107: Chapter 27 The Yellow Sparrow 107: Chapter 27 The Yellow Sparrow Above the earth, the sun set in the west.

A master and his disciple stood facing the blood-red sun, standing tall and straight.

The master had no facial muscles, so his expression was unreadable.

The disciple’s face, however, bore the marks of hardship.

Seeing them, a young girl found it amusing and also grabbed the master’s leg, standing up straight in the same manner.

The master said, “Disciple, it’s your turn to enjoy this.”

With that, he stuffed something resembling a remote control into the disciple’s hand.

The disciple’s hand shook as he said, “Master, this doesn’t seem right…”

“What man doesn’t like explosions?” Xiang Shan sighed leisurely, “If you plan to travel in Jianghu, you need to understand what explosions are.”

“Besides, you were the one who set the explosives.”

Xiang Shan had found many explosives and traditional landmines in the Excavator Group’s stash.

However, these things weren’t very useful for a lone ranger—difficult to injure a skilled warrior, not to mention the trouble in retrieving them once set.

They could easily become a lingering hazard if carelessly left behind.

So, he just took some haphazardly for this purpose.

That is, “to enter the Great Stockade from above.”

In narrow terrain, firearms became a huge problem at a distance.

When Xiang Shan eradicated Group Z, he had infiltrated them by disguising himself as a lackey.

When he wiped out the Excavator Group, he had first used Gu to decrease the enemy’s aiming precision, then launched a frontal assault—and that was only because Big Bulldozer’s prosthetic body was large, leading to particularly wide tunnels.

If the tunnels were of normal size, his charge at the Excavator Group’s stronghold would have collapsed the whole section of tunnel long ago.

It was only because they had made the tunnels extra wide for the boss to move through with ease, and the reinforcement techniques were better.

Otherwise, he would have been shot to death, as there wouldn’t have been enough room to dodge.

You must understand that his dodging and managing the bullets’ entry angle depended on predicting the trajectory from the muzzle flash or tracer rounds.

Dodging a bullet upon its arrival…

Well, it wasn’t impossible.

It was just that while his reactions could keep up, the strength of his prosthetic could not.

Therefore, that kind of “charge” was not feasible.

But Xiang Shan was too lazy to wait for those lackeys.

Moreover, he only knew the approximate location of this “Wild Myth” stronghold master’s body—he had been blindfolded every time a messenger from the Excavator Group entered, so he could only roughly calculate the location based on his stride.

He had no idea where the specific entrances and exits were.

Thus, Xiang Shan simply decided to break open the dome and enter from above.

Yuki took the remote control, saying, “Master, if I press the wrong button, nothing bad will really happen, will it?”

“Just count down loudly from three, and I’ll take care of the timing myself.”

Xiang Shan picked up the little girl and placed her on Yuki’s shoulders, “After the explosion, you head back to the ‘donkey’, and then lock the hatch door.

It’s that simple.”

“You said before that this was very dangerous…

It’s not going to kill you, is it?”

“Heh, don’t underestimate your master,” Xiang Shan responded with a cold laugh.

Yuki nodded, retreated twenty meters, and said, “Master, I’m going to press it…”

“Hmm.”

“Get ready…”

“If you’re going to press it, just do it!” Xiang Shan scolded, “Stop dawdling!”

“So…

3!

2!

1!” Yuki said, “I’m pressing it now!”

“Don’t be so useless… What the hell?”

In the middle of speaking, the earth suddenly surged beneath Xiang Shan’s feet, but the force lost momentum after a few meters, and then the entire tunnel began to collapse inward.

Xiang Shan, hanging in the air, casually gave his disciple the middle finger, already deciding to make him do extra grueling training later.

But by the time Yuki had pressed the button, he had already turned and run toward the “donkey”.

Xiang Shan tumbled through the air, somersaulting to flip head-down and kick upwards off the air to propel himself, falling slightly faster than freefall.

He hit the ground just as large chunks of rock and earth did.

Even though the Green Forest Men had reacted, they couldn’t shoot him down.

Suspended in mid-air, he closed his eyes to search for the Wi-Fi signal within the Great Stockade.

In that instant, Xiang Shan’s Inner Strength struck out ferociously.

Within this single second, the second-in-command in charge of the servers at the Great Stockade had already sensed something was wrong.

He immediately circulated all his Inner Strength to protect the server.

However, the intruder’s Inner Strength was extremely sophisticated.

He only felt as if their Inner Strength weren’t operating on the same level, unable to collide at any point.

His carefully thought out firewall, based on open source code he had modified himself, seemed utterly futile in the eyes of the opponent.

The second-in-command thought this was bad news and wanted to cut off the power supply.

But the intruder’s Inner Strength attacked along with his admin privileges, forcing him in his haste to abandon his initial action and use his entire body to resist this invasion of Inner Strength.

And in the delay this caused, the entire Great Stockade was about to be completely overrun.

Xiang Shan hadn’t expected his Inner Strength to have advanced to this extent.

When he had breached the defenses of the Z Organization’s Stronghold, it took him a bit of time to penetrate deeply.

Unexpectedly, after his past memories had been unsealed and his thinking gradually became more active, his Inner Strength had also advanced so significantly.

In just the blink of an eye, he rolled on the spot and maneuvered behind a rushing Martial Artist.

When the Martial Artist turned to attack, Xiang Shan stretched out an arm and pushed, disrupting the Martial Artist’s balance, then placed his palm on the back of his head and emitted an infrasound wave, rendering the expert unable to resist.

In this breath’s time, more Green Forest Men had been afflicted with Gu Poison.

But his Inner Strength hadn’t yet fully recovered, so he couldn’t instantly seize control of so many Prosthetic Bodies.

And those self-destructing viruses might not show their effectiveness right away, so he still needed to hold out for a moment longer.

With this thought, he grabbed another attacking Martial Artist, twisted his neck to break it, then darted away before his opponent could establish a position to return fire.

At this moment, Xiang Shan was less than a hundred meters from the platform where Rod was interrogating the two young Heroes.

Huang Ouguang had resigned himself to certain death, not expecting that when all seemed lost, a glimmer of hope would arise.

And Rod, unable to continue tormenting this woman, felt the server’s loss as he held its privileges.

He didn’t believe he could surpass his opponent in Inner Strength, so he decisively cut off the external connection and shut down his own Prosthetic Eye.

It turned out this guy didn’t only have Prosthetic Eyes on the upper half of his humanoid body; the arachnid body also had six eyes.

However, his innate senses hadn’t yet been honed away, and using all these eyes simultaneously would be a strain on his psyche and impede his performance.

But now, he was certain the opponent’s Inner Strength was formidable and probably familiar with the technique of witnessing.

His Prosthetic Eyes had many defenses, but there was always the unexpected.

The eyes on the arachnid body were more concealed and positioned lower.

If the opponent attempted witnessing techniques, it wouldn’t be as convenient as targeting the two on his head.

For a master in combat, life and death could rest upon such a fine line.

He disengaged from Cui Hai and leaped forward immediately.

But just then, Xiang Shan’s heart stirred, and he couldn’t help but look up.

The drones he had left above were disconnecting one by one.

“Indeed, there are Pursuers,” he thought and, with a shift in his heart-thought, triggered the arrangement he had already prepared.

At the same time, he pushed off with both feet, jumped onto the beam under the dome, and aimed to leave the way he had come.

Catch him.

An enormous spider was suddenly bearing down on him in pursuit!

………………………………………

Minutes before, Deborah’s squad was hurrying in this direction.

They were accompanied by a substantial Drone Formation, not minding the loss of drones, scattering them as if they were disposable.

These drones also came equipped with solar panels, so even if their energy was momentarily depleted, under the daily sunlight they would store enough power to automatically return to their designated base.

Miss Deborah was sitting on Han’s body.

Zhang Xianchong and Old Hammer, both having lightweight Prosthetic Bodies, moved with agility, while Carolina was already burdened with some supplies, making it inappropriate for her to fulfill such a role.

Only Han, with a low center of gravity on his Prosthetic Body, was quite stable and well-suited to carry her.

And Deborah was tapping away on a retro laptop.

This laptop had no network card and could not connect to the external internet.

In this era, where network security was less than a sieve, nothing was safer than “physical separation.”

And in this laptop, there was an infected chip.

Not knowing the extent of Xiang Shan’s Inner Strength, Deborah naturally didn’t dare to insert this device into her own Prosthetic Body to analyze it.

The group was pursuing Xiang Shan, determined that he must be in this area.

They abandoned their vehicles and proceeded on foot, ready to engage in combat at any moment.

Deborah was analyzing Xiang Shan’s Inner Strength patterns based on the chip provided by the Excavator Group.

Deborah was correlating Xiang Shan’s likely directions with the intelligence feedback from the drones while considering the code within the poisoned chip.

At that moment, a series of explosion sounds came from the distant sky.

Deborah closed her laptop, threw it into the supply box on Carolina’s back, and said, “It looks like it’s that Hero.

He must have clashed with ‘Wild Myth.’ Kill the Green Forest Men, obtain resources, nourish oneself.

He is taking steps to recover his Cultivation!”

The sound allowed them to roughly guess the direction, and they crouched on a slope to observe the location of the explosion in the distance.

They saw a large vehicle at the edge of a big pit.

“It should be right,” Zhang Xianchong confirmed.

“There are few itinerant martial figures like Heroes on the New Continent, and many were killed off half a year ago.

A Jianghu person who would be here biting at the Green Forest Men is most likely that ‘Mountain’…

If we call for Heavenly Punishment now…”

He was, after all, somewhat hesitant.

A First-Level Divine Punishment Space-based Kinetic Weapon might not be effective against such a Hero.

And it was difficult to apply for a second-level or higher Heavenly Punishment—should there be a mistake, the miss would only be chastised, turning credit into blame.

Deborah said, “Heavenly Punishment?

No, we need to capture that person.

Such a traditional Hero appearing out of nowhere…

he must harbor a great secret.”

“However, whether we capture him or call for Heavenly Punishment, we must first disable his Drone Formation.”