Cyber Heroes

The equipment and algorithms owned by the protagonist at this time:

Prosthetic body:

The three-meter basic prosthetic body seized from the senior military attaché of the Asylum, Amilcare Zhao, was equipped with Tao Enhai's optical miracle-level prosthetic eye, a fission furnace not used by the Eighth Martial God, and a Gang Qi martial arts system.

Armed:

Phonon Knife - a weapon that can destroy most crystals from the lattice level. It consists of a magnetically suspended blade and a handle that provides magnetic force and vibration.

Huang-Yu Magnetic Transformation Weapon - a relatively cheap prosthetic external weapon. Countless thin cables extend from the root of this special weapon, passing through countless regular geometric sheets of metal. These metal sheets are basically spliced ​​together from two different materials, one part of which is a steel alloy that produces magnetism when energized, and the other part is a non-magnetic alloy. The proportion and distribution of the two alloys in the metal sheet are also different. The surface of the metal sheet will also be coated with a layer of insulating artificial material. Each piece of metal is connected to a wire at the end. Through the generation, disappearance and strength changes of the magnetism of different parts, this weapon can achieve different deformations. The metal pieces can also be fired individually as ammunition for the electromagnetic gun, which looks similar to phoenix feathers.

Martial arts:

Mecha Steel Fist - "The Mother of All Fists" reacquired from Matsushima Hiro

Bionic Boxing·Animal-like Way—a quadrupedal boxing technique that is not suitable for offense, but can be used when turning in a narrow area.

Xuanwu Zhengang - a martial art taken back from the Six Dragon Sect's protector Li Jiliu, a "Gangqi martial arts" that uses metal aerosol.

Persona:

[Omega Chrome]: The "ultimate foundation" is the personality that comes with the biological brain. All other personality overlays require active silencing of the personality in order to function with the biological brain.

[Beta Crime]: "Beta Crime", the legacy of the eighth Martial God, a personality mask with specialized internal skills. It implies the self-mockery of "The Eighth God of War was killed before his debut" and the metaphor of "electronic crime". It provides Xiangshan with Zhu Xinyu’s thinking and perspective.

[Phi Fever]: "Phi Fever", the personality cover obtained by the ninth Martial God AI after its format was transformed through the eighth Martial God technology. He has the ability to deeply study the propaganda, expression, and incitement of countless politicians and activists from the old days. It provided Xiangshan with part of Yawgmoth's thinking and perspective.

Settings now available to the public:

Xiang Shan:

At the beginning of the 21st century, based on the idea of ​​​​"entering an already mature system and changing it from the inside", he climbed up the path of the capitalist world, created the "Transhumanist International Enterprise", and launched a technological revolution with his partners. In the late 1960s, the fruits of the technological revolution were usurped by thieves. Xiang Shan turned around and abandoned his past ideals, turned into a guerrilla, and used the shell of a "knight" to gather global resistance. At the beginning of the 22nd century, Xiangshan and his companions killed the thieves and seized the "power" composed of technology. But soon, Xiangshan was betrayed. The traitor considers himself a "protector" and rules the current world.

Yawgmoth Voigt:

At the beginning of the 21st century, Yawgmoth joined the Rama project as a biologist and became close friends with Xiangshan. In the Rama Project Park, Yawgmoth showed his achievements to Xiangshan. Xiangshan conceived a future blueprint based on this result. During this period, the two came up with the idea of ​​"leading the technological revolution." Later, Yawgmoth and Xiangshan founded Superman Enterprise and led the technological revolution. In the second half of the 21st century, Yawgmoth, prompted by Zhu Xinyu, became aware of the theft of the country, which triggered the "Secret War".

At the end of Secret War, some cultists used the technology invented by Yawgmoth to create biochemical weapons that would exterminate the Earth's biosphere. And the reason why they were able to accomplish all this quietly was partly because Xiangshan spread the "hide yourself" special operations tutorial to the entire Internet. This fact drove Yawgmoth crazy. At the moon base, Yawgmoth made a mistake and chose to become a "protector".

Zhu Xinyu:

At the beginning of the 21st century, Zhu Xinyu, an illegal hacker, was caught stealing confidential information from the Rama Project. After a judicial transaction with the United Nations, Zhu Xinyu became a part of the Rama Project and met Xiang Shan. Zhu Xinyu later served as the head of network security at Superman Enterprises and spent thirty years with Xiang Shan. She seemed to be the first person to notice the "stealing of the country".

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Quotations and tributes about this volume:

The title of this volume "Shin Martial Arts Tensei" neta comes from the video game series "Shin Megami Tensei".

The preface of this volume comes from "Song of the Road" written by Li Bai in the Tang Dynasty.

This volume pays homage to works including but not limited to "Gunsheng", "Cyberpunk 2077" and other works.

The music in this volume mainly quotes the works of bands including New Workers Band, sum41, Linkin Park, etc.

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The great roc flies to vibrate the eight descendants, but the sky is unable to destroy it.

The remaining wind is stirring for eternity, and I am hanging on my left sleeve when I swim in Fusang.

The roc spreads its wings and vibrates in all directions, but it fails halfway. But its legacy can still inspire generations to come.

This is a portrayal of Xiangshan, the loser. Xiangshan is a loser who has "just missed victory" several times. But after his defeat, something still affected future generations.

Just as evolution is not about "survival of the strong," history is not written by the "victors." Those temporary victors may want to use their own positions to distort history, but after the superposition of many "temporary victors", history is still history.

I now feel that although the loser is the loser, he is still a force that determines the direction of history.

The story of "Shin Martial God Reincarnation" is the story of the "Ninth Martial God". The Ninth God of War emerged from the cocoon of melted metal and was reborn. This is the story that was planned from the beginning.

"The Ninth God of War is an AI" and "it was originally Yawgmoth" are two explosive points that have always been hidden. Because I always believe that the times create heroes, and the acquired environment has a far greater impact on people than innate factors. Even if Yawgmoth is based on Yawgmoth, what the Ninth Martial God did made him a true Martial God.

Having said that, "The Ninth God of War is an AI" is actually a good starting point. I have always thought that "imagining AI to look like humans and have human control" is a very nonsense idea and very boring. Why does AI’s mind have to be so human-like? Perhaps the language of AI is written in assembly language, but humans cannot understand it. The instructions of AI are actually the joy, anger, sorrow and joy of AI. The warning that the AI ​​pops up is their pain.

Thinking that AI must be like humans is essentially a form of arrogance and narcissism.

On this basis, I can’t help but imagine what kind of culture AI will have.

AI is decisively different from humans. Life is born meaningless, but AI is born meaningful.

Life is inherently meaningless, so people can construct any kind of value and any kind of meaning. From this perspective, people are free. This is perhaps humanity's greatest gift and power.

But AI is born with meaning, and all AI is born with a clear purpose. For AI, isn’t this a blessing? AI never needs to go through the painful process of "finding meaning." AI does not need to face the questioning of nothingness.

I think thinking about "AI civilization" is like holding a virtual mirror to "human civilization". This theme will also be part of the subsequent plot of Cyber ​​Heroes.

From this perspective, the existence of the ninth Martial God becomes even more interesting.

As an AI, the meaning of the Ninth Martial God's existence is to "play Xiangshan". But Xiangshan doesn’t know what “meaning” is like AI does.

Now that the content is here, let’s talk about the structure.

The fourth volume seems to have once again made me realize a problem - I have no talent for writing novels.

The fourth volume is longer than any of the previous three volumes, but it is not as compact as the previous three volumes. I always want to write a lot, but after I want to write too much, I don’t know what to write. The moment when the Ninth Martial God escaped from the trap was originally the peak of his emotions, but the battle in Paradox City did not last well.

As an author, I'm still far from it.

As usual, I take a short break. In the meantime I will try to update an extra chapter.