Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 508 - 152 This is Also Within My Plan

Chapter 508: Chapter 152 This is Also Within My Plan

Xiang Shan lunged towards Daijiu Tai’a’s War Chariot.

After establishing the enemy’s trajectory, the remaining missiles also changed direction.

Xiang Shan would make contact with the chariot, but he only had a few seconds.

Within those seconds, if he couldn’t breach the chariot, he would fall into the missile formation, enduring successive waves of bombardment by swarms of micro missiles.

Of course, Daijiu Tai’a’s War Chariot would also be affected by the explosion.

But the chariot’s External Armor was, by any measure, stronger than a Prosthetic Body’s.

Daijiu Tai’a would likely lose his chariot, but his prosthetic body would remain intact.

Meanwhile, Xiang Shan’s Biological Brain might not even survive.

Xiang Shan’s only chance was to break through the chariot’s External Armor before the missiles arrived, then enter it and use the chariot’s External Armor to withstand the missiles.

Daijiu Tai’a knew this, so he just needed to last a few seconds to reach mutual destruction with his fearsome adversary.

The envoy of the Six Dragons Sect, embracing a resolve to die, halted the chariot and used the side-mounted machine guns to lock down Xiang Shan’s path.

Xiang Shan carved several irregular lines on the ground. His acceleration at this moment was terrifying; each step exploded into a shallow crater.

The machine guns only hit a few times, and it seemed they didn’t even upset the enemy’s balance.

Daijiu Tai’a’s heart thought turned electric.

He wasn’t a martial artist specializing in the Path of the War Chariot, incapable of pulling off maneuvers like "delivering Inch Energy with a tank." And now, as the Martial Artist closing in possessed both strong Internal and External Skills, contending with him using half-baked chariot tactics was a death wish.

Though the Sonicon Blade required preliminary access to the metal’s crystal structure before it could breach the External Armor, a few seconds were enough to estimate a set of parameters and take a chance on luck.

Daijiu Tai’a didn’t believe in fate, but his adversary was a suspected Martial God, synonymous with miracles. He dared not bet on luck against such a person.

——Given the situation, there was only one move left...

Watching the figure with his hand on the Sonicon Blade through the observation lens, he issued opposite commands to the mechanical legs on either side of the chariot, one forward and the other backward.

At the same time, all the remaining close-defense machine guns raised their barrels, using suppressive fire to seal the upper vulnerability.

"Turbine Combat Technique," the essence of confronting Lightweight Prosthetics with a Heavy Prosthesis.

Natural Persons had the "Use force to defeat Technique" Windmill Sword Technique, which involved holding the weapon horizontally and swinging it in a full circle in front and back in rapid succession, like a windmill. The "Turbine Combat Technique" was the Cybernetically Enhanced People’s refinement of this tactic. It didn’t just involve swinging the weapon or the prosthetic’s striking part in a circle; it spun the entire Prosthetic Body like a top, using chips to correct balance against dizziness and relying on armor for defense.

As long as the prosthetic was heavy enough and spun quickly enough, this "top" would mean certain death upon contact for Lightweight Prosthetics. This purely defensive move required almost no precision. If a martial artist with a Heavy Prosthesis was driven into a corner by a Hero with a Lightweight Prosthetic based on technical superiority, this move could turn a desperate situation into a chance for survival.

But Xiang Shan charged at the bullet-firing steel top anyway.

He was already prepared.

Xiang Shan didn’t intend to bet on "whether I can breach the chariot armor with the Sonicon Blade before the missiles hit." His bet was on "whether this guy would resort to the Turbine Combat Technique."

Daijiu Tai’a’s Martial Arts were something Xiang Shan had experienced three years prior.

A Martial Artist always has areas of strength and weakness. Daijiu Tai’a had two identities – "Scientific Knight" and "Six Dragons Sect’s envoy wielding the Water earthworm" – neither of which necessitated proficiency with the Path of the War Chariot. Therefore, Daijiu Tai’a most likely wasn’t particularly skilled in chariot tactics.

Even with today’s competitive Martial World where mid-level martial artists are forced into "jack-of-all-trades" development across various fields, his proficiency in chariot tactics would not exceed his proficiency in conventional External Skills.

Xiang Shan had seen Daijiu Tai’a’s External Skills three years ago.

Based on that level, the likelihood of Daijiu Tai’a resorting to the Turbine Combat Technique after Xiang Shan closed in was very high.

For those not adept at chariot tactics, it was a high-reward move — especially under the current missile-surrounded circumstances.

Xiang Shan slightly veered, altering his forward path to cut across the outside of the spinning steel top. In the moment he neared the point of intersection, Xiang Shan withdrew his hand from the handle of the Sonicon Blade, and grabbed the leg of Daijiu Tai’a’s War Chariot.

Daijiu Tai’a’s attention was entirely on the Sonicon Blade, and he never anticipated this outcome. The force of the War Chariot’s turbine combined with the impact from Xiang Shan merged into one. Xiang Shan was carried by this force, spinning half a turn, and then changing direction to pounce towards the Hermit of Heavenly Machine.

One of Daijiu Tai’a’s legs, driven by this impact force, disrupted the step pattern of the War Chariot, and it nearly toppled over!

Xiang Shan flew sideways through the air, and approaching him were three missiles. Xiang Shan stretched out his arms, assuming the posture of Tai Chi in midair, and used soft strength to deflect two missiles.

To avoid being easily reprogrammed, the missiles’ systems were rather rigid, their feedback not as quick as Martial Artist’s reactions. Plus, Xiang Shan’s movements were indeed very gentle, barely failing to detonate the missiles.

Xiang Shan used the momentum to twist his body. Then he crossed his arms in front of himself.

The missiles, whose paths he had altered, collided in the next second.

The Blast Wind propelled Xiang Shan to further accelerate.

And as he shielded his face with his arms, the self-suggestion had already been issued.

"Persona..." Xiang Shan’s Prosthetic Eye rose between his arms, his gaze piercing straight through to the Hermit of Heavenly Machine and his Personality Mask Avatar who couldn’t react in time.

Daijiu Tai’a’s Personality Mask knew they were in a desperate situation, so he planned to throw the Heavenly Machine aside.

But at this very moment, the Heavenly Machine made an unusual move.

He deliberately met those eyes.

Xiang Shan felt the surge of Inner Strength. His opponent was coming at him willingly.

He had switched his Personality Mask just now to prevent this "expert with terrifying levels of Inner Strength" from suddenly executing their specialty, potentially overturning the battle.

But...

But...

——Is that... is that all?

There were several rather sharp "curses," clearly connected to those high-level patches.

But beyond that... there was...

Nothing resembling a substantial attack.

The firewall was riddled with holes.

His attacks were perfectly defended by Xiang Shan’s firewall.

Only a single public code text message was let through.

[Since you also recognize the flaws of so-called "modern society", what is fake about the joy in the Green Forest?]

Xiang Shan retaliated with Inner Strength.

The Heavenly Machine was struck as if by lightning, as if obscured by the six dusts. In his senses, there was only a piece of text message.

[If there is a next life, we might indeed try to solve this problem together.]

The Heavenly Machine gathered all his life’s cultivation and issued his last command.

This was what he wanted to do most.

He voluntarily opened his skull, ejecting his storage device.