Chapter 525

Late at night, in the early hours of the morning.

A rare motorcycle sped like lightning along the emptied streets of Nandu.

The rider wore a black bodysuit that was inconspicuous in the dark; judging by the curves of the suit, it was not hard to tell that this was likely an adult male.

Twenty-some minutes later, the motorcycle arrived near Huwangling.

Sun Cheng slowed down, deliberately circled the area once, and then quietly drove into Base No. 1.

"It should be safe!"

He took off the large pair of glasses he was wearing; the lens over his left eye displayed a radar scanning interface.

This was a small gadget he had created using a Frenzy Body while in the Transformers universe; it was a short-range electromagnetic wave scanner that, once activated, could detect electromagnetic fluctuations within a twenty-meter radius of himself.

Sun Cheng could not afford to be careless; ever since he began contact with the state, although he had damaged some surveillance cameras the Ministry of State Security had placed near his residence last time, the other party had not made any moves to monitor him at close range since.

However, judging from the intelligence collected by Revenge and the Ultra-micro Reconnaissance Device, there were at least seven teams of people responsible for monitoring him around his residence and company.

It was just that the other party had a tacit understanding to keep the surveillance far enough away so as not to affect his normal life and work, so Sun Cheng also pretended not to know.

With so many people watching him now, he had to be cautious.

In fact, a few days ago, Sun Cheng had let Revenge rent a room not far from his villa via the internet.

Tonight, after using an optical stealth suit to avoid the eyes monitoring him, he came straight to the rental room.

At the rental room, a motorcycle, also purchased by Revenge through an online order, had already been parked there.

Sun Cheng did not have a motorcycle license, but how should one put it, it wasn't too difficult to pick up.

Over the previous two nights, he had already secretly ridden the motorcycle for over a hundred kilometers on the road in the dead of night, but unfortunately, time did not wait for him.

After confirming the surroundings were safe, Sun Cheng took out a plain-looking key from the Spherical Space and opened the iron gate on the high wall protecting the perimeter of Base No. 1.

Parking the motorcycle behind the iron gate, he cautiously double-locked the gate, then glanced lightly at a camera installed in a concealed position not far away.

Immediately, Sun Cheng said: "It's me, Hanwei, disengage alert!"

From the hiding spot, a metal Spider the size of a child's doll immediately crawled out quickly, and at the same time, a cold mechanical voice rang out with the appearance of the metal Spider.

"Yes, Master."

The empty and desolate small mountain, a place both familiar and strange.

Although in the real world, Sun Cheng had only been away for a little over a month.

But if one really calculated it, adding the time he spent in the Transformers universe, this time had already exceeded half a year.

Half a year was enough to make many things that were originally familiar feel strange when seen again.

Although Sun Cheng could be considered experienced, this feeling of being both familiar and strange still made him feel exceptionally uncomfortable every time.

The entrance leading to Base No. 1 had already been fitted with camouflage netting; this was a special piece of equipment created by applying optical technology.

It could simulate the surrounding environment, perfectly hiding the entrance to Base No. 1; even if someone walked to within one meter of the entrance, as long as they didn't reach out to touch it, they would never notice its secret.

It had been a while since he last came; if not for the metal Spider leading the way, even Sun Cheng would have had to search around the entrance for a while before finding the hidden opening.

As if he had learned wall-passing magic, his figure bumped straight into a rock face at the foot of the mountain and then entered a long tunnel.

Because the lighting equipment inside the tunnel was not fully turned on, the light appeared slightly orange.

Sun Cheng did not pay much attention to this; he walked straight toward the depths of Base No. 1.

A full six or seven minutes later, he arrived at the base's main control room, located nearly a hundred meters underground.

"... Master, Hanwei reports to you!"

In the main control room, Hanwei, having transformed into combat mode, bowed slightly to him respectfully.

Sun Cheng nodded, "You've worked hard over the past period; I just noticed that two more workshops have been completed!"

A week ago, when he realized he might have been targeted, he had already instructed Hanwei to temporarily stop the construction of Base No. 1.

However, he had clearly underestimated the capabilities of Hanwei and the hundreds of robots he had brought back.

Several underground factory workshops at Base No. 1 that were originally still in the planning stage were now nearing completion, and another was more than half finished.

Do not think that because this was built underground, the area was small.

Although Base No. 1 was far inferior to Base No. 2 in the Transformers universe, which had a total construction area of over 12 square kilometers.

But this was, after all, the most important rear base in the main world that Sun Cheng had originally planned.

Therefore, the area of each factory workshop in the base's underground factory zone would differ due to planning and different future targeted production tasks.

For example, of the two workshops in the Base No. 1 factory zone that were just completed, the slightly larger one was built to specifications of 50 meters * 30 meters * 5 meters, to be used for the production of medium and large equipment parts in the future.

The other, slightly smaller workshop was built to specifications of 40 meters * 20 meters * 5 meters and was a maintenance workshop for industrial machines.

Because the base was built underground, it was not simply a matter of using robots to dig out a huge space, then piling a layer of brick and stone on the surrounding walls, and applying cement.

Huwangling was not far from the Yangtze River, so the underground water system was quite rich.

When construction of the underground base began, it was not only necessary to deal with the problem of underground water seepage, but also to consider potential future earthquakes and military strikes, etc.

It is no exaggeration to say that according to the standards of Base No. 1, if such a workshop were handed over to a human construction team to build, it would take at least a year to finish one.

Yet Hanwei and the others built two in less than a month, while bringing the completed area of Base No. 1 to over thirty thousand square meters; the efficiency is evident.

Hanwei said respectfully again, "The batch of Construction Robots that Master sent over last time helped a lot; their efficiency is nearly twice as fast as the original industrial robots."

Construction Robots were a type of special robot specifically improved by Decepticon Engineers based on industrial robots for the construction of underground facilities.

With the experience of working on underground projects of up to ten million square meters in the Transformers universe, the efficiency of these Construction Robots modified by Decepticon Engineers was indeed higher than that of ordinary industrial robots.

Sun Cheng nodded, "I have brought another batch; put them in the Warehouse in a moment. Later, go activate them, and while you're at it, install the other batch of equipment I brought. In a while, I will need you to produce a batch of equipment for me; I will purchase and send the raw materials as soon as possible."

"Yes, Master!"