Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 485 - 129 Monsters and Luck

Chapter 485: Chapter 129 Monsters and Luck

The Heavenly Machine Star quickly set up the antenna again. However, this time, he wasn’t sending long waves that would be shielded by the ionosphere, but microwaves that could penetrate it.

A beam of the signal silently pierced through the atmosphere and reached a satellite.

It was a dedicated interface. The Iron Heart Dharma King had registered this line as "informant exclusive." Information flowing through wouldn’t trigger the AI audit mechanism but would directly flow to the higher authority, the Iron Heart Dharma King.

He asked directly in the form of text.

[I have encountered an enemy with exceptionally high Inner Strength, speculated to be the "Nameless Hero" who saved the Apricot Forest Duke, Tao Enhai, three years ago. His Inner Strength is unfathomable and may be on par with the Dharma King. I need intelligence.]

What the Heavenly Machine could do now was "delay."

Even if Sky Fierce was really just going to "take a glance"—to make sure the other party hadn’t crossed the First Layer Heavenly Land and return—it would be very dangerous.

With Inner Strength that profound, the maneuvers they could perform in a unit of time would be astonishing. It’s said that some Internal Strength Masters can launch DOS attacks on civilian-grade private servers with their Biological Brains alone.

The higher the level of Inner Strength, the more "curses" and "Gu" they would have at their disposal.

Perhaps a patch or an application from ten years ago could become a fatal weakness.

If this person was acquainted with the Apricot Forest Duke, Tao Enhai, that would be even more terrifying.

Old monster-level Internal Strength Masters have buried who knows how many bombs in open-source information.

On May 29, 1453, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, Constantinople, fell. Although the decline of the Eastern Roman Empire was the flow of history, their last military defeat was indeed because they forgot to close a small gate.

Compared to the entirety of history, the rise and fall of a nation is simply a "detail." The tide of history is inexorable, but details can change.

Constantinople would fall on May 29, 1453. History gave Constantine XI no chance to save his empire, simply because everyone forgot to close a gate.

But a young Internal Martial Artist facing those old monsters is like being covered in such gates—and they wouldn’t know it themselves.

In this regard, the "Turing" who originated the Inner Strength and the powerful hacker from the same era, "King Aqini," have advantages that no one else can match. They also have the foundation of Inner Strength to bring out this advantage perfectly.

As for that "Nameless Hero"...

They knew almost nothing about him.

The Heavenly Machine couldn’t explain everything. Because right now, he was just "the Heavenly Machine Star of Earth’s Green Forest," not the Hermit of Heavenly Machine of the Six Dragons Sect.

Heroes and the government would eliminate anyone from the Green Forest upon encountering them.

Therefore, "the Heavenly Machine Star of Earth’s Green Forest" couldn’t possibly still be alive after contact with the close retainers of King Aqini or disciples of the Turing Lineage.

He needed support... he needed intelligence...

After waiting for a long time, the Heavenly Machine didn’t receive a response from the Iron Heart Dharma King. He slammed his head with his hand.

Just now, he told all his Green Forest brethren that, to avoid being instantly killed by that Hero, they would need to replace all their hardware before completely upgrading their firewalls. He told others that he was now in seclusion to upgrade his own firewall.

But that wouldn’t buy much time.

He sent out another piece of intelligence.

[You have said before that the "Heavenly King’s Project" is meaningful. I want to ensure the survival of more Heavenly Gang Stars.]

The Hermit of Heavenly Machine suddenly wanted to laugh.

He was now actually thinking about saving the lives of those fools as much as possible.

——Ultimate Way Consensus Therapy... Haha, truly irresistible...

This time, the Iron Heart Dharma King finally responded.

He received a link.

This link seemed to be for downloading a patch.

Then, he received a second message.

[I will notify other Hermits and emissaries to rescue you. Please refrain from attacking the target at will. Abandon your current plans and leave your location. The patch can only save your life once.]

Following the Six Dragons Sect procedure, the Hermit of Heavenly Machine installed the patch on himself, then removed parts of it, and planned to install it on his Green Forest brothers later.

No, actually the best choice was to install it only on himself.

When the Iron Heart Dharma King said it "can only save your life once," it probably meant the patch would ensure he wouldn’t be killed by a single witnessing look from the enemy.

But after a few probing attacks, the enemy would analyze the patch and develop a counter-strategy.

And considering the response speed of the prosthetic computing core, it wouldn’t take long for those "few rounds."

A real Internal Strength Master wouldn’t be troubled by the same patch twice.

But still...

"In the end, I still have to do it," he said.

The Heavenly Machine Star stood up, casually threw a grenade, and blew up the nearby radar.

Sky Fierce came over, greeted him: "Heavenly Machine, you’re blowing up radars for fun now?"

While "blowing up one’s own radar" seemed strange, the Green Forest was always full of various erratic destructive desires. So, Sky Fierce wasn’t too surprised. He stretched his limbs: "Validation complete. The processor I’ve newly installed is not bad. It’s from my stash of valuable resources."

The Heavenly Machine didn’t say a word, just shared a file: "Transmit this patch peer-to-peer to every brother, then notify everyone to rally together, so we aren’t defeated one by one."

Numbers always matter. For a top-tier master, killing a master is easier than killing a hundred minions. But ten high-level experts with good coordination might pose a bigger threat than a thousand minions.

The fighting power in the Cyber Martial World can’t necessarily be calculated in a simple way by multiplying both sides of an equation by a coefficient.

He looked at Sky Fierce and said, "Let’s go... we must survive."

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Suzuki Swift and the Black Hand Master’s figures crossed each other in a flash.

The Black Hand Master’s prosthetic body fell off the cliff and crashed solidly onto the ground below.

A drop from several tens of meters was not enough to be fatal, but the Black Hand Master, having lost his External Armor, bore the full brunt of the fall on his vulnerable innards. Countless components broke through the thin skin, scattering around.

The Biological Brain survived, thanks to the last of the shock absorption capabilities, but a concussion had also definitely occurred.

The Black Hand Master felt dizzy. Desperately, he tried to move his arms but found only one retained motor function.

The old Hero used this one arm to move himself.

"I’m really... lucky. I can hang on a bit longer."

If it weren’t for a mistake by Heavenly Ingenious Star during the boxing, he would be dead now.

Above the cliff, Suzuki Swift was somewhat angry: "What are you messing with at such a crucial moment? Huh? That was critical just now!"

During the boxing, a notification with the highest priority suddenly popped up in Suzuki Swift’s mind, prompting her to download a patch.

A moment of distraction prevented her from finishing off that crippled Hero then and there.