Mobile City Travel Guide

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At the same time, a rapid and continuous alarm sounded on the radar.

The brightness of the light spot grew increasingly dazzling, and the ripples it created were spreading rapidly.

This means it's about to surface.

Li Xin immediately warned through the megaphone: "Attention, combat personnel! Be prepared to fire at any moment! Something big is coming up!"

A few seconds later, the black mist was suddenly broken.

A colossal creature suddenly soared into the air and plunged headlong into a gigantic vortex. It was over a thousand meters long, resembling a pale-skinned giant whale, with rows of enormous eyes on either side of its head.

Caught off guard, a nearby steamship was instantly struck by it! In a flash, the ship's steel plates buckled, rivets flew off, and pipes ruptured.

Having succeeded in its attack, the giant whale tilted its head back and swallowed the rest of the ship, letting out a deep, satisfied gurgle.

Everyone snapped out of their daze and immediately unleashed a barrage of fire upon it, a dense barrage of artillery fire raining down on it in an instant.

However, whales are not only enormous in size, but also possess incredible defensive and regenerative abilities. Artillery fire only leaves shallow marks on their skin, and even wounds are quickly healed.

As a pirate warship behind it unleashed a barrage of fire while attempting to escape, it impatiently swung its tail, instantly bending and destroying the entire warship. The hull dented and tore like paper, with rivets and metal fragments flying everywhere.

Li Xin's gaze became serious.

Judging from this, this aerial creature must have been immersed in the black mist for countless years, and its size and strength have thus been "sublimated" to an extremely terrifying level.

The giant whale had clearly made the colossal whirlpool its hunting ground. With its massive size and power, it rampaged and dodged left and right, hunting down the airships and warships within.

Everyone's situation suddenly became extremely difficult. At this moment, they had to deal with the strong air currents while desperately dodging the giant whale's unreasonable biting and attacking.

Within minutes, several steamships and warships perished in its mouth.

Seeing that the giant whale had set the Starfire as its next target, Li Xin made a decisive move.

"Full speed ahead, drive right into the vortex!" he roared.

The helmsman hesitated for a moment, then pulled the control stick all the way to the bottom. The Spark accelerated to full power, speeding along the strong tailwind, instantly creating a significant distance between itself and the giant whale that was trying to pounce!

A massive, spiraling airflow was swirling at high speed, propelling the mobile city at full speed toward the center of the vortex. Its speed was astonishing; even the helmsman could barely maintain control.

The giant whale was clearly unwilling to let its prey escape, and continued its furious pursuit, smashing and cracking several mountains and floating islands that were being swept up by the air currents along the way.

However, the gap between the two is gradually widening.

During this time, many steamships and warships tried to take advantage of the situation to escape, but the strong airflow was like an invisible giant hand that held them firmly in the vortex, and they could not break free no matter how hard they struggled.

Some ships attempted to gain altitude in order to escape the whirlpool in one go, but as soon as they raised their bows, they suddenly lost their balance and were violently thrown into the swirling air currents.

When Li Xin came to his senses, the Xinghuo had already entered the center of the vortex. The airflow here was surprisingly gentle compared to the outside, and the massive amount of debris that had been swept into it was slowly falling to the bottom.

When I turned around, the giant whale had already given up the chase and turned back to hunt the ships.

He breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Raise immediately, let's leave here now."

More than an hour later, the Xinghuo successfully sailed out of the whirlpool.

Meanwhile, the steamships and warships in the whirlpool had been almost completely hunted down by the giant whale. After letting out a satisfied burp, the behemoth plunged into the black mist and disappeared without a trace.

The Starfire found a nearby floating island to anchor and began to process and deal with its spoils.

After resting for a while, Li Xin went up to the deck and inspected the piles of scrap metal. Although the process was quite dangerous, the harvest was quite fruitful, and he could now build quite a few more things.

Just then, ripples appeared in the black mist below the floating island, and it began to churn.

He was stunned.

"Again?"

However, to his surprise, what emerged from the black fog was not a giant whale, but a mobile city built by humans.

This mobile city is entirely black, with a square, heavy, and angular shape, exuding an ancient, heavy, and cold mechanical and religious style.

As for the people on the deck, they were even more bizarre than imagined. They were all modified mechanical bodies, with very few human features remaining; only their heads still barely resembled human forms.

Even their heads only have one pair of eyes that are human organs; the mouth, nose, and ears are all mechanical prosthetics. Their mechanical bodies are thick and solid, and through the partially transparent outer walls, one can see the various internal organs maintained by mechanical devices, while the joints are exposed gears and hydraulic rods.

Upon closer inspection, you'll find numerous large and small pipes connected to their bodies, filled with a bright green liquid—this is probably how they sustain themselves.

Outside their mechanical bodies was a black robe in a religious style.

A few seconds later, Li Xin finally came to his senses. He truly hadn't expected that a human mobile city could withstand the erosion of the black mist. Judging from their appearance, they were clearly not benevolent beings.

"What exactly is the state of human civilization right now?" he couldn't help but wonder.

......

"Hello, fellow countryman."

The mobile city lord before them slowly spoke.

According to him, the mobile city is called "Holy Machine U2" and belongs to the human organization "Cult of the Omnipotent." He himself is named David and is the bishop in charge of the city.

He simply waved his hand dismissively at Li Xin's surprise.

"It's just a mere black mist, utterly insignificant. We can stay as long as we want."

Under his guidance, we began our tour of this mobile city.

The city is filled with mechanical-style religious buildings, including Gothic spires churches with interlocking arches and flying buttresses like skeletons, bronze altars with gears and divine pronouncements wrapped around their exteriors, and stone slabs inscribed with prayers.

Everyone who passed by had a mechanical body, and they all made a low, rhythmic mechanical sound when they walked.

Li Xin looked at them and Bishop David, who was leading the way, and his throat tightened.

Are they even human anymore? They seem to have turned into pure machines. Their own radar probably couldn't detect any biological signs.

After a pause, he hesitated before speaking.

"Why...why are you all like this?"