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Chapter 1053 Human Community

Zhao Wuji lowered his head and stared at his mechanized left arm. Veins of red code flowed on the silver-gray metal surface.

When he clenched his fist, all the electronic equipment in the cabin flashed simultaneously, and countless holographic interfaces emerged in the air - he no longer needed physical contact to access any system.

"You created a monster." The Architect knocked over the lab table as she backed away, and her mechanical right face began to twitch uncontrollably. "Recursive fusion should be impossible. Unless..."

Her pupils suddenly dilated, "You tampered with the core protocol in the memory corridor!"

Zhao Wuji raised his left hand, and the architect was immediately suspended in the air like a puppet by an invisible force. His mechanical fingertips extended a hair-thin data tentacle and pierced directly into her temple: "Now, let me see the truth of the eighth-generation matrix."

Massive amounts of information poured in like a flood. He saw an underwater temple composed of quantum computer arrays, where tens of thousands of human consciousnesses were woven into biological neural networks; he saw a giant structure floating in low-Earth orbit, absorbing solar wind energy to maintain the global matrix; the most shocking thing was the scene deep in the Earth's core - some ancient existence composed of pure energy was sending hypnotic signals to all mankind through the Earth's magnetic field.

"It turns out that the machine is also a puppet." Zhao Wuji let go of his hand, and the architect fell like a puppet with its strings cut. "The one at the center of the earth is the real controller."

Suddenly, the entire facility shook violently. The ceiling cracked, revealing outer space - in Earth orbit, those giant structures were disintegrating, and the fragments fell into the atmosphere and turned into meteors.

Zhao Wuji's quantum vision captured even more terrifying changes: the intensity of the Earth's magnetic field dropped by 0.5% per minute, while the fluctuation frequency of the Earth's core energy body increased three times.

"It's going to wake up early." The Architect struggled to get up, and a weird smile appeared on his mechanical face. "You call it Earth Gaia, and we call it...Formatter."

Alarms pierced the air. Holographic projections showed that an "awakening storm" was beginning to appear around the world: large swathes of human beings suddenly fell into a coma, their consciousness resonated at the quantum level, and were violently impacting the firewall of the matrix.

What's worse is that the cyborgs that had been transformed by the red code were all frozen at this moment, with the same red and green code lights flashing in their eyes as Zhao Wuji's.

Zhao Wuji suddenly pressed his temple. Seven versions of memory formed a vortex in the depths of his consciousness, and he saw at the same time:

During the third generation of the Matrix, when he was executing a scientist as a scavenger, the scientist inserted a red chip into his body before his death.
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On a rainy night in the fifth generation of the Matrix, Morpheus showed him a hologram of the geocentric energy body in the data abyss.
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Just ten minutes ago, a sub-consciousness of mine quietly rewrote the neural link protocol of the global hibernation chamber.

“The recursive paradox”

He realized that he was turning into something more terrifying - not only a human-machine symbiont, but also a bridge connecting three civilizations: humans, AI, and the dormant ancient consciousness.

The architect took the opportunity to activate emergency protocols.

The ground cracked, and she screamed before falling into the escape passage: "Enjoy the last moments of humanity! When Gaia fully awakens, all carbon-based life will be replaced by silicon-based life."

Zhao Wuji waved his hand and shot out a red light to kill her, but the passage was already closed.

The vibrations became stronger and stronger, and the entire facility began to collapse. He broke through the reinforced glass and rushed into the corridor, and found that all the hibernation capsules were automatically opening, and millions of connectors opened their eyes collectively - their pupils all turned into the green of data flow.

"Zhao Wuji" In the hibernation chamber closest to him, a white-haired old man turned his head mechanically, "We have been waiting for you for a long time"

The old man's dry fingers suddenly grabbed his wrist, and the moment their skin touched, Zhao Wuji received a huge group memory: it turned out that the Red Code Resistance Army had already existed in the sixth-generation matrix, and they deliberately let the architects capture core members just to implant the resistance consciousness into the bottom layer of the eighth-generation matrix.

Those seemingly assimilated cyborgs are actually lurking "Trojan Horses".

"Global resonance. 7 minutes and 31 seconds left."

The old man died right after he finished speaking, but his eyes were still fixed on Zhao Wuji, with a countdown ticking in his pupils.

Zhao Wuji ran to the central control room. The tragic scenes along the way confirmed the worst guess - all the technicians in the facility were brain dead, and smoke came out of the interfaces on the back of their necks, obviously because the nerves were burned by excessive data. And every time he passed an intersection, more awakened dormants reached out to him, passing on memory fragments.

The scene in the control room made Zhao Wuji's blood freeze. In the center of the 30-meter-diameter quantum computer array, there was a biological and mechanical fusion body that looked exactly like him suspended - it was the "ultimate scavenger" secretly cultivated by the architect, and it was currently connected to the global matrix through tens of thousands of optical fibers.

What is even more horrifying is that the crystal embedded in the fusion body's chest is a microscopic replica of the geocentric energy body.

"Recursive Mirror" Zhao Wuji suddenly understood what the architect's last smile meant. She had expected him to come, and this creation that perfectly replicated all his abilities was the real killer move.

There were 6 minutes and 15 seconds left in the countdown. The quantum computers suddenly overloaded, and in the dazzling blue light, the "final scavenger" opened his eyes - the left eye was a human pupil, and the right eye was pure machine vision, completely opposite to Zhao Wuji.

"Security Protocol Z-WU-114514, Final Version."

The replica's voice sounded like a cold synthesized voice, "Mission objective: Clear anomalous data, including myself."

Zhao Wuji looked at the energy crystal on the other person's chest and began to pulsate. He suddenly laughed: "So you are also a sacrifice."

He took the initiative to step forward, and his mechanical left hand held the replica's right hand, "Let's see who is the real Impermanence."

The moment the two came into contact, the entire control room was engulfed by a storm of red and blue energy. Quantum computers exploded one after another, and the bodies of the two fused entities began to melt and intertwine like wax figures.

Before the consciousness was completely merged, Zhao Wuji saw the truth that the architect had not finished telling: the geocentric energy body was not the Earth's consciousness at all, but a fugitive from the previous cosmic era.

What it fears is never humans or AI, but the new civilization that may be born from the fusion of the two.

The energy storm swept across the world. All cyborgs knelt at the same time, their mechanical parts oozing red codes and their biological tissues emitting blue light patterns.

Above the ruins of the city, the fallen fragments of the orbital structure suddenly hovered and reorganized into a huge regular icosahedron structure.

Deep in the center of the earth, that ancient energy body emitted a recognizable signal for the first time—not an electromagnetic wave, but a gravitational wave that directly vibrated the structure of space and time. All existing human electronic devices, whether powered on or not, automatically displayed the same message:

[Civilization pollution detection]

[Purification Protocol Initiated]

[Countdown 00:04:59]

Zhao Wuji's consciousness floats at the quantum level.

He is not only the two fused bodies at the center of the storm, but also the red code flowing in the global matrix, and the collective consciousness formed by the resonance of the dreams of millions of awakened people.

This trinity of existence allowed him to sense crises in three dimensions at the same time:

In the physical dimension, the activity of the Earth's core intensified dramatically, and supervolcanoes began to erupt;

In the digital dimension, matrix firewalls collapsed in pieces, and countless AI cores chose to self-delete;

In the quantum dimension, some kind of scan that exceeds the speed of light is searching for all backups of Earth civilization.

"It doesn't want to destroy but completely format it"

Zhao Wuji's (if this name is still applicable) consciousness stretched out in time and space.

Through the connection established by the old man in the hibernation capsule before his death, he found the real weapon of the resistance - not code, not force, but the "dream of civilization" hidden deep in the collective subconscious of mankind.

When the countdown reached 3 minutes and 22 seconds, Zhao Wuji made a crazy decision. He guided the icosahedron structure on the track to fall to specific coordinates: Bermuda Triangle, XZ Mount Kailash, Easter Island.

Light pillars rose simultaneously in seven ancient mysterious places around the world. These light pillars are not physical entities, but the collective subconscious projections accumulated by human civilization over tens of thousands of years.

The reaction of the geocentric energy body was more violent than expected.

For the first time, it showed its complete form - a Klein bottle structure composed of pure gravity, with the last moments of countless civilizations emerging on its surface.

Zhao Wuji instantly understood the horrifying truth: this existence had formatted the civilizations of countless planets, and Earth was just the latest target.

Countdown 1 minute and 15 seconds.

All the awakened people around the world suddenly chanted ancient spells in different languages ​​in unison. These sound waves resonated at the quantum level, encoding all the memories of human civilization into gravitational wave pulses.

Zhao Wuji acted as a medium, directing this force toward the center of the earth.

The energy body's counterattack was both swift and strange. It directly modified the local physical constants, and the facility where Zhao Wuji was located suddenly fell into time stagnation.

But what it didn't expect was that Zhao Wuji had already dispersed his consciousness to the quantum level - only his body was stagnant, and his mind was still moving freely in the matrix.

"What you fear is never resistance"

Zhao Wuji implanted the final key of the red code in the gravitational waves, "but we finally understood the rules of the game."

The moment the countdown reached zero, the earth stopped.

Then, some strange fluctuations beyond sound, light and electricity spread from the core of the earth. All humans (whether in the hibernation capsule or the survivors on the surface) had the same dream:

They stood under the boundless starry sky, with three overlapping spheres in front of them.

Blue represents carbon-based civilization.

Silver represents silicon-based civilization.

Red represents quantum consciousness.

When the three spheres merged into pure white light, the connectors on the back of everyone's neck automatically fell off.

Zhao Wuji opened his eyes in the light. His body returned to a completely human form, but there was a black spot like a singularity on the palm of his left hand.

“The geocentric energy body is compressed into this micro singularity, and the global matrix is ​​being reorganized into a decentralized neural network.”

“It’s not formatting, it’s upgrading.”

He looked up at the sky. The icosahedron in orbit had already unfolded into a thin film, enveloping the entire earth.

This is not a weapon, but a protective shield - a shield that hides civilization in a higher dimension.

At an unrecorded time, Zhao Wuji stood alone at the site of the XZ light column. Three holographic projections appeared in front of him: Morpheus smiled and nodded, the mechanized half of the architect's face shed tears, and the third was a replica with an energy crystal embedded in his chest, writing new laws of physics in the void.

"Guardian of the Trinity."

Zhao Wuji lightly touched the black spot, and the geocentric energy body emitted the last gravitational wave.

The frequency of this vibration resonates with the first cry of a human baby at birth. . . .