Legend of the Cyber Heroes-Chapter 46 - The Phantom of the Demon Sect

46: Chapter 46: The Phantom of the Demon Sect

46 -46: The Phantom of the Demon Sect

When a loud “bang” erupted behind him, Gleayard realized that he might be finished.

Xiang Shan’s speed was just slightly slower than the speed of sound.

By the time the sound reached his auditory sensors, Gleayard had no time to react.

Suddenly, a machine gun behind Gleayard raised its head.

Xiang Shan extended his hands, grabbed the gun’s muzzle, then used the force to his advantage.

The gun spat flames, but the bullets only grazed past Xiang Shan.

Seizing the opportunity, Xiang Shan’s legs moved like the wind, kicking the machine gun to pieces.

Gleayard let out a tiger’s roar, and a slot opened above his treads, ejecting a cylindrical bomb.

Xiang Shan saw the bomb and wanted to retreat immediately.

But his reason quickly overpowered his instinct.

Gleayard’s head was right between Xiang Shan and the “bomb.” If it was indeed a bomb powerful enough to harm Xiang Shan, then Gleayard would suffer even more from it.

Of course, the possibility that “the tank’s brain isn’t in the cranial cavity” existed, but it was not likely.

When Gleayard had exerted Inch Energy earlier, he had fully opened his internal power system to gain that burst of acceleration.

Xiang Shan was very aware of the position and type of Gleayard’s power system.

Like Will Granddoug, Gleayard wouldn’t place his brain too close to the chassis.

Therefore, this couldn’t be a bomb.

As this thought flashed through Xiang Shan’s mind, the cylindrical object suddenly burst open, a silver light expanding outwards.

Gleayard’s thought process almost came to a halt.

His blind spot was at his back, unreachable by either firearms or shield arms.

This usually wasn’t a significant problem for a Firearms Path martial artist, who were supposed to annihilate enemies from miles away or within a range of five to a hundred steps.

If he failed to kill his enemy within that range, it meant his defeat.

And a dispersion of metallic particulate aerosol was his last means of counterattack.

The silver light drifted toward Xiang Shan.

At this moment, Xiang Shan seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

He deactivated the lockdown on his cooling system.

A sharp noise rang out within him.

From the many gaps in Xiang Shan’s external armor, high-temperature steam blasted out immediately.

It was boiling coolant.

He had released the pressure from his cooling system.

The coolant within Xiang Shan created a high pressure, causing a pressure differential inside and out.

The aerosol was slowly dispersed.

The metallic particulate aerosol, colloquially known as “Iron Dust” or “Shining Dust,” and even sometimes humorously referred to as “virtuous wife,” is generally a mix of nanoscale metal particles and high-pressure gas, dispersed in a special way.

It’s called “virtuous wife” because of its many clever uses, truly a must-have for home travel, heroism, and upholding justice.

Firstly, being a good conductor, metal can easily cause short circuits if it enters an electrical circuit.

Toss this stuff into a building’s electrical system, and you can paralyze an area.

Secondly, as a good conductor, metal particles can form a structure similar to a Faraday cage in the air, which can be used to defend against electromagnetic pulse weapons.

Moreover, its refractive capabilities can effectively counter laser weapons.

Additionally, mixed evenly with strong oxygienes, it can also be used as an explosive in enclosed spaces.

If you have suitable heating tools, it can be used to repair minor damages on external armor.

Most importantly, it’s cheap.

Sometimes, it was even used by early heroes as a smoke bomb.

Coolant surged from the gaps in Xiang Shan’s external armor and then mixed with the metallic particulate aerosol to recondense into droplets.

Gleayard, meanwhile, watched the shadow on the ground.

His own, behind him, in the mist, was almost ethereal.

A “clang” rang out.

Xiang Shan seemed to be tapping Gleayard’s back armor with his fingertip.

That was followed by a continuous “clang, clang, clang, clang.”

Gleayard knew that this was probably Xiang Shan determining the alloy material of his external armor, adjusting the high-frequency waves to disrupt the lattice structure—just as he had done with the last bullet.

But he still adjusted his auditory sensors, blocking out that sound.

He screamed, “Mercy!”

In this era, every line of code could harbor malice.

All prosthetic bodies were entirely unguarded, open-source code was full of backdoors, even the tutorials found online could be traps.

Even the firmware he rewrote himself couldn’t guarantee the absence of unforeseen security flaws.

From the last information conveyed by Lev, Xiang Shan’s level of Inner Strength had reached unbelievable heights.

He could definitely grasp some backdoors unimaginable to Gleayard, and then overwhelm him with overpowering Inner Strength.

“Mercy, Great Hero, mercy!” Gleayard screamed.

“I too once was a hero!

I had no choice!

It was all loyalty!

Loyalty drove me here!

I am not… Give me a chance!

For the sake of my past, give me…”

“Don’t worry, I have no interest in tormenting my enemies,” Xiang Shan said calmly.

“I’ll make it swift.”

Speaking, his entire palm adhered to the external armor atop Gleayard’s head.

The high-frequency shockwave was activated, causing the metal crystal’s lattice structure to chafe under the precisely wavelengthed mechanical waves, instantly fatiguing the metal.

The armor crumbled like a biscuit.

Xiang Shan had no slightest interest in the intelligence.

He could dig out whatever he wanted to know from Gleayard’s storage device himself.

With a release of the mechanical wave from his hand, he shattered the alloy and was about to take Gleayard’s life.

But to Xiang Shan’s surprise, there were no electronic devices beneath the external armor.

A pink shadow suddenly lunged out.

It seemed very soft, and the mechanical waves emitted by the fingertips of the prosthetic hand were completely absorbed by it.

The pink substance suddenly contracted and formed two tentacles, binding Xiang Shan.

— Hahaha!

This is my reversal hand!

Gleayard instantly activated his engine.

The tentacles, akin to those of cephalopods, were also nurtured recently as part of a mysterious “Demon Sect’s” newly developed project.

The year before last, someone claiming to be an Angel Envoy of the Demon Sect approached him, leaving him a treasured blade and a secret manual to recruit him.

These tentacles were part of the Demon Sect’s newest technique.

Gleayard knew he had become a guinea pig for the Demon Sect, helping them test their latest scientific achievements.

But this was exactly what the Wilderness Bandits craved.

Beyond a set of extremely thick nerve systems and a protective membrane, these tentacles comprised only muscle tissue.

These muscle tissues, just like normal soft-bodied organisms, thinned out and lay dormant inside the armor, taking up almost no space, and even acted as a “buffer layer.”

And these tentacles immediately surged forth as soon as the armor shattered.

Indeed, metallic muscle tissue could not possibly be stronger than steel.

But the heroes of the time rarely had experience dealing with flesh.

Their expertise in high-frequency methods considered only how to confront metallic-shelled enemies.

The soft muscle tissues could absorb high-frequency mechanical waves and were not as prone to damage like metals.

Xiang Shan’s lightweight prosthetic body weighed only about three hundred kilograms, very light.

The two tentacles could lift it up.

As long as Xiang Shan’s limbs moved away from Gleayard’s body, losing support, Gleayard could use Inch Energy to repel Xiang Shan. free𝑤ebnovel.com

Even if these tentacles were completely wrecked after this battle, it was worth it!

A humanoid prosthetic body was no match for a vehicle-like body such as Gleayard’s in terms of long-distance raids.

— Just like this…

it must work…

A surge of excruciating pain.

Blue blood splattered.

Xiang Shan’s fingers had already torn through the tentacles.

In that instant, Xiang Shan suddenly remembered something.

He had studied “how to efficiently kill flesh.”

Yes, this might sound absurd.

The performance of the prosthetic body had a tremendous advantage over flesh, and Cyber warriors seemed to be able to kill a Natural Person with just a few punches and kicks.

However, Xiang Shan seemed to have fought against flesh and blood enemies before, presuming “they were protected by a massive armed force, so it’s very likely only one hit was needed.”

He knew how to better utilize his strength to tear through flesh.

“Ahhh…” Gleayard screamed furiously as he slammed backward.

And Xiang Shan’s prosthetic hand pushed forward forcefully.

This time, it seemed they really had settled the score.

Xiang Shan felt he had destroyed some sort of protein-accumulated soft tissue.

He reached up, tore open the Brain-Machine Barrier, pulled out the storage device and the Martial Arts Chip, then immediately retreated, maintaining a certain distance from Gleayard.

No one said that a Cyber body could only contain one brain, nor that a Cyber warrior couldn’t set a “revenge program” somewhere away from the brain.

Of course, self-destruction was out of the question.

All those fools who set their bodies with the function “I die, then explode” had their self-destruct mechanism prematurely triggered by Internal Masters.

However, Xiang Shan did think, perhaps Gleayard, being only mediocre in Inner Strength, might not know of this trick and had set a self-destruct function for himself.

He kept a thirty-meter distance, watching carefully.

There was no second brain, no artificial intelligence in charge, no self-destruction.

And no missile came flying.

Only then did Xiang Shan approach Gleayard.

“Military martial arts…” Xiang Shan looked at Gleayard’s prosthetic body and sighed.

Compared to the usual context of “Inner Strength” and “External Sect,” military martial arts emphasized “specialized prosthetic bodies” rather than “algorithm,” having been created by the world’s rulers to counter the rebellion of the heroes.

“So now even bandits are proficient in military martial arts?

What bizarre developments has this world gone through?” Xiang Shan shook his head, then climbed onto Gleayard’s back, tearing open the wound his own arm had pierced.

In that moment, he really wanted to express his confusion through the language of a “frowning” expression.