Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 432 - 76: Convergence

Chapter 432: Chapter 76: Convergence

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Detecting attacks is a kind of probing attack conducted by hackers when faced with a target of unknown specific information.

After decoupling and handling the feedback data, a hacker can determine what kind of firewall system is installed on the target network and figure out which operations this firewall system permits.

Armed with his newly "refined" server and the Trojan backdoor shared by Zero, Xiang Shan launched a probing attack on the satellite station’s internal network.

And now, he had obtained the feedback data.

However, this era is different from the past.

In this age, firewalls are not "company products." Many firewalls are more like the "artistic creations" of individuals.

To deduce the specifics of a firewall based on the data takes a little time.

This probing attack was merely a preparation for future actions.

If the External Martial Arts emphasize the ability to cope with sudden events, then masters of the Internal would never engage in unprepared combat.

The Eighth Martial God originally set up a "front" gang in Delacruz City to prepare his local network, his stronghold, and his auxiliary servers.

In the beginning, the Eighth Martial God also covertly modified the hardware of other gangs’ servers. When "Shadow" came onto the scene to secure his retreat, servers complementing his Internal Strength began to appear throughout the city.

Thereafter, the Eighth Martial God even used the actions of local heroes to secretly install backdoors in the government’s equipment.

The City Lord of Delacruz City used wrong parameters while cultivating Inner Strength, took the incorrect potion for his brain, resulting in mental confusion, madness, and ultimately the loss of his working capabilities.

Assistance from potions including the Restoring Enzyme is essential when cultivating Inner Strength. These potions can interfere with brain nerve growth, making Soth Divine Realm malleable.

Sensitive visualization training combined with pure logical programming skills, incorporating the acmes of life science, are what allow Inner Strength to emerge.

In the early days, heroes, determined to better combat the Protectors, recklessly enhanced their Inner Strength, for it could inflict maximum disruption on social production processes controlled by big data. However, forcing one’s Inner Strength to grow rapidly could lead to demoralization, madness, or even brain death.

Xiang Shan and Zhu Xinyu both sighed that surviving from the beginning of the war of justice to the very end was nothing short of a miracle.

Today, the means to cultivate Inner Strength have matured, and various parameters can be supported by evidence.

Even so, incidents of cultivation going awry still occasionally occur.

Thus, that former City Lord of Delacruz always was believed to have administered the wrong potion to himself.

Even the Protectors thought so.

But in reality...

A week before, the Assistant Officer of the former City Lord was poisoned because of a direct connection to the City Lord’s personal server.

The former City Lord had asked him to double-check his own medicinal dosage.

And at that time, the virus of the Eighth Martial God quietly replaced the signal output from the Assistant Officer’s brain to the inspection program.

After executing just once, the virus deleted itself.

When you wish for a strategic target to die, but do not demand that their death be publicly known, such methods of assassination have their place.

Of course, before achieving this assassination, the Eighth Martial God also had control over many computational resources.

This is far beyond the small amount Xiang Shan is stealthily taking today.

After completing all this, Xiang Shan headed to the outskirts of the city.

After passing through an array of solar panel arrays, Xiang Shan found Ai Tielang, who was waiting for him.

"Yo, Ai, you’re here."

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"Senior," Ai Tielang was very respectful. He said, "I can understand why you would want to hunt down the Mobile Cavalry, but I’m not sure if the Rangers will appear in this vicinity."

"No problem, just circle around the area a few times with your Hero avatar," Xiang Shan shrugged his shoulders, "I don’t expect to catch a Ranger on the first try. Besides, we have other objectives this time."

"What?"

"Reinforcement," Xiang Shan said, "I’ve got some juniors coming over today to lend a hand."

The two continued walking south. Ai Tielang simply removed the hood that covered his head. His completely cyberized face and ornamental metal beard left a deep impression. Several passersby entering the city from the outside gave him sidelong glances.

These guys might use their Prosthetic Eye to take pictures, or snap a shot from their memory.

And once these things get onto the network, they’ll get noticed.

However, this level of intelligence wouldn’t cause the Protectors to directly deploy a large force to hunt them down.

The mobility of a Hero alone is much stronger than that of Protector Troops.

If Heroes had to show their faces and the Protectors had to deploy the army every time, then the Heroes would guarantee to spend their days doing nothing but taking selfies in various tight corners and running away after posting them.

That’s precisely why King Aqini created the system of the Mobile Cavalry, which "takes the strengths of a Hero."

But after discarding the large numbers, these Protector dogs can only fight against Heroes in the areas where Heroes excel. The Mobile Cavalry works for the sake of making a name for themselves and may not have the courage to risk life and death, whereas the Heroes are enthusiastic about their work. The Mobile Cavalry’s greatest advantage, which is being able to openly obtain supplies, doesn’t give them the upper hand on this battlefield.

Of course, that’s the general situation.

Some elite Rangers can still dominate in local battles.

So Ai Tielang’s appearance on this route will surely attract the Rangers who have been after him.

But Ai Tielang was confident.

He didn’t believe any Ranger could defeat the Nameless Hero beside him.

Unless they surpassed a major threshold, no enemy could defeat the Nameless Hero on a "local battlefield."

The Nameless Hero was simply the highest individual combat power he had ever seen.

This was the case for both Internal and External Martial Arts.

Of course, as Xiang Shan said, the Rangers weren’t going to come so quickly.

They planned to come sightseeing in a few days.

After reaching a desolate wasteland that few people passed through, Xiang Shan stopped and sat down on a mound of earth.

After the sun set, rolling dust rose in the distance.

The two waited for quite some time.

Three large vehicles parked in front of Xiang Shan.

No sooner had the rear door of the vehicle opened than a short figure jumped out. The little girl looked left and right, then pitter-pattered over to Xiang Shan and hugged his leg.

"Master."

"Hmm, you’re not my disciple," Xiang Shan picked up Panic by the back of her collar with two fingers and lifted her up, "Well, how many months has it been since we last met? You’ve gotten heavier again."

Xiang Shan wasn’t mistaken. The sensory system in his wrist was accurate to the decigram, and his brain could remember precise data—it just took opening a memo.

"I’ve grown taller," the little girl said proudly.