Chapter 263: New Body 2

"Master, you have arrived..."

In a corner of the factory area, in front of this piece of equipment, there were also two Workers standing guard.

Seeing Sun Cheng and the others arrive, they hurried up to greet them.

The Workers within Base No. 2 were not previously concentrated here; instead, they were scattered throughout the base and occasionally had to take care of daily chores.

However, as Sun Cheng became familiar with and gained control over the Calculator left behind by Brawl—that is, "Huan"—the Workers were liberated from their daily chores.

Now, the daily management of Base No. 2 has been taken over by "Huan," which possesses extremely high intelligence and unimaginable computational power.

Except for a few, most of the Workers have been arranged by Sun Cheng to be here, responsible for maintaining and supervising the base's production operations.

Sun Cheng nodded, acknowledging them.

His gaze, however, turned toward the equipment in front of him, and a faint, almost imperceptible light flashed in his eyes.

"Is the body finished? Let me take a look..."

"Yes!"

Atlas responded, then walked past the two Workers, went straight to the outer wall on the side of the equipment, and began to operate it.

He had been with Sun Cheng the longest and was also the leader of the Workers appointed by Sun Cheng, so he naturally took charge without hesitation.

This was a specially manufactured machine, somewhat similar to the industrial robot production line Sun Cheng had seen when he first entered the factory area, though it was much smaller in size.

However, there was still a fundamental difference between the two.

The former was at best just a more advanced automated production line, while this machine, designed specifically for manufacturing Sun Cheng's body, although far less efficient than the former, had much more powerful functions.

Sun Cheng stood quietly to the side, watching Atlas operate it; he had waited too long for this day.

Arriving in this world all alone, from an initial low-level Decepticon to now holding a corner of the world, he had never dared to easily trust anyone other than himself, always operating with extreme caution, which is how he had built up his current meager forces.

Yet, he also clearly saw the dangerous situation he was currently in.

Not to mention the outside, the Autobots were his mortal enemies.

It was not that Sun Cheng had not tried to temporarily ease relations with them, but unfortunately, after the "Battle of Las Vegas," the two sides were like fire and water, especially his final act of taking away half of Jazz's remains, which caused his relationship with the Autobots to deteriorate to the point of no return, not to mention that Mudflap was later lost at his hands as well.

As for the Decepticon Legion, there was no need to even think about it.

Starscream, Soundwave, and Megatron—the main big shots of the Decepticon Legion who came to Earth—had all been offended by him; Megatron and Soundwave were probably hating him to death now, especially Megatron—when that one returned, he would surely die a miserable death.

Sun Cheng did not even expect how he had managed to create such a terrible external environment for himself.

But looking back and examining it carefully, he realized that it was not just the external environment that was terrible.

Unknowingly, many hidden dangers had also been buried within his own forces.

Brawl was undoubtedly a ticking time bomb; when Sun Cheng forcibly kept him before, he only felt that he had too few usable combatants under his command.

But afterwards, he realized that apart from himself, no one under his command could suppress Brawl.

And his act of forcibly keeping the other party had likely made Brawl hate him to the extreme. Before truly subduing him, Brawl had the potential to detonate at any time.

Besides this, relying too much on the Workers was also a significant hidden danger.

From robots to equipment, from design to manufacturing, the Workers played a very important role in almost every link.

Sun Cheng had already realized the hidden danger!

Mechanical Life, especially Decepticons, had rebellion, combativeness, and submission to the strong deeply branded into their bones.

Therefore, even if Atlas and the others had followed him for a long time, it was not impossible for them to betray him.

Only by constantly strengthening his own power could he prevent these internal and external troubles from shaking the foundation he had worked so hard to establish in this world.

After Atlas pointed at the external control screen of the equipment for a moment, the equipment in front of Sun Cheng soon began to operate.

"Master, please move here..."

Atlas signaled for Sun Cheng to take a few steps forward, coming to the front of the equipment.

It was not clear how he operated it, but the next moment, dozens of tiny rays of light were immediately projected from the equipment, projecting a brand-new body that looked as if it were truly real inside the spacious, workshop-like area.

"New body..."

Sun Cheng's breathing also became rapid as the brand-new body was projected in front of him.

In front of him, projected from the equipment, was a hulking steel giant radiating a silver-gray luster all over.

It looked to be five or six meters tall, nearly twice as high as Sun Cheng's current body.

This new body had striking similarities to the Autobot Jazz.

It is no exaggeration to say that, except for a more ferocious face, four Missile Launchers equipped under the shoulders on the back, and some differences in the structure of the legs, overall it looked like an enlarged model of Jazz's body.

Sun Cheng's gaze lingered on the projected new body for a long while, and blue light flashed in his eyes.

In the design of his new body, Atlas and the others had originally made adjustments according to the design plan left by Brawl.

Originally, relying on the few fragments of the AllSpark he held, Sun Cheng had intended to leave enough time for Atlas and the others to manufacture a powerful body for him in one go that could even go head-to-head with Starscream and Megatron.

However, after experiencing a thrilling journey to the Mariana Trench, the constant sense of crisis made him finally abandon his original idea.

The new body was finalized and designed rapidly under these circumstances.

Although Brawl had left him a relatively complete body design plan, Sun Cheng had always held a considerable degree of wariness toward him, so when rushing to build his new body, he ultimately chose another plan, using the structure of Jazz's body as a foundation; at most, he only let Atlas and the others use the design left by Brawl for reference.

The Autobot Jazz's body was still very excellent; although he was slightly inferior to Sideswipe in combat power, his close-combat ability was equally excellent.

In the previous Battle of Las Vegas, Jazz had used his agile skills to tangle with Megatron for a long time.

Unfortunately, like many Autobot Warriors, he had excellent close-combat ability but was not equipped with heavy firepower weapons, and there was a clear gap in combat power between him and Megatron; otherwise, perhaps Jazz could have really posed a significant threat to it.

PS:

Making up for yesterday; I was so sleepy after typing until 1:30 in the morning that I went to sleep first.