Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 505 - 149 Just Assistance

Chapter 505: Chapter 149 Just Assistance

Hearing Daijiu Tai’a’s defense, Xiang Shan couldn’t help but scoff, "Are you trying to say that you are saving the world?"

He had no intention of letting the Hermit of Heavenly Machine off the hook. This man had replaced the original Heavenly Machine Star many years ago, and thus, all the evil done under the name of "Heavenly Machine" in those years had been his doing. And from the memories of Sky Wisdom and Heavenly Ingenious, it seemed that Hermit of Heavenly Machine had done even more than the average members of the Green Forest in pushing that "grand plan to unify Green Forest."

There was utterly no reason to forgive the Heavenly Machine.

However, Xiang Shan did need to rest for a bit.

This time, Daijiu Tai’a was tough to beat purely because he had superior equipment. He must have a high rank within the Protector’s camp, so he prepared many large and loud weapons—while ordinary heroes or members of the Green Forest using similar weapons in the Wilderness would have to face the Heavenly Punishment from space-based weapons.

Xiang Shan did not prepare such massively noisy, heavy weapons, but Daijiu Tai’a did.

Additionally, Daijiu Tai’a’s war chariot was a key element. Aside from a few special munitions and bombs, Xiang Shan only had his Sonicon Blade that could cause effective damage.

And to strike effectively with the Sonicon Blade, he needed to know the specific data of the enemy’s external armor.

And Daijiu Tai’a, knowing that Xiang Shan had this Sonicon Blade, would not give Xiang Shan a chance to test for the most effective vibration frequency.

Furthermore, about a thousand meters away, there were small drones hovering.

In this battle, Daijiu Tai’a was well-prepared, holding advantages in both equipment and intelligence.

For Xiang Shan to win easily, he would have to exert considerable effort.

He needed to pause to let the waste heat in his prosthetic body dissipate and his capacitors recharge while simultaneously gathering intelligence and devising tactics.

Daijiu Tai’a also took a slight breather. He didn’t really expect to persuade the hero before him. Most people knew the character of the resurrected Martial God.

In this situation, the Martial God likely wouldn’t compromise.

And what Daijiu Tai’a wanted was merely an opportunity to rendezvous with the Hermit of Heavenly Machine.

He had to ensure that the Hermit of Heavenly Machine got close to his war chariot. Only then would he have a chance to take him away alive.

The Personality Mask accompanying the Hermit of Heavenly Machine also approached closer. When the distance between the three parties was roughly a hundred meters, Xiang Shan, controlling the body of Heaven Hero, aimed the gun barrel at them, "If you really want to defend yourself, stop right there."

The Personality Mask indeed stopped and just turned its gaze towards the war chariot.

Xiang Shan pondered the mechanism connecting this body to the war chariot. These two bodies surely weren’t receiving wireless signals; otherwise, the signals he emitted would have gotten responses. And once there was a response, his peerless Inner Strength would have struck instantly.

—Not remote controlled... Are they using a self-iterating AI based on a deep neural network?

—Or more straightforwardly, like Eighth, employing a Personality Mask?

Daijiu Tai’a’s main gun was pointed distantly at Xiang Shan, who said, "Please believe us. The ’Heavenly King project’ is indeed a plan born to save all living beings."

"Save..." Xiang Shan laughed out loud.

People had long told him not to think of himself as an immortal, as a savior.

Regrettably, when he was young, he thought he understood this sentiment.

Daijiu Tai’a, unaware of Xiang Shan’s thoughts, continued, "The Extreme Path formula therapy, the prototype of this technology, was Superman Enterprise’s later ’Shared Memory’ project, aiming to use shared memories to bolster communication among people, making it easier to understand each other, thereby reducing conflicts."

"And it truly came to fruition and took shape after the Sublimation Wars. Yawgmoth moved to oppose his own past self, and after the Martial God’s several defeats, someone dug out the late-stage data of Superman Enterprise from the ruins of the old network, advancing it to a whole new level. They believed that shared sentiments could bring people closer together."

"And the experiment indeed succeeded to a great extent. For a group within the Green Forest that had accepted the collective memory, they became like family to each other—not necessarily liking each other, but certainly standing up for each other when it mattered."

"But what followed was severe xenophobia. These groups with specific collective memories became more intimate internally, but all the more brutal externally. The more they valued their own members, the less they viewed outsiders as ’their own kind.’ They could share the same emotions with members within the group, but they had only hostility for those outside the group."

"Another limiting factor was the group size. Depending on the technology details, the sizes of these Green Forest groups were quite limited. A Green Forest group could only consist of a few dozen to a few hundred people. Scaling up, these Green Forest groups would inevitably show signs of division. Even the Great Hero of the Green Forest, commanding many subordinates, could only divide them into several fortresses. These fortresses had little contact with each other, thus keeping the peace."

"The ’Heavenly King project’ was an attempt to transcend these narrow limits, trying via emotional cognition alone to establish larger groups..."

Hearing this, Xiang Shan couldn’t help but extend his hand, "If this project had been proposed within Superman Enterprise, it wouldn’t even get off the ground."

He actually didn’t want to comment, he just wanted to go up and hack away. But given what the other side had said, he felt uncomfortable not firing back.

"The ’Shared Memory’ project... How should I put it, it’s merely an auxiliary measure. Perhaps humans can’t truly understand each other. But ’lack of understanding’ isn’t the root cause of anger and hatred. Sometimes, even if you fully understand the enemy’s logic, understand their motives, hatred can still arise—this kind of hatred originates from ’injustice’ or ’envy,’ but to sum up, it’s because ’my life is extremely tough, while others have it easy, and relaxed.’"

"Ah, no, to correct that. Sometimes, if people cannot understand each other, the weaker ones might deceive themselves thinking ’the strong have precisely calculated every step, they have given more, so they deserve better lives.’ But once this understanding crumbles, the weak would realize that the strong became strong perhaps just because the winds of the era happened to lift them. The strong are only a little stronger than the weak, but ’the era’s favor’ magnifies this strength exponentially."

"Mutual understanding can’t create peace. Just like the example you’ve given, even the Green Forest would split. Understanding does not erase injustice."

"In Superman Enterprise, this plan was just ’auxiliary’ as well."