Mobile City Farming Guide

Chapter 89 The Public Dining Hall on the Tomorrow

As a Tier 1 region, the Basin is about the same size as the Wasteland, and its resources are decent, with many caravans, survivor towns, and mobile cities.

There is also a monster civilization in the basin area, a kind of monster called the Bearman.

In addition, there is a Tier 2 mobile city in the basin area, but it is not a predatory city. This Tier 2 city is powerful, but surprisingly friendly, often helping and supporting stranded convoys and mobile cities, and providing them with supplies and blueprints to support their development.

"This is truly rare," Li Ye remarked.

In the wasteland, there are both predators and helpers.

After a brief exchange, the surviving convoy departed.

“Hey Ali, this team has a good lineup, and its members are quite experienced in combat. Why don’t you invite them to join Tomorrow?” Old Zhou asked.

Li Ye gently shook his head.

"Everyone has his own ambition."

Not everyone is used to living in mobile cities. Some are used to being lone wolves, some are used to living in communities in the ruins of cities, and some travel with family and friends in a caravan.

In the following time, Li Ye went to the production workshop, entered the Level 2 upgrade blueprint, and stared intently at the screen.

You can currently designate one type of cannon to upgrade.

【冰霜火炮1级→2级：打造消耗150单位2级冰霜矿石，附带效果：范围提升50%，冰冻程度提升20%】

【熔岩火炮1级→2级：打造消耗150单位2级熔岩矿石，附带效果：威力提升50%，并给予目标灼烧效果。】

"They're all great!" Li Ye nodded repeatedly.

Generally speaking, to build a Tier 2 cannon, in addition to the necessary blueprints, you also need 300 units of Tier 2 rare ore and 1 Tier 2 crystal.

Upgrading a cannon simply involves consuming resources to upgrade it from its existing level 1 state. Not only is the amount of ore required for crafting reduced, but crystals are not even needed.

Most importantly, after upgrading the Level 1 item to Level 2 in the production workshop, the production workshop will also unlock its Level 2 production project.

Therefore, upgraded blueprints are often much more expensive than standard blueprints.

In this light, the Tier 2 Hunter Cannon production project captured from the wilderness doesn't seem so appealing anymore.

If he can collect level 2 rare ore, Li Ye plans to prioritize upgrading the Lava Cannon, since it is already powerful and will be even more so after the upgrade.

At this very moment, Tomorrow is still traveling in complete darkness.

To conceal himself, Rino ordered most of the lights on the Tomorrow to be turned off, leaving only the key passageways open.

The brightness of the two searchlights on the Tomorrow was also reduced.

In fact, searchlights are the easiest way to expose mobile cities.

Such a behemoth as a mobile city naturally carries an extra-large searchlight, with a diameter of more than two meters, a power of 50 kilowatts, and a range of 5-10 kilometers.

In the darkness, it is like a ray of light guiding others to find themselves.

Despite being aware of this, the mobile city cannot turn off its searchlights. Without the searchlights to see the terrain ahead and guide its way, the mobile city is likely to run into hills and swamps, causing setbacks in its operations.

"If only we had a radar system," Li Ye thought to himself.

The radar can survey the terrain within a certain kilometer radius and relay the information to the helmsmen. This allows the Tomorrow to turn off all its lights and become completely hidden in darkness.

After arranging the duty personnel, Li Ye began his next plan.

Since the space on the Tomorrow has expanded considerably and the middle level is significantly more spacious, Li Ye specifically selected an area on the middle level to begin constructing a public dining hall.

Building a public canteen in a mobile city is much simpler than you might imagine.

After Li Ye confirmed the project to be built in the production workshop, the robotic arm and working claw on the Tomorrow were activated.

By consuming level 1 iron ore and wood, the production workshop crafted a series of rivets, steel plates, cast iron piles, wall panels, long tables and chairs, which were then transported to the middle level via conveyor belts.

With a slight tremor, the operating robotic arm, belching white smoke, drove cast iron piles into the middle-level steel rail base. The working claw then grabbed a large number of wall panels and placed them nearby.

Led by Lin Wu, the residents stepped forward one by one to fix the wall panels in place and drive in the rivets.

As the public canteen began to take shape, the work claws grabbed long tables and chairs from the conveyor belt, placed them in the canteen, and had the residents set them up.

Next, the robotic arm began operating on the top of the public canteen, snapping together the iron tiles delivered by the conveyor belt one by one, and fixing them with a steam riveting gun.

After several hours of hard work, a public canteen was finally completed.

It has two floors and can accommodate more than 150 people at the same time.

It takes a total of 80 units of level 1 iron ore and 150 units of level 1 wood to build.

Incidentally, the public canteen does not currently provide food; it was built simply to provide a place where people can sit down, eat, and chat.

After all, the rooms where ordinary residents of Tomorrow live are only 9 square meters in size.

Once the new batch of Level 1 crops matures, Li Ye will be able to conduct territory operations in the public canteen.

It'll only take a week or two.

According to his plan, the public canteen will be staffed with several chefs and staff, and the food sold in the canteen will be priced based on contribution points.

As for the task of recruiting, he naturally handed it over to Lin Wu.

Considering that Lin Wu is already serving as the deputy and has many affairs to attend to in the territory, Li Ye decided to have him train another mechanic so that he could devote himself fully to his deputy duties.

Lin Wu already had someone in mind for this, namely the man Li Ye had previously assigned to him.

After finishing these tasks, Li Ye returned to the lord's room on the upper floor.

Now, things seem much more lively at the top.

Lin Wu, Lin Xia, Ning Wen, and others moved into the upper floors, while Lao Zhou and Tang Fang were already there.

Li Ye lay on the bed thinking for a while, then closed his eyes and took a nap.

When he woke up again, he subconsciously glanced at the time.

It was 3:25 p.m., which should have been the time when the sun was shining brightly, but it was still dark outside.

The Tomorrow Express continued its journey as usual, indicating that it had not encountered any problems in the past few hours.

Following Li Ye's instructions, the brightness of the two searchlights was reduced considerably. One was still shining forward, while the other was being controlled by Lin Xia to survey the distance and ascertain the situation.

Li Ye began to solve his own food problem.

Today his lunch consisted of a cup of instant noodles, a few boiled blue potatoes, a whole-wheat biscuit, an egg, and a bottle of Coke.

The dining place was naturally set at the public canteen.

According to Lao Zhou, the canteen opened as soon as it was built, and many residents flocked to eat there, making it particularly lively.

Li Ye listened and nodded, saying that when conditions on the Tomorrow improved in the future, he would build a series of public facilities on the Tomorrow.

However, he had only eaten half of his meal when he heard an explosion not far away.

Li Ye then put down the food in his hand and rushed to the deck.

Through the binoculars, he could barely make out the distant scenery.

There appear to be two mobile cities exchanging fire there.

With his vision obstructed in the darkness, he couldn't see how many cannons and combat personnel were on the decks of the two cities. He could only judge that they were level 1 cities by their size.

"Lin Xia, turn on the searchlights!" he immediately ordered.

(End of this chapter)