Chapter 260: Transforming Worker (Part II)

Although Sun Cheng could not find relevant memories in Megatron's mind regarding how the Decepticon Legion manufactured Cores.

He did, however, see some memories related to the Decepticon Legion's past research on the AllSpark.

Scientists of the Decepticon Legion discovered through research that the AllSpark could release a powerful energy pulse with a special fluctuation, which could transform protomorphs and things possessing protomorph traits—such as machinery that also contained internal circuit structures—into Mechanical Life.

However, while the AllSpark was miraculous, its flaws compared to the Matrix of Leadership were also very obvious.

Although it could transform protomorphs and equipment with protomorph traits into Mechanical Life, the energy pulse it released was unstable.

If the target was a protomorph or Mechanical Life, it was fine; the AllSpark's intense energy pulse could provide enough energy for their Evolution.

But if the target was merely some machinery possessing protomorph traits, then the situation would be much worse.

The energy wavelength released by the AllSpark was unstable, and while machinery also possessed circuit structures, they were ultimately different from protomorphs; the former, protomorphs, were pseudo-Mechanical Life that already possessed primitive life traits, while machines were just machines.

The experiments conducted by Sun Cheng and his team also verified this point.

In the past few experiments, it had been confirmed that after absorbing enough energy, an AllSpark Fragment would enter an active state.

Just like the AllSpark, the several fragments in Sun Cheng's possession all possessed the ability to transform machines with internal circuit structures into Mechanical Life.

However, even when the test target was an industrial robot, the result was the same as the initial experiment he had conducted with his Nokia phone.

The industrial robot he used for the experiment, after being transformed into Mechanical Life by the AllSpark Fragment, remained the same as the "Green Skin" he had captured in Las Vegas, and the Mechanical Life the Nokia phone had turned into: confused in thought, violent in behavior, with a mind filled only with the urge to kill and destroy.

Such Cannon Fodder was not what Sun Cheng needed.

Using an AllSpark Fragment to transform Mechanical Life also required it to absorb a massive amount of energy.

The manufacturing of a robot's body, Core, and energy hub all required the consumption of resources.

In the end, one could only get a defective product with no intelligence and a mind filled only with the urge to destroy; it was simply not worth the cost!

This was an unsolvable problem!

If Megatron's memories were not fake, even the vast Decepticon Legion of the past had not solved it, let alone Sun Cheng and his team, whose strength was far inferior to the Decepticon Legion.

With no other choice, he could only cross the river by feeling the stones and explore it himself.

"Master... Master, the Energy Concentration has reached the eighth level. Some components of the equipment are beginning to overheat. In seven seconds at most, it will destroy this machine. It is recommended to trigger the energy pulse immediately..."

Beside his ear, the voice of 'Huan' rang out once again.

Sun Cheng could not help but frown. His gaze lingered on the body of the new industrial robot suspended inside the equipment. After a moment of hesitation, he finally nodded.

"Activate it, and pay attention to recording the data!"

"Yes!"

The machine in front of him, which looked like an oven or a cabinet, immediately underwent a change.

Sun Cheng could not help but focus his mind, looking at it with anticipation.

This machine was something he had ordered Atlas and the others to replicate, based on a device he had seen in Megatron's memories that the Decepticon Legion used to draw energy from the AllSpark to transform ordinary machines into Mechanical Life.

Although it was a simplified version, it should have all the necessary functions.

Following the cold, mechanical voice of 'Huan', the cylindrical pointer inside the device in front of him—which was aimed directly at the head of the industrial robot and had an AllSpark Fragment embedded in its tip—immediately shot out a beam of azure light. Like a leaping bolt of lightning, it quickly submerged into the head of the industrial robot.

"Crack!"

Inside the equipment, the body of the industrial robot, which had been fixed to a support and should have been in a dormant state, suddenly began to tremble violently.

"Whether this succeeds or not depends on this one attempt..."

Staring fixedly at the industrial robot inside the equipment, Sun Cheng could not stop the agitation in his heart.

Perhaps due to war considerations, the Decepticon Legion of the past had not researched in detail how to make the Mechanical Life transformed by the AllSpark possess intelligence; after all, they were fighting a brutal war against the Autobots for control of the planet Cybertron at that time.

Compared to intelligent Mechanical Life, the Decepticons needed Cannon Fodder that could go to the battlefield more.

Because there was no reference, Sun Cheng could only rely on his own exploration now.

Before him, the industrial robot in the equipment was a new model he had ordered Atlas and the others to modify.

Compared to the previous industrial robots, the one in the equipment was undoubtedly significantly different; its size appeared smaller, and it was more similar to humans.

The Workers' database did not have much information on protomorphs, causing Sun Cheng's initial attempt to pin his hopes on imitating protomorphs to manufacture internal structures for the robots to fall through.

With no other choice, he simply had the Workers combine human body structures to manufacture these new models, which were extremely similar to humans from their body structure to their internal organ design.

Now was the time to verify his hypothesis.

Whether it was the AllSpark or a fragment, transforming a machine into Mechanical Life required the consumption of energy.

Energy Concentration was an index used on Cybertron to measure energy. Converted, a seventh-level Energy Concentration was roughly equivalent to the power consumption of a town of a thousand people for three days, while the eighth level was nearly three times that of the former.

After all, it was just a fragment; the gap compared to a complete AllSpark was obvious.

In previous experiments, Sun Cheng and his team had already discovered that the more energy a fragment absorbed, the richer the special energy pulse it could provide for transforming Mechanical Life. For big guys like industrial robots, if the Energy Concentration was less than level five, the pulse emitted by the fragment simply could not cause a qualitative change.

This time, Sun Cheng was aiming for success. At the very least, he wanted to verify whether a fragment could, after absorbing enough energy, cause the transformed Mechanical Life to mutate on its own.

Now, staring fixedly at the industrial robot in the equipment that had begun to struggle violently, his fists also began to clench.

PS:

I encountered a frustrating thing yesterday that caused me not to update.

Looking at my chapter divisions, it shouldn't be hard to guess that most of the time I finish two chapters together and then split them before uploading.

Yesterday, when I had typed three thousand three or four hundred words using 【Jiji Writing】, the computer suddenly restarted.

Originally, I had set it to save automatically every five minutes. But when I went to retrieve it, I found that this software had also gone haywire; the last saved record was actually from three o'clock in the morning yesterday.

Let alone not having a record from a few minutes ago, a large chapter of over three thousand words that I had typed had not been saved even once.

Having to rewrite a manuscript after it's lost is a very annoying thing.

My mood last night was truly terrible; I barely persisted for ten minutes, feeling both frustrated and annoyed. If my family hadn't all been sleeping, I would have really wanted to smash the computer.