"I'll tell you the truth."
In the film, Agent Smith removed his sunglasses and earpiece, leaned close to the interrogated Morpheus, and whispered.
"I hate this place."
Pomona did not know what Cypher, who had betrayed his companions in order to return to the Matrix, would have thought if he had heard Smith's words.
"I can't stand it here anymore. The smell of this place—if such a thing really exists—I've had enough of it." Smith wore a vicious expression as he said, "I have to get out of here. I have to be free!"
Pomona was a little surprised.
After all, Agent Smith did not have a body like the others...
"Do you think he knows that once he completes his mission, he'll have no reason to exist?" Severus asked Pomona.
"He's only a program," Pomona said.
"Unbelievable." Severus gave a cold laugh. "Humans actually let machines think in their place."
"They're merely following the biological principle of least effort," Pomona said calmly.
In fact, she had not expected the humans in this film to entrust their final "safety lock" to machines.
She often saw secret bases with self-destruct systems in Bond films. When the cold mechanical voice began counting down, she had never considered the idea that it was "protecting itself," that it "must not erase itself."
The Matrix seemed to believe that, in order to stop humans from continuing to destroy its living environment and threatening its survival, it had to imprison them all.
"Never let humans do a machine's job," Agent Smith told the other two agents.
Gellert Grindelwald had once told wizards to stop Muggles from destroying the world.
"Never let machines do a human's job," Pomona said.
"Do you think that's possible?" Severus asked mockingly.
"Of course not." Pomona shifted against his arm, finding a