Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 468 - 112: Missing an Appointment

Chapter 468: Chapter 112: Missing an Appointment

The Black Hand Master was struck by a bullet in the shoulder. It felt as dreadful as being directly smashed by a hammer.

Black Hand Master didn’t even have time to unload the force, and his entire right hand lost sensation.

——At least the sensory circuits are damaged...

Black Hand Master rolled on the spot, extending his remaining hand, pulling the entangled enemy and the Hero behind the wreckage of the vehicle.

The Gunner who had fired the shot was different from the dead Earth Might Star, his shot was from within 500 meters, and Black Hand Master’s sensory prosthetic body caught the faint noise. He knew where the opponent might be, so he pulled the Hero and locked down together.

The enemy entangled with the Hero with the broken leg let out a hand to push away Black Hand Master’s hand. This seemed to disturb his stance; the Hero with the broken leg’s hands, like a smashing machine, fell upon the enemy’s neck,

Upon being struck by this, the enemy exhibited a slight waiver.

Black Hand Master seized this opportunity, directly striking the person’s brain on the side with the base of his palm.

Within Natural Person martial arts, there indeed exist a large number of striking techniques that use the base of the palm and edges of the palm. Human finger bones are very fragile. Although throwing punches is more in line with the human body’s natural way of exertion, without protective measures, finger bones are easily broken. In contrast, the palm’s edge, which is protected by muscle and connective tissue, and the harder base of the palm are much safer. Such moves are generally found in bare-handed fighting without protection for the fists.

But Black Hand Master’s move was clearly based on another principle. He just required the base of the palm, the wrist, and the arm to form a straight barrel of a gun.

At the same time as the palm base’s strike (to be precise, with a few milliseconds delay), a bullet would be triggered.

The enemy, knowing the danger, exerted force with his hips and legs, spun a full circle, lifting the Hero up to block between himself and Black Hand Master.

The Hero, due to the sniping by Earth Might Star, had lost a leg and couldn’t fully utilize his lower body to block and was unable to resist this move.

Although the bullets from Black Hand Master’s palm base had a certain armor-piercing capability, they couldn’t maintain lethal power after penetrating two layers of external armor. He quickly withdrew his hand, and, at the same time, changed his footwork, shifting again to a flank position.

The sound of gunfire rose again, hitting near Black Hand Master’s feet. For a moment, Black Hand Master had only one foot exposed in the enemy’s field of vision and was almost hit. Black Hand Master deduced from the gunfire that the opponent had moved fifty meters, still over four hundred meters away from here.

The closer a Gunner is to the target, the less time the bullet gives the target to react, the less they need to account for air currents. Some Gunners will give up sniping for enhanced eradication methods within three hundred meters.

Black Hand Master had no time to think further. He continued to reach out, hoping to take down this Close-Combat Martial Artist before the mid-range Gunner got closer, to prevent their combined forces.

But this person clearly thought of this as well. Although he had been at a disadvantage in the series of exchanges with two Heroes who had lost limbs, he held steady, and for the moment, Black Hand Master couldn’t take him down.

At this time, Black Hand Master received a wireless signal access request.

[You are... with these moves, you are "Lead Angry Hand" Tang Yun? Have you changed your prosthetic body?]

"Lead Angry Hand" Tang Yun was a Martial Artist skilled in close-range assault and a Hero from the Arctic, one of the Heroes who responded to the call of the Nameless Hero to come in support. Black Hand Master had met Lead Angry Hand a few times before, not close, but acquainted.

Black Hand Master hadn’t recognized him right away after Lead Angry Hand changed his prosthetic body.

["Yes. I’ve exchanged everything I own for this prosthetic body and equipment, hoping it could help the Nameless Hero reach a new level. What a pity."] At this moment, Tang Yun actually still had the composure to exchange courtesies. At this very moment, his struggle with the shadowy figure had reached a stalemate. The shadow showed no intention of attacking further, which allowed him to be distracted enough to speak.

The Black Hand Master was very anxious, ["At a time like this, you still have the mood to talk about this?"]

["I’ve traded all my possessions for a prosthetic body and equipment, and I was hoping that I could make a name for myself with this venture. If I can’t even vent my complaints, wouldn’t this whole endeavor be incredibly unjust?"]

The Black Hand Master, sensing the man had resigned himself to death, urged him on anxiously, ["Concentrate on hand-to-hand combat, we still have a chance to make it out!"]

["No, Brother Black Hand, you know I have no chance left. My leg is broken, the part that most affects my ability to move. And all my supplies and weapons are gone, obliterated by a bomb."]

At this point, the Black Hand Master received several transmission requests. Among them were a few files, including a text document, a video, and a memory extraction file.

The speed of laser signal transmission allowed the Black Hand Master to quickly receive these files.

["Your mobility is still intact. I remember your skills in gunfighting at close quarters are also fairly decent. The one closing in should be Sky Fury Star’s Fancy Spear, Leon. With prediction, it shouldn’t be a problem for you to escape from him. But if you take me with you, neither of us will be able to get away."]

["Some days ago, when I was heading south, I discovered signs of mass slaughter, so I followed the trail and pinpointed two Green Forest experts. Masters of the Green Forest rarely gather together, and I was curious about their intentions. Therefore, instead of ambushing them in the city, I followed them into the wilderness and intercepted their communication signals."]

["They were far too arrogant and didn’t use very complex encryption... perhaps they were relying on short-range communication and never imagined there’d be a tracker like me out in the wilderness. I intercepted their signals."]

["It’s said that the Heavenly Machine Star is calling the Green Forest experts together for some big plan to reshape the image of the Green Forest. As for their exact scheme, I managed to intercept a magnetic chain, but unfortunately, I haven’t had the chance to download its contents. I don’t know what conspiracy lies within."]

["Then I was discovered. They weren’t sure how much I knew, so they sent many masters to kill me."]

["I can die, but this intelligence must be passed on."]

This method of communicating directly via laser signals was many times faster than speaking, and in just a few moves, the Black Hand Master had fully understood the intentions of the Lead Angry Hand.

["I quickly erased those memories, so..."]

"Tell the Nameless Hero, Tang has failed to keep the appointment!"

The Lead Angry Hand, Tang Yun, embraced the shadowy figure—a Green Forest expert of the Earth Hero Star, then rolled out of cover.

Bullets immediately sprayed out. In that time, Sky Fury Star had already moved to a position over three hundred meters away from them. Lead Angry Hand could even see the outline of the adversary.

Tang Yun was hit by bullets, and the strength of his external armor noticeably decreased. Earth Hero Star didn’t miss the opportunity when Tang Yun’s stance was broken by the gunfire, immediately following up with a double-fist strike.

But Tang Yun, using Earth Hero Star’s own force, rolled on the ground, lifting Earth Hero Star up temporarily as a shield against the bullets.

His real target, however, was the gun that Black Hand Master had just dropped!