Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 793 - 38: The Expert

Chapter 793: Chapter 38: The Expert

Asgard, following the training she had received, slowly approached the "crime scene." The rumored "high-level battle" had occurred over a dozen hours ago.

The two groups initially involved in the fight here had vanished without a trace, leaving behind only a floating house.

In this low-gravity world, such houses were quite common. A single metal chain was enough to easily suspend the house in mid-air. Even inferior welding techniques were sufficient to secure it.

This area was very close to the abandoned mining areas at the bottom level, one of the first places to emerge in the city. Two pieces of twisted and deformed battleship outer Armor formed an irregular angle, supporting this vast space. In the early years of the City of Ur, the builders used the natural strength of battleship outer Armor to construct such enclosed spaces. Back then, to save space, people’s houses were suspended in mid-air by chains, stacked one upon another. Your house’s roof could be part of a road, while my house’s roof served as the stairs up and down to your house.

The workers of the City of Ur created a city in this manner.

Now, the area outside was layered with countless remnants of warships. Since they were unfortunately far from the reactor of the warship, the initial residents had gradually moved away from here.

Yet, this independent living style was preserved. Martial Artists even expanded upon it.

Here, there was an unwritten rule, to open a Martial Arts School, one must seize the highest houses. The higher the Martial Arts School, the more stable the standing of one’s Martial Performer status.

The foundations of those Martial Arts Schools were made of dozens of huge steel plates assembled together, suspended by hundreds of steel cables, capable of accommodating hundreds of people practicing martial arts or a few experts displaying their skills.

These Martial Arts Schools even installed bright neon lights beneath their own foundations, shining their symbols downward.

The location of the battle was not very conspicuous. It was a middle to lower level area, which made it quite suitable for a Ranger’s safe house.

According to the training Asgard received, Rangers usually prepared six to seven safe houses locally, with at most three completed remotely by Internal experts. At least three were temporarily set up by the Rangers themselves.

"Not many traces...a one-sided battle record? Was someone killed, or did a local luckily kill a lackey? If it’s the latter, that would be pretty good," Asgard lightly jumped up.

Asgard didn’t think the Ranger’s safe house would be raided. Here when she said "like a Ranger safe house," she was complimenting the victim’s good eye.

There was a huge hole in the house, looking as if gunpowder had blasted a hole straight through, directly attacking the Ranger inside. The surfaces of several buildings behind it also showed damage.

Quite a few people were gathered here, enthusiastically discussing something.

These people were all nearby Martial Artists. In fact, the initial crowd of onlookers had been even larger, but now they had gradually dispersed. Those who stayed were Martial Artists who had witnessed the battle and were interested in the event. They were attempting to piece together the specific details of the battle.

So far, no one had entered the house. Although it seemed that the owner of the house had been severely beaten, since no one had yet seen the outcome of the battle, no one dared to assert that the owner of the house was definitely dead.

If someone went in to loot at this time, was seen by the owner, a fight would inevitably ensue.

The owner of this house, capable of attracting a formidable enemy, was certainly no pushover himself. Before confirming that the opponent was dead, no one wanted to take that risk.

Probably in a few days, someone brave would enter the house.

Those gathered here were also all meddlers. However, thanks to them, Jeanne and Asgard’s investigation was not so conspicuous.

Asgard also joined them, and soon, she blended in with these people, quickly clicking with them. She managed to get ahold of a bit of video material, not much.

It was said the entire fight lasted only a few seconds. Everyone heard a few loud noises, followed by two dark figures clashing several times mid-air, leaving footprints behind.

All the visual data was instinctively recorded by these Martial Artists in the fleeting moments they glimpsed something.

Asgard shared this intelligence with Jeanne, only to find that Jeanne was already dozens of meters away. She was observing something on her own on the wall.

Asgard approached her and used an infrared signal to directly transmit the data. After moving closer, she called out, "What are you doing? What’s so interesting over there?"

Jeanne shuddered slightly and whispered, "The frost on these walls doesn’t show large traces of melting, which suggests that the rumors of an explosion might not have been caused by gunpowder..."

This location was only a few dozen meters away from where the fighting had first started.

Asgard nodded, "A sonic boom? Movement techniques and electromagnetic weapons?"

"The surface of the frost bears the marks of a shockwave. I discovered something farther away..." Jeanne continued to communicate, "I’ve observed several points... This force, it’s extremely powerful..."

"Hm? What do you mean?"

"This is just the simulated result..." Jeanne shared a file.

"Wow, you also have this shared computing resource simulation software? Isn’t a mission necessary to obtain the share quota?" Asgard opened the model.

Then, he saw a golden lightning bolt tearing through nearly half of the Martial Arts School district...

And seven or eight obliterated figures.

"What does that mean..." Asgard was very puzzled, "You mean that enemy killed at least seven or eight people in one strike? And the trajectory you restored is somewhat problematic. According to the current visual records, both sides of the fight are of slender Prosthetic Bodies, with no room to carry propellants."

"A device using ionized air as propellant, an ultra-strong magnetic field, or something else..." Jeanne said, "You understand what I mean, right...""

Unless connected to a wire, conventional energy sources wouldn’t support operations of such intensity.

This also meant...

Asgard was stunned, "Impossible..."

Up until just a moment ago, Asgard had thought that this was simply the result of a Mobile Cavalry raid on other targets—Mobile Cavalry had many targets here, and she was just one of them.

But the combatants here included a One Layer Heaven Martial Artist...

Asgard was very clear that the Mobile Cavalry coming here couldn’t possibly have been led by a One Layer Heaven Martial Artist—if that were the case, she and people from the Hermo Association would have long been dead.

Not to mention that a One Layer Heaven Martial Artist wouldn’t target low-level objectives; the level of the troops crushed by this One Layer Heaven Martial Artist was indeed "Below One Layer Heaven."

"How did you arrive at such an outrageous conclusion? And why?"

"For now, act as if you know nothing and move to the next location... Hurry and escape!"