Mobile City Farming Guide

Chapter 256 City Battles in the Atmosphere and Ocean (4K)

Li Ye was dumbfounded.

Upgrading this mobile city to level 4 is not only about improving the technology tree and weaponry, but also about incurring enormous costs!
However, as the core combat force of a level 4 city, mobile suits must be built.

Moreover, the Tomorrow Alliance is currently expanding its territory in the Floating Island Zone. If an air combat mobile suit is built, it will undoubtedly greatly increase combat power!
With this in mind, Li Ye made his request to Albert.

Could the Apocalypse Church provide all the design blueprints at once and allow the Tomorrow Alliance to pay the remaining balance gradually?

“I think it should be possible,” Albert replied.

This is mainly because Tomorrow Alliance has a good reputation and has made many contributions.

Hearing this, Li Ye couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

These are all things I've accumulated through my own hard work and actions.

Once the production workshop was completed, he boarded a transport plane and returned to the floating island area.

The training of pilots for the Swift Sword mechs has begun. Based on the 1:72 time flow ratio of the city simulation training cabin, they only need one day of training to be ready for duty.

In the following period, Li Ye began to select an island where the Tomorrow Alliance forces would be stationed.

His initial goal was an ice-covered floating island a dozen kilometers away.

The island floats slowly in the sea of ​​clouds, like a forgotten, cold planet.

The island's surface is covered with countless jagged ice crystal mountains. Those sharp, knife-like ice ridges pierce the sky at angles defying gravity, refracting ghostly blue-green aurora borealis as they rotate.

At the base of the island are hundreds of inverted icicles, hanging down towards the sea of ​​clouds like the fangs of a giant beast. When sunlight shines at a certain angle, these icicles cast distorted shadows magnified dozens of times, shrouding the entire base of the island in ever-distorting shadows.

However, when he attempted to land on the island, he quickly gave up.

This Frosty Island is so cold.

He quickly chose a new target.

A natural island several tens of kilometers away.

Upon seeing the island for the first time, Li Ye couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

It's so beautiful.

Looking out, the entire natural floating island resembles an emerald dream suspended in the sky, supported by countless intertwined ancient tree roots and a base naturally formed by porous pumice, drifting slowly among the sea of ​​clouds.

The entire island is completely enveloped by layers of lush green vegetation, and from a distance, it looks like a piece of green velvet crumpled by the wind.

The island is filled with countless giant trees and numerous rivers of varying sizes, which meander between the islands, forming more than twenty suspended waterfalls. As the water falls, it is torn into pearl-like mist by the rising air currents.

Many creatures also live on natural floating islands.

The Cloudwing Fox has translucent membrane wings and can glide through the air currents between floating islands.

The Crystal Scale Cloud Python has no regular scales; its surface is covered with transparent bony plates made of crystal.

The Mist Shadow Ape has unusually long limbs and its entire body is covered with long, grayish-white fur.

A hollow giant slug that can reach three meters in length, with its dorsal carapace degenerated into honeycomb-shaped buoyancy chambers.

Tomorrow, the Alliance forces will advance towards the natural floating island.

"This has truly broadened my horizons," Li Ye remarked.

Since he transmigrated to this point, he has never seen so many mutated creatures.

Upon closer reflection, this level 4 area is practically an ecological paradise for mutated creatures.

While stationed on the natural island and gradually exploring the floating island area, Tomorrow Alliance forces can also hunt mutated creatures on the island to obtain dropped resources.

But to Li Ye's surprise, an uninvited guest arrived.

It was a demon rushing in from afar.

The reconnaissance plane demon.

Its nose has no cockpit; instead, it features a deformed and stretched metal face, with the jaw torn to the base of the ear, revealing teeth that are gears meshing.

The body of the reconnaissance aircraft demon was not cast from metal, but was composed of a twisted fusion of some kind of living tissue and machinery—dark red tendons wrapped around rusted rivets, hydraulic pipes pulsating like writhing blood vessels, and the exhaust pipe spewing out not waste, but black blood mist with the smell of sulfur.

The reconnaissance aircraft Demon appeared extremely vigilant. Upon detecting the human forces on the natural island, it quickly turned back and disappeared without a trace.

Even the Tomorrow Alliance's air force couldn't catch up.

"I never expected there to be a reconnaissance aircraft-type demon," Fang Yong said in surprise.

Li Ye gently shook his head.

I'm afraid it's not just that.

The demon civilization should have already built a modern war force composed of demons with land, sea, and air vehicles.

Tank demons, missile vehicle demons, fighter jet demons, destroyer demons, submarine demons.
It should have everything you could want.

“Let’s prepare for the worst, Fang Yong.” He sighed. “I reckon the demon civilization’s forces will be here in a little while.”

In fact, Li Ye had already anticipated this after learning about the demon civilization's occupation of the floating island area from the intelligence.

The Alliance of Tomorrow and the Demon Civilization are bound to clash; it's just a matter of time.

It's highly unlikely that one could comfortably hunt and develop mutated creatures in the floating island area.

Li Ye immediately decided that the troops would use the natural island as their base and engage in aerial combat with the demon civilization forces.

"Are you going to bring the Peacemaker and the Starship over here?" Fang Yong asked.

“I’m afraid there’s not enough time,” Li Ye replied. “Once the monster civilization discovers human forces, they will definitely act as quickly as possible.”

To find out what was going on, he sent out reconnaissance planes in the direction where the reconnaissance plane demon had appeared.

While deploying his troops, Li Ye couldn't help but glance at a land combat vehicle.

That was clearly a Thunder Transport Vehicle.

This Tier 3 vehicle, which has camouflage capabilities, has never been put to use.

Thinking of the Acid Throat mech he had just acquired, Li Ye suddenly had a brilliant idea.

Eight Acid Throat mechs were loaded into Thunder Transport Vehicles, which then stealthily approached the enemy's main force under cover of camouflage. A surprise attack was then launched, achieving a "center-blooming" effect.

“This should be feasible.” He nodded.

Half an hour later, a reconnaissance plane returned with intelligence. Li Ye's prediction was correct.

A demon army is heading towards the natural island where they are stationed.

The unit is structured like a modern army.

The air force includes fighter demons, bomber demons, reconnaissance demons, and helicopter demons.

The Marine Corps has tank demons, missile launcher demons, motorcycle demons, and off-road vehicle demons.

Naval forces include destroyer demons, cruiser demons, missile ship demons, submarine demons, and speedboat demons.

In addition, there are many individual demon types.

For example, Soldier Demon, Sniper Demon, Mechanical Hound Demon, Artillery Demon, Heavy Machine Gun Demon
The reconnaissance pilot also vividly described the appearance of these demons.

The Tank Demon's head is not a traditional turret, but a distorted mechanical skull. Its main gun is its torn jaw, and wriggling cable tentacles extend from the cracks in its armor, pulsating with dark red energy like veins.

The off-road demon's appearance is visually striking, with a frame that exposes muscular hydraulic bends, tires made of hardened flesh, and a front bumper that is a row of interlocking fangs.

The Destroyer Demon is like a mechanical behemoth emerging from a steel inferno. Its hull is constructed from composite armor, with energy veins resembling those of human blood vessels flowing through the seams. Its main gun is not a traditional naval gun, but rather a cannon similar to that of a living organism. Its vertical missile launch system on the deck has been completely mutated, with each mechanical unit becoming an independent mechanical cyst that blooms like a mechanical flower bud when activated.

The Submarine Demon's appearance is quite Cthulhu-esque; it resembles a monster lurking in the abyss, a blasphemous fusion of steel and flesh. Its outer shell is not cold metal, but a twisted creation formed by the interweaving of dark red bio-armor and rusted steel plates.

"How long until the enemy arrives here?" Li Ye asked.

"Based on their speed, they should arrive in about an hour," the pilot replied.

He added that there were no mobile cities in this demon army.

“Okay, I understand.” Li Ye nodded. “Now everyone, get ready.”

As time slowly passed, Li Ye finally spotted the demon army through his telescope.

The first to advance were the Demon fighter jets.

The fighter demons and reconnaissance demons suddenly accelerated their charge, their wingtips leaving trails of burning dark red, carving jagged cracks in the sky above the floating islands. The massive bomber demons circled above the clouds like steel vultures.

Ship demons, land vehicle demons, and individual soldier demons followed closely behind.

The Tomorrow Alliance's air force immediately engaged the demon fighter group.

In the jungle of the natural island, special forces members took up their Silent Reaper sniper rifles equipped with a Level 4 intelligent fire control core.

With the assistance of the intelligent fire control core, the Silent Reaper sniper rifle completed ballistic calibration.

"Is everyone ready?" one of the members asked. "Three, two, one, fire!"

Everyone pulled the trigger at the same time.

The off-road vehicle demon was hit instantly, its entire body was as if it had been suddenly squeezed by an invisible giant hand, and it immediately collapsed and shattered!

The hinges snapped first, the doors spun and flew into the air, the roof bulged upwards under immense pressure and was finally torn to shreds like tin foil, the chassis disintegrated in a series of explosions, and the still-running engine and turbocharger were ejected like cannonballs.

Some members aimed their fire at the destroyer—although anti-materiel sniper rifles are extremely powerful, they ultimately cannot destroy an entire destroyer.

Li Ye was aware of this, so he ordered the special forces members to aim at the enemy ships' weapon systems and fire to eliminate them precisely.

The bullet precisely pierced the armor seam of the missile vertical launch unit of the ship's demons. At the moment of impact, the outer shell of the launch unit twisted and deformed as if torn apart by an invisible giant hand, the armor plate bulged out with exaggerated arcs, and then burst open like rotten fruit peel.

Some members aimed at the helicopter demons in the air and fired.

The moment the bullet struck, the helicopter demon's fuselage shattered like a walnut being crushed by an invisible giant hand.

The special forces members continued to reload, aim, and fire.

With the aid of the intelligent fire control core, their long-range shooting was extremely accurate and efficient, and one vehicle demon after another was shot down.

At the same time, two Zhenlang destroyers, suspended in the atmosphere and ocean in the distance, took aim and opened fire.

The decks of both ships trembled with a dull hydraulic roar as rows of square launch bay covers simultaneously sprang open, revealing dark, vertical missile bays. Accompanied by a series of deafening explosions, Standard Missile-2 surface-to-air missiles and Tomahawk cruise missiles burst into the air like a swarm of steel bees. The missile swarms quickly split into attack echelons at different altitudes, the white smoke from the solid-fuel rockets weaving a deadly net between the sea and sky.

Amid the ship, multiple torpedo tubes conducted final pre-launch checks, and MK46 lightweight torpedoes were propelled out of the tubes by high-pressure gas.

The 127mm OTO Melara main gun on the deck also completed its turn. The hydraulically driven triple-barreled gun adjusted its elevation angle in 0.5 seconds. The shell tore through the air and roared out the instant the muzzle brake emitted the ring-shaped gas.

The first to suffer were those submarine demons.

As Li Ye predicted, submarines are not used much in the atmosphere and ocean.

It doesn't have the powerful long-range firepower of a destroyer, nor the high maneuverability of a fighter jet, and the vastness of the atmosphere and ocean offers virtually no concealment.

These submarine demons were instantly engulfed by intense firepower and completely annihilated.

Looking out, the two destroyers floating and sailing in the atmospheric ocean resembled space warships, especially when they clashed with similarly floating demonic ships, making the space warfare feel even more intense.

At the same time, the land forces deployed on the natural island by Li Ye began to fire a barrage of fire, while the demonic vehicles of the demonic civilization also opened fire in return.

The once tranquil and beautiful floating island area was instantly transformed into a scene of smoke and fire.

As the demon forces landed on the island, the Tomorrow Alliance's ground forces engaged them in battle.

The leaping frog mechs darted and weaved, shooting down one lone demon after another.

The rapid-fire artillery vehicles moved nimbly and skillfully across the battlefield, constantly firing and bombarding.

The Leopard 2A7V main battle tank and the Torrent heavy tank unleashed their full firepower.

The three Prometheus units, like giants on the battlefield, displayed their might. With their powerful defense and mobility, they charged forward recklessly, frantically destroying vehicle demons and individual demons along their path.

High in the sky, the Tomorrow Alliance's air force and the demon fighter jets clashed fiercely.

The bombers from both sides would seize every opportunity to unleash a barrage of firepower on the ground.

The most outstanding soldiers on the battlefield are the special forces wielding the Silent Death sniper rifle.

From the start of the battle until now, they have been hiding in the shadows of the island, constantly reloading, aiming, firing, and killing the enemy.

The demon forces that landed on the island were gradually becoming overwhelmed.

The balance of victory on the battlefield gradually tilted towards Li Ye's side.

Seeing this, Li Ye nodded slowly.

Now it's time to unleash your true trump card.

(End of this chapter)