Chapter 453: Startling the Snake (Part 2)

The communication with that Mexican Senator was quickly cut off.

Sun Cheng would not easily mobilize these members of his intelligence network, who were meant to remain hidden in the shadows, unless it was necessary.

This was not only to protect the other party, but also to protect the intelligence network he had worked so hard to develop.

After a brief scan by his Core, Sun Cheng had completely digested the intelligence regarding the 【Mrs. Windsor】.

The 【Mrs. Windsor】, built by Hyundai Heavy Industries of South Korea and launched in 2004, is currently registered under a freight company named 【Skobios】 and is an ordinary ten-thousand-ton general cargo ship.

Then, some doubts also surfaced in his mind.

"... 【Skobios】 is an American freight company... Shipping routes after its launch show that the 【Mrs. Windsor】 has always traveled between the United States and Europe, only occasionally running routes from the United States to Japan, and from the United States to the Middle East... Why would it suddenly appear in Mexico this time, preparing to set sail from Lazaro Cardenas Port to the Philippines..."

A freight company's business naturally cannot be limited to one place, but unless necessary, the cargo planes and ships under a freight company's name usually stick to one or several fixed routes.

There is naturally a reason for this.

Aside from the flight crews and cargo ship staff accumulating navigational experience with each trip.

The ability to adapt to the volatile high-altitude environment and the weather in different sea areas is also an important reason.

Of course, other reasons cannot be ruled out, such as other cargo ships under the same company that usually run that route being unable to do so due to maintenance or other reasons, forcing them to swap in another ship for a trip.

It is just that once something gets involved with extraterrestrial visitors like the Decepticons, even things that are fine become suspicious.

Sun Cheng had never forgotten that in the deep waters near the Philippines—in the extreme depths of the Mariana Trench—Megatron, who was still playing dead, should still be there.

This Decepticon leader, who could absolutely be described as an ambitious villain, should currently still be in a state of feigned death; otherwise, if he had already been resurrected, he would have long been searching the world for him to settle the score.

During the Battle of Las Vegas, Sun Cheng witnessed with his own eyes the human boy Sam shoving the 【AllSpark】 into Megatron's chest, using the Leader Class Spark within him, which far exceeded that of other Decepticons, to destroy the 【AllSpark】.

However, the infinitely powerful 【AllSpark】 was clearly not so easily destroyed.

Although the 【AllSpark】 shattered, it destroyed Megatron's Spark at the same time it was destroyed by it.

Sun Cheng did not doubt that Optimus Prime and the other Autobot high-ranking officials must have inspected his corpse after the battle; Megatron must have been dead at that time, otherwise he could not have escaped the inspection of his mortal enemies.

However, it would not be strange for that guy to leave behind some trump cards for self-preservation; after all, the 【Decepticon Legion】 was never some tamed poultry, but a group of vicious beasts that would bite the hand that feeds them at any moment.

Moreover, when he had secretly infiltrated the Mariana Trench that one time, he had also checked Megatron's status, and Sun Cheng could be very certain that although Megatron's body looked scarred, the injuries were actually not serious; it was just that his Spark had extinguished.

That guy had emerged very quickly to try and erase him when he was reading his memories.

If not for the protection of the magical Spherical Space within his body at that time, Sun Cheng would have long since turned into a pile of decaying waste at the bottom of the sea.

Because he understood Megatron's personality too well, even though he had more than once had the thought of going to finish off Megatron himself and sending him into eternal sleep after changing into his New Body.

But Sun Cheng dared not gamble; since he already knew the other party was not dead but hiding at the bottom of the sea feigning death, he naturally dared not gamble on how many trump cards he still had left to reveal.

He even once suspected that Megatron might have already reawakened, but was just hiding behind the scenes to plot some conspiracy against his opponents, which was why he had yet to appear.

Because of this, Sun Cheng did not associate the four Decepticons he accidentally discovered in Mexico with Megatron.

Unfortunately, time would not stop along with his thinking.

Accompanied by the ship's whistle from the pier, the 【Mrs. Windsor】 quickly ended its short stop at Lazaro Cardenas Port, and having finished resupplying, it finally began its journey, sailing toward the Philippines in the Western Pacific.

Sun Cheng witnessed this cargo ship slowly sailing away from Lazaro Cardenas Port, and only when it was completely out of sight did he turn, leap into the sky, and transform back into his fighter jet form to fly toward Base No. 2.

He had already recorded the electromagnetic spectra of the four Decepticons, and he had also saved their image data while he was at it.

Although he was very concerned about their purpose, he truly did not have the time to continue following them.

Cargo ships like the 【Mrs. Windsor】 have a maximum speed of about 20 knots at sea, which is about 37 kilometers per hour.

Moreover, the Pacific is so vast that he could not determine the destination of the four Decepticons on the ship.

It is not impossible that they were just trying to avoid the surveillance of the American military satellites and would leave the cargo ship after exiting the harbor.

Carrying the heavy unease that still permeated his mind, Sun Cheng returned to the base one day after the Pioneer arrived.

Once he entered the base, he immediately went into his own huge and empty private Laboratory, and also released 【Wheelie】 and 【Jetfire】, whom he had been temporarily storing in the Spherical Space within his body.

"... Hand this little guy over to you; I don't care what method you use, in short, get the latest intelligence on the 【Decepticon Legion】 out of him as soon as possible..."

After throwing 【Wheelie】 to Atlas and the others, Sun Cheng stopped paying attention to him.

He was just a mini-Decepticon; if it had been before he obtained the head of 【Demolishor】 and 【Jetfire】, this little guy would have had some weight in his eyes and been worth dealing with personally.

However, the harvest from this trip to the United States was truly too bountiful.

A fragment of the 【AllSpark】 was already rare enough, and the Pioneer had actually solved 【Demolishor】, one of the six members of the 【Constructicons】, which gave him an extra opportunity to get a glimpse of the secrets of the legendary giant combined Decepticon—【Devastator】.

Not to mention 【Jetfire】, an existence that was simply comparable to a 'Cybertron Knowledge Base'.

Fortunately, he had not forgotten the four Decepticons he encountered in Mexico, and he reactivated his secret line within the United States, asking a high-ranking CIA official to investigate the 【Mrs. Windsor】 in more detail.

Afterward, Sun Cheng then summoned the vast majority of the Engineers at Base No. 2, and called 【Mirage】 along, preparing to conduct a comprehensive inspection of 【Jetfire】 before returning to Russia.