Chapter 120: The Invisible Ghost

The team resumed their formation and continued to hurry toward the Yanjiu Zhongxin.

However, after the recent shock, the team was clearly more cautious; not only did the distance between team members shorten, but their pace also slowed down significantly.

Jogging along with the team, Sun Cheng was curious about what important intelligence Fuchou had to report to him, but out of concern for the others right beside him, he had to suppress that curiosity for the moment, planning to find an opportunity to check once they reached the Research Center.

Unexpectedly, only a few minutes after running with the team, Fuchou in his pocket suddenly vibrated again.

"What's going on? Why did you alert me twice in such a short time?"

Fuchou's second alert caused a wave of unease to rise in Sun Cheng's heart; he knew very well that Fuchou, having been trained by him, would absolutely not alert him twice in such a short time unless there was an emergency.

At that moment, he could no longer worry about being exposed; while running, he fumbled in his pocket to pull out a Bluetooth headset that had been enhanced by Fuchou, put it on after turning it on, then pretended to wipe the rain from his face, reached up to cover his mouth and nose, and whispered in Chinese: "What's the situation?"

"A special unit using Optical Camouflage has been detected nearby, and it is tracking the Master..." A cold, mechanical voice immediately sounded from the Bluetooth headset.

"Optical Camouflage?!"

Sun Cheng was stunned upon hearing this. He knew the concept of "Optical Camouflage"; simply put, it involves using special materials and technologies to refract, bend, or even reflect light, or simply creating a field around an object to achieve an invisible effect.

As China's premier science and engineering institution, Nanjing University of Technology also had related topics and research on this. As far as he knew, not only was domestic Optical Camouflage technology still in its infancy, but even in theoretically more advanced Western powers, it would be very difficult to achieve true Optical Camouflage within the next thirty to fifty years.

In the other world, on the planet Cybertron, technology like "Optical Camouflage" had also appeared. Sun Cheng had seen in Frenzy's Memory Data that during the Second Civil War, there were indeed Decepticons who possessed the ability to turn invisible.

However, this type of technology was very lackluster for Mechanical Life.

The precision performance of both Decepticons and Autobots was beyond imagination; their Spark could provide energy no less than a power plant, and the processing efficiency of their Core far exceeded any supercomputer known to humans. Their powerful memory and storage functions could easily save all architectural data of any terrain. When scanning the terrain again, if they discovered abnormal data that eyes could not capture, they could easily lock onto the position of the invisible unit.

Therefore, Optical Camouflage technology only prevailed on the planet Cybertron for a very short time before it was quickly swept into a corner.

Fuchou did not have a Spark, and its Core was far inferior to the Frenzy Body, but it could easily capture an "Optical Camouflage" unit. It was evident that the technology used by the invisible unit it discovered was far inferior to that of Cybertron.

Sun Cheng did not doubt the truthfulness of its words!

Rather than saying he trusted Fuchou's loyalty, it was more that Sun Cheng trusted his own hard work in the other world; he had left multiple measures within the two Decepticon Cores he brought back to the real world to ensure they were completely loyal to him.

So now, when he heard Revenge report that it had discovered an invisible unit using "Optical Camouflage" tracking Sun Cheng and his group, his heart sank for only a moment before it lifted again.

"Are you confident you can deal with it, Revenge?"

He asked again in a low voice in Chinese, his words unable to hide his anticipation.

Although Sun Cheng could not guess the identity of the invisible unit that had appeared on the island for the time being, the fact that it was tracking him was indisputable, and it was clearly a threat to him and the others.

Since Revenge could capture this invisible unit, Sun Cheng did not yet know the opponent's strength, but the fact that it had achieved "Optical Camouflage," which was difficult to accomplish with Earth's technology, reminded him of the new world fusion on the night they arrived on the island.

"Could it be that this invisible unit, like the dinosaurs on Nublar, is a product of the world fusion?"

If it were truly as he suspected, then he had finally found a lead on the 【Predator】 that he had had no clue about for the past two days.

Revenge's answer was very certain: "I can!"

"Very good. Before it is confirmed that the target poses a direct threat to me, do not take any action!"

That was enough!

Sun Cheng gave no further instructions. Taking advantage of wiping his face again, he took off the Bluetooth headset and put it back in his pocket. He calmly followed the team and continued running toward the Yanjiu Zhongxin.

"Ah..."

Just as they were about to cross the hill and walk out of this patch of woods on the hill, a scream suddenly came from the very back of the team.

Daqi shao xiao waved his hand to signal the team to stop and shouted: "What's the situation?"

"It's Bonaide..."

The voice of the soldier Halun came over, faintly tinged with fear, "Damn it, he just disappeared, Major!"

Daqi shao xiao gave Bili a look, signaling him to stay alert, while he himself pushed past Sun Cheng and the others and walked toward the back of the team.

Sun Cheng also turned around to look back and noticed that the medic Bonaide, who had been at the back of the team, was gone.

"Major, here..."

The black Sergeant Major—Maike, carrying a heavy machine gun, took off his hat. He seemed to have discovered something and signaled Daqi shao xiao to come over, "There are two fresh drag marks here, like they were made by heels..."

Looking in the direction his finger pointed, Sun Cheng and the others indeed saw two parallel marks as wide as shoulders on the ground, extending from the path they were walking on deep into the woods.

Daqi shao xiao squatted down to look at the ground carefully. He reached out and touched a puddle of sewage that had not yet been diluted by the heavy rain, brought his finger to his nose to smell it, and his face quickly darkened.

"Blood, damn it!"

With a livid face, his cold gaze swept over everyone present in turn, then landed on the black Sergeant Major Maike and the soldier Huojinsi, and then he said slowly: "Stay on alert in place. Maike, Huojinsi, you two come with me!"

After speaking, he raised the weapon in his hand, took the Grenade Launcher out of his Tactical Backpack again to attach it, and took the lead, following the drag marks into the woods.

Behind him, Sun Cheng pressed Revenge, which was vibrating again on his chest. He knew that the invisible ghost had finally decided to act.

PS:

1. I didn't have a good feel for writing after coming back from work. I made up some 【Tokyo Ghoul】 and forgot the time. Before I knew it, it was ten o'clock!

2. Thanks to the four readers 'Wind-Chasing Young Master', 'Poor Ghost Born', '? Look-Look?', and 'Deeply Entering the Trap' for their tips.