Legend of the Cyber Heroes-Chapter 45 - Brave Wins

45: Chapter 45: Brave Wins

45 -45: Brave Wins

A bright light appeared ahead.

Xiang Shan even felt a burning sensation in his optic nerve.

But it didn’t matter.

Humans would be blinded by intense light because the crystalline lens could concentrate light enough to damage the retina.

However, he was using a prosthetic eye, with no crystalline lens or retina to worry about.

——However, what came next…

Xiang Shan dug a similar experience out of his memory.

Two shock waves would hit from both the left and the right.

And he would find himself in dire straits.

Admittedly, Cybermen had a higher resistance to firearms than natural persons, didn’t have to fear being scorched by high temperatures, didn’t need to worry about the diminishing force of spent bullets, and only needed to be cautious of direct hits rather than stray bullets.

But none of this would allow Xiang Shan to avoid being overturned.

In this world, there was no martial arts technique named “Thousand-pound weight” from the wuxia novels that could increase mass out of thin air or amplify gravity.

The former was “Void Creation,” translating immense energy into mass in an instant, and the latter equivalent to warping space.

Had humanity possessed such technology, it would have conquered the stars and seas long ago.

The real-life “Thousand-pound weight” was merely about lowering one’s center of gravity to make oneself more difficult to push over.

Compared to a heavy prosthetic, a lightweight prosthetic was less massive, had less inertia, making it easier to change speed and direction.

However, the downside was that a lightweight prosthetic could carry fewer weapons, had weaker attack power, and was easier to get knocked away.

Physics determined these rules.

The moment the brightness from the explosion diminished, two fierce waves took shape on either side.

Expanding from the epicenter, they quickly formed a curve akin to the boundary of a Tai Chi diagram.

Given Xiang Shan’s speed and his position relative to that tank-like Martial Artist, he had no choice but to cross through the blast area.

However, if he got caught in the shock wave, he would be turned over or even sent flying, turning him into nothing but a target. ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com

Gleayard laughed wildly as he lifted the machine gun on his right.

In an instant, sixteen bullets spewed out, targeting the path Xiang Shan was bound to take, creating a deadly trap.

At the same time, the massive Martial Artist maintained his own direction.

His heavy prosthetic was bound by inertia, making acceleration and change of speed impossible compared to a lightweight prosthetic.

However, heavy prosthetics had their advantages.

They could take “shortcuts” like this without fearing the blast wind flipping their grounded base or secondary damage to the prosthetic.

Those sixteen bullets were his farewell gift to his enemy!

Xiang Shan fixed his gaze on the charging Gleayard.

——If he got hit squarely, it would certainly be fatal…

If he got strafed by bullets, he would die.

If a shell exploded close by, he would die.

If he collided with someone armored like that, he would die.

After his right leg hit the ground one last time, Xiang Shan didn’t immediately kick out with his left.

His legs folded at a height of three centimeters above the ground.

The voltage maxed out; atomized ethanol and pure oxygen injected into the pistons.

In the time it took for three frames of video, he faced the ground, inevitably losing his sight.

——Don’t be afraid.

Because Gleayard’s prosthetic head would block the movement of the barrels and gun tubes, his guns could only complete the maneuver of “aiming at the same target simultaneously” from a certain distance…

Considering the recoil of the gun barrels…

at this distance, he would need several milliseconds to adjust his aim after shooting before he could fire accurately…

As the fierce wave rolled over his body, the man released the kinetic energy he had stored.

The spark ignited the solar energy trapped in the ethanol!

He charged at the enemy.

Gleayard unleashed a series of maniacal laughs on the public channel.

Deadly bullets approached head-on!

In this situation, he was already unable to achieve the precision of ultimate sniping.

Nonetheless, he could still triumph through volume.

Fear.

Those bullets really could kill him.

And the distance between them was far too close.

The biological brain lacked the time to react; simple algorithms didn’t have the capability for planning and adaptation…

——Don’t panic…

Xiang Shan tucked in his legs, folding his anti-jointed limbs almost on top of one another, lowering his body as he ran to reduce the transverse cross-sectional area from both sides.

——In this way, nearly half of the bullets would miss…

His arms, on the other hand, were raised flat.

This was a move natural person Martial Artists couldn’t perform; even if they forced it, they wouldn’t be able to exert power.

He struck the bullets from the side with his fists.

——They would aim for the seven vitals…

If his fists couldn’t keep up with the speed, he would prioritize handling those that could penetrate the power source…

and pray the armor held up for the rest…

In an interval too brief for sound to travel, Xiang Shan’s fists shot out with inch energy, deflecting one bullet aimed at his leg, one aimed at his neck’s central area, and two aimed at his chest’s power mechanism…

The recoil from his fist making contact with the bullets allowed him to barely twist his body.

Then, it felt like a series of hammer strikes hit him.

Xiang Shan’s body was jolted upward by five centimeters.

Those were the bullets he missed.

Only the angle of entry of one bullet was too great, the armor couldn’t stop it, and it penetrated the armor to enter the abdominal cavity.

Even a body devoid of touch felt a severe vibration.

But it didn’t matter; the external armor constructed in the village was of poor quality, so the bullet was sure to penetrate both layers of external armor.

There was no need to worry about the bullet inside his body causing damage by bouncing around.

As long as the power lines were undamaged, it was completely fine…

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And finally, the last one…

Shot straight at Xiang Shan’s brow.

It must be said that Gleayard’s grasp of “timing” and “arrangement” was far superior to Lev’s.

The positioning and timing of the seven bullets determined that Xiang Shan had to block the other shots first.

Moreover, the lethality of the other six bullets was no less than this one.

Xiang Shan’s fist speed was insufficient, unable to deflect all the bullets with an inch energy.

At this moment, his feet must have been off the ground.

The three bullets aimed at the chest.

After blocking the first three, the angle of Xiang Shan’s arms might not be enough to unleash an inch energy again.

And if Xiang Shan, out of fear, chose to block this bullet first, then the other attacks would render his prosthetic body junk—and the “commands” of the human brain have the highest priority for a prosthetic body!

——Believe…

believe in the algorithm!

——Believe in the product of human wisdom!

——The “wisdom” of humanity wasn’t meant to operate weapons…

It’s the operating system for the body and the path we take in the realm of the spirit towards “truth.”

——Therefore, entrust that moment to the algorithm, let your will become the annotation to “martial arts.”

Xiang Shan’s fingers opened wide, blocking the last bullet.

The moment it happened, Gleayard thought he had won for sure.

That prosthetic finger once belonged to “Torrential Rain Blade” Ronconi, he had checked its specs in a local sports federation database, its structure wasn’t capable of stopping that bullet.

But at the next instant, Gleayard’s eyes widened.

——Impossible!

The instant the bullet made contact with the finger, part of the bullet head deformed, softened, scattering like a liquid.

The bullet’s trajectory also deviated sharply, grazing past Xiang Shan’s face.

Meanwhile, that finger, wrenched by the enormous kinetic energy, struck towards Xiang Shan’s brow.

But that was all.

After all, it was just a finger with a fraction of the bullet’s kinetic energy, not the bullet itself.

Gleayard had not anticipated this outcome at all.

Actually, Xiang Shan had considered this method the moment he “caught” the bullet.

The instant he pinched the bullet, he vibrated it with mechanical waves of different frequencies, probing for the wave band that could dissolve the alloy material of this kind of bullet.

The high-frequency mechanical waves emitted from the “Torrential Rain Blade” Ronconi’s prosthetic fingers were meant to be transmitted through a specially made blade, to breach the opponent’s metal armor.

Xiang Shan was even more familiar with this usage.

The biological brain had already used “creativity” to construct a non-existent “future” before the beginning.

The algorithm perfected by wisdom executed it meticulously.

With the sure-kill strike failing, Gleayard’s consciousness inevitably faltered for a moment.

His muzzle fired another bullet.

But now, Xiang Shan had closed within two meters, the advantageous distance for a combat martial artist.

“Evasion speed exceeds the pace of the gun’s movement” had become possible.

The bullet passed by Xiang Shan’s back like a sledgehammer.

Just grazed his back.

For Xiang Shan, the ground had felt as though it were slick with oil—the friction provided by his feet at this speed was severely insufficient.

The moment he lost balance, he pressed his hands against the ground and twisted his body.

Only in “mastering the center of gravity” is the bionic fist technique of first-rate standard.

He had already penetrated Gleayard’s defensive circle.

His two pairs of arms, like sword and shield, became Xiang Shan’s cover.

Xiang Shan accelerated for the last time using the shockwave, closing in on Gleayard.

The intact prosthetic hand collided with Gleayard’s frontal armor for the first time.

The “bang” of the impact was like a knock on Gleayard’s soul.

——It’s over…

The edge of the blast wind had just swept by when Gleayard suddenly sped up.

Military martial arts focus on specialized heavy prosthetic martial arts and multi-body control.

Those with a unique understanding of war chariots and warships can even emit inch energy from a large prosthetic body by using instant acceleration and deceleration.

But the activity of a large prosthetic is also massive.

The vibration of the engine inside Gleayard’s body couldn’t be concealed at all.

In just an instant, Xiang Shan confirmed the direction of the vibration through the pressure sensors on his five fingers, and deduced the location of the power system inside the opponent’s body.

Then, he drew back smoothly.

——Ah…

Gleayard frantically adjusted his stance, trying to catch up with Xiang Shan’s movement with the barrel of his gun, and his thickly armored arms rotated like sword and shield, trying to slice at Xiang Shan.

But Xiang Shan had already maneuvered around.

At the same time, Xiang Shan’s prosthetic eye focused on Gleayard.

Gleayard also sensed something and instantaneously adjusted the precision of his prosthetic eye, allowing himself to only receive a mosaic precision image under a narrow spectrum.

But Xiang Shan had merely used his prosthetic eye to measure the curvature of Gleayard’s prosthetic eye lens and then inferred the lens’s field of vision.

Desperate, Gleayard flailed his dual pair of arms wildly.

Xiang Shan charged toward him.

The giant shield blocked Gleayard’s view.

After the arm swing passed, Xiang Shan’s figure disappeared as if by magic.

——Where is he…

Gleayard let out a howl.

And behind him, Xiang Shan leaped into the air for the first time, somersaulting like the Great Sage Equalling Heaven.

To be honest, choosing to use a cannon shell to limit his movements at the last moment was a bit of a rush for quick success.

This large prosthetic body already had a limited view, and it was normal to supplement it with drones.

But the shockwave from the cannon shell cleared away the drones from the surrounding area.

At that instant, the area that Gleayard could not watch or interfere with was “within five steps, an arm’s reach.”

An iron block thrown up by the explosion just missed Xiang Shan’s body as it passed by.

Xiang Shan’s legs released kinetic energy.

The iron block was kicked away by Xiang Shan flying out, and Xiang Shan himself descended on Gleayard’s back like a cannonball.