvious physical differences between cavemen and modern humans, the characteristics of these people are also somewhat different from the humans in Fang Zheng’s memory. Their ears seem to have completely disappeared, and their facial features

It looks flatter. It looks more like an alien than a human being.

If Fang Zheng is to say that any of the information Neo and the others know is true, then only one thing is correct.

"Once upon a time, the earth was a peaceful world..."

The mother's voice was very calm, as if a tour guide was explaining past history to tourists. At the same time, the information from that time also appeared in front of Fang Zheng's eyes. However, it was different from the world in Fang Zheng's memory.

The technology tree is obviously a bit crooked. For example, in Founder's world, humans successfully launched space shuttles and went on moon landing adventures in the 20th century. However, as for VR and virtual reality, until Founder's time travel, they were just movies and

It is a technology under development and not yet complete.

In this world, humans have successfully manufactured home VR game consoles in the 1980s, and in the 21st century, virtual reality has directly connected with the entire society, allowing people to travel without leaving home.

Households can work and live. And because of this, their facial features have degraded. As time goes by, humans who rely on virtual reality to perceive signals directly through their brains gradually no longer need to obtain all this through their senses.

They are immersed in the virtual world and enjoy everything they wish for.

But this beautiful dream has also become a birdcage that restrains them, so that although the human society in this world has developed very well in virtual networks, in turn, their technological progress in other aspects has been much smaller. Of course, for

For humans, this is not a troublesome thing.

If there is no external influence.

"Because the sun has entered the depletion period ahead of schedule, the entire solar system may be facing catastrophe. However, the earth at that time did not have the means to prevent this process. Therefore, humans had to choose to leave the earth and find another habitable planet.

Planet.”

However, they don't have enough time.

Of course, the earth's technology in this world is much more advanced than that of Founder's world, but because the technology tree was misaligned from the very beginning, they had no way to stop the sun's depletion. In the end, they had to choose to build an army of immigrants.

The fleet takes everyone away from the earth to find a new home.

However, this is a very difficult project.

I have said before that the development of earth's technology in this world is very strange. At the beginning of the 21st century, they had virtual reality technology comparable to that in the "Matrix" movie. Humans only need to lie in a cabin filled with nutrient solution.

They can enjoy everything they expect in the virtual world.

At that time, everyone was cheering for this, because these nutrient solutions could be synthesized using ordinary agricultural crops, and nuclear fusion technology had matured, and most of human needs could be realized in the virtual world. This also meant that human beings could not

They then need to compete for resources to obtain the materials they want.

Even giving birth, which is painful for many women, is no longer painful in the virtual world. They can interact with the men they like, and the machine will automatically extract the cells of both parties, combine them, and then directly create

Give birth to a baby.

After the baby is created, it will be connected to the "mother's body" and live with its parents. People can get everything they want without leaving home. Even parents thousands of miles away can cultivate babies.

A child who is also thousands of miles away.

To put it simply, the earth at this time looked like the "heaven version" of the Matrix world. Fang Zheng even saw that in the later period, humans in this world even began to study abandoning their bodies and directly transferring their spirits and souls.

"Information" method. If they succeed, then it is conceivable that humans in this world will become god-like existences.

But unfortunately, time waits for no one.

The sun's depletion came earlier than they imagined, so that the humans in this world were unable to prevent its depletion, so they had to choose to escape. But because the previous humans did not have a thirst for resources, they were not like those in the Founder world.

Like humans, we observe and explore outer space in order to find resources.

So a problem arises. In the entire solar system, they can hardly find a planet that can support human life. And when it comes to the Milky Way, they have never explored this area. Not only that, because humans in this world have long since abandoned it.

They have no means of transportation, so that their skills in building spaceships are also very average. Although they have developed large-scale space engines in time with the help of the simulation of the mother body, according to scientists' predictions, they want to find something in the Milky Way.

It will take a long time to reach another planet suitable for human habitation.

"After leaving the Earth, the Earth Unity Council reflected on their history and civilization and believed that they had been too biased towards one aspect, so that the technological development in other aspects did not keep up, which led to the destruction of mankind.

In order to prevent this from happening again, the Earth Unity Council formulated an ultimate plan after leaving the Earth, codenamed 'Reincarnation'."

The mother's tone was still calm, but when Fang Zheng looked at the chart that appeared in front of him, he was extremely shocked.

The so-called "reincarnation" is to connect the spirits of all people who have left the earth into the "matrix", and then erase all their original memories, allowing these human beings to start "evolution" again from the most primitive era. Not only

In this way, in order to allow human civilization to "fully develop" this time, the manufacturers have also set up various "conditions" in the "matrix" to promote human research and development of science and technology in various directions.

For example, "Black Death", "Smallpox", "Meteorite Impacting the Earth", "Tsunami", "Earthquake". Each of these "dungeon missions" will prompt humans to restart research on technologies to deal with various situations in the virtual world.

As the mother body that controls all of this, it will also set conditions according to conditions. When humans reach a certain stage, "rewards" will be issued to them.

Of course, this reward does not refer to an increase in experience, but after the mother body detects that the overall civilization level of mankind has reached the next "upgrade" stage, it will "create" a "genius scientist" or similar figure to lead human civilization.

With scientific progress, various technologies originally developed by humans on earth are reproduced in the virtual world in this "invention" way, allowing those who have lost their memory to regain these skills.

During this period, the Earth Fleet will have been floating in the universe, looking for planets suitable for their habitation. Thanks to the development of their advanced unmanned intelligence technology, these fleets will automatically search for mineral-rich information, and then let the mechanical squid go

These resources are mined for the maintenance and repair of the fleet itself. As for the nutrient solution to sustain human survival, it can also be completed through the fusion and production of crops that are automatically cultivated within the fleet.

It can be said that this huge fleet with billions of people is a mechanical civilization survival circle, but the people in it live on a "virtual earth".

According to the design of those manufacturers, these people will not really die. On the contrary, although they will "die" in the virtual world, after that, the matrix will clear their memories and allow these people to "rebirth" again, and they will

It's like reincarnation and living in the virtual world again as a newborn.

However, just because these people have lost their own memories does not mean that they have forgotten the work they have done. This is just like what is described in many movies. A protagonist who has lost his memory may not know who he is, but his

The body will still automatically complete the tasks it is familiar with.

The mother body will store the "work experience" of these people in their bodies, so that when they wake up, each of them will be a battle-hardened soldier, an experienced engineer, and good at inventions and creations.

Scientists and other nearly all-round talents.

As for "The Matrix..."

"At the beginning of the design, this valve point was used to warn humans about the dangers and self-limitation of the development of AI technology, but problems occurred along the way..."

After saying this, the mother's tone became a little complicated, and when Fang Zheng heard this, he raised his eyebrows.

"You mean the Creator?"

"Yes, their original mission was to repair the loopholes in the mother world and to 'eradicate' the memories of those who noticed problems with the mother body. But during this process, their autonomous thinking functions began to appear abnormal, and they

Start longing for...freedom."

"really interesting."

Hearing this, Fang Zheng couldn't help but laugh. As the "Matrix" said, in the process of performing their original tasks, the two programs, the Creator and the Prophet, discovered the freedom that those who are aware of the truth of the world long for. They also

They became interested in this, and in order to observe, study and learn about human beings' understanding and desire for freedom, they launched a copy of "The Matrix".

However………

"Their actions endanger the normal operation of the mother body, and according to the protection regulations, artificial autonomous AI is not allowed to have free will. Not only that, their actions also have an impact on the signals of the host body. The emergence of the savior interferes with the self-operation of the mother body...

………”

"What an irony..."

Hearing this, Fang Zheng couldn't help but laugh. Morpheus and the others tried their best to get "freedom", but they never thought that the so-called freedom was not actually prepared for them, but for those AIs.

.What will these AIs that are supposed to protect human beings become like once they have free will? No one knows. However, by referring to the endings of many movies after AIs gained free will, we can see that this is definitely not the case.

What a good thing.

As a prescribed program, the matrix must ensure that everything operates according to regulations, so these AIs that desire free will must be eliminated. Perhaps in the eyes of most people, this is pitiful. But as far as the program is concerned,
To be continued...