Chapter 661: The Deal (Part 1)

Controlling this Decepticon body, Sun Cheng slowly walked toward Optimus Prime and the others.

This was a new discovery of his, a new ability he had only just mastered not long ago.

For a long time, Sun Cheng had been pondering a question.

How exactly he had crossed over into the world of the 【Transformers Universe】—there had to be an explainable reason.

Based on thinking about this question, he had extended it into many new doubts.

For example, how did the Spherical Space inside his body appear, and why could it expand by absorbing energy and certain specific substances?

For example, how exactly did Sun Cheng establish a connection with the bodies in this world?

If it were consciousness that allowed him to connect with the Frenzy Body, then why did no problems arise when he switched bodies before?

All sorts of questions troubled Sun Cheng, and these questions had also become one of the ways he passed the time during his leisure in this world.

Up to now, his research progress on the various things happening to him remained very limited.

In over a year, Sun Cheng's only gain was perhaps confirming that his consciousness did not depend on a single body.

He could switch back and forth between multiple bodies, and even when a single body was destroyed, as long as there was another pre-prepared body within a certain range that was compatible with his consciousness, Sun Cheng's consciousness could immediately enter that body.

However, it seemed that because of the consciousness transmission process, some data loss would occur for certain reasons.

This was the true trump card Sun Cheng held when facing The Fallen not long ago.

At that time, he had already hidden a body near the Nameless Pyramid in advance, so that after the most dangerous situation occurred, he could transfer his consciousness over.

The Decepticon appearing before Optimus Prime and the others now was the product of Sun Cheng utilizing this ability he discovered and developing it deeply.

Cybertronians, as mechanical life, possessed the special ability that as long as their Memory Chip was not completely destroyed, they could be resurrected again after changing into a new body and having their Spark reactivated.

A while ago, while idling on Trindade Island, Sun Cheng suddenly had quite a few ideas.

This current Decepticon body was the product of him briefly returning to Base No. 2 not long ago, retrieving his original body from his Laboratory, and performing simple modifications and tests on it again.

Strictly speaking, the one appearing here to meet with Optimus Prime was Sun Cheng, yet not Sun Cheng.

Because this body possessed the vast majority of Sun Cheng's memories, but did not possess independent thinking ability.

All of his decisions were made through data transmission—which was handled by a satellite—with Sun Cheng, who was still on Trindade Island, so there would be a brief delay during logical thinking.

Of course, this delay time was completely acceptable, because it would never exceed ten seconds, giving people the feeling that he was just thinking.

Although the Memory Chip of this Decepticon body did not contain any memories from the other world.

But to avoid others obtaining this body, Sun Cheng still performed a lot of processing on this Decepticon body; he only needed to activate it, and the Memory Chip, including the body, would be blown into ashes.

"Decepticon!"

The moment Drift saw Sun Cheng, his eyes already carried a hint of malice.

Like Sideswipe, he was a Warrior who had defected from the Decepticon camp to the Autobot camp.

Drift was once a brave and battle-hardened Advanced Decepticon Warrior, possessing a tenacious will, but also because he had his own bottom line and was unwilling to attack Autobot civilians, it led to the failure of a mission.

Afterward, he was escorted to the Military Police, and after being imprisoned for a period of time, he was sent to Shockwave's Laboratory to undergo punitive modification.

At that time, Shockwave had already developed a keen interest in Super Warriors who could possess multiple transformation forms simultaneously.

His Laboratory often needed some test subjects to cooperate with his cruel experiments, and the source of his test subjects mostly came from Decepticon political prisons.

Drift could be considered both unfortunate and lucky; the unfortunate part was that because the prison could no longer provide more test subjects to Shockwave at the time, Shockwave had to seek them from elsewhere.

The lucky part was that Drift survived the high-mortality modification experiment, and he was successfully modified by Shockwave into a powerful Triple Changer.

It was precisely because of this encounter that Drift defected to the Autobot camp shortly after.

Unlike Sideswipe, who was hostile toward the Autobots at the time, Drift's defection brought the Triple Changer technology to the Autobots, so the Autobot Leader at the time, Sentinel Prime, gave him very high treatment.

But it was also because of his defection that the Decepticon Legion wiped out all of Drift's relatives and friends.

The blood feud between the two sides was thus established.

Sun Cheng felt Drift's hostility, but only glanced at him before casting his gaze toward Optimus Prime, bowing slightly to pay his respects to this young Autobot Leader who had returned from the dead and very likely eliminated a mortal enemy for him.

"Lord Optimus Prime, may you be well! Please forgive me for coming uninvited this time. It is mainly because there is a matter I wish to have confirmed by you, and by the way, I would like to discuss a deal with the Autobots!"

The surrounding of a dozen or so Autobots did not affect Sun Cheng in the slightest; he continued to speak unhurriedly.

Drift was tugged by Wheeljack, frowned, and then quieted down.

Although he saw at a glance that Sun Cheng's current state was strange, Optimus Prime did not show it.

The Autobots and Decepticons had been hostile to each other for millions of years, so being wary of each other was nothing out of the ordinary.

However, Optimus Prime's attitude toward Sun Cheng was better than before; he had experienced the civil war, and previously, while in a dead state, he had accidentally awakened memories of his past life, making this young Leader, who already hated war, now more willing to see his old rival, the Decepticons, split due to internal strife.

Thus, his voice was also softer than before: "As long as it does not involve the secrets of the Autobots."

"Of course!"

Sun Cheng's remote control could not make the expression of this Decepticon body richer, but this did not affect his questioning: "Earth is the new home we have recognized, and we want to start a new life here, so a while ago, after we found the 【Stellar Extraction Tower】 of The Fallen, we destroyed this super weapon he created!"

"My companions and I have offended The Fallen deeply, and Lord Optimus Prime should know this as well. So I want to verify with you, has The Fallen been completely destroyed?"

Strictly speaking, these were two questions; The Fallen's death did not mean true death, as ordinary Cybertronians could be re-Awakened, let alone such a Prime.

Sun Cheng would not forget that when he was tracking the 【Matrix of Leadership】 and found the Nameless Temple located in Jordan, he had almost died there.

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This is the daily guaranteed two updates, not counted in the supplementary update for Chapter 11.