After three ear piercing tones, he picked up the phone.
" I'm in, " he told them.
Neo walked out into the crowd of ordinary people, leaving the Chinese restaurant behind him. He looked to his right, entering his code vision, and then to his left, knowing that Smith was not too far away. But he wasn't here either, so there was no point in sticking around.
He left the crowd and walked into a smaller alley and then took flight, not wanting to be seen by too much people. He knew that the Agent's would notice him at once then, and there was no place they would rather have him than in a big crowd, where there would be almost un-limited humans to morph themselves into.
As he flew over the city, he continued to scan it for Smith's new signature code. It was not all that different from the one he had had before, but different enough for him to know that he had changed… in more ways than one.
Suddenly, he found the signature.
Not un-expectingly, he realized that Smith was waiting for him.
" I've been expecting you, " Smith announced as Neo landed in front of him, looking around the small square they once again found themselves in. Surprisingly enough, only two other Agents were around him now, and it even looked like the same Agents as when they had met the last time.
But as Neo said nothing, Smith spoke again.
" One thing you learn quickly as you are integrated into our system here, is that humans are very predictable. When you do something to them, they are bound to react in a certain way, " Smith continued. " and obviously, the better you know that human, the more easy they are to predict." Neo looked around Smith, taking a step forward.
" I would have thought that you would have spread yourself more by now, " Neo said, but Smith only grinned in response.
" Oh, Mr. Anderson… still using all the muscles but the one that counts?" He said, and Neo knew that he was just trying to get him irritated. But as Smith motioned to around him, to the seemingly empty square, Neo got the notion that he wasn't quite right…
" What is he doing? He has met Smith, he should get out now, " Morpheus said, standing behind Link. Trinity stood to his right, and hadn't said anything during the whole time since she had plugged Neo in. Now, she spoke.
" But look around the square… It looks like they are getting company, " she said and Morpheus and Link also watched as the square was being filled with more Agents…
… a lot more Agents.