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Chapter 343: Returning to the Far East
🕑 Added 2023-07-17 04:42:12 +0000 UTCTransformers Begin : Table of Content/Chapter List
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Looking down from a high vantage point at the neatly arranged rows of industrial robots that had yet to be activated, Sun Cheng immediately showed a satisfied smile on his face.
These were the newly produced robots from the factory, and there were quite a lot of them.
"Master, under your wise leadership, our production capacity has recently increased. This is a batch of just-manufactured industrial robots, with a total of 164 units, all of which are here. In addition, there are also 23 combat robots that have been manufactured and activated, and they are currently assigned to duty in the western region of the canyon."
The new Decepticon, who looked about three meters tall and was flattering and introducing himself to Sun Cheng, was a member of Atlas's original Decepticon engineering team and one of his right-hand men.
Although the mechanical bodies of the two didn't look much different, it was obvious that the Decepticon standing next to Sun Cheng was not a combat type, as his mechanical body looked thinner and he had not equipped many weapon systems. On the contrary, his arms looked somewhat disproportionate to his body.
Sun Cheng heard the voice and turned his gaze to Dassas.
As versatile technical elites, the likes of the engineering troops were probably only used as the most humble slave labor by mechanical life forces with a strong hierarchical system like the Decepticon army. This was undoubtedly a serious waste of resources.
Sun Cheng had thought a long time ago that one day, when he had built his own power, he would use these good steel engineering troops at the most critical point.
Obviously, he had done it now.
Mechanical life, like human beings, had an infinite desire for knowledge and evolution. Actually, Sun Cheng had not done much. Compared with those Leaders of the Decepticon army, he had just relaxed the shackles that had been on the engineering troops for millions of years.
Nodding slowly, Sun Cheng's expression was very pleased: "Well done, Dassas. But it's not enough. I need more industrial robots, and the same goes for combat robots!"
From the scale of the second base, it was almost unnecessary to invest more robots in expanding it, but this did not mean that they did not need to continue production.
On the contrary, Sun Cheng now needed a large number of cheap labor that cost only hundreds of thousands of dollars but could meet dozens of needs from infrastructure to industrial production, and this demand was almost limitless.
As for why, it was not difficult to explain. Although the expansion of the second base had encountered bottlenecks, relying on the underground cave base, it was no longer possible to continue expanding, otherwise it might affect the mountain structure and be easily destroyed by natural disasters or high-yield drilling missiles.
However, although the underground cave could not be expanded, it did not mean that the long canyon outside and the surrounding remote mountainous areas did not have this problem.
Although Sun Cheng did not immediately move to control Brazil, he also had the idea of including the canyon where the base was located and the surrounding hundreds of square kilometers into the expansion territory.
In fact, relying on the expansion of the second base, Sun Cheng and his team had been expanding outward. Therefore, their demand for industrial robots responsible for combat and surveillance was far from being met by just a few hundred or thousands of industrial robots. The gap was so big that it was as vast as the sea.
Without any hesitation, as Atlas's right-hand man, Dassas knew some of Sun Cheng's ambitions.
So he answered without hesitation: "Master, your orders are our will. We awakened another engineering troop yesterday, and in at most half a month, the new production factory will be able to be established. By then, our production capacity will be at least doubled on the basis of the current situation."
When Sun Cheng heard this, his face visibly twitched.
The so-called awakened engineering troops were actually the mindless and unconscious robots manufactured by the base, which were forcibly transformed into Decepticons by releasing special energy radiation through the fragments of the All Spark that he held in his hand.
Not long ago, with the help of Teletraan, he personally conducted an experiment and the newly-born Decepticon engineer, Adam, was the result of that experiment. At the time, he was so excited that he even named it "Adam," a meaningful name as the first human created by God in Western mythology.
However, the idea was good, but reality was incredibly cruel. Despite Teletraan recording and saving all the experimental data from that time, when Sun Cheng ambitiously attempted to mass-produce intelligent and rational mechanical life, reality dealt him a harsh blow.
Two consecutive attempts failed, causing the base to not only lose a lot of energy and resources, but also damaged the All Spark fragment used as a radiation source. Even after absorbing sufficient energy, it took nearly half a month to recover.
Thanks to the successful example of "Adam" in front of them, Sun Cheng and his team managed to overcome the subsequent setbacks. Thus, a protracted war of attrition began.
Up to now, he and Teletraan have conducted more than twenty awakening experiments, with countless resources invested, including two All Spark fragments that Sun Cheng painfully sacrificed. However, the results are still not optimistic, with only five successful experiments out of more than twenty, a success rate of less than 20%. This has only increased the number of new Decepticons by five, and if Sun Cheng had used those resources to manufacture industrial robots, he could have had at least one more battalion.
Unfortunately, Sun Cheng and his team have yet to understand any rules that can improve the success rate of awakening new Decepticons. This shows just how much they are hurting.
Fortunately, the importance of having intelligent and rational mechanical life is not lost on Sun Cheng. For now, he can only hold back the pain and nonchalantly respond, "Understood. Engineers cannot have any mistakes in the cultivation and training of the new engineers."
Without waiting for Dassas to answer, Sun Cheng's gaze returned to the industrial robots in front of him and he ordered, "Go and prepare. Install this batch of industrial robots according to the standard. Also, bring over thirty more combat robots. I need them!"
Looking towards the northwest, Sun Cheng's blue eyes flickered incessantly. According to the agreement, the evacuation work for the personnel of the hydroelectric power station named "Long Han" that China has agreed to transfer to him should be almost completed. It was time for him to go back to that Far Eastern country to take over the large-scale hydroelectric power station that was nearing completion and complete some preliminary transactions between the two parties.
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