Legend of the Cyber Heroes-Chapter 34 - Dyson Principle

34: Chapter 34 Dyson Principle

34 -34 Dyson Principle

“I’m terribly sorry,” Dr.

Schultz said as he helped Xiang Shan fit a new prosthetic hand, apologizing continuously, “I’m really sorry.

My uncle, at that time… he didn’t mean that.

We are naturally very grateful to you, Great Hero, but…”

“I understand,” Xiang Shan gestured with his newly fitted right hand, signaling Dr.

Schultz to stop there.

This hand, originally belonging to Blade Guest Ronconi, had far superior specifications compared to the junk prosthetic hand he used previously.

In the palm was an electromagnetic system, which could interact with magnetic material blades to perform moves that flesh and blood could not achieve.

After the explanation, he understood what had happened to the townspeople.

They couldn’t bear the sight of “direct destruction of the Biological Brain.” For them, the sight of this crime was enough to trigger a stress response.

Directly destroying a Biological Brain is a violation of the “Dyson Principle,” which leads to the Breaker losing civil protection, losing all human rights available in this era.

In a sense, this is indeed a punishment more terrifying than the death penalty.

Because even death row inmates have basic human rights, ensuring they do not suffer from any punishment beyond “death penalty” itself such as “abuse.”

But an individual who has lost civil protection could be subjected to anything.

Meanwhile, everyone in this era believes that “Yawgmoth, the father of all machines” watches over every individual equally.

In nonreligious terms, it means “there is a supreme tyrant who can monitor everyone through anyone’s vision prosthetics or surveillance systems.”

Although Ronconi was attacking Xiang Shan when the latter destroyed his Biological Brain, Xiang Shan might have been on the “not violating the prohibition” boundary.

However, most townspeople weren’t capable of discerning this in haste.

Even if they eventually understood after thinking it through and others’ explanations, they still experienced intense fear “at that moment.”

Even whether this incident counts as “Breaking the Prohibition” depends entirely on the local Arbiter’s mood.

Such incidents in the gray area between “Breaking the Prohibition” and “not Breaking the Prohibition” can trigger intense fear among people.

They are extremely afraid of being watched and punished by “Yawgmoth, the father of all machines.”

It’s not “looking like a collective hysteria”; this is the era’s unique collective hysteria—”fear of power.”

“There are no specific legal articles, no precedents to reference and supplement.

Seemingly extremely liberal provisions actually indulge the tyrant’s power and authority…” Xiang Shan bowed his head in thought, “The Dyson Principle… what exactly is it?”

He had learned about the so-called Dyson Principle from the memories of Will Grand Duke.

The Dyson Principle could be said to be the only law of this era, even the only moral code.

It has only six articles, and even includes an “Article Zero” that doesn’t stipulate any substantial content, with each article having only a few annotations.

In this era, any behavior not against the Dyson Principle is regarded as “permitted.”

Article Zero: All individuals who have not explicitly refused to follow the Dyson Principle, or have not explicitly violated the principle, are assumed to follow the Dyson Principle and receive civil protection.

The Dyson Principle is the only universal principle of human civilization.

Any behavior not violating the Dyson Principle should be permitted.

Article One: All humans have the obligation to maintain the diversity of the Human Gene Bank.

Those who refuse this obligation will automatically lose civil protection.

Article Two: It is prohibited to harm another person’s Biological Brain.

Article Three: It is prohibited to manufacture, use, or sell addictive potions.

Article Four: Private property exists and is protected.

Article Five: It is permitted and only permitted for any individual to establish organizations through the form of “an individual declaring allegiance to another body.”

Just these six articles.

“It sounds like something that extreme libertarians and anarchists would enjoy.

Especially the last one… Is this designed to eliminate the emergence of ‘government,’ a ‘collective’ with its own will?

People with such political inclinations…”

An image suddenly emerged in Xiang Shan’s mind… a figure resembling a wild Barbarian.

These people don’t necessarily believe in things like the “2012” apocalypse myths.

But, mysteriously worried about various major disasters, they voluntary give up the conveniences brought by modern civilization to establish various survival bases.

Moreover, they generally distrust others, prefer forming small groups, and are extremely fond of discussing “survival.”

For them, this is the embodiment of “free will.”

Thinking of this, Xiang Shan felt as if there was a missing piece in his memory.

He seemed to remember… surviving in the wilderness… green rainforests… and…

His memory was indeed too fragmented.

Even if he found clues, he couldn’t recall everything.

The so-called “Lords” are also not allowed to have armies.

Those who appear to have highly consistent prosthetic bodies are nominally free groups, willing to follow the Lord personally, employed by the Lord as individuals.

The officials under the Lord’s command are not part of a systematic civil service either but assistants to the Lord personally.

Even nominally, the Lord does not have the power to command the public; he only provides “civil protection,” morally “should eradicate thugs” – whether or not to actually eradicate the thugs is also at the Lord’s discretion.

——A semblance of order that was nothing but an illusion.

This was Xiang Shan’s view of the era.

Apart from a few individuals related to the “Human Gene Bank” due to the first principle of Dyson, this era lacked anything that could truly be called “order.” Everything had regressed to…

The Feudal Era?

The Slave Era?

No, not the same.

The imprint of modern technology existed within human civilization and deeply affected this era.

The tyrants of this age possessed technologies that ancient tyrants did not have, so even this chaotic semblance of “freedom” could bind everyone.

The strong had the freedom to trample the weak, and theoretically, the weak also had the freedom to resist, but they were unable to exercise this power due to physical constraints.

This era seemed free, but undoubtedly, some people were freer than others.

“It is precisely because of this that the light of heroes will never be extinguished on this earth…” Xiang Shan thought to himself.

Unfortunately, that was all Will remembered about the heroes.

It was strange to say.

Logically, a person who had lost all memory and rashly absorbed the memories of others would almost certainly be influenced in personality.

However, Xiang Shan had now discovered that Will’s memories had almost negligible impact on his own personality.

His way of thinking and the records had no difference whatsoever.

It seemed that the memories Xiang Shan had forgotten were much larger than he had imagined…

so large that…

He didn’t know to what extent.

He must have been a man with quite a story.

This made Xiang Shan even more interested in the memory storage devices.

He now had several additional memory storage devices in his possession.

Some came from a giant man named Lev, and others from Paulus and Ronconi.

Anthony’s memory storage device had disappeared, probably picked up by someone.

Xiang Shan’s spoils of war were recognized as “Xiang Shan’s private property” by the townspeople; they dared not tamper with them and had all been collected and given to Xiang Shan.

However, Anthony was killed by Lev, so someone had a crooked idea.

Xiang Shan was too lazy to pursue the matter.

It was said that Paulus, Ronconi, and Anthony were very familiar with each other and often interacted.

Their understanding of the world probably overlapped a great deal.

These three guys were not very proficient in martial arts, and Anthony was also a martial artist of the Firearms Path.

Xiang Shan felt that he could also perform martial arts of the Firearms Path, but he didn’t know how to handle firearms, so he had little interest in Anthony’s martial arts algorithm.

The only thing that Xiang Shan regretted was that the mysterious enemy who popped up last had his memory storage device completely burned, making it unrecoverable.

He was undoubtedly one of Lev’s group, but Xiang Shan just didn’t know what his purpose was.

Additionally, the prosthetic bodies of these people also now belonged to Xiang Shan.

——He needed to find time to absorb those memories too…

at least to find out what the “Green Forest Path” really was…

“…Great Hero?

Great Hero?” Dr.

Schultz’s call interrupted Xiang Shan’s thoughts.

“What is it?” Xiang Shan asked.

“Your left hand has been fully installed,” Dr.

Schultz said cautiously.

Xiang Shan jumped down from the operating table and looked at his arms.

These arms originally belonged to a Blade Guest.

Streamlined and silver in color, almost like an art piece.

They clashed with the crudely made external armor on his body.

But undoubtedly, they were good hands.

The combination of classical power transmission and artificial muscle fiber made these hands incredibly agile.

Xiang Shan tentatively swung them a few times.

An explosive sound rolled over Dr.

Schultz’s auditory system.

Dr.

Schultz looked on with trepidation at Xiang Shan, who was now a full foot shorter than when he had visited his house half a month ago.

His legs had been replaced with artificial muscle structures and were invert-jointed.

In this state, Xiang Shan’s legs were always in a “charging” mode, ready to release energy and accelerate to supersonic speeds at any moment.

Additionally, this adjustment of balance also made it easier for Xiang Shan to fall forward, fighting in a prone position on the ground.

His external armor was still the same one forged in the village, covered with scars, unlikely to withstand another battle of the same intensity.

Head, torso, arms, legs—it was as though they all came from different eras and different price points.

Xiang Shan muttered to himself, “If I had these hands this morning, I wouldn’t have needed to sacrifice my prosthetic hand for leverage…”

“Oh, Great Hero, there’s one more thing…” Dr.

Schultz said cautiously, “Enoch who betrayed us has already fled, but his cronies didn’t have time to escape and have been captured by us.

There’s also one more thing, uncle thinks, you need to know…”