Chapter 736: Only One Update Today

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"I took you around the island this afternoon, consider it a bit of relaxation! Now that we've finished a dinner that wasn't exactly sumptuous, would you like to take a real tour of the island with me?"

Sun Cheng placed a slight emphasis on the word "real," as he quite appreciated the woman standing before him named Lin Bing.

It is always rare to possess both virtue and talent, and even rarer to be both talented and beautiful.

Heaven was not fair when it first created life; take humans, for example—there are beautiful and ugly, tall and short, fat and thin.

Yet Heaven is also fair, because in the great melting pot called society, innate defects more often become the driving force for progress.

Many women with stunning beauty lack suitors from a young age, so it is hard for them not to be influenced; they can still focus their attention on their studies, but the vast majority of them will gradually embark on a path of corruption due to precocity or being surrounded by scumbags.

This is not Sun Cheng harboring a prejudice against beautiful women, but a conclusion reached by some Western sociologists and anthropologists after decades of research using admission data from countless universities.

According to surveys in some Western countries, women with a physical attractiveness score below the passing grade of 60 invest on average over 8.37 more hours per week in their studies than women with scores above 80.

A campus survey report released by Yale University in 2014 also showed that the influence of physical appearance on scientific research is 17.2.

Therefore, a woman like Lin Bing, who possesses beauty, talent, and ability all at once, is relatively rare.

Although Sun Cheng's interest in women is far less than his interest in scientific research, having a trusted aide by his side who possesses both virtue and talent, as well as beauty and intelligence, is also very pleasing to the eye.

Lin Bing looked at him quietly for a moment, smiled slightly, and nodded, "Boss, I suppose I'm now on a pirate ship; even if I wanted to get off, I'm afraid it wouldn't be that easy, right?"

The corners of Sun Cheng's mouth curved slightly; he did not answer, but it counted as tacitly acknowledging this clever woman's guess.

Over the past month, Lin Bing had already learned many of his secrets; it was indeed difficult for her to get off the ship now.

Lin Bing rolled her eyes at this unscrupulous boss who made no attempt to hide his malice, set down her teacup, and stood up, "Since there is no choice, I can only resign myself to fate."

"Besides, I am also very interested in how you, Boss, managed to achieve all this within a year. Some things cannot be done just because someone hands you the technology."

"I am very curious!" She did not hide it from Sun Cheng, "I investigated your performance over the past year, and I even visited your university."

Sun Cheng's mood remained as calm as an ancient well; he did not develop negative emotions just because Lin Bing had investigated him privately.

Over the past year, especially since the second half of last year when the 【Cybertron Technology Group】 began to exert its influence, according to intelligence obtained by the Revenge Surveillance Network, both the targeted search terms for his name on the internet and the intelligence trades regarding Sun Cheng personally on the dark web have been increasing day by day.

During the week he returned to his hometown in Subei not long ago, Revenge also detected personnel from a security system protecting Ye Qi's parents around his old home.

People always gain and lose something in the process of moving forward; he was long used to it.

"Then let's go!"

He picked up the smartphone that Xiao Wu had transformed into and said to the phone: "Have a Defender smart patrol vehicle come over!"

After giving the order, Sun Cheng put Xiao Wu into his pocket and walked out of the room.

Lin Bing followed him out of this luxurious lounge he had on the island.

The two of them had only walked a short distance along a corridor inside the high-tech Sub-base.

Sun Cheng and his companion saw a vehicle that looked exactly like a roofless version of a tourist shuttle, slowly driving toward them without anyone controlling it.

The vehicle was controlled by a Pseudo-AI that had been newly installed in the base not long ago; although it could only operate within the base, there were no issues with its safety.

Sun Cheng sat in the vehicle; in front of the two front seats was a slender display screen showing several maps of different sizes.

"Get on!"

Lin Bing nodded and sat in the passenger seat with great interest.

"Defender, first let the patrol vehicle take us for a tour around the Sub-base!"

There was no answer, but the smart patrol vehicle they were sitting in began to move at a slow speed of about ten kilometers per hour.

As they went, Sun Cheng introduced the distribution of the bases on the island to Lin Bing. With the Hope experimental spacecraft, he no longer planned to put the small spacecraft he had previously obtained from the Hunter Civilization—which was used to transport Predator soldiers—into the Spherical Space, but rather keep it on Earth to facilitate travel between Xia Country and the Base No. 3 thousands of miles away.

As his most valued future capable assistant, Sun Cheng was indeed considering whether to grant her more authorization.

For example, allowing her to use the spacecraft to travel between Xia Country and Base No. 3 in an emergency.

Because the base on Nublar Island occupied and renovated the island's original drainage system for the sake of concealment.

Therefore, many of the base's corridors were built within dual-purpose cylindrical underground passages.

Passing through a section covered in thick moss with a strong musty smell, Lin Bing covered her nose and mouth.

Sun Cheng did not feel particularly uncomfortable, but when the patrol vehicle reached a fork in the road ahead, he suddenly spoke, "Drive to the left!"

After that, the patrol vehicle never returned to this spot to head to the right, but instead went straight to the end, dropping off Lin Bing, who now had a more intuitive understanding of the power he held, to rest.

There was no other reason; only Sun Cheng knew that after the Sub-base on Nublar Island was built, it was currently shouldering two tasks.

The first was to manufacture various mechanical equipment and components; most of them would eventually be transported back to Xia Country for use in the trade between him and the Xia Country government; a small portion would be stored in the Spherical Space and transported to the 【Transformers Universe】 to fill the manufacturing gap there.

Besides this, the island was also conducting a brand-new technology experiment according to Sun Cheng's requirements—Genetic Gene Technology Reshaping.

Nublar Island was formerly a dinosaur park planned by the International Genetic Technologies; this United States company possessed extremely unscientific but very advanced genetic technology, actually being able to extract dinosaur DNA from the amber of a mosquito that had happened to suck dinosaur blood hundreds of millions of years ago, and then reverse-engineer the complete gene chain.

When he first visited Nublar Island, Sun Cheng had copied the server of the International Genetic Technologies on the island, but because Nublar Island was not their true technology center, although the data stored in the island's server contained quite a bit of usable information.

This time when returning to the real world, he brought back a Pseudo-AI produced by Base No. 2 from the 【Transformers Universe】.

Currently, this Pseudo-AI, whose computing power far exceeded all the noisy ones on Earth, was used by Sun Cheng for the perfection of the data from the International Genetic Technologies server he had obtained, as well as for Genetic Gene Technology Reshaping, in addition to managing all the facilities on the island daily.

The corridor he had deliberately bypassed earlier led to a Laboratory under the management of the Smart Brain shortly after turning right.

They were using certain animals there to verify the genetic technology.