Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 932 - 167: The Accent Has Changed Early

Chapter 932: Chapter 167: The Accent Has Changed Early

Xiang Shan looked around, feeling a bit confused.

Everywhere he looked, there was decay.

Metal had accumulated numerous rusts due to oxidation. These rusts became the breeding ground for certain new age fungi. The secretions from these fungi further corroded the metal, deepening the rust. And the traces of decay left by these fungi after their death became the "soil" for other organisms.

No one had managed this place for a long time.

Due to the narrow application of "smell," Xiang Shan still hadn’t equipped a corresponding sensory Prosthetic Body. He didn’t know what kind of decay the air carried the moment he blasted open the door.

Probably not very pleasant...

Nor did he know if this place was sealed.

Xiang Shan also had no idea where these frenzied fungi originated. It’s hard to imagine these things growing out of metal rust as a result of natural evolution. In the natural environment, such dense accumulation of metallic elements is quite rare. In most cases, this amount of metal elements piled together is the result of human collection, selection, and smelting.

He recalled that Superman Enterprise had developed some bacteria or fungi for cleaning up various organic macromolecule waste—including a variety of white pollution like plastics. There were also lab products that aimed to create "bacteria or fungi that could accumulate heavy metal pollution," used for environmental remediation.

These studies were launched around the fifties. At that time, human Benchmarking had already been on track, and the Cyberization schedule was beginning to take shape. Having fulfilled its historical mission, the biological research institution of Superman Enterprise started doing some "research they wanted to do themselves." Superman Enterprise also needed more projects that "could enhance the corporate image" and "could enhance the overall image of genetic engineering."

Those projects were initiated under that background.

Yawgmoth’s theoretical framework made such wonderful products possible. Humans could design complex chemical reaction networks and insert their desired "pathways" within these networks.

It seems that successes were already seen in the sixties.

However, the Usurper of the State and clandestine chivalric wars ensued. Superman Enterprise became an enemy of Xiang Shan. Xiang Shan thus stopped paying attention to these matters.

Was there bacteria or fungi already released into landfills?

Those bacteria and fungi were not all Metal-based organisms; in fact, Carbon-based Life was the majority. Carbon-based Life better adapted to Earth’s environment. Those organisms would also be affected by the Ichigo infection incident, right? What happens to these artificial lives when they receive illegal Commands?

—Ah, it’s completely unimaginable...

Are those bacteria’s descendants growing rampant in David’s museum now?

Why has no one come to manage it?

If no one cares about this place, then why specifically send someone to guard it?

"Could they be crazy," Xiang Shan muttered.

At this moment, he stood before a gigantic transport aircraft. It even carried a smaller space shuttle on its back. However, due to decay and rust, the nose of the transport aircraft drooped to the ground.

It looked like a dragon that had been beheaded.

Xiang Shan looked at the decayed aircraft nose. This ancient non-living machine seemed to have a pair of eyes that couldn’t find peace even in death.

It was constructed by the former Red Alliance in the twentieth century, but construction halted halfway due to political upheavals. Its mostly formed framework lay sealed in a warehouse for fifty years, with countless documents lost. David later bought it with a significant sum and, lacking much of the technical documentation, assembled a team to figure out a way to complete it. Inevitably, latest twenty-first-century technology was used in it.

"But even so, you still couldn’t carry the space shuttle to fulfill the purpose bestowed upon you at the design stage," Xiang Shan said.

He turned his head to the other side.

A space shuttle also from the former Red Alliance and later upgraded with twenty-first-century technology by David.

Next to it was a space shuttle that David himself had copied.

The founders of Superman Enterprise later became wealthy enough to rival nations. However, these things still led David to deem them "expensive."

In theory, these indeed could be used for going into space.

David even intended to display this thing here regularly and, if necessary, use that super transport aircraft to take it to partner launch centers for commercial cooperation.

But he never managed to go even once.

Everyone’s first time going to space...

It seemed they dismantled the warhead of an intercontinental missile, hid the Prosthetic Body inside the missile, and burst out of the Karman Line.

The purpose was to disrupt the early space-based weapon equipment of the Usurpers.

At that time, the Space-Based Weapons, whether in terms of accuracy, ammunition reserves, or density of launch platforms, couldn’t compare to this era’s satellite weapon networks. So doing this wasn’t difficult.

In the end, these two space shuttles never took off.

The times had long since outgrown them.

And now, these products outdated by their era appeared quite miserable. One had collapsed directly, as if it had been baptized by artillery fire.

The other, although in slightly better condition, was just able to barely maintain a shape.

Xiang Shan blinked and then turned away.

After passing through a collapsed landscape gate, Xiang Shan saw shattered glass on the ground.

This was used to deter tourists.

Although glass is difficult to decay, the frames supporting the glass could not withstand these strange fungi.

Xiang Shan once again stepped into the park of the Rama Project from those days.

Everything remains as it was in those days.

Except for the bizarrely colored fungi. They looked like there were some pixel issues on a screen.

Then there were the shattered glass, the cracks on the walls, the collapsed ruins...

Aside from that, everything was as it was in those days.

Xiang Shan gripped his large gun and marched forward.

First was the research personnel’s workspace. Here, Yawgmoth made world-changing accomplishments. Here, David and he together found the key to solving the mysteries of Argon. Here...

Here...

Soon, Xiang Shan reached the living quarters. He stopped in front of a house.

This minimalist style independent apartment was his residence back then and the "shared space" where he and Zhu Xinyu first started.

A trace of inexplicable trepidation arose within Xiang Shan. He moved towards the door, just like in those days.

But he didn’t walk up to the threshold.

He halted a few meters away.

The height of the door was just two meters.

And now, he could see directly into the window on the second floor.

The curtains were already rotten into a mess. The furniture had long since decayed. There had been two other owners afterward, but when David acquired the place, he restored it to its appearance when Xiang Shan resided there back in the day.

Traces were still visible now.

Xiang Shan softly said, "Fuck."