Chapter 958: Evacuation

Above the city of Cairo, the portal that had been open for some time finally closed completely.

Leiting finally felt at ease!

Although no Quintesson soldiers had rushed out of the portal for some time since it dimmed.

Yet, facing an unknown opponent, no one could truly let their guard down.

Fortunately, it did not have any issues until the very end.

After resolving the Decepticon replica warriors and Quintesson soldiers in the city, a group of Advanced Warriors began to get busy.

Leiting directed them, "Pick out the corpses of the Advanced Warriors among the replica warriors, and also select some of the more intact corpses of the Quintesson soldiers; the Academy of Sciences needs research materials!"

The Academy of Sciences was a new department being established at Base No. 2, and it was also something Sun Cheng had prepared specifically for Atlas and a group of Advanced Decepticon Engineers.

Over the past period, he had already sensed that the efficiency and speed of their side's certain scientific and technological research had slowed down significantly.

The various scientific research projects previously led by Decepticon Engineers had undoubtedly given them too much power and autonomy.

Decepticons are creatures that, once indulged, begin to become rampant, even losing their sense of self.

Sun Cheng had actually noticed this problem a long time ago, when some Decepticon Engineers began to withhold resources from projects.

All along, he had adopted a method of both striking and appeasing them.

Although his forces had changed their skin, they generally still implemented that relatively mature military aristocratic system of the Decepticon Legion.

Of course, Sun Cheng had also carried out a series of improvements, granting his subordinate Decepticon Engineers considerable power and resource allocation.

But even so, with the continuous increase in the number of Advanced Decepticon Warriors under his command.

The Decepticon Engineers, who originally held significant influence in Base No. 2 and Mars Base, had successively lost their command over sub-bases, construction planning, and resource distribution powers, and many engineers had shown varying degrees of passive sabotage.

That such a situation appeared only a few years after his forces were first established made Sun Cheng deepen his understanding of what is meant by "the greedy snake trying to swallow an elephant."

Although he was also suppressing a fit of anger in his heart, blind striking was not a good strategy.

After much thought, Sun Cheng decided to refer to the Autobots and the human national regimes on Earth to establish a central power institution capable of managing every aspect.

The Academy of Sciences was one of them, a power department specifically responsible for coordinating and managing all scientific research projects.

"Yes, Commander!"

The Advanced Decepticon Warriors in the city quickly selected some well-preserved corpses and began calling South America to dispatch an Armed Transport Ship to carry them away.

The Golden Eagle series of Armed Transport Ships were extremely fast, and he believed it wouldn't take long for them to arrive here.

Seeing the Leader reading Sentinel Prime's Memory Data, Leiting and the others could only disperse to the surroundings, earnestly protecting the entire area nearby.

Time passed, second by second.

Sun Cheng did not know how much time had passed, but after his body trembled violently for a moment, the palm that had been holding the neck of Sentinel Prime's corpse for a long time suddenly let go.

"Boom!"

The corpse of Sentinel Prime, weighing several dozen tons, slammed heavily onto the ground.

"Leader!"

Seeing his swaying figure, Leiting hurriedly stepped forward, wanting to support him.

Sun Cheng waved his hand, covering his head with one hand to stop him: "No need, I'm fine!"

His tone was full of excitement and agitation, and his mood at this moment was indeed surprisingly good.

Sun Cheng only had one thought in his mind now, and that was "I've made a huge profit!"

"... Let's go first... notify the Autobots to come and handle the follow-up matters here..."

In Sun Cheng's mind, his Core was currently struggling to process the countless Memory Data acquired from Sentinel Prime.

So much so that he had to use all his strength to barely utter this sentence.

Leiting clearly noticed that his state was not right, so he took the initiative to guard his side while urging the Golden Eagle Armed Transport Ship to hurry over.

During the wait, he glanced at the corpse of Sentinel Prime beside him and asked with some curiosity: "Leader, are we not taking Sentinel Prime's corpse with us?"

"No need!"

Sun Cheng answered with difficulty, his voice sounding unusually stiff: "Even if I've fallen out with Optimus Prime, he is, after all, the previous Leader of the Autobots, the former king of Cybertron... let Optimus Prime handle it..."

He had already obtained the huge benefits that Sentinel Prime could bring.

Although it had taken Sun Cheng quite a bit of time just now, he had already violently read all of Sentinel Prime's Memory Data, even though some encrypted Memory Data could not be cracked for the time being.

But just the small amount of Memory Data he had painstakingly cracked just now had already benefited him immensely.

It is no exaggeration to say that Sun Cheng had successfully seized the greatest benefit in this anticlimactic conflict.

Taking Sentinel Prime away would only offend the Autobots and Optimus Prime.

"Yes!"

Leiting obeyed his orders implicitly and had no intention of refusing at all.

While waiting for the Golden Eagle Armed Transport Ship to arrive, sporadic gunfire and even artillery fire suddenly began to ring out in Cairo.

At first, Leiting and the others raised their vigilance slightly, thinking that the human counterattack forces were preparing to launch a counter-offensive against the city.

However, they soon lifted the alert.

The gunfire was indeed caused by human military and police, but the two sides fighting were not targeting them; Leiting clearly observed through satellites that the forces exchanging fire in the city were the remnants of the Egyptian Army that had been routed by the Decepticon replica warriors in the previous battle.

And their opponents included both other units of the routed Egyptian Army and the military and police forces in Cairo, and even more were some gang forces with weapons and equipment.

The reason they were fighting so fiercely was very simple: to snatch the spoils of war.

Yes, it was to snatch the spoils of war.

After a period of chaos, although this thousand-year-old capital had now been destroyed beyond recognition.

But people and forces with a little bit of brains had all noticed the treasures hidden in this city in the shortest possible time.

The countless weapons discarded by the routed Egyptian Army could only be considered the cheapest batch among these treasures.

More valuable were the corpses of those aliens; once these alien corpses, whose body structures were like mechanical warriors, were obtained by them and put on the Black Market, even the five major powers would be unable to resist spending huge sums of money to buy them.

Some front-line scientific research institutions with plenty of money, laboratories under large multinational corporations, etc., were all drooling over these alien corpses.

It was precisely because of this that some clever people in Cairo, after realizing what had happened and seeing the city suddenly fall silent, could not wait to jump out and begin looting the various alien corpses scattered everywhere throughout the city.

Of course, in the midst of this scramble, there was no shortage of "shopping" enthusiasts taking the opportunity to engage in zero-dollar purchases.

"What a bunch of utterly degenerate creatures!"

Thunder shook his head in contempt, and seeing that the commander had no intention of intervening, he remained quietly by his side.

Until, above the sky, more than a dozen Golden Eagle Armed Transport Ships arrived.