Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 611 - 255 Early Prosthetic Limbs and Early Prosthetic Eyes

Chapter 611: Chapter 255 Early Prosthetic Limbs and Early Prosthetic Eyes

Muscles, attached to the skeleton above, support the human body, provide strength, and protect bones and organs.

Boxing technique... or any sport, for that matter, cannot do without the use of muscles.

Being able to consciously exert certain muscles or groups of muscles is considered the beginning of mastery.

As someone who received a modern education and practiced martial arts for many years, Lu Xuanyu is particularly sensitive to the lines of muscles.

And now, he saw something "similar" on a prosthetic body.

It is not exactly the same but can only be described as "very similar." However, this approximation, so different from the human body’s structure, exuded a demonic charm in Lu Xuanyu’s eyes.

Lu Xuanyu was attracted to a young man. The young man wore a sports vest on his upper body and a pair of shorts on the lower body. His thighs were severed in the middle, with subtle differences in the length of the stumps. The junction where the prosthetic limbs met flesh was exposed just beneath his shorts.

At the edge of the severed thighs, one could vaguely see a "non-skin" transitional layer, where the ivory color of the skin gradually faded.

Below this "transition zone" was the completely artificial limb.

Perhaps because it was still in the testing phase, the shell of the prosthetic limb was made of transparent materials. However, it was not a single piece but several plates joined together in some way, forming a structure with the adaptability of human muscle lines, revealing the internal mechanics very clearly.

The young man stepped down. The joint connecting the foot relaxed, automatically finding the most suitable angle. Several modules contracted together, absorbing the impact.

Then, the young man shifted his center of gravity. Several modules slightly adjusted their positions.

The young man exerted force in his leg again, leaping high. The force originated from the ground, transferred from one module to another, to the young man’s body, even lifting him up...

Lu Xuanyu even felt dizzy.

——This...

His breathing quickened.

"I can stand up again" this idea hit Lu Xuanyu in the face more vividly than ever before.

Lu Xuanyu closed his eyes: "How wonderful..."

The group of young men playing basketball saw Florence and her party and stopped their game, wiping sweat from their brows and coming over to say hello. They seemed to all know Lady Florence. Florence greeted them with a smile and introduced Lu Xuanyu.

Upon hearing that Lu Xuanyu lost the lower half of his body while saving someone, everyone looked at him with a touch of warmth. Many people here were disabled for similar reasons.

Such heroes are respected everywhere.

Several people patted Lu Xuanyu’s shoulder to show their closeness and encouragement.

A foreigner, using not very fluent Chinese, said to him: "Don’t worry, buddy, you’ll be just like us soon—standing up, running, jumping, able to do anything."

For a long time, Lu Xuanyu’s wife had tried to avoid using words like "run," "jump," and "step" in front of Lu Xuanyu.

To be honest, although Lu Xuanyu didn’t mind others using such words in front of him, he felt somewhat uncomfortable whenever he heard them.

For the first time in years, he felt "joy" from these words.

Lady Florence then inquired about their current rehabilitation progress.

Afterwards, they resumed playing basketball. A few of the guys even forgot which team they were on, and the situation quickly became chaotic.

But everyone was happy.

Those who had finished their cybernetic transformations earlier were now able to move freely around this area. They could even leave the medical center and go out for a walk.

However, there are very few benchmark men around, with just over fifty in the whole world. And people wearing cotton-padded jackets in summer really stand out too much. These young benchmark men currently prefer the comfort of this place.

They exercised here—as if to make up for the time lost due to their physical disabilities, they exercised with particular joy.

"These are the first human beings to undergo cybernetic transformation," Florence introduced. "How are they?"

Lu Xuanyu nodded, almost in tears: "Is this everything?"

"Not really. There are only about ten people here," Florence said. "Some others are resting. Besides, as you should know, not all disabilities happen to the limbs. In fact, there is a part of the body that is much more fragile than the limbs."

Lu Xuanyu was still a bit confused, but his wife’s eyes widened: "Is it the eyes?"

"Yes, the eyes," Florence nodded. "Many military training accidents can cause eye damage and blindness."

"My goodness..." Mrs. Lu exclaimed. "That’s also possible..."

Florence smiled, "I can take you to see. Among the first group of volunteers, about ten are blind in both eyes. In addition, there is another blind patient who is a painter from Poland, quite famous in the art world. She was also personally invited by the boss as a volunteer."

Florence then took the couple to a trial area to look around.

There was some project going on in that trial area. When Lu Xuanyu and his wife approached, the lights were just turned off. Lu Xuanyu looked inside through the display window and saw that the only light source in the entire space was a projection screen showing a video.

After a while, the lights came back on, and only then did Lu Xuanyu notice that a volunteer was sitting in a chair, communicating something to a researcher next to them, the volunteer also wearing heavy noise-canceling headphones.

But the room was soundproofed so well that they couldn’t hear anything inside.

"This is one-way reflective glass, they can’t see outside. There is only white noise in the headphones," Florence explained. "To avoid as much as possible any distractions that could affect the volunteers and thus skew the results of the experiment."

"Are they..."

"Trying to optimize the prosthetic eyes," Florence said. "Although Mr. Yawgmoth always says, ’Living organisms are also a kind of machinery made of proteins,’ ’and this machinery has very poor design sense, I would give the designers in Heaven a poor review—if I could, I would definitely complain,’ but at this stage, human creations are still unable to match their ’intricacy’ at the microscopic level."

"In terms of integrating a number of light-sensitive units that can compare with photoreceptor cells in an area the size of a normal retina, and then transmitting the data gathered by each of these units to the corresponding area of the brain... it’s a nightmare in every sense."

"What prosthetic eyes can currently achieve... well, let’s put it this way, their world is akin to seeing in 240p."

Behind her, Mr. and Mrs. Lu were already quite shocked.