Chapter 903: The Underground Ice Lake

After walking into the passage he had just blasted open with his Plasma Cannon, Sun Cheng and his team immediately saw the remains of a battle from the past, even more brutal than the ones before.

Wreckage!

Wreckage was everywhere!

On the original floor of the passage, countless mangled corpses of Cybertronians and Predacons were scattered about.

"The battle from eons ago was truly unimaginably brutal!"

The sight before him made Sun Cheng unable to help but reach out and gently stroke the chest of his own body.

On this New Body, there still remained a claw-shaped dent, identical to the scar caused by an unknown force when he had tried to peer into the Matrix of Leadership at the unknown temple back then.

It is said that there, six ancestors of the Cybertron of the past chose to sacrifice their lives to protect the Matrix of Leadership and ensure the supreme treasure would not be taken by The Fallen, creating a tomb that could never be found.

That was the closest Sun Cheng had ever been to death; he even felt that facing death in there was closer than when he had faced The Fallen head-on.

For this reason, he had specifically kept this wound, just so he would not forget that feeling.

Sun Cheng had never doubted the power of the ancestors, but the few ancestors he had encountered back then were clearly no longer in their prime.

Therefore, he always lacked a clearer understanding of just how powerful an ancestor in their prime should be.

And here, although there was no sign yet to prove that Maximus, one of the thirteen ancestors of Cybertron, had personally taken action.

But looking at the corpses covering the ground, just from their bodies alone, there was no shortage of powerful, elite-level Cybertronian Warriors among the attackers.

Judging by their wounds, many of them looked as if they had been killed in a single strike, a discovery that made him wonder if Maximus had personally intervened.

This passage was not as deep as the previous one; after moving forward for about a few hundred meters, he saw an alloy door with a huge hole blasted into it, clearly by an Energy Weapon.

Sun Cheng walked up and tapped his finger lightly on the remaining broken section of the alloy door.

Instantly, having been corroded by extreme cold for years, it shattered easily, just like a block of ice.

Looking up at the massive alloy door, which stood over thirty meters high, Sun Cheng gripped his weapon and walked in without hesitation.

After stepping through the hole in the alloy door, what met his eyes was a space that had been destroyed beyond recognition.

This was a space of some seventy or eighty thousand square meters, far less spacious than the underground space outside.

However, beneath the thick ice crystals here, besides wreckage, one could also see many strange-looking machines.

"The Laboratory of Maximus..."

Sun Cheng's eyes lit up, but they immediately dimmed again.

Through the ice layer, one could vaguely see that almost all the equipment had been subjected to man-made destruction.

And even if the equipment here were completely intact, having been frozen for countless years, the machines inside would be impossible to use again without some special means of thawing them out under the corrosion of the severe cold.

And that kind of special thawing technology was something Sun Cheng and his subordinate Decepticon Engineers did not currently possess.

"It seems it will be difficult to scavenge anything from here!"

After a few Decepticon Warriors carefully inspected this underground space, suspected to be a laboratory, they returned to report to him helplessly.

"Commander, no other entrances were found; this is the end."

Sun Cheng nodded, and after scanning the area once more, he turned and walked back toward the passage he had come from.

Cybertronians are a very contradictory race; they can create great cities like Ironforge and design a series of grand passes and fortresses.

But most of the time, Cybertronians are pragmatists.

Like this laboratory built by Maximus, although it was an astonishing feat of engineering from a human perspective—not only located deep underground but also having several large underground spaces excavated—

this underground Laboratory lacked any sense of aesthetics or architectural art, and it was far inferior to the various scientific laboratories that were everywhere during the era of the Cybertronian Elder Council in Jetfire's memories.

This sentiment lasted until shortly after Sun Cheng returned to the previous underground space and used his Plasma Cannon to blast open another passage that had been artificially collapsed.

He led the team himself again, preparing to explore the remaining passage.

Sun Cheng had just blasted away the debris at the entrance of the passage and had not walked more than a few steps before he sensed something abnormal.

The Core within his body suddenly issued a warning, and his Spark began to burn violently on its own.

"Stop, all Decepticons retreat!"

Looking down at the ice rapidly forming on his body, Sun Cheng's expression changed drastically.

The temperature was dropping too fast; not long after stepping into this passage, he felt the surrounding temperature plummet rapidly, breaking below minus eighty degrees in almost no time, and it was still falling.

At this temperature, even an Advanced Decepticon Warrior could not endure it.

If they continued to advance, they would have to constantly consume the energy within their Sparks to generate heat to maintain their bodies.

By the time Sun Cheng discovered this, the other team of Decepticons who were about to follow him to explore this passage had also noticed the change.

Watching their bodies being frozen bit by bit, the feeling was terrible.

Therefore, upon receiving his order, all the Decepticons immediately retreated from the passage in tacit understanding.

As for Sun Cheng himself, relying on his superior skill and boldness, he continued to walk deeper into the passage.

This passage was clearly much longer than the other one leading to the laboratory.

However, Sun Cheng walked very quickly, because although his body had undergone Enhancement to deal with harsh environments, it was not entirely unaffected.

This passage was more severely damaged than the one next to it, with collapses visible from time to time, all of which he blasted open directly with his Plasma Cannon.

After traveling more than two kilometers in a downward slope like this, another destroyed alloy door appeared in Sun Cheng's field of vision.

The large hole that had been broken through the alloy door was now blocked by ice.

Sun Cheng raised his Plasma Cannon and fired another shot at the gap.

Accompanied by ice fragments flying everywhere, an ice hole large enough for him to pass through suddenly appeared on the frozen alloy door.

Sun Cheng tightened his grip on his weapon and quickly passed through the hole to enter.

The next moment, he felt his vision suddenly brighten.

So huge!

What met his eyes was a massive underground space that seemed endless; the space was not dim, as the glowing microorganisms that had appeared in the underground spaces above were even more abundant here.

They flickered constantly within many of the ice pillars and ice walls in this huge underground space; thanks to this, Sun Cheng did not need to specifically emit electromagnetic waves to detect things, as he could see clearly within his immediate range.

Dozens of meters in front of the alloy door, looking out, there was a massive ice lake as flat as a mirror.

Sun Cheng walked a little closer and subconsciously looked toward the ice lake.

The next moment, he gripped the Plasma Cannon in his hand tightly.

Beneath the ice layer was a pair of huge, hollow eyes, looking eerie and ferocious!