Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 507 - 151: Get Through Here

Chapter 507: Chapter 151: Get Through Here

Human flesh is not adapted to industrialized and modern life.

Human brains prompt them to constantly seek sugars, proteins, and fats, but the efficiency of modern society in acquiring food is countless times higher than that of our ancestors 40,000 years ago, while their digestive and metabolic systems are unable to process the excess nutrients.

Human brains reject the concept of "paychecks settled by periodic cycles"; they can accept "hunting/gathering for days on end, but each action should yield results." Some people spend a long time snagging a small advantage precisely because the positive feedback from the "small advantage" is too immediate.

Evolutionary Psychology scholars believe that "psyche", "spirit" act upon our hunter-gatherer ancestors’ evolutionary process to produce adaptive mechanisms that are the programs and applications manipulating the machinery of the body.

Now, these adaptive applications themselves are in conflict with the civilization created by humans.

The more modernized the organization, the lower the demand for individual quality and the higher the demand for specific vocational skills. But human instinct is to "adore heroes". "Heroes" are the threads running through myths, the idols suppressing both ancient and modern times. Humans have an instinct to break free from control, but also to submit.

Many modern psychological disorders stem from this.

Countless seemingly "illogical" cultural phenomena are the resistance of past lost souls.

This is humanity.

Humans are not born to thrive in concrete jungles.

This is not surprising.

"But even if humans are so ill-adapted to modern society, when given a choice, no one really opts out to go back to their ancestors’ way of life," Xiang Shan said calmly.

Even if people in modern times do get tired of their lives and want to withdraw to seclusion, they won’t return to the hunter-gatherer era. The world has been changed by humans. There are very few beasts that can harm humans left in this world, and the species in the fields are those selected by humans. The "little skills of farming" accumulated over a long time enable farmers to feed themselves more easily—even their farming tools would be unimaginable magic to their ancestors from thousands of years ago.

Xiang Shan said, "The ’sense of security’ brought by civilization is such a thing. Once tasted, no one can let go of it."

This decisive difference may lie in "the concept of death".

For hunter-gatherers, death is always "unanticipated". In the civilized age, the closest to the hunter-gatherers would be the nomadic tribes. Nomads love their siblings and mourn their deaths, but that doesn’t stop them from abandoning the elderly or relatives with serious illnesses. This is their view of life and death.

Sometimes, those who are seriously ill and abandoned luckily heal themselves and come back. Those more primitive humans might even see it as "inauspicious" or "unlucky".

Farming civilizations, on the other hand, are tamed by years, months, and days. Their view of the world is cyclical, and life is often predictable. (Even if many times this "predictability" is just an illusion)

Throughout history, nomadic civilizations and agricultural civilizations have found it so hard to understand each other. Their cultural roots are different.

Xiang Shan pointed to Daijiu Tai’a, "You’ve just used modern technology to create a more powerful kind of Wandering Hunter."

"In history, humanity wouldn’t revert to nomadism, much less to hunting and gathering, because agriculture and industry offered them the peace of mind of ’escaping the unknown’, ’escaping death’. Within the primitive adapters of humans, there exist both the elements of ’hoping to gain benefits through risking adventures’ and ’seeking tranquility away from the unknown’. In the hunter-gatherer era, these two factors were balanced. Humans would stay at home contently with enough food, and they would venture forth when resources were scarce. But modern society provided different choices, humans could work without having to face life and death. Thus the originally balanced Yin and Yang became imbalanced."

"And the modern Green Forest? Because of our struggles, the resources they need have been greatly reduced. So-called Benchmark Men, Cybermen, they can live on very low costs. Individually, they are much stronger than civilians, but they aren’t as many Heroes more powerful than them. For them, ’Cultivate Martial Arts’ is both honing their hunting skills and ’an effort to stay away from death’."

"Due to the achievements of past civilizations, they do not have to face the same predicaments that their hunter-gatherer ancestors did. Yet, they are so harmful to humans themselves."

Xiang Shan looked at Daijiu Tai’a, "What gives you the right to go through with such a project?"

He then pointed at Hermit of Heavenly Machine, "Don’t you feel ashamed to run such projects?"

The hands of Hermit of Heavenly Machine began to tremble, seemingly wanting to retaliate.

But the Personality Mask Prosthetic Body beside him held him down tightly.

Daijiu Tai’a said, "Predecessor, you..."

With a "boom", the War Chariot suddenly started and rushed towards the Hermit of Heavenly Machine.

Daijiu Tai’a’s speech was just to distract attention. He felt it was time.

In the sky, countless drones had moved into preset positions and began their dive attacks. Numerous Fire Wires descended from the sky.

Almost simultaneously, Xiang Shan charged out. The headless torso of Heaven Hero leaped high, carrying two machine guns, rotating 360 degrees to perform an omnidirectional sweep. Many missiles were blasted in mid-air or detonated.

But Daijiu Tai’a’s preparations were clearly not confined to this.

The missiles came in several waves, and Heaven Hero could only deal with a part of them.

The bullets wove into a formation. Many missiles began to turn direction as they approached the ground.

No matter whether Xiang Shan rushed towards Hermit of Heavenly Machine or Daijiu Tai’a, he would be bombarded by these firearms.

But the headless torso of Heaven Hero ultimately tore open a gap.

Xiang Shan tumbled close to the ground, then raised the Shotgun borrowed from Black Hand Master and fired two volleys of conical pellets.

Then, tossing aside the weapon, he accelerated across the ground and charged directly towards Daijiu Tai’a’s War Chariot.

Seeing the figure with one hand pressed behind, Daijiu Tai’a understood the opponent’s intention.

——So that’s it, the target is me?

——Hermit of Heavenly Machine doesn’t have the ability to escape, so as long as I’m taken out first...

——But, it won’t be that easy!

The machine guns on the side of the War Chariot spewed flames. But Xiang Shan moved agilely and successfully dodged a wave of fire suppression.

More explosions sounded.

Xiang Shan, risking being hit by a few bullets, instantly got within ten meters of the War Chariot.

More missiles flew over.

Daijiu Tai’a, with a resolve for a do-or-die battle, controlled the War Chariot. Those missiles would blow both him and Xiang Shan to pieces. But the armor of the War Chariot was far stronger than the Prosthetic Body. So as long as he could hold out here...

——Just hold out here...