Legend of the Cyber Heroes-Chapter 43 - Supersonic Movement Technique

43: Chapter 43: Supersonic Movement Technique

43 -43: Supersonic Movement Technique

Physicist Albert Einstein once said, “There is a law for every scale.”

Every theory has its applicable range, and any correct theory, once it steps beyond its applicability, turns into fallacy.

Of course, Einstein was originally referring to the chasm between quantum mechanics and relativity.

The world that quantum mechanics faces is one where gravitational interaction is so weak it can be neglected, whereas in the vast universe that relativity deals with, gravity is the grand force that twists space-time and dominates everything.

To describe “macro” and “micro,” “low speed” and “high speed,” different theories are needed.

This “high speed” is also the “high speed” in the concept of a physicist, that is, “sub-light speed.”

This is speaking of the highly refined theories condensed from human intelligence.

As for human intuitive experience, it is often even less reliable than theory.

The world “above the speed of sound” that the Cybermen face has already surpassed humans’ intuitive understanding and has also exceeded evolution’s preparation.

Without the Vector Thruster, the first problem Xiang Shan had to face was the challenge from fluid mechanics.

“Fluid” is a concept created by humans.

Nature does not dictate that a thing should be fluid or solid.

On the contrary, many materials possess elements of both fluid and solid, exhibiting different properties under different conditions.

The first, is the “time of force application.” If you slap the surface of water forcefully, your hand will feel pain.

If you fall from a great height, the surface of the water is no different from concrete to you.

It’s because your impact speed exceeds the speed of water movement and unloading force.

When your hand touches the water, what it exhibits is not “the characteristics of fluid,” but “the properties of a solid.”

The reverse is also true.

Many things recognized as solids by humans can also exhibit fluid characteristics over long periods of time.

Take rocks, for example.

Geological movement is the flow of rocks.

In the eyes of an immortal observer, the mountains flow like water.

Second, is “yielding.” Some materials will exhibit fluid characteristics under enormous external force.

If you grasp a lump of putty and squeeze it hard, the putty will ooze out from between your fingers.

This is because the “shear resistance” of the putty “yields” under the force.

Xiang Shan’s running was just like this.

He constantly needed to apply tremendous force to kick against the ground, but this force had already far surpassed the shear resistance that the ground could provide.

Even the hardest ground, under such a level of movement technique, was as spiritless as mud.

At such high speeds, stepping on the ground felt almost as if stepping into water.

And the air in front of him was the opposite.

He was simply too fast; the air had no time to “escape.” His body incessantly collided with the air, moving past the deformed gas before it could return the force.

His running in the air was harder than a Natural Person Boxer fighting in the tide.

——Skills…

Xiang Shan kept roaring in his mind.

He remembered this skill.

The angle at which he kicked the ground couldn’t be too shallow, because the external armor on his prosthetic legs wasn’t the specialized type and the friction coefficient wasn’t enough.

It was rumored that only materials that allowed one to walk vertically on walls could support supersonic movement techniques without the Vector Injector.

For Xiang Shan at that moment, his feet might as well have been smeared with lubricant…

The angle at which he kicked the ground couldn’t be too steep either, as an accidental jump would make changing direction in the air less convenient than on the ground.

Once both feet left the ground, he would become a target for enemy gunfire.

The speed had to be fast because the faster he went, the less likely he was to be injured…

The speed couldn’t be maintained at top all the time.

A constant speed would easily be predicted by others…

Xiang Shan’s right hand reached out, striking forward at a neither fast nor slow pace.

Layers of air just happened to form a “Fierce Wave” barrier.

In that instant, Xiang Shan’s hand felt as if it were pressing against an invisible wall, magically altering his forward direction.

If he had punched a little faster, the lateral “Fierce Wave” resistance wouldn’t have caught up with his arm.

Three bullets successively grazed his hip.

——Saw the trajectory…

——The next shot…

the correction parameters should be…

——Deceleration…

A bullet plunged into the mud before him.

In his ultra-high-speed vision, he saw the soil churn up like waves.

——Accelerate again!

The atomized fuel was injected into the heat engine encased within the chest.

The liquefied alcohol, fully mixed with the atmosphere and oxidizers, combusted instantaneously and completely.

Unlike batteries that maintain a constant maximum output, all heat engines created by humans—including but not limited to steam engines, steam turbines, gas turbines, internal combustion engines, and jet engines—utilize the power of “explosions”; they harness the “explosion” of atomized fuel within the structure of a “piston” and manage the untamed nature of the “explosion.”

As it isn’t a necessity for sustaining life, there is no need to consider stable output, no need to ponder endurance, nor to think about the number of times the engine itself can be used…

This engine’s efficiency infinitely approaches the theoretical maximum of heat engine efficiency.

This is precisely what Martial Artists use.

The mechanical structure funneled the “explosions” in and channeled them directly into the machineries within the hips.

The physical structure of Cybermen is markedly different from that of Natural Persons, as there is no situation of “stirring one hair and moving the whole body”; every part of their body can release energy independently.

Martial Artists can choose to let all their internal force flow through in one breath or choose to coordinate their energy release.

Xiang Shan’s speed suddenly surged.

As a result, seven bullets fell behind him!

Xiang Shan felt like a wildly running wolf, like an out-of-control motorcycle.

The explosions between the pistons were like his heartbeat; kinetic energy was his blood.

If one were to describe it with a tactile sensation, it felt as if someone had jammed a motorcycle right into his heart.

Which was just as well…

because his anger was truly on a rampage!

Directly ahead was the wreckage of external armor from a warship, one of the few things that could serve as “cover.” Xiang Shan didn’t slow down and charged straight at it.

His immense velocity pinned him nearly perpendicular to the ground.

His prosthetic legs stomped heavily on the wall of the wreckage, running towards the side.

Five kilometers away, Gleayard lost track of Xiang Shan.

The speed of the drones couldn’t keep up with that man’s movement.

There were no drones around that area, but he didn’t stop firing.

Instead, he shot twenty bullets on each side of that segment of armor wreckage.

This bullet formation would fly through the air for several seconds before hitting potential targets.

—Using that section of the wall for a quick directional change?

Is he guessing my sniping point?

This was an asymmetric battle.

Gleayard was very confident.

The long-range superiority of the Firearms Path was also determined by mathematics.

He just had to move the muzzle a few millimeters, even a few micrometers, and the point of impact of the bullets would change drastically.

No matter how fast a Combat Martial Artist could run, they couldn’t possibly move the muzzle faster than a Firearm Warrior.

The opponent could only rely on such speed changes to disrupt his prediction, while he could leisurely move the muzzle, weaving a deadly trap with bullets.

The trash mountain area was complex, and there was more than one spot suitable for sniping.

Even while setting up the Drone Formation, Gleayard had considered this and deliberately had a small part of the drones hover in irrelevant positions to mislead the enemy about his location.

—If that kid makes a wrong guess, I will have about ten seconds more…

No, even before that, choosing to use the vertical wall surface for accelerating and turning was a bad move.

When your hands and feet leave the ground, when you show yourself, you will have no chance to dodge.

But in that instant, a silver flash appeared in his field of vision.

The section of armor wreckage that looked like a wall seemed to be hit by a shell, toppling as a whole.

In that short amount of time, Xiang Shan had just run diagonally for a bit before crossing the top of the wall, grabbing the edge of the armor wreckage with both hands, leveraging a turn, then hugging his knees and somersaulting down to the ground.

“Wha…”

The sound of gunfire rang out again.

But as soon as the bullet left the gun, Gleayard knew it had missed.

The bullet would cross Xiang Shan’s current position several seconds later.

The Gunner immediately corrected the mistake, laying a web of bullets on the man’s forward path.

Then, almost simultaneously with Xiang Shan, the wreckage hit the ground.

Immediately afterwards, the billowing dust completely obscured Gleayard’s vision.

However, all the following bullets missed.

—What happened?

The swarm of drones didn’t capture any trace of departure.

It was as if the man had deliberately slowed down, causing not much dust to be stirred.

For the first time, Gleayard seemed somewhat anxious.

Dust was like his natural enemy.

He didn’t know whether he had hit the target or not; he could only fire bullets one after another, blocking all possible escape paths.

In this era, even a sniper rifle could possess a high rate of fire.

But suddenly, a dark shadow flashed across his field of view.

Gleayard was startled and immediately switched his view from long range to wide angle.

He observed the overall flow of the dust.

That guy…

had just started to accelerate.

He had stopped there for several seconds and only now began to speed up again!

Round after round of bullets landed in front of Xiang Shan.

Those were the bullets he had fired a second earlier.

The Martial Artist simply stepped on the tiny craters formed by the bullets, charging forward as if he were stepping on waves.