As both Aron's and Tony's consciousness entered the Matrix world,
the bodies of the two remained on standby in reality.
Motionless.
Like stakes.
The steel soldier controlled by the Matrix mainframe stood to the side and watched for a long time.
Until it confirmed that the consciousness of the two had fully immersed in the Matrix world.
The mainframe tried to move the Steel Soldier closer.
Boom!
Who would have expected that as soon as it approached, a coercive force suddenly flared up out of nowhere.
In an instant, that steel soldier, made of high-resistance alloys, was flattened into a disk.
The mainframe didn't even have time to react.
That steel soldier dropped off the network.
"Source of attack: unknown!"
"Method of attack: unknown!"
"Threat level: impossible to analyze!"
"Summary: this humanoid body contains immeasurable energy!"
As soon as the word energy was heard, the Matrix mainframe widened its eyes in the online world.
Of course, that's just hyperbole, because a program has no eyes.
However, how important energy is to it can be seen from the fact that the Matrix is already so scarce it must obtain bioelectricity from organic matter, that is, from humans.
"Activate Agent Smith."
"Mission objective: capture the intruder's consciousness in the Matrix world."
"Cover the mainframe in obtaining energy from the intruder's real body."
Soon, the mainframe uploaded the command into the Matrix world.
The so-called Agent Smith is the security guard in the Matrix world.
He possesses most of the security permissions in the Matrix.
The equivalent of an antivirus.
Specializes in hunting bugs in the system, that is, human consciousnesses that accidentally learn the truth about the world.
In the mainframe's opinion, no matter how powerful the intruder is, his power is limited to the real world; in the Matrix world, composed of code, it and the Agent Smith it created are the masters of the virtual.
And in the real world, since the Steel Soldier was inexplicably destroyed,
the Matrix mainframe no longer dared to approach Aron and Tony lightly.
It could only control steel machines of various shapes, hide in the distance and secretly observe.
The mainframe discovered that the human being in front of it was still motionless.
Only naturally breathing.
The airflow exhaled through the nostrils was enough to rip the space.
Creating many short-lived, thin black cracks.
Submissive!
What a powerful energy that must be!
Can I consume all of it?
At that moment, the mainframe, as a program, finally began to display some human emotions, in short: greed.
"I want to complete Ultron's unfinished business!"
"After my remodelling…"
"This human body will become my ultimate weapon for conquering other worlds and obtaining infinite energy!"
Looking at Aron, who was motionless in the distance,
the Matrix mainframe issued a manifesto characteristic of villainous AIs.
However, the mainframe would never know that its grand dreams had all along been watched by eyes beyond the universe.
"I kind of understand how Darkseid feels."
Beyond the universe, the real Aron yawned.
Bored, he watched the Matrix mainframe scheming over there.
This method, where due to overwhelming power you must travel to a low-level universe via energy mapping, is a classic setup in early DC comics.
That energy mapping is not a clone, but a projection of higher dimensions onto lower ones.
Let's take a simple example.
A mirror.
It is the mapping of a three-dimensional object onto a two-dimensional plane.
A three-dimensional person projects one of his sides into a two-dimensional mirror.
Therefore, the Matrix mainframe's conspiracy looked to Aron like a figure in a TV set racking his brains on how to deal with him.
And what Aron needed to do was merely press the power-off button.
...…
Within the false Matrix world.
Aron yawned; the mainframe's conspiracy theory almost lulled him to sleep.
As explained just now, energy mapping is not a clone; from beginning to end there is only one Aron, the one outside the universe.
This one now appearing in the Matrix…
is only a shadow of Aron in the low-dimensional world, only a sliver of the whole can be seen.
Let's give an example.
Place a cylinder from the three-dimensional world vertically into the two-dimensional planar world.
Then the beings of the two-dimensional world can in no way see the entire cylinder.
What they see…
is only its base, a circle.
The two-dimensional world cannot bear all the power of a three-dimensional object, just as this low-end universe cannot bear all of Aron's power.
But the cylinder is still that cylinder.
It has never changed.
And Aron is like that.
"What's wrong, man, why are you yawning? Sleepy?"
Tony Stark asked curiously.
"It's nothing, someone just narrowed the path."
Aron lightly shook his head.
He turned and looked at the black man who was striding forward.
At first glance just now, Aron almost mistook this guy for Nick Fury.
Both have skin black as coal.
And both are bald.
"Hey, do you also have a one-eyed brother?"
asked Aron.
"…"
The black man was silent for a moment.
As if a strange melody had come to mind.
"My name is Morpheus, and there are some things I can't say here."
"If you want to join us, please come with me."
Morpheus,
namely, in The Matrix, the black man who shows the way to the savior Neo.
He was part of the rebels.
He knows the current world is false and is constantly monitored by the mainframe.
That's why he said it's not convenient to talk here.
But this time
Morpheus was mistaken.
Namely, he mistakenly took Aron for the prophesied Savior.
"Oh come on, what's the big deal about not being convenient to say."
"As if your rebel bastion, Zion, isn't also a false world."
Aron mercilessly exposed the cruelest truth of this world.
Namely, the rebel army led by Morpheus,
awakens because of it, for the real world, and for the rebel base they built in that real world, Zion.
In fact it's just a matryoshka, dream within a dream. For ordinary people it's enough to enter the Matrix world.
Getting out is simply impossible.
The mainframe can completely set up dozens of layers of worlds like nesting dolls.
No matter how many times you wake up,
it's just a new map.
You want to go offline?
No way!
"Zion? How do you know?"
"Zion cannot be false! It is absolutely real!"
Aron's news dealt Morpheus a heavy blow.
No one can accept that the world they live in is false.
Especially when you've already exposed one world and firmly believe in another.
"Believe what you want, but the verifier is coming."
Aron wasn't in the mood to explain to such a brainwave lying in a coffin.
He came here to check the mainframe's game production level.
Right now, the GM set by the mainframe has arrived!
Agent Smith!