Chapter 648: Mutation (Please Subscribe)

After staring into the depths of the tunnel for a while, Sun Cheng suddenly spoke up and asked the Decepticon Engineer beside him.

"If the bottom of the tunnel is breached, will the magma backflow into it?"

Although Trindade Island was not large, its location and the island's terrain were quite good; it could be used as a material transfer station, so it would be a pity to abandon it.

"The possibility is extremely low. The end of the tunnel is not actually directly adjacent to the magma; there should still be a gap below. The specific distance to the magma can only be determined after measurement. According to the geological data of humans on Earth, theoretically, as long as the volcano beneath the island does not erupt, it is basically impossible for the magma to backflow through the tunnel!"

"That's good!"

Hearing the Decepticon Engineer finish his explanation, Sun Cheng nodded with satisfaction.

His chassis had been fully repaired shortly before returning to Base No. 2, and a special coating had been applied to the surface, which could withstand high temperatures exceeding four or five thousand degrees for a short time.

Looking at the depths of the tunnel, Sun Cheng felt a bit eager to try.

He immediately said to Pioneer and the others: "I will go down and take a look first. Swindle's chassis cannot withstand the high temperature of the magma, and you and Thunder cannot stay for too long either, so just stay up here."

Swindle nodded hurriedly; he had been miserably scammed by Starscream, and this chassis was only slightly stronger than a normal Decepticon cannon fodder, with its main material still being steel, which had a low melting point.

As for Pioneer and Thunder, they would not disobey Sun Cheng's orders.

After giving his instructions, Sun Cheng looked at the tunnel again and jumped down without any hesitation.

Calculating his descent speed, when he was only a few meters from the bottom, several thrusters popped out from the soles of his feet and the lower part of his legs, allowing him to land steadily on the bottom of the tunnel, which was shrouded in a faint white mist.

"Temperature 127 degrees!"

Sun Cheng silently measured the temperature and then shot two detection beams from his eyes again.

After scanning the ground for a few seconds, he let himself fly up a short distance, then raised his hand and fired a Combat Missile at the bottom of the tunnel.

"Boom!"

The missile, which did not have much power, exploded immediately upon hitting the ground, blasting a not-so-deep crater at the bottom of the tunnel.

Then, with the second, third, and fourth missiles, under the successive bombardment of the four Combat Missiles, the remaining few meters of hard mountain rock at the bottom of the tunnel were finally breached.

Instantly, a wave of scorching heat rushed toward him, and the orange-red light made Sun Cheng squint slightly.

The Engineer was right; the bottom of the tunnel was not in direct contact with the submarine magma, as there was a distance of thirty or forty meters between them.

Passing through the blasted bottom of the tunnel, Sun Cheng hovered and entered the underground space.

Looking at the terrifying magma below, to be honest, a feeling of timidity arose in his heart for a moment.

This was the fear unique to humans when facing the unknown; fortunately, Sun Cheng knew very well that as long as he did not stay in the magma for too long, the temperature of the magma could not cause him much harm, so this fear gradually faded away.

The magma space beneath the tunnel was clearly located inside a submarine volcano.

This also matched the formation of Trindade Island; this island was originally a volcanic island, and it was perfectly normal for the bottom of the island to be connected to a submarine volcano.

Pushing his search capabilities to the limit, Sun Cheng tried to search for some unknown object that might have been hidden in the magma by the Beast General.

However, he was soon disappointed; although the magma in the submarine volcanic space was not very active and showed no signs of erupting.

But magma was inherently a high-energy aggregate, and it had an excellent shielding effect against the electromagnetic waves Sun Cheng emitted for exploration.

"It seems I have no choice but to go down and look for it!"

Subconsciously making an expression unique to humans when nervous, Sun Cheng took a deep breath and then plunged headfirst into the thick, orange-red magma.

The moment he drilled into the magma, the early warning system in his Core began to pulse wildly.

Clearly, the high temperature of over a thousand degrees still put a significant load on Sun Cheng's chassis.

"What a marvelous feeling!"

Sun Cheng ignored the Core's warning; he was now very interested in the magma and his own movements within it.

That feeling was too marvelous; how to describe it—it was as if one were in a swimming pool full of slush and ice cubes that had already begun to freeze and solidify.

Sun Cheng could clearly feel the resistance generated by the friction between the magma and his chassis when he moved; it was a feeling quite different from being in water.

Even his chassis could not stay in the magma for too long; Sun Cheng knew this much.

After just a brief moment of reflection on the marvelous experience in the magma, he withdrew his focus and began to concentrate fully on searching within the magma.

Regarding whether the Beast General had hidden that unknown object in the magma, to be honest, Sun Cheng could not be sure.

He could not even be sure now whether Trindade Island was the island where the Beast General had hidden that object.

However, some time ago, when competing for the 【Matrix of Leadership】, Sun Cheng was forced out of the running, and although he eventually snatched the Fallen's weapon—the Soul-Reaping Spear—that cursed weapon had now become a spear that devoured its master, and his gains were pitifully small.

This was also the reason why he came directly to Trindade Island after leaving Africa.

Facing the suddenly hidden Decepticon Legion and the Autobots, whose strength had skyrocketed after mastering the 【Matrix of Leadership】, it would be strange if Sun Cheng could feel at ease.

"I hope I can have some gains!"

Sun Cheng comforted himself inwardly while starting to search in the magma.

He swam very fast, and because he was swimming aimlessly, after more than an hour, as the warnings became more frequent, Sun Cheng could already feel that the special coating on the surface of his chassis was having problems.

He had no choice but to drill out of the magma and return to the tunnel's bottom entrance, following the coordinates he had left behind earlier.

Looking at the orange-red magma below, Sun Cheng's expression was not good.

Not to mention whether the Beast General had hidden that unknown object in the magma, even if he had really hidden it here, the difficulty for Sun Cheng to search for it now was too great.

The submarine magma was not inactive or stagnant, making it too difficult to search; it was hard to say if it could be found even in hundreds or thousands of years.

"This is troublesome!"

Sun Cheng could not help but feel a bit discouraged; leaning over to look at the magma below, he suddenly thought of the Sun for no reason.

With a thought, an eight-meter-long silver-gray Long Spear immediately appeared in his hand; it was the former weapon of the Fallen—the Soul-Reaping Spear.

Sun Cheng had no clue at all about the thing the Beast General had mentioned.

However, while watching the magma just now, he suddenly discovered that this place was somewhat similar to the surface of a star, which made him associate it with the artifact he had just obtained not long ago—the Soul-Reaping Spear, which possessed the ability to draw energy from stars.

Although the Soul-Reaping Spear, after being cursed, could no longer use that ability, after obtaining the Soul-Reaping Spear, Sun Cheng realized he had not yet properly tested the remaining abilities of this artifact.

He immediately took it out of the Spherical Space, prepared to risk a little consumption to test it out properly.

Then, an incredible thing happened.

When the Soul-Reaping Spear was taken out of the Spherical Space by Sun Cheng and just held in his hand, this artifact suddenly began to tremble violently, as if it had sensed something.

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PS:

The inspiration wasn't quite clicking, so I deleted and revised this chapter twice; my apologies for delivering it so late.