Chapter 534: A New Idea

However, although a satellite black market exists, those man-eating capitalists in Europe and America are no pushovers.

After selling satellites that are about to be scrapped or are malfunctioning on the black market, the control centers remain firmly in their grasp.

Some "clients" who spend more money or have greater influence can send people to the control center when purchasing a satellite, or be allocated a ground data reception vehicle.

For more than that, they need to make proper arrangements with the seller before detailed operations can be carried out.

However, Sun Cheng does not have so many restrictions; when he was in the 【Transformers Universe】, he came into contact with many satellites and even specifically wrote a set of backend control software to steal control of the Russians' satellites when needed.

After obtaining a few satellites on the black market, the issue of control was quickly resolved by the micro-Decepticons under Sun Cheng.

Therefore, after hearing his order, Xiao Wu quickly awakened a Pacific meteorological satellite.

He ordered it to perform an orbital angle adjustment, targeting 【Nublar Island】 located in the East Pacific Ocean.

After about twenty minutes, a set of images with not-very-high resolution appeared on a laptop that Sun Cheng had specially customized for testing purposes inside the underground Safe House.

"... It is indeed a rare Category 5 typhoon in recent years; even though it did not make landfall directly on 【Nublar Island】, the impact can definitely be considered a disaster..."

On the laptop's display screen, there appeared satellite images whose resolution was far from reaching the level of military spy satellites, or even Google Earth.

However, it was enough.

Typhoon 【Clarissa】 undoubtedly devastated 【Nublar Island】; towering trees were uprooted one by one, buildings and walls on the island collapsed over large areas, and the beaches were covered in plastic and trash blown in from who knows where.

Sun Cheng even saw the carcasses of some huge dinosaurs; these ancient giants were clearly unable to withstand this catastrophic Category 5 typhoon, and there was a large-scale death of dinosaurs on the island due to the typhoon.

After staring at these satellite photos for a long while, he felt a lingering fear.

Fortunately, during the few years he spent studying in Nandu, having experienced several typhoons and witnessed the terror of such natural disasters, Sun Cheng had decisively chosen to let his efforts on 【Nublar Island】 a few days ago go to waste.

Otherwise, what he would have lost would not just be the newly started Base No. 3; it is very likely that even those robots responsible for engineering construction would have suffered heavy losses because of this typhoon.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt a lingering fear. After a long while, Sun Cheng finally asked: "How many of the base stations we left on the island can still be activated now?"

Xiao Wu: "Command accepted, currently attempting, please wait..."

Then came a long wait; it needed to use a communication satellite to activate some equipment Sun Cheng had specifically left on the island before his return.

About ten minutes later, Xiao Wu's cold electronic voice sounded again.

"Master, the feedback data received shows that currently only two base stations can be awakened. Shall I activate them?"

"Activate them all, and have the reconnaissance devices transmit clearer high-definition images!"

"Received!"

Half an hour later, looking at the clearer images displayed on the laptop, Sun Cheng's brows furrowed and then quickly smoothed out.

After a long while, he muttered softly as if he had let out a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, this loss is still acceptable."

He had just selected 【Nublar Island】 as the location for his Base No. 3 in reality, and it had been hit by a once-in-a-century Category 5 typhoon.

To be honest, for a moment just now, Sun Cheng had also doubted his own choice.

Although such an island is desolate and uninhabited, is it really suitable for construction as a base?

Although it is true that few people would approach 【Nublar Island】 for no reason, the threat of typhoons to the base on the island is no less than that of humans.

Fortunately, two of the signal receiving base stations he left behind before departing were still working. Through the footage of the island captured by the mosquito-type Ultra-micro Reconnaissance Device released outside, it was clear that the typhoon had indeed caused huge damage to the buildings, trees, and dinosaurs on the island.

But the site selection for Base No. 3 was quite good, located just in a valley formed by the intersection of three small hills in the dense ridge area on the northwest side of the island.

The ridges effectively reduced most of the disasters brought by the strong winds, but the heavy rain caused by the typhoon inevitably led to a large amount of water accumulation in the valley.

It was also thanks to the fact that 【International Genetic Technologies】 had long ago built a series of flood discharge pipes on 【Nublar Island】.

Clearly, they had also experienced the onslaught of typhoons and heavy rains, so although some of the base facilities built by the robots in the valley were submerged by mud and water washed down by the rain, this workload was just a matter of a moment for the robots under Sun Cheng.

"Base No. 3 should not need to be relocated... The country should have some moves in the next two days, and I cannot leave for the time being... After I finish being busy these few days, I will go to 【Nublar Island】 again... Base No. 1 no longer needs major operations, so I can send Hanwei there then, and have him continue to supervise the construction of Base No. 3..."

After quickly weighing the pros and cons in his mind, Sun Cheng soon made a decision.

【Nublar Island】 is indeed a good place for him to set up Base No. 3 in the real world.

He himself is a human, and having had the experience of dealing with national forces on Earth while in the 【Transformers Universe】, he naturally has a deep understanding of the human race.

"Those who are not of our race must have a different heart" is not just an old saying from Xia Country; it is the same for all races and countries.

It is destined that Decepticons and robots cannot gain the trust of humans. Even though Sun Cheng never thought about causing trouble in the real world from the beginning, he still has to consider the trouble that might arise if he were exposed.

While recalling the process of his contact with 【Precision Instrument】 in Shencheng during the day, he suddenly had an idea.

"... By the way, Europe and America have been putting effort into the exoskeleton armor sector for the past few years... I also have some research in this field, and I have mastered some things... Should I try to see if I can get a national defense military product contractor license from the country... Using this as an opportunity, I won't have to worry about the exposure of the Decepticons and robots I brought back from the other world when I enter the robotics field in the future..."

The more Sun Cheng thought about it, the more he felt that his idea had potential.

As for how a businessman with a background in Micro-electronics, currently doubling down on the hard drive production sector, would have technology in this area?

Sun Cheng thought of an excuse in an instant!

"Successfully connecting with the country... can also be considered a great contribution... Taking the opportunity to ask for one or two pieces of cutting-edge technology from the organization behind me, this excuse is plausible..."