Mobile City Travel Guide

When Li Xin woke up, a new day had already begun.

Yesterday's storms and the giant submarine were just a minor incident. In the following days, everyone caught some more fish.

When he arrived on the deck, he was greeted by a bustling scene. Everyone was busy preparing seafood and giant octopus, and the air was filled with a strong fishy smell, mixed with the salty aroma of the sea.

As Li Xin walked, he greeted passersby, but his brows gradually furrowed—not because of the fishy smell, but because it was another day of heavy smog.

A hazy smog shrouded the sea, like a thick, impenetrable wall of cotton, blurring the sea and sky into one.

The Starfire maintained a slow speed, surrounded by fog that gathered and dispersed, making visibility so low that even the capital city was not visible.

A few minutes later, a dull thud was heard from the side, as if something had been hit.

Li Xin's heart tightened, and he immediately grabbed the railing and looked in that direction.

From the mist, a colossal creature slowly revealed itself.

It was a giant warship.

Looking at it from afar, it resembles a giant mountain lying across the sea. The bridge, smokestacks, and turrets are all ridiculously large.

Several giant officers were standing and talking on the edge of the railing above.

The leading giant, impeccably dressed and wearing a military cap, was presumably the commander of the warship. He spoke with his subordinates, his expression grave, his brow furrowed, as if discussing something of great importance.

So engrossed in their conversation that they didn't even notice the mobile city of humans right below them.

Li Xin stared wide-eyed, barely managing to make out the flag flying on the warship, which depicted a greyhound with its head held high and chest puffed out.

"So it's called Greyhound?" he thought to himself.

The smog had dissipated considerably by now, and the view on the sea was gradually becoming clearer.

Everyone was stunned when they saw the scene before them.

On the sea, dozens of cargo ships, fully loaded with goods, were lined up in several columns and slowly sailed across the area.

On either side of the convoy was a separate escort fleet, whose flagship was a battleship with thick side armor, a towering bridge, and various main guns with exaggerated calibers.

These ships all flew flags with the design of a double-headed eagle with an iron crown, and the officers' uniforms also bore a distinct imperial character.

Li Xin suddenly realized that the warships were providing escort.

He waved, signaling the Starfire to hurry away.

After sailing to a safe sea area, he received a communication from the Tianyou K4.

"Although the journey was fraught with danger, we've successfully shaken off their pursuers," Gao Nan asked. "How are you all?"

Li Xin was stunned for a moment.

"......good."

After exchanging a few words, Gao Nan explained his purpose for coming.

"I have some intelligence I just compiled here, and I think you'll find it interesting."

As he spoke, he began transmitting through the city radio station.

Li Xin was initially confused, but his eyes lit up instantly after he saw the contents.

This is a complete intelligence report on the world of giants compiled by the Ark Organization.

The full picture of the world of giants was slowly revealed before his eyes.

This world is similar to his original planet, Earth, with five continents and seven oceans, but its size and distribution are completely different. The total population of giants in the world is four to five billion.

The giant civilization is divided into two major factions: the "Iron Crown Empire" and the "Free Federation".

The Iron Crown Empire is an old and powerful state. A thousand years ago, it rose from a powerful nomadic tribe and unified its continent with iron cavalry and swords, and it remains strong to this day. It practices a system similar to a constitutional monarchy, but the monarch's power is far greater than one might imagine, and its army is known for its martial spirit.

The Empire's Industrial Revolution started early, but progressed slowly. Its factories were outdated, its mines were being dug deeper and deeper, and although its railway network was dense, much of the rails had rusted away. The Empire's workers were still using machines from decades ago, and its engineers were still drawing blueprints from decades ago.

Ultimately, it was because the emperor and his noble ministers had not kept up with the times.

They grew up on horseback, hearing tales of their ancestors conquering the world with swords and reading genealogies written in iron and blood. They trusted warhorses more than trains, and swords more than the rumbling machines in factories. Thus, the empire started early, but progressed slowly.

The Free Federation was a latecomer, a union of multiple nations with a history of only two or three decades. Its member states had no emperors or nobles, only presidents, parliaments, and votes. While its industrial revolution started later, its adoption was high, and with strong policy support, it progressed faster than the Iron Crown Empire. Its factories and equipment were frequently updated, its technology advanced rapidly, and its workers were more efficient, allowing it to quickly surpass the Iron Crown Empire.

This naturally triggered anxiety within the Iron Crown Empire.

When this long-established hegemon tried to suppress them using the methods of the old generation, they found that everything was completely different. Their swords could not defeat the guns and cannons on the assembly line, and their iron cavalry could not break through the roaring tanks and artillery.

After realizing its mistake, the Empire began to strive to catch up. It imported the most advanced machinery from the Federation, sent students to study at Federation universities, and allocated large sums of money from its treasury to train engineers and skilled workers.

But its steps were held back by a chain, the old system of the empire, forged by the merits of countless generations, by the glory written on parchment and the coat of arms engraved on shields.

It was willing but powerless, and there was nothing it could do.

Initially, the two camps were in a state of restraint.

That was decades of the Cold War, during which the two sides only engaged in verbal battles at the negotiating table, attacked each other in the newspapers, or supported proxies to fight each other in remote continental colonies.

This quickly escalated into an arms race, with local conflicts intensifying and small-scale wars breaking out frequently.

It eventually escalated into a full-scale war a few years ago.

Human civilization arrived precisely at this crucial juncture.

"I see." Li Xin sighed after reading it. Now he finally understood how this world worked.

Immediately afterwards, a prompt appeared in front of him.

You have completed the "Newcomer II" mission and received 4000 Evolution Points as a reward.

He couldn't help but nod slightly; this was the most relaxed he'd ever been.

This time, he wasn't in a hurry to evolve the items; instead, he had another question to ask Gao Nan.

"Excuse me..." he began tentatively. "Do you know what that SS-class world, which human civilization has experienced, was like?"

He got the answer from Gao Nan.

More than a hundred years ago, human civilization traveled to a world inhabited by insectoids.

Insects are inconspicuous, even tiny, creatures in people's eyes.

In the human world, insects pose a negligible threat, serving at most as fishing bait, playthings, or specimens.

But the insects in that world were incredibly powerful, even dominating the entire planet.

They call themselves the "Zerg".

The Zerg have thousands of forms and have formed a sophisticated and stable civilization.

Moreover, their entire planet was completely transformed into a bug hive, inside and out.

Everywhere on land was covered with dense fungal carpets, the oceans were assimilated into a giant petri dish for hatching the Zerg, and the sky was permanently obscured by thick clouds of spores.

The Zerg civilization was initially taken aback by the sudden arrival of the human civilization, but then reacted immediately.

What's puzzling is that they seem more inclined to capture and study human civilizations than to exterminate them, and the higher-ups have shown an unprecedented level of interest.

The reason, however, remains unknown.

Human civilization at that time only lasted for a week, and it almost didn't survive.

At that time, there was a sea of ​​insects all around, and they were not ordinary insects that could only fight and bite.

Tank Bugs, Fighter Bugs, Artillery Bugs, and even Nuclear Bugs... The Zerg's combat units are incredibly diverse and numerous, with extremely strong learning and adaptability. They can even evolve entirely new types of units based on the state of human civilization.

Human civilization was attacked day and night, suffering heavy casualties by the time the allotted time was up, and it took a long time to recover.

During the war, people also discovered an astonishing fact—this world was not only inhabited by the Zerg race; it had once been home to many dominant civilizations.

But later, without exception, they were all assimilated by the Zerg.

As Li Xin listened, his expression subtly shifted.

So that's what that SS-class world was like. Speaking of which, over a hundred years ago? Human civilization's history of time travel is actually that long? How many worlds has it traversed to this day?

Just as he was about to press further, Gao Nan seemed to have guessed his thoughts and said regretfully.

"I'm sorry, my authority within the organization is limited, and this is all I know."

"Also, I must remind you of something," he added. "Your information is actually inaccurate, because human civilization has not only experienced one SS-level world."

"Is that so?" Li Xin pondered. "What about SSS-level worlds?"

"According to the Ark's historical database, human civilization has never been there," Gao Nan replied. "But according to everyone's speculation, if human civilization were to travel to an SSS-level world, it would most likely face extinction."