Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 195 - 195 115 Anecdotes of the Martial God

195: Chapter 115: Anecdotes of the Martial God 195: Chapter 115: Anecdotes of the Martial God The Fourth Martial God was the first to have a “Personality Mask not made by humans.”

Perhaps it was to humiliate, perhaps to commemorate, or maybe just to declare victory.

In any case, Yawgmoth did indeed, in the manner of a Hero, store a small portion of Martial Ancestor’s memories online.

This portion of memory was purely “memory of events,” with no “knowledge-based memory.”

In other words, even if you accessed this memory and learned about “Martial Ancestor Xiang Shan teaching a class on a specific date,” you would only remember whether Xiang Shan was distracted, whether he took notes, and whether he found the class “useful” or “boring,” but you wouldn’t know the specific content of that class.

This was obviously a restriction.

Xiang Shan was a pioneer of academic reform and a leading figure in the new technological revolution.

He knew the various fundamentals and prerequisites needed for modern industry.

His long career of resistance forced him to memorize many industrial machine designs and methods of metallurgy.

A backup of this material existed in both biological brains and storage devices.

If these memories had also been uploaded to the network, then the flames of rebellion would naturally have been ignited worldwide.

Therefore, the first content Yawgmoth uploaded was solely the memory of “events,” not including “knowledge.”

Moreover, he reviewed the content he uploaded, trying to prevent anyone with intent from deriving knowledge from these “events”—this, much like a student suddenly recalling a phrase the teacher had mentioned in class during an examination, thereby gaining “knowledge.” Yawgmoth ensured this would not happen.

The Heroes then assumed that the memories uploaded by Yawgmoth were likely selectively interpreted, distorting the image of the Martial Ancestor.

Therefore, Xiang Shan’s former friends also uploaded their own memories related to “Xiang Shan” to this chain.

They also added a significant amount of content about “technical details,” supplementing the knowledge-based memory.

The Heroes hoped that someone would read this memory, gain courage and the “power to resist,” and become a new Hero.

Indeed, this blockchain did become such a thing for a time.

However, things took a different turn after the Fourth Martial God was born in a certain Space City.

The Fourth Martial God was originally just a common impoverished young man.

He lived in the “peripheral structures” of that Space City.

These structures were not stably connected to the main body of the Space City.

With the rotation of the satellite city, they were even somewhat shaky.

If a Natural Person astronaut exposed themselves to such an environment without a spacesuit, they would mostly collapse from low pressure exposure.

Only Benchmark Men could endure such harsh conditions.

These were the places where the poor lived.

They appeared as “excess numbers” with population growth.

There was no room for them in the Space City, and these guys had no means to travel to planets or other Space Cities, and could only reside in space shanties akin to unauthorized constructions.

The past of the Fourth Martial God was so minimal that no one knew the details before he became the “Martial God”—none of it was recorded.

At that time, he killed gang members who wanted to destroy the satellite city’s peripheral docking ports—the cause was that the gang members found they could not extort anything from the residents of the peripheral area, so they planned to destroy the docking ports, exposing these residents to the space environment, and finally harvesting all the materials and organics from that small “block.”

“Xiang Shan” killed them.

This was his first battle.

Afterward, he turned that Space City into the first chivalrous stronghold suspended outside a planet and gradually conquered the nearby Space Cities around Jupiter, spearheading a vast surge.

About near Saturn, an ancient Hero said to him, “I believe you are indeed ‘Xiang Shan.'” Even Xiang Shan’s friends thought he indeed resembled Xiang Shan completely.

The vision of the Fourth Martial God was probably to rely on the cluster of Space Cities to form a chivalrous armed force and then seize the resources of Jupiter.

But the volume of the Space City was ultimately too small.

In the end, awaiting these city clusters was a high-energy particle stream weapon that spanned dozens of light-seconds.

These weapons penetrated the core of the city at the speed of light.

That day, even on Earth, one could see the “dust” shimmering around Jupiter.

The Fourth Martial God might have died in the bombardment from beyond visual range, or perhaps he engaged in fierce battle against the forces led by King Aqini in the Jupiter Universe before he was defeated and killed.

This all happened almost two hundred years ago.

Afterward, the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Martial Gods were also undeniably True Personality Masks.

The Fifth Martial God, however, was of “unknown origin.”

This situation, in the end, felt strange to both the Heroes and the Protectors.

But the greatest feature of a blockchain is that it is difficult to modify.

The computing power resources needed to twist the blockchain itself were just too enormous compared to the resources needed for “writing.”

And due to the countless uploads from Heroes and the consolidation of Martial Studies, this blockchain had grown to an unimaginably massive scale.

Fortunately, “becoming a Martial God” was not a simple matter.

This was not like the shared memory of Green Forest, where a process could be completed just by injecting a large amount of “sensory stimulation.”

Before becoming a Martial Ancestor, the reader of the memories must first genuinely identify with the Martial Ancestor’s philosophy, then think about it day after day, imitate it, role-play as Martial Ancestor, training their brain to accommodate Martial Ancestor’s “behavior patterns.”

Thus, the ideas of the Martial Ancestor would resonate among the neurons in that brain.

Only then would a Martial God be born.

This was also a fact acknowledged by the Eighth Martial God born on Earth.

Not everyone harbored such thoughts.

Even if they did, as long as there was even a hint of “extraneous thoughts” in their heart, the process could never proceed smoothly.

And therein lay a very contradictory fact.

“The philosophy of the Martial Ancestor himself would oppose the birth of the Martial God,” “chivalry” could not encompass an immortal god.

However, to become a Martial God, one must accept and embrace this philosophy.

In fact, researchers still do not understand what kind of logic the Martial Gods, who were True Personality Masks, used to overcome this hurdle.

So far, all True Personality Masks had arisen “by accident.”

Only the Pseudo-personality Masks could be “produced according to a plan.”

After all, the human brain is such an aimlessly designed construct, a “pile of evolutionary detritus.” Attempting to reboot such a system was bound to be fraught with difficulties.

On the other hand, the Protectors were not keen on the continuous emergence of Martial Gods, and among the heroes, many Famed Heroes believed that “the incessant emergence of Martial Gods does not conform to the spirit of chivalry,” hence they were unwilling for this situation to continue.

They couldn’t just delete the blockchain, only attempt by all means to set barriers for “access.”

For instance, both sides consciously restricted the dissemination of this blockchain intelligence.

Even mysterious powers were continually deleting records and hyperlinks online, URLs, and other such information.

Therefore, to this day, not many people are aware of this particular blockchain.

However, in the digital age, truly erasing a piece of information is virtually impossible.

In fact, efforts to do this had begun when the Sixth Martial God was born.

The Seventh Martial God had also rallied everyone to do so.

But in the corners of the internet, often overlooked, there are records of these nearly forgotten things.

The Eighth Martial God was an Earth orphan who had stumbled upon the link by chance.

The Eighth Martial God perished in a high-altitude orbital bombardment.

The site of her martyrdom was in the north-central region of the New Continent.

After the Eighth Martial God, three more Martial Gods had emerged in succession.

However, whether they were True Personality Masks or Pseudo-personality Masks was difficult to ascertain.

This is what is currently known to the people of jianghu about the “Martial God” story.

After speaking with Yuki, Xiang Shan once again plunged into deep contemplation.

He was no longer surprised as to why the Demon Sect had extracted a hard drive with his own memories on it.

It seemed not so rare after all.

As long as there was one individual within the Demon Sect who knew the path to that blockchain, the entire sect could potentially extract any segment of Xiang Shan’s memories.

What puzzled him was the purpose of the Demon Sect doing this.

It was indeed hard to imagine.

By teaching the Green Forest some fragmented knowledge, the Demon Sect aimed at experimenting on the Green Forest—put more nicely, treating them as “test users” for “new technology.”

Moreover, they were not particularly concerned about how much harm the Green Forest might inflict on civilians during this process.

Such action, no doubt, was contrary to the Path of Chivalry.

And Martial God Xiang Shan…

Although Xiang Shan did not regard the birth of Martial Gods as a good thing, at least the Martial Gods had indeed acted as resistors, fulfilling their duties until the last moment.

If Martial God Xiang Shan truly possessed a judgment similar to Xiang Shan’s, then they and the Demon Sect were absolutely incompatible.

And that Demon Sect Research Knight had indeed shown an attitude that “You and us are not on the same side.”

Xiang Shan did not know what psychology they were based on to spread his memories.

And then, there was the current him.

Which Xiang Shan was “this self”?

The Twelfth Martial God?

“Hmm, no, that’s not right,” Xiang Shan shook his head as he said, “Pseudo-personality Masks, their personality data runs on electronic devices.

But when Yuki picked me up, all electronic devices in my brain were burnt out.

So, I should not be a Pseudo-personality Mask.”

“As for a True Personality Mask…the memories of all True Personality Masks almost always come from ‘that blockchain.’ But I have no impression of that blockchain at all.

Judging by the shock I felt when I heard it recounted by Yuki, it was definitely the first time I learned about it—this is not because I forgot, but because I truly did not know.”

“But…”

Xiang Shan once again plunged into thought: “It is indeed very difficult to turn a thinking brain into a True Personality Mask.

But what if it were to imprint memories onto a brain as blank as a baby’s?”