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Trindade Island, the pearl of the South Atlantic Ocean.

No one knew when this once-overlooked deserted island had suddenly acquired such a nickname on Earth.

Though few people knew of it, that did not stop it from being frequently mentioned on the darknet and in encrypted communications.

Pioneer was stationed on the island. As usual, he did not need to personally participate in every transaction, but he still made his customary inspection of the island.

It was a habit he had developed after learning, upon awakening in his new body, that the island had once suffered an invasion.

Heavily influenced by Sun Cheng's personality, Pioneer now had to carefully inspect the island's security systems every day before he could feel at ease.

The visible parts of the island seemed largely unchanged from before.

The buildings constructed for humans who came to the island to purchase various mechanical equipment were still concentrated in the southeastern corner.

Most of the buildings originally constructed there had already been destroyed during the previous Replica Legion invasion.

When they were rebuilt afterward, they were restored on the original sites using even the original blueprints, so the changes were almost impossible to notice.

The only difference was that several nearby hills that had originally escaped damage were damaged to varying degrees during the battle when the Replica Soldiers invaded.

During the fighting, Sun Cheng simply had the Decepticons blow all those hills flat and built more than a dozen helicopter landing pads and two hangars there.

There were not many visible changes on the island, but the invisible changes were far greater.

As a volcanic island, Trindade Island had fairly solid bedrock.

Furthermore, the submarine volcano beneath the island had been drained by the Forge of Solus Prime for years. Its underground magma had become severely