After working tirelessly for more than ten days, Sun Cheng looked at the completely refurbished underground nuclear missile silo, a satisfied glint appearing in his eyes.
Ever since seeing the Americans' Sector Seven base, even he could not help admiring them. After all, being able to carve out such an enormous base amid hard mountain rock and cliffs decades ago showed that their infrastructure capabilities were not to be underestimated.
After taking over this underground nuclear missile silo like a cuckoo occupying a magpie's nest, Sun Cheng became even more certain that the United States possessed equally terrifying engineering capabilities.
The fifteen-kilometer-long tunnels and more than sixty thousand square meters of underground construction area undoubtedly gave him plenty of room to work with. After rewiring the electrical system and installing all the machinery he had purchased, Sun Cheng started the diesel generators.
Accompanied by deep, rumbling roars, lights finally illuminated this underground nuclear missile silo again after it had been abandoned for nearly forty years.
Redesigning a more powerful body for himself had, frankly, progressed very poorly—or rather, he had no idea where to begin.
Although the [Spark] possessed immense computing power, Sun Cheng had absolutely no experience in mechanical manufacturing, weapons design, or anything of the sort. He had no choice but to secretly infiltrate several American universities to obtain textbooks and start learning from scratch.
Compared to his lack of progress in body enhancement design, Sun Cheng had achieved decent results in other areas. For example, in his own fields of [Microelectronics] and even [Computers], he had recently been using the [Spark]'s immense computing power to assist his memorization and deductions, benefiting greatly from it.
In the blink of an eye, he had been in this world for nearly a month. Sun Cheng was already desperately homesick.
"It's about time I went back to the real world!"
After calculating in his mind, he recalled that the countdown on one of the light screens inside the mysterious spherical space hidden within his body was about to run out.
Although Sun Cheng still had not figured out what that countdown represented, it was not hard to guess that something was bound to happen once it reached zero.
He just did not know whether some changes would occur within the spherical space—or in the real world itself.
With a thought, the exoskeletal armor around his body's lower abdomen suddenly split apart, revealing an iPhone 5.
He held it in his hand and gently rubbed it for a moment. Though he was still somewhat reluctant, he soon placed the phone in a corner of his laboratory.
Then he turned to look at an IBM server in front of him, blue light flickering in his eyes.
This server, newly released by IBM in this world at the end of last year, was the best enterprise-grade server he could buy after spending more than seven hundred thousand dollars.
However, after acquiring it, from the perspective of someone from the future and with the abilities of a Decepticon, this enterprise-grade server advertised as "the strongest for the next five years" was really nothing special.
Its chips only used eight Xeon E3-1200 v3 processors, two 16GB DDR3 memory sticks, and a 1TB hard drive. Its server optimization was probably the only thing that could be considered decent.
Thus, with his computer software and hardware skills greatly improved, Sun Cheng simply used it for practice. Not only did he personally replace the hardware with eight newly released Intel Xeon E5-2600 processors and two 32GB DDR3 memory sticks, but he also optimized the server's system himself.
After completing all that, Sun Cheng even spent dozens of energy points to use the Decepticons' enhancement function on it, carrying out a series of upgrades.
After all that effort, he had finally produced an absurdly powerful server that, even if placed in the real world of 2016, could outperform the vast majority of servers on the market.
Sun Cheng planned to use it for an experiment, to verify a long-held conjecture: that he could bring items placed beside him back to reality.
This was extremely important!
If bringing the Level 2 core he had obtained from Starscream back to reality last time had not been an accident, it would hold tremendous significance for him, someone capable of traveling back and forth between two worlds.
He picked up a handbag stuffed with diamonds and large gold bars from a corner of the laboratory, hugged it to his chest, then walked over to the server and sat on the floor with his back against it.
The moment he thought of the mysterious spherical space hidden somewhere inside his body, he soon sensed a faint, indistinct fluctuation.
This was a new ability Sun Cheng had only gained after his trip to Sector Seven.
That day, after touching the [AllSpark] and evolving his core into a [Spark], he had accidentally discovered two days later that whenever he thought of that mysterious spherical space, he could vaguely sense its existence.
When Sun Cheng controlled his consciousness and tried to approach that faint fluctuation, he soon felt a sudden pull. Before he could react, the world spun around him.
When he regained his senses, he was shocked to find that he had entered that mysterious sea-blue spherical space.
"So I'm back here again?"
Eager to return to reality, he had to expend considerable effort just to suppress the excitement in his heart.
After taking a careful look around the spherical space, Sun Cheng quickly noticed that this place seemed to have changed.
The spherical space appeared to have grown somewhat larger. Although it had always emitted a faint sea-blue glow, it had once been extremely dim. Now, it was considerably brighter.
Besides that, the most obvious change was that the two light screens originally standing in the center of the space had become three.
The moment his gaze caught that change, Sun Cheng's heart gave a slight jolt.
He hurriedly controlled his ghostlike body and floated toward the light screen on the far left, the one representing the [Real World]. Once it lit up, he quickly looked over and saw the same image as before—him sleeping in his school dormitory room. Only then did he let out a long breath.
His gaze casually swept toward the lower-left corner, and he soon let out a soft sound of surprise.
Sun Cheng remembered that there had originally been two sets of numbers in the lower-left corner of this light screen: one was a blue star count, while the other was a red star countdown. Yet now, only the blue star count remained, and its number had changed to 3750/5000.
He quickly controlled his body and floated toward the light screen on the far right. Once it lit up, he indeed saw an image of his body sitting with the handbag in its arms and its back against the server. When he looked at the numbers in the lower-left corner, Sun Cheng saw the change there as well. Aside from a white star and the 1/3 figure after it, the blue star and its corresponding number had vanished.
With a touch of unease and anticipation, Sun Cheng silently floated before the newly appeared light screen in the center.
The next second, the light screen lit up.
However, only a line of text and numbers appeared at the very bottom of it.
"Unknown parallel world merging. Countdown—01:47:17!"
"Unknown parallel world merging? What does that mean?"
There was simply too little information available, so Sun Cheng could only analyze it literally. "Could this light screen also generate an unknown otherworld like the Decepticon world?"
Seeing that there were less than two hours left before he would learn what this newly appeared light screen meant, Sun Cheng simply waited inside the spherical space.
Time passed bit by bit. Just as Sun Cheng's mind began to grow weary from the monotonous wait, he finally saw the countdown on the newly appeared light screen reach zero.
The next second, a violent yet dazzling image suddenly appeared on the blank portion of the light screen above the text and data.
A transparent curtain of light, like glass, separated two enormous vortices radiating blinding seven-colored light. Yet the two massive rainbow vortices continued spinning as they violently crashed into the transparent screen between them. A howling meteor shower streaked through the void, converging and colliding with deafening booms.
Brilliant bursts of light erupted one after another. The two enormous rainbow vortices rotated silently, constantly tugging as they drew the transparent curtain between them into their depths.
Gradually, the curtain of light between them grew thinner and fainter. Before long, it finally vanished completely.
The next second, with no barrier left between them, the two enormous rainbow vortices collided fiercely.
Surging currents shot outward, and radiant clouds stretched across the sky. The two enormous rainbow vortices went from violently pulling against each other to quietly blending together, until they finally merged completely.
Soon, when everything had settled once more, Sun Cheng clearly saw another change appear on the light screen.
Beneath the now-still image, two new lines of text and data refreshed.
"[Jurassic Park] integration complete!" "Unknown parallel world integration in progress. Countdown—103679:59:59!"
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