Transformers Begin

Sun Cheng shook his brand new iPhone 5 casually in his hand, feeling extremely bored. Baricade had disappeared two days ago, leaving him with the words "Wait for me here" and then vanished into thin air.

The boss had left him stranded, and Sun Cheng regretted returning to this world so carelessly. He gazed around at the piles of garbage surrounding him in a large scrapyard outside Washington, feeling frustrated despite not being able to smell anything.

It had been two whole days. Sun Cheng had come back to this world to confirm whether he had the ability to travel to parallel universes, but now he regretted his rash decision.

He had assumed that after traveling back and forth once, he would be able to return to the real world easily. However, Sun Cheng wished he could slap himself for thinking that way.

He had played himself!

Baricade had left him intentionally and quickly left for the real world after he had dealt with Sun Cheng. However, Sun Cheng had overlooked the most crucial issue - he had no idea how to enter the spherical space.

This was a major embarrassment!

Sun Cheng had yet to figure out how he had entered the spherical space the last time he was at the research center. He didn't even know how he could enter the spherical space while in the real world, only having a vague feeling that certain conditions needed to be met.

Unable to return to the real world for now, Sun Cheng dared not run around recklessly. He worried that if the US government discovered him, they would send out an army to capture and disassemble him to research the composition of mechanical life.

Having nothing to do, he could only wander around quietly at night. Sun Cheng had taken the opportunity to study his Core and mechanical body carefully, discovering a function that the Decepticons seemed to neglect, but was extremely powerful - enhancement!

Perhaps because Decepticons are Mechanical Life Forms, they have an innate ability to enhance electronic devices.

In fact, Sun Cheng had already used this ability when he invaded the network that night.

Although the IBM computer hardware he temporarily commandeered was not bad, it wasn't exactly great either.

After the invasion function was activated, Sun Cheng's [Core]--[Spy Template]took over all the data processing and downloading. But he still needed to use that IBM computer as an intrusion port, so he temporarily enhanced it by assimilating it with his mechanical body, making it part of his body and greatly improving its configuration.

Strictly speaking, this enhancement was not a true enhancement. Sun Cheng had only temporarily assimilated the IBM computer with his body. After he canceled the assimilation, it would return to its original state and would not waste much of his energy.

The enhancement function Sun Cheng discovered could permanently enhance electronic devices by consuming Decepticon's energon. The effect was unimaginably significant.

For example, Sun Cheng was now enhancing the only electronic device he had with him, an iPhone 5 that inexplicably came with him on his time travel journey.

An invisible blue fluorescence flowed from his fingers, which had already transformed and inserted into the phone's interface, and comprehensively detected the phone.

At the same time, the [Core]in his mind kept sending Sun Cheng prompts: "Processor has reached the enhancement limit...screen has reached the enhancement limit...camera has reached the enhancement limit...battery can be further enhanced...memory card can be further enhanced. Do you want to consume one unit of energy to enhance this electronic device?"

"Enhance!"

As he gave the command, Sun Cheng suddenly felt a sense of emptiness in his body. Having experienced this feeling several times in the past two days, he naturally knew that it was due to the permanent loss of energy stored in his [Core].

Decepticons have many similarities with humans, such as humans having a heart and brain, while Decepticons have their [Core].

Energy is like blood for Decepticons.

It is a bit unfortunate that while humans can constantly produce blood through the bone marrow, Decepticons cannot. The amount of energy stored in a Decepticon's [Core] after birth determines their status and life.

For example, the lowest level Decepticon spy, "Frenzy", has about 750 points of energy stored in the Core. Based on Earth's time, it would take him about five days to consume one point of energy, so his theoretical lifespan is about 3750 days, or just over ten years.

Of course, that's just a theoretical algorithm. As seen in a recent internet intrusion a few days ago, "Frenzy" consumed four points of energy in just a few minutes. This shows that he is nothing more than a low-level cannon fodder for the Decepticon army.

Fortunately, the energy in the Core can be replenished. From "Frenzy's" memory data, Sun Cheng learned that if they do well for the Decepticons, they will be rewarded with some energy to replenish their consumption. This is one of the reasons why he is willing to waste energy to enhance his phone.

However, it is somewhat regrettable that Sun Cheng could not find information about the promotion of low-level Decepticons. It seems that once this mechanical race is born, its future status is determined.

This is not good news!

Energy is still flowing into the phone continuously, and Sun Cheng can feel the changes in the phone through the data monitoring function of the Spy Template, with blue light flashing in his eyes.

It's unbelievable!

Although the phone his family gave him back then was also top-of-the-line, it was still an old model from three or four years ago, and being outdated was inevitable.

However, after several enhancements he made to his phone in the past two days, not only did the performance of the Core A6 processor increase by nearly eight times, but the performance of the dual-core processor was almost maximized, and even the screen and camera had remarkable improvements.

But that's not the most surprising thing to Sun Cheng. What really amazed him was that the original lithium battery with only a little over 1,000 mAh in his phone had increased its capacity by at least twenty times after a few enhancements.

And the most insane discovery was the memory card in his phone. The original 64GB memory had now been expanded by nearly 48 times, which is simply insane!

These discoveries undoubtedly temporarily diverted Sun Cheng's energetic attention.

As there were no further references available, he decided to study it himself. As a result, Sun Cheng discovered the Decepticons, a kind of mechanical life form that possessed advanced technology beyond his imagination in both energy and memory storage chips.

Let's not talk about energy for now, as it's not his field of expertise, and Sun Cheng only has a vague understanding of it.

However, he had some knowledge of memory storage chips as he majored in microelectronics, which enabled him to have some idea of where to start.

Over the past few days, Sun Cheng repeatedly studied his current mechanical body and discovered that he had two storage chips embedded in it. One of the chips was integrated into the Spy Template and could store an incredible amount of information, equivalent to nearly 440EB if converted into human data formulas.

The other chip was placed outside the head of the Core and used for storing invaded or stolen data, though its capacity was lower than the memory chip, it was still around 165PB.

Even the lowest-level Decepticon spy had such powerful memory storage chips, which amazed Sun Cheng. After learning about this, he could not imagine how advanced the technology of this mechanical race was in this area.

After spending half a day thoroughly enhancing his iPhone 5, he hadn't had a chance to try out its new features yet when he suddenly heard a dog barking.

Just as he was about to climb up the scrap heap to investigate, Sun Cheng's body suddenly froze. It turned out that the Core inside him had received an audio message, "Come out, it's me!"

The familiar tone belonged to Baricade, who had been missing for two days. Although he was curious where Baricade had been all this time, he dared not ask.

Sun Cheng quickly grabbed his phone and headed to the corner of the junkyard, tracking Baricade's signal.

There, a black-and-white Ford Mustang police car was parked quietly, and the passenger door was wide open.

On the driver's seat, the middle-aged white man projected by Baricade stared coldly at Sun Cheng, who had just climbed into the passenger seat. When Sun Cheng looked up at him, the middle-aged white man squeezed out a smile that was cold and stiff.

"Let's go. Someone important wants to see you!"

Sun Cheng was taken aback and wanted to ask who it was, but he was afraid Baricade would not tell him. He hesitated for a moment before asking, "Where are we going now?"

"Tucson!"