Chapter 48: The Sky is High for Soaring (Begging for votes, follows, and tips)

"Reacting quite quickly, aren't you?"

Watching more and more base guards rush over, with a dense hail of bullets constantly sweeping toward him, Sun Cheng could not help but sneer in his heart.

With his current chassis durability, even aviation machine guns with a caliber of over 20mm, known for their power, would need to concentrate multiple consecutive shots on a single spot of his armor to potentially cause damage.

As for individual weapons, I'm afraid that apart from an anti-materiel sniper rifle, no one here can stop him from leaving.

After realizing this, Sun Cheng increased his speed rather than slowing down; this was, after all, a research base of the Yankees, and it was hard to say if they had truly deployed some disgusting weapons capable of keeping him here.

After all, the 【AllSpark】 had already been in the hands of the Yankees for nearly a century; they had even manufactured machines capable of detecting Decepticon energy fluctuations. If there really were some black-tech weapons capable of harming him, the loss would outweigh the gain.

"Set up a defensive line... hurry and bring the Bradley over..."

"Stop him, don't let him get near the hangar..."

"Fire... fire, damn it, our weapons can't penetrate its armor..."

Accompanied by the sound of explosions all the way, Sun Cheng pushed forward frantically.

After also awakening the rapid-fire machine gun hidden in his left arm, he swept across with both arms firing, taking away several fresh lives with almost every burst.

Enjoying the unbridled pleasure of destruction, he rushed out of the electromagnetic interference zone once again, kicked a base guard holding a riot shield flying, and after the guard fell heavily to the ground and ceased to make a sound.

For some reason, a sudden sense of sorrow arose in Sun Cheng's mind: "... Humans are truly fragile creatures..."

He scanned the surrounding humans, each with a face full of fear, with indifference, feeling inexplicably listless.

Look at the people in this secret American research base; which one of them isn't an American elite? They are either technical experts or military elites, far more glamorous than he was in the real world.

But so what?

In front of a powerful alien lifeform—a Decepticon—no matter how strong their intelligence is, it cannot cover up the fatal weakness of their fragile bodies; a single bullet, or even a strike from a dark blade, can easily harvest their precious lives.

Too weak!

The resonance of sorrow that suddenly surged in his heart made Sun Cheng, who had been excited because he had just obtained a Spark, finally stop the slaughter. With complex emotions in his eyes, he glanced at the humans around him who feared him like a devil, transformed back into his beast form, and charged toward the base entrance with all his might.

Simmons finally saw the appearance of the intruder. Just as he led his team through the new energy research center, heavy collisions and screams came from a nearby corridor, causing them to immediately raise their weapons.

"Oh, damn it. It's it, the ghost of Tucson..."

Simmons had good eyesight, or rather, he had indeed spent a lot of effort repeatedly studying the chassis of Sun Cheng, whose clear image had been captured in Tucson.

So when he appeared, although the size in beast form had changed somewhat, Simmons still recognized him from the similar silhouette.

"Fire... fire... stop it from escaping..."

With a dense line of fire formed by dozens of people, Simmons shouted orders while not forgetting to keep shooting at Sun Cheng along with the others, clearly wanting to stop him from advancing further, or even capture him alive.

But he was soon to be disappointed. Seeing Sun Cheng charging fiercely toward them without any reduction in speed, Simmons's expression became very ugly, and he hurriedly waved his hand and shouted: "No, get out of the way..."

Two black-clad agents who couldn't dodge in time were sent flying by Sun Cheng's massive impact force; one smashed into a pile of supply crates not far away, while the other hit a wall heavily before falling down. Both were breathing more than they were exhaling, and it looked like they wouldn't last much longer.

"... Use the freeze gun, use the freeze gun to freeze it..."

Following the orders of the persistent Simmons, several black-clad agents holding freeze guns kept trying to spray liquid helium onto Sun Cheng's chassis with their strange weapons.

"Get lost..."

Because he was caught off guard and had a part of his chassis frozen by liquid helium, Sun Cheng was instantly enraged. Machine guns immediately extended from the outer walls on both sides of his forelimbs, and he began to fire frantically at these Sector 7 agents who were trying to capture him alive.

"Da-da-da-da-da-da..."

Every time the energy bullets from Cybertron Technology hit a target, they easily took away a fresh life. He quickly routed these black-clad agents who were trying to stop his advance.

"Snap!"

After moving his chassis to restore the frozen parts, Sun Cheng glanced at Simmons, who was hiding in a corner and staring at him in a daze. After making a sneering expression at him, he continued to charge toward the base entrance.

The closer he got to the entrance, the stronger the counterattack from the base guards became.

After being forced to stop his advance to avoid several grenade rounds, the dense sound of a Vulcan cannon the next moment let Sun Cheng witness the power of humanity.

"Da-da-da-da-da-da..."

After being hit consecutively by dozens of machine gun rounds of at least 30mm caliber on his forelimbs, leaving several cracks on them, Sun Cheng had to temporarily take cover.

The guards inside the base had fully reacted by this time. Equipped with a large number of heavy weapons, they had clearly deduced his intention to escape from his previous route, so they had concentrated most of the base's defensive forces.

And it must be said, this really did block Sun Cheng.

Releasing a group of Insect Scouts, when he saw the dozen or so armed Humvees and several M2 Infantry Fighting Vehicles blocking his path, his brows furrowed slightly. Especially those M2 Infantry Fighting Vehicles; the TOW anti-tank missiles they were equipped with could tear even Barricade's chassis apart if he took them head-on, let alone that he was still some distance away from Barricade's level.

Fortunately, although Sun Cheng did not yet have Barricade's combat power, he was not too bad now that he had obtained a Spark.

With the help of the evolved Insect Scouts, Sun Cheng unexpectedly discovered that the base guards' main force was concentrated on the route through one of the exits, but there was almost no defense deployed in another direction, so he immediately chose to change his route.

Immediately, he directed the Insect Scouts to scout the other side, which had almost no defense. Soon discovering that there was also an exit leading outside the base there, he leaped up, and at the cost of adding a few more cracks to his chassis, he destroyed the two large-caliber Vulcan cannons he feared the most before continuing to rush toward the exit.

Seven or eight minutes later, having transformed back into human form, he kicked open the tightly closed door and walked out of the elevator, facing a dense hail of bullets. What came into view was a defensive camp near the Hoover Dam.

Sun Cheng raised his hand and fired a few shots, adding a few more lives to his tally.

Walking out of the room housing the elevator, just as he stepped out, he glanced nearby and his eyes suddenly caught a blue-gray figure. He couldn't help but walk closer to take a look, and a strange expression couldn't help but appear on his face.

"MQ-9 Reaper? I didn't expect the US military to have deployed one here too..."

Although he caught dense footsteps, alerts, and shouts from nearby, Sun Cheng was not in a hurry to leave.

His gaze scanned back and forth on the MQ-9 Reaper parked in the camp for a good while. Relying on the computing power of the Spark, after concluding that he could simulate the transformation, he ultimately could not resist his yearning for the sky.

He immediately abandoned his beast form, which he hadn't had for long, and chose to scan this Reaper.

Tens of seconds later, a brand-new Reaper suddenly rose from the camp and soon disappeared into the night sky.

PS:

1. Many thanks for the reminders from you all. Since everyone thinks Reaper is better than Predator, let's switch to Reaper.

2. Thanks to readers 'Yuan Hongjie', 'Book Friend 159****83', and 'Endless Mana' for their tips.