Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 502 - 146: Unclear Medication Packaging

Chapter 502: Chapter 146: Unclear Medication Packaging

"Chaos System," or rather, "Nonlinear System," was first proposed by a meteorologist.

When people started calculating future atmospheric conditions from the initial states of atmospheric motion, even slight differences in the initial states could lead to vastly different evolutionary outcomes. This phenomenon could be referred to as the intrinsic stochasticity of the atmosphere.

In the unique field of vision of snipers, the world is shrouded in "chaos." A mist called "randomness" and "uncertainty" covers the world. These mists are even imperceptible. The essence of "sniping" is to find a path through this fog that a bullet can penetrate.

And "information" is what is used to dispel uncertainty.

The flow of information gathered by drones can dissolve the mist known as "uncertainty."

For snipers, drones are the foundation of Ultimate Sniping.

Usually, the distance between drone swarms and their targets does not exceed three hundred meters.

It is assumed that the "special vision" of a single drone that can dispel the "fog" is only this far.

But this creates a significant problem.

Drones fear Internal Strength.

Drones are cheap consumables. No one will stack too many resources on drones—otherwise, there would be no point in using machines of this class.

And due to functional limitations, drone signals must go through other drones to reach the remote operator.

Each hop causes a slight delay.

If a drone is too close to the target, it can be easily hijacked.

And there’s something even more outrageous. Some Internal Strength Masters can quietly hijack drones and then command the drones to send incorrect parameters to the sniper.

In this way, the sniper might miss several shots without even realizing it.

And now, Heavenly Machine was charging towards the end of the drone swarm.

Considering the level of Inner Strength demonstrated by the opponent’s patch, Xiang Shan commanded the drones to retreat rapidly.

The drones’ own movement also affected the observation, but at this time, there was no room for that concern.

Heaven Hero’s fingers pulled the trigger, firing three shots within one second.

Xiang Shan was prepared for these three shots to miss. But the consecutive shots would push Heavenly Machine towards the position of Xiang Shan’s fourth shot.

—At this time, just need to...

Xiang Shan suddenly felt a chilling sensation. If he still had body hair, it would probably result in a description of "every hair standing on end."

—This feeling is... radar waves...

A beam of radar waves swept over Xiang Shan.

Xiang Shan’s receiver directly poured the signal into the circuits related to "fear and shivering."

Being at a high altitude does provide a great advantage of overlooking from above, but it also means it’s easier to be discovered.

Heaven Hero was using an electromagnetic coil to stimulate, which is faster than gunpowder stimulation, and each bullet can omit the gunpowder residue from the body, leaving no muzzle flash. However, the sound of the bullet tearing through the air and the heat trail formed by the friction of the bullet with the atmosphere could not escape the eyes of others.

The problem, though, is who would use such powerful active detection at this time?

Active detection is like "casting a beam of light towards the other side," which not only reveals the enemy but also tells the people "I see you," and this process can easily be witnessed by a third party. Heroes rarely use this tactic in the Wilderness, and Green Forest would almost never use it.

As Heaven Hero fired the fourth bullet, Xiang Shan couldn’t help but turn his head to look back.

It was an all-terrain War Chariot, with a pair of insect-like mechanical legs on either side. The sides of the mechanical legs also had tracks, which could switch to regular tank mode on smooth surfaces.

The two-meter-tall metal insect crawled through the mountains like a cockroach. The radar waves were evidently emitted by it.

Xiang Shan saw a few tongues of fire shoot straight up from the top of that metallic insect at the same time he spotted it.

"Intermediate-range tactical missiles... Warhead payload unclear..."

Xiang Shan was stunned, "Just a fight with Green Forest forces, is it really necessary to go so overboard?"

"Warhead payload unclear" could even mean "it might be a nuclear warhead." Having lived through worse times, Xiang Shan knew that when facing some crazed opponents, "payload unclear" was best treated as if it were a nuclear warhead.

Wasn’t someone who could trade with the Green Forest and use active detection equipment and missiles in the wilderness ’crazed’?

These intermediate-range missiles could accelerate to supersonic speeds in just a few seconds, with terminal speeds possibly reaching over Mach 20. And that guy had launched from a sufficiently distant location. By the time the bullet got there, the rocket would have already accelerated beyond what the bullet could catch up to.

And to snipe at the missile while it was within the effective range of the sniper rifle...

Was a bit too thrilling for comfort.

Xiang Shan knew he had just a few seconds left. He turned his attention to the other side.

Heavenly Machine wasn’t dead yet.

Heavenly Machine dodged two shots, then, risking a third bullet breaking his arm, crossed the trajectory Xiang Shan had calculated and continued to close in on the drone.

"Got some tricks up your sleeve..."

At this point, he was very close to the drone.

The parameters coming back from the drone might already be unreliable.

Xiang Shan made a split-second decision, fired the last two shots with Heaven Hero, and then immediately leaped down with Heaven Hero’s torso.

Heaven Hero’s body hit the ground like a flea, its limbs absorbed the rebound force, storing it in the joints, then leaped high up.

Three small Flying Wings drones closed in, like eagles and hawks. Fire Wire sparked from beneath their bellies.

Meanwhile, several gun barrels popped out of Heaven Hero’s torso, blasting these small missiles while also destroying the drones.

Xiang Shan continued to run forward two steps, then slapped his forehead, "Ah, I forgot..."

Heaven Hero’s head, after its storage device was removed, had been carelessly placed by Xiang Shan on the ground.

Now it seemed there was no need to go back for it.

In a few nearly overlapping screeches, the missiles fell in succession.

In an instant, the area around Xiang Shan became a hundred times brighter than the daytime.

—Just conventional explosives... but indeed the power is impressive...

The high ground along with the surrounding rock walls collapsed at the same time, the mountain crumbled like building blocks under the power of the explosives.

Hundreds of thousands of tons of rock rolled down like water.

Even a Cyber Martial Artist would struggle under the weight of those millions of pounds of lifeless mass.

But Xiang Shan was nimbly leaping between the rocks.

The acceleration due to gravity was only 9.8 meters per second squared. Most of the rocks sliding down moved slow enough for him.

He could nimbly leap among the rocks and even maneuver Heaven Hero’s body to jump along different trajectories, rushing down with the landslide.

He saw two shadows flash across the ground.

One headed for Heavenly Machine, and one towards his own direction.

Xiang Shan laughed, "Bring it on!"