Mobile City Farming Guide

Chapter 324 The Hungry Living Planet (4K)
Looking at the scene inside the diamond rain belt, everyone hesitated for a moment.

After a moment's hesitation, Li Ye issued the order.

"Activate the energy shield devices in all mobile cities, and we will set off."

Tomorrow Alliance is now on the edge of the Diamond Rainband.

The moment it entered, countless bluish-white energy ripples exploded on the surface of the energy shield. Countless carbon crystals then collided with the shield.

They don't produce a crisp metallic clang, but rather a high-frequency quantum howl.

Within seconds, the density of the diamond rain increased dramatically. Outside the shield, it was no longer sporadic impacts, but a continuous torrent of crystals, pouring down like a galaxy cascading down from a cosmic giant.

Not far away, a dangerous diamond reef appeared on the shipping route. This floating mountain range, naturally formed from billions of diamonds, emitted a dazzling prism light in the lightning.

Seeing the energy shield gradually becoming mottled and even showing signs of collapse, Li Ye was slightly taken aback, and then let out a soft sigh.

"Get to work, Fang Yong."

With the activation of the Iron Whale's gravitational wave controller, an invisible spatial fold network formed around the Tomorrow Alliance.

As another wave of diamonds hurtled in, the nanocrystals, powerful enough to tear steel apart, suddenly slowed down mysteriously hundreds of meters away.

The trajectory of each diamond's fall began to twist, like a string being plucked by invisible fingers. Occasionally, a diamond would strike the energy shield, but instead of a violent collision, it would be gently pushed away by a delicate gravitational gradient, like water flowing around a reef.

The energy shield, which had shown signs of collapse, slowly began to recover.

Despite the gravitational field protection, Li Ye has no intention of shutting down the energy shield, but rather allows it to continue serving as a second layer of insurance.

Even though the "raindrops" of the diamond rain are only nanometer-sized, it would be no joke if a mobile city were hit by them.

Looking at the dense rain of diamonds not far away, he couldn't help but frown with melancholy.

The diamond rain belt is over 4000 kilometers deep, and the Tomorrow Alliance will need to keep its gravitational wave controller running throughout the entire process.

"Let's get going as soon as possible!"

However, to Li Ye's utter surprise, the "rain" suddenly stopped after only four or five hours.

The diamond rainbands, which had been raging and howling, suddenly fell into an eerie stillness.

Billions of diamonds froze in mid-air, like a surging galaxy paused by a god. The original roar of impacts, the shrieking of static electricity, the howling of air currents—all sounds were sucked away, leaving only a suffocating silence.

"What's going on?" Li Ye was stunned.

After a moment's thought, the research team provided an answer.

This is not magic, but a self-regulating phenomenon of the atmosphere in this gas giant.

It is likely that the energy cycle of the supercritical atmosphere above the diamond rain belt has entered a brief dormant period, while the liquid metal ocean below has experienced a brief energy depletion.

Therefore, they no longer exert force on the diamond rain belt, causing the methane decomposition reaction in the diamond rain belt to weaken abruptly, and the continuous generation of carbon atoms also decreases rapidly.

“It will take about four or five days for the supercritical atmospheric ocean and liquid metal ocean to resume their functions,” Veronica concluded. “During this time, we can continue our journey without worry.”

Li Ye was not as at ease as she was, and instead ordered Tomorrow Alliance to proceed at full speed.

During this time, he also had the Iron Whale manipulate gravity acceleration.

The gravitational wave controller then released spiral-shaped gravitational waves, creating a twisted passageway in the still diamond rain.

The suspended diamond in front was gently pushed aside, sliding along the curve of gravity to both sides, forming a non-extending crystal tunnel, with a faint light shimmering on both sides of the tunnel.

"It's so beautiful. I never expected to see so many new and wonderful sights along the way."

Yang Zheng's voice, sounding somewhat wistful, came through the communication channel.

Li Ye nodded slightly.

Instead of staying put in the Western Wilderness, he chose to go to sea.

Ahead lay a vast new world.

“Going out was the right thing to do,” Fang Yong said with equal emotion.

When Li Ye awoke again, Tomorrow Alliance had already arrived at their destination.

He quickly dressed and washed up, then went up to the deck.

At this moment, what appeared before him was a boundless, vast ocean of liquid metal.

Looking out, the ocean surface shimmered with a sickly silvery-blue metallic luster, as if the entire ocean had been forged from molten stars.

Not far away, Li Ye even saw a "tsunami".

It was a hydrogen wave thousands of meters high, advancing at near-sonic speeds, with blinding blue-white arcs of electricity leaping at its crest.

Moreover, large amounts of bubbles and even water columns were constantly spewing out from the sea surface.

Because the seabed of liquid metal is riddled with hydrogen volcanoes, which periodically erupt with destructive energy like wounds on a planet, with the spewing bubbles and columns of water exceeding the temperature of a star's core.

"It seems this place isn't as peaceful as I imagined," Li Ye thought to himself.

He immediately began the work of extracting liquid metal from seawater.

The Water Cube factory on the Tomorrow played a significant role.

Under the influence of the city's architecture, the extracted liquid metal seawater is immediately compressed into small crystals—but its actual weight remains unchanged.

Moreover, the compression work at the Water Cube factory also takes time.

According to Novie's calculations, it will take about a week to complete.

As they were eating, Li Ye gazed at the ocean and seemed lost in thought.

It seems that the Alliance's exploration of the planet Aetheria will only go this far.

As for the deeper, stormy seas and ultra-dense core, it's probably impossible to explore them.

Once you've eaten and drunk your fill, you can set off back to your home island.

"Novi, calculate how many units of liquid metal seawater the Tomorrow can hold," he said softly.

The next second, Novi gave her answer.

“If it were a Level 5 mobile city, the liquid metal seawater it could hold would be enough to create 20 units of Level 5 steel,” she replied. “That’s also the load-bearing limit of the Tomorrow.”

Li Ye nodded slowly.

He was content.

However, on his way back, he planned to deliver half of the liquid metal seawater to the human side.

After all, the Tomorrow Alliance, with the support of humanity, has already explored three planets, and each round trip consumes resources equivalent to a continent-scale project. This can be seen as remembering those who dug the well while they were drinking the water.

The Alliance will continue to visit Aetheria in the future to mine its metal seawater resources.

As usual, Liye began deploying its land, sea, and air combat forces to the outside world while also sending out reconnaissance aircraft for surveillance.

To his surprise, a ethereal kingdom also existed within the ocean of liquid metal.

The architecture of this ethereal kingdom is formed from hydrogen mist rising from the deep sea, appearing and disappearing on the surface of the water, sometimes clear like a crystal palace, sometimes ethereal like a mirage.

The kingdom's main building complex consists of countless inverted crystal towers. These towers do not grow vertically upwards, but rather rise downwards from the hydrogen mist platform in mid-air like icicles, their sharp ends piercing the churning sea crown.

The connection between these crystal towers is not a physical road, but a semi-transparent bridge formed by the condensation of magnetized hydrogen mist.

However, the Void Spirits in this kingdom were clearly not as friendly as those in Star City. Upon sensing the arrival of the Tomorrow Alliance, the Void Spirits quickly rallied and prepared to launch an attack.

Li Ye has no intention of starting a war with them; the Tomorrow Alliance's current focus is on "making a living."

He ordered his troops to move away from the area and go further afield.

Over the next week, Tomorrow Alliance finally completed the mining operation.

Meanwhile, the remaining three pieces of intelligence have also been updated.

6. After tens of thousands of years of dormancy, the living planet "Zeroos" in the solar system has awakened. The awakened Zeroos is extremely hungry and urgently needs to eat. After sensing its surroundings, it has locked onto the planet Etheria, which is 35235 kilometers away and is currently on its way, expected to arrive in three days. Please evacuate as soon as possible. (Intelligence Value: Epic)

7. Among the world-class organizations of the monster faction, the War Alliance is the most hostile to humanity and has been preparing for their complete annihilation. 52 years ago, the War Alliance leader initiated Project Ultimate Weapon. The plan was to transform the War Alliance's flagship city into a war fortress. Two weeks ago, the War Alliance completed the project. (Intelligence Value: Epic)

8. A long-abandoned space jump teleportation device, the "Stargate," exists in the solar system. It was built 200,000 years ago by an advanced civilization while mining resources in the solar system. The Stargate's coordinates are "RA17h10m, Dec12°44', ecliptic longitude 255°, ecliptic latitude +35°". As of now, the Stargate is still operational. Its activation key is "QK-Ω7.62x10 Hz |ΛCDM-0.31". After entering the activation key, a recall device can be retrieved from the Stargate for targeted teleportation back to the Stargate when needed. (Intelligence Value: Legend)

Li Ye quickly read through the contents of the three intelligence reports.

"A space jump teleportation device in the solar system? And it can still be used after 200,000 years?" His eyes widened slowly.

His heart started pounding.

With this thing, the Alliance of Tomorrow will be able to travel to distant star systems—but at the current level, interstellar travel is still far too early.

Then, he looked at the seventh piece of information, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes.

The flagship city of a world-class organization, namely a Level 7 mobile city.

He had already witnessed the scale of a Level 7 mobile city.

I never expected that the Alliance would completely transform it into a war fortress.

Li Ye couldn't even begin to imagine what this level 7 city would look like on the battlefield. As usual, he needed to subtly remind the humans of this.

As for the sixth piece of information, it made Li Ye frown deeply.

"This solar system is really not peaceful! There are even living planets here."

The three planets visited by the Tomorrow Alliance all have native civilizations with their own systems—and this solar system is far larger than Earth's, containing dozens of planets. The Tomorrow Alliance has only explored the tip of the iceberg.

Fortunately, the Tomorrow Alliance has now exhausted its metal seawater resources and can evacuate at any time.

When he was relaxed, Li Ye inadvertently saw the ocean of liquid metal in front of him.

He suddenly realized something.

If Aetheria is completely swallowed by a living planet, its metallic seawater resources will be completely gone!

The Tomorrow Alliance has discovered such a large gold mine, and they plan to continue mining here in the future.

"No, I have to think of a way to save Aetheria," he thought.

But this time the enemy is a living planet, and the Tomorrow Alliance knows nothing about its condition.

However, given its planetary scale, its fighting style must be incredibly vast and majestic, and it might even be unstoppable.

"This is really troublesome," Li Ye sighed.

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

According to intelligence, the living planet "Zeros" is 35235 kilometers away from the planet Aetheria, yet it still managed to reach it in three days.

Regardless, Li Ye intends to try to save the planet Aetheria.

If successful, they can preserve the large gold mine.

If the mission fails, the Tomorrow Alliance can use the recall device to withdraw to Weilan Star without incurring any losses.

"Since it's a crisis on the planet Aetheria, I should unite those dozen or so ethereal kingdoms and discuss countermeasures together," he thought.

Without hesitation, Li Ye immediately dispatched people to the ethereal kingdom on the ocean of liquid metal to inform them of the impending arrival of the living planet.

The ethereal being sent out by the other side seemed half-believing and half-doubting.

"A living planet? How can we believe you're telling the truth?"

"Didn't you inherit the memories, knowledge, and wisdom of the previous generations of spirits?" Li Ye replied. "I think you should have the means to confirm the existence of this living planet. For example, by observing it with an interstellar telescope."

A few hours later, the ethereal kingdom confirmed the news was true.

Immediately afterwards, news of an impending attack by a living planet spread throughout the entire Void Spirit Civilization.

Faced with this great calamity, the dozen or so previously warring ethereal kingdoms immediately ceased hostilities, and the ethereal kings gathered at the liquid metal ocean for a meeting.

As ethereal beings, they could traverse the various atmospheres many times faster than the Alliance of Tomorrow; even the latest arrivals only took a few hours.

Li Ye, who was the whistleblower, was also invited to the meeting.

To his surprise, there was another ethereal king who came from the deeper, stormy sea.

"What is it like there?" he asked.

The other party then gave a brief introduction.

Deep within the planet Aetheria, the Deep Storm Sea is like a chaotic realm forgotten by the universe. Here, there is no light, no sound, only eternal fury silently raging under absolute pressure.

Like the supercritical atmosphere-sea, it is also dominated by supercritical fluids, but its form is quite different.

The supercritical fluids in the deep storm sea exist in the form of gales, with fluid hurricanes traveling at speeds of thousands of kilometers per second raging wildly.

Moreover, an even more terrifying anomaly exists in the deep storm sea: a gravitational vortex.

Gravitational vortices appear randomly, distorting the surrounding fluid into Klein bottle-like topological structures, and some vortex cores may even briefly form microscopic black holes.

(End of this chapter)