Chapter 2: I Became a Decepticon

Late at night, after a terrifying thunderstorm that came and went in a flash, inside a dilapidated factory on the outskirts of Fierfaksike that had been abandoned for who knows how many years, a black and white Ford Mustang police car with the number 643 printed on its body was slowly driving further inside.

The headlights were blazing!

If someone happened to be passing by this police car at this moment, they would definitely be scared into a cold sweat.

Because looking into the car with the help of the lights, both the driver's seat on the left and the passenger seat on the right were shockingly empty; there wasn't a single soul inside the car!

What was even more chilling was that shortly after the car stopped, a series of strange and hard-to-decipher electronic sounds were being emitted densely from within the car, "Squeak, buzz, crackle...".

"Hey, Frenzy..."

"Damn it... was the Core Moban damaged by that lightning strike just now?"

Along with the shouts ringing in his ears, Sun Cheng, whose consciousness was gradually returning, only felt as if a red-hot iron rod had been forcibly thrust into his brain and was still constantly stirring; the severe pain, nausea, and intense sense of dizziness even made him have the thought, 'I really wish I could die right now.'

Worse still, he was now actually hallucinating.

"... I am Frenzy... a Mechanical Lifeform from the planet Cybertron..."

"No, no... I am Sun Cheng, a failed college student who got drunk drinking alone..."

Massive amounts of strange memories and consciousness kept clashing in his mind, undoubtedly increasing his current agony.

Fortunately, this state unexpectedly did not last long; accompanied by a strangely surging cool sensation, Sun Cheng finally completely devoured the consciousness data of the other Mechanical Lifeform—Frenzy—and occupied this body.

That's right, a body, not a physical body!

After completely digesting the information in his head that he considered utterly absurd, Sun Cheng, having regained consciousness, lowered his head with a strange expression. Using his eyes, which were like ultra-high-definition cameras with a field of view of nearly 300 degrees and capable of seeing tiny particles on the ground more than ten meters away to his rear-left in the dark, he looked at his own pair of slender metal arms.

"... It's not a dream? I actually really turned into a robot? This..."

Sun Cheng couldn't help but believe it!

Not to mention that the unique body structure of this Mechanical Lifeform could not be faked, just the information regarding the storage and encryption of memory-related files, the body's energy consumption, the wear and tear of various parts, and the body's combination and transformation functions were all constantly surfacing in his head, or rather, the Core Moban within it, at a frequency of once per second.

【Frenzy: Spy Robot.】

【Faction: Decepticon (Cassette Corps).】

【Partner: Barricade.】

【Height: 2.6 feet. Weight: 27.51 pounds.】

【Core: Level 1 Spy Template.】

【Status: Good!】

【Current Task 1: Head to Earth, search for intelligence regarding the Leader 'Megatron' and the 'AllSpark'.】

【Secret Task 2: Monitor Barricade, wait for an opportunity to investigate the reason why the Commander—Starscream—suddenly left Cybertron decades ago and headed to the Solar System.】

Just as he was struggling and panicking over what was happening to him, Sun Cheng suddenly felt his body spin, and before he could even react, his super-awesome mechanical eyes had already transmitted the scene of the surrounding environment changing drastically into the Core Moban located within his brain.

"Wait... the police car I was in also turned into a robot? Is he my current partner—Barricade?"

The thought had just popped into his mind when Sun Cheng quickly realized he was wrong!

"Damn it... scum of the Cassette Corps..."

Accompanied by a violent roar, Sun Cheng felt his body lighten before he even hit the ground, and he was firmly grabbed by a pair of pitch-black giant mechanical hands, "Warning... warning, exoskeleton has sustained minor damage..."

Although his mechanical body made him unable to feel that pain, the Core Moban warnings constantly flashing in his mind, along with the sparks that flew when his body was fiercely grabbed by Barricade's large hand, all told Sun Cheng how terrible his current state was.

"... I have no more patience... lowly crawler... now, either answer me whether the Task can still proceed, or go die..."

Following Barricade's cold mechanical voice, Sun Cheng only felt the danger warnings in his mind becoming increasingly piercing, while at the same time, an indescribable despair welled up.

In this instant, it was as if a voice came from the depths of his soul, constantly issuing warnings to him.

He would die!

He would really die!

"Lord Barricade... my Moban seems to have been affected by the lightning strike just now..."

Under the dangerous warning, Sun Cheng 'instinctively' made an immediate reply.

Although even he himself could feel the trembling and panic in that voice.

A smile seemed to appear on Barricade's ferocious metal face, looking cruel and violent.

He seemed very satisfied with Sun Cheng's panic, but as the light in those two pairs of deep blue mechanical eyes flickered, his cold voice almost caused Sun Cheng's Core Moban to crash, "Oh? In other words, I need a new assistant?"

Fear and unease grew heavier; this was a warning from the subconscious of the original owner he had devoured—Frenzy.

And Sun Cheng, who had taken over all of Frenzy's memories, finally reacted and realized his current dangerous situation.

He, Frenzy, was a Mechanical Lifeform from the Decepticon faction on the planet Cybertron, a member of the Cassette Corps belonging to Lord Soundwave.

As a Decepticon intelligence officer, after following Lord Soundwave and just arriving in the Solar System located in a remote corner of the Milky Way, he had received orders to be dispatched with this Decepticon Warrior in front of him named 'Barricade' to go to Earth to find the long-missing Decepticon Leader—Lord Megatron—and the holy object 【AllSpark】, because intelligence indicated that the two of them were very likely on Earth.

Besides this, he had also received a secret Task from the Commander of the 【Cassette Corps】—Soundwave.

But clearly, Barricade did not trust him.

He couldn't help but make an instinctive swallowing motion, but unfortunately, it only produced an indistinct electronic sound.

Under the crisis warning, Sun Cheng's brain operated at an unprecedented frequency, "L-Lord, although my status has been affected, it does not affect the subsequent Task..."

As far as he knew, although Decepticons were Mechanical Lifeforms, their strict hierarchical system was even more extreme than the feudal era of humans that had long since ended.

A higher-level Decepticon possessed suffocating suppression power over a lower-level one; that was one of the laws deeply branded into the most important 【Core】 of these Mechanical Lifeforms.

This also led to Sun Cheng, who had now taken over the body of this mechanical spy named 'Frenzy', being unable to muster any heart to resist in front of Barricade, who suppressed him in rank.

This undoubtedly made the unease in his heart grow a few degrees deeper!

"Oh? Is that so?"

Seeing Barricade sneer and bare his teeth, revealing a set of ferocious, saw-toothed alloy teeth, and even increasing the strength of the hand gripping him by a few points, it seemed he had no intention of letting him go.

Sun Cheng's heart tightened. Just as he was about to open his mouth to beg for mercy, a piece of information flashed through his mind, and he had a sudden inspiration, hurriedly shouting in a shrill voice: "Lord Barricade, kill me, and who knows how long it will take for the next intelligence officer sent to assist you to arrive on Earth. I heard that Lord Xuan is about to arrive in the Solar System!"

As soon as the words left his mouth, he first felt his whole body suddenly tighten, thinking he had overplayed his hand, but he never expected that the next moment he would be violently thrown out, first hitting a stone pillar inside the abandoned factory, and then falling onto the filthy ground with a 'bang' sound.

"Hmph..."

Accompanied by a cold snort, Barricade stared down at him with a ferocious expression for quite a while, before transforming back into that original black-and-white Ford Mustang police car amidst a series of mechanical sounds, "Get in, let's go!"

Decepticon bodies are manufactured using Memory Metal; non-fatal damage can recover on its own without needing much time, so although Sun Cheng's body was injured, it did not affect his movements.

However, the experience of having his life completely held in someone else's hands just now still left him feeling incredibly stifled and furious, and he secretly vowed in his heart that he could not just let it go like this.

Without a word, he got into the car and sat in the passenger seat; Sun Cheng lowered his head, the blue light in his electronic eyes flickering incessantly as he began to organize his thoughts.

Just a moment ago, if he hadn't completely absorbed all of Frenzy's memory, he very likely would have been killed by his partner—Barricade—who would have seized the opportunity.

This was truly not Sun Cheng being paranoid, because in the memories of the original owner, Frenzy, as a renowned elite Decepticon Warrior, Barricade himself was a contradictory complex of cold, cunning, and violent bloodlust; he would abuse and kill a low-level Decepticon like him at the slightest disagreement, and it was unlikely that even the leader of the Cassette Corps he belonged to—Soundwave—would step forward to confront Barricade for his sake.

It was fortunate that the two of them had a Task to fulfill upon being dispatched to Earth this time, and that Barricade did not get along at all with another Decepticon Warrior—Blackout; otherwise, Sun Cheng might very well have become the most miserable transmigrator in history!

Although, in his view, the fact that he had inexplicably transmigrated into this new world and even turned into a Mechanical Lifeform was simply the worst stroke of bad luck in eight lifetimes.

That's right, Sun Cheng had already realized the fact that he had transmigrated.

While organizing the Memory Data of Frenzy, he already knew that he was still on Earth, only the place he was in had changed from his motherland—China—to Fairfax City in Fujiniyazhou, United States.

If it were merely a change of location, Sun Cheng would not be this dejected.

It just so happened that he also learned from the Memory Data of Frenzy that although there was a country named "China" here, its state structure was Soviet-style socialism, which simply refreshed the limits of his imagination.

After all, in Sun Cheng's previous world, China and the Soviet Union had territorial disputes and border conflicts that lasted for over a hundred years from the Tsarist era to the rise of the Soviet Union; they were as bitter as deep-seated enemies, so it was naturally impossible for them to adopt the other's system.

What's more, this world had only just reached the point in time of 2007 AD, and there existed "Mechanical Life," a type of alien intelligent lifeform that he would never have imagined could truly exist, no matter how much he stretched his imagination.

By such analogy, only one conclusion remained.