Mobile City Travel Guide

A new day will soon arrive.

Unlike before, I woke up very early this time.

He lay in bed staring at the ceiling for a while, his mind replaying the zombies from yesterday. The more he thought about it, the less he could sleep, so he finally got up.

This time, instead of going to the watchtower for some fresh air as usual, he went straight into the driver's cab.

"Good morning, lord."

After greeting him, the helmsman continued with his work.

Currently, the Spark has two helmsmen, and their shift work has greatly improved its efficiency, allowing it to operate almost day and night. In addition, two more helmsmen are under training, which essentially involves a few days in the city simulation training cabin.

As one of the most important positions in the city, the compensation offered by the new company is extremely high—although the current resource supply is average, everyone has witnessed the steady progress of Xinghuo's development, and naturally, there are high expectations. Therefore, as soon as the news came out, it immediately attracted a large number of people.

Li Xin arrived in front of the radar.

For driving safety and early warning, the radar selected a biological type, which appeared as dots of varying sizes on the screen. However, the vast majority of them were motionless, probably because it was morning and both alien and native creatures were resting.

He was just about to breathe a sigh of relief when he inadvertently caught a glimpse of something and his expression suddenly changed.

A rapidly moving point of light suddenly burst into the edge of the screen and headed straight for the Starfire!

In terms of the size of the light spot, it is comparable to the Xinghuo spacecraft, and its speed is over 180 km/h.

"Hey, that speed is outrageous!" The helmsman glanced at the screen and exclaimed in surprise. "Is this a mechanical vehicle from this world? Or a mobile city of our people?"

Li Xin slowly shook his head.

The radar has been switched to biological detection mode, which means that this point of light is a living organism. However, the creatures and other beings encountered on the grasslands before only traveled at speeds of fifty or sixty kilometers per hour at most.

He immediately ordered the Xinghuo ship to enter combat readiness.

A few minutes later, seeing the light getting closer and closer and about to enter his field of vision, he simply went up to the watchtower and picked up the binoculars.

He was stunned when he saw what it looked like.

It was a zombie-infested city.

Buildings, firearms, decks, city walls, vehicles... This mobile city, inside and out, is entirely made of flesh and bones! Not only that, but countless cables and pipes are intertwined and crisscrossed throughout the city, forming a network that spans the entire urban area.

It gives the impression of a bizarre yet advanced form of flesh-and-blood technology.

On the deck, there were countless zombies.

They were all dressed in scarlet military uniforms, led by a zombie commander who wore a medieval nobleman's classic attire and had a row of bone medals hanging on his chest.

He drew his white bone sword, pointed it at the Starfire, and roared something.

The zombie soldiers quickly took their positions in front of the heavy machine guns, artillery, and cannons on the deck. From the top-floor airfield, fighter jets took off one after another. Simultaneously, the city slowly slowed down and lowered its elevators, allowing infantry fighting vehicles to land rapidly and speed away.

These firearms and vehicles are all, without exception, in a flesh-and-blood technological style.

The body of a heavy machine gun is made of pulsating muscle tissue, and the barrel is made of bone; artillery and machine guns are made of flesh and blood and veins, connected to the city by cables, pulsating like living things; the fuselages of various fighter jets are not made of metal, but are made of highly refined flesh and bone, as are the weapons they are equipped with.

The most bizarre thing is the infantry fighting vehicle. Although it is made entirely of white bones and its interior and exterior are covered with fine, vascular patterns, it can run faster than a moving city.

At this moment, the Starfire also entered combat mode.

Combat personnel quickly took their positions in front of various weapons, twelve floating cannons were launched into the air one after another, the city's elevator platform was lowered, combat convoys were deployed to the outside, and four hover tanks quickly landed on the ground and sped away at full speed.

Even the four standby anti-magic stone wing aircraft took off urgently. Although they could no longer carry modern weapons after their evolution, they had been "fully charged" by that fire demon.

Li Xin stared intently at the suddenly appearing mobile city, his thoughts churning.

Why do zombies have mobile cities?

His mood also became tense without him realizing it.

City battles.

This is a saying circulating among the lords, referring to battles between mobile cities.

Both sides will deploy all available combat vehicles and weapons—tanks, fighter jets, ships, artillery, and missiles—from the ground to the air, from close combat to long-range attacks. The mobile city will maneuver and evade enemy fire while simultaneously unleashing a barrage of attacks.

This battle had no referees, no rules, only a fight to the death.

The losing side will lose everything; the city will be destroyed, and its population and resources will be plundered.

I had anticipated that the Starfire would experience city battles, but I never expected that the first opponent would be an alien race.

First to attack were the enemy's flesh-and-blood fighter jets. After taking off, they rushed towards the Starfire, ready to dive and fire. Responsible for the counterattack were twelve floating cannons, which drew silver-white trails in the air, harassing, firing, and accelerating through one flesh-and-blood fighter jet after another, causing them to crash and explode one after another.

On land, the ground forces of both sides began to engage in fierce fighting. Off-road vehicles and infantry fighting vehicles charged across the grassland in a crisscross pattern, their vehicle-mounted machine guns spitting fire, and personnel leaning out of the windows shouting for fire. Explosions, gunfire, and the roar of engines mingled together.

The four hover tanks once again demonstrated their might, moving at high speed using their air cushion arrays, their smoothbore cannons roaring continuously. Zombie vehicles hit were blasted through with a single shot, their interiors exploding into burning fireballs.

With a roar, the newly constructed missile launch silos on the deck of the Starfire were activated, and ballistic missiles roared into the sky, advancing at full speed under the guidance of the city's AI, and accurately hitting the zombie-infested mobile city.

"boom--"

The zombie city exploded with a deafening roar, and fierce flames erupted from within the city. Bones and fragments of flesh and blood scattered everywhere, and a large portion of the zombies on the deck were also destroyed.

"Good!" Li Xin couldn't help but swing his fist.

The next second, an unbelievable scene unfolded.

As the zombies moved through the city, countless wriggling new fleshy buds sprouted, which rapidly grew, spread, and intertwined, restoring the entire city to its original state in a short time!

Those zombies, whose bodies were torn to pieces, were quickly restored to their original state by being nourished by the blood and flesh in the city!

He was stunned.

This is just too bizarre!

What surprised him even more was that a dark well suddenly opened up somewhere in the other city—the zombies actually had ballistic missiles!

With a deafening roar, the flesh-and-blood missile soared into the sky and hurtled toward the Starfire at an unprecedented speed!

A nearby drone detected the reaction and sped forward to intercept the missile. It accurately hit and penetrated the missile, but the missile also developed fleshy growths, quickly recovered, and firmly trapped it.

Under the horrified gazes of the crowd, the flesh-and-blood missile continued its flight, dragging the trapped, futilely struggling floating cannons as it hurtled towards the Starfire.

At the critical moment, a pale blue magical barrier unfolded above the Starfire. The flesh-and-blood missiles crashed into the barrier and exploded, sending up a shower of fire and blood.

"Well done!"

Li Xin couldn't help but nod at Peter, who was casting a spell not far away.

"We must prevent this!"

Peter nodded, a hint of apprehension in his eyes.

"I know."

A wave of unrest, a wave of up again.

Before everyone could catch their breath, the zombie mobile city had already arrived close by.

Heavy machine guns, artillery, urban machine guns... all the flesh-and-blood weapons on its deck opened fire at the same moment, a barrage of bullets covering the sky, like a giant wall made of steel and flesh, pressing directly towards the Starfire!

"Maneuver to avoid it!" Li Xin roared.

Inside the cockpit, the helmsman jerked the steering wheel sharply, and the tires of the Spark screeched violently across the field, carving two deep furrows in the grass. The entire city suddenly drifted at high speed!

Enemy bullets grazed the city's side, exploding into bursts of burning dark red blood mist.

At the same time, the firearms on the deck of the Starfire also opened fire, instantly tearing the zombie-infested mobile city to shreds.

But soon countless buds grew all over its body, quickly restoring it to its original state.

"What a nuisance!" Li Xin frowned.

This zombie-infested city is bizarrely dangerous. To destroy it, we'd probably have to concentrate our firepower and annihilate it completely in one go, otherwise it will just regenerate.

After a round of firefight, the two mobile cities passed each other due to high speed and inertia, and prepared to turn around and continue fighting.

High in the sky, the two mobile cities drew two huge, intersecting arcs across the grassland, like two giant beasts that had separated in a struggle, panting heavily, and preparing to pounce on each other again.

At that moment, billowing dust suddenly appeared on the distant horizon.

Li Xin turned around, picked up the binoculars, and his expression immediately changed.

Those were all sorts of alien races and creatures from the grasslands! Their forms had become extremely bizarre, each with a ferocious face, a festering body, cloudy and white eyes, and bulging veins all over their bodies.

"This is...an infection?" he asked, stunned, his words tinged with disbelief.

Unexpectedly, the zombies were indeed infectious. They infected all the alien races and creatures on the grassland, turning them into a vital force in the hunt for the Starfire!

When the Spark was caught in a pincer movement, a unit suddenly displayed its extraordinary prowess.

Those were the four anti-magic stone wing aircraft that were newly deployed to the outside world.

After adjusting the attack angle, the spiral devices beneath them roared into action, and the light at the top grew increasingly intense, like stars about to explode.

The next second, four torrents of flame, almost as powerful as the Flame Demon's, swept out and crashed into the turning zombie city and the horde of zombies on the grassland!

The former was instantly engulfed in raging flames, its structure and deck rapidly melting and exploding. Even the newly grown flesh buds withered and charred, unable to repair themselves immediately. The latter, on the other hand, dissolved and evaporated in the flames, turning into clumps of viscous, bloody remnants.

At the same time, the floating cannons also annihilated all the enemy aircraft.

Unbeknownst to them, the Starfire had already gained air superiority on the battlefield.

Li Xin immediately felt invigorated.

With his command, four anti-magic stone wing aircraft directly attacked the zombie-infested city. The spiral devices once again went into full power, and four torrents of flames erupted, all hitting the enemy and destroying the firearms on their decks and the fighter jets that had not yet taken off.

The Starfire then turned around and opened fire at full speed to annihilate the grassland horde of zombies.

As time passed, the four hover tanks had also obliterated all the enemy's flesh-and-blood vehicles. They turned around and charged at full speed towards the zombie-infested city, attempting to approach and destroy its tires.

Under the continuous bombardment of the smoothbore cannon, the tires on both sides of the zombie moving city were quickly destroyed, and it eventually came to a stop in place.

For mobile cities, losing mobility during combat is fatal, meaning they become motionless sitting ducks.

With a command from Li Xin, the Starfire opened fire on the enemy with all its firepower: magic-blocking stone wing aircraft, hover tanks, floating cannons, flesh-and-blood butcher machine guns, crouching tiger cannons, city machine guns, ballistic missiles...

Amidst the rolling explosions, the zombie mobile city was completely destroyed; decks shattered, buildings collapsed, firearms were blown away, and the zombies were torn to pieces.

After the smoke cleared, it had turned into a pile of charred remains. Numerous buds of flesh wriggled and grew, attempting to repair the city. But perhaps exhausted of their life force, they eventually ceased their movements, turning into clumps of curled, charred remains.

"Finally, we've taken it down." Li Xin breathed a sigh of relief.

But we can't relax yet, because the horde of corpses on the grassland is still there, numbering in the tens of thousands.

The Starfire stopped engaging them, quickly created distance, retrieved a series of vehicles, and accelerated its evacuation.

After confirming that they were out of danger, Li Xin finally sat down to rest.

He slumped in the chair, panting heavily, his eyes gleaming with barely concealed excitement.

This city battle was far more exhilarating than I had imagined! From the start to the end of the battle, my adrenaline was soaring.

At the same time, he couldn't help but feel a lingering fear. The fighting power of this zombie mobile city was beyond imagination. If the Starfire hadn't been well-equipped, it probably would have perished on this grassland.

At that time, everything you have worked so hard to accumulate will be in vain and completely vanish.

Footsteps sounded from not far away, and the members of the Guardian Team came over.

"Why don't you let Sean and me fight?" Torgue asked.

Li Xin paused for a moment, then spoke.

"The zombies are infectious. Once you are bitten by them or your wound becomes infected, you will become one of them."

The four looked at each other, their eyes filled with astonishment.

"If you can turn your enemies into your own kind, wouldn't you be invincible?" Sean asked in surprise.

Li Xin nodded.

This ability is indeed extremely troublesome, meaning that zombies can infect enemies and turn them into allies without any scruples, which means that the more they fight, the more there are.

"Get ready, everyone," he sighed. "Our journey ahead is not going to be peaceful."