Chapter 828: Chapter 73: Preparation and Legend
Yuki maneuvered the latest spherical submarine, slowly surfacing.
This contraption was helped into being by a group of Burrow Dragons nearby. With a diater of less than two ters, it’s a completely independent vehicle. Its front is made of transparent material, allowing a view of a single seat inside.
It’s entirely designed for passengers of child-like stature.
The propulsion system of this vehicle is also specially designed, reducing noise to the minimum.
In case of necessity, this escape apparatus can carry one passenger away — at most adding an unarmored head.
Considered as a second-line preparation.
Just as Yuki’s head erged from the water, a gigantic shadow lood over his forehead.
Xiang Shan was standing directly above: “Your chosen surfacing location is quite predictable. Deduct so regular points. Rember next ti.”
Although he completely didn’t understand what “regular points” ant (perhaps so sort of inexplicable old-era punishnt, Yuki speculated), the Young Warrior still made a ntal note of it.
Yuki commanded the AI to anchor a ter below the water, and then climbed onto the reef where Xiang Shan was standing: “Where did I go wrong… This area clearly isn’t ‘the most suitable terrain for a subrsible to surface’, right.”
“This area is the second most suitable place for surfacing a subrsible. Perhaps the third,” Xiang Shan shrugged, “Don’t count on training the AI to surface. That little thing is quite smart.”
“Exactly.” From beneath Xiang Shan’s robe-like disguise equipnt, Panic’s little head erged.
Aside from the lips being a bit unnatural, she was already no different from the average four or five-year-old child.
Yuki mumbled: “Isn’t this a asure against us capsizing in the sea, allowing it to escape alone? Can she really swim back to the surface by herself?”
If Benchmark Humans, even without Prosthetic Bodies, can surpass Homo sapiens in many sports, then there is one major category in which Benchmark Humans can never beat Homo sapiens.
That is “swimming.”
The density of Benchmark Humans’ bodies is greater than that of Homo sapiens, making them unable to float.
Conversely, after Cyberization, they can use empty chamber-like components to gain buoyancy, or simply use a large amount of high-strength plastic with density lower than water to balance the high-density biological parts.
A low-modified rate cyber enhanced person falling into the ocean can only wait to die.
Therefore, this submarine cannot land in relatively calm areas. Otherwise, if this thing grounded, the little guy wouldn’t reach a safe place either — ocean waves can still sweep away a five or six-year-old Benchmark Human child.
“The rocky shore is actually more suitable,” Xiang Shan said, “Let the AI stay at the rocky shore and sink to the bottom during high tide; naturally grounding during low tide will do.”
“But that might get noticed by the governnt… ah, there’s no satellite network now,” Yuki suddenly realized, then fell into contemplation, “But where is she supposed to go next?”
“If that ti really cos, we would probably all be dead at the bottom of the sea,” Xiang Shan said, tapping Yuki’s rear head with his finger, “Ergency plans are never perfect. Rather than exhausting vast efforts to refine it, we’d better ensure not to die down there.”
Just as the Twelve Zodiacs, fighting in solar atmosphere, were not entirely adapted to Earth’s atmospheric environnt, and the essence of Martial Arts couldn’t be fully utilized; Xiang Shan, whose prosthetic perfectly perford in Earth’s terrestrial environnt, faced denser surroundings and poorer electromagnetic transmission conditions in the ocean environnt, losing a lot of Martial Arts.
If there were truly ocean combat specialized First Layer Heaven Cyborgs on the opposite side, or enough supercavitation fish covering attacks, Xiang Shan, whose speed was severely limited by seawater, might really capsize.
Xiang Shan tried to gather so useful Martial Arts for liquid environnts these days. Unfortunately, there weren’t many related resources.
Upon careful thought, it’s understandable. The largest ocean in the Solar System truly only exists on Earth. Many Heroes active on Mars, Venus, and Space Cities likely have never seen water bodies larger than “artificial lakes” in their lives. As for Far Sun Planets, don’t even ntion them; there, even liquid air is considered high-temperature material.
Getting these Heroes, who occupy the majority in the Solar System, to study ocean-based Martial Studies is sowhat demanding.
However, it can’t be said that there’s no gain.
At least Xiang Shan learned of so legends. For instance, soone within the Jupiter Domain is studying this.
On Ganyde and other Jupiter’s satellites, liquid oceans might exist — perhaps composed of water, or maybe liquid thane or sothing similar.
In any case, Xiang Shan indeed found so clues.
But the download progress bar remained motionless.
Probably… because the storage location for these Martial Studies resources is not on Earth…
The accessible parts of Earth were mostly developed by Xiang Shan along with David and Yog two hundred years ago and haven’t changed much.
Reportedly, only the Northern Heroes group, hiding beneath ice layers for years, had slight involvent but didn’t go deep.
After all… according to the Solo Kill King Wang Jia Del, they practiced Martial Arts to assassinate royals. Their assassination targets typically do not run in the ocean, so why study Martial Arts applicable to the ocean environnt?
Xiang Shan was speechless, simply feeling strongly that this was not the attitude one should have toward scholarly pursuits.
All in all, Xiang Shan could only use his underwater Martial Arts from two hundred years ago to cope with any potential situations along the way.
No less careful could Xiang Shan be.
After all, Earth Heroes have mostly heard a rumor that mysterious forces lurk in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, and many heroes trying to traverse the Pacific have inexplicably disappeared.
Of course, this is likely just an urban legend, given that Heroes are eccentric figures; if a hero crosses the Pacific and remains offline for a while before changing aliases, it’s indeed possible to be deed missing.
But being careful is never wrong.
Xiang Shan estimated that even if there’s really so minor danger, it likely wouldn’t ss with One Layer Heaven Martial Artists.
Moreover, when Bai Man took Tao Enhai to Africa, they traveled this route. Now, they’ve made a na for themselves in Africa.
Xiang Shan, with Yuki, found a hidden entrance and entered near an underground base.
A few Burrow Dragons using small Prosthetic Bodies imdiately gasped, staring intently at Xiang Shan, quickly transmitting electromagnetic waves as if discussing sothing.
These days, Xiang Shan beca the most popular figure in this temporary preparation base. He often releases “Fervor,” transforming into a Cyberpunk singing deity, boosting the morale of this small group in the base.
While also striving to leave a “cultural” influence.
Even Yuki was shocked. He truly didn’t know his master had this talent.
He hadn’t seen him play such a role in years.
In the depth of the base, Xiang Shan t his temporary teammates.
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