Chapter 457: Dylan Gould

Just as Sun Cheng was distressed by the lack of a key piece of intelligence, unable to connect all the thoughts that had been gradually becoming clear in his mind.

The laboratory door was opened once again after being silent for more than ten minutes.

Immediately, a burst of hurried footsteps walked in.

Disturbed by this sound, Sun Cheng, who was already frowning because his thoughts wouldn't connect, couldn't help but subconsciously turn his head to see who dared to barge in without requesting permission.

When he saw clearly that the person who walked in was just a Normal Mode robot, the anger on his face paused slightly; he clearly recognized that this robot was one of the bodies that Mirage often used.

And in fact, that was indeed the case, because Mirage's voice soon came out from the robot's mouth.

"... The backend of the A-6 ground data receiving station has been cleared. Master, before I destroyed the receiving station's database, I discovered something interesting. I suspect it might be related to this satellite loss of contact..."

After speaking, the robot extended a finger and tapped lightly against its own temple. The next moment, two beams of light shot out from its eyes, forming a virtual, shimmering, azure light screen like water ripples in front of Sun Cheng.

On the light screen, countless data appeared in English, and one could see a few pictures flashing by from time to time.

However, Sun Cheng only took one look, and his eyes couldn't help but narrow.

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

"Mrs. Windsor... Is this the cargo ship I saw at 【Lazaro Cardenas Port】 in Mexico not long ago..."

What appeared on the light screen was a pair of things like audio-visual files. He was no stranger to this data, because he had just seen it not long ago.

However, this data was not exactly the same as the intelligence he had once asked that congressman in Mexico to collect; it was more detailed, and the focus was also different.

When Sun Cheng's gaze caught a photo flashing on the light screen, for an instant, he felt as if an electric current had flashed through his Core.

He vaguely sensed that he seemed to have grasped that key.

"... How could I have forgotten him? Damn it..."

Not long ago, he encountered four Decepticons in Mexico. Although he didn't track them to the end at the time, after returning to the Base, the more Sun Cheng thought about it, the more he felt there was something strange, and even that seemingly ordinary cargo ship 【Mrs. Windsor】 was re-suspected by him.

Considering that the previous Mexican congressman was not a professional intelligence officer, and it was inconvenient for the other party to investigate a United States cargo ship.

Therefore, after re-suspecting 【Mrs. Windsor】, Sun Cheng immediately Awakened one of his moles in the United States intelligence agency—the CIA—and asked him to investigate more thoroughly, especially the background of the freight company to which 【Mrs. Windsor】 belonged, and even the information on the freight company's boss behind the scenes.

Thinking of this, the blue light in Sun Cheng's narrowed eyes became increasingly piercing.

He immediately looked at the data on the light screen more seriously, and still did not forget to ask Mirage: "... When did this data appear in the database of the A-6 ground data receiving station? Who uploaded it? B-2?"

"As you thought, it was indeed the one codenamed B-2 who uploaded it to the A-6 database through the encrypted communication system 31 minutes ago, which is four minutes before our satellite was attacked! By the way, after I saw this data, I already tried to locate the Satellite Communicator implanted in B-2, but failed!"

Everything finally came to light!

Sun Cheng nodded slowly, and the anxiety in his heart was finally soothed a little.

He was not afraid of facing 【Soundwave】; after all, he was not without the ability to fight back now. The worst case was to lose everything here and then flee back to the real world in a sorry state.

What Sun Cheng feared was being hit by someone without knowing why he was being hit? And who was plotting against him behind the scenes?

The unknown is the most frightening power!

Just like Sun Cheng's casualness in naming, the so-called B-2, the letter represents importance and the number is the serial number, referring to the member identity code of the intelligence network he had developed among humans over the past year or so.

Over 70% of these human intelligence personnel he developed were currently Americans, and among the remaining 30%, dignitaries, high-ranking officials of intelligence systems, and military personnel from various South American countries accounted for half, with the rest mostly being Russians.

Those who could obtain the letter A were all existences with great power in human society or countries. Currently, Sun Cheng had only developed seven or eight through various means, coercion, and inducement, while those starting with B were second only to the A-sequence intelligence personnel.

The mole codenamed B-2 was exactly the Senior Agent of the CIA whom he had ordered to investigate the background of 【Mrs. Windsor】 not long ago.

Every mole developed had an encrypted Satellite Communicator manufactured by the Engineers, and Sun Cheng naturally did some tricks inside to better control the moles he developed.

There were only two possibilities for B-2's Satellite Communicator to be unlocatable: one was that this encrypted Satellite Communicator had been completely cracked, and the other was that it had been dismantled or damaged.

Regardless of which possibility it was, it meant that the CIA Senior Agent codenamed B-2 was now in grave danger.

Staring fixedly at the photo of a middle-aged white man on the light screen, Sun Cheng's Core was operating rapidly.

He had already linked to the network within the Base and was searching for more detailed information about this middle-aged man named 【Dylan Gould】.

The data sent by the CIA Senior Agent codenamed B-2 before the incident was quite detailed, but the focus was on the cargo ship 【Mrs. Windsor】.

One should praise him for being from the intelligence system; it only took him a few hours to find out all the information about 【Mrs. Windsor】.

The other party not only found out the shipyard that built 【Mrs. Windsor】, the launch time, and the routes it often ran in the past, but also attached detailed information about the entire freight company named 【Skobios】 to which the cargo ship belonged.

This inconspicuous freight company was actually an industry under the name of the world's richest man and the richest man in the United States in this world, 【Dylan Gould】, and it only served him personally and never took outside orders.

It was founded in 1987, and for the twenty years since its establishment, it had only been busy with one thing: traveling between the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Japan, countries where the wealthy gathered, to send the 【antique famous cars】 and 【luxury supercars】 that its boss, that world's richest man 【Dylan Gould】, bought from others at high prices, back to his private museum in the United States in the shortest possible time.

Wanting to find information about 【Dylan Gould】 on the internet was simply too easy for Sun Cheng, especially since the other party was the richest man on Earth in this world, and with his wealth and power so prominent, it would be difficult even if he wanted to lack exposure.

And so, a steady stream of news, information, and encyclopedia data about 【Dylan Gould】 gathered toward him from every corner of the internet.

Soon, Sun Cheng became the person who knew 【Dylan Gould】 best in this world.

【Dylan Gould】, the world's richest man, a super billionaire with a net worth of over 70 billion US dollars. He was a second-generation rich, but he surpassed his predecessor.

【Dylan Gould】's father was the former American billionaire 【James Gould】. In the 1950s and 1960s, 【James Gould】, who had been fired from a bank, used a rented office and only a broken desk bought from a second-hand store to start his business on Wall Street. He founded an accounting firm named 【Deloitte-Touche-Tohmatsu】 (abbreviated as DTT), and miraculously, it only took a few short years for it to become one of the best accounting firms on Wall Street.

By the time 【James Gould】 passed away in 2006, this accounting firm headquartered in New York, United States, had an annual revenue of 14.814 billion US dollars in 2007 and 109,460 employees. 【DTT】 had impressively become one of the largest accounting firms in the world.

【Dylan Gould】 developed a strong interest in venture capital while in college. His interest was supported by his father, and he dropped out in his second year of college to start his own business, using a substantial sum of money provided by his old man to provide venture capital to those startup companies that mastered various new technologies.

In the following twenty years, he invested in almost all companies and enterprises in the United States and even Europe that represented high technology, and was called the "Investment Madman" and "Technology Catalyst."

【Dylan Gould】 himself was also a fanatical collector of cars and art, owning several of the largest private luxury car museums in the United States, collecting all the famous car models and luxury supercars produced by all American and European car brands in the past century.

"... Interesting... Very interesting..."

This American named 【Dylan Gould】 gave Sun Cheng a strong sense of déjà vu. For a moment, he even saw his own future in the other party.

Yes, because Sun Cheng, who was also trying to transport technology from the 【Transformers Universe】 in the real world, knew better than anyone that he would inevitably stand at the pinnacle of the Earth's pyramid in the real world in the future.

And 【Dylan Gould】 made him feel like he was looking at his own future appearance.

"This guy is a bit too smooth sailing..."

The intelligence personnel codenamed B-2 had just sent the information about him via the spy satellite A-6, and not long after, A-6 lost contact with them.

Connecting this to the various suspicious points about the other party, Sun Cheng had already suspected this human richest man.

"He is very suspicious; perhaps I should follow this line and continue to investigate downwards..."

With his Core operating at high speed, Sun Cheng felt his thinking was more active than just now.

Two days ago, he discovered four Decepticons in Mexico, hiding aboard a cargo ship that served Dylan Gould alone.

Half an hour ago, an intelligence informant he had initiated an Awakening for went silent after sending over data pointing to Dylan Gould, and at the same time, the spy satellite responsible for relaying the data also lost contact.

All sorts of signs indicate that this richest human in the world is not simple at all.