Chapter 178: Experimental Subject

Just as he flew to Brazil, Sun Cheng suddenly felt a strange movement from somewhere within his body. He couldn't help but change his expression slightly as he sought out a secluded clearing and landed.

Waving his hand, a group of Micro-reconnaissance Drones newly manufactured for him by the Decepticon Workers immediately scattered, setting up a perimeter within a few kilometers.

Having done this, Sun Cheng finally relaxed his guarded spirit slightly.

He was all too familiar with this sudden restlessness emerging within his body; it came precisely from that mysterious Spherical Space.

"Has the fusion of a new world begun again?"

Calculating the time, it had been over four months since the last fusion with the 【Predator】 world, so it was indeed time for the next world fusion.

With a brilliant blue light flickering in his electronic eyes, Sun Cheng sat down on the ground.

He had been researching the Spherical Space that had inexplicably hidden itself within his body.

This time, returning to the 【Transformers】 world early, besides the fact that most of the things he needed to do in reality were already finished, there was another very important reason: to avoid this world fusion.

It wasn't to stop the world fusion, even though Sun Cheng had confirmed that whenever he entered the 【Transformers】 world, the timeline of the real world would stop, and vice versa.

But judging from the timeline progression consistently shown by the Spherical Space, it existed independently of the timelines of the 【Transformers】 and real worlds, and would not remain stagnant based on the differences between the two worlds' timelines.

This could be confirmed by the countdown reminder screen that was always ticking away inside the Spherical Space!

And what Sun Cheng wanted to do was to avoid being in the real world when a new world fusion occurred. After all, the last fusion of the 【Jurassic Park】 + 【Predator】 parallel universes had actually brought living dinosaurs and aliens right before him, and he was very worried that after a new world fusion appeared, he would once again be dragged into trouble.

At the very least, he did not have the energy to deal with those things right now!

Feeling the constant restlessness from the Spherical Space within his body, Sun Cheng forcibly resisted that increasingly strong summons. With his Core fully activated, he noticed some strange information suddenly and inexplicably appearing within his Core.

"Huh..."

The fact that his Core was actually able to capture this strange information made his heart fill with joy.

He had always been curious about the principles behind the existence of the Spherical Space. How did it appear? How did it come to possess him? And how did it possess the ability to let him travel back and forth between two worlds in such an incredible state?

It was just that he had never had any leads, and Sun Cheng's research into it had progressed very slowly.

Now that he finally saw a path, how could he hold back? He focused his mind, concentrated the Core's capabilities, and began to track and decrypt this strange information that had appeared along with the restlessness of the Spherical Space.

Soon, the blue light in Sun Cheng's eyes dimmed. He raised his head again and sighed softly.

"Failed again..."

The strangely appearing information didn't provide him with more clues about the Spherical Space, but this newly emerged information was easily decrypted by his Core. Just like his experience on Nublar Island four months ago that night, it was a notification from the Spherical Space.

"【Command & Conquer: Generals】 fusion complete! Unknown parallel world fusing, countdown..."

Frowning, Sun Cheng quickly stood up from the ground. A brand new parallel universe called 【Command & Conquer: Generals】 had once again fused into the real world. Although it was unclear what kind of world this was, he could analyze quite a bit from the literal meaning.

Taken separately, whether it was "Command & Conquer" or the "Generals" that followed, both phrases exuded a thick scent of gunpowder.

This made him feel a bit fortunate about his choice. "Will there be a new parallel world fusion in eight months? There isn't much time left for me..."

Looking at the sky with annoyance, Sun Cheng quickly issued a self-destruct command to the Micro-reconnaissance Drones that had scattered to keep watch, then leaped into the air and flew off once more.

He had a premonition that the next time he returned to the real world, it was very likely that he would need to carry more than just mechanical equipment; he might also need weapons, and perhaps many, many more...

Arriving at Base No. 2 once again, it was clear that Pioneer and Atlas and the others had not been slacking off.

The vast Underground Karst Cave was now electrified, and sets of diesel generator units were roaring wantonly within the empty cavern.

The arrival of Atlas had allowed Pioneer, who was a combat unit, to be freed from his original duties.

Nowadays, Atlas had taken over the construction task of Base No. 2.

As for Pioneer, he had volunteered to build defensive facilities in the Amambai Mountains.

Previously, Sun Cheng had turned a high-level executive of a Brazilian military trade company, Nebrina, to his side to purchase a batch of American Hellfire Missiles, hoping to use these missiles to increase his combat power.

It was just that after the subsequent Battle of Las Vegas, having personally experienced the Hellfire Missiles, he was very disappointed to find that this standard US military air-to-air missile had limited threat to Cybertronian Mechanical Life like them, so he stopped the plan to use them himself.

However, he didn't intend to waste the purchase.

The Workers at Base No. 2 took the time to modify some of the missiles to give them land-launch capabilities. After that, Sun Cheng handed them to Pioneer, having him set up over a dozen anti-aircraft positions within a hundred kilometers of Base No. 2. They were more than enough to deal with human military aircraft.

He went straight to take a look at the assembly factory that had already started working in the base!

At Sun Cheng's request, Atlas and his team of Workers had already begun designing a complete manufacturing line for industrial robots.

Progress was good so far; conservatively estimated, he would see the finished product in at most a week. Once that production line had the capacity to produce three to five industrial robots per day, it would be time for him to work his heart out.

"Master, we have manufactured four more industrial robots during this period. Do you still need to take them?"

Last time he returned from the real world midway, he had hurriedly taken a few industrial robots, saying he needed them, and then left, which was why Atlas asked this.

"Not for now..."

Letting his gaze linger for a moment on an industrial robot that had just passed by him, Sun Cheng shook his head.

He knew that the only thing currently hindering the mass production of industrial robots was energy, but that would soon become history.

A few days ago, when he took over the base of Brawl, he had obtained two more energy extraction and conversion devices from there. Sun Cheng already had a plan: the next time he returned to the real world, he prepared to take one of the devices from Cybertron back to the real world and deploy it in the new factory he was about to build, so that he could openly use the electricity system of China in the real world to work for him.

Thinking of energy led him to think of the Core. Sun Cheng's heart stirred, and he suddenly remembered the research data on the Core that he had harvested from Brawl from that 'Cybertronian Calculator'.

He immediately spoke slowly and ordered: "Go, call Green Skin over, and prepare a Laboratory for me. I need to use it immediately!"

"Yes, Master. I will go do it right away!"

PS:

If nothing goes wrong, there will be three updates today as compensation. The updates over the past few days have indeed been unacceptable; I apologize to everyone.