Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 696 - 340 That Amazing Person

Chapter 696: Chapter 340 That Amazing Person

Xiang Shan continued, "No matter what, you must remember. Regardless, you still have the option to ’pull out the speaker’ as a fallback. Additionally, you can employ an even older method, converting what you want to say into a text document before outputting it. You’re merely unable to suppress the impulse to express yourself verbally, but text involves different brain circuits and can maintain your lifestyle if you review it thoroughly."

"The main cause of your condition is already dead."

"With these two points in mind, I hope you can engage in discussions calmly, think calmly."

Although Han Zhun’s mouth was covered by Xiang Shan, preventing him from speaking, he still nodded.

"Using a chemical that interacts with specific receptors on the surface of neurons, thereby permanently altering that receptor. This isn’t new technology. People have been researching this for hundreds of years," Xiang Shan said, "Indeed, it can have permanent consequences. But... over two hundred years ago, this ’permanent effect’ could already be reversed with medication."

Han Zhun’s eyes widened.

"A long time ago, there was a remarkable person. He freed people from the constraints of limited food. He protected everyone from native pathogens of Earth. Similarly, he conquered impacts that were once thought ’irreversible’."

"Whether it’s addiction to psychotropic drugs or brain damage due to physical injuries, both can be healed using this method."

Han Zhun suddenly became excited, struggling under Xiang Shan’s grip as if he couldn’t hold back and needed to speak his thoughts aloud.

Xiang Shan said, "However, I must warn you in advance. This is not without risks for you. Firstly, you haven’t undergone complete meditation training, don’t know how to control your thoughts, control your mind. This is not beneficial for you to guide the reconfiguration of your brain’s neuronal network. You might face the problem of ’more effort for less outcome’."

"Then, you’ll re-experience a period of intense changes in your brain’s neuronal network... It might just feel like what happened a few years ago. Your personality might undergo an unexpected significant transformation, some of your ideas might change. Many people are concerned about this."

"Also, the last point, any segment of your memory could be lost. It’s hard to avoid. While it’s possible to transcribe memories into electronic files beforehand, it involves a very cumbersome process. We don’t have the conditions for that in a short period. If you want to recover quickly, to be able to protect yourself in this world, then you have to face the risk of losing memories. And if you want to preserve your memories as much as possible, then you can only embark on a perilous journey with us dangerous people while remaining in this state."

Upon saying this, Xiang Shan showed a trace of sentiment.

Comrade Chen Feng and his collaborators developed this "memory-entry" technology, originally intended to combat the "memory damage" brought about by "cognitive enhancement"—at that time, no one had yet proposed the modern concept of "Inner Strength." People at Superman Enterprise still believed that the mission of the Restoring Enzyme should bring about another round of "Cognitive Revolution."

Of course, it was Xiang Shan who applied this technology to resistance activities. At that time, Xiang Shan was just starting out, struggling with every step. But at the same time, it was a period when human resources on the network were enormously abundant. Thanks to Xinyu Zhu’s technology, Xiang Shan still managed to acquire enough computational resources and storage space to transcribe most of Xiang Shan’s memories.

And the purpose of doing this was to free up space in the brain.

Even now, memory loss caused by the Restoring Enzyme still had a certain randomness in practical application—it’s better to say that this technique of "selecting specific memories to forget by controlling the drug’s injection site" was tried out on Xiang Shan himself.

Xiang Shan kept forgetting, continuously relearning.

And also continuously transferring memories to the hard drive.

At some point, only "knowledge" and "emotion" remained in his biological brain.

Xiang Shan had also undergone training to combat truth serum. There were even some notes written by the Martial Ancestor on certain blockchain networks.

For Xiang Shan, the extent of brain damage Han Zhun suffered was somewhat minor by comparison.

It’s better to say...

The man he was now had already died twice.

Once as himself, and once as the Eighth Martial God.

Xiang Shan put aside his emotions and looked back at Han Zhun, "I’ve told you everything that needs to be said. I have the relevant medication here. We can build the equipment. As for the related knowledge, you can ask Yuki; I’ve already taught him everything."

After finishing, Xiang Shan stood up, then took out a cryogenic container and placed it on the ground.

"Whenever you make your decision, this medicine is ready to reverse the situation for you."

Having said this, Xiang Shan backed away, leaving the two vehicles.

Back in the car, Hiroshi Matsushima rotated his Prosthetic Eye towards him and said, "You hold that ’remarkable person’ in high regard."

Knowing Xiang Shan’s identity, he naturally guessed whom Xiang Shan was referring to.

Xiang Shan sat down, "To compress technological advancements that should span three or even four generations into a mere three or four decades... maybe longer? In this regard, he really was impressive."

Hiroshi Matsushima was noncommittal, "Is that so?"

"To someone like you, not even 300 years old, who didn’t experience the old era, you might not understand," Xiang Shan smiled. "What you consider common today was truly remarkable in the old era. Remember? In Pine Eagle City, I suggested that everyone live like a plant. But this was almost impossible to achieve in the old era."

"Homo sapiens needed a lot of food to maintain a healthy body. Without exercise, their bodies developed problems. Facing pathogens, they easily fell ill. And back then, whether it was treatment or anything else, it was very expensive," Xiang Shan looked up at the dark ceiling of the War Chariot, lost in thought, "Benchmark Men didn’t need that much food, they weren’t threatened by native pathogens of Earth. He also drove the price of all medicines down to next to nothing, and thus the non-contagious diseases could no longer threaten humanity."

"To free humanity from famine, from disease... even ’death’, we dared to touch."

"At our company’s big reveal in the seventies, I pitched a huge idea. Then, I watched as the scale of values based on the ’Other Side’ religion collapsed before him. Followers who pursued the Other Side parted ways with relatives who embraced modernization. Because human concepts of death had been rebuilt, those who clung to traditional beliefs of the Other Side could hardly accept all this..."

"From ancient times to now, the contributions of all farmers and physicians combined might just match his."