Mobile City Farming Guide

Chapter 122 Oil Tycoon (4K)

[Tomorrow's Issue: Professor Anne? What is that voice? It's actually quite useful!]

[Nature L3: Heh, that's a roar specially recorded by the Emperor Monsters of the Titan Throne. This roar means you've become my prey.]

[The Pacifier: Is that how it is?]

[Tomorrow's Number: Thank you for your help. Please leave the rest to us.]

With Li Ye's command, several mobile cities opened fire on the cave, nearly destroying it.

A dozen minutes later, Professor Anne sent a message.

[Nature L3: Alright, stop. According to the detection equipment, there are no longer any signs of life from this wild boss in the cave. It's dead.]

Li Ye then ordered a halt to the attack.

With a sigh of relief, he rubbed his hands together expectantly.

"I wonder what level 3 item it will be this time?"

The group cautiously made their way into the cave.

Professor Anne was right; the giant python was indeed dead.

"Who's lucky enough to try their luck?" Yang Zheng said. "Let's all try to get a decent level 3 item."

He said this because some mobile cities unexpectedly found level 3 toilets when killing level 2 world bosses.

This kind of thing sounds funny, but it wouldn't be good if it happened to you.

In fact, none of the level 2 cities currently have level 3 items.

The lords exchanged glances and defered to each other.

Ultimately, Li Ye made the decision.

"Let me do it."

He took a deep breath and walked toward the giant python's corpse.

"Come out!"

[17843 crystal coins.]

【1598单位2级铁矿，1042单位2级煤炭，765单位2级燃料。】

[Tier 2 City Armor "Titan Serpent Scales"]

[Level 2 City Accessory Upgrade Blueprint (Type: Mechanical Arm)]

[Tier 2 Weapon Upgrade Blueprint (Type: Firearm)]

[Tier 2 Vehicle - "Goblin Light Combat Airship" Design Blueprint]

[Tier 3 City Accessory - City Resource Transfer Device]

After seeing clearly what had happened, everyone was stunned for a moment before letting out a collective sigh.

"It's so red!"

I have to say that everything that dropped this time was a really good item.

The most surprising thing is that a level 3 item actually appeared!

Li Ye's gaze was fixed on the level 3 item.

Item Name: City Resource Teleportation Device

Item Level: 3

[Additional effect: Can teleport any unit of resources to a target mobile city. Each teleportation activation starts with a 15% city energy cost, increasing based on the unit weight of the teleported resources.]

[Note: 1. This device cannot transport living creatures. 2. This device can only transport items of level 3 and below.]

As he watched, Li Ye's heart began to pound uncontrollably.

These Tier 3 items are excellent strategic resources for the City Alliance!
This means that members of the city alliance can share resources they discover during exploration, complementing and assisting each other.

For example, important city components, design blueprints, and rare mineral veins for building artillery.
The only drawback is that it consumes 15% of the city's energy when it starts transmitting.

If it's for transporting food, fresh water, coal, or iron ore, then it's not worthwhile.

Although it was found by the player Red, this level 3 item does not necessarily belong to him.

Also present were the Peacemaker, the Burning Steel, and the Iron Whale. In addition, the other three mobile cities responsible for exploiting the oil field also had the right to share resources and participate in bidding.

Among them, the Iron Whale and the Engineer are considered to be on their own, which means that there are only four competitors in total.

The three lords responsible for mining the oil field and guarding it were overjoyed to learn that the wild BOSS had dropped a level 3 item.

Therefore, Li Ye decided to hold the auction on the city's communication channel.

The first item auctioned was naturally the city resource transmission device.

It was a delicate and small hexagonal prism device, about 1.2 meters high and 0.5 meters in diameter at the base. Its outer layer was covered with silver-blue alloy armor, and a faint blue energy flow seeped out from the seams.

Moreover, they come in pairs.

Before the auction, everyone realized a problem.

Everyone is short of crystal coins, so if they were to bid, they probably wouldn't be able to sell many.

So some people suggested that we could receive an advance payment for oil resource sharing, or at least have the money owed to us.

During this period, the city resource delivery device will be managed by Nature L3 until the payment is made in full.

As a world-class organization, the Titan Throne naturally has an excellent reputation and credibility, so there's no fear of any unforeseen events.

After a moment's thought, everyone agreed.

Li Ye was even happier.

Since he can get advance payment, his competitive advantage is the greatest.

After all, Tomorrow Alliance owns 60% of the oil extraction revenue.

[Tomorrow's News: The auction shall now begin. The item for auction is a city resource teleportation device, with a starting bid of 10000 crystals.]

[The Peacemaker: 15000 Crystals.]

[Steel Burner: 16000 Crystals.]

[Greyhound: 20000 Crystals.]

The bidding was extremely fierce, and prices kept rising.

Although these Tier 2 mobile cities are operating independently, the Continental Auction House will soon open, allowing them to bid on and resell the properties. Essentially, they're acting as middlemen.

Li Ye immediately followed up with a bid.

After a fierce competition, he finally won the bid for the city resource transfer device with 67000 crystal coins.

"This price is actually not bad," he thought to himself.

According to Li Ye's expectations, he thought he would need to spend more than 10 crystal coins to acquire it.

At least for the newly formed Tomorrow Alliance, this Tier 3 item is essential.

The Tomorrow Alliance currently has no money, so after winning the bid, Li Ye followed the agreement and temporarily handed over the city resource teleportation device to Nature L3 for safekeeping.

Next came the bidding for several level 2 items.

This time, the bidding wasn't as intense.

The Tier 2 City Armor "Titan Python Scale" costs 6300 Crystals.

The price of a Tier 2 city accessory upgrade blueprint is 5100 crystals.

The price of a Tier 2 weapon upgrade blueprint is 5600 crystals.

The blueprint for the Tier 2 vehicle, the Goblin Light Combat Airship, costs 8900 crystals.

The Tier 2 city component upgrade blueprint was purchased by Li Ye, mainly for the Engineer.

After that round of territory trade, he had more than 10,000 crystal coins on hand, enough to afford it.

As for the Tier 2 firearms and the Tier 2 city armor Tomorrow, we already have them, and for air vehicles, we have the Black Hawk helicopter, so there is no need for competition.

In fact, the competition for this air vehicle among several Tier 2 cities is quite fierce.

Although Tomorrow has Black Hawk helicopter manufacturing services, for mobile cities, building is always better than buying.

Judging from the design drawings, the goblin light combat airship has patched-up metal armor and rough-stitched leather, giving it a steampunk-like appearance.

It is about 15 meters long and 8 meters wide, with a long, narrow metal pod hanging below, making it look precarious.

Its main armament is a bomb cannon mounted on a pod, with machine guns mounted on the sides, and the bottom hatch can be opened to launch incendiary bombs and aerial bombs to attack the enemy.

Its side effects are "speed increased by 15% and defense increased by 9%".

Overall, it's a pretty good Tier 2 aerial vehicle.

Since everyone was short of money, all the Level 2 items were handed over to Nature L3 for safekeeping after the auction. As for where the money would come from in the future, it would only come from the profits from oil extraction.

Thinking of this, everyone was filled with anticipation.

In addition, the coal, iron ore, fuel, and crystals obtained from killing the giant python are divided equally among the seven mobile cities.

The auction has now ended, and the mobile cities are returning home.

Li Ye glanced at the system panel.

The system CD has now finished spinning.

[6 days, 22 hours, 19 minutes, and 59 seconds until the next intelligence update]

[Number of intelligence reports: 7]

"A total of 7 days, the value should be very high." Li Ye nodded.

Once the matters concerning the Western Wilderness Auction House are finished, the intelligence will be updated.

"It's finally coming."

Looking at the final few minutes of the countdown on the screen, Li Ye exclaimed excitedly.

At this moment, he was in the cockpit of the Tomorrow, surrounded by a large group of people.

Everyone stared intently at the screen with expectant eyes.

As of now, Tomorrow Alliance has 27931 units of oil on hand.

If we exclude the profit sharing, it will be even more.

In recent days, many mobile cities have noticed the activity in the sedimentary basin and are starting to stir.

But after seeing the six Level 2 mobile cities in Tomorrow's Alliance, everyone gave up on the idea.

Li Ye's gaze was fixed on the screen.

Whether Tomorrow Alliance can prosper depends on this oil.

As the countdown ended, the auction house in the Western Wilderness Continent opened.

Within seconds, hundreds of items were put up for auction.

Iron ore, coal, fuel, cloth, urban infrastructure, weaponry, vehicles, and blueprints.
A dazzling array of items were on display.

Li Ye didn't rush to make a move, but instead searched for the prices of oil and fuel.

Currently, the price of oil is 15 crystals per unit, and the price of fuel is 14 crystals per unit.

However, overall, petroleum has a wider range of uses. This is because fuel can only be used for vehicles and mobile cities, while petroleum can be used to make plastics and manufacture industrial products.

He quickly chose to put it on the shelves.

Sure enough, as more and more oil and fuel were put on the market, their prices fell.

Everyone was curling up very tightly.

Li Ye was not surprised by this, because the Western Wilderness Continent has a total of 22 regions, and naturally produces a lot of ordinary resources.

After about ten minutes, the prices of oil and fuel finally stabilized.

This time, their prices have all dropped to 9 crystal coins.

The batch of oil that was decisively put on the market before leaving the field did not sell much.

"It seems we'll have to re-price."

However, just as he was about to make his move, he suddenly had a new idea.

"Speaking of which, what's the price of Tier 2 fuel?"

As soon as the user entered "Leave the Wilds," a row of search results popped up in the auction house.

The price of Tier 2 fuel is 29 crystals per unit.

After all, it provides more energy to the city compared to Tier 1 fuel.

If the vehicle uses level 2 fuel, the engine will perform better.

However, for a Tier 2 mobile city, this is simply too extravagant.

The players will mainly use the Tier 2 fuel they get to power the mobile city, while their own Tier 2 vehicles will use Tier 1 fuel.

"How about we try searching for Level 2 fuel design blueprints?" Lin Wu suggested.

"Row."

Soon, more than a dozen Level 2 fuel design blueprints appeared in the auction house.

According to the design drawings, producing Level 2 fuel requires 3 units of petroleum.

"We could try selling Tier 2 fuel."

One unit of petroleum can be processed into one unit of Grade 1 fuel.
If 3 units of oil are processed into 1 unit of Level 2 fuel, it is equivalent to an extra 2 crystal coins in profit.

The price of a Tier 2 fuel design blueprint is not high, only 4600 crystals.

The main reason is that it's generally very difficult to find that much oil in the wild. The case of Tomorrow's Alliance is an exception.

Typically, the lords of mobile cities use coal.

After photographing the Level 2 fuel design blueprints, Li Ye handed them over to the Engineer.

After all, the division of labor within the Tomorrow Alliance was clear: the Tomorrow was responsible for combat, the Iron Whale for defense, and the Engineer for engineering and logistical resource processing and supply.

After some preparation, Li Ye put his goods on the shelves.

3000 units of Grade 2 fuel, 18931 units of petroleum.

Tier 2 fuel was purchased in batches, while oil sold out rather slowly.

A dozen minutes later, Li Ye's account had an extra 16 crystal coins.

Upon seeing the six-figure sum of crystal coins, the cockpit erupted in excitement.

"Wow, this is so awesome, Brother Li!" Tang Fang exclaimed in surprise.

Leaving the wilderness was also a pleasant surprise.

He rubbed his eyes, hardly believing it was real.

A whopping 16 crystals!
This level of crystal coins was only seen when we fought desperately to destroy the Tarot Card Alliance last time.

And now I've gotten it so easily.

"This is enough for us to buy so many level 2 iron ore," Ning Wen said excitedly. "Let's take advantage of this time and upgrade the Lava Cannon to level 2 as well, Lord!"

After obtaining the upgrade blueprints from the caravan, Li Ye originally planned to upgrade the Lava Cannon, but because he was unable to acquire lava ore in the fortress, he upgraded the Frost Cannon instead in order to realize his combat power in advance.

The thought of spending money brought Li Ye back to his senses from his frenzy.

Not only Tomorrow, but also Iron Whale and Engineer need to be upgraded.

The Engineer was recently promoted to a Tier 2 city, and its robotic arm, gripper, and crane all need to be upgraded.

Furthermore, it also needs to collect a series of Level 2 city engineering design drawings, as well as upgrade engineering vehicles.

The Iron Whale only has level 2 city armor and power engine, which are the most critical components; everything else is level 1 and needs to be upgraded.

Li Ye then gave Zhou Xing and Fang Yong 4 crystal coins each, and told them that if they needed more, they could ask him for more.

These crystals were delivered by him via Black Hawk helicopter.

Faced with so much money, Zhou Xing and Fang Yong were first dumbfounded, then became extremely excited.

At the same time, Li Ye looked at the 8 crystal coins in his hand and fell into deep thought.

He had so much money that he didn't know what to do with it for a while.

After all, I used to live a miserable life, either on the road or in battle.

The only thing that could be considered a real windfall was the 40000+ crystals I received when I defeated the Tarot Card Alliance.

Just then, he saw the people around him.

"What do you all think we should prioritize buying?" he then asked.

With everyone's collective wisdom and efforts, a purchase plan was thus created.

First, upgrade the Lava Cannon and create a Hunter Cannon.

Second, upgrades to urban infrastructure, such as tire tracks and power engines.

Third, the purchase of living-related design drawings and Level 2 crop seeds.

Fourth, build up land, sea and air forces.

(End of this chapter)