Chapter 877: Poisonous Weed

The world of adults is just this filthy.

At the beginning of his transmigration into the Transformers universe, Onslaught did indeed provide Sun Cheng with some shelter, to a certain extent sparing him from the clutches of Starscream.

For the two years that followed, he even brandished Onslaught's banner to bluff and swindle everywhere.

But success is due to Onslaught, and failure is also due to Onslaught.

Although the vast force Sun Cheng possesses now was built from scratch by him, utilizing resources from two worlds, plus various conspiracies and profiteering, it took less than three years to establish.

But there is one point he cannot deny, which is that the foundation upon which his current force was able to develop and grow was the twenty-plus Decepticon Workers that Sun Cheng originally traded for with Jazz's Memory Chip from Onslaught.

"... It would be best if you don't appear before me, otherwise, don't blame me!"

Thinking of this, the killing intent in Sun Cheng's heart began to boil.

His power base was built upon that batch of Decepticons he originally traded for with Onslaught, even though all the resources for developing and expanding his force over the past few years were obtained by Sun Cheng himself, bit by bit.

However, in order to suppress rebellion back then, and also to wave a big banner, he pushed Onslaught to the forefront, letting him serve as the nominal supreme Leader of the Base for a long time.

Although Onslaught has not appeared at all in the past few years.

But because of Sun Cheng's own past propaganda, he still holds considerable prestige within his own forces.

Having dealt with Decepticons quite a bit over the past few years, Sun Cheng is long past the point of naively thinking he can be friends with Decepticons.

Either submit to power, or be enslaved by power.

This is the Decepticons, a regime of power established by Megatron.

Although Sun Cheng has also realized his early mistakes and has been continuously weakening Onslaught's influence within his forces for over half a year.

Especially in the last few months, with the appearance of more and more Elite Warriors under his command, the name Onslaught has completely disappeared from his propaganda.

If he were given another year or two, Sun Cheng is confident he could pull out this poisonous weed he planted with his own hands within his forces by the roots.

But as for now, time is still too tight.

With only about half a year or so, presumably many Decepticons still remember Onslaught.

Even if the Decepticons under Sun Cheng are smart enough, the Decepticons themselves are a selfish and greedy species.

Sun Cheng dares not gamble, fearing that the foundation he worked so hard to build will be snatched away by Onslaught and some ambitious Decepticons under his command.

This is truly not him letting his imagination run wild, because although the Decepticons under his command have always appeared very disciplined, the reality is not entirely so.

Even with him suppressing them all along, there are really not many among Sun Cheng's Decepticons, especially those Decepticon Engineers, who are easy to deal with.

As for them skimming some resources and Energy Liquid to pad their own little coffers, he just turned a blind eye.

After all, for such a large force, all scientific research requires those Decepticon Engineers to do it, and Sun Cheng also knows he cannot expect the horse to be good while also expecting it not to eat grass.

Therefore, before more Decepticon Engineer teams are formed and the influence of those first twenty-plus old subordinates is diluted, he must appropriately play deaf and dumb.

Moreover, there are some irreconcilable contradictions between Sun Cheng and the Decepticon Engineers.

The Decepticons created by Megatron have had the worship of power and force deeply branded into the deepest parts of their bones since the moment of their birth.

So even though Sun Cheng has always been suppressing this viewpoint, he still cannot stop many of the Decepticon Engineers under his command, especially those twenty-plus veterans from the first batch traded from Onslaught, from longing to transform into Warriors.

And he does not lack Warriors under his command now; on the contrary, he has a near-infinite thirst for many of the advanced technologies of Cybertronian civilization.

So under Sun Cheng's suppression, for him to believe that there are no Engineers among those Decepticon Engineer teams—who long to become Warriors and have been flatly rejected by him—harboring dissatisfaction toward him, is something even he himself does not believe.

He considers himself to have treated those Decepticon Engineers well, but even among the Decepticons under Sun Cheng's command whom he appreciates the most, such as Atlas, Hephaestus, and others who have already been promoted to Senior Engineers, he cannot be certain of their thoughts.

"You had all better keep your greed in check! Otherwise..."

With a soft snort through his nose, the expression on Sun Cheng's face returned to normal, only his footsteps toward the Sihao Zaochuanchang became a bit heavier.

Do not think that at this point in time, he would not dare to conduct a great purge.

Thunder is still waiting for Sun Cheng's next instructions, and he is also seriously considering countermeasures.

It was not until he arrived at the Sihao Zaochuanchang that he finally had instructions.

"Thunder, have Mirage divert some satellite resources to continue tracking their flight path. No matter which corner of Earth they land in, I need to get accurate intelligence at the first opportunity!"

"I grant you command of military operations within the scope of Base No. 2, raise the alert level within Base No. 2 to Level Two, once it is confirmed that Onslaught and the others have entered our alert range, warn them to leave immediately... no, once it is confirmed that Onslaught and the others have entered our alert range, notify me first..."

Thunder's reply came quickly, "Received, Commander. Everything according to your instructions!"

The communication ended abruptly there, and Sun Cheng's originally leisurely mood inevitably gathered a few clouds.

However, he did not rush to leave and continued to inspect the Sihao Zaochuanchang according to his original plan.

Above the massive dry dock of the Sihao Zaochuanchang, a giant ship over four hundred meters long, one hundred and twenty meters wide, and eighty meters high was quietly docked there.

And it is precisely the Explorer-class Cargo Spaceship, Ship No. 4.

This behemoth looks two sizes larger than the Ford-class aircraft carrier that the Americans started building a few years ago.

However, at this moment, it does not look particularly outstanding; the ship is dark gray all over, and the slightly flattened fuselage already has significant differences from the ship's design prototype—the 'New World Explorer'.

When Sun Cheng arrived, a staggering number of robots were moving various equipment and electronic components, moving in and out through several reserved gaps in the ship's hull along dense engineering scaffolding.

This is Ship No. 4 undergoing outfitting, which is the installation of internal equipment and various electronic components.

Even though Base No. 2 has mobilized over a hundred Workers, Technical Officers, and Decepticon Engineers for each ship, along with thousands of various robots assisting on the side.

But the outfitting stage alone will take at least two to three months.