Chapter 646: Half a Month in a Flash (Seeking Subscriptions)

"The Autobots are wreaking havoc on United States soil?"

In the South Pacific, on Trindade Island, Sun Cheng linked to a European communications satellite and was quickly browsing the latest current affairs news on Earth.

Unexpectedly, he discovered that many news media outlets and video websites in Europe and the United States were reporting on terrorist attacks against several major military-industrial giants in the United States.

Out of curiosity, Sun Cheng spent some time carefully searching through news and videos, and he soon realized something was amiss.

It is a very simple matter for a Mechanical Life form to obtain intelligence through Earth's internet.

Although the internet had clearly been scrubbed, Sun Cheng only had to spend a little extra time.

On some low-traffic forums and private blogs, due to regulatory loopholes in relevant United States departments, some videos filmed by individuals were still temporarily preserved.

Sun Cheng even found more videos with better angles and higher clarity on dark web forums.

In those videos, he was astonished to see the figures of Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and a group of other Autobots who should have already died in battle.

"Optimus Prime and Bumblebee have been resurrected? It seems the Matrix of Leadership, which legend says possesses incredible power, has indeed fallen into the hands of the Autobots. The Fallen is very likely heavily wounded or even dead by now!"

After nearly two years of tempering in the 【Transformers Universe】, Sun Cheng was no longer like his real age, just a fresh college graduate who had just stepped out of school.

Sufficient experience and encounters allowed him to easily analyze enough useful information from a small amount of data.

For example, the final whereabouts of the 【Matrix of Leadership】, the fate of The Fallen, and why the Autobots would appear within the United States to attack the headquarters and laboratories of those arms giants!

"It seems the corpses of those Autobots on the Jordan battlefield were indeed taken away by the Americans!"

Thinking of this, the corners of Sun Cheng's mouth could not help but curl into an arc.

About half a month ago, at the Jordan Petra Mountains, the battle surrounding the 【Matrix of Leadership】 involved the two major factions: the Autobots and the Decepticon Legion.

Sun Cheng participated a little, but he did not get too deeply involved.

He knew very well that he was no match for The Fallen, or the Autobots and the Decepticon Legion, so he decisively gave up on the 【Matrix of Leadership】.

Later facts proved that the 【Matrix of Leadership】 was indeed like a magnet, attracting the attention of The Fallen, the Decepticon Legion, and the Autobots, giving Sun Cheng plenty of time to set everything up in the background and ultimately obtain a divine artifact—the Soul-Reaping Spear.

Although his gains from the battle that had just ended were indeed not as great as the Autobots'.

But there are gains and losses; the Autobots' harvest was not as great as they themselves imagined.

Sun Cheng had already discovered that batch of Autobot corpses right after the United States military's bombing ended.

Although he coveted them, he did not target them.

Because Sun Cheng felt that these Autobot corpses might be a very good bait.

Although the NEST unit had been disbanded, it was hard to say whether the Autobots and the Americans still had the possibility of continuing to cooperate.

At the time, Sun Cheng clearly had not thought that far ahead; he was just worried that after Optimus Prime's death, those Autobots on Earth might really turn to cooperate with the Americans again under the threat of the Decepticon Legion and The Fallen.

Sun Cheng had some understanding of both the Autobots and the Americans.

The Autobots were different from the Decepticons; peace-loving as they were, they had various limitations.

The Americans, however, were very greedy; back when Optimus Prime was still around, they had wanted to use the Decepticon corpses cleared by NEST for research.

Now that Optimus Prime was gone, would the Americans be interested in the Autobot corpses?

And once the Americans made a move on those Autobot corpses, could the Autobots still play happily with the Americans?

Now it seemed, Sun Cheng had obtained the answer he wanted most.

"This is for the best. The Autobots should just honestly stay in Africa to develop; it would be best if they could attract all the attention of the Decepticons and the Americans there."

Sun Cheng certainly knew that reality could not go exactly as he wished, but at least for now, everything was still under control.

Soon disconnecting from the communications satellite, Sun Cheng was once again not interfered with by Soundwave.

This was also one of his probes; after repairing his body, starting a few days ago, he had been attempting to link to some Russian satellites he had controlled through various means back when he was in Severodvinsk.

It had been some time since the battle on the African continent ended, but Decepticons like Starscream and Soundwave had suddenly gone quiet.

To Sun Cheng, these guys who had suddenly disappeared were no less of a threat than The Fallen; no one knew what these guys were up to after suddenly going into hiding.

Their sudden silence made people even more uneasy.

Sun Cheng could only keep telling himself in his heart that he needed to be vigilant and careful of the strikes that could come at any time.

Taking an Energy Pillar out from the Spherical Space, he, having nothing to do, began to study it again.

It had been nearly half a month since they arrived at Trindade Island; the Decepticon Workers on the island, led by the Engineers, were still controlling robots to dig a passage through the island's base leading to the underground magma.

Suddenly having nothing to do, he simply took an Energy Pillar out from the Spherical Space and studied it alone.

Some time ago, Sun Cheng had returned to Base No. 2 alone; after repairing his body, he had originally intended to leave two Energy Pillars for Atlas and the others to study.

However, the Decepticon Engineers under his command did not have extra time to study the manufacturing technology of the Energy Pillars for the moment, so Sun Cheng now had to take the field himself and grope his way forward bit by bit.

Atlas and the others were indeed very busy now, and it was very likely that even Sun Cheng's new body would have to be delayed for some time before they had the capacity to design and build it for him!

More than a month ago, when he had attacked the human boy Sam on United States soil, trying to snatch fragment information from his mind, the most famous doctor among the Decepticons, the prototype of all Medical Spiders, the Medical Spider whose real name was 【Scalpel】, died at the hands of Bumblebee, who had come to save Sam.

Because Frenzy's memory contained records that Scalpel had participated in many modification experiments by Starscream and Shockwave.

Sun Cheng felt that the experience and technology in Scalpel's Memory Chip might be helpful to the group of Decepticon Engineers at Base No. 2 who had been unable to master the mass production of Decepticons, so he awakened a lurker hiding in the city where Sam was, and had him steal Scalpel's head and send it back to Base No. 2.

This decision was undoubtedly correct!

When Sun Cheng went back not long ago, the technology Atlas and the others had for cultivating Newborn Decepticons had already made a qualitative leap; with just a few more tests, they should be able to master the technology for mass-cultivating Newborn Decepticons.

Not only that, Atlas and the others also discovered a technology he had dreamed of from Scalpel's Memory Chip—Humanoid Decepticon.

The End