Chapter 788: A Gentleman's Revenge Does Not Wait Overnight

"As expected, you're an ungrateful wolf who can't be tamed!"

Upon learning the truth, Sun Cheng felt no great disappointment or anger in his heart.

Ever since Swindle had firmly refused to bow his head and pledge loyalty, he had vaguely harbored some suspicions.

Now, it was merely confirming his guess!

With his self-awareness forcibly erased from his core by Sun Cheng's computing power, Swindle's head had lost all ability to resist.

He carefully browsed through all of Swindle's memory data.

Although it was not complete, he had indeed obtained a significant amount of useful information.

For instance, Sun Cheng found data regarding Lockdown, as well as the method to contact him.

After a long while, having digested all the information in Swindle's head, Sun Cheng did not torture him further and directly drained the energy liquid from the incubation tank.

"You are no longer of any use!"

After losing its energy supply, Swindle's remaining head quickly lost its life fluctuations.

He notified the Central Main Control Intelligence to arrange for a Decepticon doctor to handle the subsequent matters.

Sun Cheng soon left the medical room and walked toward his own lounge.

He rested on the island for about a day, digesting the information in his head while thinking about how to detonate the bomb inside the Autobots.

One day later, Sun Cheng finally had a plan.

"Harbinger, prepare to depart!"

He summoned Harbinger, and the two of them, one after the other, leaped into the sky.

Sun Cheng took special note that after changing to a new body, Harbinger's transformation form had changed significantly from before.

Originally, his form in jet mode was an F-16 fighter jet.

But now, Harbinger had turned into an American heavy fighter jet of the same lineage as the F-16.

"An F-15? He seems to have a special preference for American fighter jets!"

With the continuous export of advanced instruments and equipment to various countries on Earth, some data-receiving terminals hidden within the equipment were also constantly spying on the core military and industrial intelligence of the user nations.

Relying on them, the Decepticon engineers at Base No. 2 had mastered the product data of some of the old military powers on Earth to a great extent in a very short time.

In terms of fighter jets, the information on the Russian Su-27 series, the French Rafale series, and the American F-15, F-16, and F-18 was the most comprehensive.

Cybertronians possess the miraculous ability to scan a certain vehicle or weapon system, then use the unique transformation gear within their bodies to turn their own bodies into the scanned object, fully mastering and even surpassing all its performance.

Among them, because the vast majority of Autobots are ordinary Cybertronians who have not undergone modification, most Autobots can only scan and transform into some kind of ordinary vehicle.

The reason the Decepticons were able to suppress the Autobots in the civil war was that the initial Decepticons had undergone modifications by the Quintessons, who once colonized the planet Cybertron, allowing them to possess the ability to scan and transform into various combat weapon systems.

Later, scientists under the Decepticon Legion, such as Shockwave and Starscream, also mastered the Quintessons' modification technology after cruelly conducting a series of dissection experiments on Decepticons.

Therefore, the Decepticons born later, although still belonging to the Cybertronians, were products that had undergone certain adjustments and modifications.

After Harbinger changed to his new body, his original F-16 transformation form was a bit too small compared to his current body, clearly unable to fully display Harbinger's current combat power.

After waking up, the base would likely provide him with a large amount of analog data based on past experience, allowing Harbinger to have more choices.

Perhaps influenced by Sun Cheng, most of the Decepticons under his command followed a path of high mobility and reconnaissance.

The rapidly developing energy weapon system at Base No. 2 gave the Decepticons under Sun Cheng's command greater firepower than ordinary Decepticons and Autobots.

There are pros and cons; because of this, many of the Decepticons under him did not value close-quarters combat ability, and even their transformation forms favored high-mobility and high-firepower aerial combat units.

Thus, a Russian-style fighter and an American-style fighter, having simultaneously activated their optical stealth systems, flew across the Atlantic and headed toward Africa.

In a certain section of the East African Rift Valley, Optimus Prime was inspecting New Iacon in the company of his girlfriend, Arcee.

More than a month had passed since the battle that took place on the Dark Side of the Moon.

The thing Ironhide and the others feared most had now happened.

In New Iacon, because the former Autobot Leader Sentinel Prime had been rescued, the atmosphere began to grow tense, and some subtle changes appeared.

"Arcee, I'm afraid I can't continue to delay this any longer!"

Optimus Prime, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke when he walked near a high-level guard post under construction that relied on a cliff of the Rift Valley.

Arcee knew that he had indeed been under considerable pressure during this period. Not long after the former leader Sentinel Prime was rescued, almost all the Autobots in New Iacon had learned about this from the Autobot warriors who had participated in the war on the dark side of the moon and survived.

And then, it was as if a pair of hands behind the scenes were manipulating everything.

The situation began to change in the direction that Ironhide and the others feared most.

It was unknown who leaked the secret, but Autobots loyal to Sentinel Prime began to gather here on Earth from across the universe.

Although the number of these die-hard supporters of Sentinel Prime was not yet very large, over the past month, twenty or thirty of Sentinel Prime's supporters had already arrived.

Being able to delay for more than a month without waking Sentinel Prime, Optimus Prime and the others had already endured tremendous pressure.

If it weren't for Ratchet, the Chief Medical Officer of the Autobots, revealing to the public that Sentinel Prime had been infected with the very troublesome Cosmic Rust, which made his fanatical supporters quiet down a little, I fear the voices questioning Optimus Prime would have been even louder.

Even so, in New Iacon now, rumors that Optimus Prime was worried that Sentinel Prime's return would take away his position as leader had begun to spread gradually.

The base traits known as arrogance, jealousy, and greed are not possessed only by humans; this is a hurdle that the vast majority of civilizations cannot overcome.

Although Optimus Prime also felt some traces of artificial manipulation from these suddenly erupting rumors.

But after more than a month of investigation, they had not found any signs of Decepticons meddling behind the scenes.

Therefore, Optimus Prime was now facing a choice.

Should he wake Sentinel Prime?

Arcee frowned, knowing his current pressure, and also analyzed it seriously with the wisdom and rationality unique to female Autobots.

"Optimus Prime, I think we still need to wait a little longer... Although we still can't find more information, this wave of rumors that suddenly erupted in New Iacon recently is too strange. We suspect there might be spies..."

The Decepticons and Autobots have fought for millions of years, and the number of Autobots and Decepticons who have lured each other to defect is countless; no one can guarantee that all Autobots in New Iacon now are absolutely reliable.