Mobile City Farming Guide

Chapter 362 "A Large and Powerful Family Business" (4K)

This exploration mission was naturally handed over to the Tomorrow Alliance.

Li Ye ordered all mobile cities to undergo space-age conversions.

Today, the two Level 1 mobile cities, the Starship and the Awakening, which have been traveling abroad for many years, have finally returned to the Alliance of Tomorrow.

According to Li Ye's plan, they will travel between solar systems in the future, specifically responsible for collecting resources in space.

Liye convened his comrades and the war committee to begin discussing which troops to send.

Unlike in the past, large-scale structures such as aircraft carriers, mobile cities, and super mobile suits obviously cannot move inside a spaceship.

Only a small number of vehicles and special forces can be deployed. Since being promoted to level 5, this force has been on standby due to various factors, but it can be deployed again due to the current special circumstances.

After some discussion, everyone confirmed the combat troops to be dispatched.

Special forces.

Swift Sword Mech.

Armored War Bear.

Hydra liquid metal tank.

Shadow Raider solo combat mech.

Acid-corroded throat mech.

Ion Storm Tank.

The Weaver Tank – I just acquired the blueprints for this Tier 6 vehicle and need to invest resources to build it.

After thinking for a moment, Li Ye added another vehicle to the list.

Abyss ST-9000 Mechanical Giant Shark.

Although this amphibious vehicle is extremely large, it can directly enter the interior of a spaceship and travel by digging.

"That's about it," he said to everyone.

"Wait, Alliance Leader," Zhou Xing said. "Given the size of a spaceship, its internal passageways should be extremely spacious; perhaps even a Thor mech could pass through!"

"We'll see when the time comes," Li Ye replied.

A few hours later, the prepared landing force boarded the Starship and set off for the spaceship.

"Novi, calculate the most suitable landing point for the troops," Li Ye said.

A few seconds later, Novi got the result.

"The most suitable landing point is the bow of the ship."

Upon arrival at their destination, the landing force obtained a clear view of the ship's bow from their perspective.

The machinery there consists mainly of intricate giant grab arms, traction beam generators, super cranes, and standardized container anchor points.

“The bow of this spaceship is a giant polygonal docking port, large enough to completely dismantle an asteroid,” Novi replied.

"Is that so?" Li Ye couldn't help but ponder.

“Yes, that’s one of the pieces of evidence that it’s a cargo ship,” Novi said. “It’s speculated that during its long interstellar journey, this spaceship would capture and dismantle any mineral-rich asteroids it encountered, in order to extract resources to the greatest extent and with the highest efficiency.”

Thinking of this, Li Ye's eyes lit up.

That's right! Since it's a cargo spaceship, it must contain a massive amount of resources, after all, it's on the scale of a planet.

But he soon realized that the cargo ship had an owner.

The Alliance of Tomorrow cannot just take other people's things like nothing happened.

Guided by Novi, the Starship arrived at a landing deck at the bow.

This is an industrial megastructure interface designed purely for extreme efficiency and absolute strength. From the outside, it looks like a huge combination of an assembly workshop and a cargo loading and unloading platform exposed in outer space.

Its size is large enough for the entire Starship to travel through it.

At the end of the landing deck, there was a bottomless cargo transfer tunnel, large enough to swallow a large destroyer.

Inside the passageway, red warning lights were flashing continuously.

The Tomorrow Alliance's landing force carefully landed on the deck.

A few minutes later, the landing force quickly located the data interface on the landing platform.

A special forces soldier immediately pulled out a handheld computer and connected Novie to the data interface.

"Can you crack and hack into this spaceship's systems, Novi?" Li Ye asked.

Novi shook her head.

"This spaceship's core defense system is very powerful, at least two stages ahead of mine. According to calculations, the probability of hacking into and taking control of the spaceship's system is 3%."

"Then, can you control the login platform and open the freight channel?" Li Ye asked again.

This time, Novi nodded.

"While it's impossible to hack into and control the core system, cracking the secondary modules shouldn't be too difficult."

"According to my calculations, it will only take 3 hours to completely crack and master the login platform, at which time the freight channel here can be fully opened."

Li Ye couldn't help but shake his head.

Three hours is too slow.

Novi, of course, knew what he was thinking and immediately reminded him.

"Master, directly blowing up the cargo passage gate is a violent act. To the civilization on the spaceship, this is undoubtedly a highly hostile act of intrusion. I hope you will consider this carefully."

Li Ye was slightly taken aback.

To be fair, Novi's statement does make sense.

Moreover, the Tomorrow Alliance has absolutely no idea what's going on inside the spaceship.

"Do you have a way to log into the spaceship's communication system to contact the aliens inside?" he asked. "That shouldn't take much time, right?"

"Please let me try."

A few seconds later, Novi got the result.

The spacecraft's communication system is completely open to the outside world.

This means that any intelligent civilization can communicate with spaceships.

"Is that so?" Li Ye asked in surprise.

Upon closer reflection, this is quite normal.

After all, this is a spaceship on a long-distance space voyage, which will encounter multiple intelligent civilizations and possibly even star system challenges along the way. Therefore, it is necessary to open the communication system to the outside world.

“Try to contact them, Novi,” he said.

However, Novi shook her head.

"According to the communication channel history, the last time this spaceship communicated with the outside world was 1352 years ago, in the Gamma star system. Since then, there have been no chat records, whether for internal or external communications."

Li Ye stroked his chin, his expression shifting slightly.

In the end, he made up his mind to have the Tomorrow Alliance landing force blow up the gate at the end of the transport tunnel and enter the spaceship.

After the demolition was completed, the landing troops carefully passed through the gate and entered.

Through the images transmitted by the troops, Li Ye could clearly see the scene inside.

This is a spacious area, the main body of which consists of dozens of giant conveyor belt corridors stretching side by side as far as the eye can see. Each one is several kilometers wide, like rivers of steel, clearly used for transporting goods. Especially when dismantling an asteroid, the conveyor belt corridors, which are several kilometers in size, can more easily transport various resources from the asteroid.

However, the conveyor belt is not a lightweight rubber belt, but is made of thick composite armor plates hinged together, with an electromagnetic actuator underneath as thick as the foundation of a skyscraper.

To everyone's surprise, the space was extremely desolate.

Countless work robots were piled up like garbage, and most of the conveyor belts had completely stopped.

Because they haven't been maintained for many years, they are already covered in rust.

The space was dimly lit due to the lack of light sources.

While observing carefully, Li Ye suddenly realized something and immediately spoke up.

"Novie, does this spaceship have any weapon systems?"

"Please wait a moment, Master. I will begin to disassemble the weapon modules of this spaceship immediately."

A few minutes later, Novi gave her answer.

This cargo ship has only two types of weapons.

One is a multi-barreled kinetic energy close-in weapon system hidden beneath the armor plates.

Second, there is a high-energy laser array located on the top of the spacecraft.

In addition, the spaceship's weapons room also contains individual weapons such as energy rifles and welding torches.

Li Ye frowned deeply.

This weapon configuration is undoubtedly too weak. How can this cargo spacecraft ensure its safety during long-distance space travel?

If they were to encounter a horde of strange beasts or space pirates, they would be in for a world of trouble.

Novi offered an explanation to address his doubts and confusion.

She cracked the spaceship's navigation system and obtained its information.

This spaceship travels between more than a dozen large star systems, and only on safe routes.

A so-called safe route is one that is guarded by the official forces of that star system and is not frequented by many space pirates or alien creatures.

Its concept is similar to ocean shipping routes on the human planet.

In addition, spacecraft occasionally travel through lower-level star systems. Civilizations in these systems are often not yet advanced enough to explore space, making them undoubtedly very safe.

"I see!"

Li Ye suddenly realized.

"So, could I interpret it this way: it's precisely because our solar system is classified as a low-level star system that this spaceship chose to pass through here?"

To be fair, the level of development of civilizations in the solar system is indeed relatively low.

"Continue hacking the spaceship system, Novie. I need more information."

A dozen minutes later, Novi provided a series of key pieces of information.

This is a cargo spacecraft belonging to Cocate Interplanetary Corporation, with the company designation "GMC-ATLAS-MK1".

Compared to the shady Nova Corporation that the Tomorrow Alliance encountered on the edge of the McCallum system, Cocate is a legitimate and large corporation.

For this purpose, Novie listed the assets of Cocate Corporation.

It has 47 mineral-rich planets, 1324 asteroid belt mining stations, 8 stellar energy harvesting stations, and 350 orbital smelters/refining centers.

Fifteen interstellar shipyards, four high-tech component manufacturing planets, and more than 500 interstellar factories scattered throughout the galaxy.

40 core trade hub space stations and 734 cargo spacecraft of varying sizes.

And 15 fully staffed space fleets.

"This Kocate company is really a big and powerful enterprise," Li Ye couldn't help but sigh.

In contrast, Nova could only stealthily mine planetary resources at the edge of the McCallum system.

"According to the data, the total number of employees on board MK1 is 3215622," Novie reminded.

Li Ye couldn't help but gasp again.

Planet-sized cargo ships, with millions of employees!
"And what is the size of the cargo hold on the MK1?" he asked.

"Please wait."

Half an hour later, Novi provided the approximate data.

As a cargo spacecraft, the MK1's internal structure was primarily designed for transporting cargo.

Its cargo hold is composed of different classes of units to accommodate the needs of a wide variety of goods.

The first type is the standard container unit, with dimensions of "1 km x 1 km x 1 km". Each unit is an independent hexahedral giant container, with walls constructed of ultra-high-strength alloy.
It features a built-in adjustable gravity floor, an environmental control system, and a stabilizing force field generator to prevent internal cargo from shifting during movement.

Standard containerized cargo units were the most numerous on MK1, numbering in the tens of thousands. They were stacked tightly together like building blocks inside the spacecraft and moved by a massive system of rails and conveyor belts.

The second type is the bulk cargo hold, with a size of 5-10 kilometers. It has no internal structure, consisting of a huge hollow cavity, used to store massive quantities of unpackaged bulk cargo, such as ores, ice, and grain. Loading and unloading are carried out through giant vacuum suction pipes or dumping vents.

The third type is a special-purpose isolated cargo hold, which has the highest structural strength and is essentially a "vault" within the cargo hold. It is mainly used to store various valuable goods.

The fourth type is the low-temperature cargo hold used for refrigeration.

Connecting these cargo bays is a complete and standardized internal transportation network within the spacecraft.

The cargo hold is mainly managed by the central cargo control AI, with robots assigned to handle maintenance, upkeep, securing, and inspection of the cargo.

As of now, MK1 has only achieved 35% of its cargo capacity, far short of the 60% threshold required for a return voyage.

Cocate also offers incentives, with higher compensation for cargo loading rates of 70%, 80%, or even 90%.

However, historically, the company's average cargo spacecraft performance has been only 63.5%.

Surprised, Li Ye continued to issue orders.

"Novi, find out the current cargo situation on MK1."

He soon learned the answer.

The cargo that MK1 most often transports is various types of "basic resource blocks".

It is made of basic structural metals such as iron, titanium, aluminum, and copper, which are melted and cast into standard-sized giant blocks.

This is the hard currency of extraterrestrial civilizations, mainly used for building space stations, spaceships, and planetary colonies.

There are also resource blocks composed of a series of rare metal elements and resource blocks composed of various building materials.

Next came various interstellar goods procured from different star systems, including native plants and animals, grain seeds, and special products of alien civilizations.

In addition, there are a range of fusion fuels, chemical raw materials, ores and unrefined rocks, antimatter, galactic biological samples, and more.

The variety of goods is endless, numbering in the tens of thousands.

Upon learning the details, Li Ye lowered his head, slapped his thigh, and sighed.

"This solar system is becoming increasingly unbearable to live in."

The further he traveled and the more he saw, the more eager he became to explore the distant horizon.

After regaining his senses, his heart began to pound wildly.

If Tomorrow Alliance can receive all the cargo of MK1, they will undoubtedly be rich!

However, before that, Tomorrow Alliance needs to figure out the situation of the millions of company employees on the MK1.

(End of this chapter)