80: Summary at the End of Volu 1 80: Summary at the End of Volu 1 Xiang Shan:
The Ancestor of Martial Arts who lost his mory seed to have once been the developer who spurred the technological revolution.
A few months ago, his head was unearthed in a landfill.
At the ti, he couldn’t even rember his na, only that he had an enemy nad “Yawgmoth.” Now, a small fragnt of his mories has been found.
Prosthetic Head: Half of the skull, crafted from an alloy of unknown high strength, along with a cranium recently made from ordinary alloy, houses a martial arts chip and storage device.
It includes a built-in high-precision prosthetic eye.
Prosthetic Torso: Self-made prosthetic body.
The spine, left by a talentful Martial Artist, includes a miniature hydraulic system, enabling autonomous movent.
Dozens of Armor plates, each capable of independent deflection, are equipped with wireless signal transmitters and several batteries.
Prosthetic Hand: Each finger and the palm are equipped with high-frequency vibration generators, capable of rapidly deteriorating alloys.
Ultrasonic and infrasonic waves pose a certain threat to the biological brain.
Prosthetic Leg: Artificial muscle fiber prosthetic legs, with extrely high burst strength in specific directions, but seem to lack durability.
Weapons: Several ordinary firearms.
Sonicon Blade [Currently unusable due to weight and energy limitations] [Illustration]
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Companions:
Yuki: A young boy taken as a disciple by Xiang Shan
Little Girl: An orphan.
Her genetic father unknown from Green Forest, her mother a victim.
The first word she learned in life was “don’t be afraid”
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Now for openly available settings:
“Benchmark Man”/Homo vexillues is a species biologically distinct from Homo sapiens.
Gene therapy that transforms Homo sapiens into Benchmark Man precedes the prosthetic transformation.
Vexillues, a variant of the Latin vexillum aning standard/benchmark.
Benchmark Man requires a higher intake of tal elents, have greater body density than Homo sapiens, can autonomously produce tal cluster protein layers, and are immune to all known native pathogens from the early 21st century; their cells possess strong anti-chanical damage capabilities, anti-hypoxic abilities, and anti-aging abilities, making the lifespan of Benchmark Man much longer than that of Homo sapiens.
Most importantly, Benchmark Man can rely on electric field energy to replace so ATP hydrolysis to energize cells.
This technology initially seed to be developed to solve the human eating problem, eliminating world hunger and liberating more labor.
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The current society is in a loose state.
The governnt/”Civilization Protectors” control resources, yet they follow anarchism, taking the “Dyson Principle” as the sole standard, providing only basic protection.
They exist solely to maintain the “Human Gene Bank.” The true nature of the Human Gene Bank remains to be explored.
The Martial World is hostile to the governnt.
Furthermore, within the Martial World, there are two opposing factions—one is Jianghu, and the other is Green Forest.
Green Forest maintains its organization through a shared mory that is extrely evil and cruel.
Their ans of expanding their ranks involves using this shared mory to brainwash others, rewriting their personalities.
[This technology seems to have been created to solve the problem of human education]
The ecology of Jianghu is unknown, but it seemingly adheres to the tradition of “knowledge sharing.” Currently, it is known that Jianghu spreads the path to initiation through blockchain, while knowledge within the Sect is shared via magnetic chains.
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Article Zero: All individuals who have not explicitly refused to comply with the Dyson Principle or have not explicitly violated the principles are by default considered compliant with the Dyson Principle, accepting civilization protection.
The Dyson Principle is the sole universal principle of human civilization.
Any conduct that does not violate the Dyson Principle should be permitted
Explanation: Citizens possess rights to privacy and various freedoms.
However, human civilization does not provide extra protection for these freedoms.
Actions violating these freedoms are not encouraged but will not lead to the loss of civilization protection for citizens.
However, residents can kill the violators in defense of their freedoms without losing protection—self-defense rights are unlimited.
Article One: Every human has an obligation to maintain human genetic diversity.
Refusal of this obligation will automatically result in loss of civilization protection.
Article Two: Damage to another person’s biological brain is prohibited
Article Three: Manufacturing, using, or selling addictive potions is prohibited
Article Four: Private property exists and is protected
Article Five: Organizations can only be ford by one individual pledging allegiance to another.
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About References and Homages:
The preface of this volu quotes from the preface of Dr.
Karl Marx’s doctoral dissertation.
This volu contains several references to the work of the French leftist economist Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
[To avoid system sensitivity, the Chinese book title is not included here]
The main homages in this volu include “Fist of the North Star,” “JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure,” “Persona 5,” “Ip Man,” “The Grandmaster,” and other works.
About “Xiang Shan being carved out in the form of a head”—this is a triple homage at the core of this work.
The first layer is a homage to the beginning of Yukito Kishiro’s “Battle Angel Alita.” The first chapter, “Rusty Homo Sapiens,” is a homage to the first chapter of “Battle Angel Alita,” “Rusty Angel.”
The second layer is a homage to the background story of the great battle in “Magic: The Gathering,” where the protagonist, who is only a head, confronts a great enemy nad Yawgmoth.
The third layer, Xiang Shan in his early years, proclaid himself “must be a Lich King” to fight against “decaying history” and other reactionary forces.
Recently in the plot, the Lich King Bolvar was broken by Sylvanas.
These three images are intertwined and underpin this work.
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Finally, let’s talk about feelings.
First, thank you to all the readers for your continued support.
I am grateful for your votes and rewards, and even more for reading this story.
Additionally, thank you to all the professionals for their technical support.
Special thanks to my martial arts enthusiast friend in Beijing for helping during the preparation phase of this book.
Honestly, I feel sowhat undeserving of your support.
I have clearly recognized that I really have no talent in writing, nor any remarkable ideas.
Coupled with my peculiar aesthetics and niche interests, what I write may co across as sowhat dull to you all.
In fact, at the beginning of the year, I had managed to get a job at a tutoring class with the writer’s card I had obtained, but then the unexpected pandemic and lockdown occurred, and it seems it might last until the weather warms and flowers bloom.
It’s as if fate is forcing to stick with this profession.
So, I had no choice but to continue writing.
But, what to write?
Among my favorite sci-fi genres, apart from “New Space Opera” exemplified by Vernor Vinge’s Abyss of Heaven series and Dan Simmons’s Hyperion series, it would have to be “Cyberpunk.” And as a Chinese, I naturally harbor a romantic fascination with the stories where “heroes use martial arts to break the law.”
So, a little voice in my head shouted, “What are you comparing?
Mix Cyberpunk with martial arts, you fool.”
So this book ca to be.
I think the spirit of “martial arts” naturally fits the setting of “Cyberpunk.” What is a “hero”?
Using martial prowess to defy bans, to defeat the strong and support the weak, to interpret and reshape “human dignity” through action.
And Cyberpunk is exactly about the alienation of humans by technology, the absolute control of the strong over the weak.
From a futurist perspective, perhaps the answer to solving “technological alienation” has already been hidden within martial arts stories.
“Martial arts” is undoubtedly a “technology.” Yet when a martial artist is imrsed in martial arts, people do not see him or her as a worshiper of technology, but rather as an artist.
This is not just a fictitious story in novels, but also a reality.
Think about Bruce Lee, a promoter of kung fu culture in the last century—what is his image in people’s minds, an artist or a technology worshiper?
Technology may lead to alienation and distortion of humans, but technology is not inherently dood to cause such outcos.
As far as I know, no two elents are more naturally compatible than Cyberpunk and martial arts, but they are rarely brought together by people.
At least that’s what I believe.
This might be the little bit of insight I have about life.
I dare not say how interesting this story can be, but it truly is a work of my dedication.
I hope you can continue to support it.
Lately, I’ve been keeping irregular hours and my health hasn’t been great, so I’ll sort out my thoughts a bit.
Tomorrow, I will continue to update Volu II of “Cyberhero Saga,” “True Nas.”
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