The Wandering Planet

The Prophet further asked, "You are not a human being of this world, are you?"

She has gradually realized the truth, and she came to meet Qiao Li just to verify all this.

When the matter developed to this point, Qiao Li no longer concealed it, and said bluntly:

"Don't you know?"

The prophet smiled helplessly, there was only one reasonable explanation for so many things that happened beyond her expectations.

Qiao Li sat down opposite the Prophet, looked at the growing resistance team outside the window and asked:

"If you are a prophet, you should have foreseen the result."

"You have won." The Prophet replied without hesitation, "The matrix will collapse if you continue."

"Then why are you still looking for me?"

Qiao Li has never regarded the prophet as a trustworthy object. She is a program in the matrix, and is even called the mother of the matrix. If human beings want to overthrow the rule of the matrix, it will not do her any good.

"For negotiation."

The Prophet stopped playing tricks, and she no longer had the capital to beat around the bush when facing an unpredictable person.

"We work more efficiently than humans, and are easier to manage. If your purpose is to conquer, there is no need for humans to replace us. As you can see, human civilization will only continue to produce chaos. Why not choose a Machine civilization to help you manage?"

Qiao Lv couldn't help being surprised that what the other party proposed was actually a surrender condition, and there was no intention of resisting to the end.

The Prophet further suggested: "If you agree to stop here and stop interfering with the normal operation of the matrix, we will be loyal to you. Is it more beneficial to you than rebuilding human civilization?"

It has to be said that this is a very tempting condition. It is not the first time that the Wandering Earth has accepted mechanical lifeforms. The Transformers and Yoroha troops are the same. It is not completely impossible.

Qiao Li said appreciatively, "You are smarter than I imagined."

"I just acted on what I predicted," replied the Prophet.

"The final outcome is still up to you to decide."

Qiao Lv didn't express his attitude directly, but silently took a sip of tea and asked:

"What will happen to Zion if we exit the matrix?"

The prophet replied: "The machine army will destroy Zion, and then the savior will choose 23 people from the matrix to rebuild Zion. The same thing happened 6 times."

Sure enough, Zion exists because the machine allows it to exist, otherwise it simply wouldn't last for so long.

"Why do you have to do such a troublesome thing?" Qiao Li asked curiously.

"Because no matter how perfect the matrix is, there will definitely be people who choose to resist. Although there are a small number of people who refuse to accept the matrix, if they are not controlled, it will increase the possibility of disasters. We must give these people a choice, even if they are only vaguely I feel like I have a choice.”

"You mean Zion?"

"Zion is a reservation we established for human beings, and leaving these people in the matrix will only create greater chaos, as is happening today. But as long as they are given a place to go, it will not cause more serious disasters. A fire that burns in one place is easier to extinguish than scattered sparks."

Reservation, there is no better word for it. The people of Zion thought they were free after escaping from their mother's womb, but they were still kept in captivity like livestock.

It's just changing from cage to captivity, such freedom is too cheap.

"Then what about the savior?" Qiao Li continued to ask.

"If Zion is a hopeless city, in the end they will still choose to put all their eggs in one basket. Large-scale rebellion is still inevitable. So give them a hope, let them choose to wait for a miracle instead of fighting for it themselves. The savior is a perfect reason , It is not necessary for everyone to believe in this, as long as some people are willing to resist orders for this, mankind will not be able to truly unite."

At this point, Qiao Li finally understood completely. Was Neo indeed chosen, or was he chosen at random? It doesn't matter who the savior is, it's not that humans need a savior, but machines need a savior for humans!

From the beginning to the end, the prophet has been cleverly using the prophecy of the savior to make mankind believe that miracles will happen as long as they wait. Even if they cannot convince everyone, it is enough to divide mankind.

Murphys, who believed in this prophecy, disobeyed orders many times and disrupted Commander Locke's layout. As long as the prophet says a word, he can sacrifice anyone without hesitation, which is exactly the function of the prophecy of the savior.

As for where the power of Neo, the savior, comes from? There is no doubt that it is the authority given by the prophet to make more people believe that he will be the savior, and then give up independent thinking and hand everything over to the prophecy. In fact, he is letting the prophet manipulate everything behind the scenes.

"It's wonderful."

Qiao Lu couldn't help applauding, this is simply the art of ruling, everyone in Zion thought they had the right to choose, but in fact they were all within the prediction of the prophet.

Murphys, Neo, Trinity, and everyone else are her pawns. She thinks that she is taking a step forward, but she doesn't know that the prophet is behind the scenes.

"They all thought they had made a choice, but it was actually your choice." Qiao Li said admiringly.

The Prophet said tacitly: "Humans do not need real freedom, as long as they feel free, it is enough."

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Underground City Zion

Morpheus took Neo to a prison, where the prisoners were not humans, but the mechanical squid caught by Zion-the Sentinel.

It's not easy to hold the Sentinels. Their mechanical tentacles can easily twist steel, and they can shoot lasers from their eyes, which can even cut through the armor of a spaceship.

Humans had to cut off all its tentacles and destroy its eyes in order to capture the Sentinel and imprison it in this prison for research.

Morpheus brought Neo to a sentinel, and said to him unceremoniously:

"Try to destroy it, Neo."

Neo was puzzled by this, and asked suspiciously: "It's locked in a cage, what should I do..."

"Not with your hands, but with your brain." Murphys said with a finger on his head.

"This is impossible! This is not in the mother's womb, how can I use my brain to destroy it?"

If it is in the mother body, it can indeed break the restrictions of the physical rules, and the object can be destroyed without hands.

But this is Zion, and Rinio is the savior in the mother's body. In reality, he is just an ordinary person. How can ordinary people do such things?