Mobile City Farming Guide

Chapter 95 No Money!

The three parties tallied up the money they each had on hand.

Tomorrow Ship currently has absolutely no money.

The Iron Whale was similar; it spent most of its crystals on purchasing defensive city components, fuel, and repairs.

Surprisingly, the Engineer was quite wealthy, having accumulated over 25000 crystals.

The reason is simple: there is little competition for the city components and blueprints needed for engineer-type cities, and the prices are at least half that of other types.

Furthermore, it doesn't require expending resources to build large numbers of artillery pieces, heavy machine guns, convoys, or train a large number of combat personnel. This saves another expense.

Li Ye briefly reviewed the projects he could open a shop and do business on.

Once you reach the Level 2 area of ​​the Eternal Night District, resources like the Falcon Assault Rifle, Gale Rocket Launcher, and Level 1 Off-Road Vehicles have little market value. The only way to potentially make more money is by processing Level 2 items.

Currently, Tomorrow has 9 Tier 2 item production projects, 7 of which come from Lone Sail.

The most likely best-selling item is the Blood Ripper.

This level 2 heavy machine gun is incredibly effective against zombies.

In order to increase the number of items sold in the store and make the store more competitive, the three decided to open a store together.

The Tomorrow ship had a total of 22 products manufactured and sold, while the Iron Whale and Engineer ships combined had less than 10.

The reason is simple: as an assault-type mobile city, Tomorrow is very efficient at gathering resources in the wild, while Iron Whale and Engineer are defensive and functional types, respectively, with weak combat capabilities, so they are naturally not as fast at gathering resources.

After setting up the sales items and assigning staff in the shop, Zhou Xing returned to the Engineer to carry out the routine order taking and revenue generation.

As an engineering-type city, the Engineer not only has a full range of maintenance-type city parts, but also has trained a group of mechanics and apprentices.

Compared to the repair shops in the fortress, this city, which specializes in construction and repair, is more efficient and has better craftsmanship.

Its customers are mainly mobile cities.

Out of curiosity, Li Ye inquired about the market price from Zhou Xing.

The Engineer's fee depends on the extent of damage to the target.

The fee for a Tier 1 city is between 500 and 1000 crystals.

The fee for a Tier 2 city is between 2000 and 5000 crystals.

Within just a few minutes, the Engineer received orders from one Tier 2 city and three Tier 1 cities.

After completing the repairs and troubleshooting for Tomorrow, it will have to get back to business.

Leaving the wilderness, I couldn't help but feel a little sentimental.

With less competition for spare parts resources, these cities are particularly popular with city alliances and can even earn money by taking orders. These engineering-type cities have many advantages.

Its only drawback is that it has very weak survival ability in the wild.

While setting up a stall to do business at the fortress, Zhou Xingshun also began recruiting people.

Generally speaking, few people are willing to go to engineer-type mobile cities.

Therefore, Zhou Xing, as the lord, would take the initiative to recruit people wherever he went, recruiting a few here and a few there, gradually increasing the population of the city.

Li Ye and Fang Yong started running a shop.

He priced the Blood Ripper at 6000 crystals per unit, or 200 units of Tier 2 iron ore for processing.

To his disappointment, two Level 2 heavy machine guns were already being sold in the market, and both were being sold at very low prices.

The best-selling item in the store is still cola.

Secondly, there's the Tier 2 melee weapon - the Bloodletter's Dagger.

This weapon looks so cool that you can't help but fall in love with it at first sight.

Lone wolves in the wild, bounty hunters, survivors in convoys, lords of mobile cities, and high-ranking officials in fortresses.
Everyone was thinking of buying one; even if they didn't use it in battle, just having it around to play with felt great. During this time, Li Ye also made an arrangement.

That meant having his deputy, Lin Wu, lead a few people to begin recruiting new residents for the Tomorrow.

A level 2 mobile city can accommodate 5000-10000 people, but Tomorrow only has about 200 people, making the whole city seem deserted.

In the future, it will also build Black Hawk helicopters, a new fleet of vehicles, and even a new fleet of ships to be launched, all of which will require a large number of people.

Not only that, but the mid-levels of Tomorrow have begun large-scale planting of Level 1 crops, requiring a considerable number of people to tend the fields. Add to that the staff needed for resource extraction in the wild, daily cleaning and maintenance of the city, and operating the public canteen and warehouses—all of this necessitates manpower.

In fact, it's not just Tomorrow; the dozen or so mobile cities that are docked and resting in the fortress are also recruiting.

Overall, however, Tomorrow still has a competitive advantage. It has a base configuration of Level 1, and a total of more than a dozen Level 2 finished products and production projects.

In addition, it provides decent living conditions.

Newcomers to the Tomorrow are not enslaved, but become ordinary residents directly.

Tomorrow's daily food supply includes Blue Heart Potatoes, noodles made from Morning Light Wheat, instant cup noodles, Emerald Green Vegetables, and fresh water with excellent taste supplied by the Clean Source City System, as well as snacks such as whole wheat biscuits and Sachima.

Once the new batch of Level 1 crops in the fields and upper levels mature, Tomorrow's dining table will be much more abundant.

A few hours later, Li Ye briefly reviewed his gains.

8270枚晶币，520单位2级铁矿，813单位1级铁矿。

Coca-Cola and Bloodletter Daggers contributed more than half of the sales revenue.

Li Ye shook his head in disappointment.

These harvests are decent for Tier 1 cities, but they're barely enough to fill the gaps for Tier 2 cities.

He didn't sit idle while the shop was open; instead, he strolled around the market.

Two of the items particularly appealed to him.

The blueprint for the Tier 2 Flamethrower "City Burner" grants an additional 20% range and 10% damage. It requires 50 units of Tier 2 Iron Ore to craft and costs 4000 Crystals.

The blueprint for the Tier 2 vehicle "Rock" off-road vehicle has the following effects: +15% defense and +10% speed. It requires 200 units of Tier 2 iron ore to build and costs 3000 crystals.

In addition, Li Ye also specifically searched for level 2 rare ores.

To his disappointment, there was no level 2 lava ore for sale in the market, only level 2 frost ore.

This batch of ore consists of 482 units and is priced at 65 crystals.

While envious of these resources, Li Ye couldn't help but feel that he was short of money.

The Tomorrow was already short of money, and the Engineer helped cover the costs of opening the shop and staying there.

2级喷火器设计图纸、2级载具设计图纸、2级冰霜矿石、外加他想要采购的1000多2级铁矿.这些玩意加起来足足要五六万晶币！
In addition, Fang Yong's Iron Whale also has a need.

1000 units of Grade 2 coal.

The blueprint for the Tier 2 defensive city track "Pioneer" has the added effects of increasing stability by 20% and defense by 15%. It requires 600 units of Tier 2 iron ore to build and costs 5000 crystals.

The only one with little demand and sufficient funds is the Engineer.

In the past few hours, it has completed several jobs and earned 6000 crystal coins in one go.

Zhou Xing simply handed over all the crystal coins he had to Li Ye for arrangement.

Li Ye took stock of the money he had on hand.

Including the money earned from opening the shop, the money given by Zhou Xing, and the remaining money from the Tomorrow and Iron Whale ships, the total was a little over 40000 crystal coins.

Seeing this, Fang Yong made a concession. He politely declined the 20000 crystal coins that Li Ye offered him, and only accepted 5000 crystal coins to purchase level 2 coal.

(End of this chapter)