Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 170 - 170 90 A Wolf Enters the Room

170: Chapter 90: A Wolf Enters the Room 170: Chapter 90: A Wolf Enters the Room With a “ding,” the elevator arrived at the designated floor.

This was the 734th level, only a few floors away from the battleground.

As soon as Daijiu Tai’a stepped out of the elevator, he surveyed the structure of this floor.

The elevator entrance opened into an area resembling a surveillance room.

The first thing that caught Daijiu Tai’a’s eye as he exited the elevator was a vast expanse of bushes, divided into dozens of sections, apparently all for monitoring purposes.

The screens were constantly switching, searching for any suspicious targets.

Mr.

Bengel had been intently watching the ever-changing bushes.

However, upon hearing the noise from the elevator, he stiffly turned around, extended his hand to Daijiu Tai’a, and said, “Thank you for your assistance earlier, Mr.

Tai’a.”

Daijiu Tai’a didn’t seem bothered.

He knew that despite earning a bit of goodwill from the other party, as an outside Scientific Knight with project conflicts with the Mona Knight Order, he could never gain their absolute trust.

Mr.

Bengel had summoned him also for the convenience of monitoring.

Still, he extended his hand and shook hands with Mr.

Bengel, asking, “How’s it going?”

“That thief is very cunning,” Mr.

Bengel’s voice was exceptionally raw.

“When he was on the 731st floor, he continuously sabotaged the surveillance system, almost smashing all the closed-circuit surveillance.

In addition, his Internal Strength Cultivation seems to be very strong; he directly took control of some surveillance cameras…

We cannot fully monitor everything on the 731st level.

And the floor station on the 732nd level seems to have been breached as well.”

Daijiu Tai’a said, “This really is…

bad.”

“Yes, very bad.

I am very sorry that you had to witness such a disgraceful scene.

The local Jianghu has become so rampant to this extent; the Gene Bank’s guard force is seriously derelict in their duties…”

“The one who’s seriously derelict in their duties is you, Bengel!”

Suddenly, the virtual image of His Excellency Ashur, the Holy Knight, appeared on the giant screen behind Bengel.

His Excellency Ashur’s expression was very angry: “Bengel, although our personal relationship is still okay, I hired you to manage the Mona Knight Order, not just to polish antiques!

Do you understand?

You are the Vice Captain of the Scientific Knight Order!

The Vice Captain!”

Mr.

Bengel immediately lowered his head.

Despite being much older in age than Ashur, Ashur had achieved the honor of “Holy Knight,” outside the ranks of Official Knights, promising a much more illustrious future than Bengel.

Moreover, since Ashur could decide the direction of Bengel’s funding based on personal judgment, in the presence of His Excellency Ashur, Vice Captain Bengel could not raise his head.

Ashur continued, furious: “You imbecile!

You let a thief into my building!

Lost our paper!

Do you know what this signifies?”

The Hero would not claim the stolen paper as their own work after taking it.

It was clearly stated in the Chivalrous Spirit passed down by the Martial Ancestor that “fighting for life” itself was a deplorable action, let alone “twisting the truth.” They were only after “public disclosure of paper content,” and would attach the author’s name during public release.

However, they would generally not acknowledge the corresponding author.

In other words, if the Hero publicly released the paper, Bengel’s name would still appear at the beginning of the paper, but Ashur would not receive such treatment.

In the Hero’s value system, Ashur contributed very little other than providing the money.

Unless His Excellency Ashur had clear evidence that the core argument/idea of the paper came from himself.

Therefore, Ashur’s anger over this matter was even greater than Bengel’s.

“If you don’t stop the unexpected loss of the paper, Bengel, then you will lose the right to be credited on all projects for the next three years!

Also, you can forget about ever getting a Round Table Knight qualification recommendation from me!” he bellowed.

Bengel’s arms shook slightly, then he forcefully steadied them and said, “I will spare no effort…”

“Aha,” said Ashur.

“Right, dear Mr.

Bengel, I have some good news for you.

The drones have just scanned all the scenes in your office, retrieved the battle traces, and reenacted the battle according to Mr.

Ming Jing’s memory.”

“Guess what?

Big surprise!

Oh my!

The man-made amber in your office, there’s a piece that wasn’t shattered by the fight.

It wasn’t destroyed by bullets, nor was it directly hit by the Martial Artist…”

The floor plan of Mr.

Bengel’s office was immediately laid out for everyone to see.

Subsequently, the “red dots” representing the debris on the ground and bullet holes on the walls began to move, reconstituting the items in the virtual map.

And reconstructing the battle’s trajectory.

After all the battle traces were restored, there was only one glass curtain wall embedded with man-made amber that was still broken.

“Surprise!

Mother******!” His Excellency Ashur roared.

“You remember what collection this is, right?

Ah?

Speak up!”

Mr.

Bengel almost shrank back and said, “Yes, it’s the amber made from the first traces of the Jade Cauldron Fungus spots…”

“Actually, the drone found the pieces,” Chief Ashur said.

“Do you know?

It seems that those fragments can’t be put together into a neat piece of man-made amber, missing two pieces the size of a Natural Person’s fingertip…”

Bengel felt his spinal fluid turn cold.

The essence of the “Jade Cauldron Fungus” is a type of yeast—among the microorganisms most familiar to ancient humans and was chosen as the “perfect model organism” at the dawn of genetic engineering technology by humans.

This organism’s width does not exceed six micrometers, and its length is between five to thirty micrometers.

Two pieces the size of a fingertip were already enough for propagation.

Although it had been encapsulated in man-made amber for many years, the conditions in Bengel’s office were well maintained.

And yeast, after all, can produce spores.

The Hero only needed to crush the artificial amber in his hand to obtain the fungal culture.

Moreover, it wasn’t a version deliberately left with a “degraded” trap.

The first-generation Jade Cauldron Fungus was a product of the 21st century.

Although its efficiency in producing Restoring Enzyme wasn’t strong and lacked resistance to external environments, even prone to easy mutation, and there were issues with the purity of the synthesized Restoring Enzyme—these were all surmountable problems.

This was the starting point of Yawgmoth’s great legacy, a very stable product of genetic engineering technology.

Once it spread into Jianghu, it would be an endless poison.

Of course, limited by a lack of a complete logistics system, even if the Hero obtained the non-degrading strain of the Jade Cauldron Fungus, he couldn’t immediately promote it throughout the entire Jianghu.

But the mere leakage of such a thing was a huge political mistake.

Daijiu Tai’a was surreptitiously evaluating the surrounding military forces, deducing the current whereabouts of the Mona Knight Order’s martial power.

Suddenly, the leader turned his gaze towards Daijiu Tai’a.

He said, “I regret that you have to witness such a scene, Mr.

Tai’a.

But now…”

Daijiu Tai’a only pretended to listen intently, but in fact, he was silently counting down in his heart.

Five…

four…

three…

two…

one…

Suddenly, His Excellency Ashur’s virtual image turned into a flurry of snowflakes, blinking a few times.

Then, the entire screen began to show errors.

“Damn, it’s an EMP!”

Without needing a diagnostic result, Bengel, who had an electromagnetic sensory organ built into his body, had already reacted, “Coming from directly above…

where exactly?

Damn it!”

Of course, there was no response.

Within these few seconds, the powerful EMP had covered all long-distance electromagnetic signals used for information transmission.

The connections between floors were also severed.

Bengel couldn’t even read the damage report!

He roared in anger, “This is definitely a premeditated conspiracy!

One person set up a high-explosive bomb below to attack the main server room, and another used an EMP above to attack the signal station!”

On the wall, several buzzer sounds rang out.

The primitive information transmission system inherited from the Bell Era—a wired telephone—barely took over the task of conveying messages.

For the next few minutes, this would be the only way to transmit signals.

And it came with a lot of noise.

Mr.

Bengel issued a series of commands.

However, this left him, who was accustomed to the information command system, completely unable to calm down.

At this time, Daijiu Tai’a approached Bengel and said, “Vice Captain, during the years I spent conducting field investigations and walking through Jianghu, I have also encountered Iron Dust shielding or electromagnetic pulse blockades multiple times and have experience fighting in such conditions.

I’m not asking you to send me to the front lines—that wouldn’t be in the best interest of your Order of Knights.”

“But I still have a few small suggestions that I hope you will consider.”

Bengel focused his attention on Daijiu Tai’a.

He nodded and said, “Mr.

Tai’a, please enlighten me.”

“At this time, we can’t rely on ‘intelligence’ for analysis anymore—we can’t obtain any information on the enemy.

Therefore, we must be prepared for all possibilities.”

“Firstly, we must prepare for the possibility of the enemy’s escape.

In this regard, we need to strengthen the building’s own defense and deploy heavy forces at all exits.”

“On the other hand, we must also be ready for ‘the Hero having other targets.'”

Mr.

Bengel said, “What a greedy thief!

To steal my paper and still imagine…

still want…

he has other targets?

What else does he want to do?”

“Of course, to fulfill his duties as a Hero,” Daijiu Tai’a said.

“You should remember what the original intent of Cyber Martial Arts was, right?”

“Assassination Techniques…” Mr.

Bengel chuckled: “You mean his target is me?”

“Possibly, but it’s not certain,” replied Daijiu Tai’a.

“Think about it carefully, this thief has set different traps in both the middle and top floors of the building, and has struck in multiple places, even coordinating with Internal Strength Masters from the outside!

With such a meticulous plan, it’s not surprising that he has bigger schemes.”

“Their target could be you, some key researchers or research subjects on certain projects, or even people of high status.”

“All of these individuals could be targets—including yourself.”

“My strategy is still ‘centralization’.

It would be best if we gathered these potential targets and guarded them with heavy forces.”