Mobile City Farming Guide

Chapter 392 The Perils of Interstellar Infrastructure (4K)

"Four?" Li Ye asked in surprise.

“Yes, one each of resource domain, colony domain, transportation domain, and high-risk domain.” KS16 nodded. “This way, the rewards you can receive will be much higher.”

"If I may be so bold as to ask, what is the reward?"

KS16 snapped his fingers upon hearing this.

"Technology, resources, money, etc. You can make requests of us for anything you can think of that is reasonable."

"Is that so?"

Li Ye stroked his chin, lost in thought.

Resources are plentiful; they're everywhere in the universe.

Money? Ultimately, money is used to buy resources.

Ultimately, it's more worthwhile to receive technology-related compensation.

After figuring all this out, he immediately summoned Novi.

"Novi, with the current talent pool at the blueprint R&D center, how many years would it take to develop a dimensional blueprint from scratch?" he asked.

Almost the instant Li Ye opened his mouth, Novi gave her answer.

"If we start from scratch, it will take at least 15 years to get started, Master."

"Has it taken that long?" Li Ye asked in surprise.

毕竟7级城市模拟训练场的时间流速比为1比3600，现实1天就等于里面的3600天，几乎相当于10年了。

In reality, 15 years is equivalent to 54000 years in a city simulation training cabin.

Li Ye frowned.

Fifteen years is still too long!
"What if I obtained all the theoretical knowledge and techniques of dimensional travel, even the experimental data from research and development?" he asked again. "Wouldn't that speed things up considerably?"

“If that’s the case, the research and development progress will be greatly improved,” Novi replied. “We just need to conduct experiments again and again in the city simulation training pod, and the research and development time will be shortened by more than 99%.”

"it is good."

Rino nodded, then looked at KS16.

"The reward that our human civilization hopes for is the theoretical knowledge, technology and experimental data of dimensional travel."

In fact, the official Dagon Galaxy had already successfully developed dimensional travel long ago.

Its theoretical knowledge, technology, and experimental data from each experiment have been classified as high-value commodities.

The two sides quickly reached an agreement.

The Tomorrow Alliance is responsible for building the four cosmic domains, while the Dagon Galaxy provides all the knowledge, technology, and experimental data for dimensional travel.

As he was about to sign, Li Ye's eyes flickered, and he hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but then stopped.

"Could I get another technology, like spatial jump or warp jump?"

KS16 shook his head repeatedly.

"The knowledge, technology, and experimental data of dimensional travel are of extraordinary value. The fact that you can obtain them simply by building four cosmic domains is already a huge profit for your human civilization."

At the same time, the official from the Dagon system couldn't help but ponder this.

Most civilizations in the universe are extremely eager for dimensional travel. To this day, countless civilizations have purchased knowledge, technology and experimental data machines for dimensional travel from the Dagon Galaxy – the revenue from which they have made is unimaginable.

Even with all the basic knowledge and technology, the research and development of any civilization is incredibly difficult and arduous, with countless failures.

Even today, very few of them succeed.

Human civilization will undoubtedly follow the same path.

But what he never expected was that Tomorrow possessed a Level 7 blueprint research and development center, an incredible urban building.

According to the agreement, the Tomorrow Alliance will be responsible for constructing the four cosmic domains UW24-27. These were specifically chosen by the Dagon Galaxy to facilitate construction.

At Li Ye's request, KS17 paid him his salary in advance.

A vast amount of theoretical knowledge and experimental data were thus received by Novie.

The Dagon Galaxy authorities agreed so generously mainly for two reasons.

First, theoretical knowledge and experimental data are currently considered zero-cost commodities, so there are no worries about their future after delivery.

Secondly, given the size of the Dagon Galaxy, there's no need to worry about the Tomorrow Alliance cheating or defaulting on its debts. And Li Ye would never do something so foolish as to offend a major galaxy.

Upon learning that the Dimension Project had been approved, the researchers at the Drawing R&D Center were immediately excited.

Traveling at the speed of light, Tomorrow arrived at its destination almost instantly.

Li Ye eagerly began his command duties.

The pay was generous, but the work was also very troublesome.

First, all four cosmic domains constructed their interstellar orbits according to the design blueprints provided by the Dagon Galaxy.

The colony and transportation domains require the construction of stargate devices—when the Alliance of Tomorrow departed, the Dagon system officials had already delivered spare parts and installation instructions for two sets of stargates.

Different cosmic domains have different construction requirements.

Any valuable planets/stars in the resource domain need to be surveyed and their specific data and coordinates calculated.

The colony needs to establish at least three planetary clusters—to house the low-level civilizations in the Dagon system that lack space technology.

High-risk areas need to eliminate all safety hazards. This includes not only dense asteroid belts and unstable stars, but also dangerous creatures such as space pirates and predatory beasts.

The most troublesome part is the transportation domain, which requires the construction of 15 interstellar orbits and 1 light-speed orbit. The positions of the interstellar and light-speed orbits are fixed. Before construction can begin, the Tomorrow Alliance needs to clear away planets and stars along the orbital paths, as these planets have strong gravity that will severely affect construction.

Li Ye immediately mobilized the entire Tomorrow Alliance.

The Starship will travel to the resource region to carry out a mission to explore planets and stars.

The Engineer, Stellaris, and Awakening were tasked with venturing into the colony areas to search for and transport planets suitable for low-level civilizations, gradually establishing three planetary clusters. If no suitable Earth-like planets were found within the colony areas, rocky planets would need to be located and terraformed in situ.

Tomorrow is responsible for heading to the transportation zone to oversee track construction.

The Iron Whale and the Peacekeeper led the space fleet to high-risk areas to eliminate potential threats.

In addition, to facilitate operations in the transportation and colony areas, Li Ye also needs to build an additional batch of level 0.5 mobile cities to handle construction.

Immediately afterwards, he simply used a batch of level 7 steel resources to build light-speed travel engines for all the mobile cities.

His original plan was that the Tomorrow Alliance would have limited Level 7 steel/iron ore resources in the early stages, which should be used to upgrade and develop combat units or key projects. Initially, the Tomorrow ship would suffice for light-speed travel, and other mobile cities could simply be housed within the microcosm.

But we've taken on a big job, and now we absolutely have to use it.

With a wave of his hand, Li Ye and his men set off one after another.

When Tomorrow arrived at the construction site of the first interstellar orbit, Li Ye couldn't help but take a deep breath.

This interstellar orbit contains several planets and is surrounded by a vast asteroid belt at its center.

"Is it going to be this complicated right from the start?" He was completely overwhelmed. According to the agreement signed by both parties, the planets to be cleaned during the construction must be rendered harmless, just as the Tomorrow Alliance had done when it was guiding the Rost civilization.

When signing the agreement, KS16 solemnly told Liye something.

The construction process can be slower, but environmental protection must be prioritized; any planet must undergo harmless treatment.

Because there are multiple interstellar environmental organizations in the universe, their influence is extremely large, and they have countless followers in many galaxies, making them a powerful force that cannot be underestimated in the universe.

Large galaxies like the Dagon and McCallum systems naturally became their primary targets.

To this day, the Dagon system and the organization have been embroiled in thousands of interstellar lawsuits over environmental issues, making it virtually impossible to prevent.

At that moment, Li Ye's lips twitched involuntarily.

He never imagined that such a treacherous organization existed in the universe.

Not only Tomorrow, but all the other crew members are also facing constant trouble.

Traveling at the speed of light, the three mobile cities—Engineer, Stellaris, and Awakening—swiftly traversed the colony domain. They then discovered that this domain contained only three environmentally adapted Earth-like planets—while a planetary cluster requires at least twelve planets.

They now face two choices.

First, collect enough rocky planets in the colony for environmental terraforming.
Second, travel to other cosmic domains, find Earth-like planets that meet the criteria, and transport them to the colony domain.

Both methods are extremely troublesome.

"This job is too difficult, Alliance Leader!" Zhou Xing said, covered in sweat.

"Hold on! You must hold on!" Li Ye gritted his teeth and said.

Fang Yong and Yang Zheng encountered a dangerous force in the high-risk area.

That was a space pirate group.

Its scale is far greater than that of the Storm Pirates that ambushed the Tomorrow Alliance at the edge of the McCallum system.

"Leader! This space pirate group not only has a space fleet, but also space war stars!" Fang Yong roared.

"Yes, we have already started exchanging fire with them!" Yang Zheng added.

“You can hold out with your strength!” Li Ye replied. “If all else fails, use the Iron Curtain device I gave you before we set out.”

Generally speaking, among the four groups, the Starship commanded by Lin Wu had the easiest time.

However, they also encountered extremely troublesome problems.

Interstellar corporations, alien civilizations, and intelligent civilizations—multiple refugee groups fleeing from the Dagon system have established themselves in the resource domain, extensively exploiting resources.

Lin Wu warned them repeatedly, but they persisted, and there were signs that a conflict was about to break out.

"Please report this situation to the authorities in the Dagon system immediately and seek their advice on how to handle it," Lin Wu said.

"Should I gather my troops first and deal with them by force?" Li Ye asked.

“No. This is, after all, a civilization belonging to the Dagon star system. Using force could easily provoke conflict,” Lin Wu sighed. “Currently, the resource domain only has one Starship, which is simply not enough to manage it.”

Just as Li Ye was in a state of utter confusion, Novi's image suddenly appeared.

"Master, the first dimensional travel experiment at the Blueprint R&D Center has begun. Would you like to go and take a look?" she asked.

Li Ye paused for a moment, then nodded.

"it is good."

Using the theoretical knowledge and experimental data provided by the official Dagon Galaxy, the researchers quickly constructed the experimental scenario in the city simulation training cabin.

Superconducting particle collider ring, multimodal energy focusing array, Casimir effect generator, resonant tuning system, spacetime metric detector, high-dimensional information decoder
The experimental site is fully equipped with all kinds of research equipment—all of which were built by researchers based on theoretical knowledge.

Under the expectant gaze of everyone, the experiment began.

As the superconducting particle collider ring began operating, a high-energy-density singularity, powerful enough to warp spacetime itself, was formed.

A series of machines work in coordination, carrying out various tasks around the singularity in an attempt to open up spatial dimensions.

Just as everyone was focused and their breathing became increasingly rapid, the singularity suddenly exploded.

The entire experimental scene vanished in an instant.

However, since it was in a city simulation training cabin, the experimental scenario was reset the next second, and everyone's body returned to normal.

In the time that followed, the group encountered a series of terrible experimental accidents.

Vacuum decay causes a brief shift in the physical constants of space.

This results in a "local dimensionality reduction" where some experimental platforms, machines, and even researchers become flat.

An "information tsunami" pouring down from higher dimensions.

An unexpected opening of a higher dimension led to a "biological invasion" by a higher-dimensional being.

"Is the dimensional travel experiment really this dangerous?" Li Ye asked in surprise.

A single day in real time is enough for researchers to conduct thousands of experiments in the city simulation training pod.

With such a large base of support, the project will always succeed.

"Work hard, I look forward to your results," Li Ye said.

For the next month, he devoted himself entirely to the infrastructure project.

One day when he woke up, he saw Novi's image suddenly appear in front of him, smiling.

"Master, the blueprints for the dimensional travel city components have been successfully developed."

"what?"

Without the slightest hesitation, Li Ye dressed and washed up as quickly as possible, and boarded the Skylark aircraft to rush to the blueprint research and development center.

At this moment, the entire blueprint development center was in an uproar.

All the researchers were cheering enthusiastically.

Upon seeing Li Ye approach, the supervisor quickly handed him a set of design drawings.

【Item Name: "Key to Dimensions" Dimensional Travel Device】

[Level: Level 7]

[Additional effect: Enables the specified target to travel between low and high dimensions]

[Crafting Requirements: 500 units of Iron Ore (Level 7), 300 units of Precision Components (Level 7)]

Looking around, the "Key to the Dimension" dimensional travel device is not the dazzling archway or tunnel-like machine that Li Ye imagined.

Its appearance is extremely counterintuitive, full of the strangeness of non-Euclidean geometry, more like a projection of a high-dimensional structure forcibly fixed in three-dimensional space.

The core of the device is a composite geometry composed of countless nested, semi-transparent lattice structures.

It sometimes appears as a perfect cube, sometimes melts into an icosahedron, and the next second twists into an unnamed shape with too many edges and curves. Any light passing through its surface neither reflects nor refracts, but instead forms a hazy, rainbow-colored halo.

(End of this chapter)