The prosthetic body with extre weight reduction was actually an important... a very significant project proposed by Xiang Shan.
The simplification of the internal structure ca from an experint.
Once again, when Lu Xuanyu submitted the experint report, he ntioned the tactile sensation of the prosthetic foot. This report naturally drew significant attention, with Chen Feng, Tao Enhai, and other relevant field leaders gathering to study the issue.
Because that particular prosthetic foot actually didn’t have "tactile sensation."
Subsequent inspections revealed that it was not a mistake by the intern regarding the prosthetic. The surveillance showed that when Lu Xuanyu felt the tactile sensation, he indeed wore an experintal prosthetic without a pressure-sensitive resistor.
To alleviate the issue of "phantom limb pain," the early prosthetic control systems of Superman Enterprise included a feature to send false sensations to the brain. These sensations weren’t specific touches but vague ntal signals, akin to a "nothing abnormal" report.
Sotis, when limbs lose sensation, the feeling is not genuinely "numbness" but "tingling," "numb," and "pain." When the brain misses the "regular report," it alarms in this way.
Superman Enterprise would counterfeit this report.
Many people feel that even if a prosthetic limb lacks tactile sensation, it gives the illusion of an "extrely thickly clothed limb" because of this.
However, on that day, Lu Xuanyu clearly stated in the report that he had tactile sensations, and they were quite good.
He accurately felt tactile sensations on a prosthetic without pressure-sensitive resistors and even felt sensations akin to "muscles."
Through subsequent research, the researchers at Superman Enterprise finally understood. Generally, people use their imagination to perfect the "details" of tactile sensations, and that simulated signal for "disguising regular reports," along with visual information and Lu Xuanyu’s own experience, created such an unusual result.
People easily feel as if there are little bugs crawling over them due to "mysterious itching" on their body. In ancient tis, this "imagination supplent" was a vital survival strategy. This supplentation exists in all aspects of human senses.
The mission of senses is not to "accurately reflect the environnt," but to "help survive," "magnifying potential threats" is a low-cost survival strategy.
In Lu Xuanyu’s case, this "completion through imagination" instead reinforced his adaptability to the prosthetic body.
People do not actually control their muscles directly through consciousness.
Humans, in their natural state, are inefficient in consciously harnessing their muscles. Like how a centipede doesn’t know which leg moves first, everything is written in instincts. Then, so in humanity began exploring "how to consciously harness this power."
Thus, "martial arts" and "sports" were born.
At this step, humans usually conduct extensive practice. Every action has a standard. Educators tirelessly tell them where their consciousness should focus, which muscle to exert power, and how to release power — whether it’s general sports, hand-to-hand fighting, or even ard combat and shooting, there is such a process.
But after passing this stage, the function of "exerting power" once again separates from consciousness. Consciousness only needs to imagine "how to move," and then this command is input into the sports-related neural network, decomposed into many commands, and acts on specific muscles separately.
The previous "standard actions" were only to let the practitioner realize "strength can be used here."
The action of force in the human body is not the sa as the abstract, taphysical "power" humans intuitively derive.
Faced with this result, Xiang Shan naturally ca up with new ideas. By reconstructing the mapping between "neural signals" and "electronic signals," Lu Xuanyu could use his martial arts experience to control prosthetics structurally very different from human limbs. Even those thods of releasing energy could mostly be retained.
The only limitation was instead on Lu Xuanyu himself.
If he saw a prosthetic limb installed on his body, structurally too different from the flesh, Lu Xuanyu’s "imagination" couldn’t complete the details. He would be at a loss.
The solution was simple, which was first to equip him with prosthetic legs whose internal structure was vastly different from the human body, then let him move around. Once he fully adapted to the movent of this leg, the shell could be removed.
Lu Xuanyu took a long ti to barely adapt.
With that foundation, the design of the prosthetic body could beco wildly imaginative.
For instance, a body specialized according to rules.
Every combat rule has areas "prohibited from hitting." In boxing matches, kicking is forbidden. In cross-style exhibitions, many boxers lose because they are relentlessly kicked on the lower body.
Of course, this doesn’t an "kicking his leg" is the surefire way for an ordinary person to defeat a professional boxer. This so-called "flaw" can only be captured by martial artists of the sa level when both participants have similar physical conditions. Facing professionals is first a matter of training volu and physical quality overpowering, then technical superiority.
In a competition with a boxer, one naturally doesn’t need to worry about their lower body being attacked.
Thus, for the lower body part, the shell isn’t necessary.
In Lu Xuanyu’s imagination, these simple spring sheets were like tendons and muscles... although these spring sheets couldn’t provide feedback, the motors at both ends of the spring sheets could make fine adjustnts.
Even in non-powered prosthetics, there exists excellent designs such as J-shaped blade prostheses, whose athletic ability is slightly superior to innate limbs. The calves used by Lu Xuanyu in boxing matches were several tis more complex and advanced than those.
And its weight was very light.
Superman Enterprise even had the leisure to add counterweights to keep Lu Xuanyu’s weight close to his opponents.
In fact, Lu Xuanyu had several such "prosthetics tailored for specific rules."
In areas protected by rules, the prosthetics could straightforwardly remove the external armor, fully exposing the internal parts.
This was visually impactful.
Facing Xiang Shan’s inquiry, Lu Xuanyu nodded and said, "It’s great. These days, I’ve almost fought all the Boxing Kings, right? Feel like I’ve fought quite a few..."
"There are so many organizations capable of awarding the Boxing King title. Then, each weight class has its own Boxing King." Xiang Shan shrugged, "Still early, though. In the schedule, there’s ’Boxing Day’ a few days later, a day of standardized prosthetics in continuous high-intensity combat, featuring the most popular boxers. Tsk... Hopefully, they won’t be scared witless these days and won’t need to submit an application for rule modification."
On the first day of the tournant, after that famous jiu-jitsu practitioner was senselessly bullied by Lu Xuanyu, many fighters ca to the organizers to apply for changing the rules they proposed.
As it was a cross-style and cross-rules competition, the Number One Martial Arts Tournant allowed participants to specify rules — not just "specifying existing rules," but also to reduce in a mature rule set, magnifying the advantages of their specialized techniques through rule changes.
The young man from the Gracie family actually added several rules favorable to jiu-jitsu under the conventional MMA rules.
Fortunately, Xiang Shan had anticipated this. Those who were arrogant and couldn’t understand the history of technical developnt were mostly scheduled later, making adjustnts still tily.
Lu Xuanyu seed a bit impatient: "When is the next match scheduled?"
Xiang Shan tapped the AR glasses on his nose: "I think you should make good use of this smart equipnt, old Lu. Your version is identical to mine, and the basic mo function is still there, plus the schedule is fully public, checking it is just a matter of opening your mouth — the next one, a Judo genius from Japan, specializes in wrestling. I have to say, he’s quite brave, seeing the fate of Gracie and still daring to compete."
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