Mobile City Farming Guide

Chapter 371 Fire! (4K)

The star-eater remained unmoved and continued its advance.

[Enemy distance from Fireseed Planet: 7034 kilometers]

Looking at the data displayed before him, Li Ye was slightly taken aback.

Within moments, the star-eater had advanced another five or six hundred kilometers.

The higher-ups on Fireseed Star also witnessed the whole process, and they were also somewhat uneasy.

“Now, let’s activate the asteroid belt,” someone said softly.

With the remote control command issued

Thousands of morphed rock formations in the asteroid belt simultaneously glowed with a ghostly blue light.

These massive rocks, hundreds or even thousands of meters in size, began to slowly move, defying their original trajectory and inertia.

The particles ejected by the thrusters left long, dazzling contrails in space. The composite armor plates on the rock surface reflected a cold, menacing light under the starlight.

From stillness to surging, the rock mass gradually converged into an unstoppable torrent of starlight.

It was not disordered, but rather formed multiple attack waves under precise program guidance.

Smaller rock masses rush forward like light cavalry, while larger rock masses steadily advance, accumulating momentum.

This massive "asteroid shower" thus struck the planet eater with overwhelming force.

Hundreds of rock masses, each a kilometer in size, crashed into the rotating orbit of his right-foot star ring at tricky angles. Although the rock masses were instantly torn apart and pulverized by the terrifying gravity of the star ring, this sudden and massive disturbance caused an extremely slight jolt to the steadily rotating star ring.

For the first time, the Star Eater's steadily advancing body began to tilt, like a giant who stumbled after stepping on a pebble on ice.

More rock masses bombarded thousands of energy pipelines, causing the surging incandescent energy flow in the delivery pipes to flicker and oscillate violently and unstablely.

Its body, which was originally covered with engraved mechanical armor plates, was now covered with countless huge, molten craters and tearing wounds due to the impact of the rock.

Fragments of the composite armor plate mixed with evaporated asteroid material, thus forming a cloud of hot metallic debris that permeated the area around the star-eater.

"So hard!"

Looking at the images coming from the front, a senior executive couldn't help but sigh.

The scale of this asteroid shower was enough to shatter the surface of a planet. But the Star Eater withstood the onslaught, suffering only minor physical damage and sluggish movement, leaving no other visible trace.

That huge, classical face remained absolutely still and indifferent, its slightly closed eyes never opening even a crack.

This expression wasn't one of contempt, but rather one of disregard.

The Star Eater wouldn't care about the impact of these rocks, just as a human wouldn't feel the dust falling on their body.

His attention was entirely focused on the distant artificial planet.

Li Ye was also quite surprised.

Currently, humanity has already surrendered a territory, but the gains have been minimal.

"...Can this be considered a low-class interstellar criminal?" he couldn't help but think to himself.

Novi offered a reminder.

"Master, the Space Operations MA Hangar 09 is in position and ready to fire at any time."

After a moment's hesitation, Li Ye made his decision.

"This time, don't bombard his face or the star ring footgear. Try attacking his spine and those tubes."

Upon receiving the order, Hangar 09 sped toward the Star Eater.

This colossal super-mobile vehicle, compared to the planet-sized body of the Star Eater, was like a heavily armored knight—or rather, a heavily armored ant—challenging a giant.

With all the thruster nozzles of the machine deflected, the Hangar 09 unleashed a maneuverability a hundred times greater than that of a conventional warship, transforming into a deadly silver meteor and cutting into the rear of the Star Eater.

It quickly set its sights on the latter’s back, on the exposed, mountain-like mechanical spine, and the tens of thousands of tubes extending from it.

"Target locked, all weapon systems, liberate."

The aircraft's "Storm" missile array hatch opened instantly, and countless missiles precisely covered the target pipeline area.

At the same time, the "City-Breaking Hammer" ultra-high pulse cannon completed its charging. A beam of incandescent white energy, solidified to almost liquid state, struck the spine directly.

The massive diffusion-type MEGA particle cannon at the very center of the machine emitted a deep hum, and a chilling light gathered at its muzzle. Then, an unparalleled torrent of MEGA particles formed, precisely blasting into the Star Eater's spine.

Countless pipelines exploded, energy transmission was forcibly interrupted, the light of many armors went out instantly, and even the huge mechanical crown showed a visible lag.

At the same time, the Iron Whale and the Star also began to take action.

Two mobile cities simultaneously activated Level 6 gravitational wave controllers, manipulating an asteroid with a diameter of over ten kilometers.

Dozens of invisible gravitational beams precisely struck the asteroid's core mass point, causing it to deviate from its original trajectory and begin to move slowly.

As the gravitational pull gradually intensified, the asteroid gained unprecedented acceleration.

The ice, rock, and loose structures on the planet's surface cracked and peeled off under sudden stress, like a giant beast shaking off its snow, forming a debris cloud.

It thus transformed into the most primitive kinetic energy projectile in the universe and launched its attack.

The Star Eater seemed to realize that this was not a "pebble" that could be ignored before, and he began to try to raise one arm to defend himself.

The first thing to change was the massive joint where his shoulder connected to his torso—a scale that was akin to the subsidence and uplift of a continental plate for a giant the size of a planet.

The hundreds of meters of thick armor covering it began to compress and snap together, and then the arm, composed of countless giant mechanical segments, began to rise.

Wherever the arm passes, space itself seems to be bent by its mass.

The movement was so slow it was almost suffocating, because its mass and structure were so enormous—just to achieve this simple movement, tens of thousands of energy transmission tubes needed to operate at high frequency simultaneously to deliver energy and provide power.

When the star-eater reacted, the asteroid was still more than a thousand kilometers away from him.

But it was still too late for him.

The asteroid grazed his arm as he tried to block it and struck his chest.

At the moment of impact, it shattered and collapsed completely, and all the mass and momentum it contained were completely released.

The edge of the Star Eater's arm that was grazed twisted instantly, and countless massive armor plates shattered and flew like fragile glass. The armor plates on its chest suffered massive, twisted dents and tears.

He was knocked back slightly by the brute force, and for the first time, the roar of the propulsion system was accompanied by disorder and ear-piercing noise.

Seeing this scene, Fang Yong couldn't help but get excited.

"Lin Wu, I didn't expect your method to actually work!"

On the Starship, Lin Wu gently adjusted his glasses.

A level 6 gravitational wave controller is large enough to tug at asteroids.

He then looked at an asteroid with a diameter of over a hundred kilometers in the distance. "The next shell will hit it."

The moment it regained its footing, the Star Eater suddenly opened its slightly closed eyes, revealing a look of surprise and anger.

Upon seeing this, Li Ye frowned slightly.

"Attention all units, the enemy may be launching an attack!"

At the same time, he was also secretly curious. Given the scale of the attack, what kind of assault would it be?

The star-eating creature's ring-shaped footwork began to spin rapidly, emitting a low-frequency roar that was enough to make space itself tremble.

An extreme gravitational singularity appeared instantly, and all objects within its range began to be uncontrollably attracted and torn apart, collapsing inward.

The super mobile suits and MAs that were originally engaged in combat were forced to retreat, as their enormous power was even somewhat unable to withstand the attraction of the gravitational singularity.

Immediately afterwards, the mechanical crown on the Star Eater's head glowed crimson, unleashing a dark red, space-distorting torrent of energy towards them.

As the super mobile suits and MAs narrowly escaped, the energy torrent struck humanity's second trump card, the "Comet Minefield."

The carefully crafted ice comet was thus detonated, creating vast, extremely cold solidified clouds, which were then completely annihilated by the energy torrent.

After venting his anger, the Star Eater continued onward.

Li Ye ordered his troops to continue firing and attacking.

"Alliance Leader, should we activate the planetary cannon to bombard him now?" Yang Zheng asked.

After thinking for a moment, Li Ye gently shook his head.

"No, let's wait a little longer."

Gradually, Li Ye understood why investors said that the Star Eaters were second-rate.

This cosmic giant, though enormous and majestic, was ultimately too cumbersome.

Its powerful and vast attack methods are actually difficult to hit super mobile suits, mobile armors, and mobile cities.

As they traveled, the Star Eater sustained more and more injuries.

Soon, he faced the third trump card from the human side: "Meteorite Vortex".

As the Star Eater stepped into the meteorite vortex, countless meteorites of all sizes continuously struck him at extremely high speeds.

The low humming sound emitted by its star ring foot began to gradually become heavier, and the originally stable and clear gravitational field lines began to produce subtle disturbances and ripples under the interference of countless high-frequency and high-intensity impacts, which further led to a decrease in forward propulsion efficiency.

This time, the Star Eater slowed down considerably, like a giant stepping from solid land into a waist-deep, viscous asphalt lake.

In this massive vortex of meteorites, every time he bent his knee, lifted his leg, and landed, it was accompanied by a teeth-grinding, sharp noise, like metal being scraped and ground billions of times.

The roaring sound from the hydraulic system at its joints took on a hoarse, overloaded quality for the first time.

The immense, unprecedented physical resistance was consuming his energy at an exponential rate. Even the brightness of the energy pipelines became unstable, sometimes blinding, sometimes dim, revealing the intense tug-of-war between internal energy supply and consumption.

At this moment, the Star Eater was enveloped in a continuous barrage of explosions and impact flashes, like a traveler stumbling through a blizzard.

The Tomorrow Alliance's combat forces continued to fire fiercely at it.

When the Star Eater finally waded through the meteorite vortex, Li Ye nodded slightly.

"Fire, Novie."

More than 2,000 kilometers away, the terraformed rocky planet is ready.

Its poles are reinforced by huge metal rings, and the planet's surface is covered with intricate energy conduits and heat dissipation structures.

As Novi remotely input the firing command, an indescribable energy was gathering, compressing, and sublimating at the muzzle.

The space around the planetary cannon began to distort, as if even light could not escape its gravity.

The next second, the planet's poles erupted with light even more dazzling than a supernova.

A devastating torrent of energy erupted from the cannon's muzzle!

Wherever the energy torrent passes, space itself is deformed and distorted.

Despite being more than 2,000 kilometers apart, the star-eater knew it was too late to avoid it.

He then activated the Star Ring Footwear, creating a gravitational barrier around his body.

The planetary cannon struck the gravity barrier, and its immense energy shattered it, blasting the Star Eater to its core.

Under the bombardment, the armor on the Star Eater began to evaporate, decompose, and vanish like thin ice under the sun.

A gigantic, terrifying hole with molten, spewing edges appeared above his chest.

All his movements stopped instantly, and for the first time, the anger and astonishment in his eyes caused by the continuous attacks and obstruction from the humans were replaced by an almost blank, frozen state.

A massive crack, centered on the hole in his chest, spread rapidly like a spider web across his entire armor, causing the light emanating from his star-ringed leg armor to become extremely chaotic and flickering.

The Star Eater opened its mouth as if trying to make a sound, but ultimately nothing came out.

His eyes gradually lost their light.

"Dead?" Li Ye asked in surprise.

He immediately breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the screen in front of him.

[Enemy distance from Fireseed Planet: 3519 kilometers]

"This battle went fairly well," he couldn't help but think.

Not only Li Ye, but also the high-ranking officials of Fire Seed Star breathed a sigh of relief.

Those who were originally forced to take refuge were overjoyed upon hearing the news.

At this moment, the Ember Angel, who had been thrown away, also returned.

Pilot Changfeng looked extremely frustrated—because since the start of the war, he had been practically slacking off.

For the high command of Fireseed Star, the biggest lesson learned from this war was...
"For survival and safety, Fireseed Star must also move in space," the top leader said solemnly.

Although the crisis has been averted, one problem remains.

That is, what should be done with the corpses of the Star Eaters?

This is a corpse on the scale of a planet.

Both Li Ye and the higher-ups of Huozhong Star were particularly troubled, since it was the first time they had experienced such a situation and they had no experience in dealing with it.

If investors were here, they might be able to offer some advice.

According to Li Ye's idea, the mechanical structure on the Star Eater should be dismantled in order to obtain metal resources.

(End of this chapter)