Chapter 193 The Arctic Circle (Patreon)

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Core discovered that Sideswipe didn't immediately catch up, clearly hindered by the two Decepticon engineers he had suddenly thrown out. Sun Cheng couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

This guy's personality is indeed as described in Jazz's memory data – ruthless towards Decepticons, never letting them escape once spotted.

Although he felt a bit sad for losing two engineers, Sun Cheng still felt like he had struck gold.

Were a mere two engineers more precious than his own life?

He cleverly took advantage of Sideswipe's cold-heartedness towards Decepticons, momentarily slowing down Sideswipe's pursuit.

Even if they only bought him a few extra seconds, it was enough.

After darting into the passage, Sun Cheng's frantic emotions quickly calmed down.

Rushing towards the exit of the passage, his hands were in constant motion.

He continuously retrieved sets of military C4 explosives from the spherical space, swiftly setting them up and tossing them into the passage behind him.

While walking and throwing, he had already set up seven or eight sets of C4 explosives within thirty seconds.

"Boom!"

Due to the extremely short countdown time, the explosions quickly followed, one after another, from behind!

The C4 bombs had tremendous destructive power, instantly causing the passage to collapse.

Despite the continuous onslaught of shockwaves and the scorching heat that reddened the surface of his mechanical body, Sun Cheng didn't halt his steps. He knew these C4 bombs weren't enough to completely destroy the passage specially designed by the Decepticon engineers to withstand tremors. They would only cause some sections of the passage to collapse with the concrete.

As expected, angry shouts and roars soon came from behind, indicating that although the bombs could delay Sideswipe's pursuit, their effect was limited to that.

However, it was enough.

Several sets of bombs bought him precious additional time of several tens of seconds. Sun Cheng had already pushed his speed to the limit.

Like a cheetah, he dashed swiftly through the passage and finally reached the end, where he saw a wall tightly sealed with steel.

"I've reached the exit!"

However, upon seeing this solidly sealed wall, Sun Cheng suddenly felt relieved.

A smile unconsciously appeared on his face. Amidst the approaching thunderous rumbling, he quickly raised the plasma cannon in his hand, aiming it at the steel wall in front of him, and then fired a blast.

"Bang!"

The highly concentrated energy suddenly exploded in front of him, instantly creating a hole in the thick steel wall of the US nuclear bomb launch silo that was large enough for him to pass through.

"Where are you running, Decepticon crawler..."

At the corner of the passage, more than ten meters away, Sideswipe's figure reappeared with a low, cold mechanical sound.

Sun Cheng turned his face and met his cold and deadly gaze, suddenly smiling at him. He raised his hand and fired three consecutive shots.

Then, without even looking at Sideswipe behind him, he leaped into the opening. Swiftly, he pushed off the wall on the other side of the launch well and quickly approached the well's mouth with a few moves.

"Trying to escape!"

Behind him, a low and cold roar came from Sideswipe.

Dodging the three plasma shots fired at him, Sideswipe followed closely and burst out of the tunnel.

Seeing Sun Cheng already at the mouth of the launch well, his eyes filled with killing intent, he suddenly made a move and summoned his triangular-edged blade, taking aim at Sun Cheng and forcefully throwing it.

"Swish!"

The sharp blade effortlessly pierced through Soulhunter's pop-up blocker Sun Cheng's right leg, pinning him to the wall.

"Damn it!"

Mechanical life also experiences pain, although the sensation is entirely different from that of carbon-based life forms. It transmits a specially designed data to the Core, as if in an instant, a virus file called 'pain' exploded within the Core, causing temporary information processing issues.

The blade pierced through his mechanical body's right leg, firmly securing it to the wall.

Sun Cheng looked down, his eyes sharp with determination.

While aiming the plasma cannon at Sideswipe below, he fired two more shots. The substantial energy consumption in his Spark made him feel a strong sense of weakness, similar to what he experienced months ago during the interstellar communication.

With his left hand busy, he firmly grabbed the other end of the blade and forcefully pulled it out.

"Screech..."

Accompanied by the piercing sound of the blade rubbing and piercing through his right leg, he swiftly removed the blade from his leg.

"Now it's mine..."

With a fierce expression on his face, he spoke coldly to Sideswipe, who had already chased him down four or five meters below. Sun Cheng immediately picked up the peculiar blade knife and forcefully kicked off the wall, leaping up once again.

The next moment, he felt a sudden change in the field of vision captured by his electronic eyes, and he jumped out of the launch well.

"Da da da..."

As soon as he jumped out, Sun Cheng's mechanical body was instantly marked with rows of bullet scars.

Guarding the entrance of the well was Ratchet, the Autobots' medical officer.

The scattered miniature detectors around the entrance had already informed him of the situation here. However, even with Ratchet guarding, Sun Cheng suddenly felt relieved.

Although Ratchet was one of the finest medical personnel on Cybertron Planet, he was not a formidable warrior.

Despite the series of cracks left on his mechanical body by the machine gun equipped by Ratchet, Sun Cheng paid no attention. After jumping out of the well and landing, he rolled to the side, creating some distance between them. Then, he swiftly jumped up again, storing Sideswipe's peculiar triangular-bladed knife in a spherical space and immediately transforming into the form of a death drone, soaring into the sky.

On the ground, Sideswipe, who had just climbed out of the well, angrily stared at his silhouette in the sky and growled, "Come back, you Decepticon thief..."

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Climbing rapidly, he ascended to an altitude of over 10,000 meters.

With the Core fully activated, Sun Cheng quickly realized that a special satellite from outer space had locked onto him.

"This is... an infrared scan?"

His heart sank. Now Sun Cheng finally understood why his actions had been exposed.

Soon, the Core detected six fighter jets approaching him at high speed from a distance of 300 kilometers.

After carefully analyzing the data transmitted by the Core scan, he came to a conclusion.

It was an F-22!

The U.S. military had deployed their latest and most advanced fourth-generation fighter, currently in use on Earth!

Having just emerged from a fierce battle, and to avoid any subsequent unpredictable circumstances, Sun Cheng increased his flight altitude to over 25,000 meters. He then headed north at full speed, eluding the U.S. military's interception and entering Canadian airspace after half an hour.

After flying for a while, as he began to sense the chaotic influence of the Earth's magnetic field, he used satellite data to determine his direction and realized that he had entered the Arctic Circle.

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