Chapter 742: On the Island

"I took you around the island this afternoon, just to help you relax! 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 has always been rare to possess both virtue and talent, and even rarer to find someone who is both talented and beautiful.

Heaven was not fair when it first created life; taking humans as an example, there are the beautiful and the ugly, the tall and the short, the fat and the thin.

Yet, Heaven is also fair, because in the great melting pot known as society, innate flaws more often become the driving force for self-improvement.

Many women who possess stunning beauty lack suitors from a young age, so it is difficult for them not to be influenced; while they can still focus their attention on their studies, the vast majority of them eventually embark on a path of corruption due to precociousness 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 an appearance deviation score below the passing grade of 60 invest on average over 8.37 more hours per week in their studies than women with a deviation score above 80.

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

Therefore, a woman like Lin Bing, who possesses appearance, talent, and ability all at once, is considered quite rare.

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

Lin Bing looked at him quietly for a moment, then 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, would it?"

The corners of Sun Cheng's mouth curved upward; he did not answer, but this could be considered a tacit acknowledgment of this clever woman's guess.

Over the past month, Lin Bing had already learned many of his secrets; it would indeed be 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 my fate."

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

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

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 in the second half of last year as 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 even detected personnel from a security system protecting Ye Qi's parents around his old home.

People always gain and lose something as they move forward; he had long since grown accustomed 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 bus slowly driving toward them without anyone at the controls.

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

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

"Get on!"

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

"Defender, first have the patrol vehicle take us for a tour around this 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 moved, Sun Cheng introduced the distribution of the bases on the island to Lin Bing. With the Hope experimental spacecraft, he no longer intended to store the small spacecraft he had previously obtained from the Hunter Civilization—which was used to transport Predator soldiers—inside the Spherical Space, but rather keep it on Earth to facilitate travel between the Xia Country and the Base No. 3 thousands of miles away.

As one of the future capable assistants he valued most, Sun Cheng was indeed considering whether to grant her more authorization.

For example, allowing her to use the spacecraft to travel between the 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 circular underground tunnels that could serve dual purposes.

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!"

Afterward, the patrol vehicle did not return to this point to head to the right, but instead finished its route directly, sending Lin Bing—who now had a more intuitive understanding of the power he held—off 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 which would eventually be shipped back to the Xia Country for use in the trades 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 gaps there.

Besides this, the island was also conducting a brand-new technical experiment at Sun Cheng's request—Genetic Gene Technology Reshaping.

Nublar Island was previously a dinosaur park planned by the International Genetic Technologies company. This American company possessed extremely unscientific yet highly 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 servers of the International Genetic Technologies company on the island, but because Nublar Island was not their true technical center, although the data stored on the island's servers contained quite a bit of usable information.

This time when he returned 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 being used by Sun Cheng for the refinement of the data from the International Genetic Technologies company's servers he had obtained earlier, as well as for Genetic Gene Technology Reshaping, in addition to managing all the facilities on the island on a daily basis.

The corridor he had deliberately bypassed earlier, not long after turning right, led to a Laboratory operated by the Smart Brain.

It was currently using certain animals to verify the genetic technology.

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