"Supreme Intelligence?" Sam and the others looked up at the enormous pair of eyes appearing in the sky. Their minds swam, and the scene before them instantly changed.
Simmons looked at the familiar base surrounding him and, for a moment, could no longer tell whether what he had just seen and sensed had been real or an illusion.
A person who made Simmons and Sam stare wide-eyed in shock slowly walked across the metal floor.
"Mikaela?" The two nearly shouted the name of the woman before them in unison. But they immediately realized that, logically speaking, she could not possibly be here.
"She is not the Mikaela you know." Optimus Prime stepped forward, dropped to one knee, and scanned the woman's body before reaching his conclusion.
"She is merely an image of someone connected to you in your recent memories. I borrowed her appearance to manifest before you." The woman's voice rang in Sam and the others' ears.
"Supreme Intelligence?" Sam and Simmons exchanged glances before cautiously asking.
"It is me." Mikaela nodded. "This is my Consciousness Space. You may also understand it as a Virtual Network Consciousness Space. Time, matter, and space here are all under my control. I believe this will facilitate our next stage of communication."
"Wait, you can search our memories? Damn it! My head is full of state secrets!" Simmons' expression abruptly changed as he looked at Mikaela's beautiful face. If she could find Mikaela in their memories, then she could obviously access other memories as well. And from the looks of it, they had no way to guard against it. As an agent, he could not help imagining even worse possibilities.
"To me, the secrets in your head are insignificant. The technologies and secrets I have stored are far more important to you.
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