Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 645 - 289 Brain Cell Remodeling

Chapter 645: Chapter 289 Brain Cell Remodeling

"You and the King of Godspeed? There are quite a few differences," TX-0 sighed. "First of all, your prosthetic body is pretty bad, right? I had given you a design earlier to get a prosthetic body that meets the needs of the people from Jianghu, and you even gifted it to your junior brother."

"After all, I didn’t need it temporarily, so I donated it to someone in need. There’s nothing wrong with that," Hiroshi Matsushima answered honestly.

"The King of Godspeed’s prosthetic body can single-handedly enter and exit gravitational fields, even accelerating directly to a few percent of the speed of light—although it also requires a relatively long acceleration process, it really can reach that speed."

"Just the magnetic field used to deflect satellites, meteorites, and cosmic dust can magnetize and deflect most conventional projectiles fired by weapons."

Hiroshi Matsushima nodded. "I see, so the main issue is with the prosthetic body?"

"No, that’s just one aspect. You have no knowledge whatsoever about that level of prosthetic body, not even a bit of fighting experience at that level."

"Of course, there’s something even more important. The extent of modification to your glial cells is not even on the same level as his, right?"

"Glial cells?" Hiroshi Matsushima asked curiously.

"Of course. His glial cells are stronger and more resilient... How should I put it? Let’s say it like this: given the gravity on Earth’s surface, his biological brain—just the brain, without any protection—could fall from a height of one or two meters to the ground, and he would not sustain serious injury."

Hiroshi Matsushima fell silent for a moment. "What did you say?"

"The King of Godspeed’s glial cells have undergone specialization. It’s a very complicated technology. The final result is that his brain is very strong, so even if it falls from a height of one or two meters to the ground, it would not be badly hurt."

"How can this be..."

"There’s nothing impossible about it," TX-0 explained. "It first requires the accumulation of certain proteins and a bit of time as a catalyst. After a special kind of genetic modification and several years of accumulation, someone can have such a hard brain."

"Only such a brain can withstand that kind of acceleration."

Hiroshi Matsushima pondered for a moment. "Could Martial Ancestor do it at that time?"

"This particular modification appeared between the later stages of the Chivalry Wars and the early stages of the Sublimation Wars, and the King of Godspeed and Martial Ancestor underwent this modification one after the other," TX-0 said. "From this perspective, there is no fundamental difference between them. But Martial Ancestor was still lacking in ’time conversion’. Martial Ancestor is only thirty years older than the King of Godspeed; the gap between their metal-based modification surgeries is only a few years, and the specialization of glial cells is even closer in time."

"The G-force that Martial Ancestor could withstand was not as much as the King of Godspeed of today."

"Not as much as the King of Godspeed of today?" Hiroshi Matsushima nodded. "If Martial Ancestor had lived until today, he would have also been pretty impressive."

"That’s right. Actually, most of the Martial Gods behind True Personality Masks fall short in this respect. Although Martial Ancestor’s memories contain a lot of technology, only his engineering knowledge is at the cutting edge from two hundred years ago. The technology for modifying glial cells was born even later, and it’s impossible to obtain from Martial Ancestor’s memories alone."

"It’s said that Senior Niyaguti has been researching the technology for accelerated transformation of glial cells, but my master hasn’t seen her for many years now, so I don’t know if these rumors are true or false. But most of the Martial Gods can’t get their hands on this surgery. Even if they can react fast enough, their biological brains can’t withstand the pressure brought on by high-speed changes, making it hard for them to defeat the King of Godspeed."

Hiroshi Matsushima asked another question, "What about your own biological brain? Have you undergone such modifications?"

TX-0 sighed, "Our sect doesn’t follow that path... Tsk, if you ever have a chance to visit my main body, remember not to bring up this topic within our sect. It would upset my master."

Hiroshi Matsushima was surprised. "What’s the matter?"

"’Glial cell hardening’ is a pursuit of External Martial Artists. It can bring stronger resistance to the brain, allowing it to withstand higher G-forces, and also prevent internal injuries caused by weapons hitting the external armor. But it does not meet the needs of Internal Martial Artists."

"Internal Martial Artists place more emphasis on the activity of neurons. We need to frequently change the connection patterns of certain neurons; moreover, our need for cooling exceeds that of External Martial Artists. In my main body’s case, my brain even has numerous capillaries running through it, with cooling liquid flowing inside them—a glial cell structure that tends towards hardening, like that of the King of Godspeed, would be incompatible with such modifications."

"So when Martial Ancestor charged into battle alone back then, my master couldn’t support him up close. Martial Ancestor’s brain could rely on the agility of a small body to dodge artillery barrages, but such mobilized actions would definitely have damaged my master’s biological brain."

"You must know the rest."

Hiroshi Matsushima nodded without a word.

King Aqini took advantage of the mobility of his warship to distance himself from "Turing", and thus Martial Ancestor was slain within the barrage of the fleet.

"But don’t underestimate the Internal Martial Artists because of this," TX-0 added. "Even the biological brain of someone like me, specialized towards Inner Strength, has stronger G-force resistance than you."

Matsushima asked another question, "Is it impossible to become a top-tier Internal Martial Artist without doing this?"

"Ah, not necessarily," TX-0 said. "Ultimately, it’s the neural network that determines Inner Strength, and the glial cells are just hardware with no direct relation to system performance. Without such modifications, Inner Strength can be trained to an extremely high level, but there would be issues with endurance. In my case, I can merge my consciousness with the World Wide Web without interruption. But without such refinement, even with Inner Strength on par with mine, one could only persist for half an hour. Continuing past that would easily result in overheating of the brain. In addition, under such glial conditions, it would be quite difficult to modify the neural network connections again, requiring a greater cost."

"My master is also looking for ways to bypass these limitations. However, there is no such information loaded into this Personality Mask, so I can’t introduce it to you."

In fact, Internal Martial Artists also have ways to bypass these limitations and reach the frontlines of battle. Take King Aqini, for example. His cylindrical prosthetic body contains more specialized modules to combat G-forces, and the bridge of a large warship also has an acceleration compensation system to alleviate some of the pressure.

Of course, the most important thing is that large warships have stronger armor and higher firepower to suppress the enemy, eliminating the need for evasive maneuvers.

Only the poor need to risk their lives.

And unfortunately, Xiang Shan and Zhu Xinyu were very wealthy only in the 21st century; at the end of the Sublimation Wars, they were considered ’poor’. They were the ones who couldn’t afford a warship mighty enough to suppress King Aqini’s fleet.