Chapter 1012: vs. Confinement (Part 2)

Four squadrons of Golden Eagle Fighter took off quickly, and all the Commanders in the conference room had also fully prepared for battle.

The unknown opponent heading straight for Sun Cheng and his group was clearly moving very fast.

The various radars spread across the South America region could not lock onto the target's trail, so they could only rely on capturing some faint, unknown signals to barely determine the opponent's flight path and position.

"Commander, the fleet has arrived in front of the target's probable trajectory... The radar still cannot lock onto the target. How should we proceed next..."

A minute or so is enough time for a Decepticon to do many things.

Sun Cheng continuously received the massive amount of data transmitted from Huan, and after his Core processed it rapidly, he calmly issued order after order.

"Based on the data fed back from radars in various locations, as well as the altitude at which the previous few drones were destroyed, it can be roughly determined that the opponent is a stealth flight unit. The quantity cannot be determined for now, the flight altitude is around 11,000 meters, and the movement speed is around Mach 17..."

"The aerospace forces are to increase altitude to over 14,000 meters. Prepare to attempt an interception of the target in 11 seconds at coordinates **, **. Launch four sets of Missiles, and two Electromagnetic Pulse Missiles..."

"Yes!"

Several special satellites circling above South America soon captured the scene of the Golden Eagle Fighter attempting to intercept the target and transmitted it into the conference room.

Sun Cheng and the others all frowned as they watched; in the video, the Golden Eagle Fighter were like sparrows, circling in the air.

Not long after the order was given, Missiles were fired from the Golden Eagle Fighter, flying straight toward the target airspace.

In the video, the airspace they were attacking was empty.

The reason Sun Cheng ordered an attack on that airspace was entirely because Huan, after calculating the unknown target's flight speed and altitude and combining numerous data points, had calculated a theoretical route and time that the unknown target might pass through.

The six Missiles launched first missed their mark and shot straight downward.

At this sight, neither Sun Cheng nor the other Decepticon Commanders showed any expression.

Even if it was a misfire, it was only a minor loss.

For them, having already effectively controlled the entire South America and begun developing the entire Solar System with Mars as a base, even if the entire Base No. 2 were destroyed, the loss would still be within an acceptable range.

However, the next scene made quite a few Decepticons' expressions turn grave.

"Puff..."

"Puff..."

"Puff..."

Soon, there were Missiles that seemed to hit something out of thin air.

Strange ripples like water waves appeared abruptly in the air, though they vanished quickly.

But it was enough!

"It's a spaceship..."

Several satellites simultaneously captured this scene from different altitudes and angles.

The data was quickly transmitted to the ground data receiving station and then sent to the Central Main Control Base, where Huan performed clarity processing before projecting it onto the screen.

In an instant, all the Decepticon Commanders saw clearly that, protected under that layer of unknown energy shield, what was moving rapidly toward them was a spaceship.

A very, very, very large giant spaceship!

The conference room suddenly became noisy!

Sun Cheng did not stop them; the moment he saw that spaceship, his mind had already recalled the unknown spaceship that had abruptly appeared in the Solar System a few months ago and been captured by the Star Orbit System.

Although he had only observed the tip of the iceberg just now, he still felt a sense of familiarity.

Unsurprisingly, this spaceship that had abruptly appeared over South America was in all likelihood the same spaceship that had inexplicably appeared in the Solar System before.

"I was wondering before; if this spaceship was truly heading straight for Earth, it should have arrived more than a month ago."

"I was pondering before whether this spaceship came from another interstellar civilization and was just passing through the Solar System by chance."

"It looks like this spaceship arrived at Earth a long time ago... and stayed until now before suddenly appearing in South America..."

In the end, only four words remained in Sun Cheng's mind: "The visitor is hostile!"

"Let's go out and prepare for battle!"

Since he had guessed that the opponent was hostile, Sun Cheng did not intend to stay in the conference room any longer.

Leading a group of Commanders, they quickly left the Central Main Control Base.

However, even after leaving, thanks to the advanced data transmission network currently spread across all of South America, Huan still transmitted the data continuously captured by satellites into the command channel established by Sun Cheng and the others, allowing all Commanders to grasp the situation in real time.

That unknown spaceship was flying very fast, and even after being attacked by the Golden Eagle Fighter, it did not make any counter-attack moves.

Perhaps it was disdain!

Sun Cheng was not sure, but there was one thing he did know.

With the opponent's super-fast flight speed, it would soon arrive above the Base.

"Issue the order to notify all factories to shut down temporarily. All scientific research personnel and research institutions are to prepare for evacuation, and prepare to trigger the detonation devices installed in all bases, factories, and nuclear power plants at any time..."

"Everyone, prepare to abandon Base No. 2!"

With a heavy heart, Sun Cheng notified all Decepticons in charge of the Supreme Military Committee, the Executive Yuan, and the Academy of Sciences via the command channel.

Immediately, he looked up at the sky.

Unsurprisingly, that spaceship would arrive above the Base in the next seven to nine seconds.

The communication channel was as silent as death.

But no one questioned Sun Cheng's order!

This unknown spaceship clearly came from some interstellar civilization!

And for a spaceship manufactured by a civilization that has entered the interstellar age, it would be one thing if it were just a cargo ship like an Explorer.

Perhaps it would have some armament, but it would not be unstoppable.

But if this were a military warship, judging by the size it was observed to be in the Solar System back then.

Even if this spaceship's firepower could not compare to the Decepticon Legion's legendary warship—the Nemesis!

It would still be enough to carry out a destructive strike covering the surface of a continent on Earth within a very short time.

This was truly not Sun Cheng worrying unnecessarily, because the Academy of Sciences had a plan to modify an Explorer-class medium cargo ship, using its ship structure as a skeleton to redesign a type of military warship.

That project had been initiated simultaneously more than two years ago, when the Explorer-class medium cargo spaceship had just begun construction, but progress had not been smooth, and could even be described as fraught with difficulties!

The Decepticon Engineers under Sun Cheng's command did not yet have the capability or knowledge to independently complete a medium-to-large military warship capable of contending with other interstellar civilizations.

Even after Jetfire woke up later, he also refused to take over, and was even unwilling to impart some of the military technologies he considered dangerous to those high-level Decepticon Engineers at the Academy of Sciences.

But even so, during the preliminary design stage, the Decepticon Engineers under Sun Cheng's command had designed the firepower of that yet-to-be-finalized military warship to be sufficient to destroy the vast majority of countries on Earth within two or three volleys.

Since the spaceships they designed themselves could achieve this, Sun Cheng, who always liked to prepare for the worst-case scenario first, did not believe that this unknown spaceship with its mysterious firepower could not do the same.

Amidst the tension, the spaceship arrived!