Cyber ​​Heroes

Chapter 1153 The Sufferer

The black swordsman let out a meaningless roar, and at the same time spread his wings, swinging his sword wildly, the blade almost detached from the hilt, chasing the hilt. The complex aerodynamic shape of the prosthesis gave this move a strange path.

But Thanatos just waved his hand casually.

The two figures crossed each other, but the blade in the swordsman's hand had already broken.

The disadvantage of the phonon knife is very obvious. Its lethality can only be released at the blade. If the sword spine is horizontal, it is just a piece of extremely hard ceramic alloy. Only the blade can release fluctuations of a specific frequency.

The blade of the thermal blade does not have this limitation. Even the spine of the sword does not release much heat different from the blade. Its shape is more about structural strength and aerodynamics.

"That swordplay is pretty good, but I've seen through it." Thanatos sneered, "If you have no other means, then die."

The black swordsman just looked at the half-broken sword in his hand. After Thanatos approached, he suddenly reacted, and the vector jet in front of him exploded, driving him to retreat quickly and avoid Thanatos' attack.

A rope suddenly shot out from the swordsman's shoulder. Thanatos didn't know what this trick was, so he stopped attacking and lowered his altitude slightly. The hook shot from the swordsman's shoulder cannon accurately hit a triangular drone with a wing-body fusion structure, and used the drone as a fulcrum for leverage.

Thanatos chased after it. The drone crashed down - it seemed that the rope shot out by the shoulder gun also served as a data cable. Thanatos was afraid that the explosives in the drone were large, and the live ammunition from his shoulder would hit the drone and blow it apart, and then rushed through the flames and wreckage,

What was coming towards him was the sword light.

The black swordsman has acquired the new Phonon Blade.

  ——There is a blade hidden in that drone... No, there may even be several blades?

Thanatos could only raise his heat sword to block.

With a clang, the heat energy sword broke immediately, and half of the sword body turned into a ball of red light under the action of inertia, flying past the black swordsman's wings. The feather-shaped alloy sheet used to heat the air had a heat resistance similar to that of the heat energy sword, so it would not cause great damage.

There is only one kind of alloy used in the thermal sword, and the corresponding phonon knife frequency under the heating state is fixed.

However, a gap appeared on the blade of the phonon knife.

The black swordsman retreated again and threw away the blade of the phonon knife in his hand without hesitation. A gap and a part of the area were subjected to high temperature, which was enough to destroy the overall and microscopic structure of the phonon knife blade, reducing the performance of the blade.

Another blade fell right behind the black swordsman at this moment. He caught the blade with the handle.

Thanatos adjusted the shoulder camera upwards, and the heat dissipation system almost stopped working. Due to the continuous EMP coverage, the radar was restricted, and Thanatos's senses were compressed into a narrow range. He only saw the numerous drones above his head. The performance of these drones was not strong, and they were almost static for the warriors of the first heaven.

But what made Thanatos feel uneasy was the opponent's use of it.

For the mysterious warrior opposite, this thing is almost a disposable sword box and a disposable shield.

The second blade of the Six Dragon Cult swordsman should have been extracted from the drone. The third blade was dropped into the air before the drone dived and began to fall from an almost stationary state.

Thanatos only had two replacement parts for his thermal blade.

"Hey, hey, hey... This isn't right..." Thanatos released the fixing bolts, and the blazing blade fell. "How could you be so extravagant? You want to exchange the blade of the phonon knife for the blade of the thermal blade? What on earth are you?"

This question seemed to have touched the mysterious black swordsman. He had fallen into a state of delirium after cutting off the blade of the thermal blade, and did not pursue to expand the victory. He only fell into a state of indecision after taking the third blade. He turned his head and looked at Thanatos, saying: "...Who am I...Who am I? I...Xiangshan?"

"God of War? Why did the name of the God of War suddenly appear?" Thanatos felt creepy.

At this time, the black swordsman also screamed: "No! No! No! I'm not! I'm not! I'm not! I'm sorry! I'm not!"

The swordsman held his head in pain, his wings shaking and losing balance. The auxiliary system of the warrior's prosthetic body had a lower priority than the input command from the brain. He fell headfirst. The swordsman rolled in the air and shouted, "It hurts... It's terrible! I'm not! I'm not! I'm not!"

As he rolled over, ten missiles scattered in all directions without distinguishing between friend and foe.

This scene made Thanatos completely lose his patience: "Ah, so that's it. I guessed it. The Six Dragons Cult, the Six Dragons Cult. The experimental product of Xiangshan's memory, right? The madman who used Xiangshan's memory - Xiangshan is very strong, but he can't become stronger just by using that memory, idiot."

He even lost interest. A blade popped out from the back of the fuel tank on Thanatos's back. Thanatos took advantage of the black swordsman's madness to re-fix the blade, instantly heated it, and then pounced down.

Thanatos wanted to put an end to this madman who had absorbed the memory of Wu Zu immediately. As a subordinate of King Agni, he had seen such half-finished products.

But this action was also caught by the black swordsman. He immediately howled: "No no no no! Sorry!"

At the same time, the phonon knife rose.

The Six Dragons' defenders cheered in midair. Even the one fighting Xiangshan Dog couldn't help but turn his attention away. Although the black swordsman's response seemed frantic and swift, it contained a lot of changes.

In the eyes of martial artists, a vast number of phantoms extend from the swordsman's body like "time-lapse" or "overlapping layers". That is a "possible strategy to choose". Thanatos raised his heat sword to respond. Under his response, the choice of "response method" was reduced and destroyed.

This is a matter of course. When the phonon knife is fighting against the thermal sword, the sword cannot be crossed - to be precise, one blade can only cross once. All sword techniques developed based on the phonon knife are explored based on the two methods of "precise stabbing" or "long-distance dragging".

This kind of storm-like and frenetic swordsmanship should not be the swordsmanship of the phonon sword.

However, something happened that surprised Thanatos.

The sword's power was actually as fast as the wind.

The thermal sword failed to intercept it.

The exquisite swordsmanship was like the wind that could not be contained, bypassing both sides of the thermal sword, and the tip of the sword touched the outer armor of Thanatos' lower abdomen on the same side of the shoulder wound. It was as light as a dragonfly touching the water.

Such chaotic swordplay left only such a minor result.

But this is enough. The phonon knife does not rely on the momentum of the blade, nor does it release heat energy. The specific vibration waves on the blade for a specific crystal structure are released very quickly. As long as the contact time is more than several times the vibration period, the power of the phonon knife can be fully exerted.

“No, no, no, no… I’m sorry! I’m sorry!” The swordsman howled and pointed his sword at Thanatos’ waist, but he did not expand his victory. Instead, he continued to howl, “This… I don’t want to use it… I give up! I give up! This should not be used on myself! I want to give up! I want to leave! I’m sorry!”

He waved his weapon wildly, seemingly fighting an invisible enemy.

Thanatos didn't even react for a moment. He rushed out more than 70 meters before he reacted. The outer armor had been torn, and the live ammunition in the ammunition magazine was faintly visible between the gaps.

Thanatos was shocked and angry. He couldn't believe that he couldn't even take down such a madman!

"His movements clearly don't resemble those of a martial god at all." He was furious. "Is it this kind of... this kind of lunatic who has eaten Xiangshan's memories that can step on my head?"

The heat blade was raised again, and Thanatos brought up a narrow tail flame, like a stream of blue-gold light. The incandescent sword light bloomed like an explosion.

He immediately changed his thinking and decided to attack.

When facing the thermal blade, the phonon knife has the weakness of "not being able to exchange swords". This means that it has no blocking effect on the enemy's weapons. Naturally, basic skills such as "sword entanglement" and "sticking power" cannot be used. Of course, few people use weapons to intercept attacks. When "weapons" are more valuable than "limbs", the thinking of ancient martial arts should be completely overturned.

Under such a violent attack, the phonon knife, which cannot fight head-on, will suffer. Even if a thermal sword is cut off, it can still be used as a short knife. However, if a small part of the phonon knife is heated to ultra-high temperature and then cooled again, the performance of the entire blade will decrease.

Thanatos should have attacked long ago.

He fired all the live ammunition in the damaged magazine and approached under the cover of the live ammunition, but the swordsman rolled in the air, avoiding Thanatos' attacks by a hair's breadth each time.

  Even this almost irregular stall motion!

The swordsman screamed, "No, no, no... I'm sorry! I didn't! I shouldn't have!"

"Ha, idiot!" Thanatos laughed loudly, and fired the grappling hook on his body, hoping to fix the positions of both parties.

But the swordsman stretched out his wrist, avoided the hook, grabbed the carbon fiber rope, wrapped it around his wrist twice, and shouted: "I admit that I am a coward, why don't you let me go? I am not a superman! I have already admitted it! I have already admitted it! I am not a great man! I am a loser!"

The two men approached each other quickly, and their swords collided.

The grappling hook cannon fixed on the swordsman's right shoulder was turned into an irregular metal ingot by the heat sword.

The crack caused by the phonon knife appeared on Thanatos' right wing.

——Oh no…

Thanatos kicked his opponent away, extinguished half of the feather-shaped heating modules on his wings, and barely maintained the balance of both wings. The fixed component behind him popped out, and the entire wing module detached from his back.

Now he only had the vector nozzles all over his body to use. He could barely fly like this, but he couldn't maintain high-speed combat.

He quickly retreated, using his grappling claws to fasten himself to the Knights' Double Helix Building, and gritted his teeth: "How is this possible... why..."

On the other side, Xiangshan also fell into deep thought.

  ——What on earth is this?

——Ah, actually I saw it clearly when he made his move. This is also a kind of me. The Six Dragons Cult used my memory to brainwash its followers and cultivate struggle mania. The leader of the Six Dragons Cult is also Xiangshan, so it is foreseeable that they will study Xiangshan's memory and conduct various illegal experiments.

  But...what is this thing in front of me?

Is this also a kind of martial god?

but……

  Who is it? Who has such a feeling towards Xiang Shan?

What kind of Xiangshan is this?

Why would such a product be created?

The swordsman wailed in mid-air: "Enough, David, enough! Let me go back... We lost... I just want to die in my home..."

Xiangshan: "Ah, I seem to remember this sentence..."

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One night in 2066.

Albania is a mountainous country in Eastern Europe. This poor country built fortifications frantically in the second half of the 20th century. There are so many concrete bunkers that there is one for every three people in the country. In addition, there is an incalculable amount of underground space.

Superman Enterprise had intervened here. Xiangshan loved every inch of the land where order collapsed. In the process, Xiangshan also mastered many underground air defense fortifications that were not recorded in the archives. The archives about these fortifications had long disappeared in the terrible turmoil from the late 20th century to the early 21st century.

Now, Xiangshan, whose life's work had been taken away, was curled up in a bunker. He was shivering, with several data cables connected to his prosthetic body.

Xiangshan felt that his "self" was gradually disappearing... "self" seemed to become uncertain and elusive again.

He didn't know if he would be the same person in the next moment. He couldn't be sure. The individual "Xiangshan" seemed to be cut into countless slices along time, and the "self" in each slice was shouting.

"Don't want to disappear."

"Don't want to disappear."

The sensitivity and fragility unique to adolescent humans came back to this man, who was already an old man, fifty years later.

Then, a strong sense of guilt overwhelmed him.

Xiangshan was defeated by despair.

On a rainy night, he shouted loudly: "Enough, David, enough! Let me go back... We lost... I just want to die in my home... Let me go back..."

To regain the powerful learning ability possessed by adolescent humans.

In order to transform from a "scholar" to a "warrior".

Xiangshan used "high-dose Huandan enzyme" and "direct data input" on himself, two technologies that have not yet been verified, have questionable safety, and unknown side effects.

The current miserable situation is exactly what Xiangshan looks like.

David picked up Xiangshan and punched him in the face angrily. The prosthetic body he was using now was very different from his natural body, which was kind and friendly. His relatives and friends in the past could not recognize his identity from his appearance. Even his temperament was completely different from his past self.

The pain of his family being stolen drove him crazy. He grabbed Xiangshan's collar and shook him: "This is not what we agreed on! Why do you think I should trust you again? Do you understand the current situation?"

Xiangshan's facial features were almost squeezed into a ball. This prosthesis was not very good, and it did not have the function of simulating tears and snot, otherwise Xiangshan's half face would be covered with liquid. He danced with excitement, but he could not say mature words.

David punched Xiangshan in the face, then covered his head with his hands, inserted his fingers into his hair, and locked his fingers on his scalp.

"Okay... okay... Shan... this direction may not be correct... Let's take a break. We don't have much time left in the next few days anyway..."

With a loud bang, Xiangshan's forehead hit the mattress. His facial features were distorted, and he banged his head on the mattress desperately, as if he wanted to shake something out of his head.

David glanced at the monitor and said, "You're fucking crazy!" He rushed over and held Xiangshan's upper body and neck. "I can't use tranquilizers in this state - damn, you're still inputting data?"

The elixirs were dissolving Xiangshan's dignity and willpower. Xiangshan still continued the experiment in an ugly way.

He needs this power.

He felt that he had not reached his limit. David pressed Xiangshan's head into the mat. He said vaguely: "There will be no concussion... I expected this situation. The head is just a decoration, and my brain is in my chest."

"Is this a concussion thing? What can you do in your current state?"

Xiangshan shook his shoulders twice, and said in a voice that no one could hear clearly: "I'm sorry..."

"Mom...I'm sorry..."

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"It's really my memory..." Xiangshan calmly approached and shot, blowing off the wings of the Six Dragons Cult protector in front of him. The Six Dragons Cult warrior screamed and fell down. He looked at the swordsman who was holding his head and wailing, and felt sad in his heart.

If we were to say who sees Xiangshan...

That is Xiangshan in Xiangshan’s eyes.

A side of me that I don’t want anyone to see. I feel guilty towards my parents, my friends, and my country. I am a pathetic loser. I am a shameful instigator. I am weak at heart and often want to give up.

After those years of painstaking research and development of early martial arts, David has always believed that Xiangshan is the man with the strongest willpower in the solar system.

Yes, that’s right, the powerful side is Xiangshan.

  But as an early experimenter, is Xiangshan still Xiangshan if he is wailing on the ground with his head shot off?

Even David chose to forget and head towards the mountain.

Perhaps in the eyes of others, this "weak Xiangshan" is another side that exists to set off the "strong Xiangshan". It's just like a certain artistic technique commonly used by artists.

Perhaps it is because people have such a cognitive model deep in their hearts that they have such artistic techniques.

But "weakness" is also something that cannot be completely eliminated.

Until today, Xiangshan is still fighting against his own weakness.

In a place where no one can see it.

Only Xiangshan knows how weak and incompetent Xiangshan is in nature.

"But when I think about it carefully, it doesn't seem quite right. This guy was created to deal with Thanatos. In other words, the purpose of the Six Dragons Cult is to create Xiangshan for combat." Xiangshan nonchalantly gave himself a prefix indicating the purpose, "Since it is 'Xiangshan for combat', it should not be 'Xiangshan's weak side', but 'strong side'..."

Amid the wailing of the mass production, the battle situation changed again. Thanatos had to use the grappling claw to hang on the building. In the space battle, the electromagnetic grappling claw can fix the relative position of two flying objects. For melee players, this is one of the basic weapons. Now that Thanatos has lost his wings, he has no choice but to use this method to keep himself in the air.

This is the effect of the planet's gravity.

This is not the best environment for Thanatos to perform.

However, the swordsman performed even worse. He was still covering his head, which seemed to be the action of a human covering his face and crying. This action was not in line with the flying posture, so he was carried by his flight module and rolled randomly in the air. However, he was able to pull himself back from the brink of death every time with his exquisite adjustments.

If the opponent did not take the initiative to attack, he would not know to take the initiative to expand the results of the battle.

The remaining two Six Dragon Cult warriors were trying to draw the black swordsman's attention to Thanatos. At this moment, no one even came to restrain Xiangshan.

Anti-aircraft guns in the building fired at Xiangshan, but he easily avoided them. Someone in the building also tried to destroy Thanatos's hook. Before Thanatos could do anything, Xiangshan took the lead and killed those enemies with lasers.

Xiangshan quickly cleared the temporary firepower point set up by the Scientific Research Knights while continuing to think.

"In other words... they created 'the weak self in Xiangshan's eyes' not because they really wanted to create such a character, but because they were limited by technology and could only create such a character? Judging from the Holy Lord at the bottom of the sea, the Six Dragons Cult has mature technology to create a false personality to cover Xiangshan. However, this is the Earth-Moon System, and they don't want a false personality to be active in places with a network. Therefore, the data of a false personality like the Holy Lord will not appear here."

"The technology used to create this thing appeared here for other reasons. In addition, the purpose of creating this thing was not simply to create a martial god, but to explore other things... to verify a certain hypothesis."

Xiangshan easily retrieved the relevant information from his database.

Since his purpose was to burn down the Six Dragon Sect, Xiangshan simply transferred all the knowledge left by the Holy Lord.

Although the Holy Lord deleted a lot of content, he still retained some of it.

It's like tearing off half of a page. Although you don't know the content of the other part of the page, you can still infer it from the context. If you come across a torn text, you can also roughly infer where this part of the text may appear.

There is a certain connection between "knowledge" and the memory of "events".

Xiangshan didn't know the full picture of this technology, but he seemed to be able to retrieve information that was strongly related to the phenomenon in front of him.

Scientific research has found that when people experience pain, the amygdala region of the brain becomes active. The amygdala is an important part of the brain that processes emotional responses, especially when faced with dangerous or terrifying scenes. In addition, painful experiences can cause changes in the connections between neurons in the brain. The amygdala will work hard to engrave the painful memory between groups of brain cells.

From an evolutionary perspective, remembering painful experiences is beneficial for avoiding future danger and harm. This memory can help individuals avoid repeating the same mistakes, thereby improving their chances of survival. Human ancestors used this mechanism to mark encounters with enemies and learned how to avoid danger.

The range of big cats, the appearance of venomous creatures, the smell of predators...

Hunter-gatherers would remember this information and be more cautious in future encounters with similar situations to avoid being hurt again. This deep impression of painful memories would bring a greater survival advantage and make the related genes more likely to be passed on.

This is also the reason why humans are "loss averse". Loss brings more intense pain than "never getting it".

Painful memories are often accompanied by strong emotions.

These emotions enhance the encoding and consolidation process of memories, making them more difficult to forget.

In the memory of an event, the negative part is actually...dominant.

What they endure is the pain that Xiangshan felt when he pushed the entire human race to ascend.

Guilt, powerlessness, the feeling of having lost loved ones forever...

Xiangshan himself did not have such terrible feelings. Because his actions brought him a sense of accomplishment that was even greater than the pain. The satisfaction of "completing the mission" was enough to offset all the pain.

But the inherent mechanism of human memory encoding changes all this. The "painful" part is more prominent, while the "gainful" part is weakened.

Even the "glory of the past" and the "misery of the present" themselves are a source of pain.

Even Xiangshan himself, when he created "Martial Arts", when his personality was softened by the side effects of Huandan enzyme, he was also overwhelmed by the accumulated pain in his heart. And the pain at that time was mainly due to the theft of Superman Enterprise and the negation of his life's career.

This technique of the Six Dragons Sect would probably make the recipient experience in a short period of time the same pain that Xiangshan had gone through for a long time.

Xiangshan cleared out the Six Dragon Cult's support forces and focused his attention on the swordsman in pain.

Xiangshan's own psychological defenses were gradually built up through success and satisfaction over the long years, and were constantly strengthened in the fight against pain.

Swallowing all the pain of Wu Zu Xiang Shan's life at once, but lacking the corresponding sense of accomplishment, this is what will happen.

The sense of accomplishment gained from memory will fade, and the contrast between "past" and "present" will become a new pain.

This poor thing hopes to deny that it is Xiangshan, and thereby gain spiritual comfort.

The brain has not had time to develop a mechanism to fight the pain from memory.

but……

There is no doubt about his martial arts skills.

According to the theory of Xiangshan, the leader of the Six Dragons, human personality, ability, knowledge, and experience are all relatively independent but mutually influential modules.

I'm afraid this technology is exploring the module of "ability". The Six Dragons Cult wants to obtain Xiangshan's "ability".

What they really wanted was the ability of Xiangshan, the founder, and "personality" was something they didn't want.

The reason why they keep this personality now is probably because they are not able to completely separate the "personality" and "ability". The technology is not yet mature.

This is the result of absorbing a large amount of Xiangshan's memories in a short period of time.

It is not a specific fragment that reflects Xiangshan's success, but a complete memory that is sufficient to form a personality.

And many martial gods probably became martial gods under such circumstances.

Their "memory intake" is spread over a longer period of time, and they continue to fight pain based on a lack of sense of accomplishment.

Fighting the pain itself is their sense of accomplishment.

Those martial gods whose true personalities were hidden... they all came this way.

"Just from the point of view of 'toughness', the original body of the God of War may be stronger than the God of War himself, much stronger." Xiangshan turned sideways and avoided the gunshots of the Six Dragons Cult warriors. He flew over and grabbed a Six Dragons Cult guardian with a first-level heavenly body, then turned on the power behind him and rushed into the building with the Six Dragons Cult warrior, "So why bother. Is Xiangshan really that strong?"

He had to explore the building now.

He needs to know what the Six Dragons Cult is doing now.

Perhaps he still had the obsession of “protecting the Knights’ headquarters” in his mind, the swordsman howled in agony: “Stop, stop, stop, stop… Stop! Ahhhhhhh!”

He suddenly turned in mid-air and wanted to follow.

"Well done, Master Gaotian!" Thanatos' electromagnetic grappling hook immediately locked onto this guy. Three grappling hooks hit him in succession, destroying the swordsman's posture and locking him tightly. The swordsman lost his direction and crashed into another floor. He propped his arm against the wall of the building and turned around.

Thanatos immediately followed, swinging his heat sword wildly, the plasmatized air mixed with the surrounding atmosphere, violently distorting the last reliable way of perception - vision. The swordsman punched the wrist holding the sword.

After Xiangshan killed the warrior who used the first level of heaven's artificial body, he didn't even collect the spoils, but just picked up the gun and rushed out immediately. He pulled the trigger, and the bullet was like a surging metal tsunami, tearing apart everything in front of him.

Xiangshan had been carefully observing the internal structure of the building during his time as an undercover agent. He knew very well that the Six Dragons would not place such a high-level secret in a place where he could access it. It must exist in a place that "Knight Frey" could not touch in the past.

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When Palmien heard the noise outside, he realized that the time was almost up.

Facing a master like Thanatos, the God of War's personality armament, which is still in the experimental stage, will not have much effect.

He stood up and picked up the phonon knife. This weapon was extremely sharp. If the frequency was correct, even a slight touch could cause considerable damage. The Scientific Research Knights could obtain the performance parameters of common alloys and the corresponding frequencies of the phonon knife through various channels.

Being able to kill here means that the matter is almost over. He raised his sword and looked towards the door: "Come on, I'm not afraid..."

With a loud bang, the wall suddenly exploded, and Palmyne's posture was blown away, flying out sideways.

A dark shadow rushed in, jumped up, held Palmion down and threw him to the ground.

The powerful force instantly shattered Palmien's upper limbs.

Xiangshan shot Palmion dead with a single shot, then swung the phonon knife and cut the body open from the back.

He shot and killed Palmion's biological brain. What he really needed to find was Palmion's storage device. The brain of the scientific knight's prosthesis was not placed in the head, but in the body cavity, and some memory and processors were also arranged near the brain.

When he killed Palmien, Xiangshan had already turned off the EMP on his body. After extracting the storage device from Palmien's body, Xiangshan carefully kept it.

After quickly reading a part of his memory, Xiangshan finally extracted some clues from his recent memory.

Those were the contents that had not been deleted in time, and they were the core thoughts of Palmyne when he was dying.

"Very good, this should be it." Xiangshan nodded.

In fact, the safest approach is to keep Palmien alive and use internal hacking to clear out all the information in Palmien's mind.

But now Xiangshan is just an AI and has no ability to attack or defend with internal skills.

"If I had known earlier, I should have sent the real body here." Xiangshan picked up the Phonon Knife and fixed the blade behind him. "Let me see what you guys want to do, you bastards of the Six Dragons Sect."

　Recently, I am going to stop taking the medicine on the advice of my doctor. It is said that summer is a good time to stop taking the medicine. However, the reaction is a bit strong, and my insomnia has suddenly become very serious.

　　(End of this chapter)