Mobile City Farming Guide

Chapter 124 Procurement List for Urban Neighborhood Committees (4K)

After pondering for a while, Li Ye couldn't help but nod repeatedly.

This Level 3 urban camouflage is so practical!

If used properly, it can achieve unimaginable results on the battlefield.

At that very moment, Zhou Xing sent a message to the city channel.

[Engineer: Gentlemen, according to my calculations, the oilfield development process in the sedimentary basin is already more than halfway complete.]

"So it's already halfway through?" Li Ye pondered.

He roughly calculated that if all the remaining oil were extracted and their share was deducted, the Alliance would still have three to four hundred thousand crystal coins at its disposal.

So Li Ye typed a message to ask Zhou Xing and Fang Yong if they had enough money.

The two quickly gave their reply.

As a defensive city, the Iron Whale spent all 4 crystals wisely. It purchased upgrade blueprints for tires, tracks, and blades, and also acquired a batch of level 2 iron ore for upgrades.

After spending some money, he still had several thousand crystal coins left.

"So economical?" Li Ye exclaimed in surprise.

Overall, defensive cities are the most cost-effective mobile cities. The lord only needs to focus on upgrading the power engine, city armor, and tire tracks.

Add a few more melee-type urban weapons, and you'll basically have everything you need.

With high survivability and low cost, coupled with their popularity within the mobile city alliance, the number of defensive cities is quite substantial.

If there's any drawback, it's that it lacks proactive offensive capabilities in the wild. Especially in city battles, defensive cities rely heavily on allies.

The cost of the Engineer was enormous.

First, in order to carry out large-scale oil field exploitation, the Engineer has been working almost day and night to build drilling platforms and oil storage tanks.

Currently, more than a dozen drilling platforms have been erected in the sedimentary basin. And new drilling platforms are still under construction.

To build them, the Engineer needs to purchase a large amount of Tier 1 iron ore.

During this time, a number of patrolling Tier 2 mobile cities also came to help.

They have robotic arms and cranes on their decks, and enough manpower, but they are not as skilled and fast at oil extraction as the Engineer.

The price of level 1 iron ore at the Western Wilderness Auction House is relatively cheap, at 4 crystal coins per unit. This is, of course, because other auction houses have been hoarding it.

Second, the Engineer has just been promoted to Level 2 and needs to be upgraded from scratch.

Zhou Xing upgraded to a Level 2 general-purpose robotic arm (photographed by Li Ye), a Level 2 crane, and a Level 2 working claw in one go, and also purchased a series of Level 2 tools for mechanics.

2级液压扳手、2级铆钉枪、2级焊接器、2级机械通用诊断仪、2级防护式工作服。

In addition, Zhou Xing also purchased a total of 7 Tier 2 vehicle upgrade blueprints.

These upgrade blueprints will be used to upgrade a range of engineering vehicles.

According to Zhou Xing, seven vehicles were actually far from enough. Due to budget constraints, he had to carefully select seven types of engineering vehicles.

In addition, Zhou Xing also purchased a series of engineering books.

The Engineer ship itself also had a Level 1 simulation training pod, and Zhou Xing purchased the blueprints to build a Level 2 training pod as soon as he received the crystal coins.

4 crystal coins are far from enough to buy all these items at once.

[Engineer: Leader, I need at least another 10 crystals.]

[Tomorrow's Ship: Okay, I'll give it to you after the new batch of fuel and oil is sold. If it's not enough, you can ask me for more.]

Li Ye is naturally willing to spend money on his own level 2 engineering city.

After the conversation, he casually reminded Zhou Xing of something.

"Judging from the weather, it looks like it's going to rain tomorrow or the day after. You need to speed things up."

After sleeping for a few hours in his room, he returned to the deck.

This time, instead of rushing to the cockpit to continue operating the auction house, he went to the middle deck of the Tomorrow.

During this period, the Level 2 city simulation training cabin has been completed.

Compared to Level 1, the Level 2 training pod is much more spacious and impressive, and the seats are also much more comfortable—after all, they use Level 2 fabric.

It can accommodate 50 people for training at the same time.

After the Level 2 training pod was completed, Lin Wu also imported all the projects and data from the Level 1 training pod into it.

Li Ye sat in the chair and put on the Linked Helmet.

Soon, he appeared in a pure white space.

Li Ye then set a series of parameters.

Number of trainees: 1

[Weapon: Remington shotgun]

[Target Location: Woods]

Enemy Type: Velociraptor

Number of enemies: 15

[Combat Difficulty: Normal]

After completing the settings and clicking OK, he immediately appeared in a lush jungle. Nearby, a dozen or so velociraptors moved back and forth, waiting for their chance to hunt.

“Excellent,” he exclaimed.

As a Level 2 training pod, its terrain, character, and monster models have been significantly improved.

The characters and monsters look very similar to real ones in appearance and skin, and they move quite realistically.

A few minutes later, Liye finished training.

Overall, he was quite satisfied.

In addition to combat training, the Level 2 training pod can also be used to train vehicle pilots and a range of other professionals.

"How are you feeling?" Lin Wu wheeled over as Li Ye took off his helmet.

After receiving feedback from Li Ye, he thoughtfully stroked his chin and put forward a series of his own ideas.

First, the training environment needs to allow participants to experience pain and the sluggishness that comes with physical injury.

Secondly, people in training scenarios should have a series of realistic tactile sensations, and the wounds caused by gunfire and artillery shells should also be realistic.

Third, he wanted the training scenarios to be so realistic that people couldn't tell the difference. Only in this way could people get the best training.

"These things you're talking about probably only exist in level 3 or even level 4 training pods," Li Ye said, scratching his head. "Let's just make do with what we have for now."

After nodding, Lin Wu told Li Ye that the crew members for the Vanguard Armed Gunship had been selected.

The crew consisted of 12 people: the pilot, co-pilot, communications officer, engineer, bombardier, gunner, and logistics personnel.

Li Ye then met with these crew members.

Apart from the main driver, everyone else is very young.

Out of caution, Li Ye also made instructions to the city's neighborhood committee.

The crew members were selected based on seniority from the Tomorrow, with priority given to those with family or friends, making them easier to manage.

"Now, you will be in charge of the Tomorrow's most powerful weapon," he said.

The crew members were flattered and overwhelmed to be received by the lord.

Several of them joined as combat personnel during the early stages of Tomorrow's development.

Under Lin Wu's arrangement, the crew members entered the Level 2 training cabin to begin simulating flight procedures and teamwork.

As required by the off-duty requirements, the crew members will face a total of 12 hours of training over the next three days, including morning, noon and evening.

On the fourth day, they will attempt to operate the Vanguard gunship for the first time.

Within a month, they had to master driving and coordinate their actions. By modern standards, this was far from enough time. But this was a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where survival was a constant threat, so the process had to be expedited.

Immediately afterwards, the neighborhood committee handed a list to Li Ye.

This is a purchasing list that details the design drawings of a series of household items that need to be purchased.

[Winter Preparations: Down jacket, sweater, cotton socks, gloves, cotton trousers]

Basic clothing items: underwear, socks, T-shirts, pants.

[Household items: pillow, bed sheet, cup]

Cleaning products: toothpaste, toothbrush, soap, shampoo

Basic medications: fever reducers, pain relievers, bandages, disinfectant.

First aid supplies: gauze, scissors, medical tape

"There are so many?" Li Ye exclaimed in surprise.

Upon closer inspection, there are more than twenty different kinds.

However, this is indeed what the residents need for their daily lives.

Although there are many design drawings for these items, they are generally inexpensive.

For items like down jackets, towels, cups, toothpaste, and toothbrushes, buying standard-level design blueprints is sufficient.

For basic medicines and first-aid supplies, you can buy level 1 or level 2.

Thinking of this, Li Ye couldn't help but slap his forehead.

"I almost forgot about training doctors!"

As the population gradually increases, it's time for Tomorrow to establish its own medical system.

It's not just about taking care of the wounded, but also about taking care of the health of the residents of Tomorrow.

Li Ye hurriedly went to the driver's seat and began a series of purchases.

A complete set of basic medical books.

12 Level 1 drug design drawings, as well as Level 2 emergency bandages and Level 2 hemostatic spray.

The purchase cost more than 21000 crystal coins.

Li Ye then summoned the city's neighborhood committee and tasked them with recruiting a group of 10 doctors and nurses from among the residents, with salaries calculated at the T4 level.

He took those basic medical books to the training pod and input them into it.

In response, Lin Wu, who was training the crew members, adjusted his glasses.

"Only the basics? And the medicines are only basic types," he said. "That's not enough. What about training books for internal medicine and surgery? What about the design blueprints for high-end medicines?"

“That’s all,” Li Ye replied.

He did want to buy level 2 design blueprints, but those things were ridiculously expensive, starting at 3 to 4000 crystal coins.

As for books on internal medicine and surgery, and high-end medicines, there are not many in the auction house.

Establishing a comprehensive medical system in the wasteland is quite difficult.

In the future, the selected doctors and nurses will also enter the training cabin for training.

In the following time, Li Ye returned to the cockpit and began purchasing a series of ordinary items and design blueprints according to the list.

Overall, these design drawings are not expensive, usually costing between 100 and 300 crystal coins.

Before long, Li Ye completed his purchases and also bought a batch of materials needed to manufacture daily necessities.

Looking at the piles of design drawings and materials in front of him, he breathed a sigh of relief, and his brows relaxed.

Now, the basic living needs of the residents of Tomorrow are being guaranteed.

They have regular clothes and underwear to change into, a set of warm clothes for winter, and daily necessities such as toothbrush, toothpaste, and shampoo. When they are sick, they have medicine and doctors and nurses to take care of them.

In the wasteland, this is considered very good treatment.

Li Ye summoned members of the city's neighborhood committee again, asking them to calculate the quantity of daily necessities needed by the residents of Tomorrow and submit it to him so that he could manufacture them in batches in the production workshop.

After giving all these instructions, he sat back down in his chair and thoughtfully stroked his chin.

Now, we need to start thinking about upgrading Tomorrow's hardware.

Hardware refers to urban components for mobile cities, artillery, heavy machine guns, firearms, knives, and land, sea, and air combat troops.

Li Ye first purchased the Tier 2 upgrade blueprints for artillery, and then he bought 600 units of Tier 2 lava ore.

The Tier 2 upgrade blueprint for artillery isn't cheap, costing 6500 crystals—and that's with everyone scrambling to buy it.

The price of Tier 2 rare ore in the auction house is 60-110 crystals per unit.

To Li Ye's relief, the auction house had two or three pages of level 2 lava ore on display, with the price soaring to 64 crystals per unit.

After the purchase was completed, Li Ye upgraded all four lava cannons to level 2.

In addition, he purchased 500 units of level 1 lava ore and crafted 50 lava shells.

In addition to the Frost Cannon and the Lava Cannon, the Tomorrow also has a Tier 2 cannon.

That was the Hunter Cannon from the Lone Sail production workshop.

It requires 300 units of Tier 2 Foam Crystals and 1 Tier 2 Foam Crystal to craft.

The total cost is 2.8 crystals.

This time, however, he hesitated to leave the field.

Zhou Xing had told him that the oil field was already more than half-exploded, and according to his estimate, he could only control 300,000 to 400,000 crystal coins.

This also includes deducting the 10 crystals allocated to the Engineer and the 6.7 crystals from the auction of the city resource transfer device.

After all that shopping, I don't have many crystal coins left to spend.

After thinking it over, he decided to buy it anyway.

"It's a rare opportunity to create this; it will be much harder to gather the materials later!"

A dozen minutes later, a Hunter Cannon was produced.

Currently, Tomorrow has a total of 7 Tier 2 cannons of 3 different types.

Li Ye began to ponder the current configuration of the Tomorrow's land, sea, and air vehicles.

He quickly sorted out his thoughts.

Air power now has the Vanguard gunship, plus the Black Hawk helicopter, which is almost complete.

The naval force currently consists only of the Viper speedboats acquired from the Lone Sail, and needs to be replenished in order to set sail.

The land forces consist of the first and second vehicle teams and the Storm infantry fighting vehicle. If iron ore is plentiful, they will build the Tier 2 Rock Off-Road Vehicle.

Considering that the Tomorrow will not be able to set sail for quite some time and is currently still migrating on land, Liye decided to first improve the land combat capabilities.

"Could there be tank blueprints among the Tier 2 land vehicles?" he wondered.

With a "let's give it a try" attitude, he labeled it as Level 2 and entered "tank".

This time, the auction house showed a result of 0.

He wasn't too disappointed about it.

Based on the current situation, the land combat force of a Level 2 mobile city consists of convoys.

If it possesses combat vehicles such as tanks and missile vehicles, it would probably be at level 3 or 4.

When we reach levels 5 or 6, there might even be massive tank formations like an iron torrent.

"What about level 3?"

As soon as he clicked "confirm," an auction item appeared before his eyes.

(End of this chapter)