Chapter 425: Underground Pyramid 5

"The Ark?!"

Sun Cheng looked at the one Mola was pointing to with an expression of utter disbelief; the next moment, an impulse known as ecstasy surged into his heart.

The wall of the great hall before the two of them, just like the wall he had seen before, featured a set of murals.

And what they were looking at now was precisely the first piece in this set of murals on this wall, a mural outlined with rough and exaggerated lines.

In the mural, a group of small people were constantly kowtowing and praying toward a giant who looked exceptionally burly.

Mola was pointing exactly at that burly giant in the mural; the ancient Indian painters were clearly exceptionally diligent, and although those kowtowing little people looked like stick figures, the giant they were surrounding and worshipping was depicted in great detail.

So much so that Mola recognized the giant in this mural at a glance; it was undoubtedly a Cybertronian, and a Decepticon at that.

The Decepticon emblem on the giant's chest was simply too conspicuous; much like many of Megatron's leaders, it was clearly a Leader Class Pathfinder.

Sun Cheng naturally recognized the other's identity at a glance, but unlike Mola, who was shocked by the identity of the figure,

he saw a flat, oval-shaped object in the background of the mural that would be overlooked if one were not careful.

It appeared in a corner of the mural, far from where the crowd was worshipping the giant; it looked inconspicuous, but the painter had depicted it with exceptional care, so much so that the five jet-like things on the back of this flat, oval object were clearly visible, and judging by the dense lines around it, it seemed to be emitting smoke.

The moment his gaze captured it, Sun Cheng felt something from the Memory Data belonging to Frenzy and Megatron deep in his mind emerge uncontrollably.

The Ark spaceship!

It was too similar!

It was simply too similar!

This object on the mural was simply too similar to the flagship of the Autobot Leader—Optimus Prime, that spaceship named 【The Ark】.

Both Frenzy and Megatron's memories contained quite a few descriptions of 【The Ark】.

Powerful, beautiful, enormous, and incredible; it seemed to have been designed by the Autobots' top scientist 【Wheeljack】 and built under the leadership of the Autobots' most excellent construction engineers 【Huffer】 and 【Hoist】.

During the First Civil War, the reason the Autobots were able to reach a ceasefire agreement with the Decepticons, besides the arrival of the Cosmic Rust which caused large numbers of personnel on both sides to be infected, was another important reason: the Autobots had won a key battle against the Decepticons.

In that battle, in which Megatron did not personally participate, Optimus Prime—who was then only a disciple of 【Sentinel Prime】 and had not yet assumed the position of Autobot Leader—personally led more than three hundred elite Autobot Warriors, piloted The Ark, and suddenly circled to the rear of the Decepticons on the battlefield to launch a long-range raid; they used ship cannons to destroy three of the Decepticons' military fortresses, wiped out multiple elite units under Shockwave in one battle, and forced this invincible Decepticon Commander to accept a bitter defeat.

Because they lacked sufficient countermeasures, the Decepticons had to swallow the bitter fruit and finally reached a temporary ceasefire agreement with the Autobots, ending the First Civil War that had lasted for millions of years.

And it was precisely because Megatron was stimulated by this that, after the war ended, he ordered Shockwave to personally lead the team to design and build his flagship, 【The Nemesis】.

During the Second Civil War, 【The Nemesis】 had performed meritorious service for the Decepticons' victory.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that this spaceship, which perfectly interpreted Megatron's philosophy of violence supremacy, was born specifically for war.

It possessed armor protection capabilities far exceeding Optimus Prime's flagship 【The Ark】, was about four thousand meters long, about two thousand meters high, and had a wingspan exceeding two thousand eight hundred meters; not only did it possess space-warping travel capabilities, but the number of weapons mounted on the entire ship was dozens of times that of 【The Ark】, and the power of its two pulse light-energy main cannons was enough to shatter 【The Ark】's energy shield in just two rounds of firing.

"... The legend seems to be true..."

Muttering softly to himself, Sun Cheng stared fixedly at the flat, oval-shaped aircraft on the mural, the blue light in his eyes fluctuating violently.

The fact that the Decepticons and Autobots possessed spaceship construction technology was actually not a secret; at least intelligence officers like Frenzy knew it, although they did not know much.

But he had once peeked into Megatron's Memory Data, so he knew some inside information; for example, whether it was 【The Ark】 built by the Autobots or 【The Nemesis】, they were both replicas based on the spaceships built by Cybertronians during the Ancient Council era, the only difference being that one was a high-end replica and the other was a violently modified version.

The Cybertronian civilization was unprecedentedly developed during the Ancient Council era; it is said that the spaceflight technology mastered by the Cybertronians from before the dawn of time originated from the Quintessons who had once invaded Cybertron. After they defeated the Quintessons' colonization, they were fortunate enough to learn many of the other side's advanced technologies, and building spaceships was one of them.

At the peak of the Ancient Council, the Cybertronians built tens of thousands of spaceships; they sent out batch after batch of Warriors, flying to all corners of the universe in the name of Pathfinders. At its peak, the entire galaxy was filled with Cybertronian colony planets, and countless resources and Energy Pillars flowed into Cybertron continuously.

It was precisely by relying on interstellar development that the unprecedentedly powerful Cybertron of the Ancient Council era existed.

Although that substantial family fortune had long since been squandered away by the revolution, the civil war, and the arrival of the Cosmic Rust.

Sun Cheng had once obtained a special operations spaceship from an extraterrestrial civilization known as the Hunter Civilization in the real world, which could carry three Predators to conduct short-range voyages between planets within a star system.

All along, he and the forces under his command had been working hard to digest that spaceship and were attempting to modify it, or rather, to build a medium-to-large-sized spaceship capable of true interstellar travel on its foundation.

Sun Cheng understood one truth: resources on Earth were limited, and whether in the 【Transformers Multiverse】 or the real world, there were so many forces eyeing Earth; only by possessing the ability to jump out of the quagmire could he gradually shed his status as a pawn in the game.

Unfortunately, the one he obtained was merely a small spaceship, and neither its manufacturing process nor its technology could be called sophisticated.

And the Engineers under his command had no experience or technical accumulation regarding spaceship manufacturing, so over the past year, although they had been studying that spaceship, the things they were able to research or learn by opportunity were very limited.

Now, heaven seemed to have finally favored him for once.

"... A Pathfinder once descended here, and it is highly likely that a spaceship descended with him..."

At the thought of this, Sun Cheng could not help but feel a burning sensation in his heart.