Cyber Heroes

Yuki sat in front of Xiangshan quite cautiously. He didn't know why, but he felt that the "Yog" in front of him seemed different.

Human beings are hard-wired to communicate their emotions in ways other than declarative language. It's like a natural compiler. People can transform their emotions into a secret message conveyed by body, expression, demeanor, and tone, and the method of interpreting this secret message is also in the human brain.

And Yuki interpreted this information from various details of "Yog" - he was different.

Yuki himself was unaware of this decoding process. He just felt uneasy. His room was in a mess as if it had been swept by a storm. Various parts were roughly dug out. The dog was lying on his only table, its chest and back of its head opened.

"I'm sorry, kid." Xiang Shan scratched his head: "I lost control of my mood just now... There was a bit of a mess here."

There is a kettle lid on top of his head now. A cybernetic head does not need additional structures such as a respiratory tract or esophagus, so the biological brain is located lower than that of a natural person, freeing up the cranial cavity to make room for electronic components. But Xiangshan lost all his electronic equipment, and his cranial cavity was empty except for the biological brain, and the brain-computer interface was directly exposed.

He is also quite afraid that static electricity will cause ash to enter.

Yuki looked at the head holding the lid of the kettle and couldn't look serious.

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

Xiang Shan nodded.

He hesitated. Yuki is a cybernetic, which means that the other person's memory may not only belong to him - Xiangshan doesn't know what the transformation surgery of this era looks like, and whether it will leave a backdoor for supervision in the brain.

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

After a long time, he spoke: "Yuki, I'm going to tell you something next. You must not say these things to anyone, otherwise, it is very likely to 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, the nervousness was overcome by excitement: "You remember, right? You were originally a big shot, right? You also have very powerful enemies..."

Xiangshan sighed and held Yuki's head. After several months of getting along, he understood that this boy had always been overly curious. His expression was serious: "If you really want to hear it, then you have to swear not to tell others what I'm going to 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 young man.

Xiangshan said: "Yuki, have you heard of the name 'Xiangshan'?"

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

Xiang Shan was a little confused. His name was given by his grandfather and has no special meaning. However, in his time, this name should amaze everyone...

——My name has disappeared?

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

——How long have I been asleep?

Xiangshan clasped Youki's shoulders: "You really can't remember anything? About this name? Or a name with a similar pronunciation will do - do you know anything about this name? 'It's hard to cross the mountain', 'Shake the mountain' What about titles like "Difficult"?"

Yuki shook his head.

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

"Xiangshan, were you a famous person before?" Yuki was a little curious: "I've never heard of you, why is it such a big blow to you?"

Xiang Shan nodded: "I was indeed famous before... maybe everyone in the world knows my name, right?"

"Ha, bragging, 'the whole world'?" Yuki smiled unkindly: "You are not a Paralympic champion! How about you tell me, what big things have you done in the past?"

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.

Xiangshan probably knew the reason. In order to pursue the pinnacle of martial arts... To pursue the limits of biological brain performance, he transferred all declarative memories that could be converted into mechanical language losslessly into an external information storage device. In his brain, only non-declarative memories that could not be accurately converted were left, as well as pure knowledge.

He lost too much.

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

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

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

Yuki tried hard to drive his memory hard drive to search for this 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 'victor', it's impossible for him to be forgotten by everyone, right?" Xiang Shan showed a confused look: "Didn't I sleep for decades? Is it thousands of years?”

Yuki laughed loudly: "Xiangshan, are you stupid? Even if it is a completely modified brain, brain cells cannot sleep for decades without nutrients. At most, you were thrown away five or six years ago. It’s in!”

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

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

He fell into confusion again.

"Hey, Yuki, what year is it?"

"How many years...what do you mean..." Yuki thought for a moment: "209?"

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

"What is A.D.?" Yuki shook his head: "What you say is so strange?"

"Yuki, do you know what major historical events happened in this year - or in 2001?"

The young man shook his head: "I only remember a historical event called the Sublimation War in 2003..."

"Sublimation...war..."

I have no impression of this word at all.

Humanity has completely forgotten the AD chronology and adopted a completely new way of chronology. Did he sleep for 209 years? No, this is too outrageous no matter how you think about it. There is absolutely no way his brain cells could last 209 years without taking in any substance.

Or is it that this "first year of new commemoration" was at his time, but that later people redefined the era based on a historical event that he knew?

For example, people nowadays are accustomed to calling the "World War II" the "War of Sublimation"...

——Haha...how is that possible...

Xiangshan was amused by his own thoughts.

The feeling of a bug in the prosthetic eye reappeared.

Really, judging from the garbage dump that the Recycling Town relies on for its survival, the Sublimation War is at least something that happened in the information age.

Xiangshan slept longer than he imagined.

Why did he come back to life?

His rebirth seemed pointless. His own name has been buried in the dust of history, and his enemies seem to have met the same end. No one remembers either of them anymore. And in this case, he still has to wake up from the garbage dump by chanting the name of his enemy.

Why?

——No, that's not right.

Xiangshan said to himself.

"That guy Yog and I used the same batch... the same batch of something... damn, I can't remember. Our biological parts use the same technology. If I can still be alive, then he has no reason to died."

"And this twisted world...the earth becoming what it is now is definitely closely related to the so-called 'historical event that changed the history of evolution' in my memory!"

Xiangshan clenched his fists unconsciously.

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

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

"Oh? What? Sorry, I was distracted."

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

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

"Were you just thinking 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 really big secret. If you find it scary, I'll leave here right away..."

Yuki became nervous again: "What is it?"

"What I just remembered is that in addition to my name, there is also my identity." Xiang Shan looked at the dog lying on the table: "Sorry, kid, I am not the athlete you longed for. I am a knight. ——A very powerful knight.”

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

He stared at Xiang Shan: "Knight?"

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

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When the festive atmosphere was gradually dissipating - or, to put it another way, when the noise of the fighting in the street was gradually disappearing, the doorbell of the mayor's nephew, Mr. Dresden Schulz's house rang.

Mr. Schultz is a person with a relatively high degree of transformation. His face was entirely replaced with metal, with flat eyes and an abstract serious expression fixed on his head as a decoration - it is said that this is what an ancient mechanical hero looked like.

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

It's a good thing Yuki doesn't know about "Iron Man" or anything like that. He jumped up and shouted: "Doctor, doctor, he needs some parts from... I mean 'Mountain'. He heard that you have them here, so he came. Now he is going to make one for himself..."

"Stop, kid, you're too excited." Xiangshan reached out and pressed Yuki's shoulder: "Dr. Schultz, right? I may need to make myself a more convenient prosthesis, but there are indeed a lot of parts missing. I I heard your parts supply is the most complete in town.”

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

He unchained the door and let Xiang Shan and Yuki enter his house. Youki rushed in immediately, walked a few steps, and even turned his head to look at the doctor. His eyes were full of two emotions: "show off" and "want to show off but can't".

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

"Maybe I'm overly excited." Xiang Shan explained: "I remembered some... things from the past. I just told him that I would repay him for saving his life. If he can give me something in the future, If you want to be a junior, I’m willing to pass on some skills to him.”

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

He knew the man knew a bit about repairs.

This town only needs 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 also wants to train all four children to become top talents. And a town only needs one doctor. If he doesn't have enough children, how can he let others get involved?

"Maybe it's some simple repairs, maybe it's other skills." Xiang Shan patted the doctor's shoulder: "Of course, my skills can't be compared with yours!"