Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 942 - 177: Sinking

Chapter 942: Chapter 177: Sinking

Xiang Shan faced the Holy Lord for the first time.

Before this, even if Xiang Shan promised, "I absolutely won’t use Inner Strength," the Holy Lord was trying his utmost to avoid direct eye contact. He constantly switched between sensory inputs from the outside world, frequently turning various detection functions on and off to evade Inner Strength attacks.

Now, the two were truly face-to-face in the real sense.

"Oh, so this is how it feels," the Holy Lord mused. "Looking at one’s own foolishness, it turns out this is the feeling. This string of code is worth remembering."

Then, Xiang Shan’s Prosthetic Eye flashed, and the Holy Lord fell silent.

Xiang Shan continued walking toward the middle section of the submarine.

"Fervor" walked beside him and asked, "Are you really going to absorb this thing? Messing up your brain... oh, right, messing up your mind is not good."

"I must do it," Xiang Shan replied. "We’ve promised those squid friends. And... we must understand the Six Dragons Sect. The Six Dragons Sect is undoubtedly the enemy, but it has always hidden very well. We must..."

"But you are also very clear why this guy didn’t choose to self-delete at the last moment."

"Of course, that was the hidden price brought up during negotiations."

Xiang Shan would devour the Holy Lord, and in doing so, the Holy Lord would also influence Xiang Shan.

Although Xiang Shan reads other people’s memories, the influence is quite small—perhaps because the things he has faced are massive, and he is also someone with extremely strong Self-Consciousness.

But the Holy Lord is different.

He is a "self".

If not placed in extreme situations, if not facing the test of humanity, the Holy Lord and Xiang Shan are indistinguishable. They could easily fool Xiang Shan’s close friends, comrades, and family.

But his core is so different.

It’s like a version of himself from a parallel world, influenced by different ideologies, trying to convince the current self.

This influence, which comes from other people’s memories, might be quite different.

Of course, Xiang Shan could only say "perhaps".

Until now, only the case of "Xiang Shan" happened with such things, and the likes of the Holy Lord were being recorded for the first time.

There are so many things to research here.

Xiang Shan just knows it’s very dangerous.

And the Holy Lord thinks the same.

He compromised for reasons beyond "Mengying might be in the Martial God’s hands" but also considered this aspect.

For Martial God Xiang Shan, acquiring the Holy Lord’s memories was essential. There are too many critical pieces of information inside.

So, even in defeat, Martial God Xiang Shan had a chance to "turn the tables".

If the Martial God were too heavily influenced by him, The Twelfth Martial God might become an asset for the Six Dragons Sect instead.

If not for this hidden condition, the Holy Lord might not have compromised.

It’s important to know that if the Martial God got the Six Dragons Sect’s internal information, the sect would undoubtedly suffer a fatal blow.

Even the Twelfth Martial God clearly stated he could delete certain information, but the subsequent intelligence must satisfy the Martial God. Otherwise...

He knew what kind of person Xiang Shan was.

And from the beginning, the Holy Lord had been deliberately provoking Xiang Shan, all in preparation for this moment.

The angrier Xiang Shan got, the more unstable his emotions would become, making it easier for him to be "persuaded" by the Holy Lord’s memories.

How many drastic changes in personality have been completed in states of emotional instability?

Of course, whether this is actually the case remains to be researched.

But both the Holy Lord and Xiang Shan personally felt this was the case.

"Feeling it should be so" might form an "influence".

Chen Feng once described to Xiang Shan that many phenomena within neural networks truly depend on "if you believe it exists, it does; if you don’t believe, it doesn’t".

In this field, "material" and "spiritual" are not distinct elements.

Xiang Shan let out a long sigh, "Let it be..."

Xiang Shan stopped his steps. He finally reached his destination, an undestroyed console.

"I don’t know how many weapons are still operational," Xiang Shan muttered, pulling out a data cable from his hand and plugging it into a universal interface.

At the same time, he used another cable to connect to the Holy Lord Xiang Shan’s head.

Important core equipment seemed to be inside this head. The whole head, like a hot-swappable device, allowed for quick switching between different bodies. The core of the body was a Reactor, causing significant damage to electronic devices.

Xiang Shan suppressed his instinct to read memories, searching through the memory for permissions to control the submarine.

Then, all remaining weapon systems came online.

The targets were naturally those Six Dragons Sect members who were still withdrawing.

"Lock on... Fire..."

Those Six Dragons Sect martial artists, who had just escaped the great battle and were relieved to have survived from the "God’s" grasp, were horrified by the movements of underwater weapons.

They watched as dozens of torpedoes shot out from the sinking Nautilus.

Like a dying Behemoth spewing out its final bubbles.

Then, these Six Dragons Sect members really disappeared like a bubble.

Only a few experts, using their weapons, detonated the torpedoes preemptively, barely escaping alive.

Xiang Shan no longer pursued them. At this moment, the Sixth Martial God’s comrades and Yuan Wenren were not around, and the whales had almost no Prosthetic Body rate to speak of. If these guys were determined to scatter and flee, Xiang Shan couldn’t stop them.

Xiang Shan tapped his own head, "This guy is really decisive."

He was referring to the "guy", the Holy Lord.

Just as Xiang Shan was on a rampage, damaging the Nautilus, the Holy Lord released an unmanned submarine. This small unmanned submarine was only a few meters long. It was itself a base station.

This small craft had already surfaced and broadcasted a message at full power.

"All of the Six Dragons Sect’s encryption systems up to today are no longer secure. Local departments immediately discontinue them."

Apart from the name "Six Dragons Sect", he even used plaintext.

"Ah, now the whole world knows there’s an organization meddling in the shadows," Xiang Shan tapped his head and then unplugged the cable directly connecting to the Holy Lord’s head.

This was not a good place to read memories. There might still be remnants of the Six Dragons Sect on the submarine. While reading memories, especially ones that could have a substantial impact, Xiang Shan’s mental state would be unstable, and his judgments could be slow and erroneous.

These are all major taboos in Martial Studies.

He shifted direction, and the Magnetic Chain Weapon behind him turned, with electric-blue light arcing around the Magnetic Chain Weapon.

Then came a series of explosive roars.

Xiang Shan used the Magnetic Chain Weapon as a launch mount for an Electromagnetic gun, punching a hole directly through the weaker armor of the submarine, then sliced it open with his weapon, jumping directly into the sea.

He was still clutching the underwater body used by the Holy Lord.

Thus, Xiang Shan sank all the way down.

Until he was swallowed in one gulp by a big whale.