Mobile City Farming Guide

Chapter 223: A red dot covering the entire radar screen! (4K)

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Ye ordered his troops to begin concentrating their firepower on bombing.

Under unprecedented and intense firepower, the two giant ribbonfish perished.

They stretch across the undulating sea like mountain ranges.

The ocean shoved the two giant corpses, causing them to slowly roll and sink.

After dealing with the giant ribbonfish, Tomorrow Alliance continued to bombard the incoming swarm of giant fish.

After several rounds of bombardment, more than half of the giant fish had been killed or wounded, but the remaining giant fish continued their relentless charge.

The Iron Whale, positioned at the forefront of the battle line, suddenly accelerated and headed towards the swarm of giant fish.

This mobile city is like a roaring steel mountain range, carving deep trenches in the water.

The giant jaw crushing and cutting device located at the forefront of the city has been activated.

The moment the leading giant fish collided with the Iron Whale, 36 sets of interlocking, precision-engineered steel serrations meshed together, shredding the fish's scales, bones, and muscles into dust. The hydraulic breaker array roared into action, the impact piles hammering at a devastating frequency, each strike shattering the fish's spine and internal organs.

The charge of the fish was crushed by the cutting device, and the mucus and blood mist evaporated on the hot saw teeth, turning into foul-smelling steam.

On the deck, Li Ye, who witnessed this scene, gently shook his head.

While the giant jaw device is certainly useful, it is far too bloody when dealing with giant creatures.

He had clearly felt uneasy when he saw the Iron Whale crushing and cutting down the giant.

With the power of its crushing and cutting device, the Iron Whale charged in and out of the giant fish, reaping their lives at will.

To everyone's surprise, the giant fish even knew how to use tactics.

They all burrowed into the bottom of the Iron Whale and concentrated their strength to ram its bottom together through their dorsal fins.

Li Ye suddenly realized.

"So they were trying to capsize the Iron Whale!"

The combined power of hundreds and thousands of giant fish was astonishing, and the Iron Whale actually showed signs of tilting.

Just then, a city accessory began to show its power.

That was the gyro stabilizing pod that the Tomorrow Alliance had specially installed during their migration across the plateau.

It is operating steadily at this moment. The giant sphere filled with liquid mercury is constantly fine-tuned through a complex gear system to balance the tilting force at the bottom of the city.

Li Ye picked up the walkie-talkie, preparing to once again command the Tomorrow Alliance to deal with the giant fish.

“This farce should end,” he said softly.

Just then, Ah Bai's voice suddenly came through the walkie-talkie.

"Something terrible has happened, my lord! There's something wrong with the radar! Come to the cockpit immediately!"

Li Ye froze, his heart skipping a beat.

Could it be that a new school of giant fish has arrived?

"I'm coming right away!" he said in a deep voice.

After rushing into the driver's seat, Li Ye saw Ah Bai staring blankly at the radar screen.

Following the other person's gaze, he looked at the screen.

On the radar screen, a new spot of light appeared from the center.

With each scan refresh, the outline of the light spot grows larger. It has no clear boundary, but rather spreads outward like ink spreading, eroding the radar's detection traces.

As Li Ye watched, sweat began to drip from his forehead.

"Everyone cease combat and leave this area at full speed!" He immediately picked up the walkie-talkie and gave the order.

He then continued to look at the light spots on the screen.

It is still growing.

As he watched, Li Ye's breath caught in his throat.

There is undoubtedly a giant marine creature living beneath this sea.

Its scale has already surpassed the 10,000-meter level.

A dozen minutes later, Tomorrow Alliance finally sailed away from this area and got rid of the giant fish entanglement.

Looking at the radar screen, Li Ye breathed a sigh of relief.

The giant dot of light on the screen did not catch up.

The Alliance of Tomorrow is now safe.

At the same time, a deep sense of doubt arose in his mind.

What exactly is that thing?
So he boarded a gunship and returned to the previous sea area, circling high in the air to observe.

The sea was eerily calm, as if even the wind had frozen.

There seemed to be nothing underwater.

But gradually, movement began to appear on the sea.

At first, it was just a small whirlpool, only a few meters in diameter, quietly rotating on the surface of the sea.

But soon, the vortex began to expand.

Ten meters, one hundred meters, one thousand meters, ten thousand meters.
The seawater was pulled downwards by an irresistible suction force, forming a huge funnel with pale white foam churning at its edges.

Under Li Ye's watchful gaze, a ring of stark white teeth appeared at the edge of the vortex. Each of them was as large as a skyscraper, and their jagged edges gleamed with a damp, cold light.

Those were not ordinary teeth, but layers upon layers of sharp spikes, extending from the abyss-like interior of the mouth all the way to unseen depths.

They wriggled and rubbed against each other, making a creepy scraping sound.

Next, we see the mouth of this giant marine creature.

It resembles a pitch-black, bottomless hole, its walls not smooth but covered with fine, wriggling teeth that constantly contract and expand like countless maggots, greedily seizing everything on the sea surface.

Two giant ribbonfish floating in the water, small islands, countless giant fish carcasses, and seawater.
Everything was consumed by its greed.

Upon witnessing this scene, the crew members of the gunship were all stunned.

"My God, what is this thing?"

"It's like a cursed monster from legends!"

"That's disgusting! If I were to be swallowed by it, I'd probably suffer a fate worse than death."

Li Ye's expression also became extremely solemn.

This marine creature is tens of thousands of meters long. If the Alliance doesn't evacuate in time, it may swallow the entire sea area.

"But then again, why did it take more than ten minutes to appear?" he wondered.

Upon careful consideration, he understood the reason.

This thing usually lies dormant on the seabed.

It only rises slowly to the surface when it is foraging for food.

Its enormous size means that each ascent takes an extremely long time.

At this moment, the body of this marine creature is still rising, the sea surface begins to bulge, and its body breaks out of the water like a ring-shaped volcano.

Its skin is an unnatural dark blue, covered with pulsating, vascular patterns, and occasionally flashes with an eerie fluorescence.

The moment it fully appeared, the sea level in the entire area dropped by a full three meters.

All the water was pushed aside by its enormous body, or rather, swallowed up.

At that moment, the world seemed to lose its sound, and all that remained in everyone's eyes was the slowly rotating tooth hole of that thing.

After a long while, one of the crew members came to his senses and murmured something.

"Should we open fire and bomb it, Commander?"

Li Ye gently shook his head.

For marine creatures that are tens of thousands of meters deep, bombing by gunships is at best just tickling them.

If we really want to take it down, we'll have to feed it a nuclear bomb. He then waved his hand, ordering the gunships to return to base.

The turmoil has ended, and the mobile cities have returned to peace.

Back on deck, Rino took a walk on the Tomorrow while thinking about things.

Compared to the past, Tomorrow is now bustling with people.

Walkways, decks, gangways. Everywhere Liye passed was crowded with people.

There were also some elderly people and children present.

This is mainly due to the "bring your family along" strategy proposed by Li Ye to make new residents feel more at ease settling down on the Tomorrow.

To Li Ye's surprise, he even saw a pregnant woman with a large belly.

After all, there are already 50,000 people on the Tomorrow, so population growth is a normal sign.

Looking at the pregnant woman, Li Ye couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

This means that new life will soon be born in their mobile city.

In the wasteland, this is a very rare thing.

Things are different now. The Tomorrow is now 24 stories high, and just walking along the gangways and walkways is tiring.

Li Ye originally wanted to take the elevator, but there was a long line of people in front of it.

So he shrugged and kept walking.

The new residents had only heard of their lord's name but had never actually seen him. So when he passed through Liye, most people treated him as an ordinary resident and continued chatting amongst themselves.

It wasn't until someone recognized them and reminded them that they snapped out of their daze and respectfully greeted Li Ye.

Li Ye simply nodded slightly in greeting to them with a calm and collected expression.

Currently, he is thinking about urban development and construction.

With a week's flight still to go before reaching Arctic Circle, this is the perfect time to do something like this.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look up at the upper A1 floor.

There stand five Level 3 wind turbines.

Each windmill can provide 20% of the city's energy per day, so Tomorrow will have 100% of the city's energy in a day.

Achieving energy freedom in cities is far easier than Li Ye imagined.

It must be said that with each upgrade of a mobile city, its armed forces and technological level will rise dramatically.

When Tomorrow was still a level 1 city, Li Ye was worried about the city's energy supply almost every day.

Therefore, he was always extremely excited whenever he harvested coal and fuel.

Now, my mood is basically stable.

While he was pondering, he happened to pass by a shop.

That was none other than Tomorrow's Electronics Store.

The store was clean and bright, filled with all kinds of household appliances, and crowded with residents, making it very lively.

Seeing this scene, Li Ye couldn't help but seem thoughtful.

Currently, the Tomorrow Ship has begun supplying electricity to residents.

Out of caution, the daily residential electricity supply for Tomorrow will remain restricted.

This is mainly because the population has surged to 5.

After all, urban energy cannot all be used for residential electricity consumption.

The Tomorrow is basically on the move all day. To maintain its stealth, it is now basically operating with urban camouflage and signal jamming devices around the clock.

Furthermore, a portion of the city's energy reserves must be set aside in preparation for the use of the energy shield device.

Thinking of this, Li Ye couldn't help but sigh softly.

Iron ore, energy, and textiles are now freely available, but electricity is not.

In addition to the home appliance store, the neighborhood committee also applied to him to open a clothing store.

Tomorrow Ship already has a level 3 textile factory, plus a large amount of level 3 Yunmeng cotton produced regularly.

After deducting the cotton needed to manufacture the jetpacks and camouflage uniforms, there was still a batch of cotton left.

The clothing store was thus opened.

Through clothing design blueprints obtained from city battles and monster hunting, as well as multiple external purchases by the city's residents' committee, the clothing production project on Tomorrow has gradually been perfected.

Although it doesn't have the wide variety of modern products, it can still meet the daily needs of the residents.

"Bring your mobile city to life."

Whiteman once said this to Liye.

The so-called "bringing to life" means building a complete social ecosystem in mobile cities.

This will give residents a greater sense of belonging and make them more willing to contribute to the mobile city.

According to Li Ye's plan, not only will there be official shops exclusively operated by Tomorrow, but residents will also be able to open various types of shops.

Examples include barbershops, laundromats, small restaurants, grocery stores, furniture stores, and small hotels.

This way, the contribution points they possess will circulate faster and become more valuable.

The problem is that residents currently cannot afford the goods sold in shops like grocery stores and furniture stores.

The right to produce everything remains firmly in Li Ye's hands.

With this in mind, Li Ye changed direction and went to visit Whiteman.

“Bishop Whiteman, here are my thoughts on individual shop ownership for residents of mobile cities.”

Li Ye simply explained his thoughts.

For the daily necessities produced by Tomorrow, Liye will mark an ex-factory price.

Residents who are interested in opening a shop can purchase these items at the factory price and then open their own shops to sell them to the public.

This way, grocery stores, furniture stores, and laundromats can all be opened.

Whiteman shook his head, pointing out a blind spot that was overlooked.

Regardless, the right to produce remained in Liye's hands.

Ultimately, every shop gets its goods from him.

This means there's only one manufacturer, and all items have the same factory price.

Take furniture stores as an example. Many residents who run furniture stores get their goods from Li Ye, and everyone gets the same price and all the furniture is the same.

This means that the products are completely homogenized.

Whiteman sincerely suggested that stores selling goods should ideally be officially franchised by Mobile City.

In the modern world, a single product has a large variety of types, manufacturers, and sourcing channels, which makes it convenient for distributors to sell it at different prices.

"Understood, thank you for reminding me." Li Ye nodded.

In fact, by this point he had already thought of a solution.

That is to help residents build factories that produce clothing, food, housing, and transportation, which is equivalent to having multiple production channels.

With more production channels, there are also more sourcing channels and a wider variety of goods, which allows stores selling various items to compete with each other.

But if he does that, he will face two more problems.

First, given the technological level of the wasteland, the quality of the factories built there would be very low, and the products they produced would be far inferior to those from urban production workshops.

Secondly, if various factories are to be built for residents, it will occupy a large amount of mobile urban space.

"Sure enough, it still doesn't work."

He sighed softly to himself.

(End of this chapter)