Chapter 838: The Season of Harvest

"The Decepticons have been getting more and more active lately!"

After encountering Decepticons for the fifth time within South America, Sun Cheng looked at the several corpses of replicated warriors that had been transported in; even though his mastery of his new body had progressed rapidly of late, he could not help but feel agitated.

This was already the fifth time this month that Decepticons had been discovered within South America, and the satellites launched by Base No. 2, along with the monitoring stations established in various places, could not guarantee coverage of the entire territory of South America.

Therefore, there were certainly still undiscovered Decepticons, and this was not a good sign.

"Commander, do you need us to increase the number of patrol personnel?"

Leiting had just returned from Zhiguo, and this batch of Decepticon corpses sent back was resolved by the team he led.

Not long ago, Decepticon activity was suddenly discovered within the territory of Zhiguo, which was controlled by Base No. 2.

Because the number of discovered Decepticons was somewhat large, it exceeded the scope of what Mola and the others could handle.

Consequently, after the intelligence was transmitted back here to Base No. 2, Leiting immediately took a team of Decepticon Warriors over there.

After a fierce battle, not one of the seven discovered replicated warriors escaped; five of them died in the battle, and two were injured and captured, and had already been sent away to be imprisoned.

Their future fate was to become test subjects for the Triple Changer experiments, but considering the immature technology that Sun Cheng's Decepticon Engineers had only just begun to grasp, it was basically impossible for them to survive.

However, being able to provide some valuable data for the experiments before death, he believed their short lives were also worth it.

Sun Cheng thought seriously for a moment, then quickly shook his head and rejected it.

"Our development has temporarily reached a bottleneck; it is difficult to spare that many personnel to manage the entirety of South America like an iron bucket!"

He was right; having passed through a high-speed development period lasting more than half a year, Base No. 2, now located on Earth, had entered a bottleneck period.

Although the various supplies produced by the base and the Decepticon Warriors being cultivated were still increasing, the growth rate had dropped significantly compared to the past half year, and the current average monthly growth rate had plummeted to less than 10%.

There was no helping it, after all, the resources of South America were limited.

Although Sun Cheng still held the Black Market on Trindade Island in his hands, in order not to let too many advanced machines flow into the market all at once and satisfy the human countries with demand in a short time, thereby driving down the price of the goods.

Therefore, the Black Market had always been limiting the quantity of shipments, and at the same time, the precious metals exchanged for the goods sold there were basically all invested in the construction of the Explorer-class Cargo Spaceship.

In a sense, that Base No. 2 could maintain rapid growth for over half a year was something even Sun Cheng felt was incredible now.

Of course, there was no lack of supplies from the real world behind this.

Over the past half year, Sun Cheng had taken the time to return to the real world four times and transported a large batch of supplies from the real world.

However, compared to over half a year ago, the projects and scientific research that his subordinates now needed to support simultaneously had also increased quite a bit.

Various projects all required resources, which was also the reason Sun Cheng rejected Leiting's request to send more personnel for patrols.

South America was too big, even if Base No. 2 had started to grow explosively over the last half year.

As of now, the total number of Decepticons under Sun Cheng's command did not exceed ten thousand, and more than half of them were still the lowest-level Workers in training.

Facing the lowest-level replicated warriors of the Decepticon Legion, the result was not much different from serving themselves up on a platter.

Rather than using the lives of the Workers to plug loopholes, Sun Cheng was more willing to let them finish their training as quickly as possible and promote to the next stage.

Of course, South America was, after all, the private territory he had chosen for himself, and he could not let the Decepticons come and go as they pleased in South America.

After thinking for a moment, Sun Cheng finally had some resolution.

"Our strength is currently not enough to fight a full-scale war with the Decepticon Legion, and the Autobots are still on Earth; we don't need to be too jumpy and attract the full attention of the Decepticon Legion!"

"The most urgent task is to contract our lines first... Leiting, you make the arrangements; apart from the few South American countries currently controlled by Base No. 2, temporarily stop further expansion!"

"I will order the Engineers to step up the production of a batch of detection satellites and ground monitoring stations to expand the range and accuracy of detecting Decepticons as much as possible!"

"Oh, right. From the Advanced Warriors we already have, select a dozen or so to establish a rapid response force! When the base detects a large-scale attack by Decepticon replicated warriors, use an Armed Transport Ship to quickly deploy them to the destination!"

Leiting listened carefully on the side; his current state was very similar to that of the Pioneer from over half a year ago.

The Decepticons were not, as the Autobots described, all lunatics with only the desire for destruction and ruin in their heads, although what they said was not exactly wrong either.

However, the information Sun Cheng had understood and mastered through his own contact with Decepticons over the past two years undoubtedly showed that Decepticons had a nature very similar to humans.

They also pursued progress, also revered heroes and military exploits, and would also imitate and learn knowledge and behaviors they believed would be helpful to them.

And one of the main reasons humans were distinguished from other animals was that they were good at learning and constantly summarizing experience from it until it accumulated to form wisdom.

Clearly, having received Sun Cheng's key cultivation, Leiting, like the Pioneer, had now begun to take the initiative to learn from the best reference targets around him.

This former Decepticon vanguard general now had rapidly progressing wisdom and strategy, and could already independently think about some tactics and matters related to leading and commanding teams.

If this were back when he was Blackout, he probably wouldn't have dared to imagine it himself.

After giving the orders, Leiting left quickly.

Sun Cheng did not put any more energy into this either; under the management of the Pioneer, Trindade Island, if not exactly flourishing, had at least developed to the limit that the island of only a dozen square kilometers could reach.

With the Pioneer at the Black Market, he felt relatively at ease and had been managing Base No. 2 with all his might for the past few months.

In the blink of an eye, it was almost a year since his battle with The Fallen.

Even the first black president in the history of the United States had already been in the White House for over half a year; the constant passage of time also meant that the harvest was about to arrive.

That was exactly how it was for Sun Cheng and the forces under his command!

After more than half a year of construction, the construction of the Explorer-class Cargo Spaceship Yinhao had been completed and was undergoing sectional assembly, followed by outfitting.

This construction process was generally similar to the construction of aircraft carriers of tens of thousands to over a hundred thousand tons by various human countries.

However, because of the existence of Decepticon Workers, Technical Officers, and Engineers, the most difficult process of the cargo spaceship—construction, sectional assembly, and outfitting—could all be completed in at most two or three months.

By then, after testing for a short period, a medium-sized cargo spaceship capable of transporting hundreds of thousands of tons of cargo could be officially put into use.

This could be considered the most anticipated bumper harvest for Sun Cheng and his team in the coming months.

However, it was not just this one fruit that Base No. 2 was about to harvest.

With the passage of time, several projects had also reached the season of harvest.

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