Chapter 770: The Clouds of War

The Pioneer has already returned to Base No. 2 to prepare for a change into a new body.

Sun Cheng stayed on Trindade Island for the time being, handling some trivial matters that he had not been distracted by for a long time.

The clouds of war permeating Earth have never been as thick as they are now.

He has this sentiment not only because the war that took place on the Dark Side of the Moon a few days ago allowed Sun Cheng to see the military power that the Decepticon had hidden in the shadows.

The profound foundation displayed by the Autobot due to the arrival of the Aerialbots also caused the memories of the cruel civil war on Cybertron in Frenzy's mind to begin to revive.

Moreover, on Earth today, even the conflicts between human nations are intensifying day by day.

As the only superpower on Earth after the end of the US-Soviet hegemony, the United States stands alone.

For more than half a century, the United States has not bothered to hide behind the world at all.

Using the CIA and its powerful military forces that traverse the four seas as weapons, the United States has frequently interfered in the internal affairs of other countries in regions such as North and South Europe, the Middle East, the Far East, Africa, and Central and South America, supporting anti-government armed forces and even terrorist organizations.

If you walk by the river often, how can you not get your shoes wet? The United States has now trapped itself.

In late September of this year, the West Asian country of Georgia launched a military operation against South Ossetia, an autonomous state within its borders seeking secession, and quickly captured its capital.

Moscow subsequently announced the dispatch of troops to South Ossetia in the name of protecting its own citizens, launching a lightning-fast battle against the Georgian Army.

In just two short days, the Russian Army resolved all Georgian forces within South Ossetia and unilaterally announced the cessation of military operations.

Subsequently, the Georgian Army, having regained its senses, began to regroup, and military friction between Russia and Georgia continued for half a month around South Ossetia.

Russian media once revealed that a large number of military experts, mercenaries, and even active-duty soldiers with NATO backgrounds participated in this war in the name of the Georgian Army.

NATO was clearly unaware that a Decepticon with the soul of an Earthling from another world had reached a cooperation with Moscow as early as a year ago, and had continued to transfer massive amounts of advanced equipment and technology to them over the past year or more.

During the South Ossetian War, the Russian Army displayed terrifying combat effectiveness; the conflict, which lasted more than half a month, not only caused Georgia to suffer more than 12,000 casualties and prisoners, but also resulted in the destruction of over a hundred pieces of artillery, tanks, and aircraft.

What shocked the whole world the most was a major piece of news exposed by Russian media: the total number of NATO soldiers and mercenaries who participated in the South Ossetian conflict in the name of the Georgian Army and were killed or captured by the Russian Army was over six hundred.

After the news was exposed, although various NATO countries flatly denied it, diplomats from several Western European countries were found to have suddenly visited Moscow over the past two or three months, and NATO even densely held three highly targeted military exercises in Northern Europe, the North Atlantic region, and the Mediterranean Sea.

Unfortunately, these military exercises also exposed the current weakness of the United States.

During the exercises, although the US military dispatched an amphibious assault ship, several Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, and a Ticonderoga-class cruiser, it is said that three nuclear submarines also participated in the exercises.

However, the US Navy aircraft carriers, which were once proudly called "the aircraft carrier is the United States" by American politicians, did not appear in any of the exercises.

The United States, which claims to be equipped with ten carrier strike groups simultaneously, is currently in the most weakened period of its navy after losing three aircraft carriers from the Second and Fifth Fleets.

It is true that they still have seven aircraft carriers, but among the remaining seven, four are undergoing modernization, and two just finished deployment at the beginning of the year, returning to port for rest and phased upgrades.

The US Navy currently has only one aircraft carrier that has just been rearmed and repainted, and is currently deployed at home to hold the fort.

Once the weakness of this country, which fancies itself the world's policeman, was torn open by the Polar Bear, those countries and forces that had been harmed by the United States for decades immediately began to become restless.

The Middle East has been the region that has attracted the most global attention recently, besides the North Caucasus and Brazil.

The Base forces in Afghanistan are expanding rapidly again, and a certain IS that split from the Base is also gradually gaining some notoriety.

Pirates in Somalia are frequently attacking in the Red Sea and the Western Indian Ocean, and even some countries along the coast of North Africa and the Caribbean Sea have recently begun to see anti-American protests.

Looking around the world, a large dark cloud is gradually taking shape.

The smell of the smoke of war seems to be getting thicker and thicker in the air.

Sun Cheng is very clear about his awkward status; having betrayed the Decepticon Legion and not being an Autobot or from Earth, he is also stepping up his war preparations, worried that he might become a target of public criticism once a full-scale war breaks out.

Although he is based on Trindade Island, he has left many contingencies at Base No. 2, so even being thousands of miles away does not affect his control over that side, though the reaction will be slightly slower.

Base No. 2 has not been slow in its war preparations over the past few months.

Among the team of engineers under Sun Cheng, led by Atlas, three Decepticon engineers have successfully promoted to Decepticon Senior Engineer.

After promoting to Decepticon Senior Engineer, they have acquired combat capabilities slightly inferior to an Advanced Warrior.

Moreover, because the Core, Spark, and body have been targeted for a series of optimizations, the improvements of the Decepticon Senior Engineer in scientific research and manufacturing are incomparable to the past.

The batch of Decepticon engineers who initially followed Sun Cheng will all be promoted to Decepticon Senior Engineer, but there will be a sequence in time; after all, Base No. 2 has arranged too many tasks, and currently relying solely on South America, which they have not yet fully mastered, is still a bit strenuous.

And since he designed the brand-new promotion system, Base No. 2 has cumulatively had twenty-three Workers promoted directly to Engineer, over one hundred and ten promoted to Technical Officer, and twelve promoted to doctor.

The number of Ordinary Warriors promoted from Workers has accumulated to over two hundred and seventy; the number of spies has also reached more than fifty.

Thanks to obtaining a lot of precious technology from Scalpel, the cultivation of Workers, which previously held the throat of Base No. 2's development, is finally no longer a gamble.

The success rate of the Decepticon engineers under Sun Cheng in cultivating new-generation Workers has gradually increased from the original less than one-third to over eighty percent.

This nearly two-fold increase allows the cultivation center of Base No. 2 to produce dozens of Workers almost every week.

In order to form an army as quickly as possible, Sun Cheng abandoned the method commonly used by Starscream and the Decepticon Legion to directly cultivate soldiers.

Base No. 2 began to cultivate lower-level Workers in large batches, and then, after a period of training, carried out targeted upgrades on them.

Applying this method, although it wastes more resources, reduces the time consumed by more than half compared to directly cultivating a soldier.

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