Chapter 590: Hecate (Part 1) - Please Subscribe

In the waters near Diego Garcia, the Pioneer extended his palm, and a metal insect less than the size of an adult's fingernail flew rapidly into it.

"Task complete, Master. I am preparing to evacuate!"

"Understood. You need not return to North Port; go to the Mediterranean Sea and take over command of the submarine!"

Inside the Severodvinsk naval port, after receiving the message sent by the Pioneer from Diego Garcia, Sun Cheng replied with satisfaction.

The stage has been set, all players have entered the game, and now it is just waiting for the grand drama to begin.

Thunder and Excavator were left by Sun Cheng in Africa to keep a close watch on the Decepticons within Egypt.

As for him and the Pioneer, they split into two paths: one headed north to Severodvinsk, and the other went to Diego Garcia.

In the short span of a single day, they traveled nearly ten thousand kilometers, but the results were very satisfying.

Sun Cheng has controlled the Severodvinsk naval port for over a year now. Humans have always lived within North Port, but the vast majority of ordinary civilians were relocated by the authorities, leaving behind either Soviet soldiers or support workers serving the facilities within the port.

Among these people, there are not only a large number of Soviet agents but also some operatives from Europe and even the United States.

Their identities have almost all been known to Sun Cheng for a long time, but he has simply kept them in check without acting.

This time, he used a CIA operative he had discovered and turned long ago to pass a "bombshell piece of news" to the CIA.

Originally, Sun Cheng never really thought he could trick the United States government into joining the fray.

He only wanted to probe the Decepticon force he had previously discovered infiltrating the United States, and incidentally create an excuse to get "intelligence" to Major William.

According to Sun Cheng's plan, he would arrange for his infiltrators in the United States to send a fake "secret mission" to Major William in the name of the Ministry of National Defense.

It was just that he clearly underestimated the greed and ambition of the American establishment. When the CIA transmitted the news back home, within a few short hours, intelligence regarding how "the 【Matrix of Leadership】 is a massive energy source more powerful and harmless than the 【AllSpark】" exploded across the American political and business circles.

There was no need for Sun Cheng to use his infiltrators at all; the authorities acted as if they had obtained his plan, and in less than a day, they made their decision, following his plan step by step.

The result actually saved Sun Cheng a lot of work. The Pioneer, who had long since arrived at Diego Garcia to lurk, dispatched a micro-Decepticon to infiltrate the Original Sound Nest base, find Major William's personal phone, and after copying it, send a message to Mikaela's phone in his name after Major William and his team arrived in Qatar.

As for what the outcome would be if he were tracked down afterward, that was not something Sun Cheng needed to consider.

Starscream is being held in check by The Fallen and Soundwave, so after obtaining the coordinates for the 【Matrix of Leadership】, he did not head to the Nameless Temple immediately.

Taking advantage of the final preparation time before the final battle, Sun Cheng prepared to add a few more chips to his chances of winning.

Severodvinsk naval port, a heavily guarded indoor dry dock.

Sun Cheng stood quietly inside the dry dock, looking at a warship docked within that was undergoing modifications, his expression extremely solemn.

If there were any Soviet soldiers, or military enthusiasts with a deep understanding of various countries' warships, they would likely recognize it at a glance.

This warship, which appears to have been built and is now docked in the indoor dry dock undergoing modifications, is seven or eight parts similar to the Type 22350 frigate that the Soviets finalized a few years ago and is currently still under construction at the Northern Shipyard.

And it is indeed an improved version of the Type 22350 frigate; the reason it appears here is also easy to guess.

Because of the connection to another world, Sun Cheng pays close attention to the military affairs of various countries in the 【Transformers Multiverse】 world.

Ever since he began cooperating with the Soviets, the Soviets working with him have spared no effort to extract more good things from his hands.

By the same token, Sun Cheng is also doing his utmost to copy the foundations of this military power bit by bit.

Missiles, cannons, rocket launchers, fighter jets, bombers, drones, submarines, warships, and so on.

Currently, except for the nuclear weapons and some intercontinental missile technologies that the Soviets are strictly guarding, Sun Cheng has not made much progress for the time being.

Everything else the Soviets have in their pockets has already been archived in the technical library of Base No. 2, thanks to the advanced equipment he "sold" and the backend logs of the industrial software he designed for the Soviets.

Submarines are limited by their specific operational environment; they are very suitable as a deterrent and strategic weapon, but their drawbacks are also obvious if one wants to use them as conventional weapons.

Therefore, since the beginning of the year, after replacing equipment for the Soviets' Northern Shipyard and other research institutes and successfully copying the data for the Type 22350 frigate, Sun Cheng ordered his engineers to carry out comprehensive modifications based on it.

At first, Sun Cheng only hoped to design and build a few of these warships to protect North Port and Base No. 2, which needed an outlet to the sea after expanding.

Now, he has some new ideas.

The modifications lasted for several hours before the robots, Decepticon Workers, and engineers busy on the ship began to evacuate one by one.

"Master, the modifications are complete... According to your orders, we removed the original nuclear power system on the ship, re-installed a new Auxiliary Power System, and transplanted a Spark and Core that Base No. 2 just sent over into the ship... However, can such a big guy really be transformed into a Decepticon..."

Engineer Hephaestus, Sun Cheng's expert in shipbuilding, has had an inseparable bond with submarines and ships ever since he followed his orders to modify and steal the decommissioned Soviet Typhoon-class nuclear submarine.

Over the past year or so, Hephaestus has personally presided over and participated in two modifications of the Typhoon-class nuclear submarine, the design and manufacture of cargo nuclear submarines, the design and manufacture of unmanned deep-sea probes, the modification and manufacture of Akula-class nuclear submarines, and even served as an external expert for the Soviet shipyard for a period of time.

Utilizing the advanced technology of the planet Cybertron, combined with the technical reserves of the Decepticon Legion, Hephaestus can now be called a top-tier expert in ship design and manufacturing.

Yet even so, he was still taken aback by Sun Cheng's idea.

Because his master actually intended to use an AllSpark Fragment to directly convert this modified warship into a Decepticon.

"Take a gamble!"

With three fingers of his right hand pinching an AllSpark Fragment, Sun Cheng watched the azure electric arcs flickering constantly around the fragment, his face even calmer than Hephaestus'.

Using an AllSpark Fragment to convert a Decepticon was an idea he had a long time ago.

Because of the uniqueness of the 【AllSpark】, and the fact that the engineers had previously cultivated Newborn Decepticons using AllSpark Fragments as the key Awakening equipment, the feasibility of this concept had been verified.

However, because Sun Cheng only had seven fragments in total, including one he got from Wheelie not long ago, he would have one less for every one he used.

That was why he had been hesitant and had not used them all along.

Now that the situation is deteriorating and limited by the few troops he has available, Sun Cheng has even had to use conspiracies and schemes, borrowing the hands of the Autobots to have some ability to intervene in the situation, but it is becoming increasingly strenuous.

In order to reverse the disadvantage, it is time to make a choice.

Thinking of this, he took the fragment in his hand and walked toward the warship not far away that had already been modified.