Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 159 - 159 Invasion

159: Invasion 159: Invasion Xiang Shan was hidden in the shadows.

If he still had the corners of his mouth, he probably would have laughed.

The advantages and disadvantages of weak AI were very clear.

The strength of weak AI lay in its being cheap and brutally simple.

All that was needed was “copy and paste” to swiftly enter any autonomous weapon, and they required no salary, never slept, were never careless, and certainly never betrayed anyone on their own initiative.

For those who controlled many resources, it was a great auxiliary tool.

But on the other hand, once someone figured out the underlying logic of these weak AIs, they were fools, easily deceived.

Xiang Shan had already installed intelligent firearms in some of the civilian buildings.

These firearms, however, were not meant for attacking.

They merely served to remind the weak AI of the fort, “enemies exist nearby.”

After that, the AI would classify all fully cyberized beings wielding weapons as “suspected hostile units.”

Once the fort adopted a defensive posture, the Meng Hand Gang’s gangsters were further provoked.

Actually, at this time, their only way out was to lay down their weapons, voluntarily relinquish control of their prosthetic bodies, and eject all the chips within their bodies.

After all, everyone was now a Cybernetically Enhanced Person.

Even if you crouched with your hands over your head, who knows whether you might fire a row of micro missiles from your back?

Regrettably, Xiang Shan had learned the behavior logic of this device from Deborah’s memory, but Mr.

Alan of the Meng Hand Gang Double-Flower Red Stick had not realized it.

When the man realized that the automatic fort had turned its guns in his direction and included him as a target, he roared like a wounded beast, “Iron Dust!

Meng Hand Gang’s…”

He couldn’t finish his sentence.

This action was considered “tactical command” and determined by the weak AI as “hostile behavior.”

Thus, ten gun muzzles spewed flames once again.

Alan hastily fled using the terrain, but beside him, one building after another collapsed.

At this time, the surviving Meng Hand Gang lackeys gritted their teeth and stood up, throwing Iron Dust bombs at the weapon.

The most powerful aspect of Iron Dust was its ability to refract electromagnetic waves across various frequencies using metal flakes.

Thus, thrown out, it could effectively shield all kinds of electromagnetic-based detection.

Whether it was visible light or infrared, it would experience severe interference.

If one wanted to close in and take down a target with absolute superiority in ranged firepower, spreading Iron Dust was essential.

After the metal aerosol spread, although gunfire still continued, the volume of the gunfire decreased significantly.

Clearly, upon realizing that the shooting accuracy would irreversibly decline, the weak AI had chosen to “conserve ammunition.”

Seeing this scene, Peter Penner, who was initially charging toward the automatic fort, couldn’t help but stop in his tracks.

At this moment, he was only five hundred meters away from the area where the Meng Hand Gang was clashing with the automatic fort.

“What’s happening?

Why would the Meng Hand Gang attack their own weapon… No, that’s not right!”

Peter Penner felt a coldness akin to a physiological sensation—a chill from his soul.

The automatic fort was not the property of the Meng Hand Gang at all; it belonged to the government.

It made sense.

Such automated weapons had always only been used by the government.

If the leader of the Meng Hand Gang had gotten a hold of such a thing, they would surely have modified it to be a prosthetic!

After all, this was firepower beyond the reach of most Green Forest Heroes!

For some reason, a secret passage belonging to the government existed here, with an automatic fort stationed underground.

Someone had intentionally incited the Meng Hand Gang and the Capacitor Gang to clash here, just to attract the attention of these two forts.

“Retreat…”

He hastily said.

But it was too late.

In the dense metal aerosol, a sound of “ding ding dong dong” rang out.

It was the sound of metal colliding with the ground.

An automatic fort, like some kind of predatory arthropod, emerged from the metal aerosol.

And inside the metal aerosol, there was another source of noise.

The sound of gunfire never ceased.

“There are two of them…”

Peter Penner almost forgot to move.

At that moment, he almost lost the courage to resist.

“Bang bang bang.” The sound of some gas expanding continuously echoed.

All over the street, explosions occurred again, creating big clouds of metal aerosol.

“We’ve been played…”

The moment he was covered by the metal aerosol, Peter Penner realized something.

He hadn’t had the chance to report all this yet.

— He must survive and return…

Perhaps because the metal aerosol’s shielding effect isolated the visual oppression of the automatic fort, this member of the Capacitor Gang Straw Sandals finally burst out with courage.

He shouted loudly, “Capacitor Gang’s!

Counterattack!

Counterattack!”

And the first to respond to him was a torrent of bullets.

Xiang Shan temporarily blocked visual signals, using his hearing to distinguish everything.

“Indeed, they installed sensitively high mechanical wave sensing devices…

Hmm, the noise of ultrasonic radar.

There are also active detection methods.”

“It seems that AI decides to deploy two turrets at the same time only after it determines that one turret cannot handle the surrounding enemies,”

“If we had gone with the original plan and simply thrown a can of Iron Dust inside, we wouldn’t even know how we died.”

While thinking this, Xiang Shan once again produced a set of tuning forks.

He hadn’t initially equipped many of these since their main purpose was to detect and calibrate the speed measurement capabilities of the Prosthetic Eye.

But after using these devices to briefly disrupt ultrasonic radars last time, Xiang Shan realized they were invaluable.

Thus, while retrieving his sword, he had specifically printed a batch.

At this moment, a tough fighter from the Meng Hand Gang had reached the edge of an automatic turret at the entrance of the tunnel.

The turret spun wildly in an effort to suppress the fighters around it.

Xiang Shan stood up and quickly approached while simultaneously throwing the tuning forks in his hand.

In that instant, the AI’s judgement became confused.

It hesitated for a moment.

The fighter from the Meng Hand Gang did not miss this opportunity and immediately jumped onto the side of the automatic turret.

The automatic turret, like a living creature, “jumped” in an attempt to shake off the enemy on top of it.

The warrior clung tightly to it, unable to cause damage right away, but shouted loudly to signal his comrades to attack.

Xiang Shan’s footsteps blended in with those of several Meng Hand Gang fighters.

Although footsteps can be “silent,” this usually only applies to “the range of human auditory perception.” Unless one has special material prosthetics, it’s impossible to be completely “soundless.”

But now, the noisy jumping of the turret itself was enough to significantly impair its scanning functions, not to mention his blending in with a group of fighters.

Xiang Shan moved extremely deftly.

For most of the fighters, he was directly in line with a comrade.

Unless one listened carefully, it was impossible to tell that another person had joined the team.

But these fighters, all their attention was on the automatic turret at the moment, how could they identify such a complex target amid the chaotic sounds of the environment?

With a sway, Xiang Shan entered the cave.

This was a sewer system.

The sewer was quite wide, with both the width and height at about three to four meters, but the sewage inside was only about ten centimeters deep, much like a babbling brook, without much odor or debris.

Benchmark men, especially Cybernetically Enhanced People, hardly need to eat; hence, food residue and metabolic waste are negligible.

Most of this sewage came from washing, experimental animal waste, and small amounts of toxic and hazardous fluids.

This piping system connected several buildings in the city, serving the Protectors and the Scientific Knight Order.

Ultimately, these wastes were collected underground for harmless processing.

Xiang Shan quickly walked deeper into the sewer.

By now, he had also let out a slight sigh of relief.

Although Benchmark Men were more resilient to damage than Homo sapiens, and Cybernetically Enhanced People were even stronger than Natural Persons, making them almost immune to stray bullets and shrapnel on the battlefield, there was still a limit.

It wasn’t to say that becoming a Modified Warrior meant one could ignore firearms.

Especially the kind of large-caliber weapon used by the two automatic turrets.

Being unharmed was lucky enough.

Xiang Shan heard the heavy gunfire and consecutive explosions behind him, knowing that those Meng Hand Gang criminals were about to be obliterated.

He quickened his pace.

…………………………………………

Yangtze Knight Daijiu Tai’a opened his eyes within his room.

Good.

He had now disabled the sensory devices on the southern wall of this building.

Anyone with the capability to change color with smart optics could easily bypass surveillance and climb up.

He was waiting for the “weapon” to be in place.

“Must thank these gang members,” Daijiu Tai’a thought.

“Although I don’t know why the local gangs have suddenly turned into green forest heroes…

could it be the remnants of the Green Forest Members, carrying their collective memories from the mountains to find a way out, then looking for gang members here, planning to rebuild the stronghold?”

“Although this city’s turmoil has unintentionally aided me by drawing the Guardian’s attention.

But still, I must be cautious…”

“Could those survivors who stirred up the city belong to Organization Z?”

Daijiu Tai’a pondered carefully but could not conclude.

However, suddenly, Yangtze Knight felt an intuition, saying, “Someone’s coming?”

He sensed that the building’s system had been infiltrated again.

Of course, this was not new.

He had found many traces of unauthorized access in the building’s system, and some modules appeared to have been tampered with—the security systems here were nearly riddled by an Internal Strength Master.

But this feeling was different…

entirely different!

This was an internal breach.

Yangtze Knight immediately stood up.

“Right here…

damn, completely unable to determine through which router, which interface, which terminal he accessed…”

—— those wastes from the Galapagos Sanctuary…

Daijiu Tai’a almost exclaimed, but quickly suppressed the urge to “notify the Mona Knight Order.”

Let’s not mention that he had also discovered the issues through illegal access…

This “Outsider’s” action might also bring him some convenience after all.