Chapter 828: Regret and Rebirth (Part 1)

Two fragments would, in all likelihood, cause some sort of positive reaction in his new body; this was the experience Sun Cheng and the others had summarized after continuously using AllSpark Fragments over the past two-plus years.

However, Sun Cheng, who suffered from a severe lack of a sense of security, looked at the powerful new body before him—which already exceeded the requirements he had initially proposed—and still felt that something was missing.

Yes!

"If only I could have waited until the Triple Changer technology matured, so it could also be applied to this new body of mine!"

The Triple Changer is a type of powerful modified warrior created by the Decepticon Legion's premier scientist, Shockwave.

For a very long time, Triple Changers were regarded by both Decepticons and Autobots as the strongest individual combat power below the Leader Class.

It is actually not strange to have this perception, because there are quite a few silicon-based life forms similar to Cybertronians in the universe, and the Quintessons, who once colonized Cybertron, were also silicon-based life forms.

It is just that, even among silicon-based life forms, Cybertronians belong to the most special kind.

Because they are born with the magical ability to scan certain tools or objects and fully master or even surpass them.

However, for the vast majority of Cybertronians, whether they are Autobots or Decepticons, they can only possess one transformation ability throughout their entire lives.

To transform into another, it requires great courage and determination to forget the previous transformation mode.

Therefore, for a long time, scientists from both the Autobots and Decepticons listed how to possess more transformation modes as a research topic.

And the one who first achieved results was none other than Shockwave.

Having recently fully absorbed the Memory Data of another former giant of the Decepticon Legion, Intelligence Chief Soundwave, Sun Cheng no longer treats the great scientist Shockwave with the attitude of looking at a deity.

In Soundwave's Memory Data, he learned more about the unknown secrets within the Decepticon Legion.

For example, during the millions of years of civil war, Shockwave, who successively created a series of powerful warriors such as giant Gestalts, Clone Warriors, and Triple Changers, had many of his researches and inventions actually influenced by the Quintessa Civilization that once colonized Cybertron.

The rulers of the Quintessa Civilization, the Quintessons, are a type of silicon-based life form essentially very similar to Cybertronians; they also possess metal-like bodies, yet they took another extreme on the path of evolution.

The Quintessons revere intelligence; just like the Decepticon Legion, they established a strict hierarchical system to facilitate their enslavement and control of ordinary Quintessons.

To prevent the loss of power for their ruling class, the Quintessons actively engaged in various insane scientific research; all kinds of cruel body modification experiments, cloning technology, and even breeding life were just daily routines for them.

The initial Decepticons were almost all born during the period when the Quintessons colonized Cybertron, in those laboratories established by the Quintessons on the planet Cybertron.

In the subsequent War of Independence, although the Cybertronians drove away the Quintessons and destroyed quite a few of the evil laboratories established by the Quintessons.

It is just a pity that one of the original sins conceived at the birth of life is precisely something called greed.

A large number of laboratories established by the Quintessons on the planet Cybertron, and even on some nearby colonial planets, were still preserved, and later, quite a few fell into the hands of evil scientists of the Decepticon Legion like Shockwave and Starscream.

The technological prototype of the Triple Changer also originated from the evil experiments of the Quintessons.

Soundwave's Memory Data shows that when the Decepticon Legion's Workers were excavating a certain abandoned, barren mine, they found a breeding center from the Quintesson era deep within the mine.

It is said that the breeding center contained many experimental data preserved by the Quintessons, including precious research data left behind after they discovered the magical transformation ability possessed by Cybertronians and conducted targeted research after capturing them in large numbers.

These precious data clearly gave Shockwave sufficient inspiration.

He finally determined that what allows Cybertronians to possess transformation abilities is precisely an inconspicuous structure within their bodies called a Gear.

Ultimately, Triple Changers, who possess at least two or more transformation abilities and have combat power stronger than ordinary Decepticons, were born as a result.

In a sense, although Shockwave is not a deity, he feels he is worthy of the name of a great scientist.

Sun Cheng is also very eager for Triple Changers, even though his new body already applied a massive amount of new technology during its manufacture, and he also copied quite a bit from the bodies of veteran Decepticons like Astrotrain and Jetfire.

However, if he could possess multiple transformation modes simultaneously, the improvement to his strength would undoubtedly be enormous.

The joyful expression on his face faded involuntarily, and Sun Cheng quickly suppressed some of the regrets in his heart.

To this day, Triple Changer technology remains an out-and-out black technology.

Even within the Decepticon Legion and the Autobot faction, the number of scientists who have mastered it does not exceed the count of one hand.

Although Sun Cheng accidentally finished off Astrotrain while hunting Soundwave previously.

However, his team of Decepticon Engineers did not have very smooth progress in the reverse analysis of Triple Changer-related technology through studying Astrotrain's remains.

By the time Sun Cheng's new body was manufactured, they had only just grasped some of the methods, and there was still a long way to go before true success.

"Pity that time waits for no one!"

The Decepticons have started to become active on Earth again recently, and even the Autobots have begun to be active again, changing their previous stance of staying safely in Africa and keeping their heads down to develop.

Combined with the intelligence he received not long ago, Shockwave's advance force has already arrived at the Moon.

Sun Cheng has a very ominous feeling that the peaceful time that has lasted for more than half a year is perhaps about to end.

Because of the anxiety brought about by this unease, after he completed the trade of Matrix of Leadership energy with Optimus Prime, he has been staying at Base No. 2 to personally supervise the progress of various plans.

The manufacture of his own new body was also, as a matter of course, prioritized at the top of the plan by Sun Cheng, with other tasks terminated.

Thanks to this, his new body was finally completed about two months earlier than expected.

At the thought that he would soon possess a powerful new body comparable to a Leader Class, the smile on Sun Cheng's face grew a bit richer.

He praised Atlas and the other Senior Engineers accompanying him on the side with satisfaction: "Not bad, you all did very well!"

After changing into the new body, some plans within Base No. 2 that were originally suppressed by Sun Cheng—which could quickly increase his side's strength but were forced to be shelved because he previously worried that his own strength was insufficient to suppress them—could also be laid out one by one.

For example, using Astrotrain's still relatively intact remains to breed a top-tier Elite Warrior in the shortest possible time.

Or, for example, using an AllSpark Fragment to awaken the ancient Pathfinder—Jetfire.

Or even dispatching an exploration team to go outside the Solar System to find a star that meets the conversion conditions, and start building a Stellar Extraction Tower on a nearby planet to create an AllSpark using the Soul-Reaping Gun.

Just as he was happily unable to stop himself from thinking a bit more, at this moment, Sun Cheng's body shuddered slightly, and a communication from Trindade Island sent by Pathfinder made the smile on his face disappear instantly.

"The second time... Thundercracker, Dirge, has a portion of the Decepticon air force main force already arrived..."

Pathfinder and the others do not know Thundercracker and Dirge, but Sun Cheng knows the data of these two Decepticons who led a team to invade Trindade Island again.

Like Starscream, they were both initially air force generals of the Decepticon Legion.

Later, because Starscream betrayed them repeatedly, he was relieved of his military post by Megatron.

Subsequently, Thundercracker and Dirge rose to prominence one after another; the Decepticon Legion relied no less on its powerful air force to conduct asymmetric strikes against the Autobots during the civil war.

At the thought that at least a portion of the Decepticon Legion's air force main force had already arrived in the Solar System, the restlessness that Sun Cheng had just slightly suppressed in his heart suddenly flared up again.

Looking at the giant standing before him, he struggled to calm the restlessness and unease in his heart, then turned to look at Thunder and Atlas and the others on the side.

"Go prepare; I will accept the new body replacement immediately!"

"Thunder, during the time I am changing into my New Body, the safety of the Base and myself is all entrusted to you!"

"Yes, Commander!"