Mobile City Farming Guide

Chapter 345 Space Pirate Crew and “Overexploitation” (4K)

“If we were to cross it horizontally, we would only need to travel a few hundred kilometers to traverse this asteroid belt,” Novi said.

Li Ye couldn't help but sigh.

Crossing a meteorite belt is no easy feat.

But the Tomorrow Alliance can't afford to take such a long detour.

"Let's give it a try."

The mobile cities then cautiously entered the asteroid belt.

With Li Ye's command, all mobile cities activated their energy shield devices to withstand the impact of the meteor shower.

Countless tiny meteorites, like grains of sand, were continuously striking the shield at speeds of tens of kilometers per second, emitting a constant, fine burst of blue flashes.

Occasionally, a slightly larger meteorite would strike, causing a huge, silent fireball to explode on the surface of the energy shield, shaking the entire mobile city.

The Tomorrow Alliance's flight path was not a straight line, but rather a slow but large-amplitude maneuver to evade enemy attacks with Novi's assistance.

Against the backdrop of pitch-black space and pale rocks, the mobile cities resemble colossal beasts struggling to migrate through a storm. They are filled with a sense of vulnerability, both of being about to be swallowed up and of being consumed by the endless void.

The Ember Angel and the Viper Angel followed closely behind.

For these two super mobile suits, the meteor shower wasn't as troublesome as they had imagined.

Not long after, a series of large-scale meteorites appeared in front of the Tomorrow Alliance.

The largest meteorite is almost the same size as Tomorrow.

After a moment of contemplation, Li Ye spoke in a low voice.

"Make way, Fang Yong."

As the Iron Whale activated its gravitational wave controller, an invisible yet immense force capable of distorting spacetime was precisely projected.

It wasn't aimed at any particular large meteorite, but rather it struck directly into the void in front of the meteorite cluster.

In an instant, an artificial singularity was created. The gravitational constant of that region of space was drastically altered, its value soaring to a terrifying level.

The meteorite that was hit first didn't even have time to break apart; it was like a bubble being squeezed by an invisible hand, instantly collapsing and sinking inward.

Immediately afterwards, a powerful gravitational field expanded violently forward in a cone shape centered on the Iron Whale, like a boulder thrown into an invisible ocean, creating a devastating spacetime "ripple".

Wherever the shockwave passed, everything was violently pushed aside. Smaller meteorites were swept away as if by a supernova shockwave, instantly turning into dust; larger meteorites were given terrifying lateral acceleration, deviating from their original trajectories and frantically crashing into their companions, triggering a series of new and chaotic secondary collisions.

The dense asteroid belt in front of Tomorrow Alliance was completely cleared, and a short but clean corridor was forcibly opened up.

A dozen minutes later, the group encountered another unexpected situation.

Just as the mobile cities passed by, an irregularly shaped meteorite, tens of kilometers in diameter, suddenly became active.

Suddenly, several huge impact craters on its surface burst open simultaneously, revealing countless dark cannon muzzles, densely packed missile pods, and mechanical devices.

Without prior notice or warning, the first wave of attacks arrived.

As the mechanical device roared to life, the irregularly floating meteorites around them hurtled toward the mobile cities at an astonishing speed, like catapult projectiles!

"What's going on?" Fang Yong was taken aback.

"Attack! Someone is lying in ambush among the meteorites!" Yang Zheng shouted urgently.

"These are probably space pirates, right?" Zhou Xing was taken aback. "That unknown mechanical device... it looks like a gravity weapon?"

Novi then reminded Liye to leave.

"Master, currently most of my computing power is being used for navigation and maneuvering around the city. Should I allocate all computing power to combat?"

Li Ye then spoke quickly and issued a series of instructions.

"Fang Yong, stop this batch of meteorites! And your main task from now on is defense!"

"Changfeng, Tang Fang, you two are responsible for finding the enemies hiding the meteorite cluster and eliminating them!"

"Novi, reserve 10% of the computing power for navigation and evasion, and dedicate the rest to the battle!"

Thanks to the gravitational wave controller, this wave of meteorites was barely withstood.

However, just as one wave subsided, another arose. Hundreds of small spaceships with mottled paint and menacing shapes emerged from the surrounding asteroid belt like a swarm of bees.

Moreover, a dozen or so robots, each over a hundred meters tall, appeared among them.

"Mobile Suit!" Fang Yong exclaimed in astonishment. "I didn't expect the enemy to have Mobile Suit as well!"

Li Ye frowned.

He encountered a space pirate crew in the incredibly troublesome asteroid belt, and the fact that the enemy possessed mobile suits and gravity weapons was far beyond his expectations.

Moreover, judging from the space pirates' skillful methods, they seem to have become accustomed to ambushing enemies in asteroid belts.

He remained calm.

Because of their journey, Tomorrow's Alliance has been through countless battles.

The Iron Whale thus engaged in a tug-of-war with the enemy's gravity weapons, while the Ember Angel and the Versailles began to fight back.

Under the pilot Changfeng's skillful maneuvering, the Ember Angel danced nimbly through the dense and complex asteroid belt.

This super mobile suit demonstrates astonishing super mobility.

It wasn't dodging meteorites, but rather controlling them—the vector nozzles on its back and limbs precisely ejected streams of dark blue plasma, propelling it past a dozen tumbling meteorites by the slightest margin.

With a mere touch of her foot, the Ember Angel made a sharp turn in zero gravity, like a gymnast, using a house-sized meteorite as a springboard to slam into an enemy mobile suit.

On his wrist, the high-frequency vibrating ship-slaying sword was already unsheathed, emitting a deep hum that seemed to tear space apart.

Without a violent collision or sparks flying, the Ember Angel silently swept across the enemy aircraft's waist, instantly slicing it in two.

Immediately afterwards, the high-frequency particle claws on the Ember Angel's wrist suddenly extended, precisely tearing apart a spaceship and causing it to tumble uncontrollably in silent flames. At the same time, six floating cannons were silently released from its back, trailing pale blue trajectories, nimbly avoiding all obstacles and accurately hitting multiple spaceships and mobile suits.

Meanwhile, inside the Veritas cabin, pilot Tang Fang was operating the aircraft with complete concentration.

With Novi's assistance, this fire support super mobile suit completed target locking, and mobile suits and spaceships within its attack range were marked with circles of varying sizes.

With Tang Fang pulling the trigger, the Visor was unleashed in full firepower.

The "Meteor" super-heavy twin-mounted railgun fired first, and two blinding orange-red flashes tore through the vacuum at near-absolute speed, directly hitting the enemy's two mobile suits and turning them into two short-lived clouds of scorching scrap metal.

The "City Burning" plasma bombardment array began to rotate, spewing out dozens of unstable plasma spheres the size of houses. These destructive energy spheres traced eerie arcs at relatively slow speeds, precisely striking the densest enemy airspace before exploding violently, completely engulfing and vaporizing everything within range. At the same time, the armor plates of the Archangel suddenly slid open, activating the "Hive" 240-cell miniature missile launcher, sending countless miniature missiles hurtling out with dense contrails.

The "Iron Rain" close-in weapon system's rapid-fire cannons created an absolute barrage, forming a wall of death. The "Abyss" neutron diffusion cannons roared into action, completely annihilating the area hit. The "Purgatory" hybrid ammunition drop pods unleashed bombs like seeds being sown.

The Angel of Versailles single-handedly carried out an indiscriminate carpet bombing of the entire area before her.

The explosions created a continuous burst of light, and the massive shockwave shattered and pushed aside the meteorites, carving out a wide, clean path of destruction filled with scorching debris in this cosmic megalithic landscape with the most violent means.

The space pirates were instantly stunned.

They simply couldn't imagine that one of the enemy's super mobile suits could unleash such powerful firepower.

At this moment, their casualties had exceeded half, and the carefully set "weapon meteor" had been completely destroyed.

Seemingly having received some signal, the space pirates began to flee.

The Ember Angel then launched a pursuit, weaving nimbly through the asteroid belt, unleashing blow after blow, cleanly and decisively cutting down the remaining enemy mobile suits and spaceships.

Li Ye paused slightly.

This melee-type super mobile suit was far more useful than he had imagined—initially, he planned to use it against enemy super mobile suits. Unexpectedly, it was in the asteroid belt that it proved its worth first.

“Don’t chase them too far, Changfeng,” he said. “Come back when you’re almost there. Your first mission is to protect the Tomorrow Alliance.”

"receive."

Soon, everything returned to calm.

Novi laid out all the battle data in front of Li Ye.

According to her calculations, the Space Pirates' mobile suits are about 25% less powerful than the Super Mobile Suit.

Li Ye nodded slightly.

During the battle just now, he could clearly feel the difference in the performance of the machines between the two sides.

"These space pirates aren't all that great. Just two super mobile suits were enough to stop them," Fang Yong exclaimed in surprise.

After a moment of contemplation, Li Ye gently shook his head.

“Don’t let your guard down, Fang Yong. We have absolutely no idea what these space pirates are capable of,” he said in a deep voice. “They might even have an entire space fleet.”

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The rest of the voyage was surprisingly peaceful, and Tomorrow Alliance encountered no further trouble.

Finally, they arrived at their destination.

Upon seeing Stan Star before him, Li Ye was stunned.

"What exactly is going on with this rocky planet?"

Looking out, Stan Star resembles a skull that has been hollowed out and abandoned, suspended in eternal silence.

The planet's surface has almost no natural landforms. Instead, it is covered with layers upon layers of giant mines and rift valleys that extend tens of kilometers into the earth's crust. These artificial scars, like rotting beehives, densely cover every inch of land.

The edge of the mine pit was marked by twisted conveyor belts and the wreckage of overturned giant excavators, resembling the jagged skeleton of a dead behemoth.

The atmosphere has long been completely poisoned by industrial waste gas, turning into a perpetual, acidic, orange-yellow fog, interspersed with columns of spontaneously combusting fire caused by leaking gases from underground, briefly illuminating this hellish place.

The planet's orbit is surrounded by a dense garbage belt—fragments of abandoned space stations, wrecked ships, and a metal graveyard of countless mining equipment.

Moreover, a colossal mechanical mining device stands on the planet's surface.

Its appearance is that of a majestic main drilling tower, with a base diameter of over fifty kilometers. Countless thick support arms, like the roots of a giant tree, are deeply embedded in the earth's crust, anchoring this steel behemoth.

Centered on the main drilling tower, countless automated conveyor belts, some several kilometers wide, radiate outwards like steel veins, their coverage extending to the horizon.

For a moment, everyone was dumbfounded.

"This must be a planetary-level mining facility, right? It looks truly magnificent," Zhou Xing couldn't help but exclaim.

Li Ye gently shook his head.

Judging from the current situation, this mineral-rich rocky planet has undoubtedly been "over-exploited".

It is unknown who owns this colossal mechanical mining device.

Is it a space pirate group, an alien civilization, or an interstellar company?

"Alliance Leader, should we still land on Stan Star?" Fang Yong asked.

After some deliberation, Li Ye finally made a decision.

“Let’s land,” he said. “This might be the only planet within a few thousand kilometers where we can land. At least we can mine some mineral resources on it.”

The Alliance of Tomorrow has now landed on Stanstar.

Soon, the group discovered a small town.

This town was not built on land, but rather on an abandoned mining platform.

All the buildings were pieced together from mining waste, decommissioned containers, broken spaceship hulls, and large pipes, stacked crookedly and welded between the steel skeleton of the platform.

The town is powered by an old, worn-out warship fusion reactor, which naturally forms a makeshift market and houses around it.

The town is inhabited by hundreds of aliens, each with a different appearance and body shape, but the only thing they have in common is the obvious fatigue on their faces.

"This looks like a mining town," Li Ye thought to himself.

There are many such mining towns, while the super-giant mechanical mining device is just over a hundred kilometers away, like a towering giant.

As is customary, Li Ye plans to communicate with the alien miners in the town in order to figure out what exactly is going on with this rocky planet.

“Novie, find out exactly what the gravity and atmospheric conditions are like on this rocky planet,” he said.

A few seconds later, Novi gave her an answer.

"The gravity of this rocky planet is similar to that of the planet Weilan, so you can safely deploy ground and air combat forces. However, the atmosphere is extremely poor; humans cannot breathe at all and will need to wear oxygen masks."

"Ok, I see."

Li Ye immediately began deploying troops to the outside world.

As newcomers to the Tomorrow Alliance, their first priority is to ensure their own safety.

(End of this chapter)