Chapter 793: The Secret of Swindle

With one more Elite Warrior finally added to his subordinates, Sun Cheng felt the pressure on his shoulders lighten somewhat.

As the number of Advanced Warriors and Elite Warriors under his command continued to grow, there was no longer a need to keep so many Low-level Warriors stationed at Base No. 2.

In other words, many of the Low-level Warriors under Sun Cheng could be liberated and begin rotating.

From the moment he entered the medical room, Tianwo saw Swindle's head inside the incubation pod.

He was aware that Sun Cheng had always wanted to win Swindle over, while Swindle had remained indecisive.

It seemed that Swindle had finally exhausted his master's patience.

Sun Cheng noticed his gaze and said in a very flat tone, "I already gave him a chance. Previously, Thunder reported to me that during his time at Base No. 2, he had sent remote communications to someone!"

After the Black Market was attacked, recalling Swindle's previous behavior, Sun Cheng couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

If the specific coordinates of Base No. 2 were exposed, even though its air defense forces were no less than those on Trindade Island...

... air defense forces were not omnipotent. If a group of Clone Warriors actually succeeded in landing and he wasn't at Base No. 2, the losses would be inevitable, and they would only be greater than those here at the Black Market, not fewer.

This was the final straw that broke the camel's back, and it was for this reason that Sun Cheng decided to take action against Swindle, completely eradicating this bomb that could be detonated at any time.

Swindle was not one of his old subordinates; he was completely different from Thunder and the others, as he was someone he had poached from Starscream.

Therefore, Tianwo felt no sadness over the death of a fellow creature. He nodded and found an excuse to prepare to leave.

"Master, I have been away from the island for some time. I happened to be changing my body when the Clone Warriors attacked a while ago, so I am not very clear about the current defense situation on the island. I am just about to go take a look!"

Sun Cheng did not expose him. "Go ahead, and be prepared at all times. In a few days, I plan to go to New Iacon again, and this time you will come with me!"

"Yes!"

After Tianwo left, only Sun Cheng and the half-dead Swindle remained in the medical room.

Looking at the head that had been removed by his doctors and was now only kept alive by the Energy Liquid in the incubation pod, his face showed neither joy nor sorrow.

"Let me see what kind of tricks you've been playing behind my back!"

He muttered, then walked to the incubation pod and pressed his hand against it.

The next moment, dozens of metal probes pierced into the incubation pod, directly linking to Swindle's head.

Soon, a strange blue light began to emerge in Sun Cheng's eyes, and various ancient Cybertronian characters flickered continuously within his pupils as segments of Memory Data and information surged into his mind.

The memories of Swindle before and after his Awakening were being read continuously.

This brazen act of prying into his most secret Memory Data soon alarmed the dormant Swindle; under the immense threat, his Core forcibly awakened him from his dormant state.

"... Stop, Frenzy, what are you doing..."

Swindle, whose consciousness was gradually clearing, soon realized what was happening to him.

Unfortunately, when he tried to control his body to fight back, he quickly discovered that his body was gone.

"Only realizing it now? Too late!"

Through the transparent glass cover of the incubation pod, no emotional fluctuations could be seen on Sun Cheng's face.

Even after Swindle woke up, forcibly prying into Swindle's Memory Data was not difficult for him at all.

This was a contest of Core computing power, defensive capabilities, and decryption skills; clearly, Swindle was inferior to him in all these aspects.

Under Sun Cheng's terrifying computing power, which far exceeded Swindle's by a thousandfold, the defenses and false memory banks that the other party had struggled to construct within his Core were quickly wiped clean.

He even used his own computing power to gradually take over his sensory organs. In the end, Swindle couldn't even make a sound and could only use his final bit of computing power to send out messages directly, begging for mercy.

"Spare me, Frenzy... no, Master... I promise to offer you absolute loyalty... no... Master, please give me one more chance!"

Unfortunately, Sun Cheng was not moved in the slightest by his pleas for mercy.

In his words, why only think about pledging loyalty to him now?

He had previously given Swindle ample time and trust, even going so far as to have his Decepticon Engineers design a set of Elite Warrior-level New Body for Swindle.

Too late!

Without hesitation, he forcibly destroyed all of Swindle's resistance, wiped his consciousness, and then began to quickly read Swindle's memory information.

As segments of Memory Data were continuously read, he gained a much better understanding of Swindle.

Swindle's memories were not complete. Clearly, although this unlucky fellow who had once been tricked by Starscream into rebelling against Megatron had saved his life due to Megatron's orders...

... after having his memories wiped and his personality reshaped, Swindle had been serving the Decepticon Legion under the name of Scrapper.

In the process, even Swindle himself did not know how many times he had died.

Because his Memory Data had been wiped, Swindle's ability to awaken his past-life memories this time was purely a coincidence among coincidences.

The memories of his past life in his mind were incomplete; only the bone-deep hatred and fear of Starscream and Megatron were the clearest. Everything else was scattered and difficult to connect.

There was one thing Sun Cheng had indeed misunderstood about him: this former Decepticon arms expert had indeed forgotten many memories related to powerful weapons and equipment from the Cybertronian Elder Council era.

But he felt no guilt at all, because Sun Cheng's guess was not wrong either.

This guy had indeed been playing small tricks behind his back; using the excuse of manufacturing weapons for Base No. 2 to take the opportunity to ask for more materials was just a daily routine.

Swindle had actually been diligently collecting intelligence on Base No. 2, as well as inquiring about the whereabouts of his former superior—Onslaught, and the elder Decepticon—Jetfire.

During Sun Cheng's trip to Mars, Swindle took the initiative to contact Lockdown.

He deceived Sun Cheng and everyone else; when this guy first contacted Lockdown, he did not send an invitation to the other party according to his requirements.

Swindle deliberately omitted many things; the relationship between him and Lockdown was not that of friends or anything else, but merely strangers who had collaborated a few times in the past, nothing more.

The arms expert and Bounty Hunter—Lockdown had no friends; he only accepted employment contracts.

Sun Cheng's previous threats had made Swindle hate him as well.

So he issued an employment contract to Lockdown, hiring the most powerful Bounty Hunter among the Wanderers to come to Earth.

And there were four targets for the hunt in the contract: Megatron, Starscream, Soundwave, and Sun Cheng.

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