Legend of the Cyber Heroes-Chapter 42 - Martial Arts of the Ultimate Horizon

42: Chapter 42: Martial Arts of the Ultimate Horizon

42 -42: Martial Arts of the Ultimate Horizon

Upon seeing the drone, Xiang Shan instinctively wanted to shoot it down.

But the moment he jumped, Xiang Shan felt that something was terribly wrong.

——Bullets…

If it were gunpowder-propelled, the bullet’s velocity might reach three thousand meters per second.

If it were electromagnetic propulsion, then seven to eight thousand meters per second is also possible——no, in this era it might be even more enhanced, perhaps faster.

But the enemy’s choice to use a drone for aiming suggests he might opt for “Ultimate Sniping”.

That guy was near the horizon.

Five to seven thousand meters away.

——Where…

Both prosthetic eyes scanned independently.

Bullets traveling at two thousand five hundred meters per second were indeed fast, but relative to the speed of light at three hundred thousand kilometers per second, it was like being “stationary”.

If a flash emanated from the enemy’s muzzle, he would definitely see it.

——Where…

It would take approximately one to two seconds for a bullet to reach here.

One or two seconds…

For a cyber martial artist, this time was simply “lengthy”.

But that was under the assumption that he could locate the muzzle the instant the enemy fired and then evade.

Moreover, the enemy was also a martial artist, who at the very least understood “precognition”…

——Haven’t found it…

——If that guy is precognizing my actions, then my original landing spot will definitely receive a bullet…

At this moment, that bullet must already be on its trajectory…

He couldn’t land at the original point after taking down the drone.

Doing so would surely lead to defeat.

Xiang Shan, mid-air, seemed to have no leverage.

But for a cyber martial artist, as long as there was “air”, it was a point of leverage.

Xiang Shan’s legs released energy with maximum speed.

The atmosphere is a fluid, like water.

But “fluid” is merely a concept conjured by humans, just a “mechanical” classification.

Nature doesn’t label things with “fluid” or “solid” tags.

Some substances that appear fluid can exhibit solid characteristics if force is applied swiftly enough that they can’t “flow” fast enough.

In a high-speed world, water is not “utterly soft”…

Nor is air!

A long-missed sensation.

Xiang Shan felt as if he were moving his legs through mud.

The martial arts algorithm of Bionic Fist Technique readjusted the center of gravity of his prosthetic body.

Xiang Shan’s legs borrowed force in the sonic realm…

Striking the air…

“Boom” “Boom” “Boom”.

Two explosions almost coincided.

Xiang Shan trod upon the void, the explosive force of his prosthetic legs throwing the propeller-reliant drone off balance, spinning it towards another side.

The other two explosions originated from the ground…

Suddenly, two small pits appeared, with molten metal flowing inside, emitting a dark red glow.

“Hahahahaha!” Enoch laughed manically, “Boss, that’s it, just like that!

Kill this guy!

Kill him!”

“The Firearms Path…” If Xiang Shan still had facial muscles and skin, his complexion would surely look terrible.

He had just remembered something.

He didn’t like the Firearms Path.

In an era where information technology is monopolized by authoritarian forces, transmitting a thought, an emotion to another is very difficult, even harder than in the era when messages were passed by word of mouth.

Those sinister capitalists might not ban the truth.

But by surrounding the truth with a plethora of true yet meaningless messages along with false ones, one can control the thoughts of others.

Thus, “heroism” was designed as the force of “resisting alone”.

But Xiang Shan despised “harming innocent bystanders”.

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But “swords” and “fists”, compared to “bullets”, have an advantage.

The moment a bullet leaves the chamber, it’s out of control.

You can’t interfere with a bullet that has been fired, nor guarantee that there won’t be someone else on its trajectory.

The range of a gun makes it very easy to injure innocents.

In this respect, even “poison” has less potential than bullets to cause collateral damage.

The initial modern firearms did not need to consider these things.

They were only used on battlefields, where “innocent bystanders” were not presumed to exist.

And in confrontations of equal martial artists, often evolving into cycles of “evasion” and “probing”, can it be guaranteed that stray bullets really won’t fall on the heads of “uninvolved individuals”?

And now there were two here…

Xiang Shan landed and somersaulted, touched the ground with his toes, and leaped close to the ground once again.

A bullet fell behind him.

——Now there are two innocent bystanders here…

He dodged past two bullets.

——The bullets are already on their way, following this trajectory, his strategy would be…

Xiang Shan used a roll to dodge the third bullet.

He was getting close to the Town Mayor and Yulia.

“Triple Art of Firearms” includes the “Blast Wind”.

It is the basic template of all Firearms Path martial arts tactics, premised on “missing” to lead the opponent towards an “unavoidable zone”.

——So, following this trajectory…

Xiang Shan evaded twelve consecutive bullets, somersaulted mid-air, exerted force through the ball joints and rotation mechanisms in his hips, side-kicked the Town Mayor’s thigh [which was a prosthetic visible to the eye and wouldn’t cause severe damage], and flung the Town Mayor away.

Then, Xiang Shan’s prosthetic leg pushed against the side of Yulia’s car front.

Sine awakening, this man felt “despair” for the first time.

He couldn’t kick away.

The difference in weight between his prosthetic body and Yulia’s industrial prosthesis was simply too great.

With the installation of numerous power mechanisms from martial artist prostheses, Xiang Shan’s explosive power might have surpassed Yulia’s industrial prosthesis, but absolute mass cannot be changed.

F=ma.

The magnitude of action and reaction forces are equal, but they are in opposite directions.

These two principles had already sealed the outcome.

His full-force flying kick at Yulia could only result in himself being repelled far away.

Yulia’s prosthetic structure would be damaged, but her position would hardly change.

Xiang Shan crashed into a pile of garbage like a cannonball.

Waste parts, plastic, and synthetic fabric were thrown into the air.

Before those pieces of trash even fell, an orange blaze erupted from Yulia’s side.

“Hahaha…” Enoch’s laughter caught in his throat at that moment.

Then, a series of explosions rang out within the pile of trash.

——Are they searching for me?

Having silently tumbled for three rounds, Xiang Shan lay prone on the ground, watching the shots that just missed him.

“The trash that was just airborne did indeed block his vision, and considering the trajectory of the bullets that can be discerned through it…”

Xiang Shan did mental calculations.

Over these days, he had been conserving his strength in this mountain of garbage, absorbing the enemy’s memories, deepening his understanding of this world.

Along the way, he also relied on his prosthetic eye to map out this area.

The three-dimensional map of this garbage dump existed within his chip.

He knew the approximate location of his enemy.

Taking the terrain into account…

there were four different positions suitable for sniping, ranging from a minimum of four kilometers to a maximum of ten kilometers.

The movements of the drone swarm and the bullet trajectories could be used for adjustment.

If the enemy’s rate of fire was constant, then on his way there, he would only need to dodge fewer than a thousand bullets.

But one problem was stuck in his mind.

——Was it after the seventh bullet that they were certain I would go to protect others… so the fourteenth bullet was aimed at the town mayor, and the fifteenth at Yulia?

——”Forcing a hero to protect civilians” has become a mature tactic?

And it has even been incorporated into the martial arts algorithms?

His neurons were burning like fire.

Xiang Shan felt that violent institutions of the old era, even if they unfortunately became the minions of a tyrant, wouldn’t stoop so low… the enemies he had faced…

Why did these so-called thugs trample on human life this way?

The fans in his shoulders began spinning rapidly, pumping air into his chest cavity.

Fuel used for adjusting his center of gravity in his lower abdomen was pressurized, surging upward into the power section.

The combustion engine taken from Will Grand Duke’s body roared like a vigorously beating heart.

Lowering his body.

——Humans… those are humans…

Xiang Shan’s legs gleamed with a blinding blue light from the gaps in their paint.

The synthetic muscles were fully charged with power.

——Why can human life be treated so frivolously?

The next instant, the only still lucid town mayor’s eyes widened.

He seemed to witness a hurricane passing through.

…………………………………

——A master.

Gleayard felt a chill he hadn’t experienced in a long time.

The first two shots, initially deemed “assassination,” were evaded with his opponent’s movement technique, as the blown-away drone transmitted its final image.

There was no second drone nearby, so he had to rely on his prosthetic eye in addition to a distant drone for a “pressing” suppression.

All thirteen bullets from the “pressing” attack missed.

Although the tactic was designed with “missing” as a premise for the martial arts, the web of death woven by bullets was real and deadly.

During the process of “pressing,” any single bullet could potentially take a life.

On the eighth…

no, it should be the seventh shot, Gleayard gauged the opponent’s character.

This guy might be an old-fashioned hero.

Therefore, the fourteenth and fifteenth bullets were directed at others.

There was a woman who seemed to be what…

the newcomer desired.

But that didn’t matter.

The ability to draw out the power of this master was where her value lay.

“Still a lightweight prosthetic…” Gleayard thought to himself, watching the fire erupt from Yulia’s vehicle’s head.

Even though he had obtained Lev’s prosthetic, that martial artist had chosen not to place his head on it.

The flying debris blocked Gleayard’s vision.

Thus, he executed a series of shots.

But surely that guy wouldn’t die from it?

Then, he saw the “Blast Wind.”

It’s coming.

It’s coming.

That guy, intending to use close combat to defeat him.

Gleayard was not proficient in hand-to-hand combat.

Under full armor, he had barely won over “Silver Transmission Shaft” Lev by using the “Revelation Tank Art” from the military martial path, but that was only once.

He was not very strong in this aspect.

If Xiang Shan’s close combat skills were stronger than Lev’s, then his chances of survival were slim.

His opportunity lay in the path of Xiang Shan’s assault.

This was an excellent adversary.

He was a master of the External Sect fighting style, and he understood the Firearms Path, aware of its strengths and weaknesses, comprehending its tactics…

This was no longer about exploiting information disparity to bully the weaker…

this was…

——Only by defeating such a combat martial artist who understands the Firearms Path can I prove my way!