Chapter 320: Night of Slaughter (Part 1)

The black curtain slowly descended, and a bright moon hung high above in the sky.

Atop the peak of Huwangling in the Xixia District, a Mechanical Beast with a body radiating a bright silver metallic luster was quietly crouching on the summit of this not-very-tall mountain.

By the moonlight, one could clearly see that its size was far inferior to an adult tiger or leopard; it was significantly smaller.

And it was none other than "Defender," one of the three Mechanical Lives that Sun Cheng had brought back from another world.

Under the moonlight, Defender was currently crouching quietly on the mountain peak, and a set of strange expressions, as if a ferocious grin, appeared on its slightly hideous beast head.

"... Interesting little bugs, I've finally found you..."

In Defender's pair of azure electronic eyes, light was flickering incessantly at this moment.

A continuous stream of data was being transmitted to it from thirty-seven kilometers away, from a stealth Unmanned Reconnaissance Aircraft hovering at a low altitude of over two thousand meters above a remote suburb in a certain area of Nandu.

After receiving the data transmitted by the Unmanned Reconnaissance Aircraft that had already activated its optical stealth, what appeared in Defender's eyes were, strikingly, clear, coherent, and continuous video images.

"... Master, Defender reporting to you. The target's current coordinates are North Latitude xxxx, East Longitude xxxx. I will immediately transmit the images captured by the Unmanned Reconnaissance Aircraft..."

Just after transmitting the data it had received, a few minutes later, Defender, who was crouching on the mountain peak, suddenly froze in its expression; it abruptly stood up from its crouch, leaped down from the nearly two-hundred-meter-high peak of Huwangling, and soon landed steadily on the ground.

The moment it landed, Defender nimbly kicked off the ground to jump onto a protruding rock at the foot of the mountain, then jumped down again, and after a burst of rapid running on the ground, it arrived at the courtyard of the factory buildings built by Hongyuan Group in front of the mountain in less than thirty seconds.

The factory gate was soon opened, and a large SUV slowly drove into the empty and desolate courtyard in the dark night.

After the car engine was cut, a young human figure soon stepped down from the car.

Defender walked to the side unhurriedly and respectfully lowered its head slightly.

"Master, you have arrived!"

The person who came was none other than Sun Cheng!

Sun Cheng nodded slightly and gave a soft grunt in response; he was not surprised that Defender would know he was coming and arrive here to welcome him.

Defender had once deployed hundreds of monitoring devices within ten kilometers of Base No. 1.

Although some time ago, because Sun Cheng had contacted two construction companies to purchase a large batch of cement wall panels, preparing to fence off the land belonging to him nearby, he had already had Defender recover the vast majority of the surveillance devices, but at this time, the nearly three-meter-high cement wall panels had long since enclosed the area around the Base, and naturally, a large number of surveillance devices had been redeployed in the vicinity.

He reached out and touched his shoulder lightly; Xiao Wu, who had turned into a miniature Decepticon, was currently standing on his shoulder.

The moment it was picked up by him, Xiao Wu understood and changed back into its mobile phone form; it was playing the data for Sun Cheng that had just been received from Defender.

"This is getting interesting..."

Sun Cheng put Xiao Wu, who had changed back into its mobile phone form, back into his pocket, his brows twitching imperceptibly.

He had already finished watching the images captured by the drone that Defender had transmitted while in the car. With the joint efforts of the two Decepticon Scouts, Revenge and Defender, after Revenge received his order in the afternoon, it had only taken a little over an hour to identify the vehicle used by the people who might have invaded his villa that afternoon from the images captured by the hundreds of thousands of Nandu traffic surveillance systems.

Then, Defender activated an Unmanned Reconnaissance Aircraft that had been sealed within Base No. 1, and using its computing power, which far exceeded the drone's control system, it personally commanded the drone, which applied optical stealth technology, to track the vehicle all the way along the trajectory calculated by Revenge.

The entire process took only a little over two hours, and they had strikingly locked onto the vehicle that was constantly avoiding surveillance in the city and cautiously heading toward the remote outskirts of the city.

"Master, do you need me to move out immediately?"

Slightly raising its head, Defender looked up at Sun Cheng, its hideous beast face filled with murderous intent.

Its mouth of sharp metal fangs reflected the moonlight slightly in the dark night, so much so that when Sun Cheng's gaze looked over, his eyes squinted slightly from the prickling sensation.

He pondered for a moment before nodding slowly, "Leave one survivor; I still have some things to ask. As for the rest, do it cleanly; don't leave any traces!"

"Yes!"

After Defender received his permission, the light in its azure electronic eyes suddenly intensified. After answering with a grin, it arched its body and leaped up, jumping onto the side of the two-meter-high factory building, and soon disappeared into the dark night.

Sun Cheng could not help but look in the direction where its figure disappeared for a while, then soon withdrew his gaze.

Then, after locking the iron gate of the factory, he walked up the mountain from the side door on the other side, heading toward Base No. 1 hidden in the valley.

Driving the car into the Garage, Lin Ping cut the engine and pulled out the key. The young white man, Thomson, sitting in the passenger seat next to him, could not help but yawn at this moment.

"Hey, boss. There's no need to be this careful..."

He rubbed his buttocks lightly, complaining while getting out of the car with his laptop in his arms.

It was no wonder he couldn't help but complain. After leaving the apartment rented by the target of today's Task in the afternoon, Lin Ping had driven this car and wandered for a full four hours in Nandu, an international metropolis that could be ranked among the best in the world, circling countless times to avoid one surveillance camera after another, before they finally returned to their temporary base in Nandu.

Lin Ping glanced at him, "Being careful is never wrong!"

Lin Ping was different from the Senior Agent of the CIA, William Chen, who had mysteriously disappeared in China not long ago. The latter was a Chinese-American whose grandfather's generation had immigrated to the United States, and from the bottom of his heart, he no longer had any fear of this motherland.

But Lin Ping was different; he was an agent who was spotted and developed by U. S. intelligence agencies only when he went to the United States to study at the end of the last century. Coupled with the fact that he was a bit older than William Chen and had returned to his motherland several times in the past to carry out tasks, he naturally had an understanding of China's counter-espionage capabilities.

Moreover, this was Nandu, the administrative center of this Far East power; one could not be too careful.

Otherwise, just look at William Chen; the CIA still hasn't figured out how he disappeared.