Chapter 732: Mars Base (End)

The darkness could not affect the vision of the Cybertronians, and the harsh climate and low nighttime temperatures of Mars also had little impact on Decepticons like Sun Cheng, Adam, and Prometheus.

"This is the location I have chosen for the first Mars Base!"

Prometheus swept a glance over the ground within the canyon, and suddenly, as if he had discovered something, he walked over, crouched down, and scooped up a handful of fine sand. Two beams of light shot from his eyes to scan it for a moment, and his expression was somewhat excited: "Master, the ordinary soil on Mars also contains a very high percentage of magnesium sulfate, iron oxide, and carbonates. Through appropriate reactions and refining, we can obtain a large quantity of various minerals."

Adam picked up a crimson stone and also inspected it, "Truly a treasure planet!"

"Indeed a treasure planet!"

The smile on Sun Cheng's face could no longer be suppressed. After looking around the canyon for a moment, he restrained his smile and said in a deep voice: "I cannot stay on Mars for too long, so let's begin! Prometheus, you go explore the mineral veins in the surrounding area. Adam and I will go check out that cave first. In a moment, I will awaken some Workers and have them come to follow your arrangements!"

The news that Sun Cheng possessed the mysterious and unfathomable Space Bridge technology, which could place a large amount of resources into a mysterious space, was long since no longer a secret within Base No. 2.

Because the legendary Space Bridge technology, even during the peak of the Cybertronian civilization in the Council of Ancients era, was mastered by only a few.

After all, this involved the field of space. Even for the great Cybertronian scientists who had spent their entire lives studying fields like spatial physics and quantum mechanics, it was extremely difficult to even get started, let alone the group of Decepticon Engineers under Sun Cheng.

Therefore, Adam and Prometheus, these two newly promoted Decepticon Engineers, had only heard some rumors from their predecessors.

Although they were curious about how Sun Cheng managed to hide massive amounts of resources and carry them with him, they had no clue at all.

Prometheus did not dare to question his order, bowed slightly, and agreed: "Everything as you wish, Master!"

Sun Cheng then took Adam and walked toward the Underground Karst Cave, which was hundreds of meters away and looked like the blood-red maw of a demon hidden in the darkness.

This Underground Karst Cave was located in the middle section of Valles Marineris, only a little over one hundred kilometers away from the main rift of the canyon and several branching rifts.

In the afternoon, Sun Cheng and his group had ridden the Hope experimental spacecraft and patrolled back and forth within Valles Marineris a full three times before confirming this location.

The average depth of this section of Valles Marineris was about 5.47 kilometers, and the average width was about 267 kilometers.

In this Daxia, which had formed for reasons unknown, Sun Cheng and his group had discovered countless caves and Dixiadongku during their three patrols that afternoon.

However, the reason they ultimately chose this place was that it was located in the middle section of the entire Daxia, and the hematite contained in the nearby mountains was richer than in other sections.

Choosing this place would not only be convenient for future mining, but by relying on the solid mountain body to transform the nearby Underground Karst Cave they had selected into a base, it would save a lot of trouble.

Arriving before the cave, Sun Cheng was not in a hurry to go in.

The armor plate on his chest automatically split open, and a small drone quickly flew out, heading toward the depths of the cave.

Only then did Sun Cheng take Adam and walk in unhurriedly.

The uncanny workmanship of nature is always exceptionally magical.

Sun Cheng had originally felt that the underground cave where he had initially established Base No. 2 within Brazil could already be called a gift from nature.

However, compared to this cave on Mars, it was still far inferior.

The entrance to this cave, located in the middle section of Valles Marineris, was extremely spacious, no less than twenty meters high; although it was somewhat narrow, only about seven or eight meters wide, the cave was extremely deep.

After stepping into the cave and walking inward for twenty or thirty meters, one could see a huge rock blocking most of the path forward.

Adam could easily climb over it, but Sun Cheng would have to spend a little effort.

After passing that road-blocking stone and walking a short distance further, one suddenly felt a sense of openness.

An irregular space no less than sixty or seventy meters high, with a total area of nearly seven or eight thousand square meters, appeared in the field of vision of Sun Cheng and Adam.

"Not bad, it saves us quite a bit of effort!"

This natural cave alone could save Sun Cheng and his group several days of workload.

Of course, subsequent widening, reinforcement, and anti-seismic treatments would definitely be required, and eventually, it would even be like the main control center of Base No. 2, with the interior of the karst cave covered everywhere in metal full of a technological feel, no longer looking like its original self at all.

But what did that matter? He didn't want this base to develop the tourism industry.

Looking at how spacious this space was, Sun Cheng had a thought and waved his hand to signal Adam to stop. He then walked a few more steps forward and took out a dozen Stasis Pods for the dormant Workers from the Spherical Space.

"Adam, I leave it to you to awaken these Workers. In a moment, arrange for a portion of them to go to Prometheus to help him explore the nearby mineral deposits and organize more detailed data as soon as possible. You will lead the other portion and be responsible for the design of this cave!"

"Yes, Master!"

Sun Cheng walked to a corner of the cave and took out a batch of Engineering Robots from the Spherical Space.

Immediately, he followed a cave entrance not far away and walked toward the deeper parts.

This Underground Karst Cave was much larger than he had imagined, and the drone he had sent out was still continuously transmitting back more information about the cave it had captured.

The cave where he and Adam had briefly stayed just now had an outward-extending passage on both the deep side and the sides.

However, two of the cave entrances were too small for Sun Cheng to squeeze through, so he gave up on continuing to explore those two sides.

But his drone quickly finished exploring one of the paths, and the results were very gratifying.

Although the entrance and passage to the cave extending to one side were both very small, after walking more than two hundred meters deep, there was actually a huge karst cave over 370 meters long, 640 meters wide, and 50 meters high.

As for the other passage that Sun Cheng could not enter, it was also quickly confirmed by the drone to have other wonders inside. That passage was nearly five kilometers deep, and apart from the smaller entrance, there were scattered caves of various sizes inside, among which one cave extended downward for six or seven hundred meters, which was quite marvelous.

On the contrary, the cave entrance that Sun Cheng had stepped into alone looked spacious, but in reality, after walking inside for less than two or three minutes, he saw the end of the passage; there were neither caves nor other wonders, which made him slightly disappointed.

Soon, he returned to the original cave and looked at Adam, who had already begun to awaken the Workers and started directing them to get busy.

Sun Cheng walked up and copied all the information about the three caves captured by the drone and what he had seen himself, giving a copy to Adam.

After Adam quickly digested the information about the caves, he thought for a moment and then looked at the passage that connected to a huge space with a total area of over two hundred thousand square meters, ordering the Workers to control the Engineering Robots and begin widening and excavating toward there.

Sun Cheng's Spherical Space still held a large amount of supplies and robots that needed a larger space to be placed.

The group of Decepticons, having arrived on Mars only a few hours ago, immediately began to get busy.

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PS:

There shouldn't be anything going on tomorrow, so I can resume updates and pay off my debts.

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