Chapter 91: A Cunning Rabbit Has Three Burrows

The Pioneer has returned; this is good news.

Hearing him mention that the Task was completed, Sun Cheng could not help but reveal a smile, "Completed? Come, tell me about it..."

Ten days ago, the Nebrina Trading Import and Export Company in Brazil successfully received the first batch of American military hardware he had procured.

Because Sun Cheng truly could not get away, he gave instructions to an insider within the Nebrina Trading Import and Export Company, having them quietly transport the procured military hardware to a plantation within Brazil that Sun Cheng had only just purchased.

The Pioneer was subsequently dispatched by him to Brazil, and Sun Cheng had only one Task for him: avoid human sight and find a location in Brazil's vast Amazon rainforest or its sprawling highland mountain ranges that human footprints could not reach, in preparation for building Base No. 2.

That's right, the cunning him had already begun preparing a new hiding place for himself.

The Pioneer immediately projected a map before him, pointing to two locations on it and replying, "I found two suitable locations. One is located in the Amambai Mountains; among the mountains, I found an Underground Karst Cave that is very deep and hidden. The other is in the Maer Mountains near the east coast of Brazil; there is a valley filled with miasma within this national park that humans simply cannot approach..."

That he did not choose the rainforest region was within Sun Cheng's expectations.

The venomous snakes and fierce beasts of the rainforest region are nothing; they only pose a threat to humans.

However, the Amazon rainforest is covered in rivers everywhere and is located at the equator; the hot and humid climate is not only hell for equipment, but it also increases the maintenance consumption of the Core for Mechanical Life like them.

The Pioneer then released dozens of sets of photos he had taken while approaching for Sun Cheng to reference.

Both locations have their advantages; the miasma valley in the Maer Mountains wins in that it is closer to the east coast of Brazil, which is convenient for the transport of equipment, but the disadvantage is that the possibility of it being exposed is also higher.

By comparison, Sun Cheng actually preferred the Underground Karst Cave in the Amambai Mountains; it is very hidden. Although it will increase the difficulty of transporting equipment, they are, after all, Mechanical Life, and climbing over mountain ridges is far more convenient than any human transport vehicle.

He made his decision on the spot, "Let's tentatively go with that Underground Karst Cave in the Amambai Mountains. Once I confirm the nearby mountain and geological structure later, I will procure materials and equipment through some channels and have them sent directly to Brazil..."

"Yes, Master!"

The Pioneer soon left, leaving Sun Cheng alone in the Laboratory. After remaining silent for a good while, he took a Nokia N73 mobile phone that had only been released in this plane last year from one of the machines in the Laboratory.

Holding the phone up in front of himself, a flash of light appeared in Sun Cheng's eyes, and that N73 phone immediately powered on while simultaneously dialing a number.

"Beep, beep, beep..."

The phone rang for quite a while before he heard an impatient voice come from the other end of the line, "Hello... didn't I tell you already, don't call my phone whenever you want..."

The person answering the phone was a man, speaking in English but with a thick Philadelphia accent.

"Don't give me that, Colwin."

Sun Cheng did not change his voice, asking directly with his cold electronic tone: "I already transferred the money to your father's overseas account according to your requirements, and you transferred those two million dollars three days ago. However, you still haven't given me an answer regarding the matter I asked you to look into?"

The experience of previously bribing an insider at the Nebrina Trading Import and Export Company in Brazil, allowing himself to successfully bypass the attention of United States intelligence agencies and obtain quite a bit of U. S. military hardware, undoubtedly left a deep impression on Sun Cheng.

His identity in this spacetime is a Mechanical Life from the planet Cybertron, which destined him not to appear easily in front of people.

Yet, there are many things that are far from being solvable just through the internet, and Sun Cheng also needs some humans, especially humans with power, to serve him.

After the Battle of Las Vegas ended, he had the idea of establishing a human intelligence network within this world that served him specifically.

Afterwards, in order to grasp the movements of the United States government at the first opportunity, Sun Cheng especially wanted to know where the remains of Megatron and Blackout were placed by the U. S. military, and how far the cooperation between the United States government and the Autobot had progressed.

Because of this, while he was working hard to digest the dividends of the Battle of Las Vegas, he did not forget to begin his own layout.

The United States possesses the world's largest-scale intelligence agencies, from government departments down to the Army, Navy, and Air Force, totaling more than a dozen intelligence agencies.

The Russian "Pravda" of this spacetime once published an article in 2006, speculating that there were over 270,000 employees working for its dozen-plus intelligence departments within the United States alone.

The Russians' statistical data was obviously exaggerated, but the massive scale of the United States intelligence departments is indeed plain for all to see.

However, the United States has numerous intelligence agencies and complex personnel, which provided Sun Cheng with quite a bit of convenience.

Utilizing his network intrusion capabilities, Sun Cheng obtained data on the management of some United States intelligence agencies in a very short time.

Then, by monitoring their personal and family members' bank card and spending data globally one by one, some guys with dirty laundry soon entered Sun Cheng's line of sight one after another and became his prey.

Colwin Brennan, an intelligence analysis Assistant working at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, was one of the most valuable targets among them.

This guy is really no ordinary character; having been a soldier and worked for nearly ten years at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency under the Ministry of National Defense, he possessed extremely strong counter-espionage capabilities.

When Sun Cheng first tried to contact Colwin while assuming the identity of a military attaché at the Russian Embassy in the United States, he actually recorded the call.

Consequently, the next day, he learned the news that the unlucky Russian military attaché whose identity he had assumed had been set up and arrested by the FBI and expelled from the country by the United States government.

Unfortunately, while Colwin appeared sanctimonious and dedicated to the public on the surface, Sun Cheng held a handle that forced him to work for him.

This guy had fallen into a honey trap set by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad several years ago, had a sexual relationship with a beautiful spy from Mossad, and was threatened by the other party. Since then, under the dollar offensive of Mossad, Colwin had been providing intelligence to them.

The data Sun Cheng found alone showed that in the past few years, nearly twenty million dollars in huge funds had been deposited in fourteen installments into bank cards opened overseas by Colwin using the identities of his many relatives, and this money was eventually used by him under his relatives' identities to purchase large amounts of property, gold, and jewelry overseas, and even dispersed into more hidden accounts.

If not for the fact that Sun Cheng could easily invade global banking networks and arbitrarily view every piece of information he wanted to track, it is hard to say whether he could have made Colwin submit in the end.

Flies don't bite seamless eggs!

Colwin obviously understood this principle himself, so when Sun Cheng contacted him a second time and casually brought up a few pieces of information about his transactions with Mossad, this guy immediately recognized the facts and agreed to provide him with some intelligence within the scope of his duties.

In order to make him work for him with peace of mind, Sun Cheng paid a reward far more generous than Mossad; he paid him two million dollars just for the first time, and his first request was for Colwin to use his position to inquire about intelligence regarding the Mechanical Life that appeared in Las Vegas.

PS:

1. First update; barring any accidents, there will be two more chapters updated in a while.

2. Thanks to readers "Yi Gan Da Yan Qiang", "Er Ci Yuan Mei Zi Sai Gao", and "5x Jun" for their tips.