Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 657 - 301 Zoloa

Chapter 657: Chapter 301 Zoloa

Cyber Martial Arts can generally be classified into three categories: "Inner Strength," "External Strength," and "Military Martial." Among them, "External Strength" includes "Combat Fighting" and "Firearms," while "Military Martial" can be further divided into "Battleships and Heavy Artillery," "Military Battle Formation," and so on.

These classifications actually come from the design philosophy of Martial Arts.

The most important design idea of "External Strength" is the "low requirement." Even with a trash Prosthetic Body, one can perform a set of external martial arts. Having a better high-tech, strong material Prosthetic Body is certainly better, but it’s not a big deal if you don’t have one. As the saying goes, "With nothing to eat and nothing to wear, the enemy will provide; without guns or cannons, the enemy will manufacture for us," as long as the External Martial Artist can ensure "being stronger than the encroaching enemy in a local battlefield," they can continuously acquire better components.

External Strength naturally includes a complete set of theories and schemes for "killing from weak to strong." As long as someone has the determination and perseverance for Guerrilla Warfare and a protracted war, they can immediately draw their sword and rise to become a Hero.

This is External Martial Studies.

But this is not possible with the Military Martial Path. All Military Martial Paths are specialized for certain types of Prosthetic Bodies. For example, "Battleships and Heavy Artillery" are tailored for various War Chariots, fighter planes, and battleships. Meanwhile, the foundation of "Military Formation" is a massive amount of machinery. For the insignificant individual, the Military Martial Path is meaningless.

Therefore, the Martial Ancestor dislikes the Military Martial Path. The Military Martial Path helps the strong more than the weak.

But alas, alas.

This sort of classification is actually based on the "design philosophy."

However, if one traces back the historical origins of certain Martial Arts, historians should not be too surprised to discover that many things classified as "military martial" today were also creations of the Martial Ancestor.

For example, Martial Arts related to drones—in today’s "Martial Arts Form Classification," "drone piloting" is considered a basic skill of the "Battle Formation Faction" within the Military Martial Path, basically equivalent to core strength training for Homo sapiens Martial Artists.

On this point, the Martial Ancestor actually had a very unique bottom line.

In the subconscious of the Martial Ancestor, drones weren’t Military Martial at all.

That’s right, the Martial Ancestor would never agree with the current classification of Martial Arts researchers. He was a master of civilian drones! His laboratory was filled with a myriad of civilian drones that utilized cutting-edge technologies! Civilian!

He merely incorporated his understanding of civilian drones into the creation of Martial Arts. In Xiang Shan’s internal classification, "civilian drones" could not be classified as part of the Military Martial Path.

Given the Martial Ancestor’s special historical status, this particular classification, which is not necessarily conducive for newcomers to understand the classification of Martial Arts, is still held by some old-school Jianghu folks.

Liu Ri was absolutely telling the truth. Xiang Shan really liked drones.

Liu Ri’s drone was the size of a sparrow, yet it was so fast that it left only a shadow behind.

He zipped quickly through the town.

"Watch closely, this is a skill from the Mystic Gate Orthodoxy!" Liu Ri introduced to Han Zhun: "It also tests the capacity of your brain... as well as the ability to collect intelligence. This device can quickly scan the entire settlement town without anyone noticing."

"During this process, I will record the location of all surveillance devices, and I will mark any that might malfunction. In this way, we can move through the town unnoticed by relying on the blind spots of these surveillance devices."

This was indeed a usage that Xiang Shan would appreciate. If conditions allowed, Xiang Shan also loved to send drones everywhere for reconnaissance. It’s just a shame that Xiang Shan seldom had the opportunity to do so in the past three years.

—However, the master would probably not like the word "Mystic"...

As Yuki waited for Liu Ri to finish his operation, he let his thoughts wander.

Among all positive adjectives, "Sacred" and "Profound and Mysterious" are probably the categories that Xiang Shan dislikes the most.

At this moment, Han Zhun was not observing Yuki’s expression. His eyes were shining as if a new world had been opened to him.

"Gathering," Han Zhun understood what it meant, and the youth also knew what "intelligence" was. As for "ability"—a dimension to evaluate the human capacity to complete task attributes, Han Zhun also understood.

But when the words "the ability to gather intelligence" are strung together...

—It turns out gathering intelligence is also an ability... It turns out this too is Martial Arts!

Han Zhun faintly felt that Yuki and Liu Ri seemed to be hinting something to him. But since Yuki and Liu Ri just denied being Heroes, he hesitated to confirm it for a moment.

Soon, however, Han Zhun thought of a practical concern: "Ah, wait, we’re not going to just stay here waiting for the Green Forest, are we? My job pays daily, but the Martial Arts School... I can’t stay away from classes for too long!"

Yuki said, "The signal here is decent, I can teach you a trick to expand someone else’s network. The doctor’s internet at home is much better than the free public facilities in town. You can take leave remotely."

Although Yuki’s Inner Strength was only at a beginner level, in this era nearly no one had the basic sense of security.

Stealing a network and freeloading internet access was basic operation.

Liu Ri shook his head: "We won’t have to stand guard forever. We’ll guard for a few days, and after that we can just leave. This will also be a way to ease our conscience."

This was also the practice advocated by the Martial Ancestor. He emphasized that a Hero must not be kidnapped by the enemy.

If an enemy killed some civilians and then claimed that their deaths were due to the Hero’s failure to save them, that they died because of the Hero, the Hero could absolutely curse "Insane!" and then crush the villain with all their might—because the one who harms others is always "the person who kills," not "the one who tries to save people but falls short."

Han Zhun nodded thoughtfully.

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"Child King Yuan" Zoloa was in a very bad mood now.

Indeed, "Child King Yuan" was not someone with the surname Yuan or named Child or King. He did not share any common ancestors with Yuan Wenren within thousands of years.

Just as Zoloa could not recognize the Yuki in front of him, Yuki did not remember Zoloa’s name either.

To Yuki, this guy was just "a bully who had harassed him," and during these three years, the young Hero had encountered many bullies, with Zoloa already relegated in his mind to "not too bad a bully," naturally, he wouldn’t bother to remember. In Yuki’s mind, this guy was simply "Child King Yuan."

Zoloa felt as though those three "townsfolk" had looked down on him, and he was seething with anger.

He parted ways with his companions and then walked furiously towards his home.

Before he reached home, he could already hear children crying. Zoloa cursed under his breath and then started to run, rushing back to his house and yelling at the door, "Stay away from them!"