Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 707 - 351: Inhuman

Chapter 707: Chapter 351: Inhuman

High-level military officer White Night Lux closed his eyes and asked Master D3 Zachariah, "Do you now feel... uh, nothing. This guy is..."

[Inquiry, what is the target doing?]

"It’s hard for me to answer. He just slapped the face of... the Ninth Martial God..." White Night Lux seemed puzzled, "He didn’t directly connect, but instead, he was... I don’t know what this act implies in the Jianghu culture. But my intuition tells me that such a move has a threatening implication to personal safety... If carried out, it probably has the meaning of shame, doesn’t it?"

[Shame, the Ninth Martial God?]

Even the pepper pot-shaped internal strength master from the Moon found it incredibly unbelievable.

Why would someone want to do such a thing?

"I don’t know... I speculate that perhaps he wants to awaken the Ninth Martial God." White Night Lux thought for a long time, said, "Decades ago, there were also several heroes, I guess. They believed they could awaken the Martial God and have him charge out with them."

But this was absolutely impossible. The Ninth Martial God would never harbor such thoughts. His spirit had already died on the Sun.

This guy had long been destroyed.

If not for this reason, Yawgmoth would not have fixed him here on display.

Moreover, even if the Ninth Martial God were really persuaded, there was no possibility of him taking any action.

Because...

..............................

Xiang Shan sighed and sat in front of the Ninth Martial God, said, "I don’t know what you’re thinking in your head right now. But you are a Martial God, a Martial God revered by thousands! Didn’t you move half the Solar System? Huh? What have you become now?"

"Speak, say something."

"You at least were a Xiang Shan, right? Other Xiang Shan seeing you like this, wouldn’t they be pissed off to death?"

"I am not a Xiang Shan." Unexpectedly, the Ninth Martial God spoke, "I am just a fake. You’re just wasting life. If you want to preserve your life, you should leave this place. Perhaps one day, this place will be breached by someone else."

Xiang Shan laughed, "Yo, you’re still here, I thought you had gone insane."

"If I could go insane, that would indeed be a comfort," the Ninth Martial God replied coldly.

Xiang Shan said, "It’s rare that you also know you are a fake, very rare. I have seen Martial Gods who, until death, adamantly claimed they were Xiang Shan, but it’s my first time seeing a Martial God directly admit to being a fake."

Native sighed and appeared in an illusionary form above the Ninth Martial God, "You are talking about yourself, aren’t you?"

Eight said inwardly, [You damn well might be the fake, too. Although the likelihood that you’re the real deal is high, suspicion cannot be excluded. Let none of us brothers laugh at the other.]

"Well done, Eight."

Xiang Shan reached up, placing his hand on the shoulder of the Ninth Martial God, "So how are you a fake? Explain it to me, explain. Like the Second Martial God and the Third Martial God? Are you a pseudo-personality mask... hiss..."

"There’s a problem, there’s definitely a problem," Native pondered, "Wasn’t this guy supposed to have inner strength according to the legends?"

[Folk legends shouldn’t be taken as truth. You probably just know the contents of the storytelling. Seven’s military exploits included the achievements of others, and Nine’s inner strength battle records might also be from Ten and Eleven.]

Xiang Shan shook the Ninth Martial God, "Hey, don’t be a riddler, brother. What exactly do you mean, what kind of fake are you? Huh? Speak!"

"You..."

Perhaps it was because the personal traits in this sequence of actions were too distinguished, so the Ninth Martial God was momentarily stunned.

Native sighed, "It looks like he intentionally cut off the process, terminating his thought. It seems his thoughts are being monitored. Tsk, it indeed has to be you who does this. Hurry up, the person monitoring him might find out from his brain that you’re also a Xiang Shan, and missiles might be on their way."

"Alright then," Xiang Shan raised the data cable he had prepared earlier and inserted it into the interface on the wrist of the Ninth Martial God, "Good thing I prepared an interface of this specification—how would they handle it if they weren’t prepared? Does the government provide an adapter?"

At that moment, countless changes occurred.

Just then, King Aqini’s three disciples seemed to sense something. The Ninth Martial God forcibly interrupted a process. He hadn’t taken initiative in a long while. The three disciples wanted to restore this process.

But at that moment, an Inner Strength attack arrived.

A report came through the communication, "He is in a wired connection state now!"

However, the three did not respond immediately.

——So strong!

The three felt a formidable Inner Strength, as an illegal user exploited some vulnerability to forcefully log into the system.

This individual was launching an Inner Strength attack through the Ninth Martial God.

——How is this even possible...

Astonishment rose in the hearts of the three, who immediately joined forces to suppress it.

At the same time, D3 Zachariah rapidly reported, "The target’s Inner Strength is extremely potent; we three need to focus to suppress it. Be ready for an ambush at any time."

This piece of intelligence left the high-level military officers somewhat astonished.

They had not expected such an outcome.

"Above the First Heavenly Layer" denotes that all aspects, including Internal and External Skills, have surpassed a strict benchmark, so many Martial Artists who are particularly strong in one area do not qualify as "above First Layer Heavenly Land." "Comprehensive development" means being able to adapt to a greater variety of unknown situations.

Whereas, "specialized" competitors can only perform in their own suitable fields.

Traditional armies would diversify specialties and organize a mass of "specialized competitors," creating "conditions conducive to their performance." However, Heroes seek a balanced, well-rounded capability due to their organizational structure. This pursuit also shapes the development of Martial Studies.

Based purely on Inner Strength, King Aqini’s three disciples could instantly kill these high-level military officers.

They simply couldn’t imagine any Inner Strength that would require these three to unite and suppress.

"Could such a level of Inner Strength really exist on Earth..." Lian Yunhui murmured.

Meanwhile, Xiang Shan gazed directly at the Ninth Martial God.

"So it turns out... you really don’t have a biological brain."

The Ninth Martial God was a Pseudo-personality Mask—at least, the one confined here was just an AI.

Xiang Shan’s consciousness breached a vast database, where he saw that immense behavior tree...

If visualized and presented in size five font characters, this colossal behavior tree would even surpass the Iron Tower above the Eighth Martial God in height.

It was so massive it resembled a structure from mythology.

It contained myriad wills and preferences of Xiang Shan.

The Ninth Martial God was an AI, and rather a rudimentary one at that.

This was indeed curious.

The legendary Martial God known for his infectious charisma wasn’t even human. As an AI, his design wasn’t particularly clever either.

But he...

As Xiang Shan’s thoughts churned, data cascaded down from the "giant tree" like snow shaken from a large tree.

In this visualized tide, Xiang Shan entered the memory of the Ninth Martial God.