Transformers Begin

When Sun Cheng regained consciousness, the blue light was flickering in his four mechanical eyes.

"Only one second of unconsciousness before and after?"

After learning of the time change from the Core within his body, Sun Cheng was obviously surprised. He was somewhat incredulous as he quickly reconnected the computer in front of him. After calibrating the time between the interconnect network and this world, he confirmed that he had not made a mistake.

The long night and various experiences of the next morning in another world had no effect on this place at all.

As if a pair of mysterious hands had frozen the time of this world with incredible power at the moment he crossed back to reality.

It was truly miraculous!

"Incredible!"

He murmured softly, but unfortunately, it came out as electronic sound. Sun Cheng stood up, retrieved his right arm from the host box, and was about to turn off the computer and leave when he suddenly heard a sound. He looked for the source of the sound and found a palm-sized object had fallen from the chair beside him.

A palm-sized phone, a phone that shouldn't even exist.

When his ultra-clear electronic eye clearly captured the shadow of the phone in the dim environment, Sun Cheng was visibly stunned.

"Is this my iPhone 5?"

Looking closely, wasn't it the iPhone 5 developed and manufactured by Apple in the United States?

Although there was also an Apple company in this parallel world, the world line had only just reached AD 2007. Even the first generation of the iPhone had just been released two months ago and had not even been officially launched.

Although he was full of doubts, he immediately jumped off the stool and picked up the phone from the ground, then turned it over to see a barely visible scorch mark. It was the mark left by a cigarette butt when he had dinner with his roommate two years ago.

Suddenly, Sun Cheng was sure that this was the phone his family gave him when he entered college.

"It's really my phone. Strange, how did it cross over with me?"

After quickly entering the startup password and entering the phone's operating interface, Sun Cheng looked at the empty signal bars and felt deeply puzzled.

Just as he was puzzled, his face suddenly changed. He had already sensitively detected a sound of footsteps outside the office hallway, followed by the voice of a middle-aged man.

"Hey, why is there light in the office ahead? Hey, Tom, is someone working overtime today?"

"Oh no!"

Sun Cheng secretly cursed. Although he had turned off the computer, the light emitted by the phone screen in the dark night was very eye-catching.

Subconsciously, he closed the screen of his phone!

But as soon as he did, Sun Cheng regretted it. Wasn't he telling the other person that there was something suspicious going on here?

Sure enough, just as he closed the screen of his phone, the footsteps in the hallway, which had been slow and steady, suddenly accelerated, and the middle-aged man's voice became tense: "Unknown lights detected on the 2nd floor, repeat, unknown lights detected on the 2nd floor, suspected intruder..."

Sun Cheng wasn't a professional spy, and he was nervous for a while before he regained his senses. He put his phone on the computer desk and immediately activated the Transformation function, transforming himself into a tape recorder and carefully hiding.

Although he had transformed into a tape recorder, it did not affect his observation of the outside world in the slightest, although his field of vision was somewhat smaller than when he was in his humanoid form.

Sun Cheng clearly saw that about twenty seconds after he transformed, the door to the office opened and a flashlight shone into the room.

"Is anyone here?"

It was the middle-aged man he had heard earlier, cautiously hiding outside the door, holding a flashlight in one hand and a Colt revolver in the other, cautiously shouting into the office.

After shouting four or five times and still not discovering any suspicious figures lurking inside, the man, who seemed to be a security guard at the research center, could no longer hold back. He temporarily put the flashlight in his mouth, held the gun in one hand, and carefully felt along the wall with the other hand. When he found the switch for the room light, he pressed it without hesitation.

"Snap!"

The dim office suddenly became bright, and Sun Cheng could finally see clearly. A black man in his forties with a common bald head was cautiously guarding outside the office, although he had a potbelly, his sturdy arms revealed that he exercised regularly.

After the lights came on, everything in the office was clear, but there was no sign of anyone.

However, the black security guard remained vigilant and cautiously walked in with his gun, step by step, checking the few possible hiding spaces under the desks in the room. After he confirmed that there was no one there, he breathed a sigh of relief and put the gun back in its holster.

"Hey, Hatch, how's it going? Should we call the police?"

An urgent inquiry came from the walkie-talkie on the black security guard's waist.

The security guard wiped the sweat from his forehead and reluctantly picked up the walkie-talkie. "Sorry, buddy. I think I was mistaken. It might have just been someone's phone ringing suddenly..."

Walking up to Sun Cheng's desk where his transformation was, he saw the iPhone 5 he had placed on the table. The black man picked it up and fiddled with it, making Sun Cheng extremely tense and ready to transform at any moment. But then he put it back in its original place.

"Oh, Hatch. I finally understand why they let you retire before the Iraq War ended. Buddy, I suggest you go see a therapist!"

"Shut up, Tom!"

Perhaps being mocked by his colleague, the black security guard shouted through the intercom and then shut it off.

He stuffed it back in his pocket, seemingly still unsatisfied. He turned around and kicked the desk next to him.

"Bang!"

The violent shaking caused the iPhone 5 that he had carelessly placed on the edge of the desk to fall to the ground, making a "crack" sound.

"Damn it!"

Seeing the phone being kicked to the ground by the black security guard, Sun Cheng felt a surge of anger. This phone had special meaning to him.

Seeing that the black security guard only glanced at the phone on the ground and walked towards the office door without any intention of picking it up, he even stepped on it, leaving a set of dirty marks.

Feeling even more angry, Sun Cheng activated his transformation function and jumped up high, flying towards him.

Obviously, the sudden sound behind him alerted the black security guard.

Unfortunately, he had just turned around and only caught a glimpse of two silver-white figures. The next moment, he felt a pain in his throat and forehead, his eyes immediately became congested, and his body convulsed for only two or three seconds before he fell heavily to the ground.

"Bang!"

Sun Cheng landed steadily next to the black man's corpse, trembling slightly in his mechanical body. Despite the discomfort after killing someone, he coldly looked at the guard for a moment before immediately walking over to pick up the phone.

Seeing a dent in the corner of the phone, he felt even more heartbroken. Along with the remorse and fear that was boiling in his heart, they all dissipated. Without looking back, he left the office.