Chapter 854: Total War 8

A brand-new military meeting was convened within the military command center inside New Iacon.

Optimus Prime and the others watched together as a satellite launched by their side captured a war between the Decepticons and humans over in Newfoundland.

"The commander of the Decepticons invading Earth this time should be Blitzwing... Currently, the satellite has captured a total of 97 Decepticons, the vast majority of whom are clone warriors!"

In the center of the military command headquarters, a spherical projection device was projecting the situation on the front lines captured by the satellite.

Because they noticed the conflict that had erupted between the Decepticons and the United States military there, nearly a day had passed since the Decepticons descended upon Severn Town.

Therefore, the Autobots had missed many things; at this moment, the Severn Town captured by the satellite was shockingly receiving an overwhelming rain of missiles and artillery fire.

"Why would the Decepticons suddenly engage in a firefight with humans in such a place? I remember that area should belong to the Arctic Circle, the region with the harshest environment on Earth; there shouldn't be many humans living there, right?"

Sentinel Prime was also in the military command headquarters. As the former Leader of the Autobots, even though he had not accepted the position of Leader again, nor did he continue to hold any concurrent posts in New Iacon.

However, the majesty of the former Leader and Prime still made it impossible for all Autobots to ignore his presence.

Optimus Prime looked at this increasingly unfamiliar former teacher who had come uninvited and remained composed, and replied calmly: "Bumblebee was originally in the North American region. After receiving the news, I ordered him to investigate this matter. According to the intelligence he gathered, it is said that humans discovered some kind of special metal ore there!"

Ironhide stroked a scar on his head that had not yet fully healed, "What kind of special metal ore could there be on Earth? And one that the Decepticons have set their sights on? Could it be uranium ore?"

Not long ago, a squad of Decepticons appeared abruptly within Africa, once coming very close to within a hundred miles of New Iacon.

Clearly, they had found a security loophole that had been overlooked by the Autobots. For this reason, Ironhide personally took several Autobot warriors to rush over and eliminated those seven Decepticon clone warriors who had invaded.

In order to ask from the mouths of that squad of Decepticons how they bypassed the perimeter security of New Iacon, Ironhide had left two survivors at the time.

As a result, during the interrogation, one Decepticon clone warrior suddenly lashed out and launched an attack on him.

Due to a moment of negligence, Ironhide had a wound left on his head by the opponent.

Fortunately, the injury was not serious. He did not go to Ratchet for treatment; over the past few days, relying on his body's self-repair capabilities, it was already about to fully heal.

"Uranium ore has no attraction for the Decepticons!"

Wheeljack replied to Ironhide with some impatience. He had also been invited to attend this military meeting because Wheeljack was not only a well-known scholar and great Scientist in the Autobot faction, but also a Warrior.

However, Wheeljack hated war, as well as everything related to war.

Compared to the military command headquarters, he would rather stay in his own laboratory, inventing and creating more new gadgets.

Recently, he had a good idea. When the Autobots were mining in Africa, they inadvertently discovered some relatively complete fossils of ancient Earth creatures.

This batch of fossils was sent to Wheeljack for testing because they were simply too huge.

And after studying those ancient biological fossils that Earthlings called 'dinosaurs' for a period of time, Wheeljack suddenly came up with a bold idea.

He wanted to imitate the dinosaurs on Earth, combine the technology of the Cybertronians, and the data he had obtained from studying another dangerous creature on the planet Cybertron in the past—the Predacons—to cultivate some powerful indigenous Earth warriors.

Clearly, once Wheeljack's idea was exposed, it would inevitably arouse the opposition and hostility of many conservative Autobots.

However, Scientists are sometimes just such a group of stubborn people. Recently, he had devoted almost all his energy to this research project, temporarily named 'Dinobots'.

Because of this, Wheeljack, who had been called out of the laboratory, was now acting so irritable.

Of course, Wheeljack also knew the reason he had been called over.

Currently, in New Iacon on Earth, there were not many professional scientific research personnel and technical personnel, so whenever a problem related to technology was encountered, he ultimately needed to help solve it and cover the bottom line.

Seeing that many Autobots who did not have much grasp of knowledge were looking at him, Wheeljack could only explain in more detail.

"Although uranium ore can be used to generate electricity and can also be used to manufacture nuclear weapons, the Moon, which is currently occupied by the Decepticons, has a superior energy source—Helium-3. And nuclear weapons are indeed an excellent weapon created by Earthlings, but their threat to us Cybertronians is far less than it is to the Earthlings themselves."

"The Decepticons have Energy Weapons, they have Electromagnetic Pulse Weapons, they have Temperature Weapons... It is simpler for them to manufacture these weapons than to manufacture nuclear weapons. I don't think the Decepticons would set their sights on the uranium ore on Earth!"

The conference room suddenly fell into silence, and it was only after a long while that Optimus Prime restarted the conversation and continued the discussion.

And the issue the Autobots were discussing had changed from why the Decepticons wanted to attack the United States military to whether they should take action to strike the Decepticons.

Unfortunately, the two Autobot Leaders seemed to have differing opinions again.

Optimus Prime was a firm interventionist. He no longer trusted the various human nations on Earth, but he also deeply remembered that he and the Autobots were outsiders, and therefore was unwilling to sit idly by and watch the tyrannical acts of the Decepticons lead to a large number of humans dying at their hands.

And this time, the former Leader—Sentinel Prime, who had always shown great hostility toward the Decepticons, put forward the opposite opinion.

"Optimus Prime, I believe we do not need to intervene in this conflict between the Decepticons and humans for the time being!"

Seeming to notice that the gazes of all the Autobots in the conference room had fallen upon him, Sentinel Prime said unhurriedly: "It is not that I have changed my attitude toward the Decepticons; on the contrary, I have never forgotten the crimes they committed against our home planet—Cybertron, and against us Autobots."

"However, although the Decepticons are detestable, Earthlings are not kind either. I learned that not long before I woke up, the remains of some of our Autobot warriors were snatched away by that human nation called the United States after they died in battle, and they even attempted to dissect them for evil research, hoping to know our secrets and even manufacture weapons that could harm us."

"So Optimus Prime, put away that bit of sympathy you have for humans in your heart. They are not reliable, and they still harbor very deep hostility toward us."

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