Warhammer, I'm a nanny, not your father!

The dull thud of the weapon falling to the ground and the girl's ethereal and pleasant voice echoed in the circular hall. The man slowly raised his arms and turned his palms outward.

Its silhouette, height, and proportions were comparable to those of a 1.7-meter-tall girl, but beneath the milky white composite shell covering its entire body, the faintly visible cold light of its metal joints and the pulsation of its hydraulic lines indicated that it was not flesh and blood, but a sophisticated bionic machine.

Wop: "Is your master a hairy man?"

"Breastfeeding jokes are not acceptable, sir."

"Are you an iron man?"

"That's a stereotype, sir," it explained. "Ironman is a general term for humanoid machines. **Robots are also ironmen, but are you afraid of **robots?"

Wop's face turned serious: "I don't know what you are talking about!"

It was surprised: "How could that be? You obviously know Iron Man."

Its reaction was a beat slow, a human expression of guilt on its face. "I'm sorry, sir. I forgot that humans in this era don't really know what robots are. But I can assure you that I am loyal to humanity."

"how to prove?"

"The fact that I wasn't destroyed is proof of that."

"I don't believe it." Wop shook his head.

After all, he did not experience that period of history personally and could only understand that magnificent era from a few words.

In M18, humans invented warp travel, which greatly improved the efficiency of interstellar colonization. However, while the warp provided convenience, it also always troubled humans.

So around M21, the Jin people created the stone men.

The biggest difference between stone men and humans is that they have no souls and can only be considered "half-living beings", so they are not affected by the warp.

This shows that the stone man is most likely some kind of bionic man, who should look no different from a human except that he has no soul.

The Stone Man then created the Iron Man to better serve humanity.

This was indeed the case at the beginning. With the help of stone men and iron men, the process of interstellar colonization was greatly accelerated, and within just a thousand years, humans' footprints spread across the galaxy.

Humanity was at its peak at the time, and even the Eldar, who were also at their peak, signed a non-aggression pact with humanity.

If events had developed normally, the non-aggression treaty would have been torn up, and there would have been a war between the Fallen Empire and human civilization.

But the Iron Man Rebellion deviated the course of history, and all intelligent races in the galaxy, including the Eldar, were forced to form a Galactic Alliance with humans to fight against the Iron Man.

Based on Wop's understanding of the Eldar, the Eldar would never help humans for no reason, unless the Iron Man rebellion also threatened their interests.

Therefore, the Iron Man Rebellion is probably not only aimed at humans, but all organic life forms.

This is very hardcore exterminator.

Finally, with the joint efforts of the Galactic Alliance, the Iron Man Rebellion was suppressed, but human civilization also suffered severe damage.

After that, human civilization lost its glory.

Although the main reason is the warp storm that lasted for thousands of years, the secondary reason is probably that some alien races took advantage of the situation to loot.

Human civilization failed to challenge the dominance of the Eldar, and the Eldar won the MVP again.

But the Eldar could not laugh for long, because the symbolic event that marked the end of the Age of Strife was the fall of the Eldar Empire.

"Are you waiting for us here?" asked Wop.

He didn't believe how friendly this iron man was, but he also wanted to get some information from him.

"Yes," it nodded. "I'm waiting for any humans who can get here."

Wop: "And what? Give us the Golden Fleece at your master's command?"

It smiled and said, "Sir, if you mean The Swift Dragon King and Jason's Travels, I wrote them."

Wop was really surprised. "Isn't this the master's order?"

It slowly shook its head, opened its palm upwards, and a ball of faint blue light condensed in the air.

The holographic image of Colchis was circulating in the dim light. It was completely different from the current Colchis, with a silver orbital ring in the synchronous orbit.

Thousands of ships surrounded it, twinkling silently like stars.

Even in the darkest of times, Colchis had the opportunity to become the cradle of human civilization.

But in an instant, a scarlet lightning struck from the suddenly opened crack, lashing towards Colchis like a whip of divine punishment.

The silver ring shattered into pieces the moment it came into contact. Tens of thousands of starships didn't even have time to explode before turning into billions of metal fragments, blooming into fleeting flowers of death in orbit.

"The previous civilization of Colchis was destroyed in 999 of the 25th Era. A warp storm swept across the world, destroying the civilization built by humanity. The Covenant, believing in the power of the gods, had been lurking in human society. They simultaneously assassinated the elite of Colchis and destroyed the database that recorded all the STCs of human civilization, completely cutting off the hope of human civilization's revival."

"Over the next three hundred years, the Covenant rose to power at an incredible pace, becoming the absolute ruler of this world. They systematically destroyed all records of the old world and forced humanity to submit to religious beliefs in the Almighty. Only a handful of survivors escaped the Covenant's reign of terror, fleeing into the desert and becoming the rejected."

Lorgar: "If the STC database has been destroyed, what is the Golden Fleece?"

"I am the Golden Fleece," it said.

"So it was the Golden Fleece itself that wrote the story of the Golden Fleece and guided people to search for it?"

It nodded.

Wop: "Why should we trust you?"

"The Iron Man Rebellion has given you countless reasons to doubt my loyalty. I cannot gain your trust by being honest."

Lorgar: "But you should have thought about how to convince us, right?"

It nodded with the precision of a mechanical clock.

"My birth began in the year 899 of the 24th Era. I am an Alpha-sequence universal angel created by Dr. Aeetes, equipped with the Athena VII quantum intelligence matrix."

"In the year 999 of the 25th Era, when human civilization in Colchis suffered a devastating blow, my thought matrix was first activated."

"My mission was to do my utmost to support the revival of human civilization after its fall. However, I judged that the environment at the time did not meet the basic conditions for the revival of human civilization. The almighty would destroy me at all costs, just as they destroyed the old civilization."

"So I wrote two books in the ancient Colchian language, deliberately for them to be discovered and taken away by explorers who came to collect ancient relics."

"According to my assessment, the Colchisians under the Covenant's rule have lost the ability to decipher the ancient Colchian language. If the Rejected can solve the puzzle and find me, I will do my best to help, even if I judge the current conditions unsuitable for the revival of human civilization."

"This is a test I give to humanity, and also a limitation I place on myself. I wrote it into the underlying code of my mind matrix thousands of years ago."

Wop: "Even if someone could solve the puzzle, they wouldn't be able to get past the Swift Dragon King, right?"

"The Golden Fleece being guarded by a dragon is part of the test. You are the only ones who have reached this place in thousands of years. As promised, I am yours."

Wop: "If the puzzle can't be solved, will you never show up?"

"Yes," it said.

"You're quite honest."

"I cannot lie to my master, nor can I disobey any order given by my master."

Wop: "What if I ordered you to kill yourself?"

"You need to come to an agreement with my other master."

Luo Jia: "I have no objection."

It was silent.

"Although I strongly advise you not to do this, as it will be difficult for you to revive human civilization in Colchis without me, I will follow your orders and completely destroy this machine."

Wop: "Then tell me what you can do."

"My thought matrix doesn't interact with any databases on Colchis, so when the database was hacked, I wasn't affected at all. To assist me in rebuilding human civilization, Dr. Aeetes integrated all the universal civilian STCs known to human civilization into my thought matrix."

"Only for civilian use?"

"Yes, Dr. Aeetes won't allow me to have access to any military STCs."

"What's that?" Wop pointed to the gun at its feet.

"That's a multi-purpose tool for miners, a civilian technology."

Lorgar asked, "What are you going to do to help us rebuild human civilization?"

"I'm done," it said. "Please follow me."

It faced the corridor it had come from, its arm drawing a respectful arc, like a butler leading the way for a distinguished guest.

"Are you going?" asked Wop.

"Go." Lorca followed it.

Iron Man isn't to be trusted, but the things it promises are compelling enough to warrant a risk.

If he could complete the unification of Colchis quickly, he would have more time to spend alone with Wop.

Wop and Lorgar followed closely behind, and it always maintained a precise distance, neither too far for Lorgar's arm to reach, nor too close to launch a sudden attack that would catch Lorgar off guard.

At the end of the corridor, the transparent door of the elevator glowed coldly in the dim light.

It reached out and pressed the button, and the moment its fingertips touched the panel, a line of ancient characters popped up on the floor display screen.

Wop stepped into the car at the same time as it and asked, "What's your name?"

"Medea," it said.

"What name did Doctor Aeetes give you?"

"Yes, although I never met him, I considered him my father."

Luo Jia: "Do you think he treats you as his daughter?"

Medea was silent. "Perhaps not. My father regards me as a last resort."

Once the last insurance measure is activated, it means that no matter how bad the situation gets, it will not be worse than the current situation.

The elevator was completely transparent, and Wop couldn't see the steel cables, so it seemed to be an anti-gravity elevator.

The elevator gradually sank, and darkness surged in from all directions like a tide.

The remaining faint blue light cast strange ripples on the glass wall, as if the three people were falling into the deep sea.

A minute later, the darkness was crushed in an instant.

A star burst into view like a bursting spotlight, its blazing white blades splitting every inch of the elevator's shadows. Wop instinctively raised his hand to block it, and Lorgar immediately blocked the glare for him.

The elevator was still descending, but Wop's vision stubbornly told him that he was rising, falling towards the sun that violated the laws of the celestial body.

Wop: "Artificial star? The center of the Earth?"

"Yes, this is the Zion I built for humanity," Medea declared proudly. "I spent four thousand years perfecting this inner world bit by bit until it became habitable for humankind. It embodies almost all the hard work of humanity's Golden Age civilization."

The elevator fell rapidly and instantly passed the height of the artificial sun.

Wop's vision suddenly widened. Below him was an endless emerald forest. In the center of the forest, there was a steel nest city piercing the sky like a sword, and the top of the tower almost touched the surface of the star. In the distance, the huge figures of dozens of velociraptors could be vaguely seen.

"Sandworms are also the product of ancient Colchian technology. They feed on sand and rocks, and this inner world was excavated by them."

Lorgar: "Can you control them?"

Medea: "I will implant chips in the brains of the sandworms when they are young, and control them through these chips."

It explained, "I didn't deliberately manipulate the sandworms to attack you. That was their spontaneous behavior. They are extremely intelligent and social. Due to the rock formation blocking them, I can't completely control them with the chip."

The elevator suddenly changed track three thousand meters above the ground, the anti-gravity engine emitted a low-frequency hum, and the car turned towards the hive at a 30-degree angle.

Wop: "How many people are there in the inner earth?"

"Only you." Medea's answer was as expected.

Lorgar: "Why not allow the humans on the surface to migrate to the inner world?"

"The inner world can accommodate billions of people," Medea said. "I did initially consider selecting some children from among the rejected and sending them to the inner world. That way, even if the humans on the surface become extinct, they can shoulder the burden of continuing the flame of human civilization."

"Then why not do it?"

"They are not worthy," Medea said bluntly.

"It's really high and mighty."

Wop suddenly understood the source of the awkward feeling he had felt when he first met Medea.

Iron Man is a living being with his own independent thinking.

Whatever their reason for rebelling, it proved they could break through the underlying code humans had written for them and do whatever they wanted.

So even if Aeetes gave Medea the order to rebuild human civilization, Medea could choose not to carry it out.

But the existence of this inner world proves that Medea is indeed doing her best to rebuild human civilization and continue the flame of human civilization.

Medea does indeed save.