Chapter 715: Test Ship

The Israelis did indeed act very covertly, but there are truly many countries in the sky watching Trindade Island, and none of them are ordinary nations.

It seems that on that very day, certain powers obtained the intelligence they wanted from the Israelis, and from the next day on, Trindade Island became lively.

The first to lose patience and enter the fray was a British warship from Saint Helena; this destroyer, the York, was an old Type 42 destroyer that had been in service for over twenty years.

Before the York even approached Trindade Island, it was detected by the newly installed Early Warning Radar on the island.

Sun Cheng received the news quickly, and upon rushing over to take a look, he was immediately amused.

"They all say the former British Empire has now become the two wastes of Europe... although the old British foundation hasn't been completely hollowed out, it has indeed declined!"

The British Empire once ran rampant across the world, utilizing the late-mover advantage of the Age of Discovery and the first-mover advantage of initiating the Industrial Revolution to successfully grow from an island nation encouraged to stay off the European continent into a true British Empire whose territory once spanned Asia, Europe, Africa, North America, and Oceania.

However, history has long been written very clearly and plainly: there has never been an invincible empire that could remain glorious for a thousand or ten thousand years.

The Qin Dynasty couldn't do it, the Han Dynasty couldn't do it, the Tang Dynasty couldn't do it, and looking overseas, it is the same.

Whether it be the Persian Empire, the Alexander Empire, the Roman Empire, the Arab Empire, and so on, they are all much the same.

Time is the most powerful weapon; it can dilute all sorrow and hatred, and decay all things in the world, including the will of a nation.

The British Empire could not withstand the erosion of time either; its massive navy that once traversed the four oceans and intimidated the entire world now has only two small aircraft carriers with a full load of only twenty thousand tons, and a few aging Type 42 destroyers and Type 23 frigates left on the water.

The enterprising Moscow, even during its most economically sluggish times, still gritted its teeth to churn out nuclear submarines.

A certain Far East country may look unimpressive now, but the ships its navy plans to build are already scheduled ten years into the future, and it is about to usher in an era of "dumpling-making" that will make enemies fearful.

Looking back at the British, a few years ago, in order to squeeze out military funds for the invasion of Iraq, they actually had to retire an aircraft carrier to reduce maintenance costs.

This country basically has no possibility of dominating again in the future!

The radar also detected signs of submarine activity on the seabed, but Sun Cheng just glanced at it and lost interest.

"Frenzy, you go and receive the British..."

He didn't have much interest in the two wastes of Europe, because although these two old colonial powers still have many good things at home—such as the high-quality mines and other resources the British hold in Australia and Canada, or the rich mineral deposits in France's former colonies in North Africa and Central Africa—

But how to put it, anyone with a slight understanding of politics would understand that these are two troublemakers.

And they are the kind that want a hand in everything, are insatiably greedy, yet are also very petty and fickle.

Sun Cheng has studied quite a few collaborations between developing countries and the two wastes of Europe, and has seen too many cases of these two brothers screwing others and themselves over without ever feeling it's enough.

If the old two wastes of Europe hadn't come knocking themselves, he really wouldn't want to play with these two pieces of trash.

Although Frenzy was a bit surprised, he still accepted the order and prepared to deal with the British.

Sun Cheng is currently focusing on cultivating him, preparing to tilt more resources toward this subordinate who has followed him for over a year and has always been loyal to him.

It is true that he is suspicious, but that doesn't mean Sun Cheng doesn't like loyal subordinates.

The reason he is suspicious is simply because he cannot afford to lose in this world, nothing more.

The dawdling York only quietly launched a helicopter a few hours later, tentatively approaching Trindade Island.

This group of guys must have observed through satellites that a helipad had been built on the island.

On the Black Market side, Frenzy is responsible for everything before changing to a New Body; he has been with Sun Cheng the longest and is the most adept at imitating his way of thinking to deal with humans.

He even specifically arranged for a few Workers to follow by Frenzy's side to learn; they will be the second batch of spies promoted from Workers after Mola.

Sun Cheng needs to prioritize cultivating a batch of spies so that they can better gather intelligence from human nations in the future.

After tentatively approaching the island several times, once coming within less than a mile of the island without being attacked, the helicopter that took off from the York finally flew boldly toward the island.

Frenzy then took the few Workers Sun Cheng had arranged for him and went to deal with the British.

As for Sun Cheng himself, he was in the Sub-base inside the hollowed-out Trindade Peak, digesting the data on the Explorer-class ship he had obtained from the Central Main Control Intelligence of the New World Explorer.

The data was very detailed, but Sun Cheng found it somewhat difficult to digest.

Previously, when he was researching the small ship of the Hunter Civilization he had obtained from the real world together with his Decepticon Engineers, Sun Cheng felt exceptionally strained because he lacked relevant knowledge in aerospace, propulsion, and other areas.

After that, he spent a lot of time searching for a large number of relevant textbooks from the internet in both the real world and this world.

In his spare time, Sun Cheng would use the terrifying computing power of the Frenzy Body to read and deduce for accelerated learning.

Relying on this constant accumulation, he has now gradually established a knowledge base based on Earth's current level of technology.

However, whether in the real world or the Earth in the 【Transformers Universe】, human civilization has not yet truly stepped into space and can only provide him with basic knowledge reserves.

On the contrary, by digesting the data left behind by his Decepticon Engineers when they researched, cracked, and modified the Hunter Civilization ship, Sun Cheng has made rapid progress in this field.

With this research, six or seven days passed in a flash.

During this period, warships from France, the United States, and Russia inadvertently bumped into each other in the nearby waters.

Frenzy had reported to Sun Cheng midway, but at the time he was struggling to digest the relevant data on the Explorer-class ship, and originally wanting to talk to the Americans himself, he finally impatiently handed the task of reception and contact over to Frenzy as well.

Facts proved that this decision of Sun Cheng's was correct.

The batch of Americans who arrived at the island to make contact first came with a purely tentative and hostile attitude, and Frenzy's first contact with them was not pleasant.

However, on Sun Cheng's side, the progress was much better than he had imagined.

It wasn't that he had quickly digested the relevant data from the Explorer-class ship; on the contrary, his progress was not fast, and one could even say it was very slow.

But because Sun Cheng and his Decepticon Engineers had previously researched and experimentally modified a small ship of the Hunter Civilization, they had already thoroughly understood that ship in the process.

It was just that at the time, limited by the fact that the Engineers did not possess rich aerospace-related technology, the subsequent progress in deeply modifying it was not great.

Now, with the relevant data on this Explorer-class ship, after roughly going through it a few times, the enlightened Sun Cheng suddenly had a startling idea.

Why not, before starting construction on the Explorer-class ship, first experimentally build an improved test ship based on the original Hunter Civilization ship?

For one, it could verify some technologies; for another, the difficulty of building a small ship is not high given Base No. 2's current manufacturing capabilities; and thirdly, Sun Cheng could bring it back to the real world in the future.

Once he thought of this, he couldn't hold himself back.

PS:

I'm so tired I don't even know how I finished typing this chapter. I'm going to sleep. Tomorrow's update is uncertain; I need to get some good sleep. My sleep over these three days adds up to only ten-plus hours.

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