Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 731 - 375 Martial God Reincarnation [Part Four]

Chapter 731: Chapter 375 Martial God Reincarnation [Part Four]

At that moment, it wasn’t just Paradox City that was ablaze.

At Diaz Spaceport, a team of armed engineers was assembling at the edge. They were about to board a spacecraft to carry out emergency repairs in space.

This type of spaceport housed thousands of residents, and the control of such giant spacecraft was even more secure. Ten seconds of overload was not enough to make it completely collapse. King Aqini had reacted, and had already taken action to stabilize the situation.

After the emergency assembly, the spaceport planned to use the spacecraft to maintain those medium and large spacecraft that were about to collide.

This was the only solution. Since those spacecraft had already completely lost the ability to adjust their attitude and orbit, they had to rely on external forces.

At this time, saving a satellite or a space-based weapons launcher was a great merit.

King Aqini would certainly not let the heroes go unrewarded.

The first team of engineers had already completed half of their boarding process.

However, suddenly, at the fuel management center, a Martial Artist in charge of security suddenly carrying a barrel of fuel, crashed into their spacecraft. He hesitated not a moment to ignite that barrel of fuel. The explosion’s force triggered a sympathetic detonation in the fuel depot, affecting several aircraft nearby that could have performed repair tasks. Although the spaceships were not directly destroyed, they were temporarily incapacitated from carrying out their missions.

The same thing happened not only here.

Seven thousand kilometers away, at a space barracks, a duo of soldiers led by an officer, equipped with jetpacks, arrived at one side of the barracks and forcefully pushed the barracks.

Although the internal Martial Artist just drained the barracks of the high-pressure gases and rocket fuel used to maintain position, the barracks’ single-soldier equipment fuel was stored separately. Even though there wasn’t much of this type of fuel, it could still become a force of reason in a short time.

In addition, some soldiers continuously threw materials from inside the barracks into outer space, relying on the reaction force to influence the barracks’ orbit.

Countless soldiers got into position and started to exert force.

But just at that moment, a soldier suddenly drew a firearm and shot at the jet nozzle of a comrade standing in front. He struck with great precision, which could only be achieved through a thorough understanding of the jetpack or exceptional engineering insight. The jetpack exploded instantly and took several nearby people with it.

Immediately thereafter, this soldier engaged in a gunfight with his comrades in space, and ultimately serenely blew himself up with a grenade.

This kind of thing was not an isolated incident, but was happening simultaneously in various areas of near-Earth orbit. Moreover, these incidents started and ended within a highly concentrated span of time—all within one minute.

Before King Aqini could intervene, Xiang Shan had already forcibly taken control of many hostile individuals.

The backdoor plugin "Five Stops of the Mind Contemplation", written by Zhu Xinyu’s line, seemed to be a mainstream psychological self-check plugin of this era, downloaded by many Internal Martial Artists. Xiang Shan didn’t even need to carefully select to find a large number of "potential targets".

Before Hartman intervened, Xiang Shan had already downloaded himself into several targets, after which these targets went offline. Even if King Aqini had the capability to reach the skies, he couldn’t lock down these individuals within a few minutes.

Even when Hartman realized the anomaly, it was all already over.

But at this moment, King Aqini was already too busy to care about this news. The royal guards of the Moon were already assembling towards the space elevator, and at the same time, that fleet which threatened the Solar System had already begun ignition.

He would definitely eliminate Xiang Shan...

Eliminate that evil spirit resurrected from hell.

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"It’s over..." were the first words uttered by a high-level military officer captured by Lian Yunhui.

Four high-level military officers huddled together. Lian Yunhui and another caught one, while White Night Lux followed closely.

On their retreat, Lian Yunhui threw several Iron Flower Bombs. As the four high-level military officers stopped, the bombs burst, and heavy metal aerosol cut them off from the center of Paradox City. Lian Yunhui felt this was still not secure enough, and even directly drew several gamma rays from within his internal reactor, creating an EMP storm around them.

Finally, that parasitic song turned into a burst of white noise.

But this was not citywide. Farther away, that song still existed.

That scream that seemed like an exhalation after despair...

"Hahaha... it’s over... we could never compete with a Martial God..." shouted a military officer loudly.

The Ninth Martial God had a record of killing one of the Kings.

"Calm down," called out White Night Lux, "you have to understand, it’s an AI! An empty shell! That’s the King... that is..."

The Mars King was truly killed. Originally, the Conquest Heavenly King was stationed on Mars, which was merely the main Sanctuary of the Scientific Knight Order. However, after the death of the War God King, the Conquest Heavenly King came to command the whole of Mars.

That was a true military achievement.

History and ballads were simultaneously eroding their morale.

"No, there’s a chance..." Lian Yunhui suddenly said, "There is a slim chance."

"Impossible! We cannot overcome the Martial God! He is a god!"

"Under the same conditions, a hundred of me could not defeat the Martial God," Lian Yunhui said softly, "However, the Ninth Martial God is not in his prime. We at least have a few advantages."

"The biggest advantage is the prosthetic body—although the Ninth Martial God’s prosthetic body is generally stronger than ours, it is, after all, a product from sixty years ago, and moreover, the Zodiacs and the Ninth Martial God’s prosthetic body were all specialized for the environment at the Throne! Specialized!"

Being high-level military officers, they generally had intelligence. They immediately realized what Lian Yunhui was saying.

Although the corona layer is also part of the "solar atmosphere," it is exceptionally thin, not dense like the earth’s soil. Looking at the molecular motion speed, the solar atmosphere reaches 1,000,000 degrees Celsius, yet there are only ten particles per cubic meter. If one does not rely on solar radiation but solely on the thermal motion of the solar atmosphere’s molecules, one can barely boil water.

The resistance offered by such an atmosphere is negligible.

However, Earth’s dense atmosphere could cause great trouble for high-speed prosthetic bodies. The giant shock waves generated by the rapid movement of prosthetic bodies indeed sweep across all directions, but ultimately, these shock waves result from the atmosphere stealing energy from the prosthetic bodies.

The Ninth Martial God’s prosthetic body hardly considered aerodynamic shape.

Moreover, a considerable part of his prosthetic body’s mass comes from the magnetic levitation omni-wheel, a device extremely beneficial in space combat but almost useless in planetary environments.

Additionally, prosthetic bodies designed for combat within a planet typically possess the function of "inhaling air, ionizing it, and then expelling it as propellant." Earth’s high-level military officers generally have such configurations. Their body surfaces have many hidden intake ports, which can actively ingest air and ionize it using the power of the internal reactor, before expelling it all at once. This too can to a certain extent optimize the aerodynamic shape of the humanoid prosthetic bodies.

"This brings me to my second point..." Lian Yunhui pointed directly above the Iron Tower in the center of Paradox City, "The Martial God lacks the capability to convert nitrogen into plasma state propellant. The technology of propulsion without working material is useless inside the atmosphere; the slight acceleration can’t even overcome air resistance, let alone Earth’s gravity. And the rocket fuel stored within Paradox City is all for medium to short-range missiles. Even if the fuel tanks of the Zodiacs are filled, they cannot maintain prolonged combat."

"The direct collision of that heavy prosthetic body and the attack by the firearms operator prosthetic body both confirm this point."

Those twelve prosthetic bodies were termed "Zodiac Twelve," simply because they were the last twelve prosthetic bodies of the Ninth Martial God and because the Ninth Martial God was captured on the sun, hence the name. In reality, these prosthetic bodies were not part of a set.

However, Xiang Shan accepted the name "Zodiac Twelve," found it very interesting, and then this notion also infected the Ninth Martial God, making Xiang Shan and his comrades mentally associate the twelve prosthetic bodies with the twelve zodiacs.

The Protector wasn’t actually aware of the name Xiang Shan had just adopted.

A few of them recalled the truth. The heavy prosthetic body (Taurus) simply used its thrusters to press itself onto the ground, but its advancement was completely reliant on the performance of its prosthetic limbs and did not utilize the back thrusters for acceleration. The firearms hand (Pisces) was also only temporarily airborne, and immediately landed once its ammunition was exhausted.

The high-level military officers, who had just been utterly terrified, suddenly realized: "So that’s it, the coating on optical devices does degrade... He temporarily cannot use the laser weapons that best leverage the advantages of the reactor! No wonder in King’s orders, components like optical resonators need an application before they can be supplied, and the city doesn’t have them in stock..."

"That heavy prosthetic body has already smashed one..." White Night Lux exclaimed excitedly, "Luck..."

The military officers of Paradox City don’t all use laser weapons.

"No, Lord truly was standing in the position posing the greatest threat to the Martial God, hence the Martial God used the most direct method to attack,"

If the Martial God was limited to using only firearms and melee weapons...

The melee equipment of Paradox City’s military officers precisely lacked heavy weapons like Gungnir Strike Gun series that could let the Ninth Martial God maximize the performance advantages of his prosthetic body. They did have a considerable stockpile of Sonicon Blades. However, during the era of the Ninth Martial God, Sonicon Blades hadn’t been invented, so neither the Ninth Martial God nor the Zodiac prosthetic bodies had structures to accommodate Sonicon Blade pieces.

Merely relying on the handle, delicate items like Sonicon Blades are hard to be of much use in battles of this caliber.

Paradox City naturally had contingency plans for "the Ninth Martial God’s escape." Although such a situation was highly unlikely, King Aqini had nonetheless assumed Turing as a hypothetical enemy and devised a scenario where "Turing reaches Paradox City and rewrites the Ninth Martial God AI."

Due to Yawgmoth’s policy of "undermining the Martial God," the restrictions on the Ninth Martial God were superficially very lax, but in places invisible to the heroes, King Aqini had still prepared several targeted measures.

No one believed that the Ninth Martial God could escape, so the military officers usually didn’t keep this in mind. But now, only by loudly repeating these facts could they muster up a bit of courage.

Finally, Lian Yunhui said, "We just need to hold on for a while... within an hour, the King will surely arrive. If you don’t want to be punished by the King, strive your best."

The word "King" seemed to carry a great terror with it. The high-level military officers finally squeezed out a bit of fighting spirit.

"Come on!" they said, "Even if it’s the Martial God..."