Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 947 - 182: Evil Ghost Entanglement

Chapter 947: Chapter 182: Evil Ghost Entanglement

Xiang Shan secured the head, then turned around and lifted the headless body.

This was also a Prosthetic Body of the First Heavenly Layer.

"Really...you’ve become so much weaker, Mengying." Xiang Shan sighed, "If it were two hundred years ago, you could at least have resisted twice."

At the moment of seeing the Holy Lord’s body, Yang Mengying was momentarily lost.

Then she was instantly killed by an attack from outside the submarine.

In reality, the head on the Holy Lord’s body was merely a decoration, lacking even a Prosthetic Eye; the eyes were just LED lights.

Xiang Shan simply used the fake head he previously used to deceive the Holy Lord, casually removing some fake functional structures by hand and then attaching it to that body.

After being swallowed by the giant whale, Xiang Shan immediately went to the silent submarine discovered by the squids, the squids’ base.

The remaining squids were then guided to migrate by the killer whales.

At that base, Xiang Shan began to overtake the Holy Lord’s body. The Holy Lord’s body wasn’t a Prosthetic Body but a machine that lacked space for a brain-spinal system; it needed modification to be used as a Prosthetic Body—or turned into a weapon plugin. Xiang Shan didn’t have much time, so he simply cleaned out the metal fragments inside the turbine system.

Then he connected a wire to control it himself.

The one who smashed open the submarine hull was also Xiang Shan’s true body. The Holy Lord’s body merely tore through the shell and went inside.

After that, Xiang Shan adhered to the tilted hull using a Magnetic Chain Weapon, the great gun fully charged.

He could perceive the internal movements of the submarine through the sensory of the wired body.

He thereby aimed at Yang Mengying.

The Magnetic Chain Weapon contracted, his arms swung wildly, and the great gun thrust furiously.

It hit Yang Mengying’s shoulder at once, piercing through the steel submarine hull, rendering Yang Mengying half-crippled.

Then, the Holy Lord’s body stepped forward, twisted off Yang Mengying’s Prosthetic Body, and removed the head.

Finally, forcibly shutting down the Prosthetic Body’s central system.

Yang Mengying thus fell into darkness, unable to receive any external information. The only thing she could sense was her emotions.

This state would last until someone else restarted her central system.

"Alright, let’s leave it at that." Xiang Shan muttered to himself.

This time he had an absolute advantage. No one on the entire submarine had any chance of escape.

The Holy Lord’s body was already the most advanced underwater combat weapon technology available.

——Just capture everyone and wait for judgment...

"Ha, so you still didn’t kill her." Another voice appeared behind Xiang Shan.

Xiang Shan didn’t even turn around, but he had already sketched out the speaker’s image in his mind.

That was also a Xiang Shan, just with ghastly pale skin, under some unknown cold light source, even a bit blue. The whites of his eyes were purely blood-colored.

This was the image of the "Fierce Ghost."

"Fervor" sighed, plucking the strings twice: "What did I say? Did something go wrong with your brain? Look at yourself, look at yourself..."

"Crime" also sighed on the side: "In this Cyberpunk setting, how come there’s a Fierce Ghost? How come there’s a Fierce Ghost? The style has a problem, right?"

"’Fierce Ghosts are caused by psychological issues,’ see, it has a mainland style, very scientific." "Fervor" said, "If it were a red-clad Fierce Ghost from a Hong Kong movie, it might even look a bit charming."

"That wouldn’t be scary then."

"Fierce Ghost" Xiang Shan chuckled softly, "Saying so much nonsense...when you threatened me just now, weren’t you very Cold Blooded and unfeeling? Saying ’I’m going to kill her.’ See, you still couldn’t do it in the end."

Xiang Shan tilted his neck backward: "Ha, and I wonder which Xiang Shan believed it as soon as I said I was going to kill Mengying. You know very well I could do it. However, in situations where I can capture alive and have a trial, I generally spare lives. I also spared lives when I took the Eighth Legacy before. Besides, I promised myself not to kill her but to detain her till the end of time for a fair trial, right?"

"Oh, you’re noble, you’re great." The Fierce Ghost gave a thumbs-up to Benchmark Xiang Shan: "But do others think the same? Hmm?"

Xiang Shan pressed his forehead.

This Fierce Ghost version of himself was a negative influence brought by the Holy Lord.

Or rather, the Holy Lord’s memories triggered his cognitive disorder. The system, deeply integrated with thought in his brain, guided this uncontrollable abnormal state in an alternative form.

And according to his cultural background, it was wrapped in this form of "skin."

What Xiang Shan was facing was such a "ghost."

His own ghost.

The Fierce Ghost Xiang Shan, an inner demon formed by Xiang Shan.

Xiang Shan understood why this was happening.

The Holy Lord’s memories contained such content, the cognition that others formed after observing his actions.

The Walker Xiang Shan walked on a beach named "society." One day, the original Xiang Shan disappeared, leaving only his footprints on the beach. People then sculpted statues of this walker based on those footprints. Some people, having seen the walker firsthand, sculpted very lifelike statues. But some had only seen the footprints.

The Holy Lord had clarified Xiang Shan’s past and illuminated how many distant others viewed Xiang Shan’s actions.

So, at this moment, Xiang Shan couldn’t help but ponder, "How do others see me?"

And the result was the snickering curses from the ghostly Xiang Shan.

"Screw this! Don’t fall for this bastard’s rhetoric," "Fervor" reminded: "Even if you’re the Executioner responsible for carrying out the death penalty, when the condemned is your friend or family, you can recuse yourself and let others execute it, right? In fact, ’When the Executioner has a personal relationship with the condemned, the Executioner should be immediately replaced’ is the correct system. It’s for protecting the Executioner’s mental health. Facing such situations, claiming ’The Executioner must execute the person they’re close to, or else they’re biased’ is when the problem lies within the system."

Xiang Shan shook his head: "Yeah, I understand. No need to..."

"Yeah, yeah, every word spoken here is actually your inner thoughts. It’s just that you want it to be presented in ’dialogue form.’" Fierce Ghost Xiang Shan smirked: "Madman."

"Fervor" and "Crime" stared at the Fierce Ghost.

And the Fierce Ghost slowly disappeared under the gaze of those two "people."

Then, the rumbling sound of water re-entered Xiang Shan’s perception.

The brief moment of delirium just now could only be perceived by Xiang Shan alone.

Xiang Shan took a deep breath in his imagination, lifted his great gun again: "Got to hurry, can’t let a single one of the Six Dragons Sect escape."