Mobile City Travel Guide

Chapter 123 The Tiered Construction of the City (4.2K)

Even after retrieving the drone, Li Xin's thoughts were still not at peace.

Civilization out of contact, orders from above, monster evolution, potential threats... the predicament of the K-78 city fortress is like a tangled mess, impossible to unravel or cut.

Yun Zhize presented Li Xin with a question.

Urban power supply.

Since the air command center officially began operating, it has been consuming a huge amount of electricity. Through the panel displayed by Yunzhi, Li Xin saw the astonishing energy consumption of this thing.

The status of each fighter jet is monitored in real time, and the vertical take-off and landing system also requires a lot of power to maintain, in addition to the various conventional facilities at the airport.

When all the components are combined, the power consumption of the air conditioning unit accounts for more than 50% of the total power consumption.

"It seems we absolutely have to solve the electricity problem!"

After that battle, the "Test of Skill" mission is complete, and 1000 evolution points have been credited to my account. Adding to the 200 points I had before, I now have a total of 1200 points at my disposal.

Li Xin plans to use these points to solve his electricity problem.

He went directly to the production workshop and built a solar panel to see what evolutionary branches could be used.

【Item Name: Solar Panel】

[Description: This is a standard photovoltaic panel that can directly convert sunlight into electricity. However, its efficiency is limited by the angle of sunlight, power degradation caused by high temperatures, and it is ineffective at night.]

[Evolutionary Branch:]

[Enhanced Component - "Blazing Sun": Photovoltaic conversion efficiency +30%] - 400 Evolution Points ["Light Hunter" Future Technology Solar Panel: The solar panel will evolve into a full-spectrum energy harvesting panel, no longer limited to sunlight, but capable of generating electricity by harvesting any light source.] - 800 Evolution Points [Intelligent Underworld Solar Panel: This is the most commonly used solar panel in the Cyber-Intelligent Underworld. It only needs to be nourished by Yin energy, or by using strange creatures as power-generating organisms, to continuously provide electricity.] - 1500 Evolution Points Li Xin's gaze immediately fell on the third evolution branch.

He was filled with suspicion for a moment.

What's going on? There's a cybernetic version of the underworld?

Mechanic mysteries? Alloy mysteries? Electronic Book of Life and Death? Cybernetics?

A multitude of thoughts immediately popped into Li Xin's mind.

This world is truly full of wonders.

He directly purchased the two evolution branches, "Blazing Sun" and "Light Hunter".

It must be said that the "Light Hunter" is incredibly useful; it can collect any light to generate electricity.

With this, it can continue to generate electricity not only during the day, but also at night.

Unless it's a night without a moon.

Li Xin immediately invested resources to mass-produce solar panels in the production workshop and called in the infrastructure team to be responsible for their installation throughout the city.

In fact, not all the walls of the Xinghuo ship can be covered with solar panels. The walls that are wide and have good lighting are all given priority for planting rice.

The laying work lasted for several hours in total.

Once the solar panels were installed and the pipelines were connected, the continuous sunlight was converted into electricity and transmitted to the Xinghuo spacecraft.

According to Yunzhi's report, after these solar panels were installed, the power obtained by the Xinghuo satellite increased dramatically.

Li Xin nodded and called over the management team to begin discussing the city's energy issues.

Currently, the energy consumption on the Xinghuo spacecraft is divided into three main categories.

First, the energy for the city where the Xinghuo satellite operates is currently mainly provided by coal, oil, and natural gas, relying on the continuous collection by the deployed crews.

Second, public electricity. This includes elevators, daily lighting, cameras, and a series of core buildings such as vertical farms, air command centers, cinemas, libraries, laundry rooms, etc.

Third, personal electricity consumption.

While solar panels have greatly alleviated the pressure on electricity consumption, they cannot reach the level required for personal electricity use.

As for Li Xin, he naturally demanded that the extra electricity be prioritized for public use.

During the meeting, the management team reported on their respective situations.

The Ministry of Magic stated that the members' magical studies are progressing smoothly, as they had collected a large number of magical books and tools before leaving for the new year, which laid a solid foundation for learning magic.

The current members are already able to reliably cast several useful spells.

"Okay." Li Xin nodded.

He was not in a hurry for quick results, but instead allowed the Ministry of Magic to continue its steady and solid learning process.

The agriculture and warehousing groups reported a less than optimistic situation.

After their journey to the underworld, the Starfire's food reserves were showing signs of depletion. After all, the Starfire had a population of over three thousand, and the daily consumption was astronomical.

The amount of frozen dinosaur meat and food rations sponsored by Ark is almost gone.

What's worrying is that the situation in this new world is terrible, with hardly any places to get food.

Li Xin suddenly slapped his forehead.

The food problem is back!

Ultimately, it's because Xinghuo developed too quickly, not only in terms of city size and technology, but also in terms of population, which surged dramatically.

In some ways, this can be considered a happy problem.

He looked at the members of the Ministry of Magic and suddenly had a brilliant idea.

"Use the magic you just learned to accelerate the growth of crops in the city!"

The crops that were prioritized for cultivation were naturally rice and potatoes. Both of these are staple foods that provide a good sense of fullness.

In addition, the agriculture group reported some good news.

After careful breeding over this period of time, the Titan Chickens have grown into a flock and have already reached a considerable size.

The amount of chicken and eggs harvested also gradually increased.

"That's great, that's great," Li Xin said approvingly.

Upon closer reflection, he realized that he hadn't developed any new livestock for quite some time.

But we simply don't have enough evolution points.

After discussing the issues of daily city operations, everyone turned to a core topic.

What should the Starfire do next in this world?

The current world's theme is still octopus-man piloting mechs to fight monsters, which sounds very exciting and thrilling, but nobody wants to get involved.

Li Xin fell into deep thought.

The stay is only two months, it will be over in no time.

"No rush, let's discuss this further..." he said.

Before he could finish speaking, a series of tremors from beneath his feet instantly interrupted his thoughts.

When Li Xin came to his senses, he realized that the entire conference room was shaking slightly.

"Is this an earthquake?" he exclaimed in surprise.

In reality, people weren't as panicked as they thought.

After all, they were traveling in a mobile city; all they needed to do was get moving and move to a safer area to avoid trouble.

Compared to ordinary, static cities, this is its unique advantage.

Moreover, the magnitude of this earthquake was very low, and it stopped after a short while.

Li Xin didn't pay much attention to this.

"Alright, let's talk about the construction of the Spark now," he said.

When Xinghuo was still a small and dilapidated mobile city, Lixin didn't consider urban space and architectural planning at all.

The entire mobile city is basically made up of several rows of buildings stacked together, with the remaining space allocated to fields, water towers, warehouses, and so on, and that's it.

Everyone's life was very rough; basically, "as long as we could survive, that was enough."

At that time, the Xinghuo was more like a land-based ship than a mobile city.

But things are different now. It has developed rapidly and expanded to an exaggerated size of 320 meters long, 110 meters wide and 65 meters high, becoming a well-formed steel mountain.

Therefore, the construction of buildings and structures in Lixin needs to be taken seriously.

To date, the Starfire has a total of 9 floors.

However, the floors of a mobile city are not square like those of a flat-panel house; the length, width, and height mentioned above are only the base area.

Small-scale mobile cities don't have high structural requirements and can basically be made up haphazardly. But large cities generally adopt a terraced structure, with space and area shrinking upwards in layers.

This ensures a low center of gravity and structural stability.

In the entire mobile city, the best location is undoubtedly the top floor.

This place has the best lighting, the best air quality, a wide view, and plenty of sunshine.

From here, the entire city is laid out before you. If the mobile city is vast, you might even feel like you're looking down on everything.

The best locations, like the top floor, are usually owned by the lords of mobile cities.

Some lords would build manors on the top floor, with small gardens, planting ornamental flowers, trees, and shrubs, and even building swimming pools.

Li Xin's approach was quite straightforward: he used the land to build an airport. For him, using such a prime location on the top floor for an airport was the most practical solution.

Moreover, he himself did not have any aristocratic airs and hoped to make good use of the good location.

The lower levels of the city are basically the power engine zone, which is embedded in the city's shell. There is not much light or view, and the air is stuffy.

When the mobile city is in operation, it will also emit light and heat.

The lower floors are generally used for industrial production and are not typically used for residential or agricultural purposes.

During the last expansion, Li Xin specifically moved the production workshops and assembly plants there. Under his plan, the lower level would be entirely used as an industrial production hub.

Next comes the main event—the middle management.

The middle level has the most and largest area, and also the highest utilization rate. Fields, vertical farms, public buildings, and residential areas are basically concentrated in this area.

For this reason, the middle floors are also filled with corridors and gangways for residents to walk and move around.

The old corridors were rough, dirty, and dimly lit, and you'd easily get covered in dust when you walked by. But now they're completely different. The new city infrastructure team painted the corridors a light green with white stripes on both sides, making them look exceptionally clean and refreshing.

To make cleaning easier, he specifically requested that trash cans, mops, and brooms be placed at intervals along the road.

There was a light every ten meters or so on the walls of the corridor, and now there are also security cameras.

The infrastructure team also suggested to Li Xin whether or not to add more fire extinguishers and fire hydrants.

In fact, urban fire safety is a problem that deserves considerable attention.

After all, a mobile city is essentially a large metal block, and to facilitate its relocation and development, it also carries materials such as oil and natural gas.

Combustible resources such as wood.

In addition, it bears the responsibility of developing production, and its internal power supply and numerous cables pose safety hazards.

"Alright, then let's add fire extinguishers and fire hydrants in the key locations." Li Xin agreed.

As a lord, he naturally did not want his mobile city to be burned to the ground.

There's not much to say about the gangways; they're mainly for residents to go up and down floors. Currently, the city's electricity supply remains tight, elevator use is restricted, and residents mostly rely on the gangways.

The new requirement was that the infrastructure team just needed to make the gangway more sturdy; other than that, they didn't make any other demands.

At this moment, he and his companions had already left the conference room, taken the elevator to the middle floor of the city, and were chatting as they strolled around.

To be fair, the Starfire looks somewhat out of place now, since most of the city walls have been used to grow rice paddies or to lay new solar panels.

The head of the agriculture group mentioned something very interesting: the vast majority of urban residents really wanted to join the agriculture group.

The reason is that the process of planting and harvesting wall rice is very fun. For example, when planting wall rice, people need to stand on scaffolding like construction workers, or be suspended in mid-air in a basket, sowing seeds bit by bit.

During harvest time, they stand in the hanging basket, holding sickles, and cut and collect the crops clump by clump.

Every time the agricultural team plants and harvests the wall rice, it attracts a large number of visitors in the city.

Li Xin found it quite amusing and couldn't help but laugh.

Wall rice is actually a very cost-effective crop. It is both a staple grain and requires little space in the city. The importance of moving space within the city is self-evident.

On the surface, the Xinghuo appears as a terraced complex, with layers upon layers arranged in a staggered and orderly fashion. But its interior also holds a secret, namely, various internal cabins of different sizes and shapes.

Like a ship, it may look unremarkable on the outside, but its interior is far more spacious than you might imagine.

The mobile city structure is generally as follows: the exterior consists of decks, building complexes, and public facilities, enjoying sunlight and ventilation. The interior comprises spacious cabins.

It is precisely this layered structure that allows it to utilize space far more efficiently than ordinary buildings of the same size.

Li Xin and his companions began to tour the interior cabins, which were actually much larger than the exterior, but were generally unsuitable for habitation due to issues with air circulation and lighting.

This place receives no sunlight year-round, relies on ducts for ventilation, and has a humid, stuffy atmosphere that often carries an unpleasant odor.

To date, the internal compartments of the Xinghuo spacecraft are mainly divided into the following sections.

Vehicle depots where land combat vehicles and engineering vehicles are parked.

A warehouse filled with various daily necessities.

Newly built cold storage warehouses for storing meat, vegetables, fruits and perishable foods.

Giant tanks used for storing water, oil, and natural gas.

Raw material warehouses for storing basic building materials such as ores, timber, stone, cloth, and smelted metal ingots.

In addition, the agricultural group used some cabins to raise poultry and livestock, and planned for adequate lighting and ventilation. Some of the living quarters were also located here.

While passing by the cold storage warehouse, Lu Chen made a suggestion.

"Now that we have a cold storage facility, can we start making ice cream?" he suggested. "It's easy to store anyway."

Take a break before moving on to the next step.

Yes, it is possible.

In this apocalyptic environment, allowing city residents to enjoy an ice cream can provide some psychological comfort and relaxation.

Ice cream comes in both simple and complex varieties. For example, there are sugar popsicles made with just water and sugar, and cream ice cream made with milk and egg yolks.

Or, the fruits produced by the Spark could be mashed into a puree to make fruit ice cream, and so on.

Just thinking about it made him a little envious.

"You can handle this matter," he said, waving his hand dismissively.

Just then, the floor beneath their feet suddenly began to tremble again.

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