Mobile City Farming Guide

Chapter 278 The Attack of Plants (4K)
Under Fang Yong's watchful eye, the Black Hawk helicopter arrived on the deck.

The driver told him some unbelievable news.

A level 4 monster has appeared in the desert.

"What?" Fang Yong's pupils widened slowly.

The desert area is a level 3 area, and only level 3 monsters exist there.

“This level 4 monster must have come from the Inner Sea area,” Fang Yong pondered.

Li Ye previously mentioned that a level 4 monster civilization exists in the Inland Sea area.

"Why would a level 4 monster come to the desert region?" he asked, puzzled. "Is it for expansion?"

As he pondered, an unprecedented curiosity arose in his heart.

"What exactly did those level 4 monsters you saw look like?" he asked.

The driver looked like he'd seen a ghost.

"They are all plants."

From the driver, Fang Yong learned what these level 4 monsters looked like.

Some of them resemble giant sunflowers, with flower heads exceeding 3 meters in diameter, covered with serrated mouthparts, and roots that wriggle like tentacles.

Some have vines up to 10 meters long, with barbs covering their surface.

Some are translucent, umbrella-shaped mushrooms that can refract light and create illusions.

Some resemble withered willow trees, with branches like whips.

Some resemble vine-like orchids, with flowers like braided tips, capable of high-speed lashing.

Fang Yong immediately fell silent. "Tell the Alliance Leader this immediately!"

Upon hearing the news, Li Ye was stunned for a moment.

"Not only are there giant fish in the desert, but there are also level 4 monsters, and they're even plants?"

Based on this, it can be inferred that the Level 4 monster civilization existing in the inland sea area is most likely a plant civilization.

Then he suddenly realized.

No wonder the pilots who were sent out to scout the inner sea area said that no monsters were found on the sea or on the islands.

In fact, the vegetation on the island is very likely a monster from a plant civilization in disguise.

"So what do you plan to do?" Lin Wu asked from the side.

Li Ye fell into deep thought.

The desert area is a level 3 region, and the Alliance of Tomorrow will not give it up for no reason.

In fact, during these days, Tomorrow Alliance has obtained a lot of level 3 iron ore, level 3 coal, and level 3 saltpeter from the desert area, as well as a batch of level 3 rare ores.

"Get the troops ready to deal with those giant fish and plants," he said succinctly.

Before preparing for the operation, Li Ye needs to go to the desert area in person to observe and understand what these level 4 plants are all about.

After all, the higher the level of a monster civilization, the more bizarre it appears.

Only by patiently understanding them can you defeat them.

Before leaving, Li Ye made a special trip to visit Fang Ying at Nature H6.

After all, the Titans are experts in studying wasteland monsters.

Upon learning from Li Ye that there were level 4 monsters in the desert area, and that they were plants, Fang Ying was stunned.

"Could it be a plant civilization?" he asked, his voice tinged with disbelief.

Li Ye immediately realized something was wrong, and his heart skipped a beat.

"What's wrong, Dr. Fang Ying? Is there something fishy going on?"

Fang Ying nodded slowly.

Decades ago, humans and monsters waged a continental war over the ownership of a certain continent.

Because the truce was still in effect at the time, the scale of the war was limited to level 4.

Plant civilization made its debut in this continental war.

This monstrous civilization possesses hundreds of Level 4 plants and has demonstrated extraordinary combat power.

Therefore, it received special attention from humanity, and its entire civilization was quickly annihilated.

"If they were wiped out, why have they reappeared now?" Li Ye asked in surprise.

Fang Ying shrugged.

In the monster civilization, the plant civilization stands out as particularly unique.

Ordinary monster civilizations, once destroyed, are simply wiped out.

However, plant civilizations possess reproductive methods such as spores and seeds.

In other words, even if all Level 4 plant individuals are completely extinct, as long as spores and seeds remain, they can slowly recover and reproduce.

“However, this will take a very long time,” Fang Ying explained. “It will take decades to recover to the scale of civilization.”

"I see." Li Ye suddenly realized.

It must be said that these advanced plant civilizations are all incredibly rare.

"Since they are a plant civilization, they shouldn't rely on mobile cities and vehicles for combat, right?" he continued to ask.

Fang Ying nodded.

"In fact, when facing high-level monster civilizations, humanity actually hopes that they rely on mobile cities and vehicles. Otherwise, they are the kind of monster civilizations that have evolved to the extreme and even have unique characteristics, which would make them even more difficult to deal with."

Li Ye nodded slowly.

Having gone through it all, he naturally has a deep understanding of it.

Giant civilization, vampire civilization, spider demon civilization, demon civilization, stone element civilization.

In addition, there were the alchemical werewolf civilization and the fire elemental civilization that I had heard about in the intelligence.

These monster civilizations, devoid of mobile cities and vehicles, are truly bizarre, each one more so than the last.

Just then, he suddenly realized something else.

"Dr. Fang Ying, do super monster civilizations basically not have mobile cities?"

Fang Ying was taken aback, then nodded.

"Your line of thinking is correct."

"If we rely too much on mobile cities and vehicles, the evolution of monster civilization will slow down, and it will lose its unique characteristics and become mediocre."

"Historically, most of the super monster civilizations that have appeared have not had mobile cities."

The two returned to their main topic.

“You’re going to the desert region? Then I’ll go with you,” Fang Ying said.

This time, their mode of transportation was the N99-Night Owl nuclear-powered bomber.

Out of caution, the crew specially arranged for fighter jets and mobile suits to escort them.

“Your idea is correct,” Fang Ying said. “If you hadn’t done it this way, I would have reminded you to arrange the escort force.”

"Why, Dr. Fang Ying?" Li Ye asked in surprise.

Under his gaze, Fang Ying slowly spoke.

"Out of interest, I looked up information about plant civilization when I was at Titan Throne headquarters. The information indicated that plant civilization possessed aerial units."

"What?" Li Ye's expression changed slightly.

He subconsciously looked up at the sky through the cabin window.

What do plants that live in the sky actually look like?

A few hours later, they quickly flew to the desert area.

Before long, Li Ye spotted the Iron Whale in the desert. The ship sounded its horn, saluting Li Ye and his men.

Upon hearing the whistle, Li Ye was filled with emotion.

In the past, when the Tomorrow was sleeping in the wilderness, the ship's whistle was often a familiar and effective means of communication.

As the Tomorrow Ship was developed, the whistle was abandoned.

A dozen minutes later, Li Ye and Fang Ying observed the group of plants.

"It really is a plant civilization!" Fang Ying's expression changed slightly.

Before setting off, he specifically contacted the Titan Throne headquarters and retrieved an illustrated guide to plant civilization through the resource teleportation device.

On the way to the desert area, Li Ye deliberately sat next to Fang Ying and they looked at the illustrated guide together.

The illustrated guide contains over a thousand different plant species.

Mountains, plains, glaciers, oceans, volcanoes, plateaus.
There is an abundance of plants that can adapt to all kinds of terrain.

Fang Ying flipped through the illustrated guide to the desert section and compared it with the plants that were now appearing.

"Sand-eating anemone, thorny vine, quicksand magic mushroom, sandstorm whip willow, giant sand fern, sand-throated man-eating flower, sand sea whip orchid. With such a complete range of species, plant civilization must have been fully revived by now!"

As he spoke, a look of emotion appeared in his eyes.

"After all these years of silence, it has actually hidden itself in the inner sea of ​​Guixu Continent!"

The two looked out the window at the plants.

After seeing the situation clearly, a look of surprise appeared in their eyes.

These level 4 monsters are actually hunting giant fish in the desert.

The scene shifts to the desert over which bombers fly.

It was noon, and the desert was being scorched by the blazing sun.

Suddenly, the entire sand dune began to tremble.

Beneath the sand layer, hundreds and thousands of giant fish swim, their pale bodies appearing and disappearing on the surface of the sand, like the floating corpses of drowned people being pushed and pushed by invisible ocean currents.

The sandy surface then rises into winding hills and ravines, as if giant pythons were mating underground.

The plants stopped moving as if by unspoken agreement, standing quietly in place, waiting for the giant fish to arrive.

As time went by, the two eventually met.

The first to attack was the Sand-Eating Sunflower. Its serrated flower head suddenly extended, and its three-meter-wide scarlet mouth instantly bit the tail of a giant fish, its root tentacles piercing into its flesh through the gaps in the scales.

The giant fish, entangled in the attack, frantically thrashed its tail fins, and the splashed blood was greedily sucked up and devoured by the mouthparts of the sand-eating anemone before it even hit the ground.

The nearby thorny vines, sensing the danger, lashed out from under the sand, piercing the giant fish's brain and injecting neurotoxins.

The neurotoxin worked extremely quickly; within seconds, the giant fish stiffened and sank into the quicksand.

On the other side, the quicksand illusion mushrooms were reflecting the shimmering light of clear water. Several giant fish immediately rushed towards the illusion—although they had come to land, their thirst for water had not disappeared, especially in the arid and scorching desert region.

However, when they got close to the Sandstorm Phantom Mushroom, the giant fish inhaled the hallucinogenic spores emitted by the mushroom cap and began to frantically devour each other.

At the same time, the branches of the Sandstorm Whip Vine lashed out wildly, transforming into meat grinders that whipped the giant fish, tearing their flesh apart.

The most terrifying carnage came from the giant fern in the desert, which wielded its blade-like leaves, which were over ten meters long, and completely slicing apart the bodies of nearby giant fish.

A precise, efficient, and rhythmic massacre.

This is my first impression upon leaving the wilderness.

Fang Ying, who was standing to the side, also had a slight change in expression.

"According to records, many of the human warriors who fought against the plant civilization suffered from psychological aftereffects," he said slowly. "Many of them felt terrified whenever they saw any flowers or plants."

Under the siege of the level 4 plants, the giant fish were quickly slaughtered.

The level 4 plants quieted down again and slowly began to eat.

Many of the plants looked up at the fighter jets in the sky as they ate.

Li Ye quickly came up with an idea.

At his command, the fighter jets immediately began bombing the level 4 plants.

However, the level 4 plants were extremely alert. Almost the instant the fighter jets swooped down, they burrowed back underground.

Only a few scattered level 4 plants were blasted to pieces, their bodies reduced to charred black.

"This level 4 plant can actually burrow underground?" Li Ye's expression changed slightly.

This would make things complicated.

This desert area is a vast ocean of sand, and level 4 plants can move flexibly through it, waiting for an opportunity to launch a surprise attack from underground.

It seems unlikely that the Alliance will be able to control this area tomorrow.

Deploying ground troops would undoubtedly expose them to underground attacks from the plants, putting them at a significant disadvantage.

"Should we temporarily withdraw the Iron Whale?" he muttered to himself.

Despite possessing a powerful gravitational wave controller, the Iron Whale could not provide 24/7 protection.

Moreover, these level 5 items consume a significant amount of city energy.

The Iron Whale will always be in danger whenever it sails in the desert.

After all, you never know when the level 4 plants under the desert will launch their attack.

Li Ye immediately picked up the walkie-talkie and informed Fang Yong to evacuate.

"Are we retreating already, Alliance Leader?" Fang Yong seemed somewhat surprised, yet also indifferent. "This is a level 3 area!"

Li Ye sighed.

He was certainly aware of this.

However, we still need to be careful in our actions, especially when facing a level 4 monster civilization.

Just then, he encountered another unexpected situation.

"See that sky over there?" Fang Ying patted his shoulder forcefully. "There are aerial plants there!"

Li Ye immediately looked in the direction he indicated.

Sure enough, countless level 4 plants were floating there.

Fang Ying immediately flipped to the top of the illustrated book and began to compare and identify each item one by one.

The thunder dandelion, whose seeds carry static charge and can form a cluster of suspended spherical lightning bolts.

The petals harden into rotating blades, and the stem is like a propeller-driven blade-winged storm orchid.

The lotus seedpod evolved into a cannon barrel, storing flammable pollen, in the Flaming King Lotus Cannon.

The trunk of the thorn beehive tree is parasitized by a colony of mutated bees.

The Venus flytrap's leaves can mimic clouds and birds.

The hyacinth is a plant that can rotate its flower spikes to create vortexes of airflow.

The sight of all those aerial plants was enough to make Li Ye's scalp tingle.

"Thank goodness Titan Throne made this encyclopedia, otherwise we wouldn't know how to cope for a while!" he exclaimed.

However, Fang Ying shook her head.

“The Titan Throne has long studied plant civilizations, and this guide was specially created at that time. The higher-ups knew that plant civilizations would inevitably revive one day,” he replied. “As you can see, we now have a better understanding of plant civilizations.”

Li Ye nodded.

World-class organizations certainly think further ahead than he does.

"So, Dr. Fang Ying, has the Titan Throne developed any methods to counter plant civilizations?" he asked.

“Even as level 4 monsters, the plant civilization still possesses the most primitive characteristics,” Fang Ying said slowly. “That is, they are afraid of fire.”

Li Ye was about to nod excitedly when he suddenly realized something and his expression froze slightly.

(End of this chapter)