Mobile City Farming Guide

Chapter 319 Atmospheric Planets (4K)

The fourth piece of information made Li Ye somewhat anxious.

A space fleet about to visit the solar system.

The fact that they possess space jump technology indicates that their technological level is undoubtedly very high.

He had absolutely no idea what the other party's intentions were.

But it is highly likely that it is about plundering the solar system's resources, expanding colonies, or even maliciously destroying the low-level civilizations in the solar system.

"With the current level of human combat power, can they withstand it?" he asked worriedly.

Finally, he looked at the fifth piece of information.

Since the continental barrier was activated, and the Western Wasteland was deployed as a "refuge" after the Silence Protocol expired, monsters have been able to continuously gather and settle low-level monster civilizations from the wasteland.

Humanity, of course, would not ignore this situation.

Li Ye estimated that this Western Wilderness Continent was undoubtedly a huge powder keg.

Once the campaign to attack the Western Wilderness begins, a full-scale war will erupt between the humans and the monsters.

"Hopefully, the Tomorrow Alliance will be ready before then," he thought to himself.

With the latest intelligence update complete, Li Ye began to plan the next steps for the Tomorrow Alliance.

To his surprise, Anthony assigned him a new task.

"Are you interested in continuing to explore new planets?" he asked with great interest.

Li Ye nodded slowly.

He was naturally very interested.

On the one hand, he can survey the specific conditions of the target exoplanet and mine resources.

On the other hand, he can learn about the state of the original civilization on the planet, as well as the specifics of the supernatural modifications.

"But Lord Anthony, has the Holy Voyager K71 arrived at the new planet so quickly?" he asked in surprise.

Anthony shook his head slightly.

“No, the Holy Voyager K71 is still en route,” he replied. “But the Iron Brotherhood’s space-based mobile city, the Iron Voyager C81, has arrived on the new planet, and it is also capable of setting up teleportation anchors. If you are ready, you can set off at any time.”

Li Ye did not rush to agree, but continued to ask questions.

"So, what kind of planet is this time?"

“It’s far more amazing than the planets you’ve explored before, such as Serandis and Amat,” Anthony replied.

"Really?" Li Ye asked, somewhat surprised.

He learned about the planet from the other person.

Aetheria, a spectacular super-gaseous planet.

This planet does not have a defined solid surface like rocky planets, but rather a dynamic, fluid world composed of extreme pressures, temperatures, and chemical stratifications.

The entire planet is like a vast, ever-evolving fluid palace, and with each deeper level, the laws of physics are revealed to be distorted in a breathtaking way.

According to the preliminary survey by the C81 spacecraft, the outermost layer of the planet Aetheria is not an atmosphere, but a plasma corona.

Temperatures there reach thousands of degrees Celsius, formed by the interaction of stellar radiation and planetary magnetic fields. Ionized gas here creates spectacular auroras, and occasional geomagnetic storms can sweep across millions of kilometers.

Thanks to its advanced urban infrastructure, this space-based mobile city successfully traversed the plasma corona and arrived at the planet Aetheria.

But this gas giant has no surface at all; it is composed of layers upon layers of amazing gaseous and liquid structures from the inside out.

The C81 aircraft has now arrived at the top of the Rainbow Cloud.

This is a magical world of clouds, where swirling clouds composed of hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, and organic aerosols churn within hurricanes, forming incredibly powerful and vast storm systems. Meanwhile, solid helium and methane icebergs float in the sea of ​​clouds, slowly evaporating into eerie solid glaciers.

The C81 aircraft carrier set up its transport anchor point on a glacier.

Incidentally, as a super-gaseous planet, Aetheria's atmosphere is not a simple layer of gas, but a "fluid world" shaped by extreme pressure, temperature, and electromagnetic environment. From the core to the outer layers, the entire planet can be regarded as a vast "oceanic atmosphere," with each layer possessing unique physical properties and ecosystems.

"Atmosphere and ocean?" Li Ye couldn't help but ponder.

He had actually already experienced it in the floating island area of ​​Guixu Continent.

The unique atmospheric and oceanic environment allows the Tomorrow to deploy naval, land, and air combat forces.

“I must remind you that the atmosphere on Aetheria is unbreathable,” Anthony said. “So if you’re going to deploy troops, be prepared to supply oxygen.”

After some preparation, the Tomorrow Alliance officially set off.

This time, Veronica's research team will once again accompany the Alliance to survey the situation on the planet Aetheria.

The staff at the planetary teleportation device handed a recall device to Li Ye and then waved.

"Bon Voyage."

The moment they arrived at their destination, everyone was stunned.

This rainbow-colored sea of ​​clouds is simply a dreamlike sky over the planet Aetheria!
Looking out, it resembles a flowing cosmic oil painting, refracting breathtakingly beautiful colors under the light.

Near the terminator, the clouds gradually change from deep purple to blazing gold, like molten metal splashed across the sky. Occasionally, through gaps in the clouds at the edge of the storm, the silvery-blue glow of the underlying metallic hydrogen ocean shines through, like a ghost emerging from the abyss.

Not far away, there was another superstorm with a diameter of hundreds of kilometers. Its outer perimeter was a raging, deep red cyclone, while the eye of the storm was eerily calm.

In the relatively calm cloud region, "floating icebergs" composed of solid helium and methane drift like ghostly islands. The surface of the icebergs is covered with sulfur frost, which sparkles like crushed diamonds at low temperatures.

It must be said that this rainbow cloud sea is the ultimate embodiment of gaseous aesthetics—it has no rocks, no ocean, but with pure light, fog and storms, it has created a spectacle more magnificent than any solid planet.

"It's so beautiful!" Fang Yong exclaimed.

“Don’t just stand there, Lao Fang. We’re not here to admire the scenery,” Li Ye replied in a deep voice. “Maintain the highest level of alert.”

After all, the Tomorrow Alliance was new to the planet and had no idea what it was like.

As he spoke, a strange light appeared in Li Ye's eyes.

According to his deduction, this gaseous planet should not have any civilization.

After all, from the perspective of planetary structure, gaseous planets lack solid surfaces and stable geological structures, which means that any potential life cannot develop a fixed habitat or industrial base similar to terrestrial civilizations.

Metal smelting, building construction, and toolmaking, on which traditional civilizations relied, are almost impossible to achieve in a gaseous environment.

For example, suppose you want to forge a pickaxe on a gas giant planet, but there are no solid minerals on the planet, and the metallic elements are mostly dispersed in the form of gaseous compounds or liquid metallic hydrogen deep under high pressure.

A civilization that cannot develop industry is like one arm and one leg that has been cut off.

The senior professors in the research team objected to the idea of ​​leaving the field.

Compared to the entire universe, human civilization is but a toddler taking its first steps.

The forms of life in the universe must far exceed human understanding. "You're right," Li Ye nodded slowly.

Humanity must always maintain a sense of awe towards the unknown.

He immediately began deploying troops abroad.

The air force was naturally the first to be deployed.

As the Tomorrow briefly opened its ecological dome, reconnaissance aircraft, fighter jets, bombers, and Swift Sword mechs successively entered the Rainbow Cloud Top and began their strategic patrol.

The Ember Angel and four newly upgraded level 5 mobile suits also took off and began to stand guard.

Among them, "Sea Eagle 01" and "Sea Eagle 02" were originally naval combat mobile suits, but considering that this time they were exploring atmospheric planets, Li Ye decided to keep them in their air combat type modifications.

Although it was clear that Aetheria was an atmospheric ocean environment, out of caution, Li Ye still sent out an ion storm tank first.

After witnessing the tank move freely through the atmosphere and ocean as if it were flat ground, he gradually felt relieved and began to deploy the aircraft carrier fleet and marine troops in sequence.

As the land, sea, and air forces deployed in succession, and with the Iron Whale, the Peacemaker, and the Starship standing by in full battle array, his sense of security increased considerably.

Then, he looked up.

The cloud-covered top of the rainbow is the outermost structure of the planet Aetheria—the plasma corona.

It is like the "burning crown" of this atmospheric planet.

This is the outermost, most turbulent region of the atmosphere, a place ravaged by stellar radiation and planetary magnetic fields.

The matter in the plasma corona was torn into a fully ionized plasma state with a temperature of several thousand degrees Celsius, and under the influence of the magnetic field, it surged into a boiling ocean of light.

It boasts an ecological wonder that is even more breathtaking than Rainbow Cloud Top.

Looking out, the plasma corona is adorned with an aurora-like veil woven from billions of magnetic field lines. The violent collisions of sulfur and oxygen ions within this veil generate a plasma waterfall spanning tens of thousands of kilometers. Under the influence of quantum confinement, the plasma waterfall maintains a clear curtain structure, its edges constantly disintegrating into a shower of luminous meteors.

Moreover, the combined effects of magnetohydrodynamics, stellar radiation, and planetary rotation energy within the plasma corona have created "prominence fountains," which are far more violent and ferocious than plasma waterfalls.

They resemble towering pillars, and under the influence of magnetic field distortion, they form a DNA-like helical structure that surges wildly into outer space.

Seeing this, Li Ye's expression gradually changed.

The plasma corona, in a sense, is the "lid" on this atmospheric planet.

The structure is extremely dangerous and difficult to traverse.

Only mobile cities with high-level configurations, like the C81, can traverse it.

Like the Holy Journey K71 of the Apocalypse Church, the Railway Journey C81 is also very busy.

After a brief handover with the Tomorrow Alliance, this space-based mobile city set off again, traversing the plasma corona to reach deeper into the solar system.

Liye dispatched fighter jets to conduct preliminary reconnaissance in the iridescent cloud layer.

To his surprise, there was even biological activity within the iridescent clouds.

Unlike planets with geological structures, they are all gaseous life forms.

Some have wingspans of over a hundred meters and are covered in plasma crystal membranes, much like rays.

Some are worm-shaped, parasitizing the edge of storms and feeding on turbulent energy.

Some are planktonic organisms composed of semi-solid methane.

Some are ephemeral life forms made of lightning, which can only survive for a few minutes.

Li Ye hesitated for a moment.

He wasn't sure whether these were native creatures of the planet Aetheria, or monsters or mutated creatures that had descended due to supernatural modifications.

"Whether it is or not, we'll find out by testing it with firepower," he thought to himself.

However, before he took action, the members of the research team had already begun a discussion.

Most people believe they are native to the planet Aetheria.

However, the results of the firepower verification were quite unexpected.

One of the Swift Sword mechs opened fire on them, but with little effect.

"No need to guess, this is definitely a monster that descended due to supernatural modifications!" Li Ye said. "And its level isn't low either, at least level 5!"

To conserve firepower, he directly ordered the Iron Whale to operate the gravitational wave controller to launch the attack.

However, this time, the gravitational attack had little effect.

When gravity strikes, the gaseous creatures instantly disintegrate into billions of charged particles. Gravity has a negligible effect on individual particles; even under high gravitational pressure, the gaseous creatures can simply adjust their internal electromagnetic field strength to use magnetic levitation to counteract gravity.

Some gaseous creatures adjust their body's resonant frequency to create a rhythmic pattern with gravity, thereby avoiding attacks.

"So it can be done like this?" Fang Yong was speechless for a moment.

A strange light flashed in Li Ye's eyes.

The gravitational wave attack, which has always been invincible, has actually met its match this time.

The gaseous creatures that were attacked also launched a counterattack.

In the unique environment of iridescent clouds, the offensive tactics of gaseous organisms completely overturned the war logic of the material universe.

Some gaseous organisms can manipulate local magnetic fields, instantly weaving them into a plasma noose—each "rope" being an ionized stream of metallic hydrogen with a temperature exceeding that of the sun's surface. Once a vehicle is hit, its armor will disintegrate into a loose cloud of ions.

Some gaseous organisms have evolved biological particle accelerators that can capture cosmic rays that penetrate the plasma corona, compress them into antiproton microparticles, and launch them out like bullets.

Some gaseous organisms feed on the electrical energy between iridescent clouds and also store powerful electrical energy within their bodies, enabling them to release strong electromagnetic pulses in their surrounding area.

The gaseous creatures launched a variety of attacks, leaving everyone speechless.

The Alliance forces then engaged in a fierce battle with the gaseous creatures.

After a brief exchange of fire, the gaseous creatures left behind a pile of their fallen comrades and fled in panic.

Li Ye breathed a sigh of relief.

He hadn't expected that the Alliance's first battle upon arriving on Planet Aetheria would be so difficult.

At the same time, he couldn't help but ponder.

The monsters and mutated creatures that appear due to supernatural modifications are probably based on the type of planet.

For example, the planet Serandis was ravaged by ocean monsters, the planet Amat by desert monsters, and the planet Aetheria by gaseous monsters.

"This atmospheric planet has probably fallen due to supernatural modifications," he thought to himself.

(End of this chapter)