Legend of the Cyber Heroes-Chapter 48 - Thug Number One from Heaven

48: Chapter 48: Thug Number One from Heaven

48 -48: Thug Number One from Heaven

“Talk is cheap, but coming from the mouth of a dog, it really is…” Xiang Shan shook his head and sighed, “Hard to describe.”

The Welfare Officer retorted, “What do you mean by that?”

He actually was reluctant to conflict with Xiang Shan.

Intelligence records showed that the “mountain” before him was the creature capable of slaying the “Silver Transmission Shaft”; he had mastered both inner and external strength and was not easy to handle.

Dealing with a Hero was not something the Welfare Officer had to do.

Precisely because he anticipated possibly clashing with Xiang Shan, he had brought along a bunch of fighters this time.

Martial Arts could indeed face the phenomenon of “two fists hard to match four hands.” A prosthetic body with only two hands often couldn’t defeat one with four hands, because a body with four hands had more abundant and composed strategic choices in martial studies.

Similarly, if a group of Cybermen could advance and retreat as one, the ones tasked with hugging legs hugged legs, those embracing waists embraced waists, and those twisting arms twisted arms, then a Hero would find it hard to exert any martial arts.

The “Dense Formation,” which “gunpowder” had eliminated, was precisely the nemesis of “martial studies.”

The twenty-five personal soldiers behind the Welfare Officer seemed to be just loosely standing in several rows, but in fact, their positions secretly aligned with a formation.

The rear soldiers could quickly shoot out chains of bullets to suppress, while the front soldiers could swarm forward, compressing the space for the display of martial arts.

These remodeled soldiers gave him some confidence, emboldening him to listen to how Xiang Shan would respond.

In his view, if negotiation could make this Famed Hero withdraw, naturally, it would be best.

However, Xiang Shan just looked at Enoch’s biological brain and said, “Indeed, a person should not stand above others.

If a person is guilty, they should not be judged by people but handed over to ‘law’ for handling.

But what if the ‘law’ cannot make the right judgment?”

The Welfare Officer sensed something wrong.

He realized that a preset process in his mind had already started.

—This is not an ordinary Hero…

A feeling of dread rose in the Welfare Officer’s heart.

Only to hear Xiang Shan continue, “Your powers—the so-called ‘public power’—are essentially gathered from everyone relinquishing a part of their private rights.

Its existence was originally intended to prevent people from being trampled on.

But from what I see, you Lords are trampling on others yourselves!”

As he spoke, Xiang Shan glanced sideways at the Welfare Officer, “After all, ‘equality,’ ‘justice,’ ‘rule of law,’ and the like—can you achieve even one of these?

If you could make me believe you could achieve these, I would have no objection to being captured.

But alas…”

“Is this your reason for killing?” The Welfare Officer’s voice trembled slightly, “Thug!”

“Correct, thug!” Xiang Shan felt a kind of “exhilaration” spark in his brain.

More of his memories were activated in tandem, “I am indeed the number one thug—because heroism is a form of violence!

It’s the fierce action of mobs striking back at tyranny!”

While speaking, Xiang Shan forcefully hurled a metal rod at Enoch’s biological brain.

The Welfare Officer didn’t hear the rest of Xiang Shan’s words.

Alarms had already overtaken his senses.

“This guy is a fundamentalist follower of the Martial Ancestor!” The Welfare Officer was shocked, “After ‘The Eleventh Defeat,’ there are still fundamentalist followers of the Martial Ancestor!”

The Welfare Officer no longer hesitated.

Cyber Martial Arts’ Prime Ancestor was considered the biggest terrorist in the world, the source of all chaos for two hundred years.

All proponents of Martial Ancestor’s heroism, these fundamentalist Heroes, were enemies that must be eliminated by the power of the Human Gene Bank.

Just then, several shadows were thrown from the distance.

The Welfare Officer’s first reaction was “intercept.” This command was transmitted by electromagnetic waves, piercing into the soldiers’ preset martial processes.

Several chains of bullets intertwined into a net, blowing up the few can-shaped objects in mid-air.

But the silvery mist expanded instantly with those can-shaped objects as its core, taking advantage of the blast wind.

“‘Iron Dust’?” The Welfare Officer was startled.

Iron Dust was a very common Hero-specific tool, popular for its simple production.

But regardless of how common this substance was, it should not have been manufacturable in this small village.

Xiang Shan should not have had it.

For a Welfare Officer proficient in military formations like himself, Iron Dust was quite suppressive.

The conductive metal particles could refract electromagnetic waves, which meant his commands could be disrupted and not fully reach the soldiers’ bodies.

“But what if there is Iron Dust?” The Welfare Officer sneered coldly.

If Iron Dust alone could counteract military formations, then the military martial system would have been cut down by half.

The aerosol of metal particles could limit a Military Path Martial Artist’s ability to use electrical signals to direct formations, but each soldier within the formation still retained some of their computational capabilities.

As long as they set commands in advance upon detecting “Iron Dust,” relying on those commands for limited directives and moving out of the coverage area of the metal particle aerosol while fighting would suffice.

Before the silvery mist descended, ten tongues of flame licked towards Xiang Shan.

Xiang Shan used his movement technique, repeatedly dodging until he was completely covered by the Iron Dust.

Only the sound of “whooshing” wind flickered around the Welfare Officer.

The Welfare Officer then calmly retreated while the fifteen soldiers continuously maintained fire towards their surroundings, suppressing the enemy as the whole team moved.

The area covered by “Iron Dust” wasn’t very large, just a few dozen square meters.

Soon, half of the soldiers had left this area.

The Welfare Officer also received a very vague response signal.

Under these circumstances, he could not rely on those soldiers’ vision, so he could not confirm Xiang Shan’s location.

But the Welfare Officer knew the moment he stepped out of the Iron Dust would be Xiang Shan’s best opportunity to attack him.

Mentally highly focused, his internal chip adjusted his sense of time.

Signals transmitted by metal-based nerves conspicuously emerged from his cluttered consciousness in this instant.

One step…

two steps…

The Welfare Officer saw the sunlight.

—Did I make it out?

Didn’t he keep up the rhythm?

—Unfamiliar with the military martial arts?

At that moment, his vision connected to the cameras of fourteen bodyguards.

But in that instant, a sharp howl suddenly erupted in front of him.

The entire metal particle aerosol was violently stirred.

At about forty centimeters above the ground, a mass of air protruded like a dagger.

The Welfare Officer instantly imagined a scene where a grandmaster of the Bionic Fist Technique was moving forward with a low body.

In that moment, two red lights flashed in the aerosol.

—Prosthetic Eye…

Inner Strength!

The Welfare Officer immediately understood.

Metal particle aerosol also refracted infrared signals, but the moment “Mountain” burst out of the aerosol range, he could use his inner strength to launch an attack on himself!

—Unfortunately, because you’re unfamiliar with the military martial arts, you’re about 0.05 seconds too slow…

Now, the Welfare Officer had regained control over the cyber-body of the bodyguards. freewebnσvel.cѳm

As he forcefully retreated, eleven guns intertwined again to form a bullet chain, cutting off “Mountain’s” charge path!

Unexpectedly, “Mountain” showed no intention of “dodging”…

No!

It was only when the source of the red light flew out of the aerosol range that the Welfare Officer saw that they were indeed prosthetic eyes, but not from Mountain’s body; they were two prosthetic eyes connected to batteries—Mountain had thrown them out using hidden weapon techniques.

The one that made a loud booming sound was not Mountain himself, but a metal rod spinning like a boomerang—it was Enoch’s transmission shaft!

“No!”

At that instant, another terrifying, sharp howl suddenly appeared.

Hidden in the silver fog, Mountain suddenly broke the sound barrier, exerted force in an instant, and crashed into the group of bodyguards.

Mountain hadn’t used his full strength during the first dodge, just to assess the parameters of these cyber-bodyguards.

After he had avoided the first wave of gunfire, he silently stepped into the aerosol and then threw the metal rod and the prosthetic eyes—these eyes were pried from Gleayard’s body, connected to a small drone battery, capable of emitting a distracting red light.

The bodyguards had the advantage in numbers, but their cyber-bodies were much inferior to Mountain, who had plundered several martial artists.

They couldn’t adjust their gun barrels in time.

The bullets originally aimed at the “cyber-body” missed the metal rod.

It continued to fly low, knocking down three bodyguards who had the best angles to attack.

And Mountain had already crashed into two bodyguards.

In that instant, the Welfare Officer utterly forgot his “command.” He saw an unimaginable display of external strength.

In that elongated moment, Mountain merely relaxedly opened his arms to push those bodyguards.

But no matter which part of his body collided with the bodyguards, it instantly disrupted their balance, popping them a meter high into the air.

These bodyguards, having no vector injectors, couldn’t adjust their posture mid-air.

In the eyes of the Welfare Officer, Mountain was like a “Martial God,” unstoppable!

After knocking twelve bodyguards away, Mountain slightly changed his direction and headed straight towards the Welfare Officer.

The Welfare Officer realized that his position was blocking the remaining bodyguards’ line of fire.

He instinctively leapt backward while his mind rapidly calculated, trying to rearrange the positions of the bodyguards.

But Mountain was even faster.

The Welfare Officer had barely lifted twenty centimeters off the ground when Mountain stomped down even faster.

The Welfare Officer was brought to the ground by this impact, and the inertia disrupted his stance.

Almost simultaneously, Mountain’s right hand stabbed out, piercing the Welfare Officer’s neck.

Thus, the Welfare Officer’s camera was forced to focus on Mountain’s prosthetic eye.

At that moment, the Welfare Officer felt… he saw…

A terrifying will, hurtling through ethereal codes into his chip!

“Ah!” The Welfare Officer let out a sharp, brief scream, while the surrounding bodyguards convulsed in unison.

The next second, Mountain forcibly exerted his strength, pulling the Welfare Officer’s head off his body!

The spine was directly ripped apart, and even the Welfare Officer’s cerebellum was severely damaged.

The Welfare Officer cried out in agony, while Mountain sought another gap to infiltrate with his inner strength.

Then, the Welfare Officer’s skull burst open, revealing the brain-machine barrier.

Mountain leisurely pulled out the chip and storage unit, saying, “Lord, don’t forget your original duty, remember to declare protection.”

The man then threw the Welfare Officer’s head into the arms of the Town Mayor and bent down to pick up Yuki.