Chapter 433: Wheel

"Click..."

"Click..."

It was the sound of steel crushing gravel and withered branches, and the ones making these sounds were a squad of Combat Robots patrolling the mountain forest along a planned route.

Sun Cheng happened to be passing by, and when he saw this patrol squad composed of Combat Robots, he couldn't help but stop and carefully examine this new type of Second Generation Combat Robot manufactured by the Base.

Just like the industrial robots, the Combat Robots were also designed and manufactured by Atlas and the others based on his suggestion.

It was just that the first generation of Combat Robots was entirely a product slightly improved upon the foundation of the first generation of industrial robots.

Therefore, although the production cost was cheap, the potential for modification was not great, and they were not very suitable for combat in various different terrains and areas; their performance in some past battles was even less than satisfactory.

One must know that on the battlefield, even a single weapon jam could lead to the failure of a war, let alone the obvious problems in performance.

The best example is the first Gulf War in this world; Iraq, known as the world's third-strongest military power, possessed the experience accumulated from the eight-year Iran-Iraq War, sat on an army of over a million, and thousands of artillery pieces, tanks, and fighter jets; in terms of both numbers and scale, they were far larger than the anti-Iraq coalition initiated by the United States.

But what was the result?

Iraq had its pants pulled down; the reason for this was nothing more than the huge gap between the two countries in terms of tactics and equipment performance.

Of course, the main reason why the Second Generation Combat Robots could be mass-produced by the Base in such a short time was that the combat power in Sun Cheng's hands was truly too scarce.

A blue light shot from his eyes, and as that squad of Combat Robots passed by him, he quickly scanned their data, and he already had an idea in his mind.

The Second Generation Combat Robot newly manufactured by the Base was indeed a significant improvement over the previous generation!

Looking at the physique alone, this batch of robots, which still maintained a height of about 2.2 to 2.3 meters, looked much slimmer than the original, slightly bloated first generation, but the strength of the chassis was already on a completely different level.

However, although a brand-new alloy was adopted, which increased the chassis strength while reducing the weight by nearly 30%, the cost also increased by nearly half because of this.

Of course, this increase was clearly worth it.

The brand-new Second Generation Combat Robots began to have their own organization; a full combat squad consisted of ten Combat Robots, of which six were regular combat robots, equipped with a weakened version of an Energy Gun, a set of arm-mounted large-caliber grenade launchers, and an Alloy Blade; their mobility was already sufficient to complete a mobile deployment of over 240 kilometers within one hour without any vehicles, and they possessed decent close-quarters combat capabilities.

Although the shoulder cannons were removed, leading to a decrease in damage, a full robot combat squad also included four Heavy Combat Robots whose firepower had been upgraded based on the basic version.

Although these four Combat Robots were not much different from the basic version in terms of chassis, they were specifically designed and improved for their load capacity and firepower.

But every Heavy Combat Robot was equipped with a 7.62*51mm Vulcan Cannon, the left arm was equipped with a wrist-mounted small-caliber grenade launcher, the Alloy Ammunition Box on the back was loaded with a large amount of ammunition, and at the same time, both arms and shoulders each carried a micro anti-tank and anti-aircraft missile.

Such firepower and equipment were already enough to allow a full combat squad of Combat Robots to have the ability to suppress a US-style light infantry battalion in a short time, or even catch them off guard and inflict heavy damage.

After weighing their combat capabilities, the Base also believed that if used properly, it was not impossible to use one or two full squads to inflict heavy damage on a Cannon Fodder Decepticon Warrior like Brawl.

Therefore, ever since they were designed, Base No. 2 had completely stopped manufacturing the First Generation Combat Robots and turned to producing these war machines with full force.

The Second Generation Combat Robots were equipped with an Anti-detection System, so the moment they were scanned by Sun Cheng, they immediately stopped patrolling and entered a state of alert.

They quickly locked onto the source of the scanning beam, but they did not point their guns at Sun Cheng, who was not far away, because before all Combat Robots were manufactured, his information had already been recorded in the deepest part of their processing systems.

Therefore, Sun Cheng naturally possessed the highest control over all robots manufactured by Base No. 2.

Waving his hand to dismiss this patrol squad, Sun Cheng was just about to go to the fourth Nuclear Reactor that had recently been put into use in the distance to take a look.

Suddenly, a robot walked straight toward him, knelt before him, and said respectfully.

"... Master, if it is convenient, please come to the Laboratory! I have made some discoveries regarding the Metal Sphere."

He recognized this robot; it was one of the dozen or so clones specially designed and manufactured for him by the Base's supercomputer, 'Huan', which could usually share a portion of his computing power and assist him in various experiments and research.

"Understood!"

After responding, Sun Cheng quickly turned back.

He knew what 'Huan' was researching, because the Metal Sphere it just mentioned was the one he had obtained not long ago from the Underground Pyramid at the ruins of 【Tiwanaku City】.

Originally, Sun Cheng did not feel at ease handing this thing over to anyone to research.

But firstly, he did not have that much time and energy, and secondly, he considered that 'Huan' was also a supercomputer produced on Cybertron, while the Metal Sphere was the Activator for the main control computer on a Cybertronian Spaceship.

So after returning to the Base, he considered it for a while and finally handed it over to 'Huan' temporarily, wanting to see if it could discover or research anything.

Now looking at 'Huan's' reaction, it seemed it really had discovered something.

Although he was concerned about 'Huan's' discovery, this was his own territory after all, so Sun Cheng was still able to keep his composure, and it took him ten minutes to return to 'Huan's' Laboratory located deep in the Underground Karst Cave.

"Creak!"

The alloy door opened, and he walked into the spacious Laboratory made entirely of special alloy.

This was a Laboratory that had undergone special isolation treatment; the spacious, huge space was filled with visible instruments and equipment, and over a dozen robots identical to the one that had summoned him were operating in front of various instruments in the Laboratory; they were all clones 'Huan' had manufactured for itself.

And in the very center of the Laboratory, there was a transparent glass cover no less than four meters high; under the glass cover, a Metal Sphere familiar to Sun Cheng was floating in the air.

When he entered, the Metal Sphere in the glass cover was beginning to have some special patterns emerge on its surface under the irradiation of green light emitted by a spray gun below.

Seeming to notice that Sun Cheng had arrived, 'Huan', who was working, did not speak proactively, but a robot gently pressed a button in front of an instrument.

The next moment, the originally transparent glass cover seemed as if patterns had been carved inside it, and lines of small symbols that Sun Cheng could not understand but felt slightly familiar with emerged.

"Elder Script!"

PS:

Sorry, I was delayed for two days by family matters; I will make up for the three days I owe before the end of the month.