His restless aunt went to the restaurant kitchen to clean up.
Bored, Rorschach could only hold a cup of steaming hot tea.
He closed his eyes and dozed lightly, waiting for the salvage timer to end.
Salvage completion countdown: ten seconds Salvage completion countdown: nine seconds
Rorschach opened his eyes and stared at the countdown that was about to end.
For a moment, his thoughts ran wild.
He did know what a Space Hulk in Warhammer was.
He was simply curious what the Simulator could salvage.
Weapons and ammunition, or ancient technological items?
Or perhaps merely expired supplies being transported to another planet?
But if it salvaged a Genestealer or a Necron...
That would be quite the spectacle!
Rorschach's eyelid twitched involuntarily.
At the same time, the Simulator's salvage countdown finally ended.
Salvage completion countdown: zero Salvage acquired: one dormant Iron Man
"So it was just an Iron Man. Good thing it wasn't something disgusting like a Genestealer."
Without even processing it, Rorschach instinctively breathed a sigh of relief.
He muttered under his breath.
"Wait!"
Then Rorschach suddenly realized something.
His eyes flew wide open!
He stared fixedly at the Simulator screen, his breathing gradually growing heavier.
Splash—
For a moment, Rorschach did not even notice the hot tea in his hands spilling over him!
An Iron Man?
An Iron Man from the Dark Age of Technology?
The Iron Man that had sparked the Iron Man Rebellion and nearly destroyed humanity during the Golden Age?
Rorschach, now in a Shocked State, blinked repeatedly.
He kept checking the Simulator's salvage acquisition.
"I was wrong! I shouldn't have doubted the Simulator's new feature!"
Rorschach abruptly stood up.
He pressed his palms together, bowed slightly toward the Simulator screen, and tried to soothe the "machine spirit."
Then, beaming with delight, Rorschach launched another ten-pull.
He spent ten hours in exchange for ten salvage attempts.
Current salvage attempts: ten Salvage completion countdown: nine hours, fifty-nine minutes, fifty-nine seconds
The smile on Rorschach's face grew even brighter.
After all, this was an Iron Man!
A powerful mechanical creation made by Stone Men—biological artificial humans—from the Dark Age of Technology to serve Gold Men—pureblood humans.
The Iron Man Rebellion launched by the Iron Men had also been called the second most brutal and terrifying superwar in the history of the Milky Way...
Just then.
Rorschach, who had been constantly exploring the new feature, made further discoveries.
First, if he did not attempt to retrieve a salvage acquisition.
It would remain stored on the page indefinitely.
And it would not interfere with the other functions.
This undoubtedly brought Rorschach enormous convenience.
Additionally, salvage acquisitions actually came with annotations.
Rorschach had simply been too excited.
So he had failed to notice...
Salvage acquired: one dormant Iron Man Annotation: The ancient Iron Man UR-025 had grown weary of the cruel struggles of the past and only wished to enjoy the peace of freedom. Now a pacifist, he bore no ill will toward humanity. After a brief period of dormancy, he intended to conceal his identity and infiltrate the Intelligent controlled legion of the Adeptus Mechanicus...
"Hiss—"
Rorschach could not help drawing in a sharp breath.
This might be an ancient Iron Man that had participated in the Iron Man Rebellion!
Should he release him or not?
Rorschach's expression kept shifting.
The excitement of obtaining an Iron Man gradually faded away.
Then, Rorschach, his brow tightly furrowed, suddenly stood up.
After calling out toward the kitchen.
He hurried out of the restaurant.
"That child... why has he been doing everything in such a rush lately..."
Hearing his call, his aunt poked her head out of the kitchen.
She glanced around the empty restaurant and could not help shaking her head with a sigh.
--
Inside an Underground Passage far from any crowds.
Rorschach sat on the ground, holding a Plasma Pistol in one hand.
His other hand supported his chin as he thought.
For him now, an Iron Man was an extremely precious mechanical creation.
With an Iron Man around, Rorschach could accomplish many more things.
At the very least, if the Iron Man guarded the house.
Rorschach could travel all over the country or even go abroad.
Obtaining firearms would no longer be such a hassle, and he could acquire greater quantities as well.
At that thought.
Rorschach made his decision without hesitation and chose to release the Iron Man!
The place he was in was one of the gains from his recent study of the blueprints.
An Underground Passage that had been abandoned for a long time.
If Rorschach discovered that the Iron Man was hostile toward humans.
Then he planned to melt him down with the Plasma Pistol!
If even the Plasma Pistol did not work.
Rorschach could only painfully give him up.
And hand the deranged Iron Man over to the Superheroes to handle.
Hopefully Tony Stark's brilliant mind could deal with him.
In a world where all manner of monsters ran rampant, one more robotic villain would not make much difference, right...
He might just be more terrifying than Ultron.
Having prepared himself for battle, Rorschach rose from the ground and tightened his grip on the Plasma Pistol.
"The Emperor Protects!"
Then, after offering a brief prayer.
He chose to retrieve the salvaged acquisition.
In an instant, several meters away on the damp ground.
A two-meter-tall Metal skull, its surface gleaming with a black metallic sheen, appeared out of thin air!
Rorschach, who had just hidden the Plasma Pistol behind his back, could not help taking a deep breath, every nerve in his body on alert.
At that moment, a faint blue light gradually lit up within the two-meter-tall Metal skull's eye sockets.
An ancient mechanical creation from the Warhammer Universe.
The Iron Man had awakened!
He first turned his metal head.
As though surveying the surrounding environment.
Finally, those mechanical eyes glowing blue.
Slowly focused on Rorschach's tense face.
He slowly raised one arm and placed it before his chest.
This action nearly made the highly tense Rorschach draw the Plasma Pistol and pull the trigger!
Yet the next second.
The Iron Man's cold mechanical voice reached Rorschach's ears.
Leaving Rorschach frozen where he stood.
For the moment, he no longer intended to attack.
"Greetings, Omnissiah."
"Uh..."
For a moment.
The speechless Rorschach blinked frantically several times.
In the end, he decided to tell the truth and be honest with the Iron Man:
"Hello, stranger Iron Man. I am not the Omnissiah. I am merely an ordinary human."
After hearing Rorschach's answer.
The Iron Man UR-025 turned his metal head back and forth several times.
He seemed to be adapting to his metal body after having just completed dormancy.
Or perhaps he was shaking his head and sighing at Rorschach's answer.
"As I wandered the universe, I was once fortunate enough to encounter the Machine God. He bore some resemblance to you. Perhaps because I had only just completed dormancy, I mistook you for him by accident..."
The Iron Man's cold mechanical voice gradually changed.
It was as though it possessed greater emotional fluctuation.
However, just as Rorschach was about to continue the conversation.
The Iron Man before him suddenly raised his metal head.
The faint blue light in his eye sockets flickered several times.
"This is not Terra, nor is it even the universe of the past... Additionally, in an ancient information channel known as the internet, I found some video materials related to you..."
Immediately afterward, moving video images projected from the Iron Man's eye sockets.
They appeared before Rorschach.
They were surveillance recordings from the past, where Rorschach had tried his best to hide and evade detection.
Yet there had always been overlooked blind spots.
As though he sensed the unease stirring within Rorschach.
The Iron Man stopped projecting and bowed once more.
"Please rest assured. All information related to you has been completely deleted..."
At that moment, expressionless, Rorschach suddenly swallowed.
This time, he had truly salvaged a treasure!
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