Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 282 - 282 62 Thunder Method and Anti-Radar Tactics

282: Chapter 62 Thunder Method and Anti-Radar Tactics 282: Chapter 62 Thunder Method and Anti-Radar Tactics When Xiang Shan announced his seclusion, Yuki and Yuan Wenren continued preparing for their next outing.

Yuan Wenren recently had no short-term goals.

Since the Old Senior, who did not wish to reveal his name, was highly skilled and willing to spend effort teaching, she planned to follow the Old Senior for the coming period.

As for the Old Senior, his next destination was the south.

Generally speaking, when Heroes headed south in the New World, there were only two ultimate destinations—Paradox City and this year’s Paralympics.

If the Old Senior’s goals truly were these two places, then as a Hero, Yuan Wenren felt she should also contribute her efforts.

Meanwhile, Yuki was staring at the 3D printer.

With a stable energy source provided by an isotope battery, the 3D printer, acquired from Organization Z, was finally able to work continuously.

Sometimes, they would also activate the vehicle’s other equipment.

During those times, the battery supply could not keep up.

But during these intervals, Yuki and his team would choose to temporarily shut down the 3D printer, allowing the device to cool down to avoid damage from overoperation.

At this moment, the 3D printers were rapidly repeating their jobs.

They sprayed a layer of metal powder on the baseplate, followed immediately by lasers, magnetic fields, and ultrasonics, with the former heating and the latter interfering with the growth of crystals.

After rapid cooling of this layer, the machine would spray on the second layer of metal powder, repeating the process, and in a matter of seconds, a batch of metal parts of different models were ready.

After a batch was completed, the internal magnetic field of the 3D printer would change, gathering these parts and sending them out of the gas-filled chamber through a specific exit.

At the exit, other robotic arms were already waiting.

They quickly sorted the parts and began preliminary assembly.

These robotic arms were also made by the 3D printers.

Xiang Shan, in the early 21st century, believed that 3D printing technology could potentially change the entire industrial landscape because a mature 3D printer could produce nearly any type of device given the design schematics.

And once the first assembly machine was manually assembled, production could continue indefinitely.

And design schematics are just information.

If intellectual property is not taken into account, downloading a design schematic only involves the transfer of a few electrons—requiring very little energy.

Xiang Shan could not remember if he had achieved his youthful ideal, but now he indeed had a head full of design schematics.

The parts being produced by the 3D printer were very small in size, and when assembled together, they were only about two to three centimeters in size.

“These things are so small, I have no idea how they’re supposed to fight…” Yuki murmured to himself.

“Hm?” Yuan Wenren glanced over, “Ah, microbots.

These are meant to deceive the enemy…”

Yuki was taken aback, “Would anyone target these tiny robots?

Even if they were carrying high explosives, it would be hard to injure someone, right?”

He didn’t know what “bugs” were.

He had never seen a bug since he was young, so he referred to them as “tiny robots”.

Having followed Xiang Shan through several battles, although the Old Master never allowed him on the front lines in real life-or-death struggles, Yuki had still witnessed Xiang Shan’s fights with the Green Forest numerous times.

Additionally, Xiang Shan would show him recordings of combat.

He also had a rough understanding of the power of explosives.

Apart from the “nuclear bomb” his master mentioned, few explosives were capable of unleashing energy that could damage a fully cyberized Martial Artist at such a small size.

The government, to prevent Heroes from acquiring radioactive elements, seldom used nuclear bombs, let alone equip drones with miniature nuclear weapons.

In Yuki’s opinion, objects that could attract enemy fire were usually obvious threats like drones about a meter in diameter.

Yuan Wenren smiled, “Does a paper airplane look threatening?”

Yuan Wenren had not actually seen Xiang Shan use a paper airplane, but she was present when Xiang Shan shared some combat experiences, so she knew the “Old Senior” was adept at paper airplanes.

Moreover, the assassination tactics created by the Martial Ancestor also involved paper airplanes, hence her example.

Yuki fell into deep thought, “Paper airplanes are for misleading radar…

Is this thing for the same function?”

Using metal foil to interfere with radar is actually a very old tactic.

In World War II, when the United Kingdom opposed the Third Reich, British planes would release large amounts of metal foil to disrupt radar.

In more modern aerial combat, pilots rely on infrared decoys packed with magnesium powder, nitrocellulose, PTFE, and aluminum foil to evade enemy missile lock-ons.

Essentially, “paper airplanes” are a way to keep the metal foil in the air longer and move faster, updating the tactic of metal foil to suit modern cyber Martial Arts.

Mounting the Longbo Lens or infrared emitter onto a paper airplane is also an extension of this tactic.

“In reality, paper airplanes can only be considered a ‘temporary solution’,” Yuan Wenren sighed, “Their performance can’t compare to more advanced interference measures, but they are simple and cheap.

They can only disturb actively searching instruments like radar, so they’re only used in situations where vision is less effective.”

Yuki said, “Like Iron Dust…”

Yuan Wenren held her forehead, “Indeed, like Iron Dust…

but I want to say, Iron Dust is not a high-level smoke grenade.

It’s not particularly used in situations where visual interference is required.”

Yuki was shocked.

Because he felt that his master always used Iron Dust as a smoke grenade.

After hearing Yuki’s doubts, Yuan Wenren fell silent for a moment.

“Perhaps it’s because you haven’t attacked a truly fortified base yet…

the kind with ground-based radar,” Yuan Wenren said.

“If it were only Iron Dust and metal foil, radar could still burn through it with extremely high power at close range.

Don’t doubt, those Houndhawks are not lacking in energy, nor are they sparing with resources.”

Yuki felt his worldview was being challenged: “This…

is it not supposed to be used like this?”

“The Old Senior indeed likes to use it that way…

but actually…” Yuan Wenren thought for a moment: “It’s more commonly used for refracting lasers, destroying electronic components, and resisting electromagnetic pulses.

Shielding communications and interfering with visual perception are secondary functions.”

Speaking of this, Yuan Wenren suddenly realized something was amiss.

If Iron Dust spread, apart from affecting the enemy’s communications, it would also affect one’s own Inner Strength performance and block techniques like witnessing used for hacking in combat.

Therefore, Heroes who weren’t very strong in Inner Strength would use this tactic to compensate for their weaknesses.

On Earth, Heroes seldom employ the technique of witnessing against government targets, because King Aqini spends most of his time in the Earth-Moon system.

If the hacking target has the authority to call for help from King Aqini, the Hero would almost certainly be counter-killed by this powerful practitioner of Inner Strength from afar.

However, the Old Senior seemed to use it too sparingly.

His habitual sprinkling of Iron Dust implied that in his habits, “using Inner Strength in battle” did not belong to “frequently preferred” tactics.

And yet, the Old Senior’s level of Inner Strength was clearly very high.

Judging by the stories he told, it was incredibly high—at least that’s how Yuan Wenren saw it.

—So who exactly did the Old Senior used to battle?

Yuan Wenren couldn’t help but wonder.

“…

Sister Yuan?” Yuki called out.

“Ah?”

“You haven’t answered my question yet,” said Yuki.

“Did you mean, these things are also used for jamming?”

Yuan Wenren nodded.

Looking at the semi-finished mechanical insects, she said, “Junior Brother Yuki, you know, many Heroes install radar inside their bodies.

Although ground radar often produces noise due to reflections of radar waves from the ground in close-range ground combat, when a Martial Artist takes to the air or moves at high speeds relative to the ground, if the body isn’t specially processed for stealth, it’s quite easy to be locked onto by radar.

Moreover, Martial Artists supported by sophisticated target filtering algorithms can also pick out suspicious targets from ground echoes for recognition and tracking.”

Yuki nodded, “Teacher mentioned it briefly, but didn’t go in-depth.”

“Yes, the Old Senior probably hopes you can start from scratch, first master the theoretical foundations, then gradually progress, taking fewer detours in Martial Studies cultivation,” Yuan Wenren nodded.

“At this stage, you most likely won’t need this knowledge, but talking about it doesn’t hurt.”

Upon saying this, Yuan Wenren felt some envy.

Her own Teacher had died early in a government surprise attack.

To help her blend into the crowd, the Teacher had exposed herself.

Since then, Yuan Wenren could only struggle alone with the materials and online information left by her Teacher.

This was not an easy thing to do.

At the start of the 21st century, a person could find all the educational materials from elementary school to university online, but few could learn all this on their own.

Human thought is constructed through experience, and a Teacher is needed to guide the understanding of the knowledge within the educational materials.

For this reason, Yuan Wenren also took many detours.

Her Inner Strength was now slightly weaker than that of Cui Hai, the young Hero from Redstone Gate who had yet to finish his training.

It was precisely because of this that she was eager to learn from the Old Senior for a longer period.

Putting aside these emotions, Yuan Wenren continued, “Therefore, many Martial Artists—especially those with Prosthetic Bodies capable of supporting intense combat, often have radar warning devices installed in their bodies to detect radar waves directed at them in time.

Sometimes, even before the one using the radar has detected the target, the one being irradiated can already locate the source of the radar waves based on their signal characteristics.”

“It’s like playing tag in the dark when we were kids, where the one who can’t stop glowing is the first to be exposed.

Is that what you mean?” After Yuki spoke, he suddenly realized that those days and memories felt as distant as if they belonged to a previous lifetime.

“Exactly, exactly, Junior Brother Yuki, you understand quickly,” Yuan Wenren, not noticing the shift in Yuki’s emotions, went on, “Therefore, the confrontations between us remote Martial Artists often seem to only result in ‘I shot, the enemy fell,’ or ‘Both sides shot, one was hit, the other wasn’t,’ which appear very simple.

But in reality, long before the gunfire exchange, there has already been countless strategies around radar detection and counter-detection.”

It was a bit like in the stories of ancient times, where two Great Heroes would engage in a prolonged standoff before suddenly concluding their mental duel and deciding the victor with a single stroke.