Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 300 - 300 80 Encirclement

300: Chapter 80: Encirclement 300: Chapter 80: Encirclement Excruciating headaches reemerged.

Associated memories burst forth.

Jakub Hartman was not a creator of technology.

However, he was like someone chosen by technology.

His brain seemed naturally more suited for understanding “programs.” He could perfectly perform decompilation and hacking.

Before the invention of “Internal Strength,” even Zhu Xinyu was only on par with him—even at a young age, Zhu Xinyu had been defeated by Hartman.

And after the invention of Internal Strength, Hartman became the first to abandon everything for the sake of Inner Strength.

He gave up his cognition as a “human”, avoiding the inertia of thought and innate instincts, while using various parts of his brain as much as possible to tackle programming issues.

Specifically, by abandoning the human-like prosthetic body.

Hartman, this madman, deliberately chose an “inhuman” form.

Before this, all cyberizations followed humanity’s inherent psychology—what’s called more in line with “humanity.”

Sometimes, Xiang Shan also felt that so-called “humanity” contained too many remnants of the hunting and gathering and agricultural eras; unsuitable for the industrial modern society.

However, he only advocated for eliminating this part.

But Hartman completely forgot that he was a person.

And this extreme behavior surprisingly brought huge positive gains to this natural-born hacker.

If Zhu Xinyu relied on the years within “Superman Enterprise,” mastering knowledge across various disciplines to understand Internal Strength as its founder, then Hartman brutally pushed his brain to its limits.

Although after the birth of Internal Strength, Hartman never defeated Zhu Xinyu, no one else ever defeated him either.

And shamefully, in every single “war”, Hartman always stood on the opposite side of Xiang Shan.

There was not a trace of the freedom cherished by hackers in him.

This guy was a bone-deep believer in authority.

Jakub Hartman became fully cyberized because Xiang Shan destroyed his biological tissue.

And he completely abandoned external strength because he realized he could never compete in this field with Xiang Shan and other heroes.

He could not appear on the frontlines—so he also gave up that “honor.”

The final battle of Martial Ancestor Xiang Shan, under the pressure of Zhu Xinyu, managed to retain control of the warship’s power system, utilized the warship to shift the battlefield, ultimately leading to Xiang Shan’s defeat.

In his memories, the high-energy particle beams had almost hit that ridiculous “pepper shaker.”

Then it was a whirl of chaos.

And now, a similar figure appeared in front of Xiang Shan.

It’s somewhat funny to say, but Xiang Shan’s first reaction was actually “fear.”

He felt phantom pain all over his body, as if he would be shred by heavy artillery from all directions in the next second.

The sense of “safety” instantly plummeted into the negatives.

But only for a moment, he realized something was wrong.

Even in his prime, he couldn’t have contended with King Aqini using Internal Strength alone.

Without Zhu Xinyu’s support, Xiang Shan could only protect himself, ensuring his prosthetic body wasn’t hijacked.

Moreover, King Aqini would absolutely not appear on the front line alone.

Apart from Internal Strength, his main skills were Military Battle Formation and a bit of Battleship Martial Arts.

Even when holding the Eighth Martial God hostage, he was located outside the atmosphere among the fleet.

—It’s not that old dog himself…

Is it his imitator or student?

Amid the exclamations of Yuan Wenren, Xiang Shan swiftly snatched Yuan Wenren’s submachine gun and jumped down from the war chariot.

His rage burned fiercely.

As long as there was a sliver of possibility, he would absolutely not let this guy leave alive.

…………………………

GA-R03 also detected the anomaly immediately.

He hadn’t taken control of the drone swarm in an instant.

This was highly unusual.

The levels of Internal Strength were clear.

Although due to different factors such as equipment involved in combat, protocols, data links, system environments, and the different areas of expertise of Internal Strength practitioners, a practitioner of a lower level might also have certain chances to counter one of a higher level.

But still, these chances were limited.

As a disciple of King Aqini, with cultivation reaching the Mechanical Realm, GA-R03 could direct a prosthetic body using binary code output by the biological brain, without relying on chips and underlying protocols.

This was almost standing at the root of “computers”.

Beyond this, only a rare few experts who understood or surpassed Turing Machines from a mathematical perspective were more advanced.

And ordinary heroes often did not reach this realm before seeking to ignite the reactor, surpassing a major threshold.

—Could it actually be a mighty one who has surpassed such a major threshold?

How could this be…

No!

GA-R03 reacted even faster.

If this hero had already surpassed a major threshold, he wouldn’t have needed any effort to hunt down this Green Forest.

Moreover, the hero’s prosthetic body was only just over two meters tall.

Human-made reactors are hard to fit into such a small prosthetic body.

If it’s too small, it’s impossible to ensure the reaction conditions for a chain reaction.

—Not having surpassed a major threshold, but already possessing Internal Strength Cultivation of the Mechanical Realm?

When did such a person appear on Earth?

As this thought flashed through GA-R03’s mind, it had already issued a command in its mind.

[All the heroes must be annihilated, not a single one should escape.

Eliminate them!]

Originally, GA-R03 had only planned to precisely kill that member of Green Forest.

Those two heroes were just collateral targets.

If the heroes ran fast enough, it wouldn’t necessarily chase them.

But now, GA-R03 had made up its mind to take this guy down as well.

The few cold-blooded rangers who were originally prepared to surround and kill the “Striped Warrior” retreated from their blind spots in the field of vision and instead headed towards the base of the mountain.

At this moment, GA-R03 had achieved victory in the Inner Strength Battle.

It completely suppressed its opponent on the data link of the drones.

—He just missed one operation.

Was it a lapse in mental power, finally making a mistake?

In that instant, it seemed like he experienced a severe emotional fluctuation… Eh!

Perhaps it was because of that momentary distraction that GA-R03’s thoughts were diverted, and its inner strength was led astray by the other guy’s Internal Martial Skills.

It didn’t realize that this swarm of drones was still a complete, interconnected data chain.

And this data chain was even directed towards a privately set server in Domingo City, and even the local Protector’s satellite station.

At this instant, users in Domingo City who were accessing the network experienced varying degrees of delay.

And the moment when the inner strength drained, GA-R03 also had a moment of distraction.

The hero, wielding two guns, pounced forward.

A cold-blooded ranger sprang from the shadows and engaged in combat with this guy.

This guy’s guns flipped up and down, and in a blink, he set a trap with bullets.

He caught the rhythm of the ranger’s dodging, swiftly disrupted the ranger’s balance with a sweeping leg-like move, then pounced on him, pinning the guy underneath his feet and fired continuously with a submachine gun against his throat.

The several other cold-blooded rangers also pounced forward.

They were not fearful.

In the few exchanges just now, these external sect experts had already seen that although the hero’s Martial Arts were indeed formidable, they were not incomprehensible.

Restricted by the prosthetic body, their extraordinary external strength could only perform stronger than theirs but was not hopeless to defeat.

GA-R03 also snapped back to reality.

It realized it had been fooled by an ancient technique.

The Internal Martial Artist was a bit annoyed, and it had made up its mind to seize control of that fellow’s prosthetic body; it wanted to make that guy kill himself with his own prosthetic hand.

Elsewhere, Life-Chasing Cavalry on the mountain set up close-range anti-tank missiles.

These one-meter missiles were a small burden for Cyber fighters.

Three lines of fire extended from the mountain top.

In the era of natural persons, close-range missiles would not ignite that way; otherwise, the backfire would cause massive casualties among friendly troops.

But it did not affect the external armor of the cybernetically enhanced people.

Yuki screamed from within the car.

He had already seen this scene through a purely mechanical observation mirror.

Clutching the steering wheel, he desperately sent out acceleration commands.

At this moment, he really wanted to ask what Yuan Wenren would do.

But following Xiang Shan’s orders, he was no longer accepting any external electromagnetic signals.

—Now, he could only rely on himself!

Seeing him scream, the little one next to him also excitedly screamed.

Yuki sharply turned the steering wheel, accelerating into a smooth arc.

But the missile also hesitated only for a moment before turning to follow.

—It’s all over!

Yuki screamed in his mind.

—Nicely done.

Yuan Wenren assessed internally.

She rolled on the spot.

As Yuki turned, she used the momentum to swing herself to the side of the war chariot facing away from the enemy, hung her body with two fingers, and mounted her rifle on the roof of the war chariot.

Yuki had found her a good angle.

Yuan Wenren fired three shots in rapid succession.

These three missiles contained explosives rather than causing damage with mass alone, so Yuan Wenren blew them up in mid-air.

A flurry of gunfire came from another side.

It seemed that quite a few bullets hit the chariot’s external armor.

Yuan Wenren also returned fire in the direction of the sounds.

—Just keep running…

Yuan Wenren thought to herself.

The opposing team was larger in number than theirs but did not have an overwhelming numerical advantage, while Xiang Shan still had the advantage in individual strength.

Let’s extend the line of battle a bit.

As long as it’s prolonged, the senior will have a solution!

At this moment, Xiang Shan was desperately fighting, Yuan Wenren was desperately fighting.

Even Yuki was desperately fighting.

And Borshu was nearly out of life to gamble.

At this moment, he was facing the greatest crisis of his life.

The girl in Borshu’s arms was an unaltered natural person.

This was the most fragile form of life among all forms.

Even due to malnutrition, this girl was considered fragile even among benchmark humans.

Even the Cyber fighters who were close to surpassing a major threshold didn’t need to directly hit her; even the turbulence caused by the air from a punch could tear the girl’s skin, puncture her eardrums and alveoli.

The acceleration that Borshu typically used directly on the girl would also cause fatal injuries.

Yet Borshu seemed to transcend all he had learned, fighting alongside two rangers.