Chapter 686: The Spaceship at the Bottom of the Lake

"The spaceship has been found!"

This message sent back from Base No. 2 truly excited Sun Cheng to no end.

"Finally found it!"

It truly wasn't easy!

More than a year ago, not long after Sun Cheng first arrived in the 【Transformers Universe】, he still had to carefully partner with Barricade to search for the whereabouts of Megatron and the 【AllSpark】.

Invading the internet was one of his primary search methods, and it was precisely online that Sun Cheng found many interesting photos.

These interesting photos all came from the hands of Earthlings; some photographers were from Europe and America, some from Asia, and they could also be from other places. The earliest ones were born more than a century ago, while the latest ones might have been taken just in the last few years.

They all had two things in common: the locations captured in the photos were all ancient civilizations on Earth.

Moreover, on these ancient ruins, there appeared some characters—or perhaps it is more appropriate to call them patterns—that were simpler and cruder than tadpole script, bronze script, hieroglyphs, and the like, yet completely impossible to decipher.

Those mysterious characters that looked exactly like patterns were none other than Cybertronian Script.

Of course, if it were merely some characters from the planet Cybertron, it wouldn't have made Sun Cheng hold much expectation; after all, by that time, he had already realized the fact that the Earth in the 【Transformers Universe】 was deeply influenced by Cybertronian civilization.

However, in many photos of ancient ruins on Earth, Sun Cheng not only discovered Cybertronian Script but also found quite a bit of Elder Script.

Elder Script, as the name implies, is a type of script created by Primes—such as the Thirteen Primes—during the period of the Ancient Council, when Cybertronian civilization was at its absolute peak.

It is more mysterious and ancient than the script currently used by Cybertronians, but unfortunately, a civil war lasting millions of years completely destroyed that once exceptionally advanced civilization.

To this day, apart from the leaders of the Decepticons and Autobots, only a very small number of scholars and scientists in the two major factions still know how to decipher and use Elder Script.

It was about half a year ago; at that time, Sun Cheng had already offended Soundwave and Megatron, and his small maneuvers in Russia had been discovered by Starscream and the Autobots.

Driven by that crisis, he had to exhaust all his abilities to find a way to survive for himself.

With the previous experience of finding the legacy of the Beast General in Lop Nur in the Far East, Sun Cheng quickly turned his gaze to Bolivia, which he had already secretly controlled at the time.

Because within the borders of Bolivia, there happened to be an ancient city ruin—【Tiwanaku City】—and Elder Script had also been found left behind in those ruins.

And so, after some exploration and excavation, they successfully found an underground pyramid located nearby, and within that tomb, they found the remains of a Pathfinder.

Of course, the greatest discovery of that exploration was that Sun Cheng and his team confirmed that the Pathfinder had crashed on Earth in a spaceship in the past.

Sun Cheng calculated at the time that the spaceship should have crashed within a radius of a few hundred kilometers around 【Tiwanaku City】.

And 【Lake Titicaca】, which was very close to it, was the location he suspected for the spaceship crash.

After giving a few instructions to the pioneers and the thunder-troops, Sun Cheng quietly left Trindade Island from the seabed through a secret passage excavated on the island.

In the underground tomb where he had previously discovered the Pathfinder's remains, he had actually also obtained a metal sphere.

That should have been the activator for the main control Smart Brain of the crashed spaceship, and it is still kept by Sun Cheng within the Spherical Space inside his body.

It is a key that can allow one to enter that spaceship and awaken the spaceship's main control Smart Brain.

However, considering that the Super Intelligence created by Cybertronian civilization all possessed extremely high intelligence, Sun Cheng was unable to determine the extent of the damage to that spaceship at the time, and he was very worried that he would be attacked by the weapon systems on the ship.

Therefore, he did not rashly awaken the spaceship's Smart Brain, but instead had his subordinate Decepticon Workers search with 【Tiwanaku City】 as the center.

This search took several months, although it was also related to the fact that Sun Cheng had not spent his main energy on it.

But the Workers finally found that legendary crashed spaceship, and he was still very excited.

Cybertronian spaceships are different from the small spaceship originating from the Hunter Civilization that Sun Cheng obtained in the real world.

Because of the special body structure of Cybertronians, their spaceships are generally very large.

What Sun Cheng most wants to obtain now is a cargo spaceship; it is said that during the Elder Council period, Cybertronian civilization once manufactured large cargo spaceships capable of transporting tens of millions of tons of ore at one time.

He only needs to obtain one, and then reverse-engineer its construction method, and he could immediately elevate his own forces to an aerospace-level civilization.

By then, there would be no need to continue huddling on Earth, competing for this tiny plot of land with the Autobots, Decepticons, and the various major human powers on Earth.

Without returning to Base No. 2, after landing in Brazil, Sun Cheng headed all the way toward Bolivia.

Just as he had guessed before, the spaceship that the Workers finally found was located at the bottom of 【Lake Titicaca】.

【Lake Titicaca】 is located on the Collao Plateau at the border between Bolivia and Miguo; it is known as the "Pearl of the Plateau" and is the highest-altitude large freshwater lake in the world.

Regarding the formation of this plateau lake, scholars in the field of geography have proposed two inferences, among which the one that has received the most support believes that it was formed by the expansion and compression between tectonic plates.

However, there are also some scholars who insist that the formation of 【Lake Titicaca】 originated from a large meteorite impact hundreds of thousands of years ago, and that it is a meteorite lake formed by the impact of an extraterrestrial meteorite.

Sun Cheng did not have much interest in these different academic viewpoints.

The reason why the Workers spent nearly half a year to find the spaceship submerged at the bottom of the lake, although it was also related to the fact that Base No. 2 really could not spare more energy some time ago.

Besides that, there was another important reason, which was regional conflict.

Although Bolivia and Miguo were once close allies in history, they have not been very happy in modern times due to some land disputes left over from the colonial era.

【Lake Titicaca】 is the natural border between the two countries, and the two countries have also had a very unpleasant time over some islands in the lake.

Since the coup in Bolivia last year, the mastermind behind the scenes had long since become Base No. 2.

Unlike Bolivia, Miguo, which possesses a long and narrow coastline, is not an economic powerhouse in South America, but its military strength is decent, and there are quite a few national forces paying attention to it.

In order to obtain a stable outlet to the sea for Base No. 2, the Decepticon Engineers and Workers under Sun Cheng, under the guidance of the expansion plan he left behind, spent more than half a year slowly eroding and finally controlling Miguo.

It was not until Miguo also fell under the control of Base No. 2 that the Workers obtained a stable surrounding environment and seriously inspected this lake located on the border of the two countries.

When Sun Cheng arrived, Sprint was already waiting there for a long time.

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