Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 277 - 277 57 King Aqini

277: Chapter 57 King Aqini 277: Chapter 57 King Aqini The Heavenly Machine sent a signal to the other party representing “friendliness” and “obedience.” If the other party shared a similar cultural identification, what they should have seen was the act of kneeling on one knee.

“I have seen Iron Heart Dharma King.”

Iron Heart Dharma King, whose real name is Feheart—this is a coined term.

Besides, his identity outside of the sect was quite special.

He was the deputy to the “Human Firewall,” King Aqini.

It was precisely because of such a figure that Six Dragons Sect had specially prepared a set of old-fashioned protocols.

The Dharma King was unable to use a series of verification processes belonging to Six Dragons Sect.

These things were too easily traced by King Aqini.

Iron Heart Dharma King asked, “How is it going?”

Heavenly Machine shook his head, “Not very well.

I still have my doubts, does this Ultimate Way Consensus Therapy really have that kind of developmental prospects?”

“Don’t overthink it.

The ‘Heavenly King Project’ of the original Heavenly Machine Star is still meaningful.

You do it well, and it’s also a casual move by the Sect Hierarch.

It doesn’t matter if it’s not successful, but if it is, it’ll be a pleasant surprise,” Iron Heart Dharma King said with a smile.

“Besides, you should have experienced its influence on your psychological state, right?”

Heavenly Machine nodded.

Those Great Heroes of the Green Forest didn’t know that the “Heavenly Machine” in front of them, and the Heavenly Machine Star who had devised the “Heavenly King Project” a few years ago, were actually not the same person.

The original Heavenly Machine Star was captured by Six Dragons Sect three years earlier.

Six Dragons Sect extracted his memories and then infused them into a Hermit-level Sect Member.

This Hermit had taken on the identity of “Heavenly Machine” and had been walking among Green Forest for three years now.

The Hermit of Heavenly Machine didn’t receive the baptism of Ultimate Way Consensus Therapy directly, instead, he received a recounting of the original Heavenly Machine Star’s memories.

It’s like the difference between “personal experience” and “listening to a great storyteller’s recounting,” the impact on the spirit is incomparably different.

It was also for this reason that the Hermit of Heavenly Machine was able to suppress his own strong violent urges and conduct long-term planning well.

A normal person blending into a group of violence-addicts who use their intellect solely for violent output would naturally feel like a fish in water.

Of course, suspicions among the Green Forest Men weren’t nonexistent.

But those from Green Forest who saw through something all died in an “Official Bandit Suppression.”

For these three years, the Hermit of Heavenly Machine had been controlling the various movements of Green Forest in the Earth-Moon system.

“Of course, even if it’s just to disguise myself as Heavenly Machine, I still have to keep going with this plan,” the Hermit of Heavenly Machine said with self-deprecating laughter.

“But I have already involuntarily started to feel a sense of identity with those from Green Forest…

I increasingly feel like those violence-addicts are my family.

Dharma King, can you understand this kind of thing?”

“Oh?

Can you describe it in more detail?” Iron Heart Dharma King asked, apparently more interested.

“Do you have a repulsion toward Six Dragons Sect?

If there’s no such violent and xenophobic side effect, Ultimate Way Consensus Therapy could be a path towards world peace!”

The emergence of Ultimate Way Consensus Therapy signified that groups mastering scientific technology had become disillusioned with the “rationale prevails over all” philosophy of Martial Ancestor and Yawgmoth.

They agreed that in an era of highly advanced statistics and probability science, and rapidly developing information technology, a completely rational economic plan could bring the greatest benefits to humanity.

However, humans would always, for some reason or another, be unable to identify with it and would instead believe that a world where the strong prey upon the weak was happier.

Even if humans realized this on a rational level, they couldn’t accept it emotionally.

“Free Market” primitive competition was more in line with the imagination of the primitive big brains and the memeplexes related to foraging and agriculture.

Judged by the old morals, the Conservative Faction seemed much more noble than those “heretical” Reformist Faction members.

The actuality of Steal the Country, secret chivalrous wars, and sublimation wars had occurred consecutively, leading to their complete betrayal of the common philosophy of Martial Ancestor and Yawgmoth.

Some scholars wanted to reshape civilization with “emotion” and create a consensus.

“Surpassing the barriers of reason” and “poetically dwelling in society” were their original slogans.

The reason Ultimate Way Consensus Therapy is referred to as “therapy” is to rapidly alter the common imagination of humanity and promote the innovation of the superstructure.

They want to treat “the psychological disease of society.”

However, for some unknown reason, this experiment deviated from the outset.

The “hatred and destructive urges toward non-group members” within Consensus Memory kept amplifying, ultimately forming a kind of mental plague.

Incidentally, the technical foundation of this therapy is the one developed by World Openers to shorten learning times and reduce learning costs.

And this correlates with the era when the Fourth Martial God (the first ever True Personality Mask) was born.

Perhaps this is a different development direction of the same technology.

And perhaps there’s a slim hope that the Heavenly Machine Star’s Heavenly King Project could create the society originally aimed for by Ultimate Way Consensus Therapy.

This is also what the original Heavenly Machine Star revealed after his “self-control” was destroyed by them.

They had operated on the brain of the Great Hero of Green Forest, who, because of his missing neurons, was unable to control what he wanted to say.

He would uncontrollably expose anything and everything.

Six Dragons Sect originally just wanted to play a casual move in Green Forest to find some people with Internal Strength talent for the major topic of “how changes in the neural network structure affect Internal Strength.”

Since the original Heavenly Machine Star had proposed an interesting cognitive science topic, they could also conveniently work on that.

This led to the current Hermit of Heavenly Machine.

“It’s just…

quite contradictory…” the Hermit of Heavenly Machine said.

“You know, the original Heavenly Machine had to adopt a small part of the collective memories of the Great Heroes of Green Forest to win them over.

That’s what he did, and I have to continue in the same way.

Over the years, I’ve absorbed quite a lot…

It just makes me feel a natural closeness to the Green Forest Men, like siblings born of the same mother.”

“This is actually a phenomenon of great research significance.

If appropriate, I think you could increase the frequency of communication with the psychotherapist,” Iron Heart Dharma King said.

“Yes, yes, yes.” The Hermit of Heavenly Machine nodded.

“Additionally, there’s another piece of news.” Iron Heart Dharma King hesitated for a moment and then said, “You could use the channels of Green Forest to pay attention to the news of ‘The Rebirth of Martial God.'”

Hermit of Heavenly Machine was startled, “What did you say?

‘Martial God Rebirth’?

Xiang Shan’s consciousness has revived once more?

Where?”

“This isn’t confirmed news,” Iron Heart Dharma King said.

“It’s just a suspicion.”

“Was it verified by our people?” Hermit of Heavenly Machine asked eagerly, “If it’s information we’ve confirmed ourselves, you know…”

“Silence your body,” Iron Heart Dharma King said.

“I’m only telling you to be aware of this matter.”

Hermit of Heavenly Machine nodded, “I understand.

May I ask where the news originated from?”

“The northern part of the New Land, close to where Apricot Forest Duke Tao Enhai fell.

If the suspect really is the Martial God, then it’s possible he came to rescue his Martial Ancestor companion,” Iron Heart Dharma King declared.

“Understood.

I’ll have Sky Dark, Sky Fierce, and New Sky Speed pay attention to it.”

Iron Heart Dharma King ordered a few more things, then, like the aurora, he dissipated in front of the Hermit of Heavenly Machine.

……………………………………

Iron Heart Dharma King—Feheart Kevin DG had returned from the world of data.

He reconnected his Prosthetic Eye, restoring normal vision and adjusting gravity parameters.

He removed the data cable from the back of his head.

This excuse is often seen in Internal Strength Masters.

After pulling out the cable, his hand naturally dropped, but during this process, he subtly vibrated it.

There was a hidden data port in his wrist, containing an extra microchip capable of processing some data inconvenient to process centrally.

And now, he used Clever Force to momentarily disconnect the chip from the port.

After completing his task, he followed protocol to meet his superior, “Humanity’s Firewall,” “God of Fire,” King Aqini.

This person was humanity’s second Internal Strength Master in history.

Decades ago, when the unnamed “Turing” was forced into seclusion by vast armies, this individual became the most prominent figure still active in plain sight.

Even a little caution was necessary.

After leaving the workshop, Feheart crossed the long bridge of the ship.

At the end of the bridge was a…

um, a simple cylindrical container the shape of a pepperpot.

This “pepperpot” seemed just over a meter tall, less than wide enough to encircle with arms, and its layers held a camouflage pattern.

But no one dared to find the figure comical.

This was King Aqini, who, in pursuit of the ultimate Inner Strength, had forsaken Self-awareness as a human, completely giving up the human form of the Prosthetic Body.

[The task is done.]

Feheart saw this line of text appear in the upper left corner of his vision.

Then, he felt his software accessed illegally.

Feheart guarded his mind closely, concealing any thoughts that others shouldn’t see.

It was only a moment.

King Aqini seemed to have already received the news.

“Hm, well done,” King Aqini said.

He seemed to have not used a synthesizer to speak for a long time; the voice produced was mechanical yet oddly excited.

“Infiltrating the Six Dragons Sect, infiltrating the Green Forest, you’ve performed very well in both tasks,” King Aqini said.

“Your Majesty praises me too highly,” Feheart said.

To be a spy under King Aqini, you had to start by playing a double agent.

King Aqini was perhaps the last who might extract the Six Dragons Sect as a whole from the vast network space.

Against such an enemy, it was best to throw out some unimportant things from the start to mislead them of your scale.

“Alright, your work is impeccable, you may leave,” said King Aqini.

He admired military-like efficiency and was not much for formalities.

Feheart hesitated for a moment.

—In fact, maybe that was the implication in White Hermit’s report…

He saluted and said, “Your Majesty, I have something else to report.”

“Speak.”

“Please be mindful of the news concerning the Martial God on the New Land.”