Mobile City Farming Guide

Chapter 9 Tier 1 Artillery Design Blueprints

After thinking for a moment, Li Ye nodded.

"Alright, let their lord come then."

A short while later, the lord of the Azure arrived in an off-road vehicle.

The car stopped 300 meters away from Tomorrow again. The door opened, and a middle-aged man with an amputated left arm slowly stepped out.

After seeing his appearance clearly, Li Ye prepared to take the elevator platform to the ground to talk to him.

Old Zhou quickly reached out to stop him.

"Ah Li, that person might not be the Lord of the Azure Ship. There might be a trap! For safety's sake, you shouldn't show up. We'll find someone to impersonate you."

Li Ye smiled and waved his hand, indicating that he could relax.

Old Zhou and the others may not know this, but he himself knows it perfectly well.

As mentioned in previous intelligence reports, the lord of the Azure had his left arm amputated due to severe injuries, and the middle-aged man was indeed the one in question.

Since the other party has already shown enough sincerity, it would be unreasonable for him not to show up.

On the plain, the two lords stood face to face, with their respective mobile cities stretching into the distance behind them.

The middle-aged man extended his hand first.

"I am Li Jin, the lord of the Azure."

"Tomorrow, Liye." Liye shook hands with him.

Li Jin then explained his purpose for coming.

“We need fresh water,” he said. “We haven’t been able to find a water source for days, and we’re almost at our breaking point. We used to have plenty of fresh water in our water tower, but a few days ago…”

As he spoke, he snapped out of his reverie, quickly feigned a few coughs, and didn't continue.

Li Ye couldn't help but smile slightly.

In fact, the other party had no idea what he was attacking, why he had amputated, why the water tower was damaged, or what resource points he had recently captured. He knew all of this perfectly well.

“We currently have enough freshwater reserves, and we can sell you some,” he replied. “Ideally, you could exchange it for iron ore.”

Upon hearing this, Li Jin breathed a sigh of relief.

“Sure.” He nodded. “We recently acquired a mine and have extracted a considerable amount of ore there.”

After some bargaining, Li Ye exchanged 600 units of fresh water for 300 units of iron ore and 50 units of saltpeter.

During the handover of supplies, Li Jin inadvertently noticed the Falcon assault rifles that Lao Zhou and his men were wearing.

"Level 1 firearms? You guys actually have such good stuff?" he asked in surprise. "We only have ordinary firearms; we usually have to put in a lot of effort just to kill monsters."

Filled with envy, he thought of something and hesitated before speaking.

"Could you..."

Li Ye couldn't help but smile slightly.

"I can sell it to you, 100 units of iron ore per bundle."

Li Jin's face immediately darkened.

“While crafting a level 1 weapon requires a lot of iron ore, it should only cost around fifty or sixty at most. Your price is outrageous!” he said. “Could you make it cheaper?”

"Then 90 units of iron ore per bundle, that price can't be lowered any further."

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After some haggling, seeing that Li Ye wouldn't budge no matter what, Li Jin hesitated for a long time, then sighed softly, as if he had made a difficult decision.

"This should be alright, right?" He pulled something out of his pocket.

Li Ye took a closer look and was instantly stunned.

[Frost Cannon - Design Blueprint]

Item Name: Frost Cannon

[Item Level: 1] [Additional Effects: Inflicts a freezing effect on the target upon hit, and also makes the target vulnerable.]

[Crafting Requirements: 300 units of Frost Ore (Level 1), 1 Frost Crystal (Level 1)]

Note that crafting Frostfire Cannon Shells requires: 10 units of Frost Ore and 1 unit of Gunpowder.

He rubbed his eyes in disbelief.

Unexpectedly, the other side actually had the blueprints for a level 1 artillery.

Li Jin put forward his conditions.

He handed over the Tier 1 artillery design blueprints to Li Ye, and in exchange, Li Ye had to give him 6 assault rifles plus 3000 rounds of ammunition, as well as an additional 300 units of fresh water.

In fact, Li Jin was also very reluctant to hand over the design blueprints. After all, the cannons on the Azure were only of ordinary quality.

He stumbled upon the blueprint three months ago on the corpse of an elite monster, and was overjoyed. But in the past three months, no matter how hard he searched, he couldn't find the Frost Ore Vein.

Instead of waiting idly, we should use these design drawings to achieve a tangible improvement.

Li Ye agreed almost without hesitation.

After all, Tier 1 artillery provides a significant boost to the firepower of mobile cities.

He then took out the five assault rifles and more than 1000 rounds of ammunition he had on hand. He then used the iron ore given to him by Li Jingang to produce one more assault rifle and the remaining ammunition, and delivered the complete quantity.

Although Li Jin was very sincere, Li Ye, out of caution, deliberately disassembled some parts before handing over the assault rifle to him.

Moreover, during the delivery, he specially arranged for Lao Zhou and his men to stand next to the heavy machine guns and artillery.

Li Jin didn't seem to mind too much. After all, they were in the wild, and people's hearts were unpredictable. Even he himself was wary of others.

“I have to remind you that frost ore can only be produced by rare frost veins,” Li Jin said. “Frost crystals, on the other hand, only occur alongside frost veins, and the chance of them appearing is extremely low. Sometimes, even if you find a frost vein, you may not be able to mine frost crystals.”

Li Ye nodded.

He knew what was going on, but with his intelligence network, finding the frost veins should be easier.

After the transaction was completed, Li Jin left with his men.

With a roar, the Azure slowly started up and soon disappeared from Li Ye and the others' sight.

Li Ye contentedly tucked the design drawings into his pocket.

He was quite satisfied with the deal.

In fact, it is very beneficial for mobile cities to conduct transactions.

Both sides can trade the resources and level 1 items they need to satisfy their respective needs and improve their strength.

However, such transactions must be based on mutual trust, or on both parties demonstrating sufficient sincerity.

In the following period, Li Ye arranged for personnel to continue mining at the mine.

The mine wasn't large, and since Liye had already assigned extra manpower, it was completed in an hour and a half.

Li Ye compiled statistics on the mining results.

A total of 230 units of iron ore, 49 units of saltpeter, and 23 units of copper ore were mined this time.

Li Jin had originally traded him 300 units of iron ore, but after crafting an assault rifle and delivering the remaining bullets in the wilderness, he only had a little over 100 left.

Including the iron ore that was originally left in the warehouse and the iron ore dropped by the snake-man corpse, he now has more than 400 iron ore.

Li Ye arrived at the production workshop and immediately began operations.

He no longer had the Falcon assault rifle on hand and needed to forge it. Now that he had saltpeter, he could process it into gunpowder to make artillery shells. In addition, the heavy machine gun ammunition was almost used up and needed to be replenished.

While I really want to upgrade the Tomorrow's city features, it's more important to replenish its firepower first.

To manufacture assault rifles and their bullets, to produce artillery shells, and to manufacture machine gun bullets.
Not long after, the number of iron ore deposits returned to single digits.

Li Ye couldn't help but sigh.

"Sigh, this iron ore really can't be spent anytime soon."

(End of this chapter)