Chapter 44 All Spark Source (Patreon)

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The Black Canyon near Nevada and Arizona is not exactly big, but not small either.

Before coming, Sun Cheng had done some research. The Black Canyon covers several hundred square kilometers, but most of the surrounding areas are dry desert lands, making it easy to exclude them.

After arriving at the Black Canyon and searching for clues for half a day, Sun Cheng realized that he had hit a dead end. He then turned his attention to the most famous landmark in the area, the Hoover Dam.

"Since I'm already here, I might as well take a look. I won't lose anything!"

Although he doubted that the Black Canyon mentioned by Professor Brewster, who used to work at the University of Arizona, was referring to this place, he didn't think much about the Hoover Dam. Based on the clues he had gathered, the mysterious meteorite found in the Baglin Crater had been transported away around 1912, while the construction of the Hoover Dam did not begin until the Great Depression, nearly twenty years later. No matter how much he tried to connect them, he couldn't link the two events together.

"Did I get it wrong? Maybe the Black Canyon Professor Brewster mentioned is not even here?"

Under the cover of darkness, Sun Cheng quietly approached the Hoover Dam, but could not help but mutter to himself.

In the past few hours, he had searched all the suspicious areas nearby with the help of his new mechanical body's high mobility, but still could not find anything suspicious, which disappointed him.

Just as he entered the Hoover Dam, he suddenly felt the Spy Template inside his body detecting surveillance equipment. He cautiously stopped in his tracks.

After hesitating for a moment, Sun Cheng released two groups of insect scouts and flew them towards the Hoover Dam.

Now, even the base where he had thought he could temporarily use as a supply station, Onslaught's base, was off-limits.

Without a supply point, Sun Cheng had to rely on weapons he could find in American weapons stores, besides the bullets he had. His other reliance, the insect scouts, were disposable, and even though their capabilities were strong, their range was only ten kilometers, and their battery life was too short, making it almost impossible to recover them.

The two groups of insect scouts approached the Hoover Dam carefully and transmitted the images they took back one by one.

"Wow, there are so many surveillance devices installed near the Hoover Dam..."

Near the Hoover Dam, on the top of a steep mountain on the side of the canyon, Sun Cheng used the insect scouts to carefully investigate the Hoover Dam and began to hesitate whether or not to explore the dam at night.

After reviewing the data received by the insect scouts, he was surprised to find that two to three hundred sets of surveillance equipment had been captured in the two-kilometer radius around the Hoover Dam, which was even denser than the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base he had invaded before.

The Hoover Dam was indeed an important waterway hub on the Colorado River. Besides the dense surveillance equipment, the insect scouts also discovered that there were as many as a hundred security personnel stationed around the dam.

From the images taken by the insect scouts, the security personnel near the dam were equipped with a large number of light and heavy weapons, and even anti-aircraft missiles were detected.

"The Hoover Dam is indeed an important waterway hub in the United States!"

This level of defense was not unreasonable for the Hoover Dam. Seeing that the energy of the two groups of insect scouts was about to run out, Sun Cheng thought for a moment and decided to let them continue their exploration by entering the dam through the elevator and exhaust pipe.

Like most countries, the Hoover Dam also allowed tourists to visit. It was said that the tickets were very cheap and it was open to the public seven days a week.

However, Sun Cheng's current appearance would probably attract unwanted attention, and he would likely be attacked on sight.

"Get the alien and dissect it!" This was probably the common reaction of all Earth countries when they saw a stranded alien, especially a robot.

The group of insect scouts that descended into the interior of the dam through the elevator did not find anything more, and the images they captured were basically available on the internet, which Sun Cheng had already seen.

He wanted to direct them to some areas forbidden to tourists, but their energy was already depleted, and he didn't know where they had fallen.

On the other hand, the other group of insect scouts, through an exhaust pipe, actually entered the restricted area inside the dam and transmitted back many images.

What surprised Sun Cheng even more was that it transmitted back a set of images before running out of energy, which shocked him.

"Wait a minute, there are several hidden passages inside the mountain next to the Hoover Dam?"

The discovery of the insect scout surprised Sun Cheng. According to his investigation, most of the mountains near the Hoover Dam are hard andesite and conglomerate. It is difficult to excavate passages in such places, and the passages vary in size. The smaller ones are obviously for human access, but some of the larger passages have steel rails, which are obviously used for transporting large machinery. This discovery immediately piqued his interest.

"Strange, are these facilities really necessary for a hydraulic project? They look more like a large military base. Could it be..."

Suddenly realizing that he might have picked up another clue, Sun Cheng suppressed his excitement and quietly avoided one monitoring device after another, descending from the cliff wall until he reached a spillway below the dam.

The spillway can lead to the interior of the Hoover Dam, but there are three gates in the middle to prevent water from flowing back into the dam during discharge.

But this didn't stop Sun Cheng, because it was the flood season of the Colorado River in April and May, and the Hoover Dam would almost always perform small-scale discharges at night, which gave him the opportunity to sneak into the interior through the spillway.

He jumped into the spillway despite the water column that sprayed out, making his scalp numb. However, after calculating the impact force with his Core and determining that he could withstand it without being swept away, he finally jumped into the spillway.

"Crack!"

The first time he was unprepared and was swept out of the spillway by the water column that sprayed towards him, he fell to the bottom.

After climbing out, he remembered his lesson and immediately transformed into his beast form, then jumped in again after aiming at the location. In the moment when he entered the spillway, he fiercely inserted his front paws into the wall.

"Boom..."

The rushing water hit him hard, and his mechanical body shook with it, but this time Sun Cheng was well prepared and didn't get swept out again.

At this point, he firmly moved forward step by step, pushing forward despite the water current. It took him three or four points of energy to cover the short hundred meters of the spillway, and he finally reached the end.

"Thud..."

After crossing the first gate through the spillway, Sun Cheng entered a huge water tank, which was a place for intermediate water storage in the dam. Although it was tightly sealed, there were still several pipes that could be used to leave.

After judging the direction of the water flow for a while, Sun Cheng entered one of the pipes and crawled forward on all fours for several hundred meters, experiencing more than ten climbs and turns along the way, before entering a smaller water tank. After groping around for a while, Sun Cheng forcibly broke open the locked exit above the water tank and finally entered the interior of the dam.

The next moment, a strange energy wave came from afar, stimulating his Core to beat violently.

"This feeling...can't be wrong. It's the All Spark that Onslaught mentioned, the feeling that seems to elevate both life and soul..."

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