Legend of the Cyber Heroes-Chapter 56 - Little Poison Insect

56: Chapter 56 Little Poison Insect

56 -56 Little Poison Insect

To be fair, Little Poison Insect was not a very hardworking Martial Artist.

He belonged to that group of incredibly lucky individuals.

Many years ago, when he was still a poor man, he chanced upon a corpse in a ditch.

According to the Jianghu experience he acquired later, that corpse must have belonged to a Hero.

The Hero had died there for unknown reasons, his Prosthetic Body disassembled extensively, leaving only a few biological parts and a decorative textile.

Little Poison Insect picked up that textile, which was embroidered into a Magnetic Chain.

It was from this Magnetic Chain that Little Poison Insect downloaded resources related to martial arts, which even included Inner Strength, External Strength, and Military Martial Arts.

And so, he quietly cultivated his martial arts.

Later, Little Poison Insect had a conflict with a neighbor and ended up killing him.

He fled from protection to join the organization Z as an outlaw.

Gleayard, when he heard this part of the story, was so frightened that he almost expelled Little Poison Insect.

Because… that was a Magnetic Chain!

Magnetic Chains share a similarity in name with blockchain and both possess features like distributed storage, asymmetric encryption, and use of hash algorithms, but they are fundamentally not the same concept.

A Magnetic Chain is a format, a string of characters that forms a link, used to identify a file that “operates the so-called ‘Distributed Hash’ Inner Strength, which can be transferred peer-to-peer.”

Once a person downloads a resource, their device becomes one of the servers.

When new users want to download the same resource, the previous user’s terminal provides part of that resource for the newcomer’s download.

This ensures that unless all users are eliminated, the resource cannot be easily destroyed.

On the other hand, a blockchain is a set of rules, building chains of information blocks with mathematics acting as the “third-party notary,” which is a “ledger” visible to all participants.

In ancient times, merchants wanted to use it as a ledger.

But it’s not limited to just being a ledger.

It also serves a critical role as a “free repository for Inner Strength.”

It can be said that the two are fundamentally different concepts, not comparable at all.

If blockchain is a method promoted by the Martial Ancestor for sharing Martial Studies, then a Magnetic Link is the mode used within a Sect for internal sharing of Martial Studies.

And it is only used internally within a Sect.

Unlike the blockchain, which offers dynamic authentication and is visible to everyone with undetectable participation, the files downloaded via Magnetic Chain are only known by the previous downloaders.

And it’s even hard to confirm how many “real users” were there before.

You might just be wiped out by Space-Based Weapons while downloading.

After all, the coverage offered by “Distributed Hash” and “Kadriya” in terms of Inner Strength doesn’t compare to those designed to counter sovereign states like “Onion,” “Bit,” and “Monero.” There is no comparing their levels of intent.

Possibly, before your download, there were no other users, only some malicious resource creator who possessed the file pointed to by the Magnetic Chain.

Those who build Martial Studies blockchains are somewhat driven by a sense of justice.

Because it’s challenging to ensure that any traps you leave on the blockchain won’t be detected by a passing expert.

Even if there are traps, they are much more sophisticated.

But the things downloaded from a Magnetic Chain really could be anything.

Unless it’s from a trusted fellow Sect member, Magnetic Chains obtained from other sources are untrustworthy.

And whenever someone betrays the Sect, the entire Sect will change the encryption method for their Martial Studies.

But incredibly, the Martial Arts that Little Poison Insect obtained, whether it was that particular Sect’s Inner Strength or the “Cloud Mist Overcasting Sun” Drone Formation, were all free of issues.

Whether it was the Sect heritage Gleayard obtained during his time as a Hero or the Martial Studies and incomplete programming knowledge from the blockchain that the others learned, they saw no faults when compared.

The bandits could only speculate that perhaps this was an experimental work thrown out by some significant figure.

Perhaps during Little Poison Insect’s time online, some parameters secretly uploaded from the Experience Accumulation.

But Gleayard forcefully stopped such discussions.

In this era, discussing such topics is dangerous.

Since the era of the “Sublimation War,” “Directly Calling the God’s ID” has been a consensus.

On the other hand, Vigorous Kui, who joined later, believed that it was the “Turing” miracle on Earth.

Vigorous Kui self-realized his Martial Arts and had a devout belief in Inner Strength.

He constantly tried to understand its mysteries.

Unfortunately, Little Poison Insect did not keep that piece of textile embroidered with the Magnetic Chain (this type of textile is also called Magnetic Core).

He burnt it to avoid disaster after downloading.

Vigorous Kui was painfully remorseful when he heard this news, but Lev said it was right to burn it.

Who knows if the Hero whom Little Poison Insect initially encountered had brought trouble on himself because of that textile.

Little Poison Insect, for his part, was indifferent.

He was not as devout about Martial Arts as Vigorous Kui.

He has always been lazy.

Even after becoming a part of Green Forest, he showed little interest in plundering resources.

He even casually handed over the “Cloud Mist Overcasting Sun” Drone Formation to Gleayard to cultivate.

Gleayard occasionally wondered how he had risen from being a Lackey.

But that was just how Little Poison Insect was.

Only when casting Gu, manipulating others, and destroying experts’ Inner Strength did he show a hint of excitement.

Otherwise, he would rather nest in the Great Stockade, rewriting some ancient games from memory.

It was only because of his malicious actions that he gained some reputation in Jianghu.

It is hard to imagine how someone who climbed up purely by luck could develop any fervent emotions.

But now, Little Poison Insect, his face full of fervor, was connecting a data cable into the data port on his neck.

His prosthetic body was humanoid, but with a long neck featuring two rows of ports on either side, of various types.

The data chain was connected to one of them.

In front of him, a reading device was stuffed with a huge hard drive.

“So this is what it feels like to ‘Reopen Heaven and Earth, and create a world of my own’…” Tears streamed down Little Poison Insect’s face.

He had been using a prosthetic eye for a long time, but since last year, he had been trying to cultivate biological tear glands for his own use.

All of this, all of it, came from this hard drive.

The year before last, right after Brother Gleayard had perfected the “Cloud Mist Overcasting Sun” drone formation, he was about to emerge from seclusion to reorganize the surrounding Green Forest forces, hoping to climb to a higher position on the Tiger List.

And it was at that time that a person came to the Great Stockade of Organization Z.

This was a Mysterious Person wrapped entirely in black fabric.

The prosthetic body he used was about two meters tall, and from his back, waist, and shoulders extended six legs, like those of a spider.

The rest of his prosthetic body was covered by the black fabric, making it impossible to discern its exact specifications.

This robed figure proclaimed himself to be “an envoy under Water Earthworm,” intending to “Reopen Heaven and Earth, and create a realm of his own.”

The name “Water Earthworm” was unknown to Gleayard and Little Poison Insect; they didn’t know whether it referred to a significant figure or an organization.

But the more obscure the power, the more terrifying it was.

“Not to directly call God’s ID” was a taboo.

Moreover, “Reopen Heaven and Earth, and create a realm of one’s own” was no small feat.

Ordinary warriors, even those who start their own sects, would only claim to “Create a new world of their own.” Only those who are truly innovative in martial studies would dare to make such a claim.

“Reopen Heaven and Earth, and create a realm of one’s own,” then, meant to establish an entirely new system on the foundation of existing martial arts.

Since the Sublimation War, ancient histories were unknown, and within the recorded history, only Martial Ancestor had ever been granted such an honor.

It was on top of natural human fighting skills that the world of Cyber Martial Arts that exists today was Reopened.

Even if standards were relaxed, no more than four people qualified for such a title—because when Martial Ancestor created Inner Strength, he received assistance from others, and military martial arts came from another person, different from Martial Ancestor’s lineage.

However, the legends of the other three are “unspeakable.” Recklessly describing them could lead to being targeted by cephalopods, with the risk of dying without a trace.

Lev, seeing that person’s grand claims, naturally disagreed and attacked vigorously alongside Blue Steel Vulture, only to be overthrown in a few moves.

The inner strength of Little Poison Insect and Vigorous Kui seemed to have no effect on him, and Gleayard, who ran out of bullets, also failed to touch him in the slightest.

The man said indifferently, “Without a Reactor beside you, without supreme capacitors to suppress, how could you perform profound martial arts?

Even with a treasured blade, it couldn’t be activated.

May I ask the leader, do you have a way to transform completely?”

Gleayard simply told him to speak plainly.

But the man did not speak directly; instead, he asked, “Leader, what do you think of my martial arts?”

Gleayard pondered for a moment and said, “It’s unparalleled in my life.”

“Now, leader, you have an opportunity to learn my master’s martial arts.

If you succeed in your training, there will be a Reactor offered to lift you to the heavens.”

That was already two years ago.

At that time, the “Water Earthworm Envoy” left behind some techniques, anti-immunity medicine, hormones, transplantable organs of cephalopod ganglia, and a hard drive considered a “treasure.”

After Gleayard had developed tentacles, that “Water Earthworm” also sent a set of treasured blades as a “down payment” to encourage Gleayard to strive further and reach new heights.

And since that time, Little Poison Insect had been studying the technology to repair neural networks among other things.

This was a completely new world.

But what he was most addicted to was that hard drive called “Reopen Heaven and Earth.”

“This feeling of encountering the unknown…

turning the unknown into the known…” Little Poison Insect pressed his hand against his chest, gently thumping, “This is bad, this is bad, I can’t keep indulging like this…”

—That desire to battle against the heavens and earth…

—If I continue this obsession, I might actually become a Jianghu Hero…

After a long while, he looked at the hard drive reverently, “Truly worthy of being…

a god…

No wonder the spark has never extinguished for two hundred years…”

Just then, a speaker connected by a single wire suddenly made a sound, saying, “Second-in-command, there’s a problem…

You need to come and see.”

Little Poison Insect felt all his passion dissipating and impatiently said, “What?

Is Little Edward playing his hunting games again, so there’s a breach in the defenses?”

“No…

not that…” The person stammered in reply, “Second-in-command…

it seems like there’s…”

Just then, a gunshot rang out from the speaker.