Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 654 - 298: Meeting Without Recognizing

Chapter 654: Chapter 298: Meeting Without Recognizing

Yuki walked through the town, feeling somewhat at a loss. This was the place where he had lived for a long time, but now, he no longer recognized it.

Liu Ri and Han Zhun simply followed him without speaking.

Yuki walked with his head down for a while, then lifted his head, dazedly saying, "How did we come to this place..."

This was a field of ruins.

The shanties in the area looked as if they had been crushed by a hurricane or shredded by swords and sabers.

This was where, three years ago, Xiang Shan fought with Silver Transmission Shaft Lev.

Back then, Xiang Shan, who had just remembered his name, had fought against that Green Forest behemoth right here.

Three years had passed, and Yuki had undergone a complete transformation. To this day, he could contrast the signs with his memories and recall that battle from years ago.

"It’s clear, he was indeed strong," Yuki sighed. He took a few steps, walked above the rubble where his house once stood and began digging with his hands.

But at that moment, gunshots rang out again.

It was the same ruffian from before. Just now, he had been nodding and bowing to Dr. Schultz, but now he toughened up again with the three strangers: "Hey! What are you doing?"

Yuki pointed at where his old house used to be: "What’s the matter? Can’t even sift through trash now?"

"Fuck off," the man cursed, "This is also where members of Green Forest were cut down! Don’t you dare touch it!"

"Is that so? No, that’s not right..." Yuki sneered coldly, "You dare to make up ’rules’ behind closed doors? If word of this gets out to the city, it won’t sound too pleasant, will it?"

Only humans can control other humans. Any rules, thoughts, or philosophies cannot override "people." This is the biggest rule, thought, and philosophy now.

But the ruffian failed to understand the veiled threat in Yuki’s words and instead, waving his rifle, shouted, "I said no means no! Are you leaving or not!"

At that moment, Liu Ri suddenly transformed into a black shadow, pouncing towards the ruffian like lightning. The ruffian immediately fired his weapon, but Liu Ri dove, then surged forward, avoiding the first shot, and then grabbed the barrel of the rifle, raising it high.

"Dude, don’t do that. This thing has an effective range of hundreds of meters, man; if there’s someone in that range, you’re screwed!"

Only then did the ruffian remember this rule and was instantly drenched in a cold sweat (the other half of his body, after all, lacked sweat glands).

But as he was about to retreat, Liu Ri suddenly punched him in the stomach—which hadn’t been cyberized—hard enough to cause intense pain.

"You..."

"Just teaching you a lesson, brother. Don’t hold the barrel level if you’re not going to aim," Liu Ri said earnestly: "I need to explain to you why Martial Ancestor disliked firearms..."

Yuki shook his head and continued to dig through the rubble.

I’m not sure if the villagers intentionally wanted to preserve this area as is, but this section hadn’t been touched. Looking around, many of the ruins showed signs of having been dismantled or searched through.

It seemed that after the incident with Silver Transmission Shaft Lev, the villagers had thought about fixing up this area, but at that time the protection of this settlement had not been restored, and not everyone was in that mindset.

And after the protection of Recycling Station Town was restored, that must have been after Xiang Shan brutally removed the Welfare Officer’s head.

And then... and then...

Had the people of this town gone mad?

Yuki quickly rummaged and found some things. They were toys he had made for himself when he was a child, some small machines that could barely operate. It was these trinkets that made Yuki’s mother, Yulia, believe that Yuki had hope to become a "Knight Master".

"I can’t possibly become a Knight Master now... But my master once said he was a top-tier Scientific Knight, even more influential than today’s Great Knight Commander... In terms of ability, where do I stand?"

Yuki thought to himself, half with a bitter heart and half in jest.

Soon, Yuki found a universal magnetism maintenance tool, a very magnetic little gadget.

Looking back now, this thing might have belonged to a Maintenance Master of the Protector Fleet from two hundred years ago.

This item was no longer of much use to Yuki today, but he still solemnly put it away.

"Let’s go, there’s nothing to see here anymore." Yuki jumped straight out of the ruins.

The sluggard who had been nagged by Liu Ri for a few minutes had already cursed and walked away.

But a few unexpected people actually showed up here.

Yuki’s mouth twitched, and he clenched his fists.

He actually recognized these guys. They were all children from the town who had bullied him back in the day.

Their rate of cyberization wasn’t high; they had simply replaced most of their limbs with enormous upper or lower prosthetics. That was the standard look for workers.

They hadn’t done much alteration to their faces. But Yuki’s own face was mostly replaced by steel, with only half a nose and a tongue that were his original biological organs.

The sense of smell and taste are relatively difficult to replicate. "Detecting certain specific chemicals" isn’t hard, but getting the brain to accurately identify the incoming signals and relate them to the "taste preferences" encoded in human genes is very hard, and miniaturizing this set of equipment is also challenging.

In this era, the cheapest way to experience taste is through complete virtualization.

Xiang Shan had consciously preserved Yuki’s sense of taste and smell.

Yuki’s appearance was now worlds apart from the past.

Moreover, those children had never really looked at Yuki properly, so it was only natural that they could not recognize him now.

These novice workers emitted a surprised "oh" when they saw Yuki jump out of the ruins, as if it was an impressive feat.

Industrial Prostheses were powerful and stable, but they were also very cumbersome. This group of guys would have difficulty performing a "jump".

Yuki asked, "Do you need something?"

"Nothing," replied the former ringleader with a cheeky grin, "I heard you three are Martial Artists from the city..."

Despite the lack of respectful tone, it was clear that the three held their posture low.

"We’re not athletes," Han Zhun remembered to keep up the pretense this time, "We heard that you can dig up good materials, good weapons in these parts, so we came all the way from the city. But now that we’re here, your place doesn’t seem that great."

"That’s because you don’t know where to look," the ringleader said, "Did you know? A little bastard used to live here, lawless, left with a Hero three years ago. That guy never did any honest work in the town. You can pick up bargains in the ruins if you want, but don’t expect to find them here."

Han Zhun glanced at Yuki cautiously. He had a hunch, but he was too embarrassed to say it out loud.

Yuki was somewhat surprised. He didn’t feel the anger he thought he would towards this detestable guy.