Chapter 906: Airport

The sealed Laboratory of Maximus undoubtedly brought enough of a shock to the Mars Base.

Although, due to the existence of the Shadow Guards, they could not yet fully unseal this ancient Laboratory that had been sealed for who knows how many years.

But a portion of the resources, under Sun Cheng's personal request, began to be diverted here.

Sun Cheng personally sat in command at the Laboratory for over half a month, until the massive underground space was mostly cleared, the Decepticons already had a foothold, and they began to use it as a starting point to collect and attempt to glimpse more technology from the ancient Cybertron civilization era from the wreckage that had been frozen for over ten thousand years.

Seeing that things were on the right track, he then left the Laboratory.

As the most important combat power of his own faction, Sun Cheng could not leave Earth for too long.

However, before leaving, there was one more place on Mars that he had to inspect.

The first place Sun Cheng began to inspect was the Airport built somewhere in the Mars Canyon.

An Airport, as the name implies, is a port for docking spaceships.

This Airport is located in a relatively flat area of the Canyon, covering an area of approximately 70 square kilometers.

Decepticon Engineers had been crushing rocks and hardening the ground for a long time, and the spaceships that later flew from Earth to Mars all docked here.

When Sun Cheng last arrived at the Airport, he did not inspect it carefully.

Coming specifically to inspect it this time, he truly saw many things.

"Commander, the Airport terminal has been planned, and the Command Tower has been built; it can simultaneously accommodate 12 Decepticon Technical Officers to carry out spaceship docking guidance work!"

"The Airport's automatic anti-aircraft turrets are currently planned to be built in four locations, of which the first has been completed, with a total of 96 sets of improved Anti-Aircraft Systems from the database, capable of launching 384 Anti-aircraft missiles simultaneously... The other three locations are also under construction, and are expected to be fully completed in 73 days!"

"We actually considered equipping Plasma Anti-aircraft Cannons directly, but because the energy system has not been solved yet, we can only temporarily use the relatively backward Anti-Aircraft System."

"However, considering that Mars is not like Earth, our anti-aircraft system, in addition to being equipped with a large number of high-precision Normal Mode missiles, has also added the Electromagnetic Pulse Bomb and Small Tactical Nuclear Bomb—which were listed for cautious use at our base on Earth—to the anti-aircraft system's ammunition reserve."

Hearing this, Sun Cheng nodded slightly.

The Decepticons had already obtained the relevant technology for the Small Tactical Nuclear Bomb long ago.

As for the source, it was still the Polar Bear.

Like a certain Far East country, the Polar Bear had purchased a large number of advanced equipment and components in their cooperation over the past few years.

And just as the Polar Bear had always been wary of the Decepticons, not only searching for the whereabouts of the Decepticons worldwide, but even deploying several nuclear bombs domestically, aimed at Severodvinsk twenty-four hours a day, to prevent the worst-case scenario from happening.

Sun Cheng also ordered his subordinate Decepticons to spare no effort in inserting various backdoors into the various equipment and components sold to the Polar Bear, scraping together as much as possible of all the technology from the former Soviet Union and even the Polar Bear's upgrades.

Batch after batch of military technology, which in the eyes of various countries should have been strictly guarded and prohibited from leaking, fell into the hands of the Decepticons.

The vast majority of them, although not considered advanced in the eyes of the Decepticons, were still ordered by Sun Cheng to be fully absorbed, summarized, and upgraded by his subordinate Decepticon technical personnel.

The reason is simple: this is a complete technological system pioneered by Earthlings.

Although it is not yet comparable to the Cybertron civilization, which has a brilliant history.

But the Cybertron civilization itself is a joke now; countless years of civil war have seen the Autobots and Decepticons beat their home planet into a dead star.

The mobilization of a war has gone from millions at its peak to the current scale of less than ten thousand.

The deaths of countless Cybertronians have caused a massive amount of Cybertron Technology to be lost.

The technological system created by this civilization has long had its foundations shaken, becoming riddled with holes and full of flaws.

Sun Cheng once tried to fill these loopholes and master the technology of the Cybertron civilization that had occupied most of the galaxy's resources during its peak.

But after quickly hitting a wall, he chose to take a different path.

Now, Sun Cheng has switched to using the technological system created by Earth civilization as the foundation.

He constantly uses the mastered Cybertron Technology to improve and upgrade this civilization that still looks very immature.

And as for the results, they cannot be called "a thousand miles a day," but the progress is rapid.

Seeming to see that Sun Cheng was very interested in this, a Decepticon who was leading him to inspect the Airport's defense system ordered a few Workers, under the escort of a Warrior, to pull over two Small Tactical Nuclear Bombs that were over two meters long.

"Commander, this type of Small Tactical Nuclear Bomb, which we have improved, has an explosive yield equivalent to about 800 tons of TNT..."

The Small Tactical Nuclear Bomb and the Electromagnetic Pulse Bomb, as ammunition for the anti-aircraft system, are weapons that would only be used if the situation became irreversibly disadvantageous.

As for the targets to be defended against, besides the Decepticon Legion on the Moon, there is only the main force of the Decepticon Legion led by Shockwave, which is almost about to reach the Solar System.

After sweeping his gaze over the Small Tactical Nuclear Bomb, Sun Cheng nodded and continued walking forward.

And the Decepticon who was guiding him to inspect the Airport also continued to explain to him.

"In terms of defense, the Airport is currently only being managed by one Advanced Warrior leading a team of Decepticon Warriors... There are no indigenous people on Mars, so it is enough for now!"

"The maximum docking capacity currently planned for this Airport is for spaceships of the million-ton class..."

"We have already received the complete construction technology for the Exploration-class Cargo Spaceship and the Golden Eagle series of spaceships from the Central Main Control Base, and are currently stepping up the construction of more spaceships to facilitate mining in the Asteroid Belt!"

The Asteroid Belt is a dense region of asteroids in the Solar System between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter; as for how it was formed, there are many theories from astronomers on Earth.

The Decepticons do not care how it was formed, but in the Asteroid Belt, there are many asteroids rich in minerals, and there is no shortage of asteroids that are entirely composed of metal or other resources.

The size of Mars is what it is, and the resources on the planet are significantly worse than those of Earth.

Perhaps a small portion of resources, such as iron ore, might be more abundant than on Earth, but the resources are far from as complete as Earth's, and it is simply unable to support a civilization upgrading to the space age.

Therefore, concentrating resources and strength to build cargo spaceships first, and then heading to the Asteroid Belt to mine, in order to feed back into the Mars Base, is the right path.