Mobile City Farming Guide

Chapter 297 Level 5 Ocean (4K)

During this month, both the human and monster sides gained a lot of profits by "raising" the insect swarm.

After achieving their respective goals, the swarm was wiped out by both sides.

After being upgraded to a level 5 city, Tomorrow can hardly travel on land anymore.

If you encounter terrain such as swamps, lakes, or mountains, you will basically have to take a detour.

Therefore, sailing on the ocean became its only option.

After the population expands to 500,000, the Tomorrow will need to gradually assimilate internally. Therefore, during this period, the Tomorrow Alliance will not launch large-scale external wars.

The three major human organizations are paying particular attention to the Alliance of Tomorrow.

After all, the Apocalypse Cult, the Iron Brotherhood, and the Titan Throne all have very few Tier 5 cities.

The Tomorrow Alliance is no longer to be underestimated.

The Tomorrow Alliance has now arrived at its new destination.

Level 5 ocean, Void Ocean.

The Void Ocean is located in a corner of the Northern Hemisphere and is an extremely mysterious ocean.

Its seawater can assimilate and devour any substance except metal, and then transform it into living organisms.

This ocean is simply the deepest nightmare of the material world.

Its seawater has a sickly dark purple hue, refracting sunlight into a dizzying, distorted halo. At times, it doesn't resemble an ordinary body of water, but rather a vast and hungry organic system.

When any organic matter comes into contact with seawater, a terrible assimilation process begins.

Trees soften and dissolve within seconds, animals decay rapidly from the point of contact, and even the hardest rocks crumble like candy.

These decomposed substances do not disappear, but are digested and recombined by seawater, eventually presenting a completely new and terrifying form.

Fish that were once devoured may be reborn as multi-eyed, multi-legged predators, sunken people may be transformed into semi-liquid, deformed monsters, and even the entire shipwreck may be transformed into a floating, living fortress.

What's most chilling is that this sea area seems to possess some kind of consciousness.

The creatures assimilated by it will spontaneously form a coordinated food chain. Plant-transformed scouts float on the surface of the sea, animal-reorganized hunters patrol the shallows, and the behemoths that have merged countless life forms lurk in the abyss.

But this is not the scariest thing.

The Void Ocean once swallowed up the entire continent.

Xuanji Continent.

This continent, located in a corner of the northern hemisphere of the blue planet, was completely swallowed up by the Void Ocean more than a hundred years ago.

According to records from the three major human organizations.

That day, the entire Void Ocean suddenly boiled over.

It wasn't a boiling, sweltering heatwave, but some far more terrifying anomaly that defied the laws of physics.

The sea level began to expand, like an inflated black balloon, advancing towards the land at a visible speed.

The tides are no longer flowing water, but a living darkness somewhere between solid and liquid, climbing cliffs, swallowing harbors, and gnawing at the edges of the continent like a thirsty beast.

Those humans and monsters who couldn't escape were instantly engulfed by the seawater. Their screams ceased abruptly, their bodies rapidly dissolving like insects thrown into strong acid, only to be reborn as void monsters.

The continent's crust became as fragile as rotten wood under the corrosive influence of the void. Forests were uprooted, mountains collapsed and toppled, and entire tracts of land fractured, sank, and were swallowed by the surging darkness.

Within a single day, the entire Xuanji Continent sank into eternal nothingness.

The sea returned to calm, as if nothing had ever existed.

Therefore, the three major human organizations believe that the Void Ocean possesses will and thought.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain why this level 5 ocean suddenly seemed to come alive, swallowing up the entire continent in a single day.

However, this conjecture has never been verified.

When Li Ye learned of the existence of the Void Ocean from Albert, he couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

I never imagined that such a strange ocean existed in the world.

However, for the sake of development, Tomorrow Alliance needs to travel to this level 5 ocean.

After all, once they advance to level 5, level 4 resources are no longer enough to satisfy the appetite of Tomorrow Alliance.

In less than ten minutes, Tomorrow's radar detected the approach of thousands of void creatures.

It wasn't in the sea, but in the air.

It was a school of void fish flying in the air.

Their appearance completely overturns the perception of bird morphology. Each "fish" maintains a semi-transparent gelatinous state, and its body surface is covered with constantly recombining multidimensional geometric patterns.

The way the Void Flying Fish "swim" is equally chilling. They don't rely on flapping wings, but rather on localized spatial folds to achieve teleportation.

One second they were hundreds of meters away, and the next second they appeared in front of us like ghosts.

As sunlight passes through the contorted body of the Void Flying Fish, it casts ever-changing, grotesque shadows on the sea surface.

Most incredibly, the Void Flyfish exhibited unimaginable swarm intelligence and coordination.

Their every move was so synchronized that they resembled marionettes being manipulated in unison.

At this very moment, the Void Flying Fish are charging menacingly towards the Alliance of Tomorrow.

Li Ye then picked up the walkie-talkie.

"Let's get started, Fang Yong."

The Iron Whale then activated its gravitational wave controller.

With a low hum, the space itself began to tremble.

The gravitational wave controller locked onto the densest area of ​​the void fish swarm and suddenly released an ultra-high frequency gravitational pulse.

In an instant, the gravity of the entire airspace was completely distorted.

The swimming motion of the Void Flying Fish froze instantly. Their semi-fluid bodies collapsed and deformed under the violent pressure, like soft-bodied animals being crushed by an invisible giant hand.

The flying fish sprayed purplish-black blood from their scales, but were captured by the gravitational field the instant they detached from their bodies, suspending in a strange blood mist.

Before the surviving flying fish could escape, the controller struck again—this time with gravity reversal.

The sky seemed to be inverted, and the surviving flying fish suddenly lost control, "plunging" towards the heavens like drowning people. They struggled and twisted, but during their ascent, they collided and squeezed each other, eventually exploding into clumps of viscous flesh and blood.

The largest of the void flying fish tried to escape, but to no avail—entering the gravitational wave controller within a kilometer was tantamount to a death sentence.

As a gravitational pull, like an invisible whip, swept across, the flying fish in the void were instantly "bound" in mid-air. Then, under the contraction of the pull, they were forcibly squeezed into a writhing ball of flesh, their shells shattered, their internal organs turned inside out, and their bodies finally disintegrated with a loud bang.

Li Ye breathed a sigh of relief.

This time, we easily dealt with these level 5 monsters.

Without a gravitational wave controller, Tomorrow Alliance would never have dared to venture into this level 5 ocean.

After dealing with the monsters, it's time to collect the dropped resources as usual.

However, unlike in the past, Li Ye cannot send anyone this time.

After all, once you fall into the void seawater, you can never come back.

But this didn't stump Li Ye. He simply had the Iron Whale manipulate gravity to move the corpses of the Void Flying Fish directly onto the deck of the Tomorrow.

Things are different now. After upgrading to a level 5 city, the Tomorrow's deck has reached an astonishing size, and it can even accommodate a level 1 mobile city.

Li Ye still had to designate a specific location for Fang Yong on the deck, otherwise, if the Void Flying Fish corpse fell somewhere else, he would have to run himself ragged for a while.

This time, the Tomorrow Alliance annihilated over a thousand Void Flying Fish.

Filled with excitement, Li Ye began looting. From the corpse of the first Voidfish, he collected 9 units of level 5 iron ore.

The level 5 iron ore was extremely novel, its surface possessing the luster of metal, the fluidity of liquid, and the organic texture of biological tissue.

Half an hour later, level 5 resources such as iron ore, coal, saltpeter, and cloth, as well as crystals, piled up into a small mountain in front of Li Ye.

What he cared about most was the Level 5 blueprints.

This time, he obtained 6 level 5 blueprints.

One city building upgrade blueprint.

One blueprint for upgrading a naval vehicle.

One blueprint for upgrading an electromagnetic railgun.

Four Level 5 design drawings.

The city building upgrade blueprints are undoubtedly used to upgrade the steel mill, so that Tomorrow Alliance will be able to produce level 5 steel.

As for the blueprints for upgrading naval vehicles, Li Ye originally wanted to upgrade his aircraft carrier.

But after thinking about it carefully, he gave up.

The reason is simple: the main combat capability of an aircraft carrier is its fighter jets; it doesn't have much combat power itself. Upgrading it to level 5 in the early stages won't bring any substantial improvement.

Moreover, given the size of an aircraft carrier, upgrading it to level 5 would consume a large amount of level 5 iron ore resources.

There are two choices facing Li Ye.

Either upgrade the Zhenlang destroyer to level 5, or upgrade the Winter God nuclear submarine to level 5.

After much deliberation, Li Ye chose the latter.

The main reason is that nuclear submarines can be deployed overseas for extended periods.

As for the blueprint for upgrading the electromagnetic railgun, it brought Li Ye even greater joy.

In this way, the electromagnetic railgun on the Peacemaker can be upgraded directly from level 3 to level 5, and the ability to build level 5 electromagnetic railguns can also be unlocked.

Tomorrow's Alliance will possess extremely powerful ranged capabilities.

After arranging the use of the upgrade blueprints, Li Ye, as usual, began to appreciate the design blueprints.

The first Level 5 design blueprint was for a spaceship.

【Item Name: "Space Dancer" Spaceship】

[Level: Level 5]

【附带效果：1.免疫宇宙辐射 2.速度+70% 3.燃料消耗-40% 4.极端环境抗性+60%】

[Crafting Costs: 350 units of iron ore (Level 5), 100 units of precision space vehicle parts (Level 5)]

Judging from the design drawings, the Space Dancer spacecraft features an elegant and practical streamlined design, resembling a space swan poised to take flight. The main body of the spacecraft adopts a double-shell structure.

The cockpit at the front of the spacecraft features a panoramic design, protruding forward in a teardrop shape, while the middle section of the hull adopts a modular design, with six 12-meter-diameter ring-shaped cabins strung together like a pearl necklace.

Li Ye was somewhat surprised, not expecting that Tomorrow Alliance's first Level 5 vehicle design blueprint would be a spaceship.

This will allow Tomorrow Alliance to further enhance its space exploration capabilities.

A spaceship was built and then transported to the Starship deployed on the planet Wayne via a resource transfer device for use by the astronauts.

Li Ye could even input the Novi city AI into the Starship, which would then be responsible for piloting the spaceship.

He clutched the design drawings tightly, overwhelmed with emotion.

On Earth, developing a spaceship requires a massive investment of human and material resources from research and development to its official launch.

Whether it's basic research, prototype development, testing and verification, or talent cultivation.

Now, it only requires 350 units of iron ore and 100 units of Tier 5 vehicle parts to build.

This process eliminates many steps.

"No wonder some people say that this catastrophe is not just a disaster, but also an unprecedented opportunity."

The technology and military strength of Level 4 mobile cities are basically on par with, or even surpass, those of Earth.

Level 5 and above completely surpass it.

Li Ye then looked at the second set of design drawings.

【Item Name: Nuclear Battery】

[Level: Level 5]

[Additional benefits: 1. 100% increased stability 2. Can be manufactured in any size as needed 3. Super long battery life]

[Crafting Requirements: Iron ore and nuclear fuel required, depending on battery size]

"It's actually a nuclear battery?" Li Ye asked in surprise.

Clearly, something extraordinary has arrived this time.

Nuclear batteries are a technological product that doesn't exist on Earth at all.

The ability to produce nuclear batteries in any size as needed makes their manufacturing extremely flexible.

Examples include flashlights, electric vehicles, and gas stoves.

"I wonder if Gundam can be equipped with a nuclear battery," Li Ye thought to himself.

If you were to install a nuclear battery in a flashlight, it could probably last forever.

The third set of design drawings is of computer type.

【Item Name: "Little Helper" Handheld Computer】

[Level: Level 5]

[Additional effects: 1. Energy consumption reduced by 100% 2. Computing power increased by 50%]

[Crafting Requirements: 20 units of iron ore (Level 5)]

Judging from the design drawings, the Little Assistant handheld computer is at most the size of a watch.

Upon startup, it will display a touchable light screen, at which point the user can touch the screen to input various commands.

Without a doubt, this is an extremely simple and efficient personal item.

The cost of crafting 20 units of level 5 iron ore is really not expensive.

Li Ye immediately went to the production workshop and entered these three design drawings.

Immediately afterwards, he frowned slightly.

While these three design blueprints are good, what the Tomorrow needs most, having just reached Tier 5, is upgrade blueprints for its land, sea, and air combat vehicles and weapons, in order to improve its strength in a short period of time.

"I can't keep hunting in the Void Ocean using only a gravitational wave controller, can I?" he thought to himself.

Fortunately, the Void Ocean is extremely vast and expansive, so as long as you keep hunting level 5 monsters here, you'll eventually find some.

In the following time, Li Ye took out a satellite phone and contacted Albert.

That was the matter he was most concerned about.

"Bishop Albert, have the humans tracked down the monsters' world-class flagship city?"

Albert on the other end of the phone sighed with a hint of regret.

"Although the higher-ups believed you and did follow your instructions, there are currently no leads."

(End of this chapter)