Legend of the Cyber Heroes-Chapter 57 - He Successfully Infiltrated

57: Chapter 57 He Successfully Infiltrated

57 -57 He Successfully Infiltrated

After Xiang Shan had killed the two passersby from the Green Forest, he knew that it would only be a matter of minutes before the people inside the house would notice something was off.

Even though the place where he made his move was outside the surveillance range, patrolling troops would soon arrive, thus, without pausing, he changed direction and sped toward the interior of the Great Stockade.

The monitors would only see silver flashes passing under different cameras in a matter of seconds.

He soon became aware.

That the distance between him and the server had closed to the point where wireless signal transmitters could make contact.

At that moment, he had no doubts.

Xiang Shan had seized Gleayard’s wireless signal transmitter and also had Gleayard’s chips and storage units.

To Gleayard’s personal electronic devices, he now was Gleayard.

And since waking up, he had not witnessed any Inner Strength defenses without loopholes.

Self-realized Inner Strength often had safety vulnerabilities or even malicious bugs unknown to the cultivator due to a lack of experience.

Code obtained from elsewhere might be laced with hidden malicious traps.

It’s even difficult to clean all the hidden traps completely, and if you pride yourself on your programming skills, attempting to alter an Inner Strength technique that is widely circulated on the internet is like pitting an individual’s strength against the wit and stupidity of all programmers over the past two hundred years—the accumulated disadvantages and vulnerabilities of two hundred years are all your enemies.

And there are no comments.

Xiang Shan didn’t know that the government was similarly troubled by this problem.

Because they were unclear about just how many sympathizers of the Heroes there were within their own ranks, and whether the Inner Strength tutorials given out had “overlooks” made on purpose.

Given humanity’s current level of mathematics, it’s difficult to define what is “deliberate” and what is an “oversight” in Inner Strength.

If those who consider themselves “Guardians of Humanity” are already like this, what more of the impoverished Green Forest?

Xiang Shan’s Inner Strength immediately charged forth.

After penetrating the server, it wasn’t long before he breached the firewall and tore open the encapsulation.

The code flowing out of his will directly covered it.

And then, it extended.

Xiang Shan’s will started to expand from that server as the central point.

Elevate privileges.

Access records.

Download intelligence.

Compare it with the memories he had captured.

Take control of the cameras.

Xiang Shan’s vision split.

Even though the cameras at the entrance of the Great Stockade were hardwired and difficult to interfere with, not all cameras within the stockade were of that type.

In fact, there were quite a few cameras directly connected to that server, bypassing the public monitoring system.

After all, Gleayard was the stronghold master, and it was naturally his right and duty to inspect the entire stockade.

Moreover, if enemies invaded, these cameras could provide the gunner with a vision of Heavenly Vision and Earthly Hearing.

But now, it all fell into the hands of Xiang Shan.

Xiang Shan pushed open a door and entered a spacious area.

This was an excavated underground cavern with several thick pillars serving as the structural support, and the floor was laid with industrial fermenters and other items.

There was a thunderous rumbling inside, sounding like running water.

Those fermenters used biological enrichment to refine metallic elements from the soil and were also able to harvest some organic materials.

There was also a blast furnace for refining metal ingots.

The rumbling sound of water came from an underground river.

This river supplied part of the electricity and water for the Great Stockade.

It was because of this river that the old master had occupied this spot with good feng shui a hundred years ago, and it had stayed that way until today.

Of course, the hydropower from the underground river wasn’t enough to supply the entire Great Stockade.

In addition, the stronghold had spread many scattered solar panels over several square kilometers in the surrounding area.

Large arrays of solar panels in uninhabited areas were bound to be smashed by space debris, so the Green Forest had no choice but to use this method to gather electrical energy.

But besides the hydroelectric power units, fermenters, and blast furnaces, this space was rather spacious.

Dozens of Green Forest strongmen were practicing their Martial Arts, simulating combat on the flat ground.

Xiang Shan temporarily suspended his Six Senses. fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm

Then, his consciousness returned here.

Good.

Xiang Shan said to himself.

He had forgotten many lethal Inner Strength techniques, but he hadn’t lost his basic skills.

The next second, three cameras in front of him had imperceptible shifts.

Thus, a flaw-free monitoring field of vision now had a gap no wider than half a meter.

At the same time, the dim light bulbs flickered a few times.

Xiang Shan took advantage of the momentary darkness to rush toward the rock wall behind him, taking several diagonal steps up the wall and jumping onto a higher steel beam.

This steel beam was about a meter away from the cavern’s dome and played a supporting role.

Xiang Shan walked on this steel beam.

His excellent balance system made it as though he were walking on flat ground.

—So, the next target is to take down the command system.

In order for Xiang Shan to win this battle, the first thing he had to do was not to eliminate the experts but to take down the command system.

According to Xiang Shan’s memory, the original Prosthetic Body Martial Studies were a countermeasure to the “Scattered Troops Line.”

The emergence of the Scattered Troops Line was because Firearms were so lethal that soldiers couldn’t cluster too closely when attacking.

Clustered soldiers under the threat of firearms were just wheat waiting to be harvested.

Prosthetic Bodies and Martial Arts Algorithms could effectively harvest the Scattered Troops Line with overwhelming combat power, breaking through point by point.

However, the “Dense Formation,” which had been phased out by firearms, was the natural nemesis of Martial Arts.

As long as the density of enemies around was high enough, their rhythm of attack would overwhelm any Martial Artist.

This is exactly the principle of “two fists have a hard time contending with four hands.”

Thus, “Cyber Martial Arts,” “Firearms,” “Scattered Troops Line,” and “Dense Formation” together create a kind of magical “restraint relationship,” causing the nature of warfare to undergo a thorough transformation.

What Xiang Shan needed to do was to ensure his adversaries could not assemble before he finished setting up the formation and engaged in battle.

In doing so, victory in this battle was assured.

And Xiang Shan’s target was the surveillance and broadcasting systems.

This set of systems was on an independent circuit and made use of very primitive electrical systems, whose structures could even be traced back to the era of Bell and Edison.

Such ancient contraptions would be difficult to infiltrate, even with an Internal cultivator’s divinely-touched abilities.

As long as he destroyed this center that could gather intelligence and coordinate commands, the stronghold would be like a swordsman blinded.

Within just a few minutes, he had moved from atop the steel beam to the other border of the cavern.

He didn’t get too close.

As he made his way, the roar of the underground river masked the sound of the vibrating steel beams.

This place, however, was a little distance from the underground river and the noise was much less—because the primitive broadcasting system required a relatively quiet environment.

At the entrance to the “Monitor Room,” three fully-modified Martial Artists were engrossed in playing a game.

But Xiang Shan wasn’t in a hurry.

He just quietly waited.

Acting too soon would merely be beating the grass and startling the snake.

The moment would come soon enough.

For some reason, the three of them kept making consecutive errors in the game.

Within less than a minute, they each died an average of one and a half times.

“Damn it, this is cursed,” muttered one of the Green Forest brood.

“Did we set the difficulty wrong?”

At that instant, the alarm bell suddenly rang out.

The three Martial Artists immediately pressed the pause button and all looked up simultaneously.

Almost at the same time, Xiang Shan took a step forward, coming directly above the three men.

“Grab your weapons,” one of them immediately commanded.

At the same time, a noise came from inside the room, “Brothers outside, someone sneaked in minutes ago, killed three!”

—It took four minutes to discover the corpses.

Their efficiency was truly not high.

Xiang Shan thought this as he tossed a steel rod directly in front of the three men.

Then he jumped down 0.1 seconds later.

When the steel rod began to fall, the three men instinctively looked forward.

But for some reason, their reaction seemed to be delayed by 0.3 seconds.

They were fixated on where the rod had been 0.3 seconds before.

When the rod hit the ground, they were still staring into mid-air.

At the moment they were delayed by 0.3 seconds in detecting the steel rod, the two Green Forest Martial Artists in front instinctually suspected someone above the steel beam, thus they looked up, but their field of vision perfectly missed Xiang Shan’s figure.

—It happened…

Before one of them could completely process the thought, they heard a loud noise from behind.

But before they could turn around, they felt a pain at the back of their heads.

—Why…

why could it be so quiet…

and so fast…

These were the final thoughts of the two men in front.

To know that breaking the sound barrier produces a loud noise.

An object moving near the speed of sound would strike the air molecules before they can move out of the way.

Air is compressed layer upon layer—the energy of “sound” accumulates within.

This is the “sound barrier.” Once an object exceeds this speed, the accumulated “sound” bursts forth.

But Xiang Shan hadn’t actually exceeded that speed.

It was merely that the Martial Artists were affected by Gu.

Invisible Gu worms had already traveled through the server into the chips of those Green Forest Martial Artists, where they reproduced their own code, occupied buffer resources, and interfered with the chip’s processes for interpreting sensory information.

The world they saw lingered a bit longer in the buffer area before entering their Biological Brains and the Martial Arts Algorithm.

And based on Xiang Shan’s observation of their game screen, this delay should be around 0.3 seconds.

So as he threw the steel rod to draw their attention, he used the time difference to leap from above, landing amidst the three men.

He first disrupted the balance of the man behind with Clever Force, then turned and delivered two sharp finger strikes, sending the two Martial Artists on their way.

The falling Martial Artist, sensing his misfortune, bravely uploaded an “alarm signal” to the server.

But this server was already under Xiang Shan’s control.

Xiang Shan extinguished the alarm and then bent down to twist the neck of the Martial Artist.

This Green Forest man was quite the fighter, still trying to shout.

But Xiang Shan simply silenced his speaker.

As the saying goes, to Practice Martial Arts without cultivating Inner Strength, in the end, is all in vain.

By now, seventy percent of the Martial Artists within the Great Stockade had been affected by the Gu.

Xiang Shan picked up the firearms dropped by the three gate-keeping Martial Artists, then opened the door of the Monitor Room.

Inside the Monitor Room, one person was saying, “Second-in-command, there’s a problem…

You should come and see this.”

A voice came through the speaker, “What?

Little Edward is playing his hunting game again, so there’s a gap in the defense?”

As Xiang Shan pushed the door and entered, several monitors were taken aback.

The one who had signaled stuttered, “No… not that… Second-in-command… it seems like there’s…

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Xiang Shan really wanted to offer a friendly smile.

But considering he was without flesh or skin, he simply had to close that door, which had quite effective sound insulation.