Mobile City Travel Guide

Chapter 129 Resources in the Ocean

After finishing his conversation with Mick and the others, Li Xin started working on something.

That is to collect resources in this sea area.

After all, the Starfire has been traveling a long and tiring journey since it crossed into the desert continent, and now it can finally take a good rest.

Like the land, the ocean is rich in resources, such as oil and gas, mineral veins, and fish and shrimp. Since this area has been cleaned up by the monsters, he doesn't need to worry about pollution and can start mining on a large scale.

Soon, Yunzhi detected a large oil field.

Upon reaching the location of the oil field, the Xinghuo began constructing an offshore drilling platform on-site.

As the production workshop roared to life, precision components were rapidly manufactured and transported to the deck. With the coordinated operation of engineering equipment, a modern offshore drilling platform gradually took shape at a visible speed.

It consists of three levels: the bottom level houses the equipment area and mud circulation system, the middle level contains the power module and control room, and the top level is the helipad. At the very center of the platform stands a towering, orange-yellow drilling rig.

Soon, the offshore drilling platform began operations. Its massive drill pipe, driven by a hydraulic system, slowly rotated, drilling its way into the seabed rock formations. Simultaneously, the circulation system activated, gradually pumping the drilling mud excavated during the drilling process into the bottom of the well.

Before long, streams of crude oil were successfully introduced into the platform.

With the oil and gas extraction matters settled smoothly, Li Xin turned his attention to marine mineral veins.

Compared to land, most mineral veins in the sea are located on the underwater continental shelf and are usually mixed with a large amount of marine mud and sediment, requiring dredgers to mine them.

Li Xin built several dredgers in one go. This time, the assembly plant started to show its power, assembling the ships in almost no time.

Once deployed to the sea, the dredgers dispersed and used the cutterheads on their bows to drive into the seabed rock layers, loosening the mineral-laden mud and sand before using high-powered mud pumps to suck it onto the ships.

Next, they will use the ship's screening equipment to separate the minerals and discharge the remaining tailings back into the sea.

Subsequently, Li Xin built another batch of fishing boats and deployed them to fish and shrimp.

As for the personnel who drive ships and operate offshore drilling platforms, they are naturally trained quickly in urban simulation training cabins.

Centered on the Xinghuo, various ships traveled back and forth one after another, transporting back various mining materials.

This mobile city is like an octopus with outstretched tentacles, greedily seizing resources from the ocean.

But the process was far from as peaceful as imagined.

The drilling platform, which was working perfectly fine, was attacked by a monster not long afterward.

These were not the monsters discovered before; they showed little aggression towards human mobile cities or the Ink Clan.

Wang, seemingly focused solely on cleaning the ocean, has long since swum away.

This time, several monsters emerged from the water.

The monsters in the ocean are also quite different from those on land.

Some of them resemble ancient ichthyosaurs, some resemble deformed giant whales, and some resemble mutant seals.

At this moment, the monsters are attacking the drilling platform frantically, slamming their huge heads against it, tearing at its supports with their sharp teeth, and occasionally slapping it with their thick tails.

To avoid damaging the newly built drilling platform, Li Xin did not use powerful firepower such as missiles or gunships, but instead used flesh-and-blood machine guns and urban cannons to strafe it.

A barrage of firepower immediately rained down, and one of the monsters was blasted to death on the spot. It let out a mournful cry, thrashed violently in the sea a few times, and then slowly sank into the water.

Upon seeing this, the other monsters let out deafening roars and then dived into the water.

Li Xin's heart sank.

They weren't running away, but rather...

A few seconds later, a series of violent impacts came from the bottom of the Starfire.

The monsters are cunning.

They realized that the Starfire, this mechanical behemoth, didn't have many anti-submarine weapons, so they dived underwater and tried to work together to capsize it.

These things were indeed incredibly powerful. Each impact was like a battering ram, causing the Starfire to shake violently, and the people on the deck were caught off guard and staggered.

But this expanded mobile city was so large and heavy that the monsters were never able to overturn it.

Exhausted, they let out dissatisfied and angry roars, and then left.

After the storm subsided, Li Xin couldn't help but wipe the sweat from his forehead.

Fortunately, this time we only encountered a level 1 monster, whose strength and defense were ultimately limited, and it didn't even have many special abilities.

What if we encounter level 2 or higher monsters in the future?

He decided to develop some new weapons.

After a long journey across the desert continent, Li Xin has completed the "Traveler" 3000-kilometer mileage mission and earned 3000 reward points.

Initially, he planned to build destroyers and choose the evolution branch, but he quickly changed his mind.

Destroyers actually have very limited anti-submarine capabilities; to put it bluntly, they only have torpedoes and depth charges.

Instead of doing that, it would be better to directly produce depth charges in the production workshop and then evolve them. This way, not only destroyers, but also flying vehicles and the Starfire could carry and deploy them.

Without hesitation, Li Xin immediately manufactured a depth charge in the production workshop.

To his surprise, all three evolutionary branches of the latter were extremely powerful.

Item Name: Depth Charge

[Description: Anti-submarine weapons commonly equipped on warships, specifically designed to attack underwater targets.]

[Evolutionary Branch:]

[Giant Slayer: Increases damage by an additional 10%-100% based on target size.] — 300 Evolution Points [Future Technology Weapon Upgrade Protocol — "MK-VII Diffusion Architecture": Completely upgrades the bomb's internal explosive structure and fuse timing, expanding its blast radius by 300%] — 500 Evolution Points ["EMP-X Zeus's Wrath" Depth Charge: Your depth charge will evolve into a universal version for future warfare, releasing a high-intensity pulsed electromagnetic field upon detonation, dealing fatal electrical damage to enemies with flesh and biological tissue, and simultaneously paralyzing vehicles within the blast radius.] — 800 Evolution Points "This evolution branch is really good!" Li Xin couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

These three evolutionary branches are not only practical, but they can also interact with each other.

During this time, he couldn't help but take a closer look at the description of the second evolution branch. It wasn't the explosion range or the diameter, but the radius that expanded by 300%! This meant that the range of the depth charge would be ridiculously large after its evolution.

He simply bought all three evolutionary branches at once.

After payment was completed, the originally ordinary depth charge began to deform and expand, and the outer shell gradually revealed the precision-etched electric current patterns.

Just by lying there quietly, it exudes an invisible and terrifying power; one can't even imagine how powerful it would be in actual combat.

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