Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 934 - 169: Identity Reversal

Chapter 934: Chapter 169: Identity Reversal

The unease in the Holy Lord’s heart began to intensify.

After losing track of the Twelve Martial Gods and subsequently the Sagittarius body escaping, a sense of anxiety lingered within him. He immediately separated Kotoba and Yang Mengying. Due to the connection between Haya and Kotoba, Kotoba was among the few who could traverse the preset routes in the Godspeed Court. The Six Dragons Sect still needed this mobility to perform various critical escort missions between different planets. If the schedule was right, Kotoba should have already headed to the Old Continent, looking for an opportunity to leave Earth.

And Yang Mengying was also in a safe place.

However, starting from a few days ago, reports of "unidentified targets approaching" began to arrive from the various bases and ships of the Six Dragons Sect.

There was even a ship that lost contact.

The Nautilus was not the only submarine of the Six Dragons Sect. Besides it, there were also the Arrow Stone, Keystone, and Chrysanthemum Stone.

Since yesterday, no transmissions have been received from the Chrysanthemum Stone.

"This is too strange," thought the Holy Lord. "Even if those squids recorded the Nautilus’s route, there’s no reason for them to have recorded the Chrysanthemum Stone’s as well."

This made no sense; the squid group aboard the Chrysanthemum Stone was cultivated separately, with language and educational methods vastly different from the Spear Squid group inside the Nautilus. The two groups of Spear Squid were practically like foreigners who had never heard of each other’s country.

Imagine, if 200 years ago, an alien scientific expedition came to Earth and, in a random sampling, took a soldier from the Kingdom of Carthage onto their aircraft, and then carelessly dropped him under the rule of Emperor Wen of Han. At this moment, it’s still forty years before the legends brought back by Zhang Qian from the Western Regions. Could this Carthaginian soldier, dreaming of becoming a hero in the stories of fighting Rome, correctly judge his location and establish communication with the Han people?

The possibility is quite low.

The Six Dragons Sect never let the squid groups operate communication equipment independently, and the Spear Squid groups pastured by different submarines had no interaction at all.

Moreover, a certain distance was always maintained between the four submarines, so even if a squid group broke away on a small scale, they would find it difficult to locate each other in the vast ocean.

Even if the Twelfth Martial God could locate the Nautilus’s route through the squids’ records, or pinpoint parts of underwater bases from some periodic halts in the route, he had no reason to find the Chrysanthemum Stone.

But more annoyingly, now global communication is greatly affected, limiting the length of reports from other submarines. The obstruction electromagnetic waves face in sea water is incredibly strong, so wireless communication is very limited in seawater. To establish contact, submarines need to surface, or at least let the transmission device rise above the surface.

The distance between the four submarines was too far, so sometimes they had to rely on satellites. Fortunately, the Six Dragons Sect managed a batch of "private data transmission satellites," nominally belonging to the Scientific Knight Order, over the Earth. Moreover, the interfaces chosen by those Scientific Knights when setting up these satellites were justifiable—due to Mr. Hartman’s action of hunting the Eighth Martial God eighty years ago, causing immense losses for the Scientific Knight Order, so the land-based Scientific Knight Order must have multiple backup methods.

And a small part of the satellite communication bandwidth is always reserved for the Six Dragons Sect.

But with the Twelfth Martial God destroying the satellite network, such convenience is now gone forever.

Now, even routine communication among the four submarines is extremely difficult.

Currently, the Chrysanthemum Stone is still very close to the tightly defended area of the Protectors, making it even difficult to use broadcast signals. To avoid exposing their target, the Holy Lord has no way to confirm it.

Thus, the Holy Lord does not know exactly what happened, only aware that "unidentified individuals are approaching."

Yang Mengying might now be on the Chrysanthemum Stone.

The Holy Lord is very worried.

"Perhaps I should also prepare for self-destruction."

He thought so.

The Six Dragons Sect doesn’t exist for him alone. The Six Dragons Sect is for the people he loves.

At the same time, it is also a "safeguard" for humanity’s future.

The Holy Lord is not afraid of death. However, the Twelfth Martial God’s extraordinary Inner Strength compels him to be cautious.

This body is just an AI. In handling specific issues, pure AI indeed crushes humans. But on a higher level, pure AI is still incapable of defying Inner Strength.

And within this Prosthetic Body are vast amounts of crucial intelligence.

Including much data from the Six Dragons Sect.

Including...

At this moment, alarms began to flash wildly.

The submarine received a plaintext communication.

"The Hunter and the Prey, reversed!"

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"The Hunter and the Prey, reversed!"

Upon sending this message, Xiang Shan felt genuine joy.

He was now shrinking behind his large spear. Behind him, three pairs of mechanical arms each held a small shield. The shields and the spear joined together, forming a nearly enclosed cone. Xiang Shan’s Prosthetic Body, which defied fluid dynamics, was hidden behind the cone.

This was an old but practical tactic. In an even older era, countless were still very weak. The dual limitations of materials science and power made it difficult for a Prosthetic Body to break through air resistance forcibly.

In those times, the concept of "First Layer Heavenly Land" had not even appeared.

And back then, David developed a fighting style, using a giant combat spear with a throwaway protective Shell behind, sometimes attaching a jet engine.

With this design, they could launch extremely fierce charges in those times.

And this design was foldable.

The same thinking was now used by Xiang Shan to break through the obstruction of seawater.

In fighting seawater, it’s not just about "materials" and "structure." The mechanical arms can freely perform Unloading Force. Surrounding magnetic fields allow the force to be evenly distributed across all parts of this weapon swiftly, enabling him to move quickly in the seawater.

The small dozens of knots of the submarine could not match his current godspeed.

This way, Xiang Shan turned into a bolt of thunder, plunging fiercely toward the Nautilus.

A huge roar erupted instantly. The force was so terrifying that the steel of the Nautilus groaned under the burden.

Even everyone felt an incline under their feet.

"The second hull is damaged! Seawater is flooding in! Seal the second hull... failure, the sealing device of the hull has lost functionality due to unknown reasons, hypothesized..."

The Holy Lord roared, "Disconnect from the system!"

But he was a moment late.

Around his body, all the Six Dragons Sect members operating the submarine collapsed with convulsing bodies.

Only one remained, laughing in a bizarre tone, "Hello, me."