Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 430 - 38 Refining... Probably

Chapter 430: Chapter 38 Refining... Probably

The Igni Seal, it was said, could incinerate all life around it.

Moreover, it seemed to be targeting prosthetic bodies specifically.

Or rather, it should be targeting devices directly linked to the brain for data processing.

The biggest difference between brain-linked data processing chips and ordinary chips lies in the fact that the former possesses a unique underlying protocol to mediate communications between prosthetic bodies and human consciousness, converting the chaos of human neural signals into machine-readable commands through a standardized process.

Of course, this did not guarantee 100% filtering. If standards were too strict, some people’s brain implants might not be recognized. If too loose, many devices capable of direct consciousness connections could be mistakenly identified as "human."

Not to mention, there was a plethora of off-brand chips and programs in this era. Many who had even a slight understanding of the field would dare to hack into both the software and even the hardware architecture.

In short, even with knowledge as the Eighth Martial God, Xiang Shan could not figure out how to precisely filter out "humans" from "non-humans."

Let alone "enemies" from "third-party noncombatants."

If Zero and the others’ speculation was correct, once the Agni Seal activated, it was feared even civilians would be swept up in its wake.

Many Martial Artists would not be spared either.

The foremost issue needed to be resolved first.

So, Xiang Shan chose to scope things out here during downtime.

This was a server built by civilians themselves.

In this era, Protectors only provided the basic assurance that one wouldn’t be killed arbitrarily, beyond that, they would only collect some babies to enrich the Human Gene Bank and distribute other babies as welfare to settlements to prevent genetic diseases due to a closed environment and inbreeding.

Beyond that, they did nothing else.

They had no obligation to provide any social services. If a Lord really wanted to offer such services, they would have to do so in their own name.

Many things became unfeasible because of this. Something like "networks," for instance—individual power was insufficient to build the internet.

Fortunately, most Protectors considered "networks" to be a good thing. They indeed needed the power of the network to monitor their territories.

Therefore, if someone in the territory built a network service station according to standard protocols, then the Protectors would be happy to facilitate it.

Every city had gigantic buildings.

At the tops of these buildings were satellite stations.

These satellite stations could cover a considerable area. They could upload data to satellites in orbit and receive signals sent from the satellites.

A large satellite station, through wired connections, would set up several open ports in various locations. Anyone could follow the standard protocols to draw a cable from here. Building your signal towers or whatever was up to you.

And these private signal towers and stations could also wirelessly connect with some sub-level bases and servers.

Of course, building your small satellite antennas was allowed.

This private server was somewhat connected to the satellite station atop that superstructure.

Xiang Shan closed his eyes, carefully perceiving his surroundings.

But he quickly stopped.

"As expected, nothing was found," Eight sighed.

"If it were that easy, the boy Zero would have found it already. It wouldn’t be our turn. We didn’t have high hopes, to begin with," Native commented. "Who knows, we may need to infiltrate the Pine Eagle Building or some other building’s rooftop. Maybe we’ll see this so-called ’Igni Seal’ from inside a satellite station, or we might have to pull out a motherboard to find it."

"We’ll have to switch cities then," Eight pondered. "An incident involving Stage Martial Arts murders happened here just three years ago, and the effects of that event haven’t completely subsided. The security is likely to be very tight."

"The infiltration route extracted from that young lady’s memory probably won’t work anymore," Native sighed. "Otherwise, I’d really like to revisit the Meiyimei Building now."

"That Holy Knight named Ashur," Eight mused for a moment, "should be dealt with when the time comes."

"But before finding Nine, we must keep ourselves hidden. Dealing with the situation in Paradox City is still our main task," Native corrected, "We have to lay low before Paradox City."

Moreover, after having been raided three years earlier, the strategic value of Meiyimei Building had already decreased significantly.

"Hmm, let’s stick to the plan. But since we promised that one named Bengel to send his leader down to accompany him, it wouldn’t be good to break our word," Eight also nodded.

Then, Xiang Shan once again opened the side of the base station.

The first thing he did was take out cleaning fluid and a homemade vacuum cleaner to maintain the dense cables.

Next, Xiang Shan turned his attention to the Prosthetic Eye on his back and surreptitiously scanned his surroundings.

"Hmm, no one seems to have noticed this area."

Xiang Shan did not come for maintenance.

He envisioned the sensation of taking a deep breath, calming himself down: "What comes next is a test of quick hands."

He then produced several odd devices. These devices all had independent synthetic shells, leaving only a few interfaces exposed.

There were also a few wires.

Xiang Shan carefully checked the interfaces to ensure the server’s builders had not used any custom gadgets.

"OK, all checked."

"Now... let’s hope no one is at a critical moment in their game," Xiang Shan said as he quickly pulled a few cables out and connected them to the devices he had brought. At the same time, he connected several wires from the device to the original structure.

The machine lost connection momentarily but soon began self-checking and rebooting.

Xiang Shan quickly uploaded the update package, running his Inner Strength, allowing the hardware he had sneakily installed to take effect.

He wanted to alter the server, making it better suited as a "weapon" for employing his Inner Strength.

This was a common practice among masters of Internal Arts.

Powerful Inner Strength was used to control more potent computing resources. King Aqini, as a "strong man," could casually build supercomputers for himself, and even ensure the architecture perfectly complemented his Inner Strength—he could have his engineers design the hardware according to his thoughts.

Heros, on the other hand, had to resort to deception and theft.

However, most masters from the Repository of Masters of Internal Arts preferred to simply use Trojans to infect other machines with viruses and then steal computing resources.

Rather than directly altering server hardware as was being done now.

But this approach was not without its benefits.

After such operations, the server became better suited to Xiang Shan’s habits.

He had assimilated the server.

Well, one could probably put it that way.