Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 796 - 41: The Weapons of Protector Ti

Chapter 796: Chapter 41: The Weapons of Protector Ti

In that instant, Jeanne felt as if a clump of liquid nitrogen had been splashed onto her forehead, the chill almost freezing her thoughts.

She even raised her pistol without thinking.

But in that moment, another command suddenly appeared. She couldn’t help but loosen her fingers, and the two guns slid straight out of her hands, hitting the magnetic chain weapon before Asgard could make a move.

Then came an explosion-like sound.

The magnetic chain weapon abruptly disappeared from Jeanne’s view...

It contracted.

Twenty meters away, a floating house was torn at one corner.

"Bullets are useless," Tumor Xiang Shan analyzed calmly, "That thing has a collision detection mechanism that causes it to contract automatically. It probably has an ’impact pressure’ range. The pressure exerted by bullets is too high, it wouldn’t retract just because it got hit by them. Don’t fear losing your secondary weapons, and don’t forget this information in your panic."

The way a magnetic chain weapon attacks, apart from the basic swash and thrusting strikes, is the "high-speed retraction" which results in "strangulation." This is like using the energy that drives electromagnetic guns to strangle enemies, and it’s much more powerful than a mere swash.

In this era, where everyone wears armor, "strangulation" has become the main lethal method for magnetic chain weapons.

Actually, when David designed this weapon, humans hadn’t yet entered the space era, and the rate of soldier modification in various countries was only about fifty percent, limited by energy they rarely wore heavy armor. They could surely completely overpower Homo sapiens soldiers, but the individual combat power simply couldn’t compare to fully modified Martial Artists of present. The flexible magnetic chain weapons could cause widespread damage both dragging and swashing.

The secret battle of justice and chivalry propelled humanity to rapidly increase the rate of modification, until "full modification" became the standard equipment for armed personnel.

Apart from "contraction," magnetic chain weapons, lacking destructive capabilities, were gradually phased out.

Only after the Fourth Martial God’s uprisings in a Space City did these weapons once again gain attention for their potential to "assist movement in microgravity/zero-gravity environments." And Heroes also developed various technologies to complement "strangulation."

"Automatically curling up when struck, bypassing the processing system," had already become standard, it seemed. The magnetic chain weapon generated an electrical signal transmitted to the central processor, underwent conscious processing, and then commands were issued, a process that had to go through several transcriptions. To ordinary people, this might seem as quick as lightning, but to Martial Artists, it was still too slow, and they could easily miss fleeting combat opportunities.

Thus the mechanism to "automatically curl upon impact without processing" emerged—assuring contraction faster than the enemy’s limb reaction speed.

But this also gave rise to a problem that had not existed at the time of the magnetic chain weapon’s invention. A master in the Firearms Path could shoot the magnetic chain weapon with a bullet, causing it to curl up prematurely—during David’s era, such sharpshooters did not exist.

Therefore, the technique of setting an "impact force range" came into play.

As an antique from two hundred years ago, Tumor Xiang Shan naturally didn’t know this. He had learned his lesson after suffering from it once.

Jeanne reached out to help Asgard up, but her head involuntarily turned, her prosthetic eye’s focus adjusting, as she observed the gap left by the contracted magnetic chain weapon.

"This destructive power... If it’s not that one person is controlling a magnetic chain, or there’s external power supplying it from behind, then it must be powered by a reactor. Not a small force. We’ve met the owner."

Jeanne was startled but still maintained this awkward posture, pulling Asgard to her feet, "Hey, how are you?"

"I’m okay, it’s just an arm," Asgard said, even as his upper body trembled slightly, "Damn, malfunction... short circuit... What’s wrong with this prosthetic body?"

"That Magnetic Chain weapon surely has some tricks up its sleeve, able to sabotage the External Armor and at the same time, tamper with the internal mechanical structure. Or perhaps the enemy’s Mech-Breaking martial techniques have reached a divine level of mastery, loosening certain mechanical structures with Clever Force in the blink of an eye..."

Jeanne maintained her gaze towards where the breach was. She knew that was the direction where the enemy lay. At that moment, a thought sprang up—she wanted to see who this enemy actually was.

"I advise you not to give up on yourself, thinking ’There’s no escape anyway,’" Tumor Xiang Shan said. "I’ve told you, I won’t let you die..."

Jeanne pulled up Asgard: "I’ll take you with me."

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"Oh? Three strands aren’t enough, huh?" Protector Ti thought as he slowly retracted the coiling Magnetic Chain weapon. Fifty meters from his Prosthetic Body, he disregarded the scrap metal that slowly fell from the Magnetic Chain weapon.

The color of the Magnetic Chain weapon blended almost seamlessly with the white frost so common in the environment. Plus, with the already dim lighting of the place, the hidden Magnetic Chain weapon was hard to notice by passersby.

The spot he was at was the interlayer between two houses, a tucked-away corner with no surveillance and few passersby.

Of course, the security wasn’t that tight either.

Beginning yesterday, this small Six Dragons Sect squad had engaged the Mobile Cavalry in numerous stealthy battles, only this time the commotion was smaller, so it went unnoticed by most.

The Mobile Cavalry had been scattered before they could respond to the attack once. The Six Dragons Sect had also dispatched personnel to guard this place.

Originally, Jeanne and Asgard were not very conspicuous. But Jeanne’s subsequent investigations drew Protector Ti’s attention.

With a bit of recollection, he understood what the Martial Artist was checking.

It was most likely the traces from his own battle.

If Protector Ti hadn’t been nearby by chance and hadn’t read the reports from his subordinates carefully, if it were not for the high completion level of his Soth Divine Realm that enhanced his cognitive abilities, those two unfamiliar Martial Artists might have actually slipped by unnoticed.

But it was he who had carried out that assault.

Protector Ti was well aware of the kind of traces his actions would leave on the frost layer. If it weren’t for the fact that "erasing traces might draw more attention," those traces wouldn’t have remained until now. Without reaching a certain level in Martial Arts, it was indeed difficult to reverse-engineer the moves he had executed.

"These two Martial Artists don’t seem very skilled in Martial Arts..."

"Is there someone else behind them offering guidance?"

Protector Ti pondered slightly, while six more strands of the Magnetic Chain weapon unfolded behind him, slithering out from beneath the black robe and swiftly moving across the frost-covered wall like snakes.

Protector Ti closed his eyes. A multitude of images flickered across the surface of his consciousness. Before he had raided the Mobile Cavalry’s base, an emissary had already covertly placed Gu into the WiFi of numerous Martial Arts Schools as well as the public wireless signal base stations throughout the city.

As long as he stood there, about a quarter of the passersby could become his eyes.

"So with this move, let’s see how you dodge it."