Chapter 348: Chapter 348

348: Chapter 128: The 8th Martial God, Part 5 348: Chapter 128: The 8th Martial God, Part 5 When Zhu Xinyu said, “I might be dying soon,” Xiang Shan truly was stunned.

even without using genetic adjustments to improve your physiological age, you’re only in your mid-two-hundreds.

It’s simply not possible for you to die of old age…

No, there was a very direct possibility.

Zhu Xinyu shrugged her shoulders: “Firewalls, of course, are meant to eliminate viruses.”

“The human firewall,” King Aqini.

“What exactly happened?”

“When you frequent the riverbank, how can you not get your shoes wet?” Zhu Xinyu shrugged her shoulders: “I was stealing research data from the Scientific Knight Order on Mars, and that guy found out.

It’s as simple as that.”

Even someone as strong as Zhu Xinyu couldn’t guarantee that she would come out unscathed from every operation.

“My consciousness is in a standoff with his across around four hundred servers between Jupiter and Earth.

It’s possible that the lives of a billion people will be affected.

But when it comes to location, he has the upper hand.

Besides, he is, after all, the government and has more resources at his disposal.

A single slip-up, and I got bitten.”

Zhu Xinyu’s expression was quite regretful: “As soon as he pinpoints my location, he can bring a giant warship over and sweep with high-energy weapons measured in light seconds.”

Apart from being the second-best Internal Strength Master among humans, Hartman is also the foremost expert in Military Martial Battle Formations.

He could kill this transcendent practitioner of the Internal arts with his cannons from a range beyond what Zhu Xinyu’s Inner Strength could reach.

As long as he knows which servers Zhu Xinyu is closest to, he can lock down all large objects within that region.

He really was capable of such an act.

Having a positional advantage…” Xiang Shan looked at Zhu Xinyu: “You’re not on Mars anymore?

But you committed the theft remotely?

And ‘that person’ just happens to be near Mars?”

In this era, of course, the government would not have tasks that needed to be made public to the citizens.

If Hartman wished to secretly travel to Mars or Venus, naturally, he could.

Zhu Xinyu sighed, “Bad luck.

He just happened to arrive at the knightly residence I was hacking into.”

Xiang Shan was shocked, suddenly thinking of a terrifying possibility: “Wait, which Order of Knights?”

Zhu Xinyu looked at him strangely: “What do you care about that for…

The Araya Holy Knight Order.”

She sighed, “In a few hours, he’ll see through my proxy and trace back to several servers near me.

By then, even if I could gain an advantage in an Inner Strength Battle, it wouldn’t help.

The outcome of the Inner Strength Battle can no longer decide anything.

I plan to make my last dream a good one, so I came to visit this server.

Although I still think it’s foolish for you to pretend to be him, at least you’re somewhat of a Hero, and we have some sort of connection.

“Wait a moment…” Xiang Shan released his Internal Strength at full force.

He knew his Inner Strength was still inferior to Zhu Xinyu’s, but right now, all he needed to do was to hinder her process of erasing traces, then he could…

Xiang Shan only felt darkness before his eyes.

The dream almost felt like an earthquake.

Zhu Xinyu’s eyes widened in disbelief.

“You should be on Earth…”

“Just like how you’re actually in the Asteroid Belt, but dared to steal things from Mars,” Xiang Shan smiled, “I was born because of your memory…

We happened to think alike.”

Zhu Xinyu was likely stealing the computational resources of some local Scientific Knight’s Biological Brain to extend the range of her Inner Strength, aiming to use it to steal data.

But her bad luck was indeed bad.

Even with the remote use of local Biological Brain computational resources, she couldn’t truly defeat Hartman across astronomical distances.

And the Inner Strength that Xiang Shan had just released wasn’t transmitted from Earth either.

He had stolen the computational resources of the Biological Brain of the personnel maintaining this server in orbit.

Xiang Shan and Zhu Xinyu instantly understood what the other meant.

Their methods were remarkably similar.

—No, their interactions over the past few years…

It wasn’t just that he had received technological ideas from Zhu Xinyu. Follow current ɴᴏᴠᴇʟs on ⓝovelFire.net

It probably worked the other way around as well.

His ideas, which couldn’t exactly be called humane, might have inspired Zhu Xinyu…

“No, that’s not right…” Xiang Shan suddenly became a bit bewildered: “After the original ‘me’ died, did you go through anything special?”

“I think I’m realizing something,” Xiang Shan pressed his head, looking at Zhu Xinyu: “The darker aspect of my behavior doesn’t come from ‘me,’ but lurks within your thoughts.

But this doesn’t conform to ‘my’ knowledge of you.

Before this, I’d never even doubted it.

But on closer thought, who I know is actually the you from the first ‘me’s memory.”

He felt sad: “So that’s how it is…

‘Even ‘chatbots’ fall under Pseudo-personality Masks’ is a mistaken belief, isn’t it…

You used this term, and then those who didn’t know any better spread and interpreted it broadly.

The narrow definition of Pseudo-personality Masks…

Xiang Shan wanted to ask something, but he didn’t ask it out loud.

Zhu Xinyu’s expression was complicated: “You…

behind the scenes…” She seemed to want to say something, but in the end, she changed what she was going to say: “Perhaps I destroyed your life.

You suffered ‘our’ sins in the dark.

Xiang Shan interrupted Zhu Xinyu, “Hold on, Ms.

Zhu, there’s one question I hope you can answer truthfully—has your Inner Strength improved at all?”

Perhaps because the two of them originated from the same source, Zhu Xinyu understood Xiang Shan’s meaning instantly.

Her complexion changed: “You actually…”

“What that Old Dog is after is none other than traces that carry personal habits and characteristics.

In that regard, I’m highly similar to you.

I might not even be able to distinguish myself.

With just a bit of work on this server, swapping peaches with plums isn’t difficult.”

“This is by no means a love story about a ‘husband’ saving his ‘wife.'” Xiang Shan stared at Zhu Xinyu, “The role I’m playing is the ‘me’ in your eyes.

The first ‘me’ would only make the rational choice at this time.

You probably understand it better than I do…

No, we both understand equally.”

Zhu Xinyu closed her eyes: “All lives are priceless.”

“But if a choice must be made, then we can only rely on additional value to measure.

Under certain scenarios where major natural disasters occur, it’s not unreasonable to prioritize saving experts with higher added value,” Xiang Shan said, “I just hope you’ll answer truthfully.”

Zhu Xinyu seemed to be weighing her options.

But ultimately, she said, “The path of Internal is not about scaling summits but about reaching the breadth of the ocean.

While a biological brain has an upper limit in its capabilities, the structure of mathematics remains beyond the reach of technology.”

The meaning was clear.

“I’m not even sure I can cultivate to the level you are at now,” Xiang Shan sighed.

“Naturally, my additional value is less.”

If Zhu Xinyu’s answer had been the opposite, Xiang Shan would have made the reverse decision.

He would have erased his traces here and then lain low on Earth again.

Xiang Shan would make such a choice.

Zhu Xinyu’s expression was complex.

It took her several minutes before she finally spoke, “I apologize for my earlier rudeness.

You truly are a ‘Hero.’ You are not him, but you are also a remarkable person.”

“No, I am Xiang Shan,” Xiang Shan shook his head, “I have to be Xiang Shan.”

Xiang Shan sent a Magnetic Chain to Zhu Xinyu, along with a set of files.

“What is this?” asked Zhu Xinyu.

“My life’s accomplishments,” said Xiang Shan.

“I don’t want them to be completely lost, so please keep them.

At least when someone downloads them in the future, they won’t be unable to find a single resource.”

“Also, after I die, tell others that I am ‘me’—you know what I mean.”

‘Surely you could have lived on as a Hero with an independent and enduring reputation.

He definitely would have preferred it that way—you know what I mean,” she said.

“I am Xiang Shan,” Xiang Shan stated.

“Perhaps to you, as his partner, we—I and the six before me—are just lunatics who stole the ‘first me’s’ name.

But this name represents our soul as Heroes.”

Of course, there was one reason Xiang Shan did not voice.

Maybe in this way, there would be a next Xiang Shan who would come here and inherit his true ‘legacy.’

Zhu Xinyu did not speak or agree.

“If you meet another ‘Xiang Shan’ in the future, at least don’t be angry with them,” Xiang Shan said.

“You can cast the Old Dog’s tracking onto me.”

Zhu Xinyu disappeared.

After deleting the backdoor software that stole computing resources from the biological brain, a flood of data rushed in.

Xiang Shan felt like his brain had been forcefully hammered.

But he soon burst into manic laughter.

“I, Hu Hansan, am back, Hartman!”

Then he decisively cut off the internet connection.

In the darkness, Xiang Shan stood up.

“There’s still a little time,” said Xiang Shan.

Calm down, Xiang Shan.

This isn’t the first time you’ve been through this, feeling scared is embarrassing.

There’s still time, best head to Black Valley to update the data.

Then, several years after the defeat of the eleventh Martial God.

Underneath Black Valley, a pile of rubble shifted.

A few Mobile Cavalry clumsily dug out a somewhat dizzy C·Shivaji-21.

A bit of a concussion, C·Shivaji-21 thought.

But it wasn’t a big problem.

Who would have thought, the opponent turned out to be from the Turing Lineage…

But strangely enough, as a member of the Turing Lineage, his defenses seemed to have too many gaps.

But the Three Dragon-Slaying Moves were definitely real.

“The Three Dragon-Slaying Moves…hehehe…hehehehe…I see.”

“So, I’ll adjust the firewall status and use a curse that I can endure…”

The lineage of King Aqini and the Turing Lineage weren’t new to clashing.

C·Shivaji-21 knew how to deal with the move ‘With His Own Way.’

Then a Mobile Cavalry brought over an old man who had lost an arm and a leg—Trace.

Trace had fallen into a semi-conscious state, his brain indeed damaged.

C·Shivaji-21 hacked into his prosthetic body.

He learned that, indeed, there was another Hero.

He had gone in the opposite direction.

That guy is also after the treasures of the Eighth Martial God.”