Chapter 227: The Message from the Pathfinder (Part 1) - Please Subscribe

A trace of disappointment could not help but arise in his heart!

Sun Cheng turned his head to look at the boulder carefully once more, just about to recall his Combat Robots and prepare to leave.

In the instant he turned, a flash of inspiration suddenly flickered in his mind: "A granite boulder... wait... damn it, such a simple concealment method, even I was almost fooled by it..."

Although this Lop Nur region has not been a desert since ancient times, a long time ago it might have been a river-filled grassland with fertile soil and water.

However, there is one thing Sun Cheng can be certain of: the geological structure in this vicinity could absolutely not have naturally birthed such a large piece of granite.

Yes!

The Lop Nur region has never produced granite since ancient times, so the boulder currently before him appeared highly suspicious!

Either it was transported here from afar by the Decepticons or the Autobots' Pathfinders a long time ago, or it was moved here by humans who worshipped them like gods.

But regardless of who brought it here, there is no doubt it proves one thing: this granite was transported here from a great distance, and there must be a reason behind it!

Immediately, he dismissed the thought of leaving, moved back up to the front of the boulder, and stared at it to examine it seriously.

This look was not trivial; Sun Cheng quickly detected something strange.

"Sure enough, there is something strange!"

A glimmer of excitement could not help but appear in his eyes; he stared fixedly at the boulder before him, and a hint of a smile finally appeared at the corners of his mouth.

From a human perspective, it would naturally be very difficult to detect what was wrong with this boulder.

However, ever since Sun Cheng realized there was a problem with this boulder, the electromagnetic scanning waves emitted by his machine body had never stopped, continuously penetrating and scanning the boulder in an attempt to find the source of the problem.

He had originally thought that the Pathfinders from Cybertron had used the boulder to hide a cave or the entrance to some Base.

Who would have thought that even though the electromagnetic waves penetrated to a great depth of several tens of meters underground, they did not discover any caves or anything of the sort.

On the contrary, inside the boulder, it was as if something was interfering with his electromagnetic scanning.

The electromagnetic waves emitted from his Core were consistently unable to penetrate this boulder!

"There is something inside the stone, but what exactly is it?"

He came before the boulder and reached out to gently brush across its surface, which had clearly been polished and was relatively smooth.

Sun Cheng hesitated for a moment, but in the end, he could not suppress the curiosity in his heart.

Thus, he swung a fist and blasted it toward the boulder.

"Bang!"

His alloy-forged metal fist landed heavily on the boulder, emitting a dull collision sound, and several small fragments and thin flakes of shattered stone immediately fell rustling from the spot where his fist struck the boulder.

Sun Cheng quickly withdrew his fist, frowned as he looked at the boulder, which only had a shallow fist print and a dozen or so tiny cracks, and couldn't help but mutter: "It's quite hard!"

He pondered for a moment, then retreated a few steps and issued an order to the seven Combat Robots that had been waiting on the side.

"Use your shoulder cannons, aim at this stone, three volleys!"

"Clatter..."

After receiving his order, the seven Combat Robots raised their heads in unison to look at the boulder, and at the same time, the shoulder cannons on their shoulders quickly adjusted their angles, and the muzzles began to glow with a faint blue light.

"Boom..."

"Boom..."

Soon, seven consecutive explosions rang out one after another from the boulder.

It lasted for a full three volleys before it stopped.

After the Combat Robots' volley ended, Sun Cheng walked back to the front of the boulder and began to re-examine the situation, which was now covered in craters and cracks from the three volleys of the seven Combat Robots.

"No, the interference is still there..."

His Core scanned the boulder again, only to find that there was still interference disrupting the electromagnetic waves he was emitting to penetrate and scan the boulder.

Sun Cheng frowned slightly, and just as he was thinking about where the problem lay, his gaze inadvertently swept across the ground, and his heart suddenly stirred.

"Huh, those shattered sand and soil, they don't seem to be granite..."

He hurriedly bent down to pick up a shattered fragment of the boulder from the ground, and Sun Cheng held it in his hand to examine it closely.

Just as his gaze had inadvertently swept over the stone fragments on the ground, his Core unexpectedly provided a detailed composition analysis, which made Sun Cheng's spirits lift.

He was no stranger to this composition analysis, because for a period of time, he had been constantly screening technologies from the Cybertron planet's technology library that could be used for trade in his dealings between China and Russia.

Therefore, Sun Cheng had thus recorded the technical data for a type of high-strength concrete that was once popular on the planet Cybertron.

As it happened, if the Core's analysis just now was correct, the composition of these fragments that fell from the boulder was almost identical to the composition of that high-strength concrete.

In other words, the boulder in front of him was not granite at all, but a block of high-strength concrete manufactured using Cybertron technology.

"It's getting more and more interesting..."

In his eyes, the light of excitement flashed brighter and brighter; Sun Cheng could now be certain that there must be some secret hidden within this boulder.

He looked at the boulder again, and after making a quick calculation in his heart, he did not let the Combat Robots continue to waste energy.

Instead, he took the field himself, and after retreating a certain distance, Sun Cheng quickly summoned his Level 4 Plasma Cannon and fired a shot at the boulder.

"Boom..."

The violent explosion kicked up countless dust and sand; after the dust settled, he hurriedly put away his weapon and walked back to the front of the boulder to look again, and the smile on his face could not help but grow wider.

Under the blast of his Plasma Cannon, the boulder had completely ceased to exist, and fragments were splattered everywhere.

However, it was, after all, a boulder manufactured using Cybertron's high-strength concrete technology.

The boulder had not yet been completely destroyed, and a damaged stone pedestal could still be seen in its original place, and right on top of the pedestal, a square cabinet about the size of a human suitcase was unexpectedly revealed.

The square cabinet shimmered with a chilling light; one look and it was clear it was made of metal, and even after taking a hit from his Plasma Cannon, no cracks had appeared on it.

The bottom of the metal square cabinet was still wrapped in stone!

Sun Cheng was eager to take down the square cabinet and see what was inside.

He immediately stepped forward and brutally landed several heavy punches on the stone body that was clamping it tight.

Following a flurry of punches, the square cabinet that had originally been tightly fixed to the stone pedestal began to loosen.

Finally, with his last punch landing.

After the square cabinet shook violently, it also flew up from the stone pedestal and landed in a pile of rubble not far away.

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