Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 937 - 172: Civil War

Chapter 937: Chapter 172: Civil War

"You really came." Xiang Shan laughed at the dark shadow at the tunnel entrance in front of him.

For AI, life and death are irrelevant. AI cares more about its "existence meaning" or "mission" than life and death.

The first mission given to this special type of AI, the Pseudo-personality Mask, is "to portray a certain human." The degree to which this human cares about life and death is positively correlated with how much the Pseudo-personality Mask cares about itself, though not strongly correlated.

Many Pseudo-personality Masks will clearly realize that this "self" is nothing more than a prop for that one "I." Their "self" is bound to the main body.

AI never cares about its life unless programmers require them to care.

As for the Holy Lord, "portraying the Six Dragons Sect Leader Xiang Shan" is his most fundamental mission. And the setting for Six Dragons Sect Leader Xiang Shan is...

"Xiang Shan, who is willing to abandon prosthetic bodies and ideals for family, friends, and loved ones."

Of course, Xiang Shan knows well that "excessive compromise where one shouldn’t compromise will lead to more severe consequences." Yang Mengying is not "everything" to the Holy Lord. Therefore, one cannot expect to trade Yang Mengying for everything the Holy Lord controls. Under such circumstances, negotiations cannot take shape.

The Twelfth Martial God, Xiang Shan, must also make certain concessions to the Six Dragons Holy Lord’s Xiang Shan.

For example, allowing him to delete some data and allowing him to resist, granting him a sliver of hope.

According to the records of the Eighth Martial God Martyrdom, Xiang Shan will make the judgment of "sacrificing this self" under specific circumstances.

Xiang Shan understands Xiang Shan’s behavior pattern.

Thus, the Twelfth Martial God offered a price acceptable to the Six Dragons Holy Lord.

And there was no room for negotiation on the price.

Aside from "he actually doesn’t have any capital," all games were laid out openly.

"Click-clack" sounds emitted from Xiang Shan’s body. Several Magnetic Chain Weapons and empty ammo boxes fell from Xiang Shan’s body. The Magnetic Chain Weapons sank straight to the bottom, remaining unmoved despite the rushing current. The ammo clips rolled and rolled to the Holy Lord’s feet from the Martial God Xiang Shan’s feet.

The Magnetic Chain Weapons are weapons to fight the many as the few. In outer space, they can also be used to assist movement. But inside the submarine, against the thick prosthetic body of the Six Dragons Holy Lord, their effect is not significant. Only a small portion was retained; the rest can be temporarily abandoned.

Abandoning ammo boxes and fuel boxes is to reduce drag in the water.

The Martial God Xiang Shan revealed a mocking tone, "All the memories that should be deleted are deleted, right?"

The Holy Lord, in a gloomy tone, "Mengying, how about her?"

"Do you really want to pull a ’I have to hear her voice’? Don’t be silly, friend. We’re all using voiceprint packages. You can synthesize whatever you want to hear yourself." The Martial God said, "Or do you want direct verification of the hostage? I will never let her connect directly with you, giving her inner strength to support you. And do you dare to contact external systems?"

Xiang Shan certainly knows what Xiang Shan would ask in such circumstances. The Martial God had long prepared the contingency plan.

The Holy Lord may not really believe it. But Xiang Shan’s intent is not to make him believe, but to make him "dare not gamble."

Moreover, he gave the Holy Lord a path, a path to a reversal in a desperate situation.

The Holy Lord gripped his fist tightly.

He grasped the steel spear like a pile driver, saying, "Good... good! Is this your chivalry? Then, come and kill me!"

"Don’t think about using inner strength. Our secrecy and self-destruct methods are good enough. Even if you hack and rewrite this AI of mine, you won’t get anything. Unless you defeat me!"

The Martial God Xiang Shan swept his pike, creating a row of spray. As the seawater splashed, he stepped with irregular footwork, tearing through the waves like a fast wind, rushing towards the Holy Lord in knee-deep seawater.

But the Holy Lord’s first move was to retreat!

He retreated into the tunnel, while the steel spear in his hand flew forth like a flash of lightning.

The seawater exploded into continuous splashes, forming two straight lines. It turned out that two Magnetic Chain Weapons were hidden in the flowing seawater, rushing towards the Holy Lord.

Just now, the Martial God did indeed abandon most of the Magnetic Chain weapons in full view, but if anyone misunderstood and thought he was no longer using Magnetic Chain Weapons, they would meet a tragic end.

In the seawater, "slash" is greatly restricted, so the Holy Lord’s martial arts focus primarily on "thrusting strike." This thrust has been practiced to an exquisite level. Even through the seawater, he could accurately stab the Magnetic Chain Weapon, then withdraw the move without being dragged off by it.

Seeing a move fail, the Martial God Xiang Shan raised one hand, assisting himself in imagining the feeling of "operating the Magnetic Chain Weapon."

Gloomy Style, Type II: Casting a Net.

While delving into the Mystic Tortoise True Gang: Dragon Style, Xiang Shan noticed the Dragon Style seemed somewhat familiar. The creator of these moves, after mastering the magnetic trap weapons, borrowed the idea of an ancient martial art to organically combine the "Magnetic Field Flower Pulling" art and magnetic trap weapons. Some of their code was still somewhat familiar in how it processed the data.

This martial art originally created by David, called "Gloomy Style," is a variant of the Magnetic Chain martial art "Nebula Chains." It can also be paired with the Gang Qi martial art "Stardust Rotation Technique" for various incredible operations.

While researching the Dragon Style, he additionally downloaded this martial art—although this martial art was David’s early creation, Xiang Shan also contributed, and he equally understands it well.

The Holy Lord continuously retreated within the tunnel. His body is specialized for underwater use, with a turbine system spread throughout it. To achieve this power, the body sacrificed too much, with its built-in firepower system quite weak, and its external slots significantly fewer than bodies of the same specification—there isn’t much use for these underwater.

The Martial God, however, had placed the battlefield within the "sinking submarine" interior. Though the submarine’s interior already had a certain level of flooding and seawater was continuing to pour in, most of their bodies were not submerged, still remaining in the air.

Combat logic in this environment is closer to "land!"

But the Holy Lord can’t wait for more seawater to pour in before appearing. If the Martial God deems the Holy Lord has escaped due to waiting too long without locating him, then the Holy Lord’s resolution for this battle would be entirely wasted.

The only thing the Holy Lord can do now is "drag"—just drag until the seawater gets deeper...

——as long as the seawater depth exceeds the shoulder, that becomes the advantage for this body!

But the Martial God Xiang Shan is equally aware.

He also pays no heed to possible traps, rushing directly into the channel, giving no room for the opponent to stall.

The Vector Injector on Xiang Shan’s back activated. Amid the blaze, Xiang Shan crashed waves and flow into white mist, raised his pike, and charged towards the Six Dragons Holy Lord.

"Don’t think you can escape! Holy Lord!"

"Xiang Shan!!!!!!!"

The Holy Lord’s roar was drowned in the noise.