Chapter 16: Interstellar Transmission

Perhaps it was because his identity had been exposed by Sun Cheng, and he could no longer hide on the sidelines.

Or perhaps he simply felt that Reflector had gone a bit too far.

In any case, after being called out by his shout, Barricade stopped hiding and walked straight out from not far away.

"Stop it, Reflector!" He looked indifferently at Reflector, who was a bit overexcited from playing too hard.

"Lord Barricade, I haven't disobeyed the will of Lord Starscream..." Reflector smiled cunningly, but his hands showed no sign of stopping, continuing to fire incessantly at Sun Cheng. "Look, I haven't hurt him!"

To think he had been shooting at him for so long, he was purely just playing!

Reflector's words made Sun Cheng even more annoyed; he gritted his teeth as he looked at the other party, swearing that once he promoted, he would definitely make him pay.

Reflector's attitude clearly made Barricade somewhat displeased.

After glancing at the struggling Sun Cheng, he looked at Reflector with interest, though dangerous red light flickered in his eyes. "Are you saying that my will can be defied at will?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the cunning Reflector immediately sensed something was wrong. After his eyes darted around, he immediately stopped targeting Sun Cheng. "No, no, no, Lord Barricade. I was just playing a joke on an old friend..."

After speaking, his right arm shifted, and the Rapid-fire Machine Gun originally equipped on the back of his hand retracted back into his joints.

Unfortunately, Barricade's temper was clearly harder to fathom than his.

Before Sun Cheng could even catch his breath, he suddenly felt a blur before his eyes, and before he could react, he heard a loud bang against the wall not far away.

Only then did he regain his senses and look closely, feeling a sense of relief in his heart.

You ask why?

It turned out that Reflector, who had been sticking to him like taffy and targeting him all day, was now deeply embedded in the wall not far away.

Looking at Barricade, who stood where Reflector had been with a fierce look in his eyes, it was indeed he who had slapped Reflector into the wall.

"Don't let there be a next time, remember that, crawler..."

After baring his teeth and giving Reflector a fierce warning, Barricade turned around to look at Sun Cheng, who was standing honestly to the side, the ferocity on his face gradually fading.

After his expression flickered for a while, Sun Cheng heard him say: "Follow me, Lord Starscream is waiting for you!"

Sun Cheng glanced at Reflector. Although this guy had taken a slap from Barricade and cracks had appeared on his body, he dared not show any dissatisfaction toward Barricade. After crawling out of the hole in the wall, he instead looked at him with even fiercer eyes, seemingly blaming this matter on him as well.

"Yes!" He immediately responded, blue light flickering in his eyes, having already made up his mind to gather enough resources to promote as soon as possible, and it would be best to leave this place entirely.

Barricade didn't waste words; after giving the instruction, he took him toward the hall where he had met Starscream when he first arrived yesterday.

After arriving at that hall not long after, Sun Cheng could not hide the surprise in his eyes.

Seeming to hear the footsteps behind him, Starscream didn't turn his head and remained in the center of the hall, gently fiddling with a dark blue fruit that looked like it was growing on a steel vine, and asked casually, "Have you finished looking around the Base?"

"Ye... Yes, Lord Starscream!"

Sun Cheng replied hurriedly upon hearing this, though his eyes could not stop looking at that strange vine.

To say that what grew on the vine was a fruit was actually not quite right; a more accurate description was that the thing looked more like an organ for gestating a fetus, filled with sea-blue liquid, emitting an alluring attraction.

"It's Energy Liquid, high-purity Energy Liquid!"

Under the reminder of the 【Spy Template】, Sun Cheng quickly realized what those sea-blue liquids were, but new doubts followed.

What exactly was this thing?

With his vision, it was naturally not difficult to see clearly that inside the dark blue fruit-like organ, a palm-sized, unformed Mechanical Lifeform was sleeping. As the fruit organ expanded and contracted, some tiny metal particles of various colors, almost impossible to capture with the naked eye, were constantly transported into the fruit organ and gradually gathered around the unformed Mechanical Lifeform inside.

"This is a Newborn Egg!" Seeming to sense that he would surely be suspicious of this fruit organ, Starscream, still with his back to him and without turning his head, gently stroked the outer wall of the 【Newborn Egg】. After a long while, he said again with full regret, "Unfortunately, the Life Force is insufficient; it is difficult for it to gestate into a true Decepticon!"

Sun Cheng's heart stirred. There wasn't much data on Life Force in 【Frenzy】's Memory Chip. He only knew that Life Force was crucial to Decepticons; without Life Force, there would be no 【Core】.

As for records of the 【Newborn Egg】, there were none at all.

Seeing that the opportunity was rare, he hesitated before asking cautiously: "Lord Starscream, what are 【Newborn Egg】 and Life Force?"

Starscream turned around and glanced at him with a flat expression, which made Sun Cheng feel a tingling in his scalp, because in that instant, he seemed to see a flash of murderous intent in the other's eyes.

"You don't need to know what Life Force is yet. As for the 【Newborn Egg】, this is the natural way of gestating Decepticons that has been passed down since the birth of the Cybertron civilization. It's just a pity that it requires more time, energy, and Life Force!"

Sun Cheng was warned by him, and although he still had countless doubts in his heart, he dared not ask another half-sentence, but he kept these two new terms in his mind.

Seeing that Starscream had been looking at him, Sun Cheng did not dare to meet his gaze and pretended to look at other parts of the hall. After looking for a few moments, he could not help but be even more surprised.

When he first arrived here yesterday, although he had seen many metal pillars and pipes in this hall, he hadn't thought much of it at the time.

Unexpectedly, in just one day, thanks to the efforts of those tireless Decepticon Workers, all the metal pillars and pipes had been assembled into the vines for cultivating 【Newborn Egg】 that he saw before him. At a glance, there were probably no fewer than twenty or thirty main trunks, and some of the vines were already hung with one or several 【Newborn Eggs】.

"This is the 【Incubation Room】!"

After Starscream explained again, he suddenly seemed to become impatient and ordered him coldly: "Since you've finished looking around the Base, go and send the Interstellar Transmission to Soundwave. You can write whatever you want in the content; I won't ask, and I'm too lazy to ask. But I've already stated my requirement: tell him everything you saw in the Base, without missing a single detail!"

After finishing his words, without waiting for Sun Cheng to answer, he looked at Barricade and gave him a look.

Barricade nodded, stepped forward, grabbed Sun Cheng, and before he could react, transformed into a police car. After placing him in the passenger seat, he drove straight out of the Base.