Chapter 984: Lockdown Arrives

"It cannot be the Nemesis!"

Sun Cheng shook his head, dismissing Frenzy's speculation!

"I remember Soundwave once mentioned that the Nemesis is currently on the Moon. Some of its systems seem to be damaged, and it has temporarily lost the ability to take off."

He had read Megatron's memory, but there was no record of this in Megatron's memory.

On the contrary, Soundwave's memory explicitly mentioned that the Nemesis was currently on the Moon, being used as a base by Starscream.

It was impossible for Starscream to repair the Nemesis; only Megatron possessed the highest authorization for that ship's Central Main Control Intelligence.

Even Shockwave, who created it, had lower authorization than Megatron.

Therefore, it was impossible for Starscream to do such a thankless job, spending his own resources to repair a warship comparable to a war fortress for Megatron.

The conference room immediately fell silent again. Having just returned from Trindade Island to attend the first 【Supreme Military Committee】's second "Supreme Military Conference," the Pioneer suddenly spoke up and asked: "Commander, could this spaceship come from the Quintessa Civilization?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the conference room was in an uproar.

Sun Cheng actually had this suspicion too, but he could not be sure.

Regarding the Quintessa Civilization, because its history predated the birth of the Cybertronian civilization, and the few Decepticon and Autobot memories he had read before only contained fragmented introductions, his understanding naturally could not be considered much.

During the previous Cairo Battle, they had indeed obtained some relatively intact corpses of Quintessa soldiers.

However, those Quintessa soldiers, who were artificially manufactured and even more fanatical than the Cannon Fodder replica warriors of the Decepticon Legion, had no rationality in their heads at all.

Sun Cheng and the others had indeed sorted out some things, but the Memory Data remaining in those Quintessa soldier corpses was too chaotic, and most of it was stuff that could not be interpreted.

Therefore, as of now, it could not be said that they were completely ignorant of the Quintessa Civilization, but they knew nothing about it either.

After pondering for a while, he immediately issued an order: "Huan, notify the Academy of Sciences and have them split off several satellites from the Star Orbit System currently in operation to attempt to monitor the trajectory of that unknown spaceship. Once captured, have the observers stationed by the Supreme Military Committee provide feedback at any time."

The so-called Star Orbit System was a project that Sun Cheng's Decepticon Engineers had tried to promote before the establishment of the 【Academy of Sciences】.

They attempted to incorporate all the surveillance satellites and the like that they had launched into outer space and deployed in Earth's orbit, lunar orbit, Martian orbit, and even those to be deployed in other planets of the Solar System or airspace in the future, into a unified operation and management system.

After the Academy of Sciences was established, this project was immediately approved by Sun Cheng to be included in the management of the 【Academy of Sciences】.

However, considering that most of the satellites currently operating in the "Star Orbit System" were still reconnaissance satellites used for intelligence gathering.

Therefore, Sun Cheng had the 【Supreme Military Committee】 dispatch an Advanced Decepticon Warrior to be stationed at the "Star Orbit System" managed by the 【Academy of Sciences】 as an observer, responsible for coordinating the military's use of the reconnaissance satellites in the "Star Orbit System."

And the reason why he assigned this "Star Orbit System" to the 【Academy of Sciences】.

Was because although most of the satellites currently operating in the "Star Orbit System" were reconnaissance satellites, as their own forces continued to expand and began to march toward the cosmic starry sky, Sun Cheng and the others also began to launch various exploration satellites and climate monitoring satellites into the Solar System to collect celestial information within the system, comet and asteroid resources, and so on.

In at most one year, the number of the latter types of non-military satellites would exceed that of the specially manufactured reconnaissance satellites.

Therefore, it was more appropriate for the "Star Orbit System" to be under the 【Academy of Sciences】 than the 【Supreme Military Committee】.

"I understand, Commander!"

Sun Cheng did not know that while he was troubled by the unknown spaceship that had suddenly intruded into the Solar System.

At this very moment, on that spaceship, a ferocious silver-gray mechanical warrior was standing in front of a light wall, saying something to another figure on the light wall.

"My lord, I have arrived in the Solar System and will reach Earth soon!"

"Very good, Lockdown, you have done well!"

The ferocious silver-gray mechanical warrior was none other than the Bounty Hunter that Sun Cheng had once tried to win over—Lockdown.

And the figure displayed on the light wall in front of him was an exceptionally strange-looking guy.

It was a strange life form that looked like an upside-down egg, emitting a metallic luster all over, with the larger end at the top and the smaller end at the bottom.

And at the bottom, in addition to a few thin metal legs used for walking, it also had a thin, pointed, metal-like tail.

Even more disgusting was its face.

On the head of this strange life form, there were five faces with different shapes, each showing expressions of laughter, anger, contempt, fury, and madness in turn.

Lockdown frowned and looked unhappily at the strange life form on the light wall that seemed to treat him like a slave, and snorted coldly.

"Quintesson, I am only employed by the Quintessa Queen, not a slave to you Quintessons. Less nonsense; according to our agreement, after I arrive in the Solar System, I want to get the remaining reward I deserve!"

At this very moment, the one who was communicating remotely with Lockdown across the distant galaxy was the ruler of the Quintessa Civilization—the Quintesson.

The Quintesson, a strange and crazy race.

No one knew how they were born, but Lockdown, as a Bounty Hunter with extensive experience, had heard some things from some interstellar civilizations that had fought against the Quintessa Civilization for many years.

It is said that once, when a civilization defeated a colony planet of the Quintessa Civilization, they captured a few Quintessons.

According to their interrogation and autopsy research on the Quintessons, the Quintessons did not seem to be life forms born naturally; they seemed to be products of artificial post-natal modification, just like the crazy slave soldiers of the Quintessa Civilization that made countless interstellar civilizations shudder.

As a Bounty Hunter, Lockdown had taken on many assassination and sabotage missions against the Quintessa Civilization and had often been hunted down by the armies of the Quintessa Civilization.

At the same time, as a Bounty Hunter who would serve whoever paid him, he would also be attracted by the high bounties of the Quintessa Civilization and become a sharp blade in their hands.

Having had much contact, he naturally understood the Quintessons better than many civilizations.

For example, most of the interstellar civilizations in this universe that had been fighting fierce battles with the Quintessa Civilization for many years only knew that the Quintessons were the rulers of the Quintessa Civilization.

But most of them did not know that above the Quintessons in the Quintessa Civilization, there existed a supreme, terrifying Queen who claimed to be the creator of the gods.

She was the Quintessa Queen, a being who named a civilization after herself.