As they spoke, the vehicle had already driven out of the tunnel and officially entered the interior of the planet Cybertron!
Without a doubt, it was a city built from stacked steel structures!
Metal objects were everywhere, intricate metal bridges crisscrossed, and suspended metal pavilions hung in the air.
A metal city that stretched as far as the eye could see, leaving Martina stunned.
Martina let out another exclamation, pulling out her phone and starting to take pictures.
"Where are we going now? Du Jialun."
Lin Feng took out the small projection device.
There were no living beings on Cybertron now, but that was for the best, saving Lin Feng the trouble of searching for information.
The information left by Optimus Prime mentioned that if he were not on Cybertron, this small projection device could guide Lin Feng to find him.
"To the planet's central control room!" Du Jialun replied.
He had also seen the information left by Optimus Prime. What needed to be done now, as Optimus Prime had said, was to find him using the guidance of the small device.
"The planet's central control room can analyze the metal projection device. If Optimus Prime left clues to find him, then this is the only way."
Lin Feng had no objection to this.
The planet's central control room was located in the interior of Cybertron. Du Jialun drove them to a rapid descent device.
This device could reach the lower areas of the Cybertronian city.
The closer to the core, the higher the required access level.
Logically, Du Jialun should not have been able to reach the central control room area.
However, with no other living beings on Cybertron having the corresponding permissions, the intelligent system, judging Cybertron to be in a special state, granted Du Jialun elevated access, allowing him to proceed unimpeded.
The descent took some time.
Lin Feng sat in the vehicle, bored, and struck up a conversation with Martina, intentionally or unintentionally.
"Martina, how are your parents doing now?"
Lin Feng, who understood the unspoken intent, began to probe into the contestant Martina's little secrets.
"Parents?" Martina murmured, not understanding why Lin Feng suddenly asked about her parents.
But Martina, who had been excited by the spectacle before her, visibly drooped, her mood sinking.
"I don't know. I've never seen them since I was born!"
Mentioning her parents put Martina in a bad mood. In her memory, her parents were distant figures.
"Since I can remember, 'parents' has been a foreign word."
"They abandoned me. It was Uncle Laimeng's sister who adopted me!"
Martina explained with a touch of melancholy and sadness.
The feeling of not having parents was something that normal families could not understand.
The most direct consequence was the strange looks from her peers.
"She said I was crying loudly in the wild, and that's how she found me and brought me back."
Lin Feng was slightly taken aback.
He hadn't expected Martina to be an orphan as well?
Suddenly, he felt a sense of kinship.
As the saying goes, people of the same misfortune understand each other.
"So, have you not looked for them all these years?" Lin Feng continued to ask.
"Look for them?" Martina pouted.
"What's the point of looking for them? They don't want me anymore! Why should I go looking for them!"
"Hmph, without them, haven't I still grown up happily!"
Martina lifted her chin, a somewhat forced smile on her face.
Yet, there were unshed tears glistening in her eyes, impossible to hide.
Indeed, what child could calmly accept being abandoned by their parents?
Fortunately, the woman who found Martina was kind, and Martina was able to have a relatively happy and complete childhood.
However, in the quiet of the night, Martina still thought of her parents from time to time.
She didn't understand why they had abandoned her.
"Enough about them. What about you? Your parents must be very powerful!"
Martina, unwilling to dwell on her parents any longer, asked Lin Feng with envy in her eyes.
Lin Feng was so powerful, and he could travel across the universe with her.
His parents must also be very powerful beings!
It was enviable!
Lin Feng rested his hands behind his head, leaning back comfortably in his seat, and replied nonchalantly, "Coincidentally!"
"I don't know who my parents are either!"
"I haven't seen them since I was born."
"You don't have parents either?!" Martina's eyes lit up, and she eagerly leaned towards Lin Feng.
Lin Feng glanced at her strangely, tilting his head.
Why are you so happy that I don't have parents?
"Uh... I, that's not what I meant..." Martina lowered her head awkwardly, too ashamed to look at Lin Feng.
She realized how inappropriate her words were as soon as she said them. It was so rude!
She was just a little happy to meet someone with a similar fate.
She hadn't expected it to be such a coincidence, that Lin Feng also hadn't met his parents.
So, the powerful Lin Feng was of the same kind as her.
If Lin Feng knew what Martina was thinking, he would definitely scoff dismissively.
Girl, you're overthinking things. I'm a Silver Superman, why would I share a fate with a washboard like you?
Alright, maybe in terms of parents, there's some similarity.
"It's okay, I'm used to it."
Lin Feng waved his hand nonchalantly.
He was also grateful to have met a kind and principled院长 (dean/caregiver), as a guide in childhood was very important!
The topic was a bit heavy, and they both tacitly stopped discussing it, and the car became quiet again.
He had originally hoped to find out what kind of being Martina was by asking about her parents, but it seemed there was no hope now.
However, Lin Feng was not in a hurry. It was more interesting to unravel the truth of events layer by layer, wasn't it?
Clunk!
The descent vehicle slowed down and, with a soft sound, arrived at Cybertron's central control area.
The central control room was a massive, square structure, standing in the very center of the control area, visible at a glance, and incredibly vast.
This was Du Jialun's first time in the central control area.
But one of the benefits of being a silicon-based lifeform was information sharing.
The layout of the entire central control area appeared in Du Jialun's private database in less than a second.
He transformed into a robot again, carrying Lin Feng and Martina, and entered the central control room with facial recognition.
The central control room looked incredibly high-tech.
Virtual screens and control consoles were everywhere.
Du Jialun went to a control console first and started pressing buttons randomly.
He didn't know what he pressed, but a tray popped out of the console.
He turned to Lin Feng.
"Put the device in!"
What to put in, of course, was the small projection device.
Lin Feng held the device and gently placed it on the tray.
The tray retracted, and the voice of the intelligent system sounded again.
"Detecting..."
A progress bar appeared on the large screen, quickly reaching 100%.
"Detection complete. Small energy charging and teleportation device."
"Do you wish to activate the preset portal?"