Mobile City Travel Guide

Chapter 96 What exactly is the purpose of human civilization?

The road to the underworld is much longer than I imagined.

The Spark continued its journey, encountering countless ghosts along the way.

Chen Caiwei glanced curiously at the mobile city, then looked at Li Xin and the others, and asked a question.

Why are you like this?

New doubts arise.

"What?"

Chen Caiwei gestured with her hands.

"That's how it is," he said, "riding in such a magical iron contraption, with so many things on it that I can't name."

"Our human civilization has always been traversing and surviving in many worlds," he said calmly. "And this iron thing you see is called a mobile city. It is both our ship and our home."

Chen Caiwei nodded as if she understood, but did not ask any further questions.

With the level of knowledge available to her generation, the concepts of mobile cities and traversing multiple worlds were simply incomprehensible.

Standing beside her, Chen Zhu gazed at the wandering ghosts.

"They are all wandering ghosts, that is, people who died suddenly before their lifespan was over."

When Li Xin looked at him, the middle-aged man explained.

"They can only leave this road after they have endured the prescribed time on the road to the underworld."

Li Xin nodded in surprise.

I never imagined that the rules of the underworld would be so numerous.

But it's best not to make any mistakes, since the cost is much higher than you might imagine.

"Yunzhi, is there any news from the city radio station?" he asked.

Since arriving, the Starfire's city radio station has been kept running continuously to contact other mobile cities.

Li Xin wanted to know what the current state of human civilization was.

"As of now, there is still no information," Yunzhi replied.

"All right."

With a sigh, Li Xin looked up at the sky above.

Unlike in the past, this time human civilization cannot obtain information by launching satellites.

Because, strictly speaking, the underworld is considered "underground".

But to Li Xin's surprise, just over ten minutes later, he discovered a mobile city of his compatriots.

But the city, both inside and out, was already covered by countless vengeful spirits.

Li Xin couldn't help but shake his head.

Without a doubt, when this mobile city arrived, it was randomly assigned the location of the Road to the Underworld.

This caused it to be overwhelmed by countless vengeful spirits as soon as it landed.

But upon closer inspection, he noticed something amiss.

This mobile city turned out to be the Holy Machine U2 that he had encountered during his previous space travels.

When Li Xin picked up the binoculars, he discovered an even more unbelievable scene.

The Holy Machine U2 has not fallen; this mobile mechanical city is currently in hibernation.

Bishop David and his entourage of parishioners all sank into the nearby decks and walls, and fell asleep with their eyes closed.

Despite the countless vengeful spirits lurking nearby, it seemed to have no effect on them.

"Oh, we're just performing routine hibernation and maintenance."

"I'm awake," Bishop David said casually.

Li Xin nodded in surprise.

At this moment, the Starfire had stopped next to the Holy Machine U2. Because of the Zhong Kui statue enshrined on its deck, the Holy Machine U2...

The countless vengeful spirits that had lingered on the ship also receded like the tide.

The noise startled Bishop David and his followers, who were awakened as a result.

"Sleep?" Li Xin couldn't help but take a deep breath.

Bishop David watched him quietly.

"Yes, what's wrong?"

For a moment, Li Xin was speechless.

To be fair, the ghosts really couldn't do anything to an organization like the Myriad Machines Cult, which takes "mechanical ascension" as its main goal.

After all, the members of the organization have undergone extremely high levels of mechanical modification, to the point that they can no longer be considered human.

He suddenly didn't know what to say.

Most mobile cities trembled in fear in this new world, trying every means to survive, while the Holy Machine U2 acted as if nothing was wrong, directly carrying out routine hibernation and maintenance on the road to the underworld.

After suppressing his emotions, he left Xin and got straight to the point.

As a mobile city under a world-class organization, the Sacred Machine U2 certainly possesses far more powerful communication capabilities than the Spark, enabling it to ascertain the movements of human civilization.

In fact, this wasn't the first time he'd done something like this—exploiting the resources of a large organization.

Bishop David nodded slightly.

"Understood, please wait a moment."

At first, Li Xin thought he was going to walk to the driver's seat to activate the city radio for communication.

But the other party stood still and didn't move at all.

"Start up the city radio station?" he said casually. "Why go through all that trouble?"

The mechanical cover on his arm slid open silently, revealing a dense array of cables and connectors underneath.

Several thin, hair-like metal tentacles emerged from it, trembled slightly in the air, and then quickly wove, wrapped, and coalesced, forming a complete, glowing communication antenna in just two seconds.

While Li Xin was still in surprise, Bishop David added a sentence in a nonchalant manner.

"By the way, we don't have a driver's cab either."

For the next few seconds, the bishop's gaze froze slightly, as if a massive amount of information was flooding into his consciousness through that antenna.

It felt as if he was using mechanically enhanced thinking to rapidly digest and comprehend a large amount of intelligence information.

A few seconds later, David came to his senses.

"There's a lot of information, and it's all very confusing, so I'll just pick a few key points to talk about," he said.

Thus, Li Xin unintentionally learned several important matters from the other party.

Tianze is assembling mobile cities on a massive scale.

The Pantheon and the various realms reached an agreement to join forces.

The Myriad Machines Cult is currently undergoing a shutdown, maintenance, and upgrade.

While gathering and settling its compatriots in mobile cities, Ark also massively amassed troops at the Six Paths of Reincarnation location, its motives unclear.

Li Xin nodded slightly.

In this way, he roughly understood the trends of human civilization.

At the same time, deep doubts arose in his mind.

Logically speaking, when people travel to such a high-level world, shouldn't human civilization work together to overcome the difficulties?

But now it seems that every world-class organization is very busy.

"What exactly do they want to do?" he wondered.

Back on the Starfire, Li Xin waved and ordered them to continue their journey.

After a brief inspection of their city, Bishop David and his followers resumed their hibernation.

According to them, this hibernation and maintenance shutdown will take another 14 hours and 32 minutes to complete.

Considering that there was no "danger worth worrying about" at the moment, they continued to hibernate.

So after the Xinghuo, which housed the image of Zhong Kui, departed, the mechanical mobile city remained stationary as if nothing had happened, only to be overwhelmed once again by the gathered vengeful spirits.