Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 410 - 54 Xiang Shan’s Plan

Chapter 410: Chapter 54 Xiang Shan’s Plan

When Xiang Shan came to his senses, exclamations were already echoing around him.

Xiang Shan looked around. He was still at a resting spot on a street corner in Pine Eagle City. This location was close to the server, which meant a strong signal. Some people who had purchased temporary internet services would gather here for the better signal.

Just moments ago, a slight leakage of Inner Strength from Xiang Shan had affected the server. It could be said that Xiang Shan currently didn’t have the subconscious habit of frying people’s hardware, so the server merely reported errors without actually overloading and catching fire.

The network experienced severe fluctuations, and even the user interfaces of several ordinary people nearby were affected.

In such a scenario, these clueless folks naturally panicked.

Xiang Shan stood up.

"What was that just now?"

All he could remember was the conversation from moments ago.

He couldn’t remember when he had said it, nor whom he had said it to.

Xiang Shan could only remember that much.

Eight appeared silently at the edge of Xiang Shan’s field of vision, walking alongside him — on the surface, that is. If a passerby brushed past Xiang Shan, they would pass right through this phantom that only Xiang Shan could see.

"Native" asked, "What was that just now? Do you have any clue?"

Eight shook his head, "We share a set of nervous systems, a brain, and a storage device. If you don’t know something, neither do I."

Eight was just more adept at accessing the memories left by the Eighth Martial God.

"These are also fragmented memories..." Xiang Shan lamented.

The memories left by the Eighth Martial God were not complete. After all, each Martial God had a considerable amount of "Martial Ancestor" memories, which formed the basis of their personalities. The Eighth Martial God, intending to leave this Personality Mask for another Martial God, naturally assumed that the successor would already possess a substantial amount of Martial Ancestor memories.

The memories stored in that device were mostly to test the synchronization rate between the Pseudo-personality Mask and the Biological Brain. That is, memories that had "profoundly influenced Xiang Shan’s personality, so Xiang Shan would surely remember" them.

But this Xiang Shan presently only possessed Xiang Shan’s personality and Self-awareness. This was an unplanned situation by the Eighth Martial God.

Xiang Shan shook his head, "This is really..."

Eight pondered for a moment, "This problem might not be unsolvable. I know how to access Xiang Shan’s Memory Labyrinth. As long as you are determined... we can re-download those memories."

"Originally this was an alternative plan," said Xiang Shan, "but after hearing those epic tales from Babbitt, I began to have doubts."

The epic tales of Babbitt were essentially "others’ renditions of Xiang Shan" with artistic embellishments. However, those epic narratives captured the essence, but freely interpreted the form, such as mixing in other people’s achievements in the Seventh Martial God’s battles.

The "Memory Labyrinth" neutralized Xiang Shan’s memories, which were no longer predominantly his own. "Others’ views of Xiang Shan" instead took up the majority.

And later there were even "others’ views of the Martial Gods."

All these were Xiang Shan. But these could also all not be Xiang Shan.

Xiang Shan didn’t want to lose himself, so he planned to first absorb the memories filtered through his own perspective by the Eighth Martial God.

The next would be the memories of Tao Enhai as a witness.

Only after establishing anchors for his sense of self would he truly download the contents from the Memory Labyrinth.

Over these three years, Xiang Shan focused primarily on cultivating Inner Strength, and his progress in absorbing memories was relatively slow. [Even due to his continuous use of the Restoring Enzyme, this absorption progress bar might even have been reversed.]

"That’s true," Eight nodded, "But are you really okay with that? Those are our own memories."

Eight and Native Power shared one brain, they were actually one person. This statement was not just a suggestion from the perspective of the Eighth Martial God, but also Xiang Shan’s own hesitation.

"And the memories of others are not that bad either," Eight said. "For example... at least the epics did a good job restoring the miracle of Solo Kill King ’Arethusa Miracle’ counterattack."

The Arethusa Miracle was a military marvel achieved by the Sixth Martial God late in his campaign.

At that time, the Red Fleet Prosthetics Followers he commanded had been severely weakened and were encircled near the asteroid Arethusa by King Aqini’s Sky Star Fleet with a force several times their size.

Arethusa is one of the larger celestial bodies in the Asteroid Belt with the lowest reflectivity, a truly dark spot. This was not a good sign. In this instance, facing a fleet several times stronger than his own and commanded by Hartman, the strongest in Military Martial Path-Starship Formations.

Many thought that the Sixth Martial God would fall in this battle.

However, the Sixth Martial God turned the battle around in the midst of fleet skirmishes and chaos, destroying nearly sixty percent of the Sky Star Fleet’s forces.

The initially one-sided battle was almost instantly reversed.

Of course, the Sixth Martial God ultimately did not escape his fate. But the heavy losses suffered by the Sky Star Fleet weakened the Protector’s forces, unable to form a blockade, and ultimately allowed the White Fleet Prosthetics Followers to retain more complete combat capabilities, paving the way for the massive counterattack of the Seventh Martial God.

"If the epic accurately describes history, it’s because the battle itself was dramatic," Xiang Shan said, "’Restoring memories’ is now a secondary issue. What’s most important now is to focus on the task at hand."

Eight’s figure disappeared again.

When Xiang Shan came to his senses, he had already reached the entrance of the Pine Eagle Building. He entered and found a corner.

TX-0 had been living in this city for many years in order to steal data from the Mona Knight Order, and he had laid many secrets throughout the corners of this city.

These secrets had existed in this city for many years now.

And the data package that TX-0 had given to Xiang Shan had also informed him of the "curse" and "Gu" currently in the possession of the Turing Lineage.

He naturally wanted to understand TX-0’s methods firsthand and even to master the secrets he had planted.

Hartman had taught him when he was still human that for a small hacker, following in the footsteps of a Great Hacker could save a lot of effort.

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Hiroshi Matsushima returned to his home, then let out a sigh.

He too felt somewhat headache-prone.

This week had been the most tense in the last thirty years for him.

Whether it was rushing into the Protector’s Slaughter Array to rescue Solo Kill King, the silly one, or his earlier encounter with TX-0, he had never been this nervous before.

But... this time was different, after all.

That was indeed "that Xiang Shan."

To instruct a Martial God in Martial Arts... naturally made him nervous.