Chapter 57 - Goodbye Attack
Quietly sitting on the ground of the base, Sun Cheng lowered his head and looked at the gray crystal in the palm of his hand. There was no emotion on his face, only the constantly flickering blue light in his eyes, revealing his inner unrest.
After a long while, he slowly stood up from the ground, and sighed like a human. "What a mess..."
A mess!
This was the only word he could think of to describe his hasty return from the real world to here!
Before, when he returned to the real world, Sun Cheng was full of confidence, even thinking he had prepared enough. But reality once again taught him a lesson. After losing his Decepticon mechanical body, his experience was no different from others in terms of having a fragile head and body. A few knives could threaten his life.
Ridiculously, he thought he could handle everything by bringing some weapons back to the real world, forgetting that firearms could be used casually in reality. Once someone died and exposed himself, everything he had in the real world would be gone.
"Naive...ridiculous..."
Mocking himself, Sun Cheng got up from the ground and looked at his clenched fist. He felt the power that was meant for destruction that originated from the Decepticon mechanical body, as well as the agitation, fear, and uneasiness that came from the real world, gradually disappearing.
"Yes, I've always realized in my heart that this is the place that is truly suitable for me, the place that can change my destiny...but I just didn't want to admit it to myself..."
Originally, he planned to stay in the real world for at least a month, completely solving the loan problem and laying the foundation for his return to the real world. However, plans could not keep up with changes, and he suffered from his own youthful and presumptuous losses, so he had to come back early.
This time, Sun Cheng was determined. He would not only make a breakthrough in this world, but he also vowed not to return to the real world again if he was not fully prepared next time.
Shaking his head, he quickly threw away those annoying emotions.
Strictly speaking, this return to the real world was not without gain. At least Sun Cheng confirmed three things.
First, when he traveled between the two worlds, he could bring some items with him.
Second, every time he crossed over from the real world to here, or returned to the real world, Sun Cheng had to consume a certain type of energy stored in the spherical space, which cost two hundred per trip.
Third, it seemed that the spherical space could be upgraded by absorbing energy, which was a good thing for him. He deduced that he could now carry three items with him, instead of just one at the beginning.
After his thoughts returned to calmness, these were the gains he calmly summarized, and the only gains from his terrible trip in the real world.
Sun Cheng's base was spacious and lonely. He was not as good as Starscream, Onslaught, and others, one being the veteran deputy commander of the Decepticon army, and the other being an elite warrior. They had been operating on Earth for a long time and had many Decepticon soldiers to command.
However...
He raised the 2nd-level Core obtained from Starscream, and frowned, pondering.
This 2nd-level Core was originally a reward that Starscream used to lure him. At that time, he was really excited, and he even dug a big pit for Starscream, tricking Soundwave into being calculated by Starscream on Earth, and ultimately had to enter a dormant state to recover from his injuries.
Originally, Sun Cheng was planning to use this 2nd-level Core as the foundation to create a new mechanical body for himself.
Thinking back now, Sun Cheng realized how lucky he was that he accidentally brought it back to the real world. Otherwise, with Soundwave's methods, he could infer that Starscream, being the devious character he was, must have done something to this Core.
With a thought, two blue lights immediately shot out of Sun Cheng's eyes and into the 2nd level Core in his hand. He carefully examined it.
After encountering the All Spark, he had to admit that it was truly a miraculous Sacred artifact. It had upgraded Sun Cheng's lowest level Core, the Spy Template, to a Spark. The biggest improvement wasn't just that the Core could store more energy, but that it allowed Sun Cheng to gain a large amount of information transmitted from the All Spark.
For the Decepticons, they would undoubtedly rather describe information as life force. But Sun Cheng was more accustomed to using human thinking to interpret things, so he used the word "information" to represent the Decepticons' life force.
The huge All Spark, now stored in the US seventh district base, not only contained an immense amount of energy, but also a massive amount of information. Information was incredibly important for mechanical life!
They were like lines of code among countless computer programs. Codes could form software, allowing computers to have better problem-solving abilities. If one day, humans were to start writing logic circuits and emotional systems for computers with code, then perhaps in the near future, a non-human intelligent life form similar to the Decepticons would truly be born from human hands.
The information from the All Spark was such a miraculous thing. It was more refined than human code, yet could store more information.
Although in just over ten days, Sun Cheng had only digested a small amount of the information stored in his own Spark, it still benefited him greatly. For example, he had now sorted out the ability to invade a Core, similar to what Starscream and Soundwave possessed.
The 2nd level Core in his hand had not been activated and had not generated its own personality and consciousness, so Sun Cheng's violent invasion had not encountered any resistance or counterattack. Instead, he easily took over all of the Core's functions and began to read them.
After carefully combing through it, he found nothing abnormal. But Sun Cheng was still not at ease, so he checked it again, but still didn't find anything different.
He finally made up his mind and fully activated the spy function of the Spark. He spent three or four days carefully examining every piece of information in the 2nd level Core, and finally found a few strange places.
Because it took too much effort, the blue light in Sun Cheng's eyes faded a bit.
After finally finding the hidden hand that Starscream had in this 2nd level Core, he couldn't help but sneer. "Let me see what tricks Starscream has up his sleeve... Disable defense function... Memory data reading... Hide second persona... Hiss..."
Using the invasion and analysis functions, he completely deciphered the hidden hand that Starscream had in the 2nd level Core. Even though Sun Cheng was prepared, he was still scared out of his wits by Starscream's vicious methods.
"This guy is truly poisonous..."
No wonder the entire Decepticon army described Starscream as devious. This word was simply too appropriate for him.
Even with the low-level Core that was traded to him, he didn't hesitate to use such a cruel and vicious method, secretly hiding a second personality that was completely beyond Sun Cheng's control.
Just the thought of accidentally equipping himself with this Core and having the hidden personality awaken within him one day was enough to make Sun Cheng break out in a cold sweat. It wouldn't just be a battle for control over the Core, but even his mechanical body, and who knows, it might even affect his physical body in the real world.
Thinking about it, Sun Cheng was relieved that he hadn't used it.
After taking some effort to remove the traps that Starscream had left in the Core, he hesitated for a while before deciding not to erase the newly-formed personality hidden within.
Having been alone in this world without even a companion to run errands for him, Sun Cheng had long since thought about using this Level 2 Core to create a subordinate for himself.
With the information injected by Starscream, he saved himself a lot of effort.
Now, all Sun Cheng had to do was to reset the new personality, while leaving some control measures to ensure its loyalty to him.
But even so, the workload was enormous, and it would take at least half a month to complete.
During this time, however, Sun Cheng didn't plan on wasting any time. He still didn't have the ability to build a mechanical body on his own, so there was a place he had to go.
"It looks like I have to make another trip to Onslaught's place... Well, if I calculate the time, Blackout, who Soundwave instructed, should be arriving on Earth soon..."
After calculating in his mind, he temporarily stored the Level 2 Core in his mechanical body's memory and immediately left the base, flying towards Onslaught's location.
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