Cyber ​​Heroes

Chapter 8 The vicissitudes of life, the enemy is still there

Yuki sat in front of Xiang Shan quite cautiously.For some reason, he felt that the "Yog" in front of him seemed different.

Humans have an innate ability to convey their emotions in ways other than declarative language.It's like a natural compiler.People can transform their emotions into a cipher text conveyed by body, expression, demeanor, and tone, and the interpretation of this cipher text is also in the human brain.

And Yuki interpreted such information from various details of "Yog"—he is different.

Yuki himself was unaware of the decoding process.He just feels uneasy.His room was as messy as it had been swept by a storm.Various parts were roughly turned out.The dog was lying on his only table with its chest and the back of its head open.

"I'm sorry, boy." Xiang Shan scratched his head: "I lost control of my emotions just now... It's a bit messy here."

He now has a kettle lid on top of his head.Cyberman's head does not need additional structures such as respiratory tract and esophagus, so the biological brain is lower than that of natural people, freeing up the cranial cavity to make room for electronic components.But Xiang Shan lost all his electronic equipment, the cranial cavity was empty except for the biological brain, and the brain-computer interface was directly exposed.

He was quite afraid of static electricity causing dust to enter.

Yuki looked at the head with the lid on the kettle, but couldn't be serious.

"Did you remember something, Yog?" Yuki asked.

Xiang Shan nodded.

He hesitated.Yuki is a cyberman, which means that the memory of the other party does not necessarily belong to him alone——Xiang Shan doesn't know what the transformation surgery of this era looks like, and whether it will leave a regulatory backdoor in the brain.

He also didn't know what his enemy's status was in this world, and whether speaking his name would bring danger.

After a long time, he said: "Yuki, I'm going to tell you something next. You must not tell anyone about these things, otherwise, it may bring danger to you and your mother. You Do you understand? Of course, you can also choose not to listen, I will not force you..."

Yuki had a nervous look on his face.But soon, this nervousness was overwhelmed by excitement: "You remembered, right? You were a big shot, right? You also have a very powerful enemy..."

Sighing to Shan, he pressed Yuki's head.After several months of getting along, he understood that this young man has always been overly curious.He looked serious: "If you really want to hear it, you have to swear not to tell others what I will tell you next, can you do it?"

"Yes!" Yuki nodded excitedly.

Xiang Shan sighed.Now, he has no one else to trust.If you want to obtain information, you can only start with this boy.

Xiang Shan said, "Yuki, have you heard of the name 'Xiang Shan'?"

"'Xiang Shan'...so your name is 'Shan'?" The boy was very excited: "'Xiang Shan' sounds very imposing!"

Xiang Shan was a little confused.His name was given by his grandfather, and it has no special meaning.But, in his time, the name should have amazed everyone...

——My name, has disappeared?

——Such a big historical event has now disappeared from human cognition?The event that changed the entire evolution history of the earth...

——How long have I been asleep?

Xiang Shan clasped Yuki's shoulder: "You really can't think of anything? About this name? Or a name with a similar pronunciation - do you know anything about this name?" What about titles like 'Difficult'?"

Yuki shook his head.

Xiang Shan sat down on Yuki's bed.For some reason, Yuki felt that Xiang Shan suddenly became very depressed.

"Xiang Shan, were you a famous person before?" Yuki was a little curious: "I've never heard of you, and it hit you so hard?"

Xiang Shan nodded: "I was really famous before...Maybe people in the whole world know my name?"

"Ha, bragging, 'the whole world'?" Yuki smiled unkindly: "You're not a Paralympic champion! Why don't you tell me, what great things have you done before?"

Xiang Shan held his head: "I still can't remember."

Although he recalled his name and some other things, he still couldn't recall what he had experienced.

Xiang Shan probably knew the reason.In order to pursue the pinnacle of martial arts... In order to pursue the limit of biological brain performance, he transferred all declarative memories that could be converted into mechanical language without loss to an external information storage device.In his brain, only non-declarative memories that cannot be accurately transformed, and pure knowledge remain.

He has lost too many things.

Even if the memory in the biological brain can still be recalled, the information storage device that has disappeared physically cannot be retrieved.

Now, all he could remember was his own name, the names of his enemies, and all other technical information.

Xiang Shan was a little confused: "Hey, Yuki, if you don't remember 'Xiang Shan'... what about the name 'Yawgmoth Voigt'?"

Yuki tried hard to drive his memory hard drive to retrieve the word, but still found nothing.He shook his head and looked at Xiang Shan worriedly.

"It's strange, no one remembers my name. As a 'winner', it's impossible for him to be forgotten by everyone, right?" Xiang Shan showed a confused look: "Didn't I sleep for decades, and Is it thousands of years?"

Yuki laughed loudly: "Xiang Shan, are you stupid? Even with a completely remodeled brain, brain cells cannot remain dormant for decades without nutrients. You were thrown away five or six years ago at most. I'm going in!"

Speaking of this, the little boy stopped laughing: "In this case, your relatives and friends may still be alive! Now that you have recovered your memory, maybe you can..."

"I can't remember what they look like at all..." Xiang Shan shook his head, looking confused: "I don't even remember who they are."

He fell into confusion once again.

"Hey, Yuki, what year is it?"

"A few years... What are you talking about..." Yuki thought for a while: "209 years?"

"209 AD?" Xiang Shan was stunned for a moment: "AD?"

"What is AD?" Yuki shook his head: "What you said is so strange?"

"Yuki, do you know what major historical events happened in this year—or in 1?"

The boy shook his head: "I only remember a historical event called the Sublimation War in 03..."

"Sublimation...war..."

I have no impression of this word at all.

Human beings have completely forgotten the AD calendar and adopted a new calendar method.Did he sleep for 209 years?No, this is a bit outrageous no matter how you think about it.It is absolutely impossible for his brain cells to survive for 209 years without ingesting any substance.

Or is it that this "first year of new commemoration" is at his time, but later people redefine the era with a historical event that he knows?

For example, people nowadays are used to calling the "Second World War" the "Sublimation War"...

——haha... how is it possible...

Xiang Shan was amused by his own thoughts.

The feeling of having a bug in the prosthetic eye reappeared.

Really, as far as the garbage dump that the Recycling Station Town relies on for survival, the sublimation war is at least something that happened in the information age.

Xiang Shan's sleeping time was longer than he imagined.

Why did he come alive?

His rebirth seemed meaningless.His own name has been buried in the dust of history, and his enemies seem to be heading to the same end.No one remembers the two of them anymore.And in this case, he still has to wake up from the garbage dump while chanting the name of the enemy.

why?

— No, not right.

Xiang Shan said to himself.

"That guy Yog and I used the same batch of... the same batch of what... damn it, I can't remember. Our biological part uses the same technology. If I can still live, then he has no reason died."

"And this distorted world... The earth's current appearance is definitely related to the so-called 'historical event that changed the history of evolution' in my memory!"

Xiang Shan clenched his fists unconsciously.

"Even if there is only one head left...I have to know who I am and what happened when I was asleep. I must...I must..."

"Xiang Shan..." Yuki shook Xiang Shan's hand.

"Oh? What? Sorry, I lost my mind."

"I'm sorry..." Yuki lowered his head: "I'm too ignorant. If I knew about your past, you wouldn't be so sad, would you?"

"No, it's my fault." Xiang Shan shook his head and said with a smile, "Who made me not famous enough?"

"Did you just think about your family and friends from the past?"

"No..." Xiang Shan shook his head.He thought for a while and said, "I'm going to tell you a secret next, a real big secret. If you think it's scary, I'll leave here immediately..."

Yuki became nervous again: "What is it?"

"I just remembered that besides my name, I also have my identity." Xiang Shan looked at the dog lying on the table: "Unfortunately, child, I am not the athlete you dreamed of. I am a knight ——A very powerful knight."

"So you are... what?" Yuki's face froze: "Warrior?"

He stared at Xiang Shan: "Warrior?"

Xiang Shan nodded and said in a serious tone, "He is still a very powerful knight."

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As the festive atmosphere faded away—or, to put it another way, the noise of the street brawl faded away—the doorbell rang at the house of the mayor's nephew, Mr. Dresden Schulz.

Mr. Schultz is a person with a relatively high degree of transformation.His face was completely replaced with metal ones, flat eyes, abstract serious expression, fixed on his head as a decoration - it is said that this is the appearance of a mechanical hero in ancient times.

When Xiang Shan saw a man with the face of an Iron Man coming to open the door, he was completely stunned.

It's a good thing Yuki doesn't know anything about "Iron Man" or something.He jumped up and yelled, "Doctor Doc, Xiang... I mean 'The Mountain' he needs some parts. He heard you had them here, so here he is. He's going to make himself one now..."

"Stop kid, you're so excited." Xiang Shan reached out and pressed Yuki's shoulder: "Is Dr. Schultz right? I may need to make myself a more convenient prosthetic body, but there are indeed many missing parts. I I hear your parts are the most complete in town."

Dr. Schultz nodded: "I see. Please come in."

He unchained the door and let Xiang Shan and Yuki enter his room.Yuki rushed in at once, took a few steps, and even turned his head to look at the doctor, his eyes filled with two emotions of "showing off" and "wanting to show off but not".

Dr. Schultz scratched his head: "It's the first time I've seen that child excited..."

"Maybe I'm overexcited." Xiang Shan explained: "I remembered something... from the past. I told him just now that it would be a repayment for saving his life. If he can give me something in the future If it’s the first one, I’m willing to pass on some skills to him.”

Dr. Schultz was a little alert: "Repair?"

He knew the man knew a little about repairing.

This town needs only one doctor.The Schultz family has three children and plans to have another.If the next child does not enter the human gene pool, the doctor still wants to train all four children to be high-class talents.And a town only needs one doctor.He doesn't have enough children, how can he let other people get involved?

"It may be some simple repairs, or it may be other skills." Xiang Shan patted the doctor on the shoulder: "Of course, my skills can't compare with yours!"

(End of this chapter)