Transformers: Survival of Defective Products

Chapter 262 Manifestation

After the manifestation of the Cosmic Emperor appeared, the nature of the disasters on Earth became apocalyptic.

The first giant manifestation appeared in the desert, and human satellites were the first to capture images of a large area of the land surface rising up.

Large swathes of sand slid down to both sides, and the rock strata cracked in the middle.

Immediately afterwards, a pair of huge curved horns pierced through the dust curtain, and an absurdly large body slowly rose from the ground.

Sand and gravel cascaded down the surface like a waterfall.

Brownish-brown rock layers and blackened metallic minerals are interwoven together, and irregular spikes grow all over the shoulders, back, forearms, and knees. The huge limbs even retain the original rough cross-section of the mountain.

From a distance, it looks like a mountain that just happened to grow into the shape of a human.

The manifested form stood completely upright, and Tongtianxiao, who was in charge of the on-site command, had to look up and take a few steps back before he could see its upper body clearly.

Bumblebee stared at it for a long time: "...Isn't this a bit too big?"

Before the words were even finished, the giant manifestation stomped down.

"spread!"

All the machines simultaneously rushed out in different directions.

The entire desert seemed to have been struck by a heavy hammer, with sand and soil billowing up dust clouds several meters high. The once flat ground sank downwards, and cracks spread outwards in all directions.

The planes burst out of the dust in a sorry state.

The first batch of surface combat units from both the Autobots and Decepticons have all arrived.

Jazz, Arcee, and other machines went to different surface battlefields. Some were fighting against medium-sized earth clones, while others were desperately destroying a group of puppets that were larger than Megatron.

Ultra Magnus takes over the scene near the judicial liaison point, and Alita and Bumblebee are separated, one on the left and one on the right.

The red spider flew around the manifestation from high altitude, its sound waves remaining at a greater distance, and was continuously monitored using laser bird and satellite data.

Nine-Seven stayed near the evacuation route with several Knights of Law.

Soaring into the clouds, it was at the very front, its beast-like form resembling a Western dragon flying in the air.

Ultra Magnus's arm completed its weapon transformation: "Attack Joints."

The first heavy cannon shot went straight for the giant manifested form's knee, the energy impact blasting through the outer rock armor, and the massive body swayed slightly to the side.

"It works." Alita immediately raised her weapon.

However, before the second round of attacks could begin, the cracked part glowed with dark purple energy, and the rocks scattered on the nearby ground vibrated as if summoned, being pulled by an invisible force to the damaged area of the manifested body and quickly pieced together.

Within seconds, the breach that had just been created by Ultra Magnus was sealed off.

Bumblebee: "..."

Red Spider's voice rang out over the joint communications: "How are we supposed to fight this kind of enemy?!"

Tong Tianxiao's tone remained calm: "Change the plan."

The manifested form finally noticed what had just attacked it.

The massive upper body slowly turned, and one arm swept down.

Tong Tianxiao quickly retreated, his fist slamming into the ground where he had been standing, the loud bang causing a momentary static on the channel.

Just as the attack missed, the yellow car passed by the manifested entity's feet.

The bumblebee circled around its ankle at high speed, its tires briefly skidding on the gravel.

As it approached the rear, the vehicle suddenly transformed into a robot, raising both energy cannons simultaneously.

"Big guy!"

A series of energy projectiles precisely struck the crevices deep within the ankle, emanating a purple light.

The surface rocks cracked one after another, revealing dark purple energy nodes inside.

Bumblebee's wings on the car door suddenly popped up: "It works here!"

The manifested form lowered its head and stomped its foot directly at him.

"Oh no no no!"

Bumblebee transformed on the spot, and the yellow sports car sped away, skimming the ground, with the sand and gravel kicked up by its giant feet hitting the rear of the car with a clanging sound.

"I take back what I just said!"

The red spider laughed out loud in mid-air, while the bumblebee snapped, "You try coming down here!"

"I have wings, why should I go down?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the manifested entity raised one arm swiftly, and its fingers, which were many times thicker than the entire Red Spider machine, reached directly towards the sky.

"From slag!"

The Red Spider suddenly flipped its fuselage, and its thrusters emitted long plumes of flame.

As his fingertips brushed against his wing, a strong gust of air lifted his entire plane, causing it to flip over in mid-air.

Starscream finally managed to regain his composure: "Damn it, Unicron!!"

Sound waves: [Note the right side.]

"What—"

With his other hand, he swung it at him like swatting a fly, and the red spider swooped down along the back of his hand, pulling up at its maximum speed just before hitting the ground.

"You should have reminded me half a second earlier!"

Ignoring the red spider, the laser bird circled the manifested form twice, synchronizing a large amount of structural data to the vision of all participants.

[The energy node in the left ankle is exposed, causing a slight decrease in reconstruction speed.]

Several red markers quickly appeared on the giant manifested model.

Tong Tianxiao: "Concentrate your attack on the left flank."

Alita immediately changed position, this time carrying a heavy anti-ship gun transferred from Cybertron.

Normally tucked away at the back, the mechanical parts now unfold to the sides.

The cannon barrel extends forward along the shoulder, and two sets of recoil stabilization devices are driven into the ground.

The latch clicked open a few times.

Alita knelt down: "Give me ten seconds."

The manifested form's ankle was attacked repeatedly, so it raised its leg to stomp on the bumblebee.

Optimus Prime fired again from the other side.

The energy blast hit its chest, the attack was a mere tickle, but it successfully caused the manifested form to shift its target.

The massive arm slammed down towards Tongtianxiao, who immediately dodged to the side.

The manifested entity relentlessly pursued him, and after several rounds, Tongtianxiao had nowhere to avoid it and prepared to fight back.

A massive dragon shadow crashed into the manifested form's calf from the side.

boom! ! !

It was as if two buildings had collided head-on, and the beast in its cloud-piercing form used brute force to smash its entire body into the ankle.

The leg that was falling finally stopped, and the massive body of the manifested form clearly tilted to the other side.

Chong Yunxiao himself was thrown more than ten meters away by the reaction force, his claws dragging deep trenches in the ground before finally coming to a stop.

"Again."

His fighting spirit remained undiminished. He let out a loud roar, spread his giant wings, and instantly soared into the air.

Just as the manifested form had barely stabilized, Soaring Clouds circled around to its shoulder.

A burst of blazing flame erupted, instantly covering the red dot marked by the sound wave.

The rock surface quickly turned red, some minerals began to melt, and the fragments that were trying to be pieced together became unstable and crashed to the ground.

Sound wave: [Reconstruction hindered.]

Without a word, Red Spider turned and swooped down, launching several missiles simultaneously.

Bumblebee and Ultra Magnus seized the opportunity, concentrating all their firepower on the same spot.

"alright."

Alita's voice pierced the roar of the battle.

The heavy cannon was fully charged, and a blinding blue light shone from inside the muzzle.

"Get out of the way."

All machines simultaneously withdrew from the radiation range.

The next moment, the bombardment erupted, and a thick beam of energy pierced through the entire sandstorm, the air itself seeming to distort for a moment in the impact.

The energy beam is positioned directly in the center of the neck and shoulders.

boom--!!!

The manifested form's left shoulder exploded, and its massive arm plummeted downwards, first crashing into the mountainside, then rolling into the desert, kicking up a cloud of dust upon landing.

Starscream, watching from mid-air, offered a half-hearted compliment: "The Autobots' firepower is still somewhat effective."

The giant manifestation emitted a deep vibration after losing an arm, and a purple light shone from deep within its chest cavity.

The sound waves were immediately amplified.

[Core response increases. Thoracic energy nodes exposed.]

Psycho: "Now!"

The manifested entity turned around at that moment, no longer confined to crushing Cybertronians, but instead set foot on the highway that humans had just cleared out.

The last few military transport vehicles were still speeding away from the battlefield on the highway.

"There are still people over there!" Nine-Seven's voice changed instantly, and he immediately abandoned his original attack on the manifested entity.

With the thrusters roaring to their limit, just before his feet landed, 97 flew above the transport vehicle, grabbed the vehicle's mounting frame with both hands, and dragged the vehicle away from the manifested entity's attack range.

The humans inside were terrified, their faces turning deathly pale.

"Get off the bus! Quickly!"

The Knight of Laws landed nearby, grabbed the staggering human who had crawled out of the vehicle, and flew him toward the safe zone.

At the same time, it crashed down from mid-air, its beast form slamming heavily into the thigh of the manifested form, causing the giant foot that was about to step on the human again to be deflected.

The ball of my foot slammed into the side of the road, shattering the entire road surface into pieces that looked like dust mites floating in the air.

The transport vehicle was propelled forward by the shockwave, sliding several meters.

97 protected the last two humans who couldn't be taken away in time, and his own armor was hit by rubble.

Fortunately, they all survived.

"Evacuation complete!"

She shouted, and as soon as she looked up, she saw the giant manifestation slowly turn its face, with two points of purple light in its eye sockets facing her.

97: "...Why is He looking at me?!"

The red spider high in the sky: "Because you're in its way!"

"Aren't you here too?"

"397! What do you mean?!"

The two aircraft quickly spread out to the sides, dodging the arm that swept through them.

The human command center is completely overwhelmed.

"Evacuation of Zone 4 complete!"

Highway 6 is completely closed!

"The unusual target is moving eastward!"

"Satellite repositioning!"

Fuller listened to reports from various regions, watched the activity on the joint channel, and simultaneously provided the judicial central authority with the new manifest coordinates.

Human weapons can cause relatively limited damage, but at least they understand the roads and cities they have built.

They cleared areas where the Cybertronians could gain a fighting advantage and evacuated civilians who might be in danger.

That's all they can do.

Everyone at the temporary judicial liaison point was extremely busy.

The ambulance was frantically typing on the main control panel in the medical area, while the other ambulance was also rushing over the land bridge.

The shockwave delivered the complete formula for the gray death disease to the two machines.

Even Cybertron showed that they were running low on the last item.

Knockout frowned: "How long will it take to start mining now?"

BICk0's remote communication connection was established: "As fast as forty minutes."

"Forty minutes is too long!" The ambulance driver was shouting, disregarding his tone and volume.

When the gray death was stimulated by the dark super-energy body, its spread rate far exceeded that of most other types of infection.

She can now see increasingly more and more dark gray infected areas, like man-eating ivy spreading upwards along her body.

When Yin Xiang got up, he felt his right leg twitch again and quickly grabbed the medical table for support.

Ambulance driver: "Don't move!"

"What about alternative materials?" He was frantically searching through the simulation results provided by the shockwave, completely overwhelmed.

Shockwave: "The probability of side effects increases by 41%."

Ambulance: "That won't do!"

Most of the materials were quickly sourced from Cybertron's central judicial warehouse, medical tower, and Crystal City's materials department, but a few materials that required artificial synthesis and were the most time-consuming to obtain and still needed to be mined were missing.

Now it's all about speed; let's see who's faster.

They were still suffering from gray death.

As the heavy hammer plunged deeper into the high-energy nebula, plasma activity became increasingly frequent, and the ship was nearly struck by bright light from time to time.

Jack, cursing and dodging, yelled, "Who chose this place?!"

The pull of the leadership module finally seemed within reach; Optimus Prime could sense that they were finally getting closer to the AllSpark.

The main screen still displayed the medical data from the vector, and the message "New antidote: in preparation" was tugging at his nerves.

But he didn't bring up the return journey again: "How much longer will it take for the antidote to be available?"

The ambulance driver, who was about to ask him to get back in, said, "It might take about forty minutes."

"This has been going on for far too long," Optimus Prime thought, suppressing his pessimistic thoughts. "...Status?"

"I can still talk to you."

The ambulance driver beside them raised his voice: "Something's wrong!"

Pointing vector: ...

Optimus Prime was silent for a few seconds: "Please wait for me."

The vector was about to make a sarcastic remark, but in the end, it simply replied, "Okay."

The giant manifestation near the surface contact point did not last long.

Alita's cannon completely destroyed her left upper limb, and she used high-temperature flames to continuously restrict regeneration in the sky.

Bumblebee swept past the manifested being's feet, Red Spider climbed to a high place, and Nine-Seven, confirming that the humans had evacuated, also turned and returned to the war zone.

The attacks continued until they reached the exposed chest of the manifested form.

Blue, purple, and red – different kinds of artillery fire converge on the same target.

The dark purple core was completely torn apart by the impact, and the light in its eyes suddenly went out.

The massive body stopped, and then began to collapse.

The massive, curved object crashed into the desert, followed by the upper body, and finally the legs could no longer support the weight, causing the body to collapse with a thud.

This sent dust billowing into the sky again, and all the participants instinctively retreated.

"Is it over?" Bumblebee shook off the dust.

The sound waves synchronize only one global map to the field of view of all machines.

A bunch of red dots appeared one after another, some of which others hadn't solved yet, and some of which were newly appeared.

Bumblebee: "..."

Red Spider remained silent high in the sky for a while, then uttered several more Cybertronian profanities.

Megatron landed in another battle zone, the Fusion Cannon still radiating heat, and beneath his feet lay a medium-sized manifestation that had just been destroyed.

He was a size larger than the average Cybertronian and had no fire or real life force.

His core was blasted through by the fusion cannon, and his entire body turned back into rubble.

Megatron looked down at the gradually fading dark purple light.

Not long ago, he proactively spoke with the vector in the joint channel:

"I will not join Unicron."

At that moment, the vector was taken aback: "I didn't ask."

"But you've thought about it."

He knew she must have thought about it, after all, he had searched for the Dark Super Energy, thought about using it to create an army, and even had the crazy idea of letting it flow into his own spark.

So he offered the answer voluntarily.

"I will not obey Him."

"Remember what you said." In the final reply, Megatron knew that this time she had chosen a trust that was almost an entrustment.

"I can."

The dark purple light beneath their feet suddenly rekindled.

Megatron stopped.

The shattered rocks did not reform; instead, the dark energy slowly rose from the wreckage, forming a face.

An ancient, heavy, and slightly seductive voice rang out over everything:

"Megatron".

Megatron did not move, his crimson optical mirror coldly staring at the face of Unicron before him.

"You once searched for me."

Megatron clenched his fist and did not answer.