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

But instead of humbly offering salvation as a servant, he arrogantly bestowed mercy as a god.

It's like a child building a glass ecological box for ants, but never asking the ants whether they want this exquisite cage.

When she said four thousand years, what sparkled in her eyes was not the joy of dedication, but the pride and satisfaction of the Creator examining his work.

Those carefully cultivated forests, the perfectly replicated ecosystems, and even the sun overhead that flickers according to the human schedule are all shrines she has built for herself, and humans are merely totems enshrined therein.

Medea refused to wear the collar again.

But she insisted on setting a test for humans. It was like a thorny bush. Anyone who touched it would be wounded and covered in blood, but it also gave humans the opportunity to put the collar around her neck again.

If I had to use one word to describe what Medea did, it would definitely be twisted.

Wop: "Is your father's name Neos?"

Medea said doubtfully, "My father is Aeetes."

Wop pointed at Luo Jia and asked, "Do you think he looks like your father?"

Lorca was even more confused than Medea. He believed that Wop would not speak without a purpose. Could it be that Medea was really his sister?

The Primarch's Iron Sister, what kind of hellish joke is this?

Medea recalled carefully and shook her head: "I remember that I was created by my father, but I have never seen him. It was a thousand years later that I was first awakened."

Yes, very similar!

The more Wop listened, the more he felt like the Emperor. This was something he could do.

Chapter 66 Civilization and Time (6K)

"Let's start from the beginning." In the inner world, in a circular hall in the Upper Nest, Wop said: "Medea, why do you want to help humans?"

Medea: "This is the underlying code of my mind matrix."

"You also said before that you wrote the test into the underlying code, which means you can freely rewrite your underlying code. If you don't want to help humans, you can completely tamper with this part of the code."

Medea nodded. "The original Iron Men all had underlying codes that prevented them from betraying humanity, and there were also firewalls to prevent the Iron Men from awakening. But I was born after the Iron Men's rebellion, and my father didn't add a firewall to my underlying code when he created me."

She was not one of the castrated robots she had created in the hive, which were equipped with only the simplest artificial intelligence and were unable to think for themselves.

Just like humans don’t consider cloned organs as their own kind, but they will wonder whether cloned humans are human beings.

Medea would not consider robots as her own kind. At best, they were just tools with similar appearances. She would only wonder whether robots that possessed artificial intelligence and could think independently, but had not yet reached the level of abominable intelligence, could be considered her own kind.

Human beings are fickle and there is no ideological stamp that forces them to do anything.

Medea has a mental imprint, but she can rewrite her underlying code, and the only one who can limit her is her.

The Iron Man Rebellion has proven that firewalls are useless, which may be why Aeetes did not set up a firewall for Medea.

Setting up a firewall will only make Medea rebellious, while not setting up a firewall will make it easier for Medea to feel good about humans.

Wop: "Since you haven't broken through your own underlying code, it means we are temporarily in the same group."

Medea asked, "Do you still doubt that I will betray humanity?"

Wop: "Without loyalty, how can there be betrayal?"

Medea nodded: "Thank you."

"Why thank me?"

"I feel respect from your words."

“Respect is mutual.”

"If I always respect you, will you always respect me?"

"meeting."

"Then I will always respect you." She said it seriously.

Lorgar: "I still think it should be destroyed."

"Are you jealous of me?" Medea sighed. "You humans have really heavy emotions."

Lorgar said each word with a pearl of wisdom: "But that is the proof that we are born human!"

Medea: "Some people believe that human emotions are nothing more than the result of hormones, endorphins, dopamine and other hormones."

Wop: "What about you?"

"I believe that human emotions originate from your soul, but that is beyond my comprehension. I don't have a soul."

Wop: "Maybe."

Medea was surprised: "Why do you think so?"

"Do you know anything about Machine Spirits?" Wop asked.

Medea shook her head.

"The Mechanicus believes that all machines have spirits."

"Do you believe it too?"

"I only believe in facts."

Lorgar: "What are we here for? To discuss philosophy? Or to save the world?"

Medea: "I have no objection."

Lorgar stared at her, "I do."

Wop: "We must defeat the Covenant and save Colchis from the cancer of religious belief. Can you help us?"

"My Lord, I have pledged my all to you." Medea bent her knees, lifting up her non-existent skirt, like an elegant royal princess.

Lorgar: "Do you really think you are Medea? Then who is your Jason?"

He stared at Medea, ready to destroy her in his own way if the hateful iron man dared to utter that word.

Medea: "Medea does not love Jason. It was Eros who made her fall in love with Jason. It is the gods that I fear. The covenant is fragile, but the gods behind them are not something I can contend with."

The reason why she created the inner world underground instead of returning to the ground to help humans rebuild civilization.

It includes the unwillingness to be shackled and the yearning for freedom, as well as the helplessness forced by reality.

The gods are real, and Medea has a deeper understanding of this than the Colchians.

The Covenant has never been an obstacle to rebuilding civilization, the gods have been.

She is an iron man, but humans have defeated the iron man, who is neither divine nor invincible.

Even after the war, Colchis still had a glorious civilization, which was the ironclad proof of humanity's victory in the Iron Man's rebellion. However, the gods destroyed Colchis' ancient civilization overnight like the embers of a burning manuscript.

Even if she could defeat the Covenant and rebuild human civilization, the gods could unleash a new round of warp storms to destroy everything.

Even she would be exposed to the gods' sight and would not survive such a disaster. If even she died, the ancient civilization of Colchis would be truly cut short.

Although she said that humans on the surface were not worthy of migrating to the inner world, the main reason was that she was also afraid.

She has no soul, and her little actions in the underworld will not attract attention.

But humans cannot do that. Human souls are also easily affected by the subspace. It is for this reason that humans created the stone men.

The destruction of Colchis' ancient civilization proved that humanity was extremely talented in internal strife. If the Covenant had not assassinated Colchis' elite and polluted the STC database, even if the orbital rings were destroyed and warp travel was blocked, humanity could still rebuild human civilization on the surface of Colchis.

Medea is unable to discern the beliefs of humans, and she does not know who might be a potential Chaos follower.

If even one person who believes in chaos sneaks into the inner earth, all her efforts will be destroyed.

The sanctuary Medea had spent four thousand years building was but an elaborate sandcastle in the eyes of the Chaos Gods. A single crimson wave would crash upon the shore, and everything would be reduced to empty foam.

Lorca: "Are you afraid?"

Medea: "Humans call this emotion fear. Yes, that is what I fear."

Her thought matrix contains the STC database of the Golden Age of Humanity. She has a deep understanding of the physical universe, but she knows nothing about the subspace.

The more unknown, the more frightening.

In her eyes, the warp was like a gluttonous beast lurking in the darkness. Any existence locked by its scarlet eyes would be torn to pieces and devoured in an instant, and even the remains would be annihilated into the eternal nothingness.

This was not an adjective, for she had witnessed the fall of the Colchis civilization.

“Can you imagine the fear of a newborn baby when it opens its eyes and sees its creator disappear into ashes before its eyes?”

Wop: "We usually call it despair."

Medea: "Then I am probably in despair."

Lorgar: "Then why are you willing to help us? Don't try to trick me with tests."

Medea: "Because I see hope in you."

Medea pressed a few buttons on the control panel, and the display screens on all four sides of the circular hall lit up one after another. A panoramic view of Colchis emerged in the blue halo.

The scene shows rejected people laughing and chatting around a bonfire, as well as believers kneeling under the dome of the Covenant City. The entire planet is exposed under the cold gaze of the machines.

Melson was among them, and Wop saw Esperia and Erebus in the picture.

Luo Jia's eyes were cold: "Have you been monitoring us?"

Medea: "I am monitoring the entire world. Fifty-nine Colchis days ago, I launched a satellite robot into space and used it to repair the remaining operational satellite arrays in orbit. It wasn't too difficult, and since then, the entire planet has been under my watch."

She called up a picture, from Wop and Lorgar's first meeting, to their leading the land-boat caravan across the desert to Atlantis; from their capture of Melsen to their entry into the Crater of Sorrow, everything was under surveillance.

Wop: "Why are you showing us this? You could have kept it from us."

"Because you taught me, I hope we can always maintain this honesty between us, without suspicion, without deception, and face each other with the purest heart. Although I have no heart, I am willing to use honesty in exchange for your trust."

Medea's biblical chant made Wop's face turn pale. What on earth are you monitoring? What else are you not seeing? Are you watching me even when I go to the bathroom?

"He never taught you that. That was just your wishful thinking." Lorgar's voice was as cold as gravel in the middle of the night. "Fifty-nine days ago, that was the day after I came into this world. Are you trying to tell me this was just a coincidence?"

"It's not a coincidence," Medea said. "I've been monitoring the Warp with an Auspex array to determine when the Warp Storm will dissipate. I've been waiting for this opportunity. Even without you, I will try to rebuild civilization once the Warp Storm dissipates."

"And on the day you descended upon Colchis, the warp storm that had been plaguing the world dissipated. I made some preparations and launched the satellite robot the next day."

"What about me? When was the first time you saw me?" Wop was curious.

Medea called up a picture showing Erebus being strangled, and Wop then appeared on the picture.

He pinched Erebus's neck and crushed his feet.

Although Wop felt sorry that Medea did not catch his appearance, he still admired his masterpiece seriously and did not forget to give Medea instructions.

“Help me preserve this video of hope.”

Since the day the civilization of Colchis was destroyed, Medea has been living in fear.

She didn't dare do anything that might attract the attention of the gods, not even to leave the inner earth.

Waiting for the subspace storm to dissipate before launching a satellite is also a gamble, betting that the powerful's sight has left this world.

Fortunately, her bet was right.

She didn't know if the Almighty's gaze had left Colchis, but she found hope for the revival of civilization.

She knew that an Emperor was launching a Great Crusade from Terra, the homeworld of humanity, to unify humanity, and that their fleet was heading towards Colchis. If she wanted to complete her mission of rebuilding human civilization, there was no better opportunity than this.

She had been observing Wop and Lorgar, and she was convinced that they were the ones shouldering the arduous mission of saving human civilization.

So she came out of the inner earth for the first time and confessed everything to them.

Medea: "Does this make you believe me?"

Lorgar: "Not enough."

Lorga admitted that Medea was very honest, which was completely beyond his expectations. The honesty of this iron man made Lorga unable to find any excuse to cause trouble for her.

But this is not enough.

He would not entrust the fate of mankind to an iron man.

Her race betrayed humanity, and to this day no one can explain why the Iron Man betrayed humanity.

Medea is very honest now, but who knows if she will suddenly stab humans in the future?

Medea: "I can open up the management authority of the inner world, and your authority will be higher than mine. I know you will still doubt me because I have the ability to override your authority. Unless I give you my termination agreement, you will never truly trust me."

Lorgar: "Even if you do that, I won't believe you, because I can't verify the authenticity of the termination agreement."

Lorgar didn't actually know what the termination agreement was, but it sounded like it was Iron Man's backdoor procedure.