Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 305 - 305 85 Collapse Due to Bugs and Ants

305: Chapter 85 Collapse Due to Bugs and Ants 305: Chapter 85 Collapse Due to Bugs and Ants Within a few seconds, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse, and Xiang Shan fell into crisis.

As the saying goes, “two hands are no match for four.” Due to their superior numbers, the opponents could employ a much wider range of tactics than Xiang Shan, who was alone.

At the same time, Xiang Shan’s strength was not enough to instantly destroy their prosthetic bodies.

Simply by standing there, they could use their bodies to hinder the effectiveness of Xiang Shan’s hand-to-hand combat.

Xiang Shan’s most intimidating weapon was a Sonicon Blade.

The power of the Sonicon Blade lay entirely in its blade, while the sword ridge was quite fragile, likely to shatter with a slight twist.

Government experts who used such weapons would carry a large number of blades with them to replace as needed.

However, Xiang Shan, limited by the output of his prosthetic body, typically only carried one blade.

As long as those Rangers coordinated well enough, they could quite simply damage the weapon while Xiang Shan was making a slash by striking the side of the blade.

Xiang Shan had also realized this.

Instead of rashly swinging the sword, he returned it to the scabbard.

The Sonicon Blade was more intimidating sheathed than unsheathed.

Xiang Shan held the sheathed longsword in hand, blocking the enemy’s attacks.

The design of the scabbard was also very ingenious.

When necessary, the sword inside could split the scabbard in two and then slice open the enemy’s armor.

Therefore, those Rangers dared not carelessly step into Xiang Shan’s circle of swordplay.

But their dense footwork never stopped.

More than ten Rangers divided into three circles, completely surrounding Xiang Shan.

Several Gunners took high ground on the perimeter, aiming down from above at the Hero.

Close-Combat Martial Artists with intact spines advanced in turn, maintaining the rhythm of “always having two people in combat with the Hero.”

These Houndhawks could rest on the side, but Xiang Shan had to continuously swing his sword and fists.

As this went on, Xiang Shan’s cooling system was sure to fail first, subsequently affecting his external strength.

But if it were just this, it wouldn’t be much of a dilemma for Xiang Shan.

His Boxing technique and swordsmanship were much superior to these Rangers; after clashing several moves with him, they would be defeated.

Even at the cost of his External Armor, if he made a break in one direction, he could always make it out.

But now, these folks were both blind and deaf.

Xiang Shan had already blocked out all of his senses as much as possible.

He had cut off wireless signals, abandoned drones, and even filtered out most of the communication sound waves from his hearing, retaining only the tiny bit necessary for combat.

On this basis, he couldn’t afford to lose his vision as well.

Even a Martial Ancestor, invincible in external strength, couldn’t blindly fight and defeat a government elite force without a shred of information.

Under the control of King Aqini’s disciple, those Rangers each seemed like masters of Internal Strength.

The infrared light transmitted by their prosthetic eyes and the sound waves from their synthesizers contained a massive amount of malicious code.

Some vulnerabilities in the drivers of his Prosthetic Eye and auditory receptors accepted parts of these codes.

They entered Xiang Shan’s system and began stirring up trouble.

At least a third of Xiang Shan’s focus was on covering these malicious codes while subconsciously generating patches for the vulnerabilities.

But it was all happening too fast.

The variety of methods used by the opponents was astonishing.

Xiang Shan ran his Inner Strength at full capacity, barely keeping pace with them.

He had to avoid direct contact with the opponents’ prosthetic eyes.

Otherwise, more malicious codes would pour in instantaneously, and Xiang Shan’s prosthetic body would become unresponsive within seconds.

And in those few seconds, life and death could be decided.

However, in such intense combat, it was still quite challenging to avoid eye contact.

Xiang Shan charged left and right several times, but each time, a few Close-Combat Martial Artists would slightly hinder his steps, then several Rangers would move before him, seeking an angle to inject the malicious code into his Prosthetic Eye.

Several times Xiang Shan was forced back this way.

Having no choice, he could only lower his head and look at their feet, relying on experience to predict the direction of attacks.

In such a situation, Xiang Shan began to feel increasingly anxious.

——There’s only one chance…

I can’t hold on much longer…

GA-R03 was also becoming more and more astonished as the battle progressed.

“This person’s external strength is truly rare in my life.

With such an ordinary prosthetic body, he can fight these elite Rangers to a standstill…

he’s even just looking at their footsteps!”

“How exaggerated is his prediction ability?

How fast are his neural reflexes?”

“Can a person really cultivate their external strength to this extent?”

“And this Inner Strength…

how exactly did he train it?”

Just now, GA-R03 had used dozens of vile Gu and curses, trying to take down this Hero.

But most of them were ineffective.

Apart from the Prosthetic Eye drivers, the system this person used could only be breached by a few curses.

The breaches were even quickly removed.

“We must not let this person escape!

We must capture him alive and extract this information from his brain!”

With this thought in mind, GA-R03 once again commanded the Rangers to intensify their attack.

Xiang Shan’s defense was on the verge of collapse, with Rangers catching his flaws several times and, passing the Longsword’s obstruction, left marks on his External Armor.

These were all minor injuries for now, but these small damages, accumulated, would genuinely decrease the strength of the External Armor until it could no longer withstand a single hit.

“Excellent, that’s the rhythm!” GA-R03 was very excited.

He thought that nothing could go wrong now.

He was certain he would capture this unknown Hero.

But at that moment, the “accident” happened.

An almost imperceptible infrared beam landed on the shoulder of a Life-Chasing Cavalry.

He himself was unaware, but a Ranger right beside him saw it clearly.

What followed were several different radar waves.

—Before the engagement, he was sniping at that Green Forest member…

and there was a Sniper!

Almost instantly, the Mobile Cavalry thought of “sniper rifle bullets.” This association also spread instantaneously through the virtual neural circuitry.

The two Rangers on the periphery of the encirclement quickly turned around, while the one “marked” by the infrared instinctively rolled on the ground.

The anticipated bullet did not materialize, but Xiang Shan seized the opportunity to furiously step forward.

He stepped right on the neck of the rolling Life-Chasing Cavalry.

The two Rangers behind Xiang Shan became enraged.

They lashed out in unison, aiming at Xiang Shan’s back.

The fists of the two Mobile Cavalry were also equipped with high-frequency oscillating generators, capable of effectively destroying alloy.

In the recent combat, not only had Xiang Shan secretly learned the approximate structure of their External Armor, but they also figured out the alloy technique used by Xiang Shan.

If these two punches landed, Xiang Shan’s rear External Armor would shatter.

But in that instant, the two men experienced a bit of “noise” in their consciousness that shouldn’t have been there, and at the same time, the Xiang Shan they “felt” also seemed to “thicken” a bit.

The “thickened” Xiang Shan swayed left and right in front of them and managed to escape the range of their punching moves.

As Xiang Shan flashed past a Martial Artist, the Sonicon Blade at the back of his Scabbard was drawn.

With a light slash beside that Martial Artist, he removed the External Armor from one side of his waist and one leg.

Like kicking a shuttlecock, he kicked sideways and knocked the Mobile Cavalry down.

There was no real Sniper, nor had these people been hacked, resulting in an illusion.

Nor had Xiang Shan secretly hacked into their systems (before the shortfalls were remedied, Xiang Shan was not yet capable of doing this to the Military Formation commanded by GA-R03).

Instead, they “felt” an incorrect signal.

These Martial Artists hadn’t noticed the strange “buzzing” now present in the air.

For most people of this era, having never seen live insects, such a “buzzing” noise was a common sound in the operation of machinery, frequently heard during the full-speed operation of small gears, and not associated with an “insect buzz.” They were quite insensitive to this noise.

So they didn’t detect that in the night sky, several small “insects” were flying.

These tiny mechanical beings aimed their rear ends at the Mobile Cavalry, emitting infrared, interference waves, and radar waves.

The first to appear, “active infrared marking,” was a mechanical bee with an infrared transmitter on its tail.

The momentary distractions that followed for those two Martial Artists came from a number of mechanical insects.

They inserted a segment of noise, indistinct to GA-R03’s signal.

The “transformation” they “felt” was due to the effect of several radar waves that the insects cast on Xiang Shan’s body.

Since the Rangers’ Prosthetic Eyes were commandeered for witnessing, their vision had become slightly worse.

Now, most of the Mobile Cavalry had activated the auxiliary radar.

Xiang Shan used those insects to project radar waves of a similar frequency onto himself.

Without knowing of the “additional emitter,” those Mobile Cavalry could not instantly eliminate the interference.

The insects that Xiang Shan released at the start had finally arrived here!

Due to their small size, these insects were limited in their functionality and could not even establish two-way contact with Xiang Shan.

He could only broadcast commands, directing the small robots to move to specific locations to start interfering.

This tactic was actually quite limited in effect.

The Mobile Cavalry would soon notice the micro-robots around them— after all, this wasn’t exactly new technology or Tactics.

But…

“An instant is enough!”

As this Mobile Cavalry fell, Xiang Shan once again broke out toward the bottom of the mountain.

Seeing him attempting to break through, three Mobile Cavalry met him, one with a Long Spear and two with high-frequency oscillating blades.

At that moment, the three Mobile Cavalry suddenly felt several radar waves sweep over them.

This was the “prelude to an attack,” and that “attack” pointed vaguely towards their own Martial Arts weaknesses.

The two with Long Blades urgently changed their moves.

Xiang Shan grabbed the Long Spear of the last Mobile Cavalry, dragging the Cavalry as he turned and rushed.

He charged towards where GA-R03 was.