Mors nods. "Alright..."
He turns to Fire and Coeus. "If anything happens up there and I do not return, one of you may take command of the mission. I do not expect anything dangerous to happen, but you never know with the Matrix..."
He turns back to the man. "I'll see him now, if you can take me there."
"Please come with me..." says the man. He leads you upstairs (where you are searched for guns), and through a series of rooms you do not quite remember the order of, and into a kitchen. In the kitchen is a medium heighted chinese man, well dressed, and a number of goons around him.
Heck, you know what this is now, Mors. These are Tongs, vicious underworld criminals, a culture present in the Matrix as much as in real history.
In there also is an ENORMOUS man in a chef's outfit. He is freaking huge! When he sees you, he turns aggressively towards you with his cleaver...
"Zuban! No!" calls out the well-dressed man, and the huge cook stands back. "These are the ones?" he asks your guide, who nods. "Follow," he then simply says to the three of you.
He leads you through more rooms, and up some more stairs, and through further rooms. There is a desk in this lavish room, also decked out wit paintings, statues and other expsnvie things, also soft, red-lined carpet and walls.
"Forgive me," he says, "but I am about to eat and I see no reason to change that." Waiters keep popping in and out the room; one bringing him soup as a starter.
"I am Ni Zahn," he says, sitting down. "And I understand you wish to see me?"
The rest of you may drink at the bar down below.
Side Note: ok, so i'm going over the Oracle's speech, and i figured some stuff out...or so i think.
first, we accept that the Bounty is destroyed because it is easy for us to accept, while it may not be what we want to hear. I got this from the "Still, i DO like the taste..."
why it is us, i cannot think of...perhaps because it is necessary for our growth that we go on the journey, regardless of the end. Lets think...Dallas' contempt for Morpheus got us this position, the machines schedule got us the ability, but why? Zion needed the codes to be one step ahead of the machines...but then, why would Jericho want it? to do the same thing. So...Jericho fakes the death of his crew, but for what reason? does he think the machines are on to him, have somehow tapped into ZIon? that there is a...traitor. How long has it been since Cypher was killed? less than six months?
which friend would need to part the lies from the truth? well, looking at the Oracle prophecies, i would say it could be Rade, Me, or Fire.
Jedi- one other important thing made it you. You are right that Dallas' need to prove himself over Morpheus led to it.
But also was that you were delayed in Z-on at all- which was only because of your faulty engines.
And yes, definitely less than six months since Cypher died (Dallas mentioned the traitor in Morpheus's crew at the start of the Zion thread, in an obviously recent reference)
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"I see," says Ni Zhan. "And you are... friends of Jericho?"