Chapter 382

Ironhide and the others eventually ran away; Sun Cheng did not need Vadronov to send anyone to inform him, as his drones had never been withdrawn from the front lines.

He even controlled the drones to follow directly above Ironhide and the others, witnessing with his own eyes these Autobots, under the frantic strikes of the Russian Army's fighter jets, retreat in a sorry state to the coastline, and then jump into the icy sea of the far north without hesitation.

"... So they still managed to escape..."

Sun Cheng let out a long breath; the Russian Army repelling the probe from the Autobots without him needing to take action, and once again hiding himself under the cover of the mist called mystery, was undoubtedly a good use of a borrowed knife for him.

Starscream could not figure out his bottom line, and with his caution and cunning, it was absolutely impossible for him to make a move against him again.

As for the Autobots, nearly losing four Warriors in Russia was a lesson enough for them to digest for some time.

It is conceivable that in the next few months, there should be no one coming to cause trouble here at North Port.

However, there are gains and there are losses.

Although the Russian Army paid a heavy price this time to keep the Autobots, it was not without gains.

Through this battle, the Russians would soon realize that they were not without the power to resist when facing the people of Cybertron.

On the contrary, their weapons could not only hurt Autobots and Decepticons, but if coordinated properly, it was not impossible to severely damage and kill them.

This discovery would inevitably make certain ambitious people in Moscow restless, and even lead to some unnecessary ideas.

It can be expected that there will definitely be some twists and turns in the 'cooperation' between him and Russia in the future.

After weighing the gains and losses in his heart for a while, Sun Cheng soon gave a dumbfounded smile and cast it to the back of his mind.

Even if the Russians discovered it, what of it? Could they really fall out with him?

The reason he appeared in Russia, besides wanting to use human hands to more quickly obtain the resources needed for the Base's development, was also for another important reason: to rearm the Polar Bear and let it attract the United States' attention on a global scale.

Moreover, Sun Cheng was not an Autobot with extremely strong principles, so in the past few collaborations, Moscow had already obtained enough benefits from him; the cooperation between the two was by no means the same model as that between the Autobots and the United States government.

One must know that by joining the Autobots and forming the Nest Base, the Yankees felt they had suffered a huge loss.

Looking back at the relationship between himself and Russia, it would be more appropriate to call them business partners who get what they need from each other rather than allies.

In the previous phase of cooperation, although the Russians had successively paid hundreds of thousands of tons of various metals and minerals, including some precious uranium ore, their harvest would definitely make Moscow feel satisfied.

Two finished Yasen-class Modified Attack Nuclear Submarines, plus two more to be completed under the guidance of Decepticon Workers, and hundreds of pieces of advanced precision equipment were enough to whet the Polar Bear's appetite.

Especially since this cooperation was not a one-time thing; Sun Cheng had even proposed purchasing a massive amount of weaponry from Russia not long ago.

If this arms trade could be completed, it would be another big piece of fat with a total price exceeding hundreds of billions of dollars, enough to stimulate Russia's sluggish economy for a few years.

Moreover, the good days for Russia would not last long either.

Even after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia had always been a strategic rival and a key target of containment for the United States, and the Pentagon had never relaxed its vigilance against it for a single moment.

Four Autobots nearly met their doom in Russia, one was severely damaged, and in the end, they had to cancel the operation in a sorry state.

The Yankees would definitely exchange intelligence with the Autobots afterward, so the Pentagon would soon be able to conclude completely that the Polar Bear, like him, had come into contact with Mechanical Life from beyond the sky.

This was absolutely something the White House could not accept!

There is an old saying in China: "Only names and vessels should not be lent to others." This sentence has different translations for different people, but the general meaning is similar, which is "Only prestige and ritual vessels should not be given to others."

What is prestige? The authority brought by reputation; and ritual vessels in ancient China were mostly referred to as the power of the Son of Heaven.

Applied to the Americans, a more colloquial translation would be that only the influence and hegemony of the world's sole superpower, Earth, cannot be given to others.

In the world of the 【Transformers Universe】, the United States gained world hegemony only after completely dragging down the Soviet Union in the 1990s, and it has only been twenty-some years since then.

Therefore, many Yankees have not forgotten the threat the Red Empire brought to them under the bipolar world pattern before the Soviet Union dissolved twenty-some years ago.

Especially the old people who experienced the Brezhnev era should all still remember the terror that the end of the world could come at any time.

One must know that in the dozen years before Reagan took office, the United States was even forced to take a defensive stance to cope with the Soviet Union's aggressive provocations on a global scale.

The United States government, which had alien technology from Cybertron, had once studied Megatron's body, and had mastered the 【AllSpark】 for over a hundred years, would never be unaware of what this meant.

Therefore, even if there is only a one percent, or even a one in ten thousand chance.

The Americans could never sit idly by and watch their former rival—the Polar Bear—rise again by obtaining black technology from an extraterrestrial civilization.

Therefore, even if the Russians soon discovered that the weapons they possessed could threaten Sun Cheng and the others, Moscow would not have the energy to come and mess with him again.

An accidental battle that occurred in Russia came quickly and ended quickly.

However, the shock it brought was rapidly fermenting.

Diego Garcia, Nest Base.

Optimus Prime stood with a stern face inside a huge building resembling a Garage; this building, codenamed 'Garage', was indeed a material Warehouse specially cleared out by the Americans for the Autobots to use when resting on the island.

Inside the Garage, Ratchet was bending over, carefully examining a slender and scarred female Autobot lying on the empty ground in front of him.

Three beams of azure light continuously shot out from his eyes and a device similar to an endoscope held in his right hand, constantly scanning the injuries of the female Autobot in front of him.

This process lasted for quite a while before he retracted the scanning beams and looked up at Ironhide, Optimus Prime, and the other Autobots gathered around him, who were watching him nervously.

Then, he spoke: "... Chromia's body is severely damaged, but I can still treat these injuries, though it will take some time. Commander, I need some special materials..."