Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 219 - 219 139 The Wind Rises

219: Chapter 139 The Wind Rises 219: Chapter 139 The Wind Rises In the northern city of Piston City, Yuki practiced hacking into a device that looked like electronic garbage.

This was already a part slightly more advanced than basic programming knowledge.

Virus, decompiling, intrusion, cracking…

These were the most primitive and initial states of Inner Strength.

The earliest Inner Strength was developed greatly in terms of offense.

It was only as the enemy gradually mastered the technology that the Heroes began to develop the defensive aspects of Inner Strength.

The junk was assembled by Solo Kill King from some electronic components he found after locating this base, including a simple program.

Yuki’s task was to bypass the security restrictions and strip the source code of that small program.

The young boy felt exhilarated as he attempted this kind of thing for the first time.

Meanwhile, a little girl sat beside him, biting her finger.

Half an hour later, Yuki felt dizzy and his vision blurred.

He then stopped.

He had heard that the masters of Inner Strength from the Old Era first mastered programming before transforming the skill into instinct.

But Solo Kill King told him that was the past.

The current masters of Inner Strength were slowly developing Inner Strength while learning hacking techniques.

Yuki, considering the fact that his master had been in slumber for about two hundred years, believed this.

If he were to use a keyboard and monitor to decompile the small program, it might take a long time, but at least he wouldn’t get dizzy and blurry-eyed so quickly.

Yuki almost collapsed to the ground, stirring up a cloud of dust.

The little girl, covered in black mud, seemed to be choked by the dust, waving her hands in disgust.

“Pat pat,” Yuki felt someone tapping him.

Only then did he notice the little girl behind him.

The young hero entering Jianghu rubbed the little apprentice’s head, “Hey, stop causing trouble, I’m working on something important.”

The little chap muttered something, baring her teeth and clawing the air.

Yuki rubbed the little one again, thought for a moment, and then casually said something.

He remembered his master saying that when the little girl should have been learning to speak, she was trapped in a particularly tragic situation and it was uncertain if she could develop normal language functions.

Talking to her a bit more couldn’t hurt at this time.

Before they could chat much, Huang Ouguang pushed the door open and said, “Yuki, my master is looking for you.”

“Ah,” Yuki immediately stood up straight, “What’s up?

Do I need to go purchase something?”

Among this group of people, Yuki was the only one with a low modification rate, a Benchmark Man.

The government wouldn’t even spare him a glance—after all, there was very little that Cybernetically Enhanced People with low modification rates could do.

This also served as a cover for Yuki.

He could casually purchase some less sensitive supplies.

Such as large quantities of obsolete parts, sugary substances, and so on.

The former could be melted and ground into powder to make 3D printer material, while the latter could be used as a culture medium for Jade Cauldron Fungus.

These items, commonly bought by people, could attract attention if purchased in large quantities.

Yuki was just the right person for this task.

“No.

It’s Hero Yuan.” Huang Ouguang said, “She seems to have discovered something.”

Yuki immediately perked up.

In recent days, Yuan Wenren had been roaming the edges of the city, observing the far-off sand and waiting for sandstorms.

According to Solo Kill King’s estimate, the Official Army should be hunting down the Green Forest Members everywhere by now.

Conditions for spreading Iron Dust on a large scale like the other night were gone.

They could only rely on the power of sandstorms to get through the martial law zones.

Yuki immediately burst out.

Soon, following Huang Ouguang, he met Solo Kill King.

This was a low rooftop.

The ten-story unfinished building, though removed from the “slum” feel and compared to thousands of meters tall megastructures, still looked like a weed.

Solo Kill King, with a stern expression, said, “Get ready.

I’m taking you to Pine Eagle City.”

According to the previously agreed upon plan, if Xiang Shan truly managed to break out, he would stay in Pine Eagle City for a while.

If possible, he would seek out Hiroshi Matsushima.

Xiang Shan hadn’t demanded that Yuki must find him.

He had clarified in advance that Yuki didn’t have to take the risk.

Entering Pine Eagle City, he might not be able to send back any information.

In such a case, whether Yuki decided to hide in a settlement or follow Solo Kill King and the others to the Arctic, it was his choice.

But Yuki still planned to search for his own master.

Hearing Solo Kill King say this, Yuki waved his hands, “Senior, there’s no need for that.

I can go alone…

”

“Go to hell.

Can you drive?” Solo Kill King smacked Yuki on the head, “I’ll take you.”

On the other side, Yuan Wenren packed up the optical instrument and said, “Actually, we had plans to head south anyway.

That legendary old hero might be in trouble, and we have to provide support.

We were going south in the first place, just catching a ride with you.”

Solo Kill King spread his hands, “Since there’s no Green Forest in the wilderness now, and we have no place to assemble vehicles.”

Huang Ouguang asked, “Then, master…

”

“This time, only I, Hero Yuan, and the boy with the Wandering Soul Palm are going,” Solo Kill King shook his head, “The rest of you, hustle to the Arctic.

Try to get through the Bering Fortress somehow.”

Huang Ouguang was somewhat dissatisfied, “Yuki doesn’t even have his modifications maxed out, and you’re even bringing a baby!”

“My master is in Pine Eagle!” Solo Kill King shook his head, “He himself doesn’t want to go to the Arctic.

Besides, the vehicle we are about to use belongs to his master.

If I hijack the vehicle and force you to the Arctic, would that be reasonable?”

Yuki felt somewhat embarrassed, “Well…

the master did say before that any vehicle could be given to comrades within Jianghu, it’s not important…”

“You shouldn’t casually interject in this matter,” Solo Kill King waved his hand.

The real difficulty for the Hero Faction now lay further south.

These vehicles could serve as very important aids.

There was no need to take such valuable resources with those retreating to the north.

Yuan Wenren also tugged at Yuki and said, “Look, the sandstorm is almost upon us.

We don’t know when it will stop.

We need to hurry.”

Yuki looked toward the creeping black line on the horizon and nodded, “I understand.”

…………………………….

“Aaaahhh…

kill me!

Kill me…

eeeeeeeeek aaaaaaahhhhh!”

Amidst a string of screams and moans, Amilcare Zhao’s thoughts gradually drifted back to reality.

In front of him, the last Green Forest Member had just been executed.

Before his life ended, the Protectors had prepared quite the torture for him.

An Internal Strength Master had reset the underlying protocols of the electronic components in his skull.

The electronic devices once used to input neural signals instantly became instruments of torture.

He was tortured by his own Prosthetic Body.

Before his personality collapsed, Internal Strength Masters specially hacked into his memory storage area, searching for the content they wanted.

However, the result was clear.

His subordinates had found no meaningful evidence.

This was the seventeenth Green Forest Stronghold he had destroyed.

In the past few days, the Green Forest Strongholds had been falling like dominos.

Previously, the government had only roughly demarcated the spheres of influence of the Green Forest and the possible locations of the Great Stockades based on the activities of their lackeys.

Now, the government was sending large forces to systematically search for them.

And once a Great Stockade’s location was confirmed, what followed was a strike from Space-based Weapons.

Some Green Forest Members realized something from the government’s unusual attitude and the frequent appearance of meteors.

Several Green Forest Strongholds abandoned their bases ahead of the government’s arrival and scattered to flee.

But truth be told, their escaping techniques were inferior to that of Heroes.

Soon, these fellows were locked on by drones one by one, followed by the army catching up and bombarding them with remote weapons.

Amilcare fell into contemplation.

When the Nameless Swordsman broke through the defenses, he just thought the opponent was performing a Back Skill and would stick to the plan and flee north.

But after he tightened the blockade, he had guarded north of Pine Eagle City for three days and caught nothing.

At this point, he suspected the Hero had already fled south to aid Tao Enhai.

So, the Pine Eagle City military crossed the city and headed south to eliminate bandits.

He had hoped to find that Hero in a Green Forest Stronghold.

In his eyes, since the Hero had breached the blockade, he must have been seriously injured.

He would try to replenish resources by all means.

And the weaker Green Forest Strongholds in the Wilderness were excellent resource points.

Yet even though Old Master Zhao destroyed one Stronghold after another along the way, he never found a trace of that Hero.

Not a single Great Stockade showed signs of being looted.

Nor did any Green Forest leader have records of transactions with Jianghu people.

The Hero seemed to vanish into thin air.

—Truly baffling…

Amilcare thought.

This operation was undoubtedly a failure.

He might have missed the last chance to capture that Hero.

The weather satellite had just sent him intelligence.

A high pressure front in the north had stirred up a huge sandstorm.

This sandstorm was massive in scale and would last a long time.

The sandstorm would cause the electromagnetic environment to deteriorate further, making it even harder to command large-scale forces.

And in that environment conducive to hiding, Assassins would only thrive like fish in water.

As for Tao Enhai’s situation…

“Damn!” Amilcare Zhao slammed the decorative Command Blade he was holding onto the ground with force.

Whether it was one aspect or another…

Whether it was one aspect or another!

Amilcare ordered in his mind, for the Heavenly Punishment System to operate at maximum efficiency.

Above the sun-covered sky, countless satellites orbited.

Pieces of simply refined space junk aimed at potential targets.

The remaining Green Forest Strongholds, he wouldn’t let a single one escape, not giving the Hero any chance to replenish supplies.

“Let it be so,” he said.

To the north, the sandstorm roared in darkness.

Amidst the sandstorm, three vehicles headed straight for Pine Eagle City.

And meteor showers fell from south to north along the way.

The sound of windblown sand and the noise of Space-based Weapons striking down resonated on different planes.

In a grand symphony played by nature and humanity, the Heroes embarked on a new journey.

[Volume Two, The End!]