Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 639 - 283 The Old Boxing King’s Thoughts

Chapter 639: Chapter 283 The Old Boxing King’s Thoughts

Penguins living in Antarctica have a special skill. Near their feet, the arteries and veins are very close together, even intertwining with each other.

As the warm blood from the arteries flows towards the penguins’ feet, the heat transfers from the arteries to the veins. After this blood delivers oxygen to the feet, it becomes cooler. At this point, it absorbs some heat from the next batch of arterial blood.

The heat from the penguins’ arterial blood always transfers to the cold venous blood, so the temperature of the blood reaching the soles of the feet drops, and the blood returning to the heart doesn’t get too cold either.

Many warm-blooded animals living in cold environments like the polar regions and deep sea have this phenomenon at the extremities of their limbs.

This contains a hint of an anti-freeze trick.

Biological organisms are not good at withstanding high temperatures but are quite adept at enduring low ones. High temperatures can denature proteins, but low temperatures only temporarily deactivate them.

The Benchmark Man can be directly exposed to temperatures more than thirty degrees lower than body temperature. At these temperatures, they only face hypothermia, not frostbite—because ice crystals do not form at this temperature.

What’s really important is ensuring the temperature of the core parts, namely, the brain and heart-lung system.

The brain isn’t too difficult. Lu Xuanyu’s brain was covered with flexible electrodes, constantly reading and inputting electrical signals. This extra heat could ensure that the temperature of Lu Xuanyu’s brain didn’t get too low.

The venous blood vessels in Lu Xuanyu’s lower body had undergone the aforementioned modifications.

Essentially, it was just making the blood vessels take a longer route.

This didn’t overburden Lu Xuanyu’s heart. Lu Xuanyu’s heart was originally tasked with supplying blood to his legs, so this extra section of blood vessels actually made his heart more adapted.

Xiang Shan tapped the ground with the tip of his foot: "There, just like that. Why do I use a supercomputer for heating? Anyone who sees this scene will definitely be impressed."

"I want to use this direct method to let everyone know that Benchmark Man can rely on technology to re-adapt to this planet!"

Lu Xuanyu looked around the resting room.

He had to admit, he would never forget the point that "mechanical waste heat can be used to warm the human body" for the rest of his life.

After all...

"Using a supercomputer for heating" is such an absurd idea that it could only happen here.

This is even more outrageous than "burning money for heating."

Xiang Shan’s face bore a nostalgic expression: "Speaking of which, a very long time ago, around my grandparents’ generation, the northern regions of the Republic as well as many countries from the former Red Alliance used to use industrial waste heat for indoor heating. This is also a kind of sentiment."

"The official science and education channels, as well as numerous sports and technology-related social media, would emphasize this thing," Xiang Shan patted Lu Xuanyu’s shoulder. "And this is part of the corporate strategy, regardless of whether you’re the best in the world or not, this promotion will continue."

"Do you want to appear here as the world’s best, receiving admiration, or do you want to appear as a ’revenger,’ waiting for the second match? Lu."

Lu Xuanyu suddenly felt a sense of "mission." He nodded: "I will definitely win."

"Alright, let’s go."

Xiang Shan left with two employees. He placed the cooling clothing in the locker at the entrance of the resting room and walked into the corridor, pointing to the robots who kept fighting non-stop, and said, "I told you just now, right? There are thousands of AI fighters battling it out in that supercomputer. And these robots are ’corrections.’ To this day, we still can’t guarantee that the physical engine providing the battleground for those fighting AIs is close enough to the real world. Without corrections, the AIs might evolve fighting skills that ’only work under that physical engine.’ Therefore, the system randomly selects some AIs to enter steel bodies and test in this real world."

"Then, after the correction, the parameters are synchronized into the database of most AIs."

Coach Novich asked, "Why not all of them?"

Xiang Shan said very seriously, "If it were possible, I’d really like to see what ’fighting skills that could only be realized in that physical engine’ would look like."

Looking at those robots grappling with each other while abruptly changing fighting styles, Coach Novich said, "I think the ’robot boxing match’ you mentioned should be very interesting—wow, I just saw that guy using the Philadelphia Shell Style! And that movement! That is Tyson’s signature dodge, isn’t it?"

Xiang Shan nodded, quite proud: "Tyson himself said it was good."

"Oh, right, I should tell you the story. A few years ago, we had a plan to demonstrate the superiority of Prosthetic Body starting from ’sports stars.’ Among all the revived fighters, Tyson is the most famous, so I approached him first. At first, he thought I wanted to use his image for an animation or video game and told me to talk to his agent. It took me some effort to make him understand deep learning and such. He became very interested and asked if any boxer could be replicated just with video material."

Coach Novich asked with some surprise, "Who did he want to fight? I mean, in this manner?"

"Who else but Li?" Xiang Shan said, "His greatest elder brother."

Coach Novich was quite astonished, "Tyson always saw Li as his elder brother and said publicly that he absolutely couldn’t beat Li."

Xiang Shan shook his head: "He didn’t think about winning. I told him that this was just a simulation and couldn’t represent real results. In this calculated result, who won over whom doesn’t mean it would happen in reality. Moreover, AI growth also needs computational resources. If he just wanted to fulfill the dream of defeating someone squarely, it wouldn’t be difficult, but that may not be what he wanted. Then Tyson said he didn’t care whether he could win or not, he just wanted to see what the best version of himself could do against the best version of Li."

"And then he helped me convince Li’s surviving family members. His health wasn’t very good, so we would pick one AI match every month, create a CG animation, and then send it to him. Even after his passing, this agreement will remain in effect. He said he planned to let his children have the chance to play those animations in front of his grave."

"At first, those AIs were very dumb, and for the first few months, there weren’t any notable matches. The old Boxing King even wrote asking for improvements. Fortunately, the AI progressed quickly enough. Now at least every month we can find high-level matches."