Mobile City Farming Guide

Chapter 166 The Scale of a Level 3 Mobile City (4K)

"Finally we're here."

Looking at the coastline that appeared in the distance, Li Ye sighed with heartfelt emotion.

After breaking through the Naga civilization's blockade and undergoing a week-long sea voyage, the Tomorrow Alliance finally arrived in Southern Liuzhou.

As Li Ye picked up his binoculars and looked out, a desolate coastline came into view.

The hotel ruins scorched by the midday sun, the Ferris wheel landmark half-submerged in the ocean, the breakwater covered with barnacles, and the desolate city in the distance.

As he watched, Li Ye breathed a sigh of relief.

Now, we've finally arrived in the new continent.

What he wants to know most right now is what level this new area is.

He quickly made a series of plans.

After confirming that the area was safe, the Tomorrow Alliance landed on the coast, modified the land, and began exploring the new area.

Among them, Tomorrow will also officially begin its upgrade to a Level 3 mobile city.

In the following period, Li Ye dispatched Black Hawk helicopters to explore the coastline. Only after confirming that there was no threat did he feel safe to land.

The other mobile cities that joined the trip also made their own choices.

The Night Voyager and the Annihilator plan to conduct some raids in the surrounding waters.

The Silver Messenger and the Heavy Hammer chose to sail along the coastline and find a suitable area to make land modifications and go ashore.

After saying goodbye to Li Ye and the others, they gradually withdrew from the K1 City Communication Channel.

In fact, halfway there, Li Ye had extended invitations to the four lords to join the Tomorrow Alliance, but they all politely declined.

While joining a city alliance can ensure safety and accelerate growth, it can also be constrained by overall operations.

Surviving as a lone wolf in the wild is also a viable option.

Li Ye opened the system panel.

The system CD has been working properly for over a week, and more than five days have passed since then.

[1 days, 11 hours, 15 minutes, and 25 seconds until the next intelligence update]

[Number of intelligence reports: 7]

Considering everyone's long journey, the several hours needed for land-based modifications, and the considerable time required for Tomorrow to upgrade to a level 3 city, Li Ye decided to give everyone a day off to rest.

A few hours later, as Tomorrow completed its land-based driving modifications, Li Ye arrived at the production workshop and paid for a series of resources required for its upgrade to Level 2.

This time, by using full-map scaling in conjunction with naval battles, Tomorrow Alliance has completely dominated the game.

手头上的2级及2级以下生产项目，加上2级铁矿、2级煤炭、2级硝石等各类资源。

Before pressing the confirmation button, some adjustments were still needed before leaving the field.

Upgrading to a Level 3 mobile city involves far more significant changes than upgrading to Level 2; the entire city undergoes a complete transformation during the upgrade process.

Therefore, he needs to reserve some areas in advance so that they remain unchanged.

The areas of the small bathhouse, public canteen, fields, basketball court, table tennis court, and barbershop have been determined in that order and will not be changed.

Immediately afterwards, he began to adjust the living space in the middle-level residential area.

从原先的3X3，变为了5X5。等于是每个人的生活面积从9平方米变为了25平方米，差不多翻成了三倍。

With more living space, residents can place more furniture and even household appliances that may appear in the future, thus improving their standard of living.

During this period, all vehicles and residents on the Tomorrow need to be evacuated to the ground.

Everyone on the shore distanced themselves from their mobile city and looked at it with anticipation.

After leaving the field, press the confirm button and return to the ground.

A few minutes later, Tomorrow roared with a deafening explosion.

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, this mobile city began to "grow" in an incredible spectacle.

The gear-driven telescopic structure allows the height to rise gradually, while the outer armor plates of the city retract layer by layer, revealing the connecting rods and hydraulic mechanisms inside.

They began to rapidly separate and recombine, causing the entire city to expand at an astonishing rate.

In the production workshop, large quantities of Grade 2 iron ore were processed into city components, which were then transported to various parts of the city for assembly via conveyor belts.

The conveyor belt feeds fuel, nitrates, and coal into the fuel tank, transforming them into the power source for urban upgrading.

Apart from the pre-selected reserved areas, the upper, middle and lower three-layer structure began to expand and extend wildly.

Pressure gauges throughout the city vibrated wildly, and high-pressure steam gushed out from pressure relief valves everywhere, enveloping the entire city in a misty sea of ​​fog.

The expansion of the entire city is like an exquisite mechanical ballet, with the walls on both sides of the walkway slowly separating and the newly built steel pillars unfolding slowly under the drive of gear sets.

Driven by hydraulic devices, the upper, middle and lower levels of the building gradually extend, and the original building components split and recombine like flowers blooming.

It wasn't until seven or eight hours later that Tomorrow officially completed its upgrade.

The crowd cheered and escorted Li Ye toward the elevator platform.

After being upgraded to a Tier 3 city, Tomorrow's elevator platform has expanded again, now reaching 1000 square meters.

Upon reaching the deck, the group cheered and dispersed, taking in the sights of the dramatically transformed city.

Li Ye then went into the production workshop and took a closer look at the data for the level 3 city.

He was immediately taken aback when he saw it clearly.

After being upgraded to a Tier 3 city, Tomorrow's length will be 1125 meters and its width will be 720 meters. As for its height, it will become 240 meters.

It has 2 upper floors, 17 middle floors, and 5 lower floors.

Besides this, the second thing that Li Ye was concerned about was how much space the Tomorrow's vehicle storage was.

After all, as an assault-oriented city, it needs to accommodate a large number of land, sea and air combat vehicles in normal times.

Li Ye quickly obtained the specific data on the vehicle warehouse space.

The vehicle warehouse space does not occupy a single floor, but is adjacent to other city buildings, with a total area of ​​20 square meters.

Based on an 80% space utilization rate.

If it's a family car, it can accommodate 1 vehicles at the same time.

If it refers to large military vehicles such as tanks and armored vehicles, the number is 3000.

If it refers to aircraft such as helicopters and fighter jets, the number is 1200.

If it refers to ships such as destroyers and cruisers, then the number is 90.

“This is more than enough!” He nodded repeatedly.

Overall, the scale of the Tier 3 mobile city really surprised him.

"No wonder the level 2 resources needed for development have doubled," he muttered to himself. "This city is ridiculously large."

Upon closer inspection, there is one more layer on top, two more layers on the bottom, and a full nine more layers in the middle.

These newly added spacious floors are now completely bare.

The main reason is that all 4000 units of level 2 iron ore invested were used to build the city structure and backbone.

To construct these new floors, the crew needs to invest resources such as iron ore, wood, and stone.

In fact, the original number of floors was already sufficient.

A Level 3 mobile city can accommodate 5 to 10 people, while Tomorrow's current capacity is only around 1200, which is pitifully small.

However, the other three mobile cities in the alliance have even smaller populations, with a maximum of around 300-500 people each.

Among all mobile cities, the demand for population is the highest for rapidly developing cities.

All land, sea, and air combat vehicles require combat personnel.

Ordinary off-road vehicles, jet planes, and speedboats are fine.

If it were a tank, it would require a crew. If it were a gunship, it would require a flight crew.

A destroyer would require at least fifty or sixty people.

As for tank formations, air force units, and naval fleets, the required population is even higher!

"I need more people."

Li Ye couldn't help but sigh.

When the Tomorrow was traveling through the wormhole, it recruited about 700 people.

Previously, considering that Tomorrow's Ship only had about 500 people in total, it would take time to consume more than double the new population, so we did not expand recruitment for the sake of prudence.

But now it has suddenly been upgraded to a level 3 city, and the population is really not enough.

In a sense, this is also a kind of happy trouble.

In the following period, Li Ye became very, very busy.

First, he needs to assign the floors in order.

He summoned Lin Wu and all members of the city's neighborhood committee to begin discussions.

After some discussion, everyone decided on the floor.

The upper layer is divided into layers A1 and A2.

The middle layer is divided into layers B1-B17.

The lower layer is divided into layers C1-C4.

As the lower level of the city's power engine zone, it is not within the scope of the city's planning for remote areas.

The A1 layer was added on top of the original structure, and it is currently completely bare.

Li Ye designated the best location in the city as an airport for aircraft to park, rest, and launch attacks.

Currently, six Black Hawk helicopters, two Seahawk anti-submarine aircraft, and one gunship are parked here.

Floor A2 is the site of the original orchard, residential area, observation deck, and small garden.

The lighting and wind here are slightly worse than on A1, but the living conditions on Tomorrow are the best.

Now, dozens of residents have moved to the upper-level area through their own efforts.

The middle area originally had 8 floors, one of which contained a production workshop and a simulation training cabin.

When Tomorrow was upgraded, it gained 5 new layers on top and 4 new layers below.

That is, layers B1-B5 and B14-B17.

The current Tomorrow is 1125 meters long and 720 meters wide, with each floor theoretically having an area of ​​81 square meters.

However, the actual usable area is not equal to the theoretical maximum area.

After deducting the space occupied by staircases, corridors, decks, buildings, artillery/heavy machine gun deployments, railings, steam pipes, urban armor, etc., the area of ​​each floor will be reduced by about 10-20%.

In areas like the lower level, which are filled with various instruments and steam pipes, as well as the power engine, fuel tank, and boiler room, it's practically impossible to use that space.

Typically, the usable area on one floor is about 700,000 square meters, or about 70 hectares.

This is already a rather astonishing number.

"I never thought you could actually farm in a mobile city!" Li Ye exclaimed.

In reality, a Level 3 mobile city is no more than 1 kilometer long and 0.75 kilometers wide. Its total area is fixed, and to gain more space, the only option is to add more floors.

I did a simple calculation with the grass in the wild.

Generally, to supply staple food for 1000 people for a year, about 30-50 hectares of farmland are needed.

However, with the support of various technologies, the area can be reduced to 20-35 hectares.

Most importantly, the staple food, vegetables and fruits on Tomorrow are all level 1-2 crops, with a growth cycle of 1-2 weeks, and they mature much faster than ordinary crops.

This means that the amount of land needed to feed 1000 people can be reduced by several times.

Lin Wu made a conclusion much faster than Li Ye.

“Two layers are more than enough. Don’t forget we already have one layer of farmland,” he said. “Any more layers and the grain will overflow.”

According to the plan, B14 and B15 will be used as new farmland for planting crops, and an area will be set aside for raising poultry and fish.

Level B17 is the vehicle storage warehouse.

The original farmland of Tomorrow is located in the B10 area.

After discussion, in order to facilitate unified management, Liye decided to transfer the fields in layer B10 to layer B16.

Next, we'll discuss living spaces.

Currently, the room of an ordinary resident of Tomorrow has been expanded to 25 square meters. Even if the area of ​​corridors, stairs and public buildings is evenly distributed, it is at most 40 square meters per person.

"If you calculate it this way, we can house more than 17000 people on one floor!" a member of the neighborhood committee exclaimed.

Lin Wu adjusted his glasses in response.

“Calculating the population capacity solely based on area is a very rigid approach,” he said. “Living space is only the basic requirement. You also need to consider the basic needs of these 17000 people, including their food, clothing, shelter, daily necessities, and appliances, as well as public spaces for relaxation, sports facilities, and recreational amenities.”

"It's not enough to just have a place to live; it's also important to live well," he concluded.

Li Ye nodded in agreement.

If a series of supporting living facilities are not properly handled, simply increasing the population is not very meaningful and may even increase problems.

However, if Tomorrow can have 17000 people, he'll be secretly thrilled.

Overall, the living space on the Tomorrow is now incredibly spacious.

Lin Wu then reminded him of something.

Now, Tomorrow needs its elevator repaired.

It now has 24 floors, making it inconvenient to use the gangway.

The Tomorrow was not originally intended to have an elevator.

However, in the naval battles, many Naga civilization mobile cities were sunk, and a large number of common, level 1, and level 2 projects were acquired. As a result, the amount of content that could be produced increased significantly.

Among them are Class 1 elevator projects.

Building a level 1 elevator only requires 35 units of level 1 iron ore, making it a great value for money.

“We need not only regular elevators, but also large freight elevators,” Lin Wu said.

“Then I’ll allocate funds for you to make the purchases when there’s another gathering,” Li Ye replied.

"Lord, and the Guild Master."

A member of the neighborhood committee spoke up.

"Now that the area has been expanded so much, shouldn't we do some serious renovations to the living infrastructure?"

"For example, small lakes, small parks, small woods, and small playgrounds."

"Or perhaps we could add another round of sports facilities?"

Li Ye and Lin Wu couldn't help but exchange a glance.

Logically speaking, it is necessary to provide residents with a standard of living.

But it doesn't need to be too fancy.

Because this is, after all, a wasteland, fraught with danger.

Everyone needs to be prepared for potential dangers even in times of peace, and ordinary residents who do not need to fight are no exception.

Therefore, Li Ye temporarily suppressed the proposal.

(End of this chapter)