Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 688 - 332 Do you hear the people sing?

Chapter 688: Chapter 332 Do you hear the people sing?

Hiroshi Matsushima had once again killed a low-ranking officer. The morale of the squad led by the officer plummeted, and their offensive momentum halted abruptly.

Then, other Martial Artists swooped in from the side, overwhelming and defeating these soldiers.

Typically, the Martial Artists from the Martial Arts School could steadily win in one-on-one fights against ordinary soldiers. However, if they had not participated in many-against-many arena events, ten Martial Arts School Martial Artists managing to be evenly matched with ten soldiers would be considered quite an achievement. A hundred well-trained soldiers could easily defeat a hundred Martial Arts School Martial Artists.

But a Hero could completely turn the tide by disrupting the command system and assassinating low-ranking officers.

Once the command system was in chaos, the soldiers could not utilize their advantage of numbers and were easily isolated by the Martial Arts School Martial Artists into smaller combat groups, creating "localized one-on-one" situations.

Hiroshi Matsushima looked around. The firepower points and positions marked by the Heroes were gradually collapsing. It seemed that a considerable number of Heroes were involved in the operation; about a dozen, each of them an expert.

Moreover, there were Snipers hidden in the shadows, continuously picking off Mobile Cavalry hidden among the crowd, or destroying heavy weaponry and shooting down armed drones.

The scene of Amilcare withdrawing had further boosted people’s morale.

The sweeping fire from a machine gun cleaned up the drones. This compensated for the Heroes’ most significant disadvantage, "air superiority".

The government’s positions were visibly collapsing.

—Collapsing...

Hiroshi Matsushima felt somewhat emotional for a moment.

It was hard to believe that such a thing really happened, and it happened right beside him.

The seemingly invincible Military Formation was actually being overwhelmed by a human tide.

Someone had crossed the red warning line projected by a low-altitude drone. But now, the Protector’s firepower position was too late to shoot him down.

Then, there was a second person, a third person.

Like a decisive tide, hundreds surged toward the Execution Platform.

A machine gun turned and swept across the crowd. Several civilians fell.

But a Martial Artist timely rushed into the position. The soldier operating the machine gun immediately swung the muzzle around, only to be unexpectedly shot in the head from somewhere.

Hiroshi Matsushima recognized that fellow. It was indeed Lei Daye.

He quickly approached that area, joining others in eliminating the remaining soldiers.

"Grand Master Uncle!" Seeing Hiroshi Matsushima, Lei Daye was extremely excited.

Jader was quite interested, "Grand Master Uncle? Hey brother, which brother’s descendant from our Martial Arts School is this? It’s been so many years... so many years indeed."

Lei Daye was startled, "You are...?"

"I used to study at our Martial Arts School too, now I am a Hero," Hiroshi Matsushima quickly explained. Then, he asked Jader, "What do we do next?"

"It looks like those guys won’t be able to organize a resistance force for a while; let’s take this opportunity to take away the Martial Artists who are willing to leave with us," Jader said. "Once we are all gone, Nameless Hero will even be freer to come and go."

Someone played a rousing musical score.

Amidst the music, the crowd climbed onto the Execution Platform. The Execution Platform couldn’t bear so many people at once and actually collapsed once. But the people were uninfluenced.

"We’re going too," Jader said.

There was a Hero who acted faster than them, beginning to release the bound man. The restraining technique used by the government was nothing more than control by Inner Strength, and at its harshest, it merely involved disabling the components that powered the Prosthetic Body—such methods were almost meaningless for Internal martial artists, who were well aware that none among the prisoners possessed knowledge of Inner Strength.

Jader quickly freed the prisoners.

However, a discordant note arose in this scenario.

One of the criminals, upon being freed, immediately wrapped his arms around Jader’s waist and shouted, "I’ve caught the Hero! I’m not a Hero! Someone come quick! I’ve caught him! I’m not a Hero! I am innocent..."

He was promptly knocked out by Hiroshi Matsushima.

Lei Daye found it hard to accept, "This is..."

"This is humanity," Jader did not mind, "You’ll get used to it after being reported enough times."

"Used to it..."

"He is human," Jader pointed at the man beneath him and then gestured around, "But don’t forget, these are all humans. You too are human. In the hundreds of thousands of years of humanity, there has been countless folly and stupidity, but also countless true heroes and righteousness."

"It is because humans can turn out like this, that both the Martial Ancestor and the Fourth Martial God stated that one must volunteer to join the force of heroism and righteousness."

Meanwhile, other Northern Heroes also came over to greet Jader.

"The mission is essentially complete now, and our objective has been met," Yuan Wenren said, "It’s time for us to disperse."

Jader nodded, "But we need to find a way to make them all disperse quickly. If they don’t, the authorities will come to their senses and slaughter them all."

At this moment, people were shouting along with the loud music. Even among the heroes, some sang along.

"...Will you give all you can give / So that our banner may advance / Some will fall and some will live / Will you stand up and take your chance?"

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The Internal master was lowering the entire building’s partitions.

Under his control, Amilcare’s Pine Eagle Building was turning into a maze. The correct path through this maze was known only to the Internal master, and it could change at any moment depending on his whim.

The metal partitions, originally meant to deal with the worst-case scenario of "Heroes banding together a force to attack the city," was a standard set during the era of the Seventh Martial God, a century ago. Although it had been a long time since there was any large-scale rebellion following the Ninth Martial God, many Protectors had continued to uphold this standard.

Now, it began to divide the entire battlefield.

Amilcare Zhao, while tracking the assassin’s traces, was also gathering his elite forces. Some of his people were skilled in tracking chemical residues. The gas aerosol ignited by the Martial Artist on the roof also triggered the fire suppression system, spraying him with firefighting chemicals. A Martial Artist from the Granddoug family was particularly skilled at such tracking.

Amilcare found the traces of the other several times, but was blocked by partition doors. By the third time, he was furious, raised his lance, and directly smashed through the floor to descend to the layer below.

Then, within the stairwells, he heard a melodious song.

"Do you hear the people sing? / Singing the song of angry men?"