Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 571 - 215: So It’s You, Kid

Chapter 571: Chapter 215: So It’s You, Kid

The Holy Maiden had not yearned for the face she once had as a Natural Person for many years. But now, she found that visage to be of use.

Or perhaps those facial prosthetics with silicone and synthetic muscles, capable of supporting the brain’s pre-installed natural expression pack, would also be good.

At the very least, she could express her current feelings of frustration through facial expressions.

Members of the Six Dragons Sect surrounded her, and even the Levy Envoy, who originally had no escort duties, appeared here.

Their core was a small cryogenic preservation box. Inside this box was a storage device and a batch of fragile biological materials. The sight of a group of Cybernetically Enhanced People encircling it was like a band of apes surrounding an apple.

But no one was in the mood to laugh.

A shard of shrapnel was stuck on the surface of the preservation box, which had been offline for quite a while.

The impact that broke the box’s Shell was enough to distort the data. Even if parts could still be read, their reliability was in question. Also, the biological material inside had already been exposed to the outside world.

The incident was truly unexpected. According to the original plan of the Levy Envoy, a force of the Six Dragons Sect would attract an appropriate number of Protector’s arms. Then, the Holy Maiden’s escort squad would disguise themselves as the "Six Dragons Sect who occupied the fortress"—although they were indeed the real Six Dragons Sect and had indeed taken the fortress. However, depending on the situation, the real Six Dragons Sect sometimes had to pretend to be a false Six Dragons Sect... well, that was indeed a bit perplexing.

And then it was time for mobile warfare.

But from the get-go, the plan did not follow the preset course.

Firstly, the Levy Envoy received a message that "there was a hitch in the plan." But before he could clarify what went wrong, the call was cut off.

This message came through a closed circuit, and once the line was cut, that was that.

As for the network...

A madman had directly triggered the Igni Seal, and now the strongest among the Kings was surveilling this place—who would dare use the public network to transmit messages?

Suddenly, a violent tremor came rolling in.

Realizing trouble was brewing, the Levy Envoy wanted to order the multitude of Six Dragons Sect members to remain calm.

But for some reason, amidst a cheer of "Long live the Six Dragons Sect!" the Protectors took notice of this small fortress.

So, heavy weaponry blasted over.

As a result, the Six Dragons Sect began to flee.

Consequently, the Protectors became even more convinced there was something wrong with this small group and pursued them even more aggressively.

And then...

Somehow, this storage device ended up like this.

The natural enemy of Martial Arts is "numbers." In the face of a large army, even the most powerful Martial Artist cannot guarantee their safety.

The people of the Six Dragons Sect did indeed avoid most of the heavy firepower, but they could do nothing about the AOE of this shrapnel. The sniper lurking in the shadows was also a problem. This time, they were first struck by a piece that broke the Armor of the cryogenic box.

"It’s all over..." the Holy Maiden whispered, "Months of travel from Mars here have all been for naught."

"Let’s hope the project management doesn’t blow up..." the Levy Envoy said, trying to comfort himself with words he didn’t believe.

The Six Dragons Sect had no means of remedy now.

That madman had triggered the Igni Seal, and this act would surely arouse the vigilance of King Aqini. To route such massive data through the public network to Earth would be akin to courting death.

However, the Godspeed Court had already completed once again acceleration and was moving away from the inner ring of the Asteroid Belt. It might not require the Holy Maiden’s personal influence to send someone from Mars again.

But that would also be a matter of months later.

Without the data produced by those extra-terrestrial supercomputers, the projects on Earth would be delayed.

In the worst-case scenario, it might even be possible...

"What do we do now?" asked a Six Dragons Sect Protector.

Tao Protector shook his head, "Let’s head back to the Pacific Ocean. You can’t even leave Earth now. The Fire God will surely come for a suppression. We must quickly hide where he can’t see us."

The Holy Maiden nodded her head.

But at this moment, a distant chant of "Long live the Six Dragons Sect" came over.

The group looked at each other in confusion.

"Speaking of which... why did the Protectors lose control in the end?"

"I just asked the brothers who withdrew from Secluded Crane City, they said the Protectors armed themselves with heavy firepower, which accidentally triggered a sympathetic detonation, leading to the Deputy Banner Master’s sacrificial death."

"Ah, this... modern ammunition shouldn’t detonate that easily, right?"

"The possibility is small, but it exists."

"Our people wouldn’t still be relentlessly chanting ’Long live the Six Dragons Sect’ at this point, would they?"

"This..."

The escort squad fell into deep thought. Since a while ago, this chant of "Long live the Six Dragons Sect" seemed to be... "exceptionally frequent"?

In the end, the Holy Maiden made a decisive call, "Let’s go and see!"

....................................

Jader once again threw off the tracking of the Protectors.

Cain, the local Burrow Dragon, shared a map with many underground passages once used by Heroes but now abandoned. Additionally, the Camouflage Net he made also helped Jader a lot.

He struggled to emerge from the ground and then crawled forward, waiting for his body to cool down.

Meanwhile, he left behind predetermined QR codes on the ground to indicate his direction.

As long as these QR codes were not erased by explosives, his companions could always find him.

"Alright, where to next? It feels too dangerous to go any further..." the Solo Kill King pondered, "Besides, the battle gains are not small. Let’s go back."

Jader, the Great Hero, was obviously very satisfied with today’s results.

He was ready to turn around.

But just at that moment, a bullet was shot beside him.

Jader suddenly tensed up.

The Camouflage Net had limited effects on experts.

Due to a long period of underground dormancy during the dinosaur era, most mammals lost their color vision and became color-blind. Apart from some species like primates and the Chiroptera Pteropus, which regained trichromatic color vision due to their fruit-based diets, most mammals didn’t understand "color."

It was for this reason that the protective colors of some animals don’t seem to provide much protection in the eyes of color-vision possessing humans.

However, the large predatory mammals, although color-blind, had this deficiency enhance their pattern recognition abilities to a certain extent. They could accurately identify the silhouette of prey within a black-and-white vision.

Likewise, high-ranking Martial Artists, after targeted training of their brains, could master similar skills.

By the way, pattern recognition is still a weak point for computers to this day.

The Camouflage Net could deceive many low-ranking soldiers and some intelligent weapons.

But experts were not limited by it.

Jader understood that he had been targeted.

So, changing his tone, he tremulously said, "Above... Above, the Six Dragons return to the sun... "