Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 480 - 124: No Overnight Grudges

Chapter 480: Chapter 124: No Overnight Grudges

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Heavenly Machine now only felt the relief of having survived a catastrophe.

Both for himself and for Sky Fierce.

The peerless Inner Strength displayed earlier was merely a probing attack. In such a short amount of time, even the most powerful Internal Strength Masters couldn’t achieve victory with a single strike, especially from a distance.

However, he also knew that had he fired just a few seconds later, the outcome would have been completely different.

Once that master on the other side realized this was a private network of Green Forest without an external interface, everyone would have died.

Iron Heart Dharma King was also a supreme master. Without significant Internal Strength Cultivation, one couldn’t work alongside King Aqini.

If you were to rank Iron Heart Dharma King’s Inner Strength, it would likely be within the top few dozen.

But his "top few dozen" rank was far more valuable than the "number one in Inner Strength" on Heavenly Machine Star.

Heavenly Machine was merely first on "Earth’s Green Forest Tiger List," a regional ranking limited to Earth and limited to the least influential of the Green Forest Men.

But Iron Heart Dharma King was competing for a spot on the list that included all humanity from The Eight Planets, the Dwarf Planet Satellite Cities, Deep Space Stations, and the Far Sun Frontier.

The reason it was the vague "top few dozen" was because Internal Strength Masters are adept at concealing information. For instance, to date, no one knows exactly how many people are in the Turing Lineage.

Moreover, the strength shown in those few seconds may not have been the enemy’s full power.

It should be said that at the very least, that unknown enemy possessed Inner Strength on the same level as Iron Heart Dharma King.

Definitely not someone Heavenly Machine could contend with now.

Even if he discarded his Green Forest disguise, risking the destruction of his persona to exert "Hermit of Heavenly Machine’s" full strength, he still couldn’t manage it.

—Who exactly is it...

He only felt dizzy and disoriented. When he saw Sky Fierce lying there, this was the only thought in his mind.

Human cultivation of Inner Strength requires resources.

Computational resources, network resources, technical materials, pharmaceuticals...

Each one is strictly controlled.

Especially here on Earth, King Aqini’s "fiefdom."

Internal Strength Masters can’t develop solely by shutting themselves away and meditating. They need to use pharmaceuticals and deepen their interaction with computers.

If you don’t regularly use supercomputers or dedicated machines, then the resources you steal will go to waste.

Thus, if Internal Strength Masters wish to advance, they must frequently go online.

But the network in this place is under the strictest surveillance.

Once Inner Strength reaches a certain level, one’s online activity becomes very frequent.

This is the stage when almost certainly King Aqini or his aides will intercept and eliminate them.

It’s said that decades ago, Iron Heart Dharma King occasionally helped cover for those Internal Strength Masters who revealed themselves, sparing them.

But this was ultimately futile. Even if he managed to deceive temporarily, those Internal Strength Masters would eventually be detected by other monitors or King Aqini himself.

This posed a certain risk to Iron Heart Dharma King’s covert operations.

No one on Earth can cultivate Inner Strength to the level of the Mathematical Realm.

And the display just now... it was even faintly above the Mathematical Realm!

—From outside Earth? A master of the Turing Lineage? Would such heroes really...

—But in recent years, apart from Tao Enhai, who else could it be...

Heavenly Machine Star numbly tossed his sniper rifle aside and slowly walked towards Sky Fierce.

He spoke softly, "You’re still alive, right..."

Sky Fierce did not move, as if he were dead.

Heavenly Machine kicked him twice, "You should be alive. I acted in a timely manner... It was only a probing attack."

"Probing..." It took a while for Sky Fierce to regain control of his voice synthesizer. He spoke weakly, "This... this... ah..."

"What just happened?"

"Probing attack... DOS... hogging resources... then... overload..."

It took another moment for Sky Fierce to struggle into a sitting position. He said, "Firewall... should have filtered out... most of it... the malicious... it was indeed... probing..."

The attack wasn’t long enough. When designing the Brain-Machine Interface, people considered such risks. It’s not easy to burn out a Benchmark Man’s brain through hardware overload.

Heavenly Machine had disconnected from the network quickly, so the worst Sky Fierce would face was replacing his motherboard, rather than dying just like that.

Heavenly Machine looked at Sky Fierce, "That attack was targeted at you. It seems he grabbed someone, then used that brother’s communication hardware to connect. He waited for you to respond to confirm whether the communication hardware you were using was implanted or detachable."

The so-called "detachable" referred to traditional smart devices like phones and tablets. "Detachable" specifically meant "physical disconnect," these devices even included those embedded in the body, but manually operated and not directly interfaced with neural signals. These gadgets, although not as responsive as implanted devices that operate at the thought, could transmit less information types.

But they could filter out some Inner Strength attacks.

If the enemy used a phone to answer the call, then neither "Turing" nor "Aqini" could directly cause an overload.

However, they could also trigger hidden backdoors using a sequence of sound waves or special images.

The "curses" wielded by these old-timers were beyond the imagination of most.

"That hero, his Inner Strength is terrifying. Do you have any clues? Why did he target you first?"

"Don’t... know..." Sky Fierce struggled to stand. Heaven Hero couldn’t bear to watch and lent a hand.

"Think hard; who could this person be?" Heavenly Machine pressed, "His Inner Strength is the strongest I’ve ever seen, definitely not native to Earth. But he targeted you first, not me—as the head of the Righteousness Assembly. What vendetta do you have with him?"

"Don’t know," Sky Fierce’s speech became much clearer. He seemed to have deleted some junk files and then reconstructed some firewall and security application code. He slowly stood up and said, "But that guy is provoking... he wants to kill me... he killed our brothers..."

Heavenly Machine Star was shocked, "Don’t go mad, the guy is very strong..."

"So you shouldn’t seek vengeance?" Sky Fierce suddenly pointed his gun at Heavenly Machine, "Other matters, I can step back. But for this... for our brother... let’s be direct!"

Heavenly Machine Star was taken aback, then looked at Sky Fierce, "But he might be a master who has broken through the First Layer Heavenly Land, or even stronger."

"At least... have a look," Sky Fierce said, "If he’s broken through the First Heavenly Layer... I’ll leave immediately and fully support your... Heavenly King plan... but right now, vengeance!"

"What do you plan to do?"

"Wait for me to reinstall the system, rebuild the firewall..."

"Not enough!" Heavenly Machine shook his head, "If you really want revenge, then replace the entire motherboard, all the hardware that can be written to, and do a major overhaul of the firewall."

"The probing attack from earlier has exposed you enough, and you may have been afflicted with some Gu. Everything has to be replaced."

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