Chapter 969: Launching an Attack

After the Cairo Battle, one of the sources of instability in Sun Cheng's heart, Sentinel Prime, had been killed by Optimus Prime's own hand.

However, he could not breathe a sigh of relief because of this!

Not to mention that Megatron was still around, Shockwave alone, who was about to arrive on Earth, was a new trouble.

Moreover, before Sentinel Prime died, he had created a new trouble for them.

The portal he opened, which didn't know where it was anchored, had transported a batch of Quintessa soldiers to Earth.

Although traces suspected to be from a Quintessa colonial fleet visiting in the ancient past had long been discovered on Earth.

But the arrival of this batch of Quintessa soldiers would clearly lead to Earth's coordinates being completely exposed to the eyes of that insane colonial civilization.

No one could predict on which day the Quintessa civilization would send troops to occupy this planet.

At the very least, Sun Cheng knew that he needed to start preparing for the worst-case scenario in advance!

And while continuing to accumulate strength and develop himself, he began his own little maneuvers in response to the various noises that had recently started appearing frequently on Earth.

One day in August, a cargo ship departing from the port of Maderia Cape in Brazil, nominally fully loaded with 300,000 tons of iron ore, began to sail toward a certain country in the Far East.

Several Decepticons were hidden on the cargo ship; they were responsible for escorting a batch of high-end Precision Instrument on board, which were at least three to four generations ahead of current Earth technology, to a certain country in the Far East.

And just as this cargo ship set sail, two Decepticons specifically responsible for contacting that Far Eastern country had already set off for the Far East region in advance.

They also shouldered a special Task: in addition to handing over the hydroelectric station built within the Far East—which had provided a significant amount of electricity to Base No. 2 and converted it into energy since its completion—to the Far East ahead of schedule.

Originally, according to the agreement, after the Decepticons under Sun Cheng's command fully funded the construction of this second-largest hydroelectric station in the Far East, they would possess twenty years of limited operating rights.

However, considering that for them, who now already possessed many small nuclear power plants, the role of this hydroelectric station had become dispensable.

Sun Cheng simply ended the rights he had previously fought for with the Far East ahead of schedule, taking the initiative to return this super hydroelectric station with an annual power generation of 70 billion kilowatt-hours to the Far East to show his sincerity.

At the same time, another Cargo Submarine converted from a Typhoon-class was departing from a hidden harbor somewhere in the South Pacific, with its target pointed directly at the Bering Strait, preparing to secretly head to Severodvinsk.

And the Decepticons, who had been silent in Severodvinsk for some time, also took the initiative to convey to Moscow their desire to meet with the high-level officials of the Kremlin.

In Paris, Decepticons were secretly visiting some well-known French enterprises and anti-American, anti-European Union politicians.

Although World War II contributed a large number of "French-mocking" memes to the world, discerning people had to admit that as one of the "two European wastes," this old imperialist power had not truly begun to decline after the end of World War II like the other of the two, the British.

Within the European Union, it actively competed with Germany for leadership of the EU, despite always being at a disadvantage economically.

But politically, as the initiator and defeated nation of two European wars, Germany, under the circumstances of being tied hand and foot, was truly not even close to France.

Moreover, although France had joined the NATO group, it had never been very submissive to the United States and was the only NATO member state that did not allow the United States to station troops within its borders.

France possessed a relatively independent military-industrial system, and in terms of economy, military, and politics, its dependence on the United States was not as deep as that of European countries like the British or Germany.

For such a major European power that held veto power in its hands, Sun Cheng naturally had to put some effort into winning them over.

In addition to focusing on these three countries, Sun Cheng also appropriately relaxed restrictions at the Black Market, starting to release some machines and equipment that were about one generation more advanced than previous products.

From the beginning, he never thought about completely erasing the hostility of various countries on Earth toward his side, nor was it necessary to spend great effort to do so.

Even Sun Cheng himself had to admit that Sentinel Prime had indeed left a massive scapegoat for the Autobots before he died.

Large areas of the thousand-year-old capital city of Cairo were almost destroyed in an organized manner, and a large number of cities, towns, and tribes within Africa were slaughtered.

Even without the United States and several severely damaged major powers in Europe fanning the flames behind the scenes, faced with the largest and most vicious alien biological crime in history, a hatred directed at aliens would have inevitably brewed and fermented among humanity.

The little maneuvers behind them were merely making the hatred arrive more violently.

And Sun Cheng did not think about trying to stop a chariot with his arms; what he hoped to achieve was to utilize the internal contradictions between the major powers on Earth, so that when they launched their attack and guided the hatred, it would be enough for everyone to tacitly avoid his own side.

Do not think that this point is very difficult to achieve; in fact, for politicians, this is actually very simple.

After the 9/11 incident back then, the United States grabbed Afghanistan and hammered it hard, yet ignored numerous pieces of evidence as if they were nothing, letting Saudi Arabia off the hook as if nothing had happened—that is the best proof.

As long as there is sufficient interest-driven motivation, pretending to be deaf and blind is simply a daily routine for politicians.

And Sun Cheng's little maneuvers were undoubtedly correct.

Almost at the same time he began his rapid response, at a certain United Nations meeting suddenly initiated by the United States, they suddenly and unreservedly exposed the aliens who had come to Earth, as well as the destruction they had caused to Earth, and proposed that all countries unite once again to jointly resist the alien invasion.

That was a quite spectacular meeting, with the Americans jumping up and down at the meeting.

Their Secretary of State attended the meeting in person, not only denouncing the destruction caused by the aliens to the Egyptian capital of Cairo and the slaughter left behind on the African continent.

At the same time, they actually openly accused Moscow of reaching a secret cooperation with a portion of the aliens.

They even exposed shocking news, revealing that most countries in South America had already been infiltrated and controlled by aliens, having been reduced to the aliens' lackeys.

Clearly, having been hit repeatedly by the Decepticon Legion and the Autobots over the past few years, leading to their own military forces being destroyed in an organized manner several times, the Americans had already lost their cool a bit.

Moreover, although they could also obtain some advanced equipment from the Black Market, because they were squeezed by several European "allies," the advanced equipment the Americans bought from the Black Market was not much, which had long since accumulated too much dissatisfaction for them, who were accustomed to God being the greatest and the United States being second.

Thus, taking advantage of this opportunity, the Americans suddenly began to launch their attack, openly exposing the Autobots and the Decepticon Legion at the United Nations meeting, while also exposing the forces of Sun Cheng, who had always kept a low profile.

And with the help of the equipment on the representative sent by South America to New York to attend the United Nations meeting, Sun Cheng truly watched a good show.