Unknown Spaceship

Mars Data Reception Station—its function was obvious from the name alone.

This was a ground data reception station built by Base Two in South America, specifically for receiving intelligence transmitted from Mars Base.

Because of changes in Mars's orbit, Mars Base normally did not transmit intelligence back to Earth on schedule.

Mars Base would only transmit some data back to Earth at irregular intervals when Mars approached its near-Earth orbit, meaning when it was less than a hundred million kilometers from Earth.

This data generally covered the progress of construction and scientific research at Mars Base over the previous period.

To prevent the data from being easily intercepted by Earth, they generally transmitted it in encrypted Cybertronian text—the Elder Script.

Although none of the Decepticon commanders in the conference room were professional researchers, their cores still possessed powerful computational abilities.

Frenzy was the first to speak. "If I remember correctly, Mars shouldn't be near its closest orbital point to Earth right now, should it?"

"That's right! Based on Mars's orbital speed around the sun, it should currently be more than three hundred million kilometers from Earth," Thunder said gravely.

When transmitting data across long distances in space, the farther the distance, the more energy was wasted—and there was also a certain chance of data loss.

This was especially true when transmitting across the Henei Star System, where the immense energy fields generated by celestial movement swallowed up vast amounts of energy radiation.

Therefore, unless it was an emergency, Mars would not casually transmit information to Earth while outside the near-Earth range.

"Decrypt it!"

A bad feeling rising within him, Sun Cheng immediately gave the order.

"Understood. Please wait!"

Phantom, the central main-control AI, began decrypting the encrypted information sent back from Mars. The conference room immediately fell into dead silence.