Just when Jazz transformed into a vehicle form and led Fu Qinghai all the way out of Karon City, the turmoil that broke out in a hurry ended in a hurry.

Soon someone came out and announced:

The city of Caron has a new group of management.

Other than that, it's business as usual.

The factory machines continue to run, and gladiatorial tournaments continue to be held as usual...... It's just that it seems to be just a street fight between criminal groups to change the boss by the way, but the undercurrent of the city's private is quietly surging.

But at this moment, Fu Qinghai had already left Caron City in a sports car transformed into a jazz, driving on the endless wilderness. The weather was gloomy, the wind and sand were blowing, and a long line of smoke and dust was pulled up behind the wheels, and the ancient Cybertron buildings still stood in the distance, looming.

It's a wide roadster.

The hot wind and sand kept blowing on his face.

Make him feel good, like racing in the West.

It's just that the car is self-driving.

"Where are we going?"

Fu Qinghai asked loudly.

"Iron Castle."

Jazz muffled.

His voice came from the speakers in the car.

"I know, I mean, what are you going to do with me when you get to the Iron Keep?"

Fu Qinghai put his hand on the edge of the car door, his face was full of comfort, and he looked sideways at the unique scenery around the road.

"It's up to the Supreme Council, after all, Cybertron hasn't had any alien species since the bridge broke, and you're the only one, I guess...... Maybe they're going to put you in the Six Lights Paradise for people to visit? ”

Sir said lazily.

Six Lights Paradise? What is that place?

Fu Qinghai was immediately surprised when he heard this:

"Isn't that right? Animals can be put in the zoo, I am a smart creature, one kind of intelligent creature captivity to visit another kind of smart creature, is this like words? ”

The implication:

Are you Cybertrons so savage?

"Hey, hey, hey, hey......"

Jazz laughed wickedly.

Fu Qinghai realized that he was joking.

This Cybertron is a little less serious.

……

Iron Castle, Data Recording Hall.

The first time Fu Qinghai came to the Iron Castle, he realized the difference between it and Karon City and the Great Wasteland as soon as he arrived in this place, it was like a civilized city with highly developed technology, in comparison, Karon really had no urban planning at all.

"This is Orion Pikes."

Sir introduced him:

"The first to find out that you came to Cybertron."

"Hello."

This Cybertron named "Orion Pikes", tall but well-mannered in appearance, seemed very friendly and took the initiative to send a greeting to Fu Qinghai.

"Hello, my name is Aoyama."

Fu Qinghai stretched out his hand.

The two Cybertrons looked at each other:

What does that mean.

"Ah I forgot, it's a social etiquette on earth, and it's generally used for two people to meet for the first time."

Fu Qinghai smiled awkwardly and retracted his hand and explained.

"Oh, that's interesting."

Orion Pikes didn't care, but looked interested, and said:

"I consulted many of the archives of ancient data from Manifestation 1 and finally found a record of 'humans', which said that humans were bipedal primates who walked upright and lived on a planet called 'Earth', lived in groups, and could make fires and use tools......"

Orion Pikes had a puzzled look on his face.

Looking up and down, the human warrior in front of him said:

"But you're significantly larger than the human depictions in the data. And it doesn't say that humans have learned to use Cybertron and have the ability to travel across the planet. I'm curious, are you of the same race as the 'humans' in Apparition 1? Or is it just the same name? ”

"You're right."

Fu Qinghai spread his hand and explained:

"The earth is indeed our homeland, although we used to be very primitive and very backward, but we can develop, and now we can develop, technology may not be comparable to Cybertron, but it is not the primitive tribe that once drank blood. As for my size, I am a warrior among the human race, and my body has undergone some modifications to adapt to war. ”

Fu Qinghai felt that compared to the other Cybertrons he had encountered in Caron City, this "Orion Pikes" was obviously very knowledgeable. At least no other Cybertron had ever heard of the term human, and Orion Pikes was able to look for answers - perhaps because of who he was and the nature of his work, of course. But it is undeniable that this also requires a certain spirit of inquiry, Fu Qinghai himself is a person with a strong curiosity and desire for knowledge, and he also admires those who are well-informed and knowledgeable, such people can always gain his natural favor, such as the Grand Inquisitor Sid Nora, Szuilia Lavalé.

"Development ......"

This ordinary term seemed to arouse Orion Pikes's thoughts, and he repeated it to himself, then suddenly turned to Sir beside him, and said:

"Those members of the Supreme Council really should listen to what this human warrior has to say, they don't know what 'development' is, they always want to maintain the status quo and not make progress."

"My Friend ......"

Sir shook his head helplessly:

"You're a little too cynical."

Fu Qinghai stood next to him and watched silently.

"I'm not a cynic......"

Orion Pikes pursed his lips and was about to say something to refute it, when he suddenly realized that he had neglected the human warrior beside him, and hurriedly said apologetically:

"I'm sorry, but it was my rudeness, but your words evoked some of my thoughts. Please come with me, I have applied to the Archivist to arrange a place for you to live. This is the Iron Fort, you don't have to rely on gladiatorial battles to make a living, and we Cybertrons are not all criminals. ”

The two took Fu Qinghai to the depths of the recording hall.

The three of them chatted while walking:

"By the way, how did you get to Cybertron, on the ship? Is your ship still in orbit? ”

"No, to tell you the truth, it was an accident, and I don't know why I got here."

"Then why do you know Cybertan?"

"It's an alien language we've documented."

Orion asks each doubt in detail.

Fu Qinghai opened his mouth to make it up.

……

Master Titanium was hunched at his desk, writing in the large book on his desk, and Orien Pikes stood in front of him waiting for him to finish. Eventually, Master Titanium put down the pen, looked up at Orion Paix, and said:

"Megatron Megatron doesn't intend to make a revolution right away, at least not on the entire planet, he intends to replace the gangs in Karon City and Slaughter City that control the gladiatorial arena."

"This type of crime is ...... in a fixed class," Orion Pikes wanted to blurt out: this type of crime is inevitable in a fixed class. But he eventually stopped talking and didn't say anything.

Master Titanium looked at him expectantly.

It seems that he wants him to speak his heart.

Pictures and videos kept flashing in the holographic display on Master Titan's desk. The images are of ruined Cybertrons, each with a tag on their head.

Orion Pikes turned his head to look through all the images and saw that each victim was running a gladiatorial arena, most of which also operated other criminal industries.

In the video, Megatron stands on the twisted corpse of a small leader of a criminal organization, the body is still sparkling, Orion Pikes has already seen the little boss on the picture, but it is the first time he has seen the Megatron himself.

"This is just the beginning."

He said to the camera.

There were several gladiators behind Megatron Zun.

They all stood there in silence.

"You base your pleasure on our misery, and make our work your entertainment...... You have forgotten what it means to be a Cybertron. Cybertron was once the greatest planet in the universe! ”

"Now we are depraved. We will rise again. For there are also Cybertrons who foresee the glory of the future. Only by understanding how deeply we have fallen can we understand the meaning of rising again. Cybertron! ”

"Cybertron!"

The other gladiators shouted in unison.

"Click......

That's it for the video.

"Haven't you seen this paragraph?"

Master Titanium asked.

Orion Pikes shook his head.

"Alas, look, this is the result of hindering ambitions and ambitions. We've taken generations of Cybertrons off thinking about what they might be able to do. ”

Orion Pikes didn't know what to say for a moment, he often grumbled in front of Sir Chief, but the person in front of him was the archivist, his immediate superior, the one who really had direct access to the Supreme Council. So there was silence.

Master Titanium smiled at him:

"Don't be afraid, Pikes. I'll tell you a simple fact. It's not a game where you say things against your heart. What I'm saying is that we live in such a particular world that few people can imagine how we would live if the world were a different way. But there are some people who ...... Some of us remember the world as it was, while others are foolish enough to think that we should live in that world again. ”

There was silence in the room again.

Orion didn't understand what Master Titanium meant.

Does he support or oppose Megatron's actions? The phrase "We have stopped generations of Cybertrons from thinking about what they might be able to do" seems to be belittling the government of the day, but the phrase "while some people are foolish enough to think that we should live in that world again" seems to be a rejection of revolutionary action...... What exactly does Master Titanium want to say?

Master Titanium said slowly:

"I know you're very confused, and as time goes on, you'll know if I'm right or not. But now it's time to go back to your desk. Consider what I said. ”

"I will, Master Titanium."

Orion Pikes replied.

I still don't seem to understand. If Orion Pikes had read the DC Universe-related comics, he would have complained:

"Riddler, get out of Cybertron!"

"By the way, the human warrior?"

Orion Pikes remembered Fu Qinghai.

"Let's put him in the Iron Castle first."

Master Titanium waved his hand and commanded.

He didn't see any trace of the existence of the human warrior in the "Cybertron Covenant", which means that the other party is really just an accident, and the archivist has a premonition in the dark, and now the Cybertron Star and the Cybertrons are facing a huge change, and there is no time to pay attention to the human warrior for the time being.

So Orion Pikes went back.

Along the way, he kept thinking:

What exactly does Master Titanium mean?

I can't think of the result, I can only think that he is encouraging himself to think independently and reflect on things outside his own class.

……

The expected plot line events did not happen.

During this time, the Iron Castle was very calm.

Fu Qinghai actually magically settled down.

He became friends with Orion Pikes, and both had some scholarly temperament, and both were interested in knowledge. The difference is that Fu Qinghai has some utilitarian mentality in addition to curiosity - he wants to learn Transformers science and technology, and all the scientific and technological achievements created by the Cybertrons and even the Cybertrons themselves are endless treasures in his eyes.

Orion Pikes was a little more pure.

He is particularly interested in the political system and political thought of human society than the scientific and technological knowledge of the earth. The arrival of Fu Qinghai, an alien, was an opportunity for Orion Pikes to learn how societies of other races worked. Is there also a class? Is there also a parliament? He showed an extremely strong interest in every political thought on the earth, and he grabbed Fu Qinghai every day and asked him non-stop.

Fu Qinghai felt like a new friend.

I like it very much.

If you don't do anything all day, you don't stop doing politics.

Orion expressed a lot of complaints and complaints about the authorities to Fu Qinghai, perhaps because of Fu Qing's status as an overseas star, Orion Pikes didn't have to worry about anything. But he is not the same as ordinary key politicians, ordinary key politicians are just talking, Orian Pikes shows unusual motivation and determination, he seems to really want to change something, but he didn't find a chance, and he didn't find a way.

Through the mouth of Orian Pikes, Fu Qinghai also knew the current situation faced by Cybertron, which was actually very simple, it was just class solidification. However, cybertrons are not quite the same as carbon-based creatures like humans, and the class solidification of human society is usually manifested as a hidden closure of channels, such as the uneven distribution of educational resources, such as the monopoly of political upward paths...... There is hardly any country that defines class on the surface.

But the Cybertrons are amazing, and they can be technologically class-solidified – the Cybertrons were born from the Well of the Kindling Well, and they were designed to be used in a certain industry and a class at a growing stage, regardless of their personal aspirations. This method of class solidification can be called simple and crude.

According to Orian Pikes.

This system comes from the hands of natural enemies.

The purpose is to maintain social stability......

Fu Qinghai thought to himself that he was really a little genius.

This system is a bit similar to the logic and theory of the fixed class of "Shinong, Industrialist, and Industrialist" in the ancient feudal society of China, and it can be called Cybertron's version of Zhu Yuanzhang.

Of course, the natural enemy cannot be Zhu Yuanzhang. Fu Qinghai has always firmly believed in one point: the political system should match the level of development of the productive forces, and the economic foundation determines the superstructure. Hellenistic classical democracy is the cornerstone of Western democracy, but almost no country in the modern West still uses the one-person-one-vote classical Greek democratic political system. Because ancient Greece was a city-state, the population was small, and slaves were not considered human. Although Cybertron does not have a large population, Cybertron's productivity determines that it cannot be a feudal society. There are also parliaments, parliamentarians, and even trade unions, but the unions have died in name only, reduced to decorations.

At present, the development of the plot is still unclear, and I don't know what the big event is, Fu Qinghai doesn't mind talking more about these topics with Orion, anyway, this "Orion Pikes" doesn't seem to be a plot character, I haven't heard of it, so I don't have to worry about changing the plot. Try to maintain a neutral and objective position, and introduce the various political currents and political movements that mankind has experienced. At the same time, through Orion Pikes, Fu Qinghai also learned a lot about the basic knowledge of Cybertron.

For example, the Cybertron unit of time.

and the converted length of these units of time.

Cycle: One minute on Earth.

Great cycle: One hour on Earth.

Sidereal cycle: A year on Earth.

Replacement cycle: 500 years on Earth.

However, he wanted to gain access to Cybertron's communications network, and he wanted to gain access to Manifestation 1 to mine data, but he never got permission from Orion Pikes.

……

Iron Fort, night.

Orion Pikes looked up at the stars, and Sputnik 1 and 2 stood between him and the stars. There are also some near-Cybertron man-made objects, such as the Iron Dragon Orbital Station, which is located on the other side of the planet and is not visible for the time being. He walked the winding streets and bridges of the Iron Castle, recalling Megatron's words:

Freedom is the right of every Cybertron!

Maybe that's right. But what does freedom mean? If there is no class division, if the Cybertrons are not divided into efficient production lines...... If every Cybertron could decide for himself what he wanted to do, the whole planet would be in chaos. Orian Pikes had learned that freedom is the freedom to accomplish the right amount and necessary tasks within one's own class. Instead of freeing people, all unrestricted choices can make people feel confused.

Who taught him this? The Predator never said these things publicly, but he was the one who ensured that Cybertron had a class system in place, and it was he who kept Cybertron united when some people wanted to divide Cybertron.

"Who is the vested interest ......"

Orion recalls the motive inference of Aoyama's theory.

Who benefits from the class system? The upper class! Who does the upper class live on? Rely on me!

Orion Pikes climbed up to a lookout from which he could see the entire Iron Fort. The silhouette of Cybertron stretches in all directions, and that is a symbol of the peaceful life of the Origin Heavenly Venerable. A huge canyon splits the planet's surface to the planet's interior, and energy crystals are unearthed from the central well. To the west, you can see the highest peaks of the ferromanganese mountain range. To the north, Cybertron is famous for its Six Lights Amusement Park.

Think of that amusement park.

Orion Pikes suddenly felt angry.

He had never been there, it was built for the upper classes, and few of the lower class Cybertrons could pass through the gate. So far, Orion Pikes has never seen such a lucky lower-class Cybertron.

Individuals know what they need! Who else but me knows what I want? Who else but me can decide what I should do? So, what are my interests?

I want to go to Six Lights Amusement Park.

Orion Pikes thought to himself.

But if anyone goes to the Six Lights Amusement Park and wants to go in, they can go in, then the park will be overcrowded for a long time, and no one will be able to play. So organizational structure is necessary, but the system shouldn't be imposed on individuals, right?

Definitely not. But rational beings come together to make common decisions for the collective good, and those decisions can't be beneficial to all—Orion struggled, not knowing what he should feel.

If freedom is unfettered, then freedom is meaningless.

That's what Aoyama told him.

Orion Pikes thought to himself: Maybe what I need is an actual conversation, not a struggle in my head.

"Aoyama has taught me a lot."

Orian Pikes muttered:

"I'm supposed to meet that Megatron Venerable."

…………

1. Time unit of the full version:

Cycle: 1 Earth minute.

Mega-cycle: 1 earth hour.

Salor-cycle: 1 Earth day.

Deca-cycle: 30 Earth days.

Stellar-cycle: 1 Earth year.

Meta-cycle: 500 Earth years.

Later, according to Simon Furman, a screenwriter of Transformers Comics, he posted on a forum related to IDW Comics: 1 cycle is about 1.25 earth hours, 1 replacement period is about 93 earth hours, 1 month cycle is about 3 earth weeks, and 1 sidereal cycle is about 7.5 earth months - obviously, as the original conception of the above time unit, Transformers also ate the book. According to my calculations, the Transformers United Universe follows the old unit of time setting.

2. In the comics, it is described that the neurological response speed of Cybertrons is extremely fast, and the unit used is "nanoseconds", which I originally wanted to use, but later gave up, because a nanosecond is one billionth of a second, and it would be too exaggerated if the neurological response speed of Cybertrons can reach the nanosecond level.

(End of chapter)