Mobile City Travel Guide

Night fell quickly, and the world gradually descended into darkness. The Starfire switched on its searchlights, the beams sweeping across a dim, yellowish landscape ahead as it continued its slow journey.

Silent all night.

When Li Xin woke up, it was already a new day. After quickly getting dressed and washing up, he went to the deck.

Compared to before, the current "road conditions" of the Xinghuo are much worse.

Chaotic strong convection currents, harsh climate, and all sorts of ferocious and dangerous aerial creatures... this place is clearly an uncivilized land.

During his stay in Rustwind Town, Li Xin occasionally chatted with the townspeople. During this time, he unexpectedly learned the extent of the Federation's territory, which covered the entire world.

In other words, the spacefaring civilization has essentially taken over the entire world. Compared to the Earth where Li Xin lives, this place is truly "vast and sparsely populated," with towns and settlements often separated by hundreds of kilometers.

According to the mayor, the Federation has only developed and explored 30% of the Sky World, meaning that the vast majority of its territory remains uncontrolled. Within those undeveloped and unexplored territories, there may be Federation rebels, sky pirate groups, and noble ministers who have fled after losing political struggles.

Li Xin had absolutely no idea where he was in the world he was currently traveling through – a common problem after every world crossing for a mobile city without map navigation.

He could foresee that numerous mobile cities of human civilization had already been scattered like stars across this floating world.

Although he was currently running around like a headless fly, Li Xin wasn't as panicked as he had imagined. After all, his radar had biological and mineral vein detection capabilities, making it easy for him to avoid danger and acquire resources.

"Speaking of which, I wonder if Matthew and his sister are alright," he thought to himself.

Although their time together was short, he remembered the two children. The scene that impressed him most was when the Starfire took off to explore new land, and the brother and sister pressed their faces against the porthole, looking up with a mixture of nervousness and anticipation.

Perhaps in the future, there will be many more such encounters and partings.

In the following period, Li Xin began to work hard and eagerly on something.

That is the personnel plan for the Xinghuo spacecraft.

Previously, this mobile city only had about 20 people. Everyone was busy with their own things, and sometimes even held multiple jobs. Due to the small population and the urgency of survival, Li Xin, as the lord, managed the city like a makeshift operation.

But now that there are more people, it's naturally impossible to do it the same way as before.

With the help of the city's AI cloud platform, he quickly planned the personnel arrangements.

First, there's the management team, consisting of him as the lord, Lu Chen as his deputy, and several of their former companions. Their main responsibilities include overall decision-making within the city, external liaison, resource allocation, and maintaining discipline.

Secondly, there are the personnel responsible for city operations. They are mainly divided into driving, power, and engineering teams, and are primarily responsible for ensuring the movement, power, and daily operation of the Xinghuo.

Next came the combat personnel. According to the new concept, the combat personnel were divided into two groups: one group was responsible for operating various firearms on the deck, and the other group was responsible for engaging in combat operations from vehicles.

In addition, there are resource extraction groups, urban routine inspection and maintenance groups, and agricultural groups responsible for taking care of crops and livestock.

Finally, there is the miscellaneous tasks group, which is responsible for miscellaneous tasks such as city cleaning, catering, and warehousing.

Looking at the list of personnel and groups, Li Xin couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

As long as this plan is implemented diligently, your mobile city will gradually become a decent-looking place.

During this period, he also finalized a "vehicle plan".

After upgrading its production workshop, the Starfire can now produce vehicles, speedboats, and helicopters. These vehicles are like extra arms for the mobile city, capable of performing important tasks such as external operations, reconnaissance patrols, resource mining, and supply transportation.

If equipped with evolved weapons such as the Flesh Butcher Machine Gun and the Tiger Crouching Cannon, its combat power would be further enhanced.

The new approach is simple: create a dedicated vehicle team to handle various vehicles based on the city's specific needs. For example, if the Spark needs reconnaissance, the team will operate helicopters. If the Spark needs to extract oil and gas resources, the team will drive various engineering vehicles. If the Spark is at sea, the team can even operate fishing boats for deep-sea fishing.

Currently, the plan is to first establish an armed convoy, and then equip it with two helicopters.

But this is only temporary. As the city develops, vehicles will gradually become tanks, fighter jets, and warships, and so on.

In fact, he originally planned to manufacture a large number of land vehicles after transmigrating, in preparation for making a big splash, but this aerial world really caught him off guard—given the characteristics of this "atmosphere and ocean," no car could obviously be driven. And if he were to build speedboats or helicopters, they would be able to do very little, which would be a waste of resources.

Lu Chen then reminded him.

"My lord, our current fuel reserves are more than enough to last through this world, but the next world is another story."

Li Xin couldn't help but slap his forehead.

If the other party hadn't reminded him, he would have completely forgotten about it.

Since making his fortune in the giant coal mine, he has hardly ever worried about fuel, and when traveling the world, he has been able to go anywhere, both in the sky and on the ground.

It's the same old story: fuel is the lifeblood of a mobile city; once it's cut off, it's practically dead. And all the vehicles he plans to build will require a fuel supply to operate.

Despite receiving timely reminders, Li Xin still faced a dilemma. The floating world had no land at all, making it impossible to extract oil and gas resources. While coal could be extracted from the floating islands, it was merely a drop in the ocean for a mobile city of such scale.

"The fuel problem will probably have to wait until the next world to solve it," he thought.

Incidentally, since arriving in the Sky Travel World, the Starfire's city radio station has been running continuously. Li Xin wanted to use it to re-establish contact with Sky Travel K4, but unfortunately, there was no signal from the other party within the radio's range.

Li Xin's reason for wanting to contact the other party wasn't to exploit them. Rather, it was because this mobile city belonged to a large human organization, which served as a channel through which he could learn about the general trends of human civilization in the current world.

"Almost a week has passed; this spacefaring civilization must have already sensed the arrival of human civilization," he mused. "I just wonder how the negotiations are going."

Snapping out of his reverie, he pulled something out of his pocket.

Those were potatoes that had just been harvested from the field.