Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 488 - 132: Heavenly Ingenious Granted as Chief

Chapter 488: Chapter 132: Heavenly Ingenious Granted as Chief

"You this..."

Heavenly Ingenious Star could only manage to spit out two syllables.

By the time he stood up, Xiang Shan had already charged over.

Heavenly Ingenious Star barely reacted in time, and the broadsword in his hands sprang out again, stabbing straight forward.

But Xiang Shan feinted, spinning and turning in front of her, then placed his hand on her shoulder.

The balance of Suzuki Swift was disrupted in an instant. Her body flew horizontally clinging to the cliff.

Suzuki Swift, while mid-air, could only lightly touch the rock wall of the cliff with her elbow to change her position.

But Xiang Shan went a step further, grabbing her leg.

Then he slammed her down to the ground.

With a "smack", a loud sound emanated from Suzuki Swift’s body.

Xiang Shan was about to make another move, but several Fire Wires fell from the top of the cliff.

The target was actually the Black Hand Master hidden behind the rocks.

They were short-range micro missiles!

The acceleration distance of these missiles was too short, and their speed was very slow. Xiang Shan could easily dodge and blow them up.

But if the target was the Black Hand Master, it wouldn’t be that easy.

Xiang Shan, carrying Suzuki Swift, charged toward the Black Hand Master.

Although Suzuki Swift was thrown into disarray, she knew it was a matter of life and death, so she forcefully kicked Xiang Shan’s shoulder with her remaining foot.

The shoulder armor on Xiang Shan was especially thickened. To a certain extent, this was to shield the intense radiation from the Reactor. Xiang Shan received the hit without having his balance broken.

He lowered his lower body to center his gravity, his rear foot’s brace and his sole gripped the ground like claws as his upper body spun twice[For mechanical shutdown, this is basic operation].

He flung Suzuki Swift towards the incoming missiles

Suzuki Swift hit the missiles, but they didn’t explode.

—Remote-controlled? Or AI target recognition?

A thought flashed through Xiang Shan’s mind as he approached the Black Hand Master again.

But the Black Hand Master proved his worth as an old warhorse.

His last functioning hand actually grasped a shotgun.

The shotgun sprayed out sparkles and fireflowers, with many high-quality pellets forming a cone-shaped cloud of shrapnel.

Several missiles exploded in the air directly.

The blast wind pushed Suzuki Swift back, but this Green Forest hero did have some skill in Qinggong. She opened several Vector Injectors on her body, using the blast wind to return directly to the cliff.

Xiang Shan’s Prosthetic Body was still subpar. The fission Reactor was simply too heavy, and the corresponding External Armor was equally heavy. Coupled with his lack of high-quality injectors, his Qinggong was somewhat lacking.

He instinctively looked upward.

Meanwhile, here, "Wine God Spirit" Nyx was ready.

"Confirmed, the target’s external strength is very powerful, on par with Heavenly Ingenious Star’s ’Mosquitos and Midges’. He is surely not one who has surpassed a major threshold in both Internal and External Strength capabilities." Champion Earth Star thought to himself, "Moreover, from the characteristics of the Prosthetic Body, he should not be the ’beyond imagination Internal Strength Master’ mentioned in the intelligence."

He had just resolved the compatibility issue[specifically, generating a compatibility patch on-site, and he was lucky, finding the solution after only a few attempts], when he saw Suzuki Swift being beaten back step by step.

Thus, he had his lackeys launch the missiles, and then he joined the battle himself.

His gaze met that of the Hero.

— Suzuki Swift is at a complete disadvantage in close combat. This is our only chance.

Champion Earth Star thought so and boldly initiated Witnessing.

The first thing he felt was as if a hammer had smashed his head.

Then, a strange sensation surged into his heart. His eyes received the data feedback, yet this touch...

In the fleeting changes of combat, Nyx had no time to think further; he abruptly urged his Inner Strength and pressed forward.

—The resistance was weaker than expected...

—What was it at the beginning...

Initially, when he felt dizzy, Nyx thought he had encountered a tough opponent.

Seeing this, Suzuki Swift laughed, "Well done, Nyx. Just like that, capture him with your witnessing! I’ll go and slash him!"

Saying this, she descended along the cliff, and once again pounced toward Xiang Shan.

At the same moment that Suzuki Swift left, the lackeys around Champion Earth Star began to fall.

Almost simultaneously, in synchronization.

Suzuki Swift thought the unfamiliar Hero was cursed because of the witnessing and opened her system to the "Wine God spirit" Nyx.

But in reality, Nyx was attacking the lackeys around him.

In that instant, Nyx unleashed several different curses.

Xiang Shan not only blocked them all but also had the kung fu to identify each one.

TX-0 had provided him with a rather comprehensive "General Curse Database". Most of the curses mastered by the Turing Lineage were known to Xiang Shan.

Many newly famous martial artists of the Internal school didn’t know that their lethal secret incantations were actually backdoors "chiseled" out by the Turing Lineage or King Aqini.

These little hackers were merely taking advantage of the preparedness of the Great Divine Power Owners by coincidence.

Xiang Shan knew the effects of these curses when they took effect.

So, he pretended to be affected.

As for the reason...

He hadn’t dismantled the Green Forest Internal Firewall in an instant.

This "roughly tactile" Firewall was unexpectedly tight. Even the several backdoors and flaws that Zero labeled as "very useful" were all blocked up.

Thus, Xiang Shan pretended to be cursed to observe it more closely.

Meanwhile, he secretly shifted the target of Nyx’s Inner Strength attack onto the other lackeys.

Naturally, the latter was using a secret technique from the Eighth Martial God.

In this era, the more a curse was exposed, the weaker its power became. Only by keeping it mysterious could it retain its full power.

Ah, of course, of course, it was also possible for "a master to release a patch that mysteriously renders a mysterious curse known to very few people ineffective."

But generally, "curses" required secrecy.

The secret techniques of the Eighth Martial God involved even greater matters and should be kept even more secret.

Xiang Shan was not originally planning to use it. However, the tactile feel of this Firewall had indeed piqued his interest.

The Inner Strength of that Green Forest Internal practitioner was quite ordinary. Logically, his Firewall shouldn’t have been so strong.

He must have been granted a powerful patch.

Moreover, this patch must have been recently acquired. Otherwise, he would be contemplating the code in that patch right now, aiming to comprehend the programming methods of the master.

So, when Suzuki Swift pounced in front of him, Xiang Shan shrugged his shoulders, dodged a slash, and then with one hand disrupted Suzuki Swift’s stance.

Then, he took advantage of the momentum of Suzuki Swift’s charge to throw her to the ground.

Suzuki Swift’s body launched a dozen Vector Injectors, changing direction and circling around Xiang Shan’s wrist trying to break free.

But Xiang Shan’s other hand was already waiting there, capturing Suzuki Swift’s nape with a lightning-fast grasp.

Then he twisted it.

Suzuki Swift’s head screamed, "Why weren’t you affected by the curse?"