Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 451 - 95 Temporarily Reorganize

Chapter 451: Chapter 95 Temporarily Reorganize

In the mountains, two Green Forest lackeys were leaning against a large boulder, chatting. Their motorcycles were parked nearby, with a Glimmer Light glowing softly on the ground.

They were casually discussing matters of murder and arson.

Suddenly, one of them slapped his eye socket.

"What’s wrong?" the other asked.

The first replied, "Nothing... I just felt like some kind of icon flashed in the top right of my field of vision."

"Ah?" The other also paid attention: "Signal fluctuation? Is the wireless signal bad?"

They had been so focused on discussing the feel of killing that they hadn’t noticed anything amiss here.

"Don’t know, maybe someone in the stronghold accidentally cut the line..."

"But there’s clearly a signal right now."

"Then maybe it’s..."

Their conversation ended there.

Both lackeys had a high degree of cyberization.

So they fell to the ground on the spot, life signs extinguished.

Xiang Shan climbed up and methodically delivered heavy blows to both of their heads, ensuring their Biological Brains were damaged.

"Not too shabby," Xiang Shan nodded, thinking to himself.

This was one of the vulnerabilities that TX-0 had given him.

The Green Forest stronghold master behind these lackeys had likely adopted an open-source local area network protocol, which led to several vulnerabilities. To Xiang Shan, the wireless signal receivers of these two sentries were practically defenseless.

However, Xiang Shan still needed to launch some probing attacks to identify these vulnerabilities.

Therefore, for a moment, the two Green Forest lackeys noticed a surge in wireless signal strength.

In fact, at that time, the only thing they should have done was disconnect from the network.

Unfortunately for them, Xiang Shan’s Inner Strength had already flowed through the two lackeys and entered the stronghold’s local network.

After silently taking out the sentries, Xiang Shan waved his hand. A few minutes later, Flash Speed Sect’s Yadali and Chaotic Blade Sect’s Bred arrived.

"Alright, students, it’s time for a pop quiz," Xiang Shan pointed around: "You’ve been through almost six months of martial arts classes on the arena, experiencing the highest level of combat fighting. But now, Hero Teacher is here to check your level of encounter-combat."

"The method is unlimited, find the entrance to this Green Forest Stronghold yourselves, and eliminate them."

"They’ve all been affected by Gu, so they can’t use lethal moves against you. As long as you don’t make any too basic mistakes, you won’t die."

"This..." Bred said, "Isn’t the level of difficulty a bit too high?"

"Don’t worry," Xiang Shan said with a smile.

The two young heroes hesitated a bit but then left.

After confirming they were far away, Xiang Shan shook his head emphatically: "Points deducted, points deducted. There are clearly two corpses here, and they didn’t even think to dig out the memory storage devices. That’s a prime source of intelligence."

As he spoke, Xiang Shan opened up both lackeys’ heads and then casually switched off the light.

It was because of this light that Xiang Shan had noticed these two people from hundreds of meters away.

They were already within the bounds of the Rocky Mountains.

These two lackeys clearly had inferior prosthetic eyes compared to Xiang Shan’s, needing a glimmer light to see properly—of course, it could also be because they subconsciously craved an atmosphere akin to a "campfire".

But Xiang Shan didn’t need such a thing.

At this moment, a communication from Yuan Wenren came through.

[Senior... Are those two brothers going to be okay?]

The abilities of Yadali and Bred were roughly on par with Cui Hai, whom Xiang Shan had encountered three years ago. If they were cautious, they could also eliminate some Green Forest members, but if the stronghold master’s level was close to the bottom of the Tiger List, then every step they took would be perilous.

Even Xiang Shan from three years ago, if surrounded by a group of lackeys and shot at, might just possibly take control, then eliminate them with a single combo.

Xiang Shan said, [I’ve used the gu to balance the strength between the two sides. The other side has been limited in exertion. If they wield guns, they will shoot with outlining marksmanship. If they resort to hand-to-hand combat, they won’t be able to use their full strength. As long as they don’t foolishly launch a frontal assault, there will be no problems at all.]

Furthermore, if there was a problem, Xiang Shan could use his inner strength to support them at any moment.

Up until now, there had still been no signs of counterattack from the Great Stockade’s server.

That suggested two possibilities.

One was that the inner strength master within the stronghold was far superior to him, even stronger than Hartman from eighty years ago.

The second was that the inner strength master inside the stronghold had not detected the attack.

Xiang Shan felt that although the first possibility existed, it couldn’t be simply described as "practically zero", but one couldn’t live in constant fear of the sky falling down.

There was a local network signal on this rock.

Wiping out this Green Forest Stronghold was just a spur-of-the-moment idea. Xiang Shan had merely happened to spot those two lackeys with his powerful prosthetic eye.

If it had been someone else, they might well have mistaken the light from the glimmer light for the reflection of the moon on the rocks.

[Senior, should I continue driving forward, or should I wait for these two?]

[Wait a bit. Getting the refrigeration equipment isn’t a matter of a moment or two. It’s also good to take a rest.]

Xiang Shan said this, then simply sat down on the spot and looked up at the sky.

He was searching for artificial objects that might be anomalies in the sky.

"King of Godspeed, huh..." Xiang Shan said, "I wonder who that could be?"

This was additional information provided to Xiang Shan by TX-0 before he left Pine Eagle City.

Before leaving Pine Eagle City, Xiang Shan had told Zero about his plan to raid the Secluded Crane Knight Order for small refrigeration equipment. The keyword "Secluded Crane Knight Order" seemed to trigger some mechanism within Zero’s personality mask. Zero remembered something, then downloaded a file that had been stashed away and decrypted it using the embedded secret key in his personality mask.

This was another part of Zero’s memory, concerning the Secluded Crane Knight Order and Yawgmoth.

According to Zero, on the surface, the Secluded Crane Knight Order appeared unremarkable, but in actuality, they were highly valued by Yawgmoth. The Throne frequently sent large amounts of data in their direction, assigning various Scientific Knight Orders with different tasks. Being esteemed, a portion of those tasks was given to the Secluded Crane Knight Order. This data would be issued directly, bypassing the institution of the Sanctuary.

In other words, the Secluded Crane Knight Order might not be the most elite in the Galapagos Sanctuary, but they were executing missions directly assigned by Yawgmoth.

In the open hierarchy of the Scientific Knight Orders, "scientific achievements" were the sole factor. However, the Secluded Crane Knight Order, among a few others, seemed to have that little something extra.

The reason TX-0 shared this with Xiang Shan was to ask if he had the opportunity to investigate why the Secluded Crane Knight Order was so special.

At the same time, along with the resurfacing of these memories, there was also partial intelligence regarding the Throne and the King of Godspeed.

Zero thought this information would also be valuable to Xiang Shan, so he passed it on.

The whereabouts of the King of Godspeed were the easiest to detect among the Kings.

Because the Godspeed Court was very observable.