Mobile City Travel Guide
Chapter 4 Has Human Civilization Perished?
After regaining his senses, Li Xin immediately waved his hand and roared.
"Everyone, be on alert immediately!"
He himself rushed to the deck and picked up binoculars to look in the direction from which the sound came.
A mobile city appeared in the distance.
This mobile city was also badly damaged, moving so slowly it was almost at a standstill, and had even fewer heavy machine guns and artillery on its deck than the Starfire.
Meanwhile, the people in the city were all pale, thin, and haggard.
Clearly, it shares a similar fate with the Spark.
......
"We barely survived the wasteland world, and we thought things would be better in the next one, but we never expected..."
The middle-aged man in front of him spoke with a wry smile.
His name is Zheng Kai, and he is the lord of this mobile city called "Wanderer".
Like Li Xin and the others, the Wanderer's equipment wasn't much better, and it had to rely entirely on its strength to survive in the wasteland.
When they first arrived, unaware of their situation, they were both surprised and delighted by the world before them.
But not long after, they encountered a group of giants.
These giants appeared to be homeless people, all dressed in rags and filthy clothes. Some carried bottles of liquor, others had cigarettes in their mouths, and they strolled along the road in small groups, chatting idly.
When they saw the novel, mobile city that resembled a toy car, the homeless giants stared in astonishment and then rushed to catch up with it.
After a thrilling chase, the Wanderer finally escaped.
Even now, Zheng Kai's face still showed signs of shock.
"Why does this kind of monster exist in this world?"
As he spoke, a look of extreme fear appeared on his face.
"If they catch us..."
Li Xin nodded with a hint of sympathy, indicating his understanding—giants of that size, even unarmed, pose a huge threat to mobile cities.
As for being captured by the giants... he didn't dare to think about that scenario.
After a pause, Zheng Kai made his request.
The city's energy reserves are less than 3%, and he hopes that the new city can provide some coal.
In fact, as the lord, he had already shown enough sincerity—he took the initiative to disarm all the weapons in his mobile city and stop it, and came to the Starfire alone.
There was really no other way.
Li Xin simply responded to this.
"Then what can you give me?"
As a fellow countryman, he naturally sympathized with the other's situation. And the coal in this open-pit coal mine was enough to divide between the two mobile cities, with more than enough to spare.
But this was something he and his comrades fought desperately to win, and they even suffered casualties, so naturally they couldn't just give it away.
After a brief hesitation, Zheng Kai offered his bargaining chip.
The Wanderer's City Warehouse still holds two off-road vehicles and four motorcycles, but they have been gathering dust in the warehouse for a long time because they have long since run out of fuel.
As long as he leaves Xinken to deliver coal, these trucks will belong to him.
Li Xin's eyes lit up immediately.
Motorcycles? And off-road vehicles too.
I actually have a chance to get a car this time?
This means that one can form a convoy, have an additional armed force when facing giants, and also send out scouts and search for resources on ordinary days.
He would naturally be willing to exchange surplus coal for a batch of vehicles. As for fuel, it shouldn't be difficult to find.
Seeing batches of coal being transported to the city, Zheng Kai breathed a sigh of relief; his mobile city could finally continue operating. But when he looked at the trucks he had delivered, a pang of heartache appeared in his eyes.
When Zheng Kai thanked him sincerely and was about to leave, Li Xin hesitated for a moment, reached out and stopped him, and asked a question.
"By the way, do you know what the current state of human civilization is?"
Unstoppable, traversing world after world.
This is undoubtedly a never-ending, nightmarish curse.
The mobile city, a magical vehicle that combines survival, migration, and combat, was particularly fascinating to him.
How many worlds has human civilization gone through so far, how many years has it lasted, and what is its current scale and technological level?
All of this is still unknown.
However, according to Li Xin and his companions' conjecture, human civilization is most likely on its last legs, or even extinct.
Zheng Kai was visibly taken aback when he heard this.
"I have absolutely no idea either... To this day, I've traveled through quite a few worlds, but I've encountered very few mobile cities and learned very little information about them, and those worlds are all incredibly strange."
As he spoke, he seemed to recall something, and a look of extreme terror appeared on his face.
"Especially that world, I absolutely never want to experience it again!"
From him, Li Xin learned about an incredibly terrifying world.
The underworld.
As the name suggests, it is the "underworld" in the traditional Chinese concept.
Not only is the place filled with eeriness, but it also has ghostly judges, ox-headed and horse-faced demons, the River of Oblivion and the Bridge of Helplessness, the eighteen levels of hell, and even the underworld...
The Wanderer was not nearly as destitute as it is now. Back then, it had a population of about 300, a strong army, abundant resources, and could even produce a lot of supplies on its own.
However, on the very first day after arriving in the underworld, more than half of the people on the Wanderer died.
Zheng Kai and the remaining survivors were able to live only because their stay in the underworld was very short, only three days.
Although the world of giants is terrifying, mobile cities can at least rely on their mobility to maneuver, and when encountering giants, they can fight back with cannons and heavy machine guns.
But strangely... there is absolutely no solution.
At this moment, Zheng Kai's eyes were empty, his face was pale, and his body was trembling uncontrollably, as if he was desperately trying to say something, but found that he had nothing to say.
Li Xin could understand his feelings.
I'm not reconciled, I'm really not reconciled.
They had finally managed to develop their mobile city, thinking they could handle any challenge, but they ended up in this utterly illogical world.
He could only sigh and pat the other person on the shoulder to comfort him.
At the same time, I silently prayed that I would never encounter such a world in the future.
"I never imagined we'd encounter someone in an even worse situation than us."
After watching the Wanderer sail away, Lu Chen, standing beside Li Xin, sighed with heartfelt emotion.
Then he looked at his lord and shook his head slightly.
"To be honest, I still lean towards the previous guess that human civilization is almost extinct."
Li Xin gazed into the distance without speaking.
If human civilization has become extinct, then these mobile cities have become lonely sparks.
He refused to believe this possibility.
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