Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 916 - 161: Two Flowers Bloom

Chapter 916: Chapter 161: Two Flowers Bloom

Sagittarius Xiang Shan opened his eyes in the maintenance cabin.

This was a silent submarine. It originally belonged to a certain sect and had a large reactor.

Judging from the traces, this submarine was torn open from the side by something small but immensely powerful, which then stormed in. Since it does not have a biological brain and was not originally designed for this task, the AI of Sagittarius Xiang Shan has less analytical ability compared to his main body.

But Xiang Shan could tell that this was the result of a Martial Artist breaking into the submarine.

The submarine was completely flooded, and the invader left after a killing spree, after which others dismantled many critical parts, including the reactor.

However, some things were regarded as trash and not taken away, nor were they carefully inventoried during the cleanup of the battlefield.

And the tools used by the squids to saw open the Dragon Horn Chain were also found here.

The High Polymer Saw Wire was not used alone; it was combined with counterweights and even underwater drones to form a net weapon in seawater. Once entangled with the opponent, there was a special mechanism to let the wire move back and forth, quickly damaging the external armor.

Underwater combat is inherently speed-restricted. Humans are restricted by material science and find it difficult to make prosthetic bodies fast underwater. The challenge of "fighting against water" is far greater than "fighting against air."

And in this combat, which has been forcibly slowed down, the serrated high polymer wire finds its use.

Under normal circumstances, this thing operates in groups of ten or twenty.

——A rare Martial Arts technique exclusively for underwater use.

Sagittarius Xiang Shan thought to himself.

This sect intended to cultivate underwater areas, opening a new front beneath the ocean. This battlefield had been largely overlooked by Protectors, potentially offering a chance for a Hero.

Unfortunately, they were ruined by the Six Dragons Sect.

Perhaps they never knew why they were killed.

Ultimately, this wreckage was occupied by a group of renegade squids.

Xiang Shan originally only hoped that the squids could point him to safe areas, difficult for the Six Dragons Sect to track, but he didn’t expect to find such a treasure trove.

In this era, many machines are more durable than those from the 21st century. Even after being submerged for over twenty years, some machinery here could still function.

Sagittarius Xiang Shan directly pulled out some wires from his prosthetic body interface and connected with the damaged circuit. The strong current even caused a slight explosion underwater.

If Xiang Shan hadn’t instructed the squids to retreat a kilometer away in advance, nearby squids would have been killed in a blow.

Relying on the feel of the circuit, Xiang Shan knew which circuits inside the wreckage were still intact and operational—many of the systems on this submarine, although powered by one reactor, were relatively independent to improve vehicle stability. Some circuits remained perfectly intact.

Xiang Shan even found several compressed air cylinders. He welded a bit of waterproofing and reinforcement measures in some cabins, creating a small area free of water.

Remarkably, Xiang Shan also found some intact parts and operable maintenance instruments.

Sagittarius Xiang Shan first upgraded these maintenance instruments, and the first thing he did was remove the winged Vector Injector group from his back.

If not for this flawed apparatus, he wouldn’t have been so easily defeated by Holy Lord Xiang Shan.

This component, meant for space combat, performed terribly underwater.

Holy Lord’s intelligence operation led everyone to believe that "even if there is danger underwater, it couldn’t stymie One Layer Heaven Martial Artists." Both the main body Xiang Shan and Sagittarius Xiang Shan were deceived. Given the unfavorable conditions on Earth, they entered the water without waiting for maintenance.

Naturally, Holy Lord Xiang Shan wasn’t forewarned. It’s just Xiang Shan’s style. If a move doesn’t require significant cost, he doesn’t mind taking a seemingly idle step to boost his bargaining chips in future "life-or-death gambles." After this, he began using the remaining materials to make equipment for himself.

During this process, a squid that came along with Xiang Shan finally succumbed to its worsening injuries and died.

In the end, the grand actions of the squids resulted in just a few escapees reaching here, appearing alongside the wild squid groups.

During those days, the body of the Soul was all white. He had no energy to manipulate his skin chromatophores. The whole squid was limp and dispirited.

Xiang Shan even worried that his squid friend might also die from severe injuries.

Thankfully, that didn’t happen.

The squid’s funeral was presided over by Soul, with Xiang Shan participating. The squids didn’t know what a human funeral was, nor did they have related customs in the past. Yet, once humans raised their intelligence to understand "life and death," they learned how to commemorate their lost friends.

Soul dissected his friend, extracting seven chips from his body and handing them to Xiang Shan.

Squids have a short lifespan, even when benchmarked, it’s less than ten years.

Compared to Benchmark Man, that’s considered fleeting.

And precisely because of this, the wild squid group is now in a huge crisis.

The squids can’t produce chips themselves. Without chip implantation, benchmarking only increases the nerve signal transmission speed of the spear squid to a level slightly above Homo sapiens. But benchmarking the spear squid has only been around for a few decades, and evolutionary power is not enough to enhance the squids’ nervous system complexity and innate intelligence.

The wild-benchmarked spear squid, without chip implantation, are only a bit smarter than carbon-based squids.

Renegade squids must direct the wild-born benchmarked squids to barely maintain collective action, so they aren’t found and captured by the Six Dragons Sect or the Scientific Knight Order.

However, with a lifespan of less than ten years for the renegade squids with implanted chips, there must be continuous influx of renegade squids.

Renegade squids even had to personally consume some eggs to barely control population numbers.

They had a hard time.

Xiang Shan initially couldn’t find any interface to connect with that strange chip.

This was very unusual. Human central system chips are used to receive human brain signals and command machines, so they can also be inserted into several mainstream motherboard models for use as regular chips—of course, the effectiveness in this capacity is less than that of ordinary chips of the same cost.

But the chips extracted from the squid’s body are very strange.

Xiang Shan even paused the printing of his underwater equipment to specifically create a set of optical equipment to observe this chip.

Then he was very surprised to discover...

This chip is made of organic material.