Warhammer: Don't Call Me the God of All Machines

Chapter 5 Tampering
The footsteps of Salamander Apothecary Thassa broke the atmosphere.

As the descendant of Vulkan, he possesses an extremely tall and strong body like the original master. Even when wrapped in power armor, his muscular body reveals a powerful aura.

The Salamanders and Raven Guard Legions are two extremes in many aspects. For example, Nikonna has an almost pale complexion, while Tassa's skin is as black as charcoal. He said that this is the effect of the gene seed.

Tassa is the exact opposite of Nikonna's quietness, with a passion like the furnace of Nocturne.

"My friends, what are you hiding here looking at?"

The Fire Dragon's pupils, which glowed with lava, noticed the holographic projection and couldn't help but exclaim, "Terra in the past was so beautiful. Such a vast ocean is completely different from our Nocturne, which only has a lava sea."

"When Prometheus and Nocturne got close, the gravity of the giant planet tore apart Nocturne's crust, and the magma underneath the ground gathered into a sea."

"There are only seven relatively stable continents in the Nocturne Earth Fire where mortals can survive. When the planet's activity reaches its peak, the City of Refuge will open to provide protection for the refugees."

"The Terran Ocean is divided into nine continents. According to the elders, our Salamander Legion once carried out a very important mission for the Emperor in the Stormy Underground Corridor near the Caucasus Wasteland."

"A full 20,000 powerful Salamander warriors fought against the Iron Man automated sentinels in the Storm Underground Corridor. Only a thousand Salamanders survived by the end of the battle."

Thassa's voice was like a furnace, and the tragic and heroic scene of the near-annihilation of the entire army seemed unusually bland in his words. It was not that he was cold-blooded and heartless, but that the Son of the Fire Dragon truly believed that those predecessors who sacrificed their lives for the Emperor were worth it.

In a death world like Nocturne, life is extremely fragile, but precisely because of this, the sons of the fire dragon have their own unique insights into death.

A worthwhile death is a worthwhile death.

However, Roxi heard the deeper meaning in Thassa's words. He knew that Roxi, who came from the Golden Age, had not experienced the dark age of the Iron Rebellion, so he used the tragic war of the Salamander Legion to warn him.

Ironmen are not completely untrustworthy, but they also need to remain vigilant.

Not all Iron Men stood on the opposite side in that betrayal. According to some ancient records handed down, in fact more than half of the Iron Men still helped their creators and fought against their rebellious counterparts.

Otherwise, if all the iron men betrayed together, even mankind in its heyday would fall into an endless abyss.

The Iron Man is a weapon of war condensed from the entire human mind. The perfect creation will surely defeat its creator. When this weapon is pointed at the old master, the creator will also be harmed by the creation.

The salamander may look rough and unrestrained, but it actually has a heart that is equally delicate and gentle.

"Thank you for your advice, Tassa. I will keep it in mind." Luo Xi responded with a smile, but he vaguely felt that something was wrong.

Is this the history of Salamanders... Sentinel Iron Man, no, it's in front!

The strange feeling in Luo Xi's heart became stronger and stronger. He rarely felt so uneasy, so there must be something wrong.

"Yes! It's right here. He just said that Terra's ocean was divided into nine continents. Even if we count the Eurasian continent separately, how could the Earth have nine continents in the past?"

Even if Eurasia is counted separately, there are only seven continents on Earth.

However, in the holographic image projected by the intelligent brain, the silhouette of the planet clearly has nine continents of different shapes. At the original location of the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, three smaller continents are perfectly integrated into it.

"No, apart from the artificially divided Eurasian continent, there are only six continents on Earth." Luo Xi was a little unsure of the memory in his mind. His reason told him that the correct number should be six.

Another voice kept repeating that the correct number should be nine.

He closed his eyes and recalled, only to find that there was nothing abrupt about the memories in his mind. The continents on the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean each had their own name and corresponding history.

"Did I remember it wrong? Six and nine, how could I remember it wrong?"

"wrong!"

Instantly, the atmosphere in the cabin dropped to freezing point. Luo Xi's face darkened, and he immediately issued a comprehensive self-check. He sensed something affecting his cognition.

In the thinking engine of the intelligent brain, an extremely tiny special code was mixed in at some point. It only has nine characters, which is just a drop in the ocean compared to the vast ocean of codes.

However, it is these nine small codes that seem to have awakened their self-awareness and are scattered among the numerous code clusters.

They are not virus data or harmful codes and can easily cross the firewall, but when they are combined together, a strange power descends.

Either the positive or negative signs of the code were changed, or the quantity sign of the code was changed. Slight tampering entered the code world, causing this tower built by many genius minds in the golden age to shake.

Artificial intelligence must protect humans

This is the core logic followed by the intelligent brain, but at this moment, under the interference of some strange force, the intelligent brain's judgment on the concept of "human" has become slow.

What is human?

Is Astartes human?

The computing power of the intelligent computer is enough to calculate the movement of every atom in a star system from its birth to its destruction, but at this moment it fell into an incredible hesitation.

As a strong artificial intelligence, the intelligent brain has its own consciousness and emotions. Suddenly, it seemed to have a flash of inspiration, and this question appeared in the core of its thinking.

The question of whether Astarte is human has something in common with the ancient philosophical question of the Ship of Theseus: when a human has undergone a great deal of transformation, is he still human?
The results of fuzzy calculations show that these beings, who have undergone a large amount of biochemical transformation and have seeds containing the power of the subspace implanted in their bodies, should not be classified as humans.

[Non-human creatures appear, take compulsory measures]

According to the intelligent computer's judgment, non-human creatures appeared around Luo Xi and threatened his life. Out of the logic of protecting its master, it immediately took attack measures.

On Luo Xi's shoulder, arcs of electricity flashed on the body of Pika, the incarnation of the intelligent computer, and at the same time, multiple powerful weapons flashing with deadly arcs of electricity were quickly printed out in the cabin.

These arc weapons were aimed at Nikonna and Tassa, ready to shoot out terrifying electric currents that were enough to reduce flesh to ashes.

"Terminate the operation, immediately!"

Luo Xi also realized the abnormality of the intelligent computer. His heart was pounding, and he forced the intelligent computer to stop all actions as quickly as possible.

The Tesla arc, which was powerful enough to turn all organic life into dust, stopped at the moment before it was fired. Roche's order had the highest priority, and this order replaced the original kill order, putting it on standby.

In the thinking core of the intelligent brain, countless data streams formed an army, various killing codes were created, and countermeasures against the invasion were immediately launched.

Relying on its enormous computing power, the intelligent brain finally discovered the abnormal codes hidden in the core. The killing code isolated those abnormal codes and then used various algorithms to completely destroy them.

"What the hell is this thing? Where did that code come from?!" Luo Xi was a little confused after receiving the report from the intelligent computer.

Without any warning, something invaded the thinking engine of the Red Alert's intelligent computer and almost caused it to kill the soldiers on the ship.

But then, he immediately realized that the source of this urgent crisis must be related to the turbulent sea of ​​subspace outside the starship.

Even under the protection of Geller's position, some unknown entities still managed to sneak onto this starship.

"What just happened?" Nikonna asked immediately. He saw that the ship's intelligent computer had just wanted to kill them, and Roxi was not aware of this.

"I don't know what happened, but I know there are enemies on the ship now," said Luo Xi.

(End of this chapter)