Mobile City Travel Guide

Chapter 44 The "Junkyard" in the Sky

If you buy both the "Yin Shou Robe" and the "Seven Treasures Exquisite Armor" evolution branches at the same time, what kind of evolution will the clothes evolve into?

A novel idea suddenly popped into Li Xin's mind.

If he had enough evolution points, he could come up with a lot of creative ideas.

The rest of the trip proceeded smoothly without many setbacks.

However, Li Xin noticed that the surrounding airflow was becoming increasingly strange, as it was all being drawn forward.

When he picked up the binoculars and looked ahead, he was immediately stunned.

Ahead, a colossal vortex of air was slowly rotating, its diameter spanning hundreds of kilometers. At the vortex's edge, layers of air currents surged and churned, sweeping up and sucking up everything in the surrounding airspace.

Gravel, phytophytes, mountains, floating islands... everything in the landscape is like grains of rice thrown into a millstone, spinning in circles.

Actually, the most abundant thing is garbage.

Rusty iron plates, rotten canvas, expired food, discarded household items... The vortex is filled with all kinds of garbage in huge quantities. They slowly rotate with the airflow, gather in the center of the vortex and slowly fall down.

The sheer number and extent of these items are unknown, perhaps accumulated over several centuries.

Li Xin quickly realized that this was probably the "sky junkyard" of the Sky Wandering Civilization.

The colossal vortex covered a vast area, and even the city's capital, the Starfire, was unconsciously tilting towards it.

"Should we turn around, lord?" came the helmsman's voice through the megaphone.

Li Xin thought about it carefully and gently shook his head.

"No."

He noticed that the garbage in the super-giant vortex also contained a lot of scrap metal resources, such as abandoned boilers, broken anchor chains, cracked pipes, and even scrapped aircraft and steamships.

It should be noted that the Spark is currently in dire need of iron ingots.

With his command, the Starfire increased its speed and slowly headed towards the colossal vortex.

After entering the edge of the vortex, the mobile city moved with the direction of its airflow, activating engineering equipment along the way to pick up scrap metal from the garbage.

In no time, the scrap metal they had collected piled up into a small mountain on the deck, including the wreckage of an aircraft.

Li Xin nodded in satisfaction.

"continue."

In fact, there are quite a few "fellow travelers" here, including townspeople from nearby cities, skilled scavengers, and even a group of sky pirates flying outdated Federation warships.

Compared to Xiufeng Town, the attitude of these Sky Travelers was not so friendly; they were all eyeing the Starfire covetously. However, due to the powerful firepower displayed on its deck, no one dared to make a move for the time being.

Li Xin also became vigilant and ordered his men to keep their distance as much as possible.

In fact, everyone was already struggling to cope with the air currents. The air currents inside the colossal vortex were far more intense than those outside. Even with a tailwind when entering, the ship was still being tossed from side to side and had to work hard to stay stable.

At this moment, the size advantage of a mobile city becomes apparent. It far surpasses the size of airborne vehicles, making it easier to maintain stability and carrying significantly more scrap metal.

Under Li Xin's command, everyone worked together to use engineering equipment to move the half of the steamship wreckage onto the deck.

"Great!" he exclaimed, clenching his fist in approval.

This is enough to smelt a considerable number of iron ingots, and by dismantling its parts, a significant amount of alloy can also be obtained.

This has made many air travelers envious.

Just then, a roaring sound suddenly came from afar.

It seems like some enormous creature is coming.

"What is it?" A hint of surprise flashed in Li Xin's eyes.

When he picked up the binoculars, he realized it was a giant, moving island.

This giant island has undergone mechanization, and a massive boiler the size of a mountain stands at its center, currently spewing out astonishingly high-temperature steam into the sky, providing a continuous source of power for the island's movement.

At the tail of the giant island was a series of massive propeller arrays, their blades, each tens of meters long, slowly rotating and propelling the island forward. The island's edges were inlaid with a dense network of brass pipes and mechanical devices, with steel-plated pipes lining the sides.

Factories, schools, ports, squares, parks, hospitals, churches, academies, manors... all sorts of buildings are scattered throughout the island in a well-organized manner.

The most prominent feature is the housing where people live. These come in a wide variety of styles, from simple tin shacks and row houses for workers to planned residential buildings and beautiful garden villas made of brick and tile.

He immediately understood that this was probably the "mobile province" that the people of Rustwind Town had mentioned when they were chatting with him.

Since the Skyworld has no land, it naturally lacks administrative boundaries like those on Earth. Therefore, the existence of these "mobile provinces" transformed from islands is quite normal. According to the townspeople, the Federation has tens of thousands of mobile provinces of varying sizes and shapes.

As it approached, the mobile province gradually rose in altitude.

Li Xin was initially confused, but he soon understood.

As it passed over the colossal whirlpool, several massive hatches at the bottom of the island slowly opened, unleashing a deluge of garbage. Several steamships below, unable to dodge in time, were instantly drenched, leaving them battered and nearly capsizing into the whirlpool.

The passenger on the deck, having recovered from his shock, clenched his fist and angrily cursed at it, but the latter seemed unmoved and leisurely drove away.

As time went by, the scrap metal resources at the edge of the vortex were quickly almost completely collected. Li Xin turned his gaze to the depths of the vortex, where even more scrap metal resources were piled up, some even stacked in layers.

However, the stronger the airflow, the more dangerous it is to drive.

"I'll eat some more," he thought.

The Spark accelerated and slowly sailed deeper into the ocean.

Deep within the vortex, there are also many scavengers and sky pirates, whose vehicles are mostly steamships and decommissioned Federation warships—smaller vehicles like speedboats and aircraft can only find scraps at the edge of the vortex.

Since they had to deal with the strong air currents while scavenging, everyone reached a tacit understanding at this moment to keep their distance and not interfere with each other.

Just then, an unexpected situation arose.

The black mist beneath the vortex suddenly began to churn, and faint sounds could be heard, as if something was about to emerge.

Li Xin frowned. These were likely aerial creatures that had been "sublimated" from the black mist, and these things were extremely troublesome. Fortunately, the Starfire's radar had biological detection capabilities, allowing them to determine the number and location of the aerial creatures.

But the image displayed on the radar screen immediately stunned him.

There were not countless tiny points of light as I had imagined; there was only one enormous point of light.

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