Chapter 403: Coordinates

Decepticon!

After re-reading that footage over a dozen times, Pioneer soon confirmed that he had not misidentified it.

From the footage fed back from the No. 3 All-Terrain Scout, he clearly saw an insignia—an insignia identical to the one on his own body that belonged only to the Decepticons!

"... What is the situation? Why would a Decepticon be hiding in a human museum..."

Since he shared the same faction as the other party, Pioneer was not overly worried.

He quickly realized that the other party must have entered a dormant state due to some issue; otherwise, at such a close distance, it would have been impossible for him not to have sensed the other party's electromagnetic spectrum.

As for whether it was already dead, that thought never even crossed his mind.

A Decepticon could only possibly die under two circumstances: the energy stored within their Spark was exhausted, or they passed away due to severe injuries.

Regardless of whether they died due to the former or the latter, a deceased Decepticon would be unable to maintain their alternate form.

Therefore, this Decepticon hiding in the museum, whose alternate form was a Blackbird reconnaissance plane, must be in a dormant state.

"Could it be that he is the one the Master asked me to find?"

Constantly pondering the vague task information the Master had entrusted to him, Pioneer's courage grew after realizing the other party might be in a dormant state.

He controlled the four All-Terrain Scouts to take detailed footage of that Blackbird.

After finishing, Pioneer did not rush to leave; instead, he continued to control the scouts to inspect all the remaining exhibition halls. After confirming there were no further discoveries, he retrieved the scouts through the museum's ventilation windows and then turned to leave.

Every Mechanical Life born on the planet Cybertron, from the moment they open their eyes, utilizes the characteristics of their race to accumulate sufficient knowledge and combat skills in the shortest possible time, and Pioneer was no exception.

Therefore, he also knew that waking a dormant Decepticon was not an easy task.

If the other party was only dormant because their Spark's energy was exhausted, it would be easy to solve; by replenishing them with enough energy, just like a fully charged battery, the other party would wake up automatically.

But if the other party had voluntarily entered a dormant state to heal, or was nearing the end of their life, then aside from the legendary, omnipotent 【AllSpark】, there was only the method of violent awakening.

"... As for the rest, I will wait for the Master to decide!"

Pioneer had followed Sun Cheng for a long time and naturally knew his Master's cautious nature. It was very likely that before entrusting him with this task, the Master himself could not be sure what was here, which was why he had sent him to make the trip.

So, as for what the other party's identity was, or why they were dormant, he would leave those headaches to the Master!

At that moment, taking advantage of the night, he quickly vanished from the 【National Air and Space Museum of the United States】. Pioneer carefully avoided the Americans' capital air defense system and flew into the sky.

……

"... Blackbird!"

Sun Cheng narrowed his eyes. His Core was re-reading a piece of video information received remotely from Pioneer just over ten minutes ago. He had already recovered from his earlier state of tension and frenzy.

"A Decepticon in a dormant state?"

He murmured to himself. In fact, just as Pioneer had thought, Sun Cheng was indeed troubled by this major discovery in Washington D. C., United States.

The reason he had given the other party such an inexplicable task stemmed from a discovery made by 'Phantom' over three months ago.

'Phantom' was a Super Intelligence he had inherited from Starscream, built using a large amount of Cybertron Technology. Because it possessed intelligence not much inferior to that of Mechanical Life, while also having calculation capabilities far exceeding those of ordinary Decepticons, Sun Cheng had begun to rely on it more and more since obtaining it.

Especially since Atlas and those Decepticon Engineers had already been worked to the bone by him, making it difficult to spare more energy, he had begun transferring more and more research topics to 'Phantom' several months ago, letting it share the R&D pressure with its impressive intelligence and superb calculation capabilities.

Topics including the 'continuous improvement of the Newborn Decepticon' Awakening technology, researching 'Humanoid Decepticon', and deciphering the secrets of the information within the 【AllSpark】 fragments had all been handled by 'Phantom'.

And the coordinate information within the 【National Air and Space Museum of the United States】 that Sun Cheng had transmitted to Pioneer over two months ago came from 'Phantom's' deciphering of the information in the 【AllSpark】 fragments.

Yes, it came from the 【AllSpark】.

"What exactly is the 【AllSpark】?"

This was not the first time Sun Cheng had fallen into deep thought because of that shattered Decepticon holy relic. In fact, not long after obtaining the 【AllSpark】 fragments, he had noticed that they contained a large amount of chaotic and disordered information.

These things, which were like code to humans, were essential for the Evolution of Mechanical Life.

Although, with the power Sun Cheng and his group currently possessed, they had absolutely no clue in their research on the 【AllSpark】 fragments. They were completely unable to decipher how the 【AllSpark】 fragments could repeatedly absorb energy and inject it into machines with electronic components, transforming them from cold machines into Mechanical Life.

But after repeating months of tedious research, 'Phantom' had still achieved some results.

For example, their success rate in awakening Newborn Decepticons was now nearly 30% higher than it had been at the time of Adam's birth.

At the same time, a small amount of content that repeatedly appeared in the information had also been captured and extracted by 'Phantom'.

That set of numbers pointing to the 【National Air and Space Museum】 was one of the pieces of information 'Phantom' had captured. After importing various Cybertronian Scripts, it finally cracked it and converted it into a short but shocking piece of information.

It was actually a set of latitude and longitude coordinates pointing to a location on Earth!

When Sun Cheng received it from Phantom, he had already confirmed that these coordinates pointed to the American capital—Washington.

But this also plunged him into deep unease and panic!

Why would the information contained in the 【AllSpark】 hide a set of precise coordinates pointing to a location on Earth, and why was there actually a Decepticon dormant in the museum at those coordinates?

Suspicious as he was, the more he thought about it, the more he felt as if a pair of hands was hidden behind it, constantly pushing everything forward.

This feeling was terrible, so much so that even though Sun Cheng forcibly calmed his emotions, his hands were still trembling slightly as he thought.

"Who exactly is that Decepticon... and why would he be dormant in an American museum... Should I try to make contact with him, or expose him to the Autobots and use their hands to wake him and probe his identity..."

Sun Cheng was caught in a dilemma!

PS:

The main plot of this book follows the 【Transformers】 movie version, and the movie version has many setting bugs. Some can barely be patched, while others cannot be glossed over at all. So, if you see them, just pretend you didn't. Whether you are a movie fan or an animation fan, please be lenient. Do not use the movies or animations to pick out loopholes; there are truly so many flaws that sometimes even I, with my obsessive-compulsive disorder, don't want to fix them.