Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 141 - 141 61 Controlling the Enemy

141: Chapter 61: Controlling the Enemy 141: Chapter 61: Controlling the Enemy The moment the whistling sound arose, Oko realized what was probably happening.

That whistle was the temporary secret signal agreed upon with the Capacitor Gang.

Simply put, they had been betrayed by the Capacitor Gang.

In these last couple of days, something might have occurred that made the Capacitor Gang feel the need to adopt a more “aggressive” negotiating tactic, so they made a report to further weaken their own side’s standing.

No, perhaps it was the matter of Cui Hai coming over that made the Capacitor Gang realize they could obtain the support of the Jianghu, so they simply reported the situation to use the government’s force to cut off this support?

And the government Houndhawks, of course, would come.

Due to insufficient manpower, the government’s forces wouldn’t control every aspect, and most monitoring was done by artificial intelligence.

But “receiving a report” in itself was tantamount to saving a considerable amount of investigative and screening costs.

They just came straight over.

At the street corner, a silver mist spread out.

A built-in magnetic field detector alerted Oko that there was a strong magnetic field nearby, slowly drawing the metal aerosol towards them.

Several Heroes quickly lay flat on the ground, using the remnants of a warehouse and pre-arranged sandbags to conceal their shapes.

Surrounding cries, screams, and the uniform footsteps within the aerosol merged into one.

The government didn’t attack the protected wantonly, but when they couldn’t distinguish whether someone was a Hero, they had no choice but to control them first.

In such cases, they wouldn’t hurt people.

But at this moment, Heroes must not be under the illusion that they could escape by blending with the civilians.

You see, after controlling a suspect, the authorities had to conduct a series of screening tests.

Heroes, who had cultivated martial arts and formed specialized thought processes in their brains, could be easily identified.

Oko knew that all the Capacitor Gang wanted was the technical data that the Heroes could provide, so they wouldn’t let the government capture all the Heroes at once.

Thus, following that whistle, there was at least a chance to escape.

Yuan Wenren said, “It can’t be done.

If we follow them now, we’re likely to be led to a place under stronger gang control!

“We have no other choice then,” Oko said.

Gofrey said, “But you excel in Inner Strength rather than external strength, and they obviously set up Iron Dust to block witness technique and wireless shadow boxing.

Staying behind wouldn’t make much sense, would it?”

Among the government Houndhawks, a small portion were Jianghu Wanderers and retired athletes, with most being trained by the government from the start.

And the athletes’ external strength was generally slightly higher than that of the Heroes.

A government Houndhawk, who would willingly release something like Iron Dust— which could easily confuse the situation—was definitely someone confident in their external strength.

For Oko, who excelled in Inner Strength, to stay behind would be suicide.

Oko shook his head: “There’s no other choice.”

Oko was the senior disciple; they couldn’t let Red Hand A stay behind to die.

Yuan Wenren and Gofrey were both injured.

The situation with Cui Hai was similar— from his recent bout with Gofrey, Oko had realized that this old friend was likely incapable of performing martial arts as well.

Thus, the only one who could stay was himself.

While they spoke, the silver aerosol had already spread to their vicinity.

In the dense fog in the distance, a tall Martial Artist holding a long weapon proudly said, “You bandits, aren’t you going to surrender?”

The whistling sound behind them sounded three times in succession, signaling if they didn’t follow now, the Capacitor Gang would withdraw.

At the same time, sporadic gunfire started.

It seemed the Capacitor Gang had activated AI weapons to intercept the government troops in another direction.

Suddenly, Cui Hai shouted, “Run…let’s all run together!”

Oko said, “Are you crazy!

Without someone here to hold back these Houndhawks, we’d all die!”

“Someone will help!” Cui Hai cried, “Trust me!”

In that instant, Iron Dust had already engulfed the surroundings.

The Military Officer was quite pleased.

Dozens of drones acting as ultrasonic sound sources continuously broadcasted in every direction.

These ultrasonic waves, after refracting off surrounding objects, would enter six receivers positioned around him and, using an extremely complex system, allowed him to fully control his environment.

Every action of the Martial Artists was reflected in his mind and models.

And the enemy, not knowing the specific arrangements of these drones, not knowing many necessary parameters, and devoid of preset functions, attempting the same calculations would only use up more computing resources.

The drones, following a predetermined flight path, only had a physical input port and didn’t receive any signals, eliminating the possibility of being hacked.

Iron Dust blocked all forms of electromagnetic detection and the transfer of Inner Strength.

For him, who had transitioned from athlete to officer, this was the strongest combination!

He sensed the Heroes’ movements and sneered, “Trying to run?”

At that moment, an anomaly occurred.

The Military Officer felt a premonition.

Two sounds of something cutting through the air came.

At the same time, another voice added, “Now, run!”

………………………………

Xiang Shan was hiding at a street corner.

From the sound of footsteps, a column of government soldiers was just a few meters away, seemingly only separated by a wall.

However, he was not worried about being discovered.

The shock-absorbing system in his footsteps had reduced the sound of movement to a minimum.

The area was filled with the noise of a few panicked civilians.

He was completely concealed.

Even the ultrasonic system couldn’t discern any difference between this crouched figure and the civilians.

But Xiang Shan could see clearly.

In the final moments as Iron Dust covered the block, Xiang Shan followed the route taken by the cloaked Hero and inserted several KBs of code into those cameras.

These codes were a discernment system and an encrypted compilation algorithm.

They added a function to the cameras, allowing them to simply identify the human figures around and then convert them into a form of function.

Then, this data would be broadcast through the air along the route used by the cloaked figure—namely, through the vibrations of the transmission parts.

This code would greatly occupy the camera processor’s resources.

In just about ten minutes, the cameras would overheat.

And Xiang Shan had also conveniently disabled the operation of the overheating protection device, ensuring that both his and the Hero’s traces would be burned clean.

And within these ten minutes…

Xiang Shan listened intently, then pulled out a few tuning forks from his waist.

These were his tools to calibrate the Prosthetic Eye, using fixed frequencies to adjust the Prosthetic Eye’s detection capabilities, and he had printed them while out in the field.

Besides that, there was a sound device the size of a finger.

Xiang Shan calculated briefly and then used the high-frequency wave generator on his finger to slightly adjust the length of several tuning forks.

“Iron Dust sealed the enemy’s ability to communicate and detect using electromagnetic waves, ruining their eyes and mouths.

But it also essentially blinded and silenced itself.”

“At this time, just making sure to disable the ears should suffice.”

Xiang Shan snickered, and almost instantly, the high-frequency wave generator in his left hand vibrated the three tuning forks, making them sound close to the detection frequency used by the Houndhawk.

While the three tuning forks in his right hand remained in their original state.

The sudden appearance of the sound source triggered a moment of alertness in the Military Officer, and Xiang Shan threw the tuning forks in his hand.

At the same time, he exerted force with the tip of his foot, launching the player.

“Now, run!”

Several gunshots sounded and numerous bullets whizzed past.

But the Military Officer realized something.

“Damn…”

The Military Officer internally cursed.

Due to the emergence of the disruptive parameters, the perfect environmental modeling in his mind distorted and collapsed like a fantastical mirage.

Those soldiers had fired bullets according to pre-set commands.

But the sound of the bullets covered the sound of the Hidden Weapons—he didn’t know how many sound-emitting Hidden Weapons there were, nor where those sound-emitting Hidden Weapons had landed.

The sounds and resonances of the tuning forks disturbed his perfect ultrasonic detection functionality.

Indeed, it would take less than ten seconds for the algorithm to eliminate the interference and regain control over the environment.

The disturbance caused by those tuning forks was also momentary.

But would the enemy give him time to slowly eliminate the disturbance?

No!

Way!

Possible!

Xiang Shan turned the corner at the street and strode towards the momentarily perplexed Military Officer, propelled by the vibrations in the transmission parts of the cameras.

These vibrations differed vastly from the ultrasonic waves, almost blending into the background noise, and only Xiang Shan, who knew this in advance, could sift it out from the background sound.

The Group of Heroes watched as a shadow draped in a hood glided by them, delicately moving towards the shadow of the Military Officer.

Due to the light source, the Military Officer only reacted when they were less than two meters apart, roaring like a tiger, signaling his subordinates to attack while swinging a long stick.

Xiang Shan suddenly ducked, dodging a stick aimed at his head, his left foot swiftly probing out, pecking at the opponent’s Prosthetic Leg, while both his hands dragged at the enemy’s waist and hips.

—No extra weights, the center of gravity wasn’t very low.

Probably to maintain maneuverability.

The thought flashed through Xiang Shan’s mind even as he was breaking the Military Officer’s balance.

The Military Officer screamed as he struggled, but he was effectively restrained by Xiang Shan who grabbed his hands and disarmed him, then lifted him up and charged towards a row of soldiers.

Meanwhile, in other distant areas, Iron Dust continuously exploded.

The gang was launching their operations too.

Yuan Wenren shouted, “Then let’s go!”

Without hesitation, several of them charged out.

They quickly crossed a block only to find the ground littered with the remnants of soldiers’ Prosthetic Bodies.

They were startled.

But now was not the time to ponder this issue; they quickly crossed the combat zone and arrived at their agreed meeting point.

A Martial Artist enveloped in black plastic surveyed the Heroes and said, “How come there’s one extra person?”

Oko snickered, “Would you prefer that we have fewer people?”

“I don’t care about the others.” The Martial Artist pointed at Cui Hai and said, “I just saw this kid scratch something on the wall at the corner of the street.

Was that leaving a signal?”