Legend of the Cyber Heroes-Chapter 51 - Green Forest Lackey
51: Chapter 51 Green Forest Lackey
51 -51 Green Forest Lackey
“Woo—Hahahaha!”
Li and Andy were riding their motorcycles across the plains, carrying the freshly robbed spines and parts.
The two thugs screamed wildly, venting their emotions.
This was a typical activity for their group.
They would ambush along the road, and whenever a vehicle transporting supplies passed by, they would jump out and rob it.
Parts, spines, batteries, even the most basic food—nothing was off limits, not even melt-able metal ingots.
Supplies were extremely scarce in the wilderness.
Furthermore, the leaders, in order to maintain their dominance, had to constantly cultivate.
The Cybermen’s external strength needed real or simulated combat for cultivation.
Parts would wear out, armor would fatigue.
An Internal Strength Master seeking improvement would need to simulate hacking and defending on a computer, continuously crafting algorithms and getting familiar with mathematics.
This also required electricity.
But in the wilderness, no one dared deploy solar panels extensively.
Everything had to be stolen.
Occasionally, a settlement’s shelter would be revoked, and for the thugs, it was like a holiday.
Such an event might not even occur once in several years, and the thugs particularly cherished the residents of those settlements.
They were restrained enough to ensure that after a raid, the settlement’s population would only decrease significantly without being totally exterminated.
However, within the Green Forest, there was no unified decree.
Thus, if a settlement was raided multiple times… well, that was just their misfortune.
The seemingly hearty life of the Wilderness Bandits was built entirely on relentless plundering.
And Li and Andy, a pair of newly debuted Green Forest brothers, were beginning their raiding missions, moving resources to their camp like ants bit by bit.
After a successful raid, speeding under the moonlight was the most thrilling part of their day.
“Hahaha!
This spine is pretty shiny!
Who would have thought that skinny freak could have such fine bones!” Li shook the spine in his hand and laughed loudly, “Little brother!
Catch!”
Andy casually caught the almost completely metal-based spine and clipped it behind his back, shouting, “Brother, how childish!
Speed up and let’s head home!
The people we robbed that day might still have some leftovers!”
Of course, “supplies” also included people.
Humans were a convenient commodity.
Whether as tools for labor, toys for amusement, or even as biological resources.
Sometimes, brains could be used to replace AI, and some Internal Strength Practitioners also corrected their Contemplation Technique by observing brain activity.
But live humans were always more entertaining.
Thugs quite enjoyed destroying good things.
“Are you being childish?” Li scoffed, “Still like to play with people after becoming bandits?”
Andy called out, “That also has its thousands of delights… Eh?
Brother, is there someone ahead?”
Hearing this, Li looked in the direction Andy was pointing and indeed saw a person wrapped in flexible material walking slowly.
The person carried a small human on their back.
The moonlight stretched their shadows long, making them quite conspicuous.
“A master?”
“Probably not, too slow, perhaps a lackey returning to the camp with a captive?
But that’s not right either,” Andy pondered, “Who would go out to rob and not even have a motorcycle?”
Li speculated, “Abducted someone to join the gang?”
Andy nodded.
It was common for people to kidnap a neighbor or someone from the city and haul them into the wilderness to join the gang.
After all, surgery modifications also carried the risk of failure.
Likewise, you couldn’t guarantee the camp wouldn’t use you to train the camp’s surgeon apprentices.
At such times, it was usual to have spare organs on hand.
Anti-immunity medicine wasn’t expensive, after all.
The slow-walking Cybernetically Enhanced Person was probably just that.
“So… brother?”
“Little brother?”
“One last mother of a raid?”
“Let’s do it!”
“Hahahaha!”
The two scumbags immediately burst into arrogant laughter.
Li took out a long stick, casually tucking it under his armpit, his forearm and upper arm with the steel stick forming a stable triangle.
The stick pointed straight ahead like a lance.
Andy, on the other hand, pulled out a large gun—a firearm that could as well be dubbed a “hand cannon,” with an impressively bizarre caliber of twenty-five millimeters.
A one-meter-long hooked blade was also welded to the short barrel.
Andy had no intention of shooting.
He raised the Long Blade like a ready-to-raid Mongol cavalryman, chanting an unintelligible tune and charging at the person.
“Brother!
Let’s race!
See who snags the biggest part!”
“That’s not fair!”
The person wrapped in black fabric seemed to realize what was happening and started to panic, quickening their pace.
“Run?
Is it useful?
Hahahahahaha!”
Li and Andy, the two brothers, swiftly closed in on the walking person.
Then they simultaneously thrust a gun and a blade.
Li’s lance should have made contact first.
But for some reason, the person in front suddenly turned around.
The lance-like steel stick slid past his chest as the person seemingly used the force to accelerate and lie down.
Andy thought his brother had succeeded and excitedly thrust downward with his blade, but the person suddenly sprang up, and Andy lost track of him in an instant.
The next second, Andy’s speed slowed.
“He’s on my bike…”
When the word “bike” left his lips, Andy felt his head jolt as if he had heard a “ding” sound.
He didn’t understand what was happening, he just felt that his limbs were not obeying him anymore.
“You’re already dead,”
a voice gently whispered in his ear.
Xiang Shan was reminding the young man from Green Forest of this fact.
It was only natural, Xiang Shan thought.
The life cycle system of the Cybermen didn’t require the brain areas directly connected to the vegetative nerves for regulation, and their brains had strong resistance to oxygen deprivation, so it was normal that they didn’t realize their death immediately.
A moment ago, he had thrust his fingers through the back of Andy’s head, breaking through the metallized spine, piercing into the cerebellum, and inflicted simple destruction with Inch Energy.
The process wasn’t very painful.
Xiang Shan knew from Lev’s memories that these lackeys of Green Forest were part of the Martial Artist reserve team.
They wore Miscellaneous soldier Prosthesis, designed with the same concept as Martial Artist Prosthesis but of much lower standards, to adapt to the activities of Martial Artists.
In this process, those with External Sect talent would gradually stand out.
They would eventually become the fully transformed Cybernetic Warriors.
Typically, these lackeys didn’t have special alloy armor protection on the backs of their heads.
——So…
I’m already dead…
Andy couldn’t speak.
The lack of oxygen was gradually beginning to affect him.
His brain slowly ceased functioning.
At the end of his life, what he saw was his brother turning the bike around and yelling, “Bastard!
What did you do!”
Li only saw that man standing silently behind his brother’s bike and realized he was facing a master.
Desperate to rescue his brother, he grasped a steel rod, lifted it over his head, and turned to strike at the strange man behind his brother.
At that moment, Xiang Shan suddenly slapped Andy’s hand holding the bike handle.
Andy’s motorcycle abruptly veered, colliding with the rear of Li’s bike.
Li’s swing missed, forcing him to dodge.
In that instant, the relative speed of the two motorcycles was nearly zero.
Xiang Shan firmly stepped to the side.
The disciple could not withstand further jolting because of his injuries.
After realizing Xiang Shan had vanished, Li finally noticed he was already standing behind him.
Li shouted, trying to turn around and deliver an elbow strike, but the motorcycle suddenly veered left.
——Damn…
he’s trying to pin my leg to restrict my movements…
Li leaped up from his seat, trying to get off before the motorcycle could pin one of his legs.
However, at that moment, Xiang Shan suddenly kicked from the side, knocking the bike back on course.
This movement caused Li to overextend, nearly flipping out of the bike.
Then, it was a punch.
Xiang Shan delivered a punch to the temple on Li’s right side.
Li’s skull seemed partially replaced with alloy; it didn’t shatter, but he nearly lost consciousness and was thus pinned by Xiang Shan on the seat.
Xiang Shan’s toe then flicked the long rod, poking Andy’s arm once.
Thus, the two motorcycles, carrying the brain-dead Andy and the severely concussed Li, moved forward side by side.
It took several seconds for Li to regain consciousness.
He slurred, “Warrior, I have something…”
“No need to say anything.
Just hold the handle.
Drive as I tell you to,”
“Wha—”
“Did you not understand me?
I told you to properly drive the bike, didn’t you hear?”
Xiang Shan kicked again, this time hitting Li in the groin.
Parts flew off.
“Now your leg is useless.
You know better than I do what happens to a legless man in the wilderness.
The only option you have left is to carry the passenger and head in the direction I specify—did you understand this time?”
Li nodded in terror.
Xiang Shan indeed needed a means of transportation.
Mainly because…
he indeed needed to save some battery power now.
Xiang Shan’s luck was really not good…
of course, this also had to do with “the hastily written autopilot software possibly having a BUG.” He had been searching in the wilderness for six hours.
“The donkey” still wasn’t found.
Meanwhile, there was more bad news.
His first Trick Mine had been triggered.
Every few distances, he would dismantle a drone to make Trick Mines and signal repeaters.
About fifteen minutes ago, he had found out that his first Trap Mine had been triggered.
The small amount of ethanol explosive wouldn’t harm a Cybernetically Enhanced Person’s Prosthetic Body.
This just indicated to him, “that place has been found.”
Of course, this did not rule out the possibility of “other Wilderness Bandits accidentally setting it off.” But considering the distance between that spot and the crash site of the Ground Effect Vehicle, it was more likely the government had acted.
Thus, he planned to use these two passing thugs to conceal his tracks.
Even before the two thugs had seen Xiang Shan, he had already locked onto them with a drone.
