Chapter 902: Predacon

Inside the vast underground space, because of the extremely low temperature, the ground throughout the entire area had frozen into a thick layer of ice.

On the ground, there was even more white, hazy cold air seeping out.

Sun Cheng followed the sound of the exclamation and looked toward the Decepticon who had discovered the anomaly.

The azure light blooming in his eyes allowed his vision to easily pierce through the nearly two-meter-high cold air on the ground and see the place he was pointing to.

That was a spot on the ground; within the thick layer of ice frozen over the ground, two corpses had already been sleeping there for who knows how many years.

Sun Cheng moved closer, and only then did he see them clearly.

These were two Cybertronian lives that had been locked in combat and fought until they perished together.

Judging by the body size of one of them, it was about eight meters tall, and at the very least, it should have been an Elite Warrior.

The weapon in his hand had pierced through the other, more ferocious-looking Cybertronian life, while the other's sharp claws had also been driven into his chest at almost the same moment.

"What a tragic battle!"

Sun Cheng raised a hand, and the understanding Decepticons immediately heightened their vigilance, while simultaneously splitting up in pairs of two or three to search within this underground space.

"Commander, there is one here too!"

"Corpses have been discovered here as well!"

"So many... so many corpses!"

As the hundreds of Decepticon Warriors spread out to search, before long, this battlefield that had once experienced a tragic fight was exposed before everyone.

"In the ancient past, at least sixty or seventy Elite Warriors raided this place... and launched a desperate struggle against Maxim, or rather, against his experimental subjects!"

Standing before several corpses that were clearly different from other Decepticons, Sun Cheng looked at the two Cybertronian lives in the thick ice beneath his feet that had been killed before they could even transform, the blue light in his eyes flaring intensely.

Combining the warning left at the laboratory's outer gate with his understanding of the ancient Cybertronian civilization, Sun Cheng could already more or less reconstruct this history.

This was a piece of unknown history that had been buried; at the beginning of the ancient Cybertronian civilization's gestation, after the thirteen Primes had jointly defeated a certain unknown, terrifying existence, the thirteen Primes who had once fought the enemy together also fell apart due to the enticement and provocation of that terrifying existence.

Maxim, who was skilled at playing with conspiracies and human hearts, should have been the first Prime to fall under the other's enticement.

He provoked infighting among his companions, leading to the death of the Prime Solus Prime and the fall of the most powerful warrior, Megatronus.

Subsequently, the thirteen Primes who realized what was happening immediately selected a group of Elite Warriors as followers to launch a pursuit and kill of Maxim.

The battle that occurred here on Mars in the ancient era should have been just one of the operations in the pursuit of Maxim.

A team of the thirteen Primes' followers discovered this place and launched a raid on this Laboratory.

They ultimately achieved victory, but clearly, they also paid a painful price.

The corpses of those powerful Cybertronian warriors sleeping in the ice here in the underground space were the best proof of Sun Cheng's speculation.

And he had already recognized the identity of these strange Cybertronian lives that had fought the followers of the thirteen Primes and severely wounded them.

They were ferocious beasts; some looked like the saber-toothed tigers and lion-hyenas that existed in Earth's ancient past, but their bodies were even more massive, and their entire bodies radiated a metallic luster.

Some looked like bears, others more like apes, but every ferocious beast had two things in common: their bodies were extremely massive, and their bodies were of metallic construction.

"These should also be Predacons... In Jetfire's memory database, there are indeed historical documents recording that in the ancient era, there were Predacons that could, like Cybertronians, simultaneously possess a beast form and a combat form!"

It's just that...

"In the ancient legends of Cybertron, the Prime who created and commanded the Predacons shouldn't be Prima..."

"How could Predacons appear in this Maxim Emperor Laboratory, and they clearly had already mastered the ability to transform and engaged in slaughter with the Cybertronian warriors who were hunting down Maxim?"

The experience of being enslaved by the Quintessons led to much of the history from the beginning of Cybertron's civilization being destroyed by those greedy colonizers.

Even without the subsequent civil war between the Decepticon Legion and the Autobot faction that lasted for millions of years, during the Council of Ancients period at the peak of Cybertronian civilization, much of the history regarding the thirteen Primes and the even more ancient Cybertron had mostly become myths that could not be verified.

Only on some ancient murals and stone tablets hidden in corners of the planet Cybertron could a few words be found.

Sun Cheng frowned; Jetfire was very interested in the ancient history of Cybertron and had once spent quite a bit of time trying to peek into the ancient civilization of the thirteen Primes era.

Although Jetfire failed, he undoubtedly had much more knowledge of the more ancient Cybertronian history than other Cybertronians.

In Jetfire's Memory Data, the Predacons—lives that, like Cybertronians, were born on the planet Cybertron before the dawn of time—were identified in many inherited myths as a race created by Prima, one of the thirteen Primes.

Prima was said to be the only Prime among the thirteen to possess a beast form.

In the myths and legends of Cybertron, his beast form was a giant phoenix, possessing huge wings like black flames.

"So, why would the Predacons be loyal to Maxim?"

This doubt, as more and more corpses were discovered, also began to take root in Sun Cheng's heart and grew rapidly.

Along with the continuous searching by the Decepticon Warriors under his command, more secrets hidden underground were also unearthed.

"Commander, a passageway was discovered here, but it has already been blown up; we need some Engineering Robots to break it open again!"

"Commander, another passageway was discovered here too, and it has also been blocked off!"

This huge underground space was not the entirety of the Maxim Emperor Laboratory.

As the two blown-up passageways were discovered, Sun Cheng looked down again at the corpses that had been dead for who knows how many years in the thick ice beneath his feet, and he quickly made a decision.

"Notify Mars Base to send additional Decepticon Engineers and Workers to renovate this place!"

After all, this was the Maxim Emperor Laboratory; even if it had been destroyed, there should still be some things left behind.

That Prime who was skilled at playing with conspiracies was suspected to have also mastered the ability to breed Predacons and modify them, just like Prima.

That technology, let alone Sun Cheng, even if the likes of Megatron, Optimus Prime, or Shockwave came personally, they would likely be envious to the point of turning red-eyed.

In the ancient Cybertron, in order to compete for more living space, Cybertronians fought a war against the naturally born Predacons and beasts that was as tragic as a civil war and lasted for countless years.

If he could catch even a glimpse of the technology here, it would likely allow Sun Cheng and his forces to make rapid progress in strength.

Thus, Sun Cheng quickly made his decision.

He was seen quickly summoning a Plasma Cannon with his right hand, aiming it at a sealed passageway.

The muzzle quickly lit up with an azure energy wave, fired, and amidst the violent sound of an explosion, easily destroyed a section of the collapsed passageway entrance.

"All Decepticons, listen to my orders: follow me and continue to explore!"

"Yes!"