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Chapter 455: Dylan Good
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As Sun Cheng struggled with the missing crucial intelligence, unable to connect all the emerging thoughts in his mind, the laboratory door opened again after a silence of over ten minutes.
Quick footsteps entered the room.
Interrupted by the noise, Sun Cheng, who was already frowning due to his inability to piece together his thoughts, instinctively turned to see who had dared to barge in without permission.
When he saw that it was just an ordinary robot, the anger on his face slightly subsided, recognizing it as one of the bodies often used by Teletraan.
Indeed, it was Teletraan's voice that soon came from the robot's mouth.
"... The backend of the a-6 ground data reception station has been cleared. Master, before destroying the database, I found something interesting. I suspect it may be related to the satellite's disconnection this time..."
As Teletraan finished speaking, the robot extended a finger to its temple, and in the next moment, two beams of light shot out from its eyes, forming a virtual, shimmering blue screen in front of Sun Cheng.
On the screen, countless pieces of information appeared in English, occasionally interspersed with a few pictures.
However, after just one glance, Sun Cheng squinted his eyes.
"The Windsor Wife," built by Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea, launched in 2004, and currently owned by a cargo company named "Scobios." It's an ordinary cargo ship with a capacity of ten thousand tons."
"The Windsor Wife... Is this the cargo ship I saw in the Lazaro Cardenas Port in Mexico not long ago..."
The information on the screen was similar to what he had obtained from the Mexican congressman not long ago, but it was more detailed and focused on different aspects.
When Sun Cheng's eyes caught a flashing photo on the screen, he felt a surge of electric current in his core.
He had a vague sense that he had grasped the key.
"... How could I forget about him, damn it..."
Not long ago, he encountered four Decepticons in Mexico. Although he didn't track them all the way, he felt something was off when he returned to the base. This suspicion even extended to the seemingly ordinary cargo ship, the Windsor Wife.
Considering that the Mexican congressman was not a specialized intelligence officer, it wasn't easy for him to investigate a United States cargo ship.
So, after re-doubting the Windsor Wife, Sun Cheng immediately woke up his informant within the United States intelligence agency - the CIA, and asked him to conduct a more thorough investigation, especially regarding the background of the shipping company that the Windsor Wife belonged to, and even the information about the owner behind the company.
At this point, the rest finally came to light.
Sun Cheng nodded slowly, and the restlessness in his heart finally subsided somewhat.
He wasn't afraid of facing Soundwave; after all, he wasn't defenseless anymore. The worst that could happen was losing everything here and returning to the real world in a miserable state.
What Sun Cheng feared was being attacked without knowing why or who was behind it.
The unknown was the most terrifying force!
Like his casual naming conventions, "b-2" represented the importance of a person's identity in the human world. The number indicated the sequence of the individuals Sun Cheng had developed within the human society over the past year. The "a" sequences were reserved for those with significant status or power, while the "b" sequences were for the second tier of intelligence personnel.
"B-2" was the code name of the CIA senior operative whom he had recently tasked with investigating the background of the Windsor Wife. Each of the undercover agents he developed had an encrypted satellite communication device, and Sun Cheng had made some modifications to them, allowing him to better control these informants.
The fact that the satellite communication device of B-2 could not be located meant two possibilities: it had been fully decrypted, or it had been dismantled or damaged.
Either possibility indicated that the CIA senior operative known as B-2 was now in grave danger.
Staring fixedly at the photo of a middle-aged Caucasian man on the screen, Sun Cheng's core was operating at high speed.
He had connected to the base's network and was now searching for more detailed information about this man named Dylan Good.
The information sent by the informant code-named B-2 was quite detailed, focusing primarily on the Windsor Wife. The information he provided was more comprehensive than what the Mexican congressman had collected, and it shed light on the entire cargo ship's background.
This seemingly insignificant cargo company was actually an industry owned by the world's richest man, Dylan Good, in this world of Earth. It served only him and never accepted external orders.
Established in 1987, it had been busy for twenty years doing one thing—transporting antiques and luxury supercars purchased by Dylan Good at high prices from various wealthy countries such as European and American, the Middle East, and Japan, and quickly delivering them to his private museum in the United States.
Finding information about Dylan Good on the internet was a piece of cake for Sun Cheng, especially considering his status as Earth's richest man, and it would be challenging to have enough exposure even if one tried.
Soon, a constant stream of news, messages, and encyclopedic information about Dylan Good flowed from various corners of the internet, and Sun Cheng became the person who knew the most about Dylan Good in this world.
Dylan Good, the world's richest man with a fortune exceeding seventy billion dollars, was the second-generation heir of wealth, but he had surpassed his father.
Dylan Good's father was the former United States tycoon James Good. In the 1950s and 1960s of the last century, James Good, who was fired from a bank, started his business on Wall Street with a rented office and a second-hand desk he purchased from a thrift store. He founded an accounting firm named Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (DTT) and miraculously turned it into one of the finest accounting firms on Wall Street in just a few years.
When James Good passed away in 2006, the New York-based DTT had an annual income of 14.814 billion US dollars, with 109,460 employees, making it one of the world's largest accounting firms.
Dylan Good, while in college, developed a strong interest in venture capital. His interest was supported by his father, and he dropped out in his second year to start his own business. With the considerable funding provided by his father, he began providing venture capital to startup companies that possessed various new technologies.
In the next twenty years, he invested in almost all high-tech companies in the United States and even Europe, earning him the nickname "Investment Madman" and "Tech Catalyst."
Dylan Good was also a passionate collector of cars and artwork, owning several of the largest private luxury car museums in the United States, with collections of all famous car brands produced in Europe and America in the past century, as well as luxury supercars.
"Interesting... Very interesting..."
This United States man named Dylan Good gave Sun Cheng a strong sense of deja vu. He even saw a glimpse of his own future in him for a moment.
Indeed, Sun Cheng, who was trying to bring the technology from Transformers Universe into the real world, knew better than anyone else that he would eventually stand at the pinnacle of the Earth's pyramid in the real world.
And Dylan Good made him feel like he was looking at his own future.
"This guy seems to be too smooth-sailing..."
The CIA informant with the code name B-2 sent information about him not long ago, and shortly after sending the information pointing to Dylan Good, he lost contact. Simultaneously, the spy satellite that was responsible for transferring the data also lost contact.
All signs indicated that this human billionaire was not as simple as he seemed.
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