Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 702 - 346 Historical Records

Chapter 702: Chapter 346 Historical Records

After hearing Xiang Shan’s plan, most of the Heroes didn’t comment. In fact, it was something that had been clarified from the beginning. Xiang Shan had intended this all along, and it was after roughly hearing about the plan that they were willing to come and lend a hand.

Theoretically speaking, this was indeed the safest route.

Even the tenth Martial God, entering directly from the weakest point of defense in the sky, at the highest speed allowed within the atmosphere, could only return in defeat.

Of course, this also involved another issue.

At that time, the tenth Martial God was originally leading an elite force to disrupt the construction of large space facilities in Mars’ orbit. After feinting in Mars’ orbit, he headed for Earth.

Because of the orbital issues of the Godspeed Court, there was no need for the King of Godspeed to make an appearance in the initial battle on Mars.

King Aqini was originally slated to go to Mars.

If the initial plan of the tenth Martial God had gone smoothly, King Aqini would have gone to Mars to suppress the Heroes, while the unmatched in martial techniques, the tenth Martial God, would have descended on Earth. At that time, not only would Paradox City be overrun, but the entire situation on Earth would have been rewritten in a short amount of time.

The Prosthetic Body of the tenth Martial God could ensure the destruction of the entire planet’s satellite network within twelve hours.

Once the Protectors lost the satellite network and the Space-based Weapons’ base stations, the Heroes would no longer be restrained and could take over several Space Elevators near the Earth’s equator, leveraging Earth to face off against the Moon. Earth’s dense atmosphere would become the most advantageous shield.

However, unfortunately, the tenth Martial God was observed too early by celestial telescopes, and his location was ultimately locked on. King Aqini gave up the plan to go to Mars.

The King of Godspeed accelerated to pursue him from behind.

Between Earth and the Moon, the tenth Martial God continuously broke through blockades, and at one point even penetrated the atmosphere.

But the King of Godspeed finally caught up. With too little intelligence on Paradox City, on determining that he did not have a good chance of rescuing or extricating the Ninth Martial God, the tenth Martial God could only use Earth’s gravity to accelerate and take a detour to leave this Universe Domain.

Strategically speaking, the tenth Martial God had again successfully halted the construction of military facilities in Mars’ orbit at that time, achieving the strategic objective and maintaining the Heroes’ advantage in the Asteroid Belt area.

But this also indirectly indicates one thing—the intelligence on Paradox City is really sparse.

Hiroshi Matsushima was the only one who felt doubtful, "Great Hero, not to say... If such a simple method were effective, wouldn’t the Heroes have thought of it long ago? Why hasn’t anyone done this in decades?"

Jader answered his question, "Senior brother, you should know that the two after the Ninth Martial God, were not born on Earth. They had already made a name for themselves when they infiltrated the Asteroid Belt. The Protectors have kept a close watch on them."

Hiroshi Matsushima stared at Jader, "Is this topic only related to the Martial Gods? What about the others?"

Hiroshi Matsushima was reminding the Solo Kill King not to make it too obvious.

Jader continued, "As for Earth... decades ago, four Martial Artists above the First Heavenly Layer also attempted it. The first two times were individual endeavors, whereas the last time one entered the city, as described above, and another stood by outside for assistance. But in those three attempts... none of the Heroes who entered Paradox City made it out alive. According to the description by the one who provided assistance the third time, it seems that the Protectors stationed in Paradox City were employing some kind of Gang Qi martial studies, so he couldn’t even see the specifics of the combat. Even with several Martial Artists above the First Heavenly Layer, like Amilcare, present in the city, he didn’t manage to break through."

The Black Hand Master added, "Of course, after the great loss of his comrade, that Hero fled to the Northern Land and hid beneath layers of ice for a while. During his seclusion, I communicated with him. He mentioned that originally, they had a plan to ’help the Ninth Martial God break free’ if they couldn’t rescue him. But..."

"It must be very difficult to help the Ninth Martial God break free," said Hiroshi Matsushima.

"Yes, after all, the Ninth Martial God is still encased within the Prosthetic Body that ascended to the Throne," said the Black Hand Master. "The Heroes from beyond Earth left records. A body of that specification, even if you were to stand there and strike it, can’t be easily killed."

The Prosthetic Body used by the Ninth Martial God was capable of cruising through space at a few percent of the speed of light. At such speeds, even dust becomes as dangerous as bullets. The body of the Ninth Martial God could even withstand damage of this magnitude.

"Besides... it’s Gang Qi martial studies," another Hero said. "Once the Gang Qi Weapon System is activated, all types of detection methods are compromised first, leaving only sound-based detection devices viable. As long as that Military Officer is close enough, it’s very difficult for Heroes to organize an effective attack. However..."

He glanced at Xiang Shan.

Xiang Shan was the one who uploaded the entire process of Amilcare’s assassination. Although everyone found it odd why only recently it was heard that the Nameless Hero was highly skilled in Gang Qi, there was no doubt his Gang Qi martial studies had reached the Transformation Realm.

"Have you considered how to free the Ninth Martial God... if his External Armor is really that formidable?" Hiroshi Matsushima seemed at a loss.

"Internal techniques," said Xiang Shan. "This is actually the least worrisome aspect, truly."

Anyway, none of those Protectors would stop Xiang Shan from contacting the Ninth Martial God. They seem to have absolute confidence in the seals set by King Aqini himself.

Yet, the peerless Inner Strength inherited from the Eighth Martial God provided Xiang Shan with a means that previous generations found unattainable.

In a direct connection, Xiang Shan could override the fundamental input-output system of the Ninth Martial God’s Prosthetic Body, forcefully issuing a specific electrical signal to the Prosthetic Brain-Machine Interface to trigger the brain’s degeneration program—if, in fact, there were a Biological Brain at all.

The signal to "trigger cell death" was at an intensity level where it was indistinguishable from signals used by the Brain-Machine Interface to interfere with other physiological brain functions or to input information, making it impossible to be blocked by hardware alone.

Unless that Biological Brain was initially impervious to the "electric signal of cell death"—meaning, the brain had no backdoor to begin with.

Well, the chance of this was not nonexistent. However, the proportion of people from the Old Era who were not hijacked by the Usurper of the State is exceedingly small—trivial compared to the total population at the end of the Old Era. The Usurper of the State had systematically eliminated a group of them, and the rest had mostly become the original Heroes.

If the historical records are correct, then the Ninth Martial God was originally a low-tier singer from Mars, which made the likelihood of having that kind of heritage extremely low.

If the Ninth Martial God was a Pseudo-personality Mask, then the matter was simple. Xiang Shan would delete the AI and then inform the world about it.

Sealing a person and torturing them there has significance. But replicating a string of data just to torture them is pointless.

In the ethical view of modern people, AI can’t suffer pain. Their suffering is just an act.