Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 419 - 63 Ideal Model

Chapter 419: Chapter 63 Ideal Model

If two people were evenly matched in strength, endurance, perception, anti-strike ability, and could rationally handle each other’s boxing techniques, what effect would that have?

Without a doubt, it would become "idealized action design".

In fact, that’s how it is. Many action and martial arts movies will consciously or unconsciously weaken the power of both attackers and defenders, leveling the playing field in terms of physical abilities and reactions. In reality, someone with significantly lower physical strength would faint if hit by a stronger person. But in movies, a martial master can continue fighting as if nothing happened even after being hit hard enough to vomit blood by someone with far greater strength.

Only when an expert is fighting a weakling is the "fragility of the human body" at play.

Injuries like bone fractures which don’t show on the surface are also consciously or unconsciously ignored.

The fatigue and injury of muscles aren’t depicted either.

Action actors endure long filming times and injuries to bring to life just a few minutes of their characters at their strongest.

In such an idealized situation, both Martial Artists are able to react, defend, and neutralize each other’s attacks.

In this scenario, the one good in close combat will never really get close, the one skilled in leg techniques will never find the ideal angle to kick, the one who knows boxing will dodge all the powerful swing punches, and weapons aimed at vital points will always be blocked by other weapons.

In such a situation, to determine a winner, one must wait for the other to make a mistake.

And the AR models of Gaoqiao Ziyi and Kiambang are representing just this type of battle.

Waiting for a mistake to be made, in some sense, a Boxer looking to win in a street fight must also wait for the opponent to slip up. The difference, though, is that in street fighting, those who lack training and act recklessly will often make a "rookie mistake" from their very first move in the eyes of an expert.

But the key is, not everyone can capitalize on this mistake.

This is also the most core application scenario for many traditional martial arts—seizing the mistakes made by someone with far less skill during a street fight.

However, against a master, the time spent waiting for them to make a mistake is much longer.

The speed of neural signal transmission of Benchmark Man has been enhanced once more compared to Earth-native vertebrates. And the involvement and processing of intelligent systems further speed up the thought process.

Even most attacks are executed by virtual models.

The two contenders are limited by their Prosthetic Bodies’ strength, so they only assume their starting positions and then indicate possible move variations with their gestures during the fight.

Arrays of virtual models hover around them, dueling with the strategies the two have conceived. And Arbiter Ai Tielang provides computing power while also judging and correcting based on his own understanding of Martial Studies.

There are different variations within each Boxing technique. Normally, a person can only choose one variation.

But in these types of contests, Martial Artists can choose several variations simultaneously, executed by different virtual models. The opponent, seeing these moves, adapts accordingly, and these adaptations are realized by new models.

Although it’s a two-person contest, the involved offensive and defensive exchanges often involve more than ten pairs.

Of course, the competition among these virtual models is not unlimited. The human Biological Brain has limits, and computing resources are finite.

Once a competitor is overwhelmed in a "virtual model duel," or judges that a set of models has made a big error on offense or defense and is at a disadvantage, they can concede "that round."

That way, the opponent scores a point.

Indeed, this "Literary Fight" naturally has a scoring system.

But this does not diminish the enthusiasm of the audience at all.

"Good!" "Great Boxing technique, uncle!" "Beautiful strike!"

In an instant, disciples from both sides can’t help but shout out.

Babbitt was startled and said, "It’s... it’s exciting to compete like this?"

Although he was just a Broadcasting Client, Babbitt practiced Martial Arts too. He thought the level of top-tier Paralympics Martial Arts competitions ought to be even higher.

Xiang Shan said, "This is... this is idealized offensive and defensive design. It’s like dismantling the various changes, offensive and defensive strategies, and core elements of a boxing style and laying them out in front of these disciples. These two guys have voluntarily limited their prosthetic bodies’ output, so they had to transfer the excess neural network computing resources into this type of simulation, breaking down ’a complete expert’ into ’many highly skilled but understandable individuals’."

Moreover, boxing as practiced by someone like Hiroshi Matsushima in the ring, being the pinnacle in specific skills, actually strays from what these Jianghu Martial Artists typically use every day.

Xiang Shan now understood why such exchanges are likened to an "academic activity."

This is two people not very familiar with each other discussing "strategic choices for offense and defense when faced with an unfamiliar style of Martial Arts."

Idealized battles are not useless. "Chickens in a vacuum" may be a simplified ideal model, but this model can still lead to certain truths. Anyone who masters calculating chickens in a vacuum can also keep adding constraints to simulate irregular chickens in thin air. As conditions are added, the model will get closer to reality.

Only by mastering "idealized offense and defense" can one find the moments in practice to execute these strategies.

This not only resolves disputes in the Martial World but also elevates the skill level of the Martial Artists themselves while educating the lesser-skilled disciples.

Gaoqiao Ziyi’s punches were majestic and mighty. Despite the robustness, they weren’t vehement, and it was hard to disrupt his overall balance, as solid as an Iron Block—reflective of the commonly seen Mech Armor Iron Fist style of the Iron Block Style, customized to his own way of thinking and character.

Kiambang’s boxing was more unorthodox, constantly coiling one hand tightly, ready to strike at any moment, and using only one hand to intercept Gaoqiao’s hard punches. Nevertheless, the coiled hand always kept Gaoqiao on edge.

Even though Gaoqiao could briefly take the upper hand in direct combat, each time Kiambang would punch back as Gaoqiao pursued him, destroying Gaoqiao’s gained advantage.

Even upon close tallying of points, Kiambang was always one or two points ahead of Gaoqiao.

But in Xiang Shan’s view, this wasn’t necessarily a reflection of their external strength. Their external strength levels were actually very close, with Gaoqiao just a notch above. It was that Kiambang was better at allocating his brain’s computing resources, knowing when to abandon engagements where he was at a significant disadvantage.

Once Xiang Shan realized this, he understood that it was a contest under a set of rules too.

The two Martial Artists’ Prosthetic Bodies also sparred at a controlled speed. But most of the time, they merely presented opening stances or gestures to suggest their potential moves.

Everyone was waiting for the decisive moment that would determine the victor.