After a short stay on Mars for a month, sun Cheng inspected the whole Mars base very seriously for the first time.


    For him, this should be the last rear patrol before the war.


    After inspecting all the factories and defense facilities of the Mars base, he once again took a specially modified Golden Eagle armed transport ship and embarked on a return trip to earth with the two pilots.


    Because of this return trip, the transport ship gave full play to its speed almost to the extreme.


    With a faster speed than in the past, sun Cheng and them returned to the earth again in more than ten days.


    As soon as the spaceship landed on a spaceship apron of South America No. 2 base, he felt a strong electromagnetic spectrum before he got off the spaceship.


    It''s thunder!


    It can be seen that he hurried from the central main control base.


    "There should be something!"


    Sun Cheng can feel the violent electromagnetic fluctuation of thunder, just like the violent changes of human emotion when excited.


    After he got out of the spaceship, the thunder, as he expected, quickly stepped forward to the ceremony and told him a very bad news.


    "Master, in the more than a month since you left, some terrible changes have taken place on the earth. The Autobots have changed their new leaders, and the natural enemies have pulled out the Decepticons and most of our strongholds in Africa."


    It is indeed a very bad intelligence, although sun Cheng had guessed that the king of premes would become the biggest destabilizing factor when he woke up from the natural enemy.


    But he thought that the existence of Optimus Prime would restrict the ambition of the natural enemies to a certain extent.


    After all, Optimus Prime, who now controls the [leadership module], is too powerful. Not only sun Cheng himself is not an opponent, but also Megatron, once known as the strongest commander of the Decepticon army, is not necessarily his opponent now.


    "Tell me more!" he asked the thunder.


    "Yes!"


    "At present, the information we know is very limited. We only know that about 7-10 days after you left, there seemed to be a small-scale military seizure of power in xintiebao city. After that, the natural enemy was pushed back to the leadership position by some Autobots! Soon after that, he began to lead Autobots to clean up our strongholds with the Decepticons in Africa 。”


    It''s not surprising that the base can''t get the first-hand information of the new iron castle city.


    As one of the tacit understandings between sun Cheng and Optimus Prime, both of them are trying to ease the ethnic contradictions between each other. The leaders who hope to cooperate have tacit control not to send subordinates to activities within each other''s sphere of influence.


    However, due to the long-term cooperation with the U.S. government, the Autobots started much later on the earth, and now they have not even digested the East and North Africa.


    Therefore, the base only tacitly does not allow its Decepticons to operate in East Africa and North Africa. As the region with the richest mineral resources on earth, sun Cheng will not miss it.


    Since a year ago, the base has successively built a number of mines in Central Africa, West Africa and South Africa that are not even sub bases, and sent some Decepticons to operate robots there to mine in areas where human footprints cannot reach.


    At present, the strongholds that have been uprooted by natural enemies are several mines in Central Africa.


    Sun Cheng patiently listened to thunder''s introduction, and his eyebrows had wrinkled.


    Losing some mines on the other side of Africa won''t make him feel much distressed.


    He was more curious about the Autobots and what Optimus Prime was thinking.


    After thinking for a moment, sun Chengcai then asked, "what''s the situation over Optimus Prime? Is he still in the new iron castle?"


    Although there is a tacit understanding that Decepticons will not be sent into the "sphere of influence" of the Autobots, intelligence collection for the Autobots is still indispensable.


    Previously, in order not to arouse the vigilance of Autobots, the base only launched a few "meteorological satellites" to collect information about Autobots in Africa.


    A small part of the information about Autobots provided by thunder is based on speculation, and most of it comes from those satellites.


    Thunder doesn''t know much about the young leader of the Autobot.


    "I''m sorry, commander. All we know is that Optimus Prime left new iron castle alone. But soon, some Autobots also left, looking like iron sheets and ambulances."


    Optimus Prime left alone, obviously did not want to cause division within the Autobots.


    Unfortunately, his Autobots were obviously unwilling to submit to the tyrant''s natural enemies.


    Even if Optimus Prime didn''t want to, the Autobots who came to earth have split up.


    Back to base 2, most of sun Cheng''s senior Decepticons left behind in base 2 have been waiting in the command room.


    Sun Cheng came here directly under the guidance of thunder. As soon as he entered the door, all the Decepticons got up and saluted.


    "Met the commander!"


    Sun Cheng nodded and sat down in his position.


    He was captured by a satellite launched by the base when he entered the Earth Moon galaxy by the spacecraft returning to earth.


    So thunder, they prepared in advance and waited for the meeting here.


    "... the current situation in Africa is very tense. According to the information fed back by satellites, the Decepticons have basically abandoned all their strongholds in Africa..."


    "The natural enemies and Autobots are still advancing..."


    "We have lost all the mines in Central Africa... Are we going to give up those mines in North Africa and South Africa?"


    The command room was very busy. Some familiar Decepticons were talking in a low voice near the third five.


    Sun Cheng didn''t stop them. He was also seriously thinking about the gain and loss.


    Apart from uranium and a few rare earths, minerals in Africa are also distributed in South America, which is also rich in minerals.


    Even uranium can be purchased from several old European powers and polar bears through the black market. In a sense, it can be abandoned, but the cost will increase.


    What sun Cheng really cares about is how the Decepticons gave up their stronghold in Africa so easily.


    You know, according to the satellite launched from the base and the data taken in the past few years, Decepticons have at least 30 or 40 mines in Africa.


    Although there may be only five or six Decepticons stationed in one of their strongholds, and almost all of them are replica soldiers like cannon fodder, they can also provide massive mineral resources for the Decepticons every month.


    There used to be some such strongholds in South America.


    Later, after the establishment of No. 2 base, sun Cheng''s strength grew rapidly, and they destroyed all the Decepticons mines hidden in inaccessible places.


    However, because he guessed that the real owner of those mines was probably Starscream, he didn''t go too far. He adopted the expulsion policy for most Decepticons, and only a few of them were destroyed.