Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 472 - 116: Contact Point

Chapter 472: Chapter 116: Contact Point

At this moment, the situation with Black Hand Master had become dire.

In order to resolve the issue of Sky Fury Star as quickly as possible, he had relied on his External Armor to withstand a round of close-range firearms assault.

The Heroes had several methods of dealing with bullets. For example, allowing the bullets to enter the External Armor at a steep angle to maximize the effectiveness of the armor’s Avoid technique, and so on.

But even these dharma gates have their limits.

As a result, the External Armor on one side of his body had shattered.

Due to the modern External Armor’s characteristics of being shattered but not destroyed, even though it had been reduced to granules, it still maintained a rough shape, barely clinging onto his body.

This was proof that the External Armor had absorbed kinetic energy to its maximum extent.

Ancient forged steel could not achieve this. While these steels were strong enough, an explosion would often lead to a scenario where "the External Armor was unharmed, but the person inside was dead."

Or "the External Armor shattered into pieces, and the contents inside were converted into scrap metal."

Modern External Armor, however, would absorb the energy of external attacks, using the binding energy between its own molecules to negate the damage.

It is said that under the latest External Armor technology, even if the armor shattered like sand, it could still maintain a general contour.

However, even then, Black Hand Master had to abandon this External Armor.

Shattered to this extent, the External Armor could hardly offer effective protection—it was only slightly better than none at all but against large-caliber bullets, it was truly only "slightly better than none."

And the continuously falling shards from the armor would also decrease the difficulty for the enemy to track him down.

Therefore, Black Hand Master removed most of his External Armor and wrapped himself with a Dustproof Membrane, which was normally used for emergency purposes in case of small but deep cuts on the External Armor, and under normal use, a layer of paint should be sprayed over the Dustproof Membrane.

Black Hand Master simply wrapped himself like a mummy, then draped a camouflage cloak over himself.

The same went for Firearms. If a gun was out of bullets, he would smash its critical parts and then throw it away.

Just a few supplies, no big deal.

He had to stay alive and reach the next outpost where he could transmit information.

Lead Angry Hand Tang Yun had entrusted him with a critical piece of information.

Combining that with the content he had overheard, that mysterious force must definitely have a grand scheme.

He must deliver this information!

Black Hand Master looked at the continuous Coast Mountains and resolutely embarked on the road to escape.

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While Black Hand Master was on the run, Solo Kill King Jader had already led Xiang Shan and others to another hollow in the Coast Mountains.

The scenery of this generation was quite peculiar. This hollow faced the Pacific Ocean and was subject to the humid sea breeze, so the air was not low in moisture content. Although at a somewhat high latitude, the ground here still had plenty of fungi and moss.

The appearance of these fungi was also quite strange. Some fungi were filamentous, spreading across the ground. From afar, it looked as if rocks had white and yellow veins growing on them. Some were like clusters of short poles, gathering together. Some appeared like stacks of folded rocks.

There were none of the thick, umbrella-shaped mushrooms.

"This place... is it... a good contact point?" Xiang Shan looked around, "It must have been many years since people last came here."

In this era, there were few large plants on the ground. Occasionally, some seeds, either floated from the residence of the Scientific Knight Order or from the ornamental platform of some Lord with a special hobby.

These seeds must be very fortunate to find a territory where they could survive long-term and then grow slowly.

Earth now was like it had just gone through a massive extinction...

No, Earth now was indeed looking like it had just experienced a great extinction.

Producers that could convert solar energy into chemical energy were extremely rare on land. If not those agricultural crops in residential areas designed to produce sugar nutrients, then it was the microscopic single-celled plants and moss that were invisible to the naked eye.

Most fungi were heterotrophic. Of course, "fungi" is a very large category, with some even able to extract energy from gamma rays using melanin. But generally speaking, most fungi require a carbon source to obtain energy.

This also meant that the growth rate of fungi could not be very fast.

"Uh... this..." Jader glanced around and said, "I’m not really sure about the specifics, although this scene can actually form quite quickly..."

As he spoke, Jader bent down and fumbled for a while before he moved a rock aside.

Under the rock was an irregular mass of dark green slime mold. However, this slime mold mass seemed to be dead. It looked like there was a regular flat surface beneath the mass.

Jader reached out and actually scooped out a...

Primitive display device?

Xiang Shan was stunned, "Huh?"

"It’s wired." Jader pointed to a wire connected to this screen, which went directly into the ground.

"This..." Xiang Shan said astonished, "There’s such a thing?"

"A network completely unsupervised by King Aqini." There were no wireless signals around, so Jader boldly spoke the taboo name, "Although it appears very primitive."

"No, no... How does this wire work?" Xiang Shan was very concerned about this issue.

"It’s fully automatic! Small Mining Robots... uh, it seems they are designed to the specifications of a creature called ’mouse’." Jader explained, "Place solar panels at several predetermined locations, then drop these ’Mining Robots’ there. These little machines will charge and work automatically. It’s best to also place spare working parts and maintenance machines for replacements there."

"Solar panels less than a square meter won’t trigger satellite monitoring, just need to be careful not to let them get smashed by any passing Houndhawk."

Xiang Shan asked, "What if the little robot breaks down in the tunnel? What if the tunnel collapses?"

If it collapses... it’ll just collapse," Jader said, "As long as the wire goes down, that’s enough. If a little robot malfunctions inside, send another one to drag it out or just bury it there. After all, the cost is very low."

As he said this, he pressed a button to open the side panel of the monitor, revealing a port.

"This port is for one-way input. To ensure concealment, the entire network is decentralized, maintaining the most primitive architecture. Because it can’t be certain when or which exact contact point someone might use, any messages from any contact point will be sent to all contact points."