Mobile City Farming Guide

Chapter 156 Moving Island (4.1K)

After a long and fierce battle, Tomorrow Alliance finally broke free from the swarm of fish.

After confirming that it was safe, Tomorrow began to recover the deployed combat forces.

The first and second fleets returned in turn via the elevator platform, while the Seahawk anti-submarine aircraft, Black Hawk helicopters, and Vanguard armed gunships landed on the upper deck one after another.

Flight III destroyers remain deployed overseas.

The residents took turns coming up to the deck and began their routine cleaning, repair, and troubleshooting work.

Li Ye briefly summarized the losses of the alliance tomorrow.

There were not many casualties, mainly because the Tomorrow Alliance had strong firepower and weakened the fish swarms through multiple rounds of bombing before they arrived, and defensive cities were placed at the front to slow down the fish swarms' advance.

With the addition of Tomorrow's air and sea combat capabilities, the Tomorrow Alliance withstood the pressure from the giant fish.

Nevertheless, people were still in shock, especially the combat personnel on the deck of the Tomorrow, who witnessed giant fish, dozens of meters long, landing on the deck and desperately thrashing about, trying to devour people.

Even as they lay battered and dying on the deck, battered by a hail of bullets, the giant fish's eyes remained fixed on them.

"I will never eat fish again." Fang Yong's voice, still shaken, came through the walkie-talkie.

The giant fish on the deck of the Iron Whale was dealt with by Black Hawk helicopters.

Even after being shot dead, the giant fish in the cockpit still stared intently at Fang Yong, sending chills down his spine.

Giant fish are mutated creatures from the ocean, and they can also fall.

With the mindset of not wasting resources, the group dispatched people to begin collecting them.

Judging from the dropped items, these giant fish are only level 2.

However, no one was much more relaxed.

The ocean is so vast, there must be giant, high-level fish here.

Just then, Zhou Xing's puzzled voice suddenly came through the walkie-talkie.

"Look at the sea ahead, it's strange. Why is there a mountain range there?"

"Mountain range?"

Li Ye then looked in the direction Zhou Xing had indicated.

In the distance, a huge, undulating shadow could indeed be seen.

"So there are mountains in the sea?" Fang Yong murmured.

"There shouldn't be, right?" Yang Zheng asked doubtfully.

"If it's a mountain range on a giant island, then it's possible," Li Ye guessed.

Just as the group was reflecting on this, the enormous shadow suddenly began to move.

The people who were talking froze instantly.

“That doesn’t seem like a mountain range, but something alive,” Yang Zheng said, beads of sweat forming on his forehead.

Zhou Xing picked up the walkie-talkie and directed his engineer to fire a flare into the distance.

As the sea was illuminated, the enormous shadow emerged.

That's not a mountain range.

It is a spine.

Each silvery-white scale was as big as a truck, gleaming with a cold luster in the light.

On a certain body of water, a pale, disc-shaped object, about forty or fifty meters in diameter, slowly emerged.

Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be the eyeball of a fish.

This is a giant ribbonfish.

Its body resembles an elongated Milky Way, winding and spiraling in the dark water, with its head and tail more than a kilometer apart.

At this moment, it is slowly swimming on the water.

For a moment, everyone felt that time was moving very, very slowly.

Fang Yong's mouth hung open, unable to utter a single word. Zhou Xing wiped the sweat from his forehead at an extremely slow pace, as if the action might alert a distant behemoth. Yang Zheng froze, his gaze moving very, very slowly.

Li Ye quickly realized what was happening and spoke softly into the walkie-talkie.

"Everyone, slow down your moving city speed. Let's quietly sail away from this sea area and try to avoid disturbing it."

As the four gave their respective orders, the mobile cities quietly drove away at an extremely slow speed.

Li Ye stood on the deck, his gaze fixed on the giant ribbonfish.

He could withstand the previous swarms of giant fish, but this time he was truly shocked.

It turns out there are giant fish in the sea that are thousands of meters long.

This may only be the tip of the iceberg.

Perhaps in the future there will be schools of fish measuring thousands of meters in length, and even giant fish measuring tens of thousands of meters in length.
Just then, he suddenly realized something was wrong.

That giant ribbonfish, which was over a kilometer long, always moved at an extremely slow speed.

The movements were not even regular or natural, as if the person was dying.

Thinking of this, Li Ye immediately picked up his binoculars and looked at the head of the giant ribbonfish.

Its eyes rolled in vain, and its sharp fish mouth, covered in blood, slowly opened and closed.

Upon closer inspection, it appeared that a section of the giant ribbonfish's body had been bitten by something and sank beneath the surface of the sea.

Just then, the kilometer-long giant fish suddenly moved.

It twisted and rolled in the seawater, its scales reflecting a cold, sharp light, like a giant hand stirring up the ocean.

Its body was so enormous that every struggle it stirred up towering waves, turning the seawater into murky whirlpools and producing a deep, almost thunderous roar.

"Why did that guy suddenly move?" Fang Yong's surprised voice came through the walkie-talkie.

"Have they spotted us?" Yang Zheng asked. "The electromagnetic railgun is ready and can fire at any time!"

“No.” Li Ye shook his head. “This giant ribbonfish, which is over a kilometer long, was hunted.”

"what?!"

Suddenly, the giant ribbonfish let out a loud, mournful cry. It struggled desperately, its tail fins slapping out towering waves. Its massive, mountain-like, long body twisted into an exaggerated arc, and its scales peeled off in the violent friction, like silver rain falling into the deep sea.

But all in vain.

From God's perspective, there exists an even larger figure beneath the sea.

Judging from its shape and outline, it was also a giant fish.

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, the giant ribbonfish was slowly sank as it was bitten by the other party.

A huge, slowly moving whirlpool appeared at the part of its body that was bitten, and it slowly sank into the sea, dragging its head and tail along with it.

During this time, the giant ribbonfish continued to struggle.

However, the opponent's bite force was extremely fierce and steady, making it a futile, death throes.

At the last moment, the giant ribbonfish mustered all its strength to raise its head, its huge eyes reflecting the sky illuminated by the flares.

Then, it was completely swallowed up by the giant vortex.

When its kilometer-long body was completely dragged into the water, it stirred up a giant circular wave nearly 100 meters high.

I don't know how much time passed before everything returned to normal.

Finally, only floating silver scales and swirling eddies remained on the sea. Everyone who witnessed this was utterly astonished.

Although Li Ye looked slightly surprised, he eventually nodded slightly.

Clearly, the ocean was far more interesting than he had imagined.

a few days later.

On the upper deck, Li Ye was drinking cola and enjoying the breeze.

The first day of Tomorrow Alliance's voyage was particularly thrilling, but the next few days went very smoothly, without any obstacles or dangerous incidents.

While feeling the sea breeze, Li Ye opened the system panel.

At this very moment, a new round of intelligence has been updated.

1. The ocean you are in is the Terranes Ocean, with a total area of ​​approximately 8253 million square kilometers and an average depth of 4321 meters. (Intelligence Value: Average)

2. After recovering from its injuries, the Emperor Monster Galus hurriedly headed to a trench in the Azure Ocean, thousands of meters deep, to challenge another Emperor Monster nicknamed "Ash." (Intelligence Value: Excellent)

3. 56 nautical miles southwest lies Storm Island. This island is the only safe harbor for humanity in the Terranis Ocean. (Intelligence Value: Rare)

[4. 145 nautical miles northeast of the Black Mist Sea, a large number of level 2 iron ore and rare mineral veins have just spawned underwater. (Intelligence Value: Excellent)]

5. The Titan Throne has established an underwater base in the Devil's Triangle in the middle of the Terranis Ocean, specifically for research. Recent studies at the base have revealed significant anomalies among the giant fish of the Terranis Ocean. Therefore, the base has urgently recalled researchers originally deployed throughout the Terranis Ocean, including Dr. Mick. (Intelligence Value: Excellent)

[6. Refreshing. (Intelligence Value: Epic)]

7. Refreshing... (Intelligence Value: Legendary)

As usual, Li Ye quickly digested the intelligence information.

“No wonder Dr. Mick left in such a hurry without even taking care of Gallas,” he muttered to himself.

What bothered him most was the phrase "The giant fish in the Terranis Ocean has shown unusual behavior."

For some reason, he always had a bad feeling about this.

Li Ye quickly made a plan.

The Alliance will first go to Storm Island, a safe harbor, to rest and recuperate, and then head to the Black Mist Sea to mine the veins.

After giving the order, he quickly realized something was wrong.

The leader of the Silver Messenger, who had previously rescued the Level 2 mobile city in the Valley region, had told them that Storm Island was located 510 nautical miles to the southeast.

The Storm Island mentioned in the intelligence report is located 56 nautical miles to the southwest.

"Something's not right here. Did Zhang Tao say something wrong?" he thought to himself.

More than two hours later, Li Ye's doubts were answered.

The lord of the Silver Messenger was not lying.

The location he provided was accurate.

But the key point is that Storm Island is a moving island.

This human-made island resembles a giant whale, slowly moving across the ocean.

Its hull is covered by a giant hull that stretches for several kilometers, with hundreds of propellers and thrusters at the rear.

The island's base consists of hundreds of riveted black armor plates, each as large as a plaza, with viscous coolant occasionally seeping from the seams, creating rainbow-colored oil slicks on the sea surface.

The island's edge is supported by dozens of retractable, giant hydraulic struts, each ending in a barbed grappling hook. Whenever the island is ready to be moored, these hydraulic struts extend and are driven into the seabed rock, securing themselves to the sea like spiders.

The most eye-catching feature is the giant power engine at the center of the island.

Its shape resembles a volcano, and it is made of countless giant heat-resistant alloy plates riveted together. Its surface is covered with heat dissipation fins and steam pressure relief valves, and its base is directly embedded in the island's armored skeleton.

The top of the engine is an open combustion chamber, and within the circular rift with a diameter of over two hundred meters, the blackish-purple flames generated by burning fuel distort the air.

Whenever the feeding port is opened and batches of coal, wood, and fuel are fed in, the flame instantly turns incandescent.

The residents of the four mobile cities flocked to the deck, gazing at the moving island with excitement and curiosity.

Upon closer inspection, Li Ye discovered that there were various factions, large and small, on Storm Island.

Tier 2 mobile cities, survivor fleets, and even bounty hunters piloting speedboats.
He heard a noise nearby, and when Li Ye turned around, he saw Lin Wu arriving in a wheelchair.

“With the construction level and production projects of a level 2 mobile city, it’s simply impossible to create such a mobile island,” he said slowly. “In my estimation, only a level 4 or higher mobile city could possibly create it.”

Li Ye nodded slightly, naturally agreeing with Lin Wu's idea.

After taking another closer look, his doubts were immediately resolved.

Three giant flags were prominently displayed at the forefront of Storm Island.

These are the Titan Throne, the Iron Brotherhood, and the Apocalypse Cult.

Clearly, this moving island was created through the collaboration of these three world-class organizations.

Storm Island is also home to these mobile cities of global organizations.

Li Ye put down his binoculars and seemed lost in thought.

Based on my experiences in the Western Wilderness and my observations in the Terranis Ocean, I estimate that there are only these three world-class organizations among humankind.

"Speaking of which, how many world-class organizations does the Monster Party actually have?" he wondered.

The Tomorrow then sounded two long and one short whistle, indicating its desire to communicate with Storm Island.

Storm Island was particularly cautious in the face of these four Level 2 mobile cities of unknown origin.

They dispatched a Class 2 airship to the deck of the Tomorrow to negotiate.

The leader was none other than a professor from the Titan Throne.

"Hello, my name is Hao," he said.

Li Ye then had a brief conversation with him.

Just as he and Lin Wu had predicted, the moving island was created through the collaboration of three world-class organizations.

The reason is simple: they want to provide a safe haven for human forces in the Terranis Ocean to rest, gather intelligence, and purchase supplies.

The three world-class organizations each only needed to deploy a level 3 engineer city, and the transformation was completed within a week.

The mobile island is then managed by a committee composed of one representative from each of the three parties.

“The situation in the Terranis Ocean is indeed very bad right now,” Professor Hao said with concern. “There are many monster civilizations here, and there are giant fish, sea beasts, and even imperial monsters in the water.”

He explained the situation to Li Ye and the others.

The greatest threat to the human forces in the Terranis Ocean is those monster civilizations.

Once they detect human activity, they immediately send out multiple mobile cities to attack.

A few years ago, there were still many human forces living on many islands in the Terranis Ocean.

As the monster civilization grew stronger, a series of large-scale offensives against human islands began.

To ensure that human survivors have a foothold in the Terranis Ocean, three world-class organizations decided to launch the mobile island project.

"Although the Terranes Ocean is dangerous, it also contains a lot of resources, so many mobile cities still choose to go to sea."

Professor Hao looked at Li Ye and the others as he spoke.

"So you also chose to go overseas for the sake of resources?"

Li Ye slowly shook his head.

"No, we set sail to reach Nanliuzhou."

(End of this chapter)