Chapter 144: Plasma Pistol

As soon as this question was asked, Sun Cheng saw Onslaught's expression change abruptly; he was clearly quite wary of Starscream!

He remained silent for a good while before shaking his head, "We aren't qualified to meddle in his affairs; it's better for you if you don't know..."

Seeing that even Onslaught, who had one foot in the Leader-class, was so wary, Sun Cheng felt even more curious.

Seeing that he didn't want to talk more, he had to ask circuitously, "Earth isn't peaceful right now. In the last month alone, the frequency of strange Decepticons I've captured has exceeded twelve groups. Does he want to turn Earth into a second Cybertron?"

Onslaught seemed to deliberate for a moment before looking at him calmly. There was no lack of warning in his eyes, but after considering it for a while, he still revealed a bit of information to him.

"Starscream's ambition is too great. He has broadcast Earth's coordinates to the universe; more and more Decepticons will arrive on Earth in the future."

He paused again before continuing to advise, "Avoid him if you can lately, and try not to make contact with him. You must have an impression of that base on the Moon; I might as well reveal a bit more information to you. That spaceship doesn't belong to Starscream; it is a large expedition ship built during the Council of Ancients era, and it is very likely that a remarkable big shot is sleeping on the ship. Don't forget that Starscream still has nuclear bombs in his hands; he is playing with fire..."

Hearing Onslaught mention the spaceship, Sun Cheng couldn't help but feel a stir in his heart.

He did have an impression of the Decepticon base on the Moon; Frenzy's memory data contained a small amount of information about that base, and he even remembered which crater on the Dark Side of the Moon the base was located in.

As for the spaceship he mentioned, Sun Cheng didn't have much memory of it. He only vaguely remembered that Frenzy's original body was born on that ship; other than that, he had no further impressions.

Onslaught was so solemn; clearly, he had boarded that ship.

It was just that he was unwilling to talk more about this topic, and even appeared very cautious and wary when mentioning Starscream. Seeing Sun Cheng asking him about related topics circuitously again, he immediately lost his temper and, without waiting for him to finish checking the goods, urged Sun Cheng to quickly give him Jazz's Memory Chip.

Sun Cheng had to temporarily extinguish the thought of continuing to ask him. After Atlas finished counting and confirmed that not a single item brought by Onslaught was missing, he immediately took out Jazz's Memory Chip and gave it to Onslaught.

After both sides obtained what they wanted, Onslaught quickly left with Jazz's Memory Chip.

After seeing him off, the cautious Sun Cheng spent a full two days conducting a comprehensive scan of the Cores and bodies of all the new Workers and Spiders he had obtained. The result was beyond his expectations; even Sun Cheng himself didn't expect that he would actually find several deeply hidden control and monitoring programs in the Cores of two Workers and one Spider.

This discovery made his heart feel a bit cold, and at the same time, he once again realized the cunning of the Decepticon type of Mechanical Life.

After debugging the Workers and having ten more usable hands on hand, many of Sun Cheng's plans that were originally waiting in line to be arranged could finally be put on the agenda.

The design and manufacturing of a New Body was undoubtedly the top priority. He had invested a lot of energy into Atlas, and he was quite at ease with this Decepticon Worker he had obtained earliest, so he directly allocated half of the Workers to him, letting him lead the responsibility for his New Body.

The remaining five Workers were sent by him to continue deepening and renovating the Base, while simultaneously digging new hidden passages to prevent encounters with intrusions.

As for himself, he kept two Workers and transferred them to Laboratory One to study the plasma pistol obtained from the Hunter Civilization spaceship.

"Master, this Plasma Weapon is very strange..."

Worker 1 held up the reassembled plasma pistol, raised it in front of him, and said fawningly.

Sun Cheng withdrew his finger from the Server port in front of him. Because he had no experience in weapon design and mechanical structure, he had recently been constantly using his intrusion ability to search for various related textbooks and theories on the internet to enrich his database.

"In what way is it strange?" he asked with a slight frown, subconsciously reaching out his palm to rub his head.

In the last few days, too many things had been suddenly stuffed into his Memory Chip.

The more he came into contact with Decepticons, the more Sun Cheng could feel the advancement of Cybertron Technology, especially after luckily coming into contact with some things from the Hunter Civilization, which had also reached the space age, for reference.

Unfortunately, although Cybertron technology was good, he himself could not get in touch with the good stuff.

Sun Cheng's ambition was too great. In the absence of being able to get more Cybertron technology, he could not keep standing still.

Realizing that Onslaught had hidden dark hands in the Workers and Spiders he gave him, Sun Cheng also realized that it would probably be difficult to get more things from him in the future.

However, snakes have snake paths, and rats have rat ways.

Since the main road to directly obtaining Cybertron technology was impassable, then he would just take a strenuous small path and take a few more detours.

Sun Cheng used every means to intrude into the internal Servers of major universities, enterprises, companies, and even some laboratories across the United States and the world. From mechanical manufacturing to electronic industry to molecular materials, he was constantly searching for the essence of modern industry created by all humans from the network.

This was a detour he had summarized, but it was not a dead end.

Sun Cheng believed that as long as he could thoroughly absorb and master Earth civilization, even advanced Cybertron technology would open its doors to him sooner or later.

Worker 1 was excited but also carried a bit of disdain, "It is hard for us to imagine how such a crude design and internal structure could be used to design such a weapon. Except for the materials and the energy conversion system, this plasma pistol has no redeeming qualities!"

He didn't feel it was strange that these Industrial Decepticons from the Cybertron civilization would look down on the manufacturing craftsmanship of the Hunter Civilization.

In fact, Sun Cheng himself had once analyzed the internal design and structure of the Hunter spaceship and had long discovered that the ship's construction level was not worth mentioning.

This might also be related to the deformed development of the Hunter Civilization. Clearly an advanced civilization that had already evolved into the space age, it still retained barbaric customs such as cold weapon combat and hunting; it was not surprising that their civilization's industrial development was somewhat deformed.

Sun Cheng's gaze lingered on the plasma pistol, and he said coldly: "So, can you manufacture such a weapon?"

"It will take a little time, but there is no manufacturing difficulty. We need some equipment and materials. Of course, if you need it, Master, we can also perform some modifications and upgrades to it. However, that will increase your Spark consumption..." Worker 2 on the side also did not forget to answer fawningly.

"Very good, work hard to do it!"

Spark consumption?!

If it were a few days ago, he might still have had some misgivings, but now, after getting a set of energy extraction and conversion devices from Onslaught, he no longer had such concerns at all!

No, no, no...

Strictly speaking, it wasn't that there were none!

Sun Cheng rubbed his metallic chin, his eyes thoughtful, "Now, I need a power station..."

PS:

1. Many thanks to readers 'Chongzu Ruji', 'Bai Yunfeng', 'Sinianlian Huiyi', 'Li Weilan Ll', 'Sheng Luoyi', 'skymonth110', and 'Yun Bai Feiyang' for their tips and support.

2. The plot is about to enter the 【Transformers 2】 line. I got stuck on how to start this segment of the plot, so the updates have been a bit slow these past two days. When I watched the movie before, I just felt it was very enjoyable, but when writing it, I realized that the screenwriters and directors are all full of pitfalls. Not to mention that the movie plot is full of bugs, many parts don't connect at all.