When they were still forty or fifty kilometers from Hoover Dam, Sun Cheng, Pioneer, and Onslaught had no choice but to stop.
"We have trouble!"
After recalling a group of advanced insect scouts he had deployed, his expression turned grave. "From here on, there are dense human patrols..."
He projected an image for Onslaught of a temporary outpost two kilometers away, consisting of four United States National Guard troop carriers. Sun Cheng's scouts had discovered that the closer they got to Hoover Dam, the more such U.S. military outposts there were.
Although this small force was nothing to the trio—even the newly born Pioneer could easily destroy it.
However, what Sun Cheng feared was what it represented: the Americans had strengthened Sector Seven's defenses yet again.
Onslaught merely glanced at the image he projected before turning away. His expression showed little change, but the flicker in his eyes said it all.
Though he was one of the few rational Decepticons, he was still as proud and arrogant as most of them. Now that he possessed new weapons, he naturally had fewer reservations and more defiance.
Sun Cheng frowned slightly but said nothing more.
Ever since confirming that the AllSpark was here, he had paid close attention to Sector Seven.
Though he had not infiltrated it again to gather intelligence, Sun Cheng had taken the opportunity to leave a backdoor in the ground control console of a military satellite, allowing him to monitor developments here almost every day.
According to the intelligence he had gathered during this period, this was already the third time the United States Government had reinforced Sector Seven's defenses since his last intrusion.
The first reinforcement came just a few days after he infiltrated Sector Seven. Under the pretext that "domestic intelligence agencies had intercepted information that