Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 644 - 288: News and Discrepancy

Chapter 644: Chapter 288: News and Discrepancy

After Yuki and Ai Tielang left, Hiroshi Matsushima officially ended his day’s work. He sat alone on the edge of the arena, connecting to the network.

If an Internal Martial Artist from the government were to check at this time, they would find him watching various martial arts competition videos, occasionally clicking on some short entertainment clips. But in reality, most of the time it was the TX-0 script in operation.

To facilitate the actions of TX-0, Hiroshi Matsushima regularly connected to the network and sometimes even deeply. And he always needed a reason to explain why "an External Martial Artist is so keen on the network."

"Hobby" was a good reason.

But in fact, Hiroshi Matsushima spent most of his time in meditation.

Internal Martial Artists need to meditate in order to subdue their own Heart Thought, to get used to the mental state of "no thought, no mind." This allows them to use their brains more efficiently and avoid being affected by stray thoughts during an Inner Strength Battle.

Additionally, Internal Martial Artists map the massive command codes to their intuitive feelings through meditation.

External Martial Artists also meditate, needing to subdue their own Heart Thought. On the other hand, External Martial Artists must also synchronize with the Martial Arts Algorithm internally.

Of course, there’s also the more traditional "imaginary combat when there’s no opponent."

However, most Martial Artists no longer practice this part.

More than two hundred years ago, the Martial Ancestor had replaced common imagination with more accurate virtual reality or augmented reality technologies using data from top fighters, and the algorithms provided clearer models than what most people could imagine based on feeling.

But at Hiroshi Matsushima’s level, things were different. His skill surpassed that of most Martial Artists. Most could not perform at the level of his "imagined" matches.

But today, he seemed unable to meditate properly.

A sentence emerged in his consciousness.

[Hong, lend me your brain for a moment]

Hiroshi Matsushima did not resist but instead slowly calmed his Heart Thought.

Then, the mapping on the surface of the biological brain’s signal input device was changed.

After these minor adjustments, the neural connection pattern of this biological brain, on a mathematical level, would more closely resemble that of another person far beyond Earth.

TX-0 did not use it for long. It quickly understood some conclusions that were difficult to reach without a biological brain.

As part of the Turing Lineage, TX-0 had practiced specific skills. It turned these thought results into concepts that could be precisely described by set theory, entered them into the computer’s system, and then exited the biological brain.

Hiroshi Matsushima’s consciousness took control of the brain again, and the results of the recent thought process remained in his memory.

Hiroshi Matsushima almost instantly understood what had just happened.

The crawler program of TX-0 had captured unusual intelligence.

Just now, within Earth’s satellite network, an Inner Strength Battle of Internal Martial Artists had erupted, impacting the network of the entire planet.

"More details are beyond what a mere crawler can obtain. From a few hours ago, the data stream from the Moon has been very abnormal, and many of the hidden hands that our sect left on Earth have been disabled. It’s very likely that King Aqini has made a move."

TX-0’s thoughts were very serious.

Hiroshi Matsushima thoughtfully said, "That Martial God has made a move again?"

"Maybe," TX-0 said, "This scale of disruption is very likely the work of an expert under King Aqini’s command, possibly his lieutenant. If it were my true self, I could have battled with them, but in the current situation, I would be delivering myself on a platter."

Hiroshi Matsushima hesitated for a moment, "Are you going to self-delete now?"

Long ago, TX-0 had made clear to Hiroshi Matsushima that this Personality Mask had a self-delete function.

So far, including Pseudo-personality Masks, all types of artificial intelligence can display a certain degree of "survival desire," but no AI has ever thought there was anything wrong with "self-deleting after completing its mission." Especially the Pseudo-personality Masks, their self-awareness causes them not to recognize themselves as "the other" compared to their "information source individuals," unless the information source individual of the Personality Mask is very averse to the Pseudo-personality Mask itself.

According to the most cautious approach, the Pseudo-personality Mask Zero should have self-deleted after transmitting the intelligence stolen from the Mona Knight Order back to its sect. But Zero judged that its existence had not been exposed, and there weren’t any experts from the Moon specifically searching for it yet, so the risk was not high at the moment.

And its original self stationed beyond Earth had also not made the opposite decision.

"It’s not time for that yet," said TX-0, "But you need to be careful from now on. Those on the Moon will surely tighten up, possibly cracking down on potential civil forces. Someone like you is most at risk."

Hiroshi Matsushima said, "It’s still the same as before. There’s nothing extraordinary about that."

TX-0 said, "You still don’t understand the severity of the issue. The Heroes who come here to refine their skills recently may easily become a liability."

"That doesn’t prove anything," Hiroshi Matsushima said calmly, "Among my disciples, there are also Houndhawks. I treat everyone the same. As long as they can afford the tuition, I’ll definitely teach them without prejudice."

"Oh? Then tell me, which Houndhawk knows that your external strength is almost on par with the Martial God?"

"I’ve always been like this. It’s just that they haven’t noticed and don’t believe it — and before, you didn’t think so either, did you?"

Hiroshi Matsushima hardly used flashy techniques, and rarely used surprise moves. In addition, no matter what level the opponent was, he always adopted "textbook-style" responses, so most of the dojo students thought that Matsushima Instructor was "obviously stronger than oneself, but still within reach."

That is until the Hero Faction got Xiang Shan as a point of comparison.

In fact, even Zero was startled.

Before this, all it knew was that Hiroshi Matsushima’s level in external strength alone was absurdly high, but it hadn’t expected him to be on the level of Kings and Martial Gods.

Having finally touched on this subject, Hiroshi Matsushima asked with interest, "Zero, in your opinion, am I half as strong as the King of Godspeed?"

Through his exchanges with TX-0, Hiroshi Matsushima had also inadvertently learned some knowledge of Jianghu and the government. He knew the King of Godspeed was the government’s strongest external strength expert.

"Purely in terms of skill level, you definitely surpass half of the King of Godspeed’s strength, maybe ninety percent? Hard to say, my external skills are not that great. But you definitely can’t beat him. If you really went up against him, you’d be defeated instantly."

Hiroshi Matsushima asked, "What do you think is the gap between me and fighters like the King of Godspeed?"