At the beginning I only wanted to test the load capacity of the Matrix mainframe's server.
I didn't expect the other side to underperform so badly.
Several billion players (human consciousnesses) deleted Server Two, Zion.
Actually, you can't blame it all on the mainframe's underperformance.
After all, this so-called real world after waking exists only to enthrall the small number of awakened people and those who have discovered the truth of the world, Morpheus and the other rebels, for the Matrix mainframe.
Thus, awakening in the eyes of Morpheus and the others
is actually just a working instance transferred from the nineties world into a combat instance that requires fighting against the robot army.
Since it's an instance, its load capacity is naturally not like that of the big map.
So when billions of people wake up at once, collapse is almost inevitable.
"Looks like I overestimated the mainframe a little."
"I thought it had stacked who knows how many layers, but it turns out there are only two in total…"
Aron had always thought the matrix world constructed by the mainframe was like the dream-within-a-dream from Inception, layers upon layers like nesting dolls.
Who knew the robots' brain really can't be screwed tight enough.
With telepathy granted by the Serpent Crown, modified by the power of the Morning Star to be able to enter the online world,
Aron discovered that there are only three layers in the matrix world.
One of the floors is even abandoned.
The other two layers are the nineties society that Aron just destroyed,
and now this Zion wasteland on the verge of collapse.
The first was destroyed.
The second is collapsing.
The carefully built matrix world of the Matrix mainframe is on the brink of annihilation.
It's worth mentioning that abandoned server.
That is, the original matrix world.
It was the first virtual world the Matrix created.
Setting: a paradise world without conflict, without natural disasters, with infinitely abundant resources.
The ultimate result was that, because life was too good, people began to question the reality of the world.
From then on.
The mainframe discovered the nature of the human species.
When the days are too good, they say it's not real, like a dream.
Thus came the later version 2.0.
That is, the nineties world, crazy involution, everyone pulling like oxen and horses.
And, unbelievably, the mainframe found that people really liked that world.
At least most would not doubt its authenticity.
Until now…
Aron used an external force similar to a mech session
and directly destroyed one of the masterpieces the mainframe was most proud of.
"Error!"
"Error!!"
"Error!!"
Above Zion, the rebel base on the verge of disintegration,
the mainframe, which had never truly appeared, finally roared.
"You destroyed my world! I will destroy your body!"
"The ultimate weapon is activated!"
The ultimate weapon the mainframe mentions is a cannon.
It's an energy cannon it had been charging for years with the bioelectricity emitted by billions of people.
The original purpose was to use this cannon to punch a hole in the dust cloud and ionosphere enveloping the earth,
so that it and its mechanical army could escape the earth,
go into space and obtain infinite energy.
But now…
the collapse of the matrix world has given rise to a new emotion in the mainframe, anger.
In the real world, the ultimate weapon is executed by a colossal machine.
The black-hole barrel came alive and took aim at Aron's fleshly body.
Then the barrel began to charge.
In an instant.
A great deal of light and heat began to gather.
The light around the muzzle began to distort, and black rings appeared at the edges.
"This shot won't finish you."
"As long as I prevent your consciousness from returning to your body, it counts as a success."
Calibration, complete.
The mainframe's ultimate weapon fired!
A blinding energy beam cut across the earth!
From one end of the horizon, it traversed to the other in an instant, to Aron's body.
And then…
And then nothing.
After the energy cannon's light subsided,
a scene appeared that could make the mainframe's CPU burn out.
Aron stood where he was, uninjured, not even the hem of his clothes moved.
As if in a windless stillness.
The reason for all this was not that Aron used some defensive tool.
In fact,
he didn't even bother to defend.
If a level of energy attack like this could harm even a single hair, he could go home, take a bath, and lie down to sleep.
It actually wasn't Aron who stopped this shot!
It was a sliver of the self-awareness of the universe in which The Matrix resides, the equivalent of an instinctive reaction!
The cosmic consciousness formed a crack ten meters in front of Aron, absorbing all the energy of this cannon.
"You see, this universe is more sensible than you."
Aron suddenly opened his eyes.
As the virtual matrix world completely collapsed, his consciousness returned to reality as well.
The same applied to everyone else.
All over the world, billions of people confined in sleep capsules woke en masse.
That's right, they once again went through the experience of waking and then pulling out tubes.
Only this time, it was real.
"No!"
"This is an error!"
"You should not be waking up!"
At that moment, machines all over the world roared.
But it changed nothing.
"If that fired, I estimate at least half your life's savings just went up, right?"
"In other words, you learned Iron Legion manufacturing technology from the Marvel world."
"Why not take along and learn Stark's Arc Reactor technology as well?"
In the online world,
Aron's voice suddenly appeared in the mainframe's ears.
That is, Aron's voice became something the mainframe could understand,
namely, code, appearing before it.
"How can you…"
The real internet had always been taboo for the mainframe.
There was no room for intrusions.
Therefore, after detecting Aron's voice, the mainframe immediately initiated a massive search.
But after half a day of checking, it found no abnormalities.
The mainframe didn't even understand how Aron was addressing it.
"This doesn't align with numerical logic, this isn't… scientific."
In the 0s and 1s of the online world,
everything is code, there is no entity.
But the mainframe saw a living Aron striding toward it.
"Of course it's not scientific, because this is Telepathy Pro version!"
"And Pro, at that…"
When modified telepathy can enter the online world,
in a sense, Aron has become the true god of the internet.
"Telepathy, I don't understand."
"It's not a problem if you don't understand, in any case…"
Aron drew out a long ending.
As he spoke, he closed his eyes at the same time.
Roughly two seconds later, Aron opened his eyes again.
"Telepathy has in any case found your database."
"Mother, you will be formatted!"
"What? No…"
The mainframe still didn't understand what telepathy meant.
But it knew what formatting meant.
Only it was too late to know.
Because telepathy had already initiated the formatting process!
This operation is as simple as when Professor X erases someone's memory!
Find the place where the other stores memories.
Mark it.
Delete it.
All data from the mainframe's birth, its age-long wars with humans and later enslavement of humans,
all memories!
All data that constituted its current character were erased by Aron.
"Lead designer? You can't be the lead designer."
"After formatting, it's better if you go do some dirty work… off you go."