The Collection of The End

——AD.2156.5.20——

Normandy.

"【choke--!】"

When Anderson was awakened from the frame by some noise, he found that the crew members who were watching before he entered the virtual world were gone. Only Trinity remained, and it seemed that she was helping to wake him up.

"Well done, Neo," Trinity smiled at him: "Being able to pass three training events at once at least proves that you are suitable to be one of us."

"...passed?" Anderson asked.

"The world record for long jump is nine meters, and your final score on the rooftop is 23 meters - this number does not include the extended distance of the fall." Trinity opened the glass cover of the frame and planned to Anderson helped him out.

"Okay," Anderson asked her to help him out of politeness, but he didn't lend much support: "I heard Morpheus say before that you seem to be in trouble?"

"[Choke——]" The noise sounded again, seemingly louder than before.

"We were discovered by Grox's battleship, but it's not a big problem. Those big bugs can't catch up with us." Trinity replied nonchalantly.

"Big bugs?" Anderson looked up. "Their calls are quite unique."

"Sound cannot be transmitted in space," Trinity looked at Anderson a little helplessly: "This is the sound compensation system of the Normandy. The louder the sound, the closer they are to the ship."

"Sound compensation, of course," Anderson said, deciding not to comment on his non-expertise: "So we're running away?"

"Follow me, we can see more intuitively in the star chart room." Trinity turned and walked towards the automatic door.

laugh--

At the same time as the metal hatch opened, the bald mustache Anderson had seen before walked in. His name seemed to be "Password"?

"Trinity, the 'Pioneer' chasing us this time has used new jamming technology. I want to use the frame. Look..." he said.

"You can just use it, you don't have to report it to me." Trinity waved her hand nonchalantly and led Anderson out of the room.

Well……?

Anderson paid a little attention to the "code" before leaving.

Maybe I am ignorant, but what is the relationship between interference technology and connection programs?

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Command deck.

"[Choke——]" The noisy noises were louder and quieter, and the crew on the deck were running back and forth, busy. Only Morpheus, who was wearing the captain's uniform, was holding the star map with both hands motionless.

Trinity brought Anderson to his side, walked to an operating position on the "Star Chart Table", sat down, and began to receive messages that were rolling like water.

"It seems that our operation to rescue Neo has been caught a little bit," she said after looking at it for a moment: "These chasing guys did not conduct patrols or scans during the whole process." Xixi

"It doesn't matter, they can't catch up with us." Morpheus responded with familiar words.

Anderson didn't make any comments, he just leaned over to the star chart table and looked at the virtual starry sky.

The zoom of the star map at this time is at the galaxy level. From above, you can see that the silver shuttle representing the Normandy is running in a circle with ease, being chased by four "giant black lobsters".

If the posture and movements it shows are okay, it can only prove that the shock absorption and gravity system of the spacecraft under its feet are very good.

"【choke--】"

The strange sound that was already somewhat familiar sounded again. Anderson noticed that a new black lobster sailed in from outside the circle that symbolized the edge of the galaxy. So far, there were five big bugs involved in chasing the Normandy, or maybe only one. .

Perhaps finally feeling the pressure, the Normandy did not continue to take the lobsters in circles, but flew straight to a location in the galaxy that looked like an "arch".

"What's that?" Anderson asked. "I know the scale of these illustrations doesn't match reality, but that door?"

"It is a 'star gate' connecting different galaxies," Morpheus responded: "Although its destination is fixed by design, we are hackers. Not only can we choose the destination at will, but those big bugs can also completely Untraceable.”

Sa——!

After approaching the star gate, the fusiform icon suddenly elongated, and then flew out of the galaxy like a detached arrow, and then the entire star map suddenly shrank to the level of a "galaxy point of light."

Only then did Anderson feel a little shaking and pulling.

"Is this...the Milky Way?" Anderson had seen this proportion once before, but he still couldn't help but be amazed when he saw it again.

It is a very standard oblate star cluster composed of countless light points with different intervals and different colors. In addition, perhaps it is an artistic expression, this star cluster is still slowly rotating - if it is normal In the universe, it would take at least tens of thousands of years to see this kind of rotation.

"According to the current data, there is a huge void fault on the periphery of this star cluster. There may be galaxies outside, but the Normandy's engine cannot cross it, which means it cannot escape." Morpheus spread his hands: "Because we have to We are facing an entire galaxy of robots, so there is no way to win from a real level, and we can only hope to destroy them on a virtual level."

"Uh..." Anderson was speechless for a moment, and suddenly thought of something: "But we can't just rely on this ship to fight against the entire galaxy, right? Don't we have a base camp or something? I remember you said that there were ancestors who came from the matrix be rescued?"

"Of course there is," Morpheus raised his hand and pressed on the star map, and the familiar shuttle icon appeared again, but this time, several zigzag lines extended outward from it on the star map, and these The lines eventually reunite at the other end of the galaxy, connecting to a deliberately exaggerated icon of the galaxy.

"That is Zion (), our home and refuge." Morpheus exclaimed in an aria-like tone.

"Is it a planet?" Anderson expressed confusion: "If you have a fixed base, aren't you afraid of being found by the matrix?"

"Perhaps the number of these stars has confused you, Neo," it was Trinity who explained this time: "Although they are indeed occupied by Grox, in fact, most of them have only built a blind and deaf It’s just an observation outpost.”

"The jump paths of these star gates are 'safe routes' that we have obtained through multiple tests. There are almost no Grox fortresses that have reinforced reconnaissance and anchoring along the way. This is enough to ensure that the Normandy can return to Zion without being tracked. But it doesn’t matter even if the tracking is not lost. The stargate key to the Zion galaxy changes at any time and is irregular. Only the captain of each ship knows it. Direct navigation without passing through the stargate has almost no possibility of reaching it smoothly. .”

"Oh? So the Grox are not in every corner of the galaxy? This is really good news." Anderson keenly sniffed out some insider information from these popular sciences.

"But that means that certain key areas will be heavily guarded. Whether there is an encounter or a forced attack, the losses will be huge." Trinity quickly operated a few times to connect the shuttle icon to the route of the Zion galaxy. There is only a single line left in the picture.

Morpheus cooperated very well and took a picture of the star map, on which the shuttle symbolizing the Normandy began to sail slowly but resolutely towards its destination Zion along the planned route.

"Welcome to the Queen's tea party, Mr. Alice," he said to Anderson. _