Mobile City Travel Guide

"Oh, we've arrived!"

On the watchtower, Li Xin's eyes lit up.

After the city battle on the grasslands, the journey of the Starfire over the next few days was quite peaceful.

It quickly crossed the grassland and arrived at a new territory.

Border area.

The heart of the magical world, a land where countless races coexist.

This is the most prosperous, wealthy, and diverse place on the continent, where hundreds and thousands of different races have established their own kingdoms. Even the numerous kingdoms of humans, dwarves, and elves are located here.

It is like a boundless, colossal city woven from countless races, cultures, and beliefs.

What lay before Li Xin was a scene of old and new intertwined – ruins everywhere, but new towns and villages were also springing up from them.

This is mainly because the border region was the main battleground fought over by the three races during the magical world war three years ago. The three races used magical power to plow through the area again and again, completely turning it upside down and causing tens of thousands of casualties and countless displaced refugees.

However, after the three races reached a ceasefire and reconciliation, the border area was rebuilt.

Through the power of magic, people regenerated trees from scorched earth, brought flowers back to barren fields, and restored the flow of dried-up streams. Villages, towns, and even kingdoms sprang up like mushrooms after rain.

Wherever the Starfire passed, there were scenes of prosperity as people used magic to carry out large-scale construction. Ruins were moved, bricks and timber were transported in mid-air, and all kinds of enchanted artifacts displayed their divine power.

On the way, Li Xin slowed down his mobile city and deployed all kinds of vehicles along the way to collect more resources.

Four hover tanks were also deployed, but this time they were not for guard duty or combat; instead, they used magnetic adsorption devices to scavenge scrap metal from the ruins.

Before long, various resources were piled up like a small mountain on the deck. To Li Xin's surprise, they also found a large number of magical tools and books in the ruins.

He deliberately chose an empty cabin on the Starfire and carefully categorized and stored everything securely. After all, it might come in handy someday.

What pleased him even more was that this time the Starfire finally received a message from the outside world, and it was from the mobile city of the Ark Organization.

However, the other party was not Tianyou K4, but Tianxie S2.

Judging from the voice, the lord of the Sky Machine S2 is actually a young girl, who may even be younger than Li Xin.

According to her, within the Ark organization, different types of mobile cities have different name prefixes for easy differentiation: "Tianyou" represents assault type, "Tianyu" represents defensive type, and "Tianxie" represents engineering type.

The Celestial Machine S2 is the latest batch of mobile cities produced by the organization. As the lord, she and about two hundred people were assigned to it as "seeds" to spread out and slowly multiply.

Li Xin listened and nodded repeatedly. Judging from this description, the Ark organization was indeed enormous.

"What is the current state of human civilization?" he asked immediately.

After all, the Starfire had been kept in the dark, and now that they had finally made contact with the Ark, they needed to figure out the current situation immediately.

"Our human civilization is currently relatively stable, and we're busy with a major undertaking," the other party replied. "However, the situation in this world is quite complex."

"I see..." Li Xin hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Then, what is the current status of Tianyou K4?"

Seeing that the other party had fallen silent, his heart skipped a beat.

He soon learned the answer.

The Tianyou K4 was lost in that unprecedented high tide.

Li Xin froze, her mind went blank, and her ears started ringing.

He opened his mouth as if to say something, but his throat felt like it was blocked by something.

The middle-aged man who did his best to save his companions and his mobile city, are they really gone just like that?

He thought to himself silently.

Actually, I should have guessed it long ago. The Tianyou K4 had already suffered heavy losses after that fierce battle, and given its massive size, it couldn't rise quickly during high tide like a typical mobile city.

After a long while, he calmed down and asked the question that concerned him most.

"I've encountered zombies in this world, and they even have mobile cities. Do you know what's going on?"

The girl paused for a moment, then spoke softly.

"We naturally understand the reason for this. Please be prepared to listen carefully, as every word I am about to say will be crucial."

Li Xin felt a chill run down her spine and subconsciously nodded in response, "Okay."

The girl took a deep breath and spoke in a low voice.

"In the long journey across endless worlds, human civilization is not alone."

......

Mobile civilization.

This is a name that has been passed down among humankind, referring to our own civilization that constantly traverses the world.

During their journey through numerous worlds, they discovered a startling fact—that human civilization was not the only one adrift and wandering among the myriad worlds.

Like many other civilizations, they endlessly travel to various worlds, striving to maintain and develop themselves.

To date, human civilization has encountered multiple mobile civilizations.

This is not a good sign.

Because the world often has original civilizations, when human civilization arrives, the two sides will often clash, communicate, and conflict. With the addition of another mobile civilization, the situation becomes very complicated and is very likely to develop to an uncontrollable point.

Worse still, mobile civilizations are often far stronger than native civilizations. This is because, like human civilizations, they adapt, learn, and progress little by little during their journeys across the world, gradually becoming more powerful.

After hearing the girl's explanation, Li Xin was completely stunned. The impact of the content was so strong that it almost shattered his understanding.

Human civilization is not a solitary journey.

There are many, many more mobile civilizations like it.

"Then...why does the zombie civilization, like us humans, have mobile cities as vehicles?" he murmured, his throat a little dry.

The girl's reason was simple and direct.

Mobile civilizations cannot rely on fixed buildings, fields, and factories; only mobile vehicles can carry them on their migrations across various worlds.

Based on this, mobile civilizations naturally want to improve living conditions, accommodate more people, and develop technology.

As a result, vehicles became larger and more sophisticated, eventually evolving into mobile cities.

Li Xin nodded slightly.

This explanation is indeed reasonable.

So, are all mobile civilizations based on mobile cities?

As this thought crossed his mind, he realized something and gently shook his head.

That's not necessarily true.

Some mobile civilizations may have reached the pinnacle of development, at which point they would certainly have developed vehicles far more advanced than mobile cities.

Or perhaps, the entire civilization has evolved into a more powerful form.