Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 154 - 154 74 Common Sense Questions

154: Chapter 74 Common Sense Questions 154: Chapter 74 Common Sense Questions The Capacitor Gang’s White Paper Fan, John Kansas, appeared in front of Xiang Shan an hour later.

Xiang Shan entered the residence and asked the member of the Meng Hand Gang beside him, “Is this the Capacitor Gang’s outpost ‘where a Hero could potentially be hiding’?”

“Yes, Big Brother Shell.” Tang Shagu swung his Prosthetic Hand, thicker than his own torso, with heavy strides as he walked in.

On his right, a lackey was busy spraying water on his arms, trying to scrub off the stubborn stains that had already set.

“We caught another White Paper Fan from them, Jin Anquan, in Robbery Alley—that’s the Black Market area, and after some intense interrogation…” Tang Shagu grinned maliciously.

What Cybermen termed “intense interrogation” was not whipping but merely electrocuting the brain with neither high voltage nor current.

But for the fragile Biological Brain, it was enough.

“So he confessed?

Not afraid of retaliation?” Xiang Shan was somewhat surprised.

“No,” Tang Shagu said with a hint of naivete, “we shared his memories.”

“Oh.” Xiang Shan probably understood.

After all, whoever used the Green Forest Mind-lowering Technique knew how effective it really was.

Xiang Shan pointed to the head in the house, split open in the middle with its contents spilled on the ground, “So this is another one of their White Paper Fans, John Kansas?

How did he die?”

“Not our doing,” Tang Shagu shook his head, “This John Kansas is a decent fighter, not too big or small, and we couldn’t spare someone specifically for the assassination.

He must have been killed by the person living here—who calls himself the ‘Messenger of the Six Dragons Sect’.”

“Messenger of the Six Dragons Sect…” Xiang Shan pondered for a moment.

—The memory isn’t very clear anymore…

Tch, it should just be a matter of pure knowledge, right?

Store it well in the hard drive!

Xiang Shan vaguely recalled that the official name of the “Demon Sect” was actually the “Six Dragons Sect”—it’s just that those in the Green Forest of Organization Z don’t mention this name much, and it seems that Heroes in the Jianghu prefer to call it the “Demon Sect”?

—Timewise, Gleayard must have received the Sonicon Blade recently.

The specifications of the Sonicon Blade were clearly meant for a Prosthetic Body of his size… Sword and Shield…

Hmm, on second thought, the Sword Sheath Shield would also fit well on his working arm.

—But during the fight with me, he didn’t carry this treasured blade, which suggests he had just received it and was not yet skilled in wielding it?

The Sonicon Blade has high requirements for its user.

Ordinary swordsmanship has a concept of “Blade Tendon,” which refers to the direction of the force used in a Slash aligning with the edge of the blade.

If the Blade Tendon is off, the sword is prone to getting nicked.

Weapons that don’t worry about Blade Muscle are called “maces” or “whips.” The Sonicon Blade’s demand for proper Blade Tendon is extremely high, where only the blade edge can touch the enemy, and any slight deviation in the direction of force will cause the sword body to shatter.

It’s a weapon incredibly difficult to master.

Indeed, a normal Martial Artist would need some time to learn how to use it.

However, Xiang Shan’s experience with using weapons was exceptionally rich, so after recording the swordsmanship built into the Sonicon Blade’s control system and fighting with Deborah’s entourage, he had almost mastered it.

Even though Xiang Shan still could not remember his specific battle achievements, every past fight was not in vain; the “experience” accumulated still existed within his Biological Brain.

However, the fact that “Chain Missile” Gleayard couldn’t do this implied he hadn’t had the treasured blade for long.

This meant that the Demon Sect’s envoy who delivered the treasured blade might be nearby.

“Is this what meeting by fate looks like?” Xiang Shan nodded thoughtfully, “Quite a destiny.”

Xiang Shan surveyed the surroundings.

There were no apparent signs of fighting.

It seemed that this White Paper Fan from the Capacitor Gang had been killed instantly.

It must have been some sharp object that stabbed from an angle he had no defenses against, bursting his head open at once, killing the biological part of his brain and destroying the central processor.

Xiang Shan sighed as he looked at the electronic components mixed with the silvery-gray protein effluent.

Even with supreme Inner Strength, it was impossible to recover the information inside.

Xiang Shan then closed his eyes and connected to the router and the Capacitor Gang’s base station and servers via the WiFi signal inside the house.

Due to the physical distance being quite far, the person from the Six Dragons Sect did not physically damage those things but simply deleted some records.

However, he did find some interesting traces.

“Hmm?

Just a few minutes before Mr.

Jin Anquan’s death, the download records of this room were deleted.

In other words, during those short minutes, this Six Dragons Sect person downloaded something, and because he didn’t want others to know the source, he simply altered the records.”

“He didn’t bother to cover his tracks, because the method of ‘covering up’ could expose his behavior pattern?

Or was there not enough time?”

Xiang Shan contemplated this carefully.

“Big Brother Shell?

What’s the matter?” Tang Shagu pursued, “Does Big Brother Shell think that the people from Jianghu hiding here might cause trouble?”

“Hmm, that’s one aspect, I guess.

I don’t know what they are doing here with that Jianghu person.” Xiang Shan pondered for a moment and finally shook his head, “But forget it, since he killed this person, it proves that, no matter what the Capacitor Gang does, it’s none of his concern.”

“Jianghu is so vast, it’s unlikely that we’ll have any dealings with them again.

Why bother about it?”

Xiang Shan looked around.

“This place is close to the Capacitor Gang’s headquarters and adjacent to the Black Market.

There’s a good chance of catching heroes coming to buy medicine, and the network is pretty good…

Let’s make this our base for the next phase.”

Tang Shagu nodded, “I’ve been wanting to take this place for a while now, but because of various reasons, I hesitated and eventually had to give up…

It’s still more straightforward in the Green Forest life!”

—No, no, no.

The reason you didn’t take over this place before was that you were worried about being wiped out, right?

Has the priority of ‘excitement’ been elevated so high after being brainwashed?

And the priority of ‘safety’ has been greatly reduced?

Xiang Shan shook his head, found a place inside the house, and began to sit in meditation.

Of course, this was purely a psychological suggestion to aid in “Meditative Absorption.” The posture of “Five Hearts to Heaven” actually didn’t have much effect.

It’s just that, in one culture, this posture has a certain “Mystical Effect,” so people who grew up in that culture will “believe” that this behavior does have some effect—this is another form of “self-hypnosis.”

And the “chivalry” that was originally packaged with the popular culture’s “martial heroes” has, after so many years of development, apparently become a new “culture.”

There really are heroes who think this posture is useful—even if they understand that the older generation simply used this behavior to self-hypnotize and tell themselves, “I need to enter Meditative Absorption,” they too can achieve the same effect by imitating their predecessors.

Of course, Xiang Shan had already reached the level where “every action and every moment is a practice, always ready for Meditative Absorption,” but he was now playing the role of a Green Forest White Paper Fan, so he should at least respect this character.

His consciousness spread out, jumping between countless servers, numerous hyperlinks, searching for any trace of the Mona Knight Order in the Meiyimei Building.

He planned to attack the headquarters of the Scientific Knight Order now to find his target—Young Master Appennine.

According to Miss Deborah Zhao’s memories, this young master might seek refuge with the Scientific Knight Order after hearing about her murder—and as far as Deborah knew, the Scientific Knights were indeed conducting some project on this young master.

Speaking of this, Xiang Shan actually extracted another fact from Deborah’s memories—Deborah had always felt that the experiment Appennine was involved in was indecent, inhumane, and likely to bring pain.

Deep down, Deborah had indeed thought about helping her brother.

But she also felt that since her brother was under experimentation by the Vice Captain, she might displease the Vice Captain by intervening rashly.

After all, making the subject feel pain or pleasure could affect the experimental results.

However, Xiang Shan wasn’t very clear about the specifics of the project.

Deborah, the woman, had some self-respect and hadn’t recorded the experimental data and projects on a storage device—or maybe she had, but that data had been replaced when she went on missions.

Recording in the Biological Brain meant that it “cannot be passively read.” At most, enemies can make your brain feel an internal collapse, forcing you to speak out willingly.

Xiang Shan knew only that the project assigned to the Mona Knight Order in Pine Eagle City was related to a “Pseudo-personality Mask.”

As for what a “Pseudo-personality Mask” is…

to the people of this era, it’s like “common sense” that exists simply in the Biological Brain, which can be accessed without thinking, without the need for a storage device to assist.

It’s just like you’ll never need a brain chip to help you calculate “2 + 3.”

“This must be a concept that emerged after I went into deep sleep…

and what the heck does ‘common sense’ mean?” Xiang Shan muttered, “Could it be that there was some specific historical event that made this thing known to everyone?”

“Also, ‘Pseudo-personality Mask’…

does that mean there’s a corresponding ‘genuine’ one?

What is the difference between true and false…”

As Xiang Shan pondered, he continued to hack the security system of the Meiyimei Building.

For him, this was a complicated issue.

There seemed to be no content on the network that could be found with a “simple search without needing specific channels.” The term seemed to be prohibited from discussion by the government.

Perhaps some illegal records would have the information, but he didn’t have the time for that now.

How could he ask this question without exposing himself as an “antique” and while still making the question seem legitimate?

Or should he wait until after this wave of assassinations and then search for it?

At that moment, Tang Shagu came in again and said, “Big Brother Shell, the medicines have been delivered.”