Chapter 460: Grandpa gets a job
After the talks with Neo and Deus Ex. The restoration of the world begun. There were about 6.5 billion humans inside the machine. It was impractical to wake all of them up at the same time as the current world would not have been able to hold that many people.
So, for now, only the population in Zion was made to sign the contract. They were all shown what their predecessors did to the original machines.
Alexander had to work to make them realize that the machines may have been made from metals that didn't mean they did not feel. It was just a matter of perspective on how you see life.
It was not necessary for life to look like humans or have some specific parts of the body. Life was inside any being that had feelings and the machine did have that. It may be just lines of code for humans but for them, it was similar to blood.
To not have to go through all this preaching he took over the Matrix system and started teaching people that were still inside it about respecting machines and treating them just like they do to humans.
He couldn't take a direct approach as something too unbelievable would wake them up. Instead, he sent these messages through their subconscious mind. This way they would change without knowing.
"So, you really were a God," Neo spoke while standing beside Alexander in a huge hall filled with humans and machines in suits. It was like the United Nations General Assembly.
"Hahaha... god is what you perceived to be a god. I am sure you will understand this in the future," Alexander replied. It confused Neo but he didn't implore.
Neo was obviously selected as the representative of humans and also machines to a limit. It was because he had a different kind of connection with the matrix system. Deus Ex was still there but Alexander was trying to change it too.