Chapter 187: A One-Man War (2)

As dull, continuous explosion sounds began to travel from the surface, Sun Cheng was standing quietly inside Laboratory One of the underground Base.

"Is it starting?"

With his Core functions fully active and more and more surveillance equipment losing connection with him, how could Sun Cheng not understand? It was certain that the surveillance equipment he had ordered the Workers to install outside the Base had already been discovered or destroyed.

Although explosions kept coming from outside, he also knew that the NEST troops could not cause too much damage to the other side; at most, they had just caught them off guard.

Sure enough, after recovering, NEST soon began using rocket launchers to violently clear the minefield.

He believed it wouldn't be long before they advanced to the Nuclear Missile Silo.

Therefore, the time left for Sun Cheng was already running out.

His brow suddenly furrowed, and he looked up at the reinforced wall overhead, though he quickly withdrew his gaze.

A Radiation Sphere had disconnected its data link; it had clearly been destroyed. This made Sun Cheng's heart tighten, as he knew the time left for him was already running out.

This was a war that belonged to him alone, a war with only one person!

The Decepticon Workers did not have much combat power; perhaps they could rely on the advantages of their chassis to fight against humanity's most elite soldiers, but they were not specialized combat units after all. It was very likely that just a few rifle grenades or a single anti-tank rocket could completely destroy them.

Although this exposure exceeded Sun Cheng's plan, he himself understood that even if he summoned the only two combat units under his command, Pathfinder and Frenzy, he would be unable to stop the Autobots heading straight for him.

The last operation in Tucson had given him a significant sense of crisis. With several high-level Autobot Warriors dispatched together, Sun Cheng was not Megatron; it was not impossible for him to be left behind if one link went wrong.

Therefore, this time he had to deal a heavy blow to the NEST troops, so that the United States government behind NEST would understand that he was not to be trifled with.

His gaze turned back to the front, to a huge box, and Sun Cheng finally took action.

This was a normal cargo shipping container, manufactured to standard specifications, appearing to have nothing special about it.

However, Sun Cheng slowly reached out his palm toward it. After his palm pressed against the container, a stream of information was immediately sent from his Core along his palm.

The next second, the container seemed to disintegrate. The front, back, left, and right sides of the box emitted a faint mechanical release sound simultaneously and separated, revealing two huge humanoid chassis quietly placed inside.

Self-manufactured Industrial Robot No. 19 and No. 20!

These were precisely the two new industrial robots manufactured at Base No. 2 in Brazil!

However, what was slightly different was that No. 19 and No. 20 were not ordinary industrial robots!

His gaze lingered on the two robots for a moment, Sun Cheng's eyes filled with anticipation.

Industrial robots were a project he had temporarily launched because his Decepticon Workers were severely insufficient.

Based on the existing industrial robot Moban on Earth, they were made using some technology from the planet Cybertron and by copying the Workers' database. Because they essentially did not possess much intelligence, strictly speaking, they were just industrial machinery more advanced than the industrial robots already on Earth.

At first, Sun Cheng had no intention of militarizing them. After all, he himself possessed a Decepticon chassis, so he naturally knew very well that mechanical lifeforms from the planet Cybertron were simply like gods in front of machines, especially equipment equipped with electronic components.

He was very worried that after painstakingly creating a robot army, it would be easily controlled by others when clashing with Autobots or other Decepticons, and all his hard work would go down the drain.

However, the impact from the Moon that day made Sun Cheng suddenly realize that perhaps the industrial robots he had created, while clumsy, did not seem as easy to influence as he had imagined.

It was based on this discovery that he prepared to restart the previous armed robot plan. These two industrial robots, numbered 19 and 20, were precisely the test subjects Sun Cheng was using to practice.

With a movement of his Core, two liquid metal joints immediately extended from his chassis, instantly linking to an inconspicuous port on the two robots, No. 19 and No. 20, which were currently in an unactivated state. Then, two streams of information data were quickly injected into the central processing units of these two robots.

"Zzhila..."

Accompanied by bursts of metallic joint grinding sounds, the chassis of No. 19 and No. 20 suddenly began to tremble violently.

Not long after, as their eyes suddenly opened, a cold, hollow electronic voice immediately sounded: "Combat Robot No. 1, No. 2 activation complete, Core functions enabled... initiating chassis automatic adjustment function... loading combat data... detecting weapon and ammunition reserves... confirming Task 【Clear all intruders】... unknown data packet discovered, beginning decryption... data decryption complete, confirming unknown data as 【Base No. 1 internal structural map】... No. 1, No. 2, sortie..."

Boom!

After completing the activation, the two modified industrial robots No. 19 and No. 20, which had not yet finished debugging and finalization, jumped up with unexpected agility. Their heavy weight left two dull echoes in the empty Laboratory the moment they landed.

Feeling the data scanning gaze fall upon him, Sun Cheng watched with interest without interfering.

He had already loaded the friend-or-foe identification system into the central processing units of No. 19 and No. 20!

They did not disappoint him. This system easily helped No. 19 and No. 20 confirm his identity. After the scan ended, the two modified robots—whose chassis were no less impressive than Sun Cheng's and were a full two sizes larger than ordinary industrial robots—immediately followed the task he had left behind and walked out of the Laboratory without looking back!

"The next step is to test their combat power!"

His gaze was only withdrawn after No. 19 and No. 20 had completely disappeared, while Sun Cheng controlled his Core to continue locking onto them without interruption in order to collect combat data.

On the other hand, after receiving the latest data transmitted back from outside the Base, the arc of his mouth grew wider, and the faint blue light in his pair of electronic eyes was cold and bone-chilling!

"So, it's about time to clear the field!"

Following a cold, self-muttered sentence, Sun Cheng suddenly looked up, and several control data streams were immediately sent from his Core.

The next moment, the remaining five automatic land-based Missile launch systems ambushed outside the Base activated. After immediately locking onto the targets circling above in the sky, they simultaneously fired the automatically loaded improved Hellfire Missiles.

At the same time, in two hidden locations outside the Base!

Two long, narrow boxes buried in the shallow layer of the ground suddenly received two remote activation data streams, and the liquid crystal screens on the surface of the boxes violently began to light up with a bright red countdown timer.

"10, 9, 8... 3, 2, 1!"