Chapter 461: From Today On, Your Name Is [Blackout] (Part 1)

Blackout is strong; this is beyond doubt.

As one of the air commanders of the Decepticon Legion and a most loyal supporter of Megatron, he once voluntarily accepted modification by Shockwave, allowing him to combine with another Decepticon, Scorponok, into a powerful bomber.

Even setting that form aside, regarding Blackout's own combat power, although the gap is very obvious when comparing him to Decepticon warriors like Starscream, Shockwave, Onslaught, and Soundwave.

But if the opponents are high-level warriors of the caliber of Barricade, Brawl, or Bonecrusher, Blackout can easily crush them; even taking them on all at once is just a matter of time.

In fact, Sun Cheng has never figured out how such a powerful Decepticon warrior could have died in Las Vegas.

Resurrecting Blackout is not a difficult matter; given the experience his subordinate Decepticon engineers have gained in cultivating newborn Decepticons over the past year or so, this should be a sure thing.

But what comes after is the problem!

How to ensure that the resurrected Blackout maintains one hundred percent loyalty to him, just as he was to Megatron in the past, is a major challenge.

Sun Cheng has thought of many ways to resolve this uncertainty, including deleting a large amount of Blackout's original memory and then adding false memory data.

This kind of operation is not too difficult for the current base, but the risks are uncontrollable.

Although Sun Cheng was involved in almost the entire process of handling Blackout's memory data, this is the memory chip of an elite warrior, not something that can be compared to the precursors born at the beginning.

Unless he, like Soundwave did with the original Frenzy, chooses to directly seal the other party's memory and then change Blackout into a body that is easy to control.

But if he really were to do that, it would completely put the cart before the horse.

After all, the purpose of the Awakening project is because Sun Cheng urgently needs more powerful warriors to compensate for the base's lack of high-end combat power.

"Master..."

Unknowingly, Sun Cheng had been standing there, silent for too long.

So much so that his subordinate engineers looked at each other for quite a while, not knowing what was wrong with him.

Finally, Atlas stepped forward and asked, "... The brand-new core is ready and can be loaded at any time... Do you need to perform a final inspection before loading?"

For Cybertronians, two parts are crucial; once damaged, they may endanger life.

These two parts are the core and the Spark, respectively.

The importance of the Spark goes without saying; it is the energy and life source of Cybertronians, equivalent to the total collection of human internal organs.

The massive metal bodies of Cybertronians weigh tons or even tens of tons; even humans know that the daily consumption of a 100-jin thin person and a 200-jin fat person is different, let alone Cybertronians.

Therefore, once the Spark is damaged, a Cybertronian will inevitably suffer heavy damage.

And the core is a part no less important than the Spark; it is the calculation hub, information processing center, and data storage vault of a Cybertronian, equivalent to the human brain system.

Unlike humans, many Cybertronians, especially low-level ones, have various templates implanted into their cores during the cultivation stage before birth, allowing them to possess different professional abilities such as doctor, worker, or soldier the moment they are born. These templates indeed gave Cybertronians great convenience, but they also solidified the class consciousness of Cybertronians.

Especially within the Decepticon Legion, few low-level Decepticon workers or Spiders can be promoted and obtain higher status; soldiers, especially powerful warriors, are always in the upper ruling class of the Decepticon Legion.

Atlas's words immediately woke Sun Cheng, who had suddenly become hesitant again.

He pondered for a moment, his gaze shifting to the silver-gray giant among the three mechanical warriors in front of him, and only then did he slowly nod: "Bring the core over; I want one last inspection!"

Blackout's memory chip had long been stripped from his original core during past experiments.

Atlas and the others have now designed a brand-new core for him.

Blackout's new core had already been manufactured half a year ago.

And although his body was manufactured a bit later than the new bodies of Sun Cheng and the precursors, it was also completed a month ago.

It is just that considering Blackout's new body has already been installed with a Spark, once the core is placed into his head, it could be activated at any time.

Therefore, without Sun Cheng's personal consent, Blackout's new core has been kept in a laboratory at the base.

In this dangerous world, he has never fully trusted anyone except himself, including the group of Decepticons under his command.

Sun Cheng has been away from the base for some time, and it has also been a while since his last inspection of Blackout's new core, so he naturally worries that someone might interfere while he is away.

"Yes!"

The engineer was already accustomed to obedience; Atlas did not have the slightest hesitation regarding his order and immediately called a newborn Decepticon worker waiting on the side, telling him to go to the laboratory to retrieve Blackout's new core.

At the same time, the other engineers also began to get busy.

Two Decepticon engineers walked to two other machines located on the left and right sides. After some operations there, those two machines, each hanging a blue-and-white and a fiery-red body respectively and standing over ten meters tall, slowly moved to the sides along tracks laid out on the ground early on, clearing a very spacious area for the machine in the middle that was hanging Blackout's new body.

The other two new bodies that had not yet been installed with an activated core were also part of the Awakening project.

Sun Cheng does not only have the memory chip of Blackout in his hands; in the conflicts over the past year or so, there have been good opportunities where Autobots and Decepticons have been lost at his hands.

At first, for the purpose of research, he almost did not let go of any corpse; those Autobots and Decepticons who died at his hands were all brought back to the base by him for research.

As a result, he has accumulated some complete mechanical life cores to this day!

One must know that a core like this is not ordinary; even though Sun Cheng holds several AllSpark fragments, he has not yet mastered the technology to manufacture a Spark, and whether he can possess one purely depends on luck.

The core is the same; this thing cannot be manufactured by the base for the time being. It can only be done by using the special radiation energy of AllSpark fragments to induce the evolution of newborn Decepticons, and then taking out the acquired core from their heads for modification and use.

This manufacturing technology, looking at the entire Decepticon Legion, is only mastered by a few big shots like Starscream and Shockwave.

Otherwise, why would Sun Cheng need to rack his brains to carry out the Awakening project!

The worker soon retrieved Blackout's new core and respectfully handed it to him.

It was a dark green crystal, looking about the size of an adult human's fist.

Sun Cheng took it, placed it in his palm, and raised it in front of him to inspect it carefully.

Two blue beams of light shot from his eyes, lasting for nearly a minute before dissipating.

He nodded slightly and handed it back to Atlas.