Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 439 - 83 Design

Chapter 439: Chapter 83 Design

Since Yuki had been admitted as a disciple, Xiang Shan had been strictly limiting the disciple’s activities. Before that, Yuki was not even allowed to play a supporting role, only waiting inside the vehicle.

"Allowing you to play a supporting role" was a great recognition for Yuki.

"It has come to this point..." Yuki remarked as they descended the stairs.

Xiang Shan sighed, "At this stage, even if we get separated unexpectedly, you can find your way back on your own. Even if you can’t find your way back, you can search for resources online and learn on your own. The necessary foundation has been laid for you. When it’s time for a dispersed retreat, even if you face an emergency on your retreat path alone, you can essentially handle it. Now would be a good time to get to work, don’t you think?"

Yuki glanced again in the direction of his hometown.

Compared to the height of ninety or a hundred floors, the horizon felt much closer at this altitude, and the view was narrower. There was even less to see.

Yet, Yuki remembered the first time he met Xiang Shan over three years ago.

"So, like Master, you mean you could start anew even if you lost everything?"

"It’s better not to be like me. My ability to start over was also a great fortune... Besides, I’m not sure this is fully ’starting anew,’" Xiang Shan said, "I never imagined this situation two hundred years ago."

"Then why take such drastic measures?" Yuki asked, "Getting rid of memories, only keeping knowledge..."

"Two hundred years ago," Xiang Shan reminisced, "resources were abundant, and there were many people. At that time, we would hide a civilian prosthetic body in some corners. When being pursued and unable to escape, we would abandon our martial artist’s prosthetic body. Sometimes, we even needed to temporarily abandon some of our memories to circumvent lie detection based on brainwave analysis. This way, we could hide among the crowds."

"But this also made it easy to end up isolated and without support. Initially, I was prepared to fight under these conditions. Actually, as the hero wars were drawing to a close, I began to feel that such behavior was a bit paranoid... too cautious. I never expected that this preparation would come to fruition today in this form."

"From two hundred years ago to today, the form of struggle has indeed undergone huge changes, but perhaps the underlying logic hasn’t changed much. Heroes still exist."

As they spoke, they had already returned to the ground from the high-rise building.

Yuki followed Xiang Shan, weaving through the streets, then reached the mobile building.

It was an abandoned warehouse. Nobody knew when it was abandoned, but it had been empty for a long time, and the door was completely broken. Heroes reactivated the door and temporarily settled down here.

The base was close to a civilian server, with a good signal. The other heroes either stayed in nearby homes or found places at the street corners. In any case, the distance between them did not exceed two hundred meters, ensuring direct contact through wireless signals.

Ai Tielang was with Yuan Wenren and Liu Ri, looking for Hiroshi Matsushima elsewhere. Xiang Shan had everyone come to get acquainted. Brady was here leading Panic. A cybernetically enhanced person and a little girl were just staring at each other.

After Yuki arrived, Xiang Shan introduced him again. Hearing that Yuki was Xiang Shan’s disciple, Brady eagerly shook hands with Yuki, saying, "Brother Yuki, to follow such a wise old senior, you truly have profound good fortune."

Xiang Shan then asked Yuki to take Panic into the city to find some food. Among this circle of heroes, only Yuki still retained the need to eat. He was the most suitable to take Panic in search of food.

Although there were not many edible things in this era, there were still a few.

Xiang Shan adjusted the automatic sentry turret and then took the materials list given by Yuan Wenren and checked it again.

"Hm..." Xiang Shan sighed, "Indeed, helium fabricate was a bit of an exaggeration, wasn’t it?"

With the current conditions, he really couldn’t gather enough helium fabricate. Even pure helium-4 was difficult.

If conditions permitted, he could use his internal reactor for limited elemental conversion, but the efficiency wasn’t enough.

"It looks like we really can’t run this chip at full capacity."

Eight’s figure appeared in front of Xiang Shan, lying in the same position, "Then use liquid nitrogen. 80K, it’s actually barely enough."

Although theoretically, liquid hydrogen as a refrigerant is superior to liquid nitrogen and hydrogen is exceptionally easy to obtain, requiring only the electrolysis of water.

But...

Nobody would want to stuff a highly flammable and explosive cooling system inside their body, right?

Unlike helium and nitrogen, hydrogen can react violently with oxygen.

If you stuff a liquid hydrogen cooling system inside your body and someone hits you someday, letting internal force seep through, the liquid hydrogen might ignite inside you.

But liquid nitrogen was easy to handle.

Clean air consists of 78.08% nitrogen.

In past industrial designs, if something can work in an environment of 80K, then it would be difficult to function much below 80K. If a device must work below 2K, temperatures below 3K will immediately compromise it.

But now, some products are designed to adapt to various personalized prosthetic bodies, and the requirements for the operational environment have been loosened.

Strictly speaking, the optimal operating temperature for this chip is below 1K. A normal hardware engineer would design such a chip and then throw the problem of "how to maintain a 1K environment" to the prosthetic body designers.

But this device can operate at temperatures up to 80K.

"After all, two hundred years." "Native" sighed, "It seems we’ve really completely changed the technological face of humanity..."

"Actually, there were quantum chips that could operate in environments of 100K eighty years ago," Eight said, "Do you know why the Protector still insists on this maximum 80K quantum chip?"

"Why?"

"It’s easier for them to handle small-scale refrigeration systems than for the Hero Faction. The chips they produce, even if heroes manage to get their hands on them, would still require quite an effort to use. The lab limits might even ensure quantum logic gates stabilize at temperatures as high as 120K."

"Anyway, we still have to find a way to install it. Otherwise, all this effort would be wasted, wouldn’t it?" Native Xiang Shan said, "Let’s connect to the network. See what new designs are on the internet."

"Designs for small-scale refrigeration systems, and news of quantum chips."

Xiang Shan silently recited "persona" in his mind, and the Personality Mask once again overlaid his thoughts.

"Let’s get to work."