Mobile City Travel Guide

When I opened my eyes and woke up, it was already a new day.

The gravitational imbalance continued, with things floating everywhere in the room, even the bed he was lying on was floating in mid-air.

The Spark was still moving, but it was more difficult than usual, requiring it to maintain a steady course at all times. Having lost contact with the Sky Traveler K4 and its crew, it had now returned to its aimless, headless state.

It took me quite a while just to get up, get dressed, and wash up.

When he reached the deck, he saw a completely transformed aerial world. This sudden gravitational imbalance had brought irreparable destruction and devastation to the entire aerial civilization.

When he looked down, he was immediately stunned.

The black fog had risen again sometime earlier. This boundless "black land" was now only a few hundred meters away from the original horizon.

Recalling what he had witnessed yesterday, he subconsciously ordered the Starfire to climb even higher.

Unfortunately, not long after the Spark left the fleet, it ran into the Sky Wanderer Civilization's forces.

And this time it was an unprecedented spectacle—a massive migration procession comprised of countless moving islands, provinces, warships, and various vehicles. The procession was vast and imposing, blotting out the sky.

After experiencing gravitational imbalance, the vast majority of them are in poor condition.

Compared to this force, the Starfire seemed insignificant. But the enemy still noticed it and dispatched a fleet to pursue it.

"You still want to fight after all this?" Li Xin frowned.

Tiger Crouching Cannons fired in unison to disrupt the enemy's formation, city machine guns swept the enemy's lines, and floating cannons harassed the enemy from the sidelines... Compared to before, the Starfire is now much more adept at these tactics, and its combination of attacks has the enemy caught off guard.

Just then, the familiar roaring sound came again from the deep sea of ​​clouds overhead.

Immediately afterwards, gravity began to recover.

This sudden and violent return to normal caught everyone off guard. They were all used to the unpredictable, erratic feeling of the system, so the sudden return to normal left them bewildered.

But what happened next was even more astonishing. After the gravity returned to positive, it didn't stay at a normal level; instead, it continued to rise sharply!

Li Xin immediately felt a tremendous buoyancy, and his entire body floated up from the spot. Even the Starfire, which he was on, suddenly rose several meters!

He subconsciously looked down and discovered that the black mist below had also undergone a strange change. The black mist was like a pot of water that had suddenly been boiled, with the entire surface of the mist being violently squeezed, rolled, and surging, and even huge bubbles were rising up, spewing out thick columns of mist.

"Could it be...?"

His heart skipped a beat, and a chill suddenly ran up from the bottom of his heart. He immediately roared.

"Raise immediately!"

At his command, the Starfire quickly adjusted its angle, raised its bow, and accelerated to full speed. At the same time, the Tiger Crouching Cannons, which had been repositioned on the deck, fired a salvo at the stern, creating a violent shockwave that lifted the ship up significantly.

The Federation warships engaged in battle with it were bewildered and hastily adjusted their guns to prepare to continue firing.

The next second, the black mist suddenly began to rise! It rose at full speed with unstoppable force, swallowing everything in its path.

The aerial vehicles, warships, and moving islands at the bottom, unable to react in time, vanished instantly into the black mist like leaves swallowed by a giant wave, without even a splash.

This time, not only the Federation warships, but the entire migration convoy was thrown into complete chaos!

Various aerial vehicles hastily turned their bows, turned their engines on full blast, and desperately tried to lift themselves up.

The warships were in even worse shape. These once majestic steel behemoths were now frantically turning around and pulling up, their bows raised, propellers spinning wildly, and their hulls emitting the mournful groans of metal fatigue as they made sharp turns.

Even the mobile provinces began to rise urgently, but because of their enormous size, they moved as clumsily and slowly as stranded whales.

run!

Run upwards!

Everyone followed the Spark and began to ascend without regard for anything else!

Li Xin gripped the railing tightly, staring at the surging black mist below, his heart filled with horror.

Judging from this trend, this "high tide" will be of unprecedented scale, and may even reach the sea of ​​clouds!

At that time, the entire aerial travel world will truly be "united as one"!

"If we want to survive, we'll probably have to break through the sea of ​​clouds," he thought bitterly.

But even if they break through the sea of ​​clouds, there's probably not much of a chance of survival, because there's no atmosphere to protect them, and radiation such as solar wind, cosmic rays, ultraviolet rays, and high-energy particle streams will pour down without any obstruction.

The first victims were from the mobile province.

Because of their enormous size, they seemed powerless to rise. The black mist quickly caught up from below and swallowed them one by one.

Closely following behind were various clumsy warships and poorly equipped aerial vehicles. They too could not outrun the black fog, disappearing into it one after another.

The remaining air vehicles ascended urgently along with the Starfire.

Even after rising to an altitude of tens of thousands of meters, the black fog showed no signs of stopping. Seeing this, Li Xin's heart sank; it seemed his prediction was indeed coming true.

Due to the buoyancy caused by excessive gravity return, the Starfire and other airborne vehicles ascended much more easily than before.

But he didn't think this was a good thing—if it weren't for this abnormal gravity, the black mist would never have been able to rise so high.

At this moment, he finally understood why the giant eye had seemed so indifferent.

A tiny mobile city is insignificant; what it will devour is the entire world.

This gravity is its perfect opportunity.

"So that's how those previous civilizations went extinct," he thought to himself.

Every instance of gravitational imbalance in the history of this world has caused the black mist to surge uncontrollably upwards. Every once-flying civilization has fled, struggled, and climbed upwards just like now, only to be caught and swallowed by the black mist. They have sunk forever into that silent darkness, only to see the light of day again when the "tide recedes."

Just then, I suddenly heard laughter.

At first, Li Xin thought he had misheard. Perhaps it was the sound of air whistling past, or the sound of the Starfire ship colliding, or perhaps it was his own hallucination.

But when he held his breath and listened carefully, the sound was still there, even more clearly than it was chilling.

It was black mist, or rather, "He" was laughing.

The laughter was very low, yet it seemed to be everywhere, lingering in everyone's heart.

It felt like... a person looking down at an ant nest about to be submerged by water, watching panicked ants desperately carrying eggs and pupae, climbing grass stems, and even trying to float on the water.

Careless, foolish, and sarcastic.