Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 701 - 345 The Plan of Attack is Very Simple

Chapter 701: Chapter 345 The Plan of Attack is Very Simple

Xiang Shan walked with his hands clasped behind his back in a sealed space.

Of course, this was a virtual reality, created by a local network of devices used by all participating Heroes. Here, everyone’s avatar was closer to that of a Natural Person, meaning more slender in stature.

Of course, the majority of Heroes didn’t custom-make their faces; they simply wrote their IDs on their faces as a form of decoration.

Although Xiang Shan, who hailed from the Old Era, was not used to this, it seemed that no one from this era thought there was anything wrong with it.

In the midst of the many Heroes’ field of view was a virtual topographic map.

"This place is known as Paradox City. I found some research materials from the Old Era in the online database," Xiang Shan said with his hands clasped at his back, as if wielding a teacher’s pointer.

Speaking of which... after becoming successful, he was even invited by his alma mater to deliver lectures. From this perspective, he could indeed be considered a Teacher.

Xiang Shan said, "Paradox City, anciently known as Chichen Itza, is located on the Yucatan Peninsula. This peninsula is almost entirely made up of coral layers and porous limestone, forming a tertiary limestone plateau that is high in the south and low in the north, gradually rising toward the south. However, after the ’Number One’ infection incident two hundred years ago... no, during the middle of the Sublimation War, the Father of Machines Yawgmoth moved those historical ruins. He packed up all the ancient buildings and took them away. During this process, the average altitude of the entire peninsula was forcibly lowered by several meters."

It seemed to be a very old event. During the middle of the Secret Wars, the nature of the warfare intensified, and the Heroes were not always able to control their actions properly. Sometimes, some historical landmarks would be affected by their assassination battles.

Ingrid, who had the wish to "defend all cultures," was very dissatisfied with this.

Yawgmoth originally belonged to the faction that thought "it doesn’t matter if the culture is destroyed." However, over the course of the prolonged battles, he seemed to acknowledge Ingrid’s argument that "studying culture is to study humanity, allowing us to understand ourselves more deeply."

After his defection, he still remembered this matter and specifically mobilized enormous resources to protect those relics.

Of course, the process was rather rough.

Yawgmoth’s subordinates would use some kind of fabric to construct an enclosed space, then fill the space with inert gas as a protective atmosphere. Next, they would scan the entire relics using drones, complete the modeling, and record everything.

Then, they would spend a considerable amount of time slowly securing the entire relic with a kind of soluble gel.

This gel could only be dissolved by a specific enzyme. This enzyme had absolute specificity, reacting only with the main material of the gel. After complex chemical reactions, the gel could be rapidly removed.

This was a special protective gel created by Yawgmoth’s scientific thinking.

Many ancient relics and artifacts were tightly locked within the gel.

The history of humanity, the civilization of humans, had thus been turned into amber by that Tyrant.

Then, these ambers would be disassembled, divided, or wholly packed and sent into space via the Space Elevator, to be managed by the Defending Army’s Sanctuary in the Galapagos within the Order of Scientific Knights.

They even had surplus power to dig away a portion of the Earth’s surface.

These details were what Xiang Shan had learned when searching for information on "Paradox City."

At certain points in time on Earth, with the use of astronomical telescopes, one could see a series of bright dots in space. It is said that some had seen traces of civilization.

It was as if it were a crown made from thousands of years of history.

Decades ago, in the former site of the Divine Temple of Kukulkan in Chichen Itza, the Protectors built from scratch the Paradox City for the purpose of confining and tormenting the Ninth Martial God.

The Burrow Dragon Underground Pixiu took over the conversation, "The issue with Paradox City is a tricky one. We could move so smoothly in Pine Eagle City largely because the Nameless Hero provided us with data on the Old Era’s underground traffic networks, and then we cleared a path directly through the existing passages, which slightly reduced the workload. But Paradox City is different."

"The surface of Paradox City is laid with alloyed material, which Burrow Dragon’s methods cannot forcefully penetrate."

"Moreover, there are a lot of natural caves surrounding Paradox City. Even though there is no Order of Scientific Knights stationed here, there are survey teams that reside permanently. Trying to go directly from underground, we would easily alert the enemy."

Xiang Shan waved his hand to signal the Burrow Dragon to sit down, then continued, "We succeeded in Pine Eagle City largely because I know the landscape and architecture there very well... cough cough, I had obtained detailed records of the interior architecture. But Paradox City is very different. There’s almost no intelligence leaking from Paradox City, and the only recent data came from an unnamed Internal expert who had hacked a spy satellite flying high in the sky over a decade ago."

Since Internal experts are very skilled at hiding their information, it has been impossible to verify who it was. But this unknown Hero shared the intelligence on the forum for Heroes.

"But the city is easy to enter, yet strict on exiting," Xiang Shan said. "The entire city’s airspace is covered with strong interference, making it impossible to use wireless signals to transmit data. The government itself has to send the data to be exchanged through wired signals to several nearby satellite towers. Those towers have dedicated communication lines with the Moon. Various guards are heavily armed. There are even independent, disconnected checkpoints. It’s immensely difficult to leave from the inside."

"But getting in is very simple. They hardly ever prevent Heroes from entering Paradox City. Any Hero can enter directly and come into contact with the Ninth Martial God. In the end, they will kill the Hero in front of the Ninth Martial God."

Hiroshi Matsushima said, "You mean... we go in together?"

Xiang Shan shook his head, "Then we would be doomed. The city is their prepared battlefield; every entrant would be closely monitored, and on the intelligence front, we would be at an absolute disadvantage. Moreover, the enemy’s numerical superiority would be maximized, as would the advantage of heavy firepower."

"So your task," he continued, "is to create chaos on the outskirts of the city and draw away some of the Defending Army’s attention. Only then can we maximize the tactical advantage we Heroes have."

Hiroshi Matsushima was astonished, "So you’re going in alone?"

Xiang Shan nodded, "That has been the decision from the beginning. I go in alone, then make contact with the Ninth Martial God and leave afterwards."

Hiroshi Matsushima said, "What’s the point of doing this?"

"It’s a signal," Xiang Shan replied. "Paradox City is a symbol of the oppression of the Chivalrous Spirit. Liberating the Ninth Martial God is the same as freeing that constraint."

"Of course, the ideal situation would be to directly rescue the Ninth Martial God."