Chapter 647: The Tunnel is Through

Humanoid Decepticons are a type of black technology that Sun Cheng most wants to master, and his desire for them even surpasses the newborn Decepticon cultivation technology mastered by Starscream.

With a soul from another Earth in a different world and essentially still belonging to humanity, Sun Cheng naturally knows just how severe the vigilance and hostility of humans as a species are toward foreign races and civilizations.

Base No. 2 is currently swallowing South America; this is the region on Earth with the most successful regional integration, yet racial discrimination is just as severe, only slightly better than the United States, which is called heaven but is actually hell.

After controlling a small half of South America through various means, even Base No. 2 is now feeling very strained.

Sun Cheng and his group must remain hidden behind the scenes, because humans are not incapable of dealing with them.

If they truly made up their minds, the nuclear arsenals from the five major powers would turn all of Base No. 2's efforts from the past year or more into nothing but bubbles.

Therefore, he needs many Humanoid Decepticons with human appearances to help him completely control South America.

After all, humans are too greedy; even if they appear very loyal, he cannot fully trust them.

However, even if he possesses sufficient influence and power in the future, Sun Cheng will not challenge humanity's dominant position on Earth.

At the very least, he feels it is unnecessary and not worth the loss.

Earth is only this big, with billions of people trapped on this planet; there will come a day when resources are exhausted.

Yet the Cybertronians are a spacefaring civilization; they have mastered aviation technology for colonizing the galaxy since millions of years ago.

【Transformers Macro-Universe】 The Earth here is, after all, not Sun Cheng's home planet; he manages Base No. 2 with care only to bring more resources and technology back to the real world, so that he can enjoy success in the real world as well.

Since he has long known that there are more resources in the universe of this world that can feed back into the real world, how could he possibly remain trapped on Earth forever?

Sun Cheng will leave this little broken ball sooner or later to explore beyond the Solar System, which humans have longed for for so many years, and appreciate the charm of other planets.

Picking up an Energy Pillar with his right hand, bone spurs of metal that looked like liquid spread out from Sun Cheng's body, quickly wrapping around the Energy Pillar and beginning to analyze it.

After Earth civilization entered the 21st century, its utilization of energy remained very primitive; humans still need to use large amounts of fuel to provide energy.

Looking at the classification of fuel by humans, it is nothing more than three types: gaseous fuel, liquid fuel, and solid fuel.

The Cybertronian civilization's utilization of energy is at least five generations ahead of Earth's.

Although Cybertronians can still directly absorb electricity or other fuels to obtain energy.

However, they clearly prefer pure energy bodies that have been converted and purified, such as high-purity Energy Liquid.

And the Energy Pillar can be said to be one of the highest technological products of the peak of Cybertronian civilization; to understand it in a simpler way, it is a type of solidified Energy Cube.

Wanting to solidify liquefied pure energy into a block is by no means a simple matter of cooling and condensing.

The technology and requirements involved are so high that after the revolution during the Council of Ancients era of the Cybertronian civilization, the Energy Pillars produced by Cybertron decreased year by year.

By the end of the Second Civil War, the vast Autobots actually had only a few hundred Energy Pillars left as their final assets.

Sun Cheng has recently been digesting some of Tianwo's memories, and because of this, his theoretical knowledge is growing rapidly.

However, wanting to rely on his current knowledge to quickly analyze the manufacturing technology of the Energy Pillar is only slightly less difficult than humans successfully stepping into a spacefaring civilization.

Regarding this, Sun Cheng did not dwell too much on gains and losses; it was just a way to pass the time anyway.

Swindle has not yet given him a definite answer, and Sun Cheng already has some guesses about this.

That guy actually does not want to introduce Lockdown to him; clearly, Swindle himself is also very aware that when dealing with Sun Cheng, he has too few trump cards in his hand.

Swindle is worried that once Sun Cheng comes into contact with Lockdown, he might very well kick him aside and pull a "slaughter the donkey after the mill is finished."

He has no way to persuade a suspicious Decepticon who was once played in the palm of Starscream's hand and tortured by Megatron for millions of years.

Sun Cheng cannot build a New Body for Swindle without seeing any benefits; this matter is temporarily stalled, and there is no way to deal with the frustration.

Now they are just waiting to see who will be the first to fail to hold out and compromise.

One day later, accompanied by an alarm sound that suddenly rang out in the mountain belly.

The data flickering in Sun Cheng's eyes quickly disappeared; after putting the Energy Pillar, for which there was not much progress in technical cracking, back into the Spherical Space, he walked out of a newly excavated cave that had been cleared out for him alone.

"What happened?"

Seeing the pioneer in front of him, Sun Cheng frowned and asked, "Enemy attack?"

"Not an enemy attack, Master. The robots have already dug to a position close to the underground magma layer, and the Engineer is arranging for the Workers to evacuate."

"Has it finally been dug through?"

Sun Cheng's spirit lifted; some time ago, in order to compete for the 【Matrix of Leadership】, he had been constantly traveling back and forth between the three continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa in less than a month, busy beyond measure.

This period of sudden leisure made him feel a bit unaccustomed, as he had become somewhat used to it.

At this moment, upon hearing that the Engineer and the others had finally dug a tunnel leading directly to the underground magma, Sun Cheng immediately became energized.

Without him having to go looking, the Engineer quickly rushed over with a look of joy on his face.

"Master, we have dug through the tunnel leading directly to the underground magma beneath the island. Do you need to go over and take a look?"

"Mm!"

Thunder and Swindle were both drawn over by the alarm sound that suddenly rang out in the mountain belly; Sun Cheng thought for a moment and did not stop Swindle from following.

He was just preparing to go and take a look at the tunnel; the group of Decepticons then, led by that Engineer, quickly arrived at a hall that was not very large, deep within the mountain belly.

The hall was newly built and located deep within the tunnel.

When Sun Cheng and his group arrived, the hall appeared very crowded.

The soil and ore dug out from the tunnel leading to the underground magma were temporarily piled here; the Workers could only transport them to the coast to be dumped when the island's garrison was resting at night.

Located in the center of the hall was a tunnel leading straight underground.

The tunnel was rectangular, with sides about 5-7 meters long, and was not very regular.

Sun Cheng came to the tunnel entrance, stretched his head to look into the pitch-black depths below, and two beams of light immediately shot out from his eyes.

Not long after, he nodded with satisfaction, "Well done!"

The tunnel had almost been dug to the top of the seabed magma; there were still some mountain rocks deep down that had not been dug through, but that did not prevent the high temperature from seeping out.

Across the more than 300-meter-long deep tunnel, Sun Cheng could see that the rocks at the end of the tunnel were somewhat reddish, and the high temperature had even steamed the moisture in the air at the end of the tunnel into white mist.

……

These past few days, there has been old city district renovation near my residence, replacing all the old-fashioned wooden utility poles and concrete utility poles with metal ones.

So the power has been cut off during the day for the past two days; it is estimated that regular updates will resume tomorrow.

The internet cafe is too noisy today; the guy next to me is playing Overwatch, shouting and hollering, and he keeps peeking at me while I type, putting me under a lot of pressure.

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