Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 296 - 296 76 Fighting for Life

296: Chapter 76: Fighting for Life 296: Chapter 76: Fighting for Life Xiang Shan walked briskly down the main street.

At the same time, his inner strength extended outward like tendrils using radio waves.

He cautiously hijacked several nearby drones.

These civilian drones were almost defenseless.

Xiang Shan had to ensure that after completing their given tasks, these drones could automatically return to their original owners, so he only chose those with enough battery life and hardware capable of supporting complex navigation software.

The rest were implanted with a minor code to act as temporary signal relay nodes.

With the help of these drones, Xiang Shan’s senses expanded along the data chain.

[Master…] A message from Yuki popped up at the corner of Xiang Shan’s eyes, [I’ve already set off as you instructed…

But isn’t this kind of dangerous?]

[The location Yuan chose is really good, and there’s no government surveillance around,] Xiang Shan replied, [We dug out the car, and we can just go.

Besides, the route I gave you also bypasses the Houndhawk Barracks on the outer perimeter.]

[This base…]

Xiang Shan said, [Forget about the base.

When Green Forest started massacring, we couldn’t stay in this city much longer.

Perhaps we won’t even get the chance to come back and retrieve the other two vehicles.]

Xiang Shan instructed Yuki to dig out the best-performing “Mule” from the ground and then skirt around the edge of the city for a half-circle to head to the southern side of the city.

Meanwhile, Xiang Shan himself would pass through the city to chase after Yuan Wenren and that Green Forest.

If Xiang Shan were that Green Forest, he would never engage with a sniper in the highly complex urban environment.

He would mostly head towards the wilderness.

Thus far, all legends about the Eighth Martial God indicated that he never left Delacruz City until his death.

Based on this, the only way to find the “Eighth Martial God’s Legacy” would be to head south to Delacruz City.

This coincided perfectly with the intelligence Xiang Shan had gathered earlier.

Xiang Shan now intended to try locking down that Green Forest within the city.

Unlike Yuan Wenren, Xiang Shan’s close combat skills were superior, and his prosthetic body was made mostly from parts of elite government officers slain during Tao Enhai’s breakout battle.

He was confident in his ability to capture that Green Forest in close-quarters combat.

For Xiang Shan, a hero with strong inner strength, the city’s complex surveillance system posed no problem.

If used properly, it could even act as an aid.

Additionally, the complex architectural environment could also limit Green Forest’s performance to some extent.

He intended to trap the Green Forest within the city.

And Yuki was a secondary assurance.

That Green Forest also knew how to avoid surveillance and sight.

Xiang Shan couldn’t pinpoint his position in real-time.

He couldn’t guarantee that he would definitely intercept the Green Forest within the city.

Meanwhile, sending Yuki in at least held the potential to intercept Yuan Wenren, preventing that fool from heading into the wilderness to his death.

Suddenly, Xiang Shan paused.

In the conversation, he quickly said, [Disciple, stop.

A group of Houndhawks is 600 meters ahead of you.

Pause for a few minutes, then take a detour to the east…]

[Ah?

That timing…]

[Then don’t make me waste more time figuring out how to save you!] Xiang Shan scolded.

At the same time, he quickened his pace.

……………………………………….

The terrain just south of Domingo City was steep.

This was the road leading to the plateau.

The girl did not walk very steadily.

She was terrified, feeling like she could tumble down the rocky slope at any moment.

But during this time, “Great Hero” became extremely stingy, unwilling to lend her a hand.

The girl felt her entire sole aching, as if the arches of her feet were about to break.

She looked pitifully at Borshu again, hoping he would help.

But “Great Hero” seemed oblivious…

No, not oblivious, he had intentionally moved three meters away.

—Why…?

The girl felt terrified.

Was it like in the stories, where a hero helps someone only to distance themselves afterward?

Borshu looked back.

Just within a hundred meters behind him, a quadcopter drone hovered.

Although the drone was reputedly “silent,” it was not “concealed” from Borshu.

The drone had seemingly given up on hiding and clearly followed behind him.

It seemed to say, “The bullet is coming soon.”

This was also a strategy.

Borshu thought.

The assassin wanted to keep him highly tense.

The tenser he became, the more likely he was to tire.

And the more tired he became, the more likely he was to make a mistake.

This drone had been like this for the past twenty minutes.

But the contest of endurance was about to reveal itself.

Just over this ridge, they would enter a terrain that was complex.

This small area was narrow on the map, but Borshu could more easily leverage the terrain to hide.

This was the critical area.

He looked up and spotted a protruding rock.

He pointed to it and said to the girl, “Let’s go there, and you can rest a bit.”

The girl was overjoyed and nodded.

She hurriedly climbed up the hill.

Borshu, however, did not watch the girl but instead focused below.

He had already switched his vision to active infrared speed measurement.

His shoulder armor emitted a substantial amount of infrared light, which would be incredibly visible in the night.

However, at the same time, he could easily catch objects moving much faster than the background.

This was a provocation.

He had already prepared an environment advantageous for the hero.

Now, with the girl, who could potentially hamper the hero’s attack moving away from him, he himself was the most conspicuous target of the night.

The hero would not miss this opportunity.

Yuan Wenren realized this too.

With gunners, apart from “close-range gunfighting,” most situations were “information battles.” The moment of firing was when one exposed oneself, potentially deciding life or death.

Masters spar with a tacit agreement, engaging in detection and counter-detection.

And this man was putting his life on the line.

He was highly confident in his skills.

Using his martial arts, he was betting he wouldn’t die from the first shot, betting he could kill before being shot!

Hero set up his beloved rifle amid the dust.

The intelligence gathered by the drone converged along the data chain.

Yuan Wenren saw the “wind” flow and the “water” and “dust” in the atmosphere.

“Density” for her had become a visible, physical quantity.

Under such a distance for sniping, not only the wind but also the density of the air masses affected the trajectory.

In Yuan Wenren’s calculations, the uneven atmosphere always caused her trajectory to sway.

At this moment, Hero’s spirit was also in turmoil.

——This was a gamble with life.

Yuan Wenren forced herself to recall the seven people murdered in the city and other victims she had encountered on her journey of chivalry.

Her thoughts were purified in an instant.

And the faint sea breeze just appropriately pushed away the dry, dusty air.

A definite trajectory connected the muzzle to the infrared source.

“Now!”

Yuan Wenren fired!

At this distance, Borshu could no longer see the flames spouting from the muzzle—especially after being suppressed by a flash suppressor.

But at two hundred meters, the algorithm screened out a “high-speed moving” target for him.

The thoroughly refined Martial Arts Algorithm planned a new path for him.

Borshu dodged, exerted force with both feet, and rushed downhill.

He intended to dodge this bullet in this way.

But the moment he exerted force, other bullets also emerged prominently in his field of vision.

The second bullet… The second bullet aimed straight for his head!

Not just one bullet.

Of course not just one bullet!

In front of Borshu, there were several more bullets!

Borshu rotated his wheels to the side.

His entire body, like a punching bag, wobbled several times in the direction of his advancement.

Several bullets were narrowly dodged by him.

But one bullet hit the cliffside.

With a loud “bang,” cracks rapidly expanded.

Borshu stepped out, trying to leverage off, but unexpectedly knocked down a large chunk of rock.

This was truly unexpected.

Borshu lost his balance, tumbling and falling down.

——Aiming for my landing spot, huh… Damn…

Borshu knew he couldn’t let all his limbs leave the ground.

His tail deeply pierced the rock.

In just a millisecond, the blade-like spikes on his tail broke off.

However, this bought him a moment.

He used both hands to adjust his posture.

Then, a bullet like a hammer smashed him against the cliff wall.

——Luckily!

Borshu didn’t know which part of his body was damaged.

Perhaps it was a vital part, or maybe if he moved again, his prosthetic body would explode.

But he lifted his spirits.

——I’m not afraid of death anyway…

Of course, he was someone who no longer cared about his life.

However deep inside, Borshu had a faint desire to “survive.”

Unlike the empathy forcibly endowed by the Ultimate Way Consensus Therapy, this was something from deep within his heart… From deep within his heart…

“Ah!” Borshu shouted, using hands and feet to sprint down from the steep slope.

The Fierce Wave expanded like a tsunami.

This man charged forward under the sniper’s bullet!

——This bullet hasn’t taken my life yet!

This one too!

The force of several bullets helped him recoil back to the trajectory, which thereafter confirmed the gunner’s position.

Yuan Wenren realized her position was revealed.

Watching the monster of Green Forest charging constantly within her crosshair, she calmly loaded bullets into the chamber, firing time and time again, as if she were utterly indifferent to the impending death.

“There’s still a slight chance.”

Gunner against fighter, there was still a “golden distance” of one hundred meters.

Within these hundred meters, it was very hard for a martial artist to manage dodging bullets.

——I still have one hundred meters!