Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 935 - 170 Hostage

Chapter 935: Chapter 170 Hostage

"Hello... me!" The final subordinate laughed in a bizarre tone, "I advise you not to self-destruct, otherwise you will definitely regret it. You can choose to watch the video and then consider my proposal. Otherwise, you will regret it for the rest of your life — including your main body that’s not here. I mean what I say."

The Holy Lord was stunned and then enraged, "You’re threatening me?"

He had already shot and destroyed all the things around that could provide wireless signals. The thing that killed his subordinate and temporarily occupied this Prosthetic Body’s voice device was an AI. It seems The Twelfth Martial God did not choose to directly occupy this body but transmitted over an AI with a public semantic recognition module and some texts as a database.

A very cautious approach. Sometimes, the Holy Lord even felt this guy was overly cautious.

There’s no use in conversing with this AI. The question "You’re threatening me" was just a reflexive response out of shock and anger.

The Holy Lord immediately tapped the keyboard, constantly pulling up data. He randomly intercepted videos from different cameras to watch what The Twelfth Martial God did after coming in. Due to the overwhelming strength of the opponent’s Inner Strength, he dared not directly connect to the system for operations. For the same reason, he couldn’t watch a single camera for too long — in case the opponent gave a backdoor command from the visual input to the camera and he saw it, then he would be finished.

Even if The Twelve Martial Gods gave a backdoor command to the camera, it is impossible for them to foresee which camera he would call up in those few seconds. They couldn’t synchronize with all the cameras simultaneously.

The first picture was a corridor. The Martial God had already understood the internal structure of the Nautilus. He specifically chose a weaker link, avoiding all vital points that could trigger an explosion. It seems he didn’t want the Spear Squid group to be damaged by the explosion.

In that instant, the steel walls of the corridor shattered like cheap movie props. An entire cone-shaped body jammed into it. The seawater gushed in like a high-pressure fountain.

And in the surging seawater, that cone-shaped body slowly turned, and then the "fairing" at the end shattered and fell off. The endpoint of the cone shaped calmly bloomed like a flower.

Three pairs of mechanical arms, plus auxiliary arms extending from Xiang Shan’s upper arm, raised shields. These shields were the middle segment of that cone. Those mechanical arms operated to piece together the shields.

And the tip of the cone was grasped by Xiang Shan and forcefully knocked to the ground.

The metal components attached to the great gun, forming a spiral drill structure, fell off. These slightly deformed metal components bore the main impact, protecting the core weapon.

The whole process was like clouds and flowing water, elegant and calm. The surrounding gushing high-pressure seawater was enough to cause Homo sapiens’ skin to rot, but it didn’t hinder his movements one bit. His actions seemed entirely unaffected by the seawater. The seawater in the picture seemed as fake as movie special effects.

But that Prosthetic Body was just that powerful.

The Holy Lord noticed that the inner wall of the six large shields was actually a dazzling gold color, very evidently mirrored.

That was the External Armor from Sagittarius.

The weapon module mounted on Xiang Shan’s back...

"Dismantled Sagittarius and transformed that entire body into a weapon module?" The Holy Lord’s heart sank.

Two Sect Defenders were right beside him. They raised their guns, ready to shoot.

But suddenly, water splashed up at their feet.

The rushing seawater brought with it a large number of bubbles, completely obstructing their perception. They didn’t notice that the killing intent had silently approached like a snake leaping from the water, the chain-like Magnetic Chain Weapon strangled them.

With just one move, the two were turned into a pile of scrap iron.

Then...

The Holy Lord was stunned.

Then, a Magnetic Chain Weapon, like a true tentacle, swept up something from the storage box behind Xiang Shan.

It was a head.

The Magnetic Chain Weapon, like a living creature, wrapped around this head and dangled it in front of several different cameras.

As if afraid others wouldn’t see it.

To be able to utilize Magnetic Chain Weapon to this degree, in itself, is an astonishing skill. This equates to training a Prosthetic Body that entirely defies human instincts as if it were one’s own body.

For ordinary humans, as soon as the Prosthetic Body slightly surpasses Homo sapiens instincts, it feels alien and misplaced, let alone being well-driven. Most Martial Artists’ Prosthetic Bodies are humanoid.

Although the Alien Form Prosthetic Bodies have stronger combat power, not everyone can master them.

But the Holy Lord no longer cared about this matter at this moment.

As an AI, his mind was a complete blank.

— How could he, how could he, how could he, how could he, how could he, how could he, how could he, how could he, how could he, how could he, how could he, how could he, how could he, how could he...

— How dare he!

"Are you crazy?" The Holy Lord cursed, "You... isn’t Mengying also your... your family? It would be one thing if you defeated her and captured her... but you actually use her as a hostage to threaten me? Won’t come, then tear the ticket?"

"This is a price you cannot refuse." The AI chuckled and said, "If you don’t come, you’ll regret it for life. Even if you actually defeat us, achieve greatness, you’ll still regret it for a lifetime. Consider your character setting, buddy."

"I’m not crazy!" The Holy Lord said, "I refuse to accept this kind of threat. If you have the guts, then tear the ticket! If you dare... then come!"

But this sentence carried somewhat an insufficient confidence.

"Of course, I understand myself. So, I’m not forcing you to surrender." Xiang Shan continued, "I’ll give you a fair chance. Let’s confront each other openly, you don’t run, don’t self-destruct, and I won’t use Inner Strength. This way, you might have a chance to struggle a bit. Then, no matter what, I won’t kill her. Let her rot in the Cyber prison until death—ah, of course, if you beat me, Mengying will naturally be rescued by you."

"I even give you a little time to delete some data in your brain that you don’t want to tell me. Everyone can have a little secret. I am very willing to respect the basic rights of AI. But, the intelligence I want, you must give me. If you’ve deleted too much and I’m not satisfied... hehe, then I apologize to Chen. I’ll have to ask you to convey my apology to him after going down."

— You bastard...

The Holy Lord smashed the keyboard.

— Calm down.

The Holy Lord said to himself.

The Chrysanthemum Stone might not necessarily be sunk. Upon careful consideration, it doesn’t take long to figure out how long the Chrysanthemum Stone had been out of contact. That guy couldn’t have arrived from the Chrysanthemum Stone to here in such a short time. Unless he maintained that kind of speed all along.

If so, the government would surely be alarmed.

But...