A Guide to Farming in a Mobile City-Chapter 173 : How Many Giants Are There in the Old Civilization District?

Chapter 173: How Many Giants Are There in the Old Civilization District?
Southern Western Wasteland Continent, Eternal Night Zone.
Natural Selection Level 2 Assault-type City “Holy Sword K32.”
Inside the room, George was silently writing a letter to his parents.
At that moment, his feelings were extremely complicated.
After surviving the brutal battle on the northern front of the Eternal Night Zone, the remaining Holy Sword K32 retreated along the Plateau Zone with Bishop Heath’s flagship city, finally arriving at the northern Red Ridge Zone after a long and arduous journey.
With the Heavenly Road Pathway cleared, the Holy Sword K32, along with the fully assembled human army, marched mightily down the pathway into the Eternal Night Zone, wiping out the Zombie Civilization.
Just as George was thankful for surviving, another major crisis arrived.
The three World-class Organizations of the human side announced across the entire Western Wasteland Continent that a Continent-level War would begin against the monsters in seven days.
Naturally, the Holy Sword K32 was assigned to the combat forces.
As a Combat Deacon, George was inevitably drawn into this massive war vortex.
He wasn’t too disheartened, for there were many like him on the Western Wasteland Continent who had no say in their fates.
While writing the letter, George also lit a cigarette.
He had gotten it from that Middle-aged Deacon. After surviving the northern front, he began smoking.
Smoking gave him a temporary boost and helped ease his anxiety.
Meanwhile, aboard the flagship of Natural Selection, the Saint, in the upper-level cathedral.
Heath sat upright in the Communication Room, conversing with two other commanders.
Titan Throne, Preston, Tier 4.
Iron Oath Brotherhood, Red-robed Elder, Wang Tai.
Before the meeting began, Heath first greeted Wang Tai.
Red-robed Elders belonged to the highest level of the Iron Oath Brotherhood, equivalent to the Red-cloaked Bishops of Natural Selection.
In reality, Wang Tai’s rank was higher than both Preston and Heath.
The discussion among the three was concise and efficient.
First, within seven days, evacuate all survivors from the Western Wasteland Continent. The three World-class Organizations would relocate them to Airborne Mobile Cities.
Second, mobilize all Mobile Cities from the human forces across the continent and organize them into sequences wherever possible.
Third, identify the critical areas in the Western Wasteland Continent most essential to contest.
The Level 2 area at the central-north of the Western Wasteland Continent – Maze Zone.
The Level 2 area at the central-south – Eternal Night Zone.
After deliberation, Heath was assigned to seize the Eternal Night Zone. Preston would take the Maze Zone.
Wang Tai would be in charge of naval warfare.
According to the agreement, the 300-nautical-mile coastal area was also part of the Western Wasteland Continent battlefield.
Sea routes were equally important.
Once one side controlled the sea, they could continuously deliver supplies and land troops along the coastlines.
More crucial than sea control, however, was air superiority.
"Then the meeting ends here. Let’s hope we achieve a glorious victory."
With that, the three ended the call.
Heath shut down the communication and swiftly exited the room.
He carried a heavy burden.
The Eternal Night Zone was the throat of the southern Western Wasteland Continent, with connections extending in all directions.
Once captured, victory in the southern front would be half-achieved.
As long as the human forces established a foothold in the Eternal Night Zone, they could continuously dispatch troops to the southeast, southwest, and northwest areas.
After reaching a war agreement, both sides began pouring reinforcements into the Eternal Night Zone.
First, both sides had to build strongholds.
As the Supreme Commander of the Southern Front, Heath was granted authority to mobilize all Mobile Cities from the southern region.
Not just Natural Selection—scattered Mobile Cities in the region eagerly joined as well.
Up to now, the number had reached 164.
Most of them were Level 1 Mobile Cities.
Among the Level 2 Mobile Cities, the vast majority belonged to Natural Selection.
Level 1 Mobile Cities were not incapable of fighting; Natural Selection would arm them.
Equipped with Level 2 Land-Air Vehicles, Level 2 Power Engines, Level 2 City Armor, Level 2 Cannons, and Level 2 Heavy Machine Guns.
In this way, Level 1 Mobile Cities effectively became equivalent to Level 2 ones. Due to their smaller size, they were even more agile on the battlefield.
In fact, the idea of outfitting Low Level Cities with High-level City Accessories and High-level Cannons and Heavy Machine Guns was originally conceived by an Elder of the Iron Oath Brotherhood years ago.
At that time, the human and monster sides were at war on a certain continent, with a level cap of Level 3.
The battle was in a deadlock.
That Elder had a sudden idea—use the Production Workshop to manufacture Level 3 Items and fully equip a batch of Level 1 Mobile Cities to Level 3 configuration, then send them into battle.
The tactic achieved extraordinary results on the battlefield.
Initially, the monsters didn’t take it seriously, but they quickly suffered heavy losses.
While maintaining High-level configurations, Level 1 Mobile Cities also had extremely high mobility, allowing them to perform Mobile Evasion on the battlefield and avoid getting hit.
It was like "small body, big punch."
Using this tactic, the Elder crushed the monsters in City Battles, gradually expanded the advantage, and ultimately won.
This "low-level, high-configuration" tactic was instantly adopted by both Natural Selection and Titan Throne, and even the monsters followed suit.
It became widely spread among the City Alliances in the Wastelands.
The most absurd case occurred during a Continent-level War with a level cap of Level 5, where a Level 1 Mobile City appeared with a full Level 5 configuration.
This Level 1 Mobile City directly blasted an entire area away.
Since then, Level 1 Mobile Cities had become a rather special existence in Continent-level Wars.
In City Battles, anyone seeing a Level 1 Mobile City would become instantly alert.
Because although it appeared to be Level 1, it could in fact be Level 3, Level 4, or even Level 5.
The 164 Mobile Cities were merely the beginning.
According to Heath’s estimate, during the seven-day preparation period, he could mobilize over a thousand Mobile Cities.
Even if the vast majority were Level 1 Mobile Cities, as long as they were outfitted with Level 2 configurations, it would be equivalent to him having over 1,000 Level 2 Mobile Cities.
This represented a terrifying amount of combat power.
And the number of Mobile Cities on the monster side would only be more, not less.
Within those seven days, he needed to gather vast amounts of Level 2 Iron Ore to manufacture a series of Level 2 City Accessories, Level 2 Cannons, and Level 2 Vehicles.
According to Heath’s deployment, half of the Mobile Cities would be assigned to fight in the Eternal Night Zone, while the rest would focus on seizing the Wasteland Zone, Cretaceous Zone, Desert Zone, and other areas.
At this very moment, 20 Engineer-type Mobile Cities were already operating in the Eternal Night Zone, constructing defensive strongholds.
City Bunkers, City Landmines, Steel Thorn Belts, Spinning Jagged Steel Heaps, deployments of Heavenbreaker Fuel-Air Bombs, Level 2 Defensive Fortresses, and Trenches.
Various types of defensive fortifications were densely packed, enough to make one’s scalp tingle.
According to Heath’s plan, he would construct five composite defensive lines each over 20 kilometers in length.
While Heath commanded his forces to break ground, the monster side also began building composite defensive lines in the Eternal Night Zone.
Heath’s defenses were to the north, the monsters' to the south.
Heath chose the north because the Heavenly Road Pathway cutting through the Plateau Zone was located there. If the monsters built their defenses in the north, it would block the reinforcements and supplies arriving via the Heavenly Road Pathway.
The monsters chose the south in order to protect the Wasteland Zone.
Thinking of the Wasteland Zone, Heath furrowed his brows.
He had received Intelligence indicating that the United Sect had actually repaired 132 Ancient Suppression Devices in the Wasteland Zone.
As he mulled it over, a sudden startled thought crossed his mind.
"Could it be that the monsters are building defenses in the south to prevent me from invading the Wasteland Zone and thereby destroying the 132 Ancient Suppression Devices?"
Regardless, the United Sect definitely had no good intentions.
As the Mobile Cities began launching flares one after another, the human-side strongholds were gradually illuminated.
Engineer-type Mobile Cities worked tirelessly, while Assault-type, Defensive-type, and Fire-support Mobile Cities shuttled between the positions.
In the sky, multiple Airborne Mobile Cities roamed.
In City Battles, air superiority was of utmost importance.
Once a side lost air superiority, their Mobile Cities would be bombarded by the enemy's Level 2 Flying Vehicles.
However, Level 2 was quite limited—Flying Vehicles were restricted to Helicopters, Jet Planes, and Airships.
If it were Level 3 or above, the intensity of air combat would surge dramatically, and the consequences of losing air superiority would become severe.
On land, the main battlefield belonged to Defensive-type and Assault-type Cities and their deployed Convoys.
Based on 1,000 Mobile Cities, the number of deployed Convoys would range from 4,000 to 8,000, nearly enough to cover the entire battlefield.
By then, the scene would be extremely chaotic.
The Southern Front where Heath was stationed was considered the least stressful.
Preston, in charge of the Northern Front, had to seize the Maze Zone—a region where terrain could shift at any moment.
Wang Tai, responsible for naval warfare, faced a battlefield sprawling along the coastlines of the Western Wasteland Continent—broad and troublesome.
In addition, Heath could also mobilize some of Titan Throne’s and the Iron Oath Brotherhood’s combat units.
After sorting through his thoughts, he lightly nodded.
"That about sums it up."
Meanwhile, in the Plateau Zone.
A Level 2 Mobile City was docked at the foot of a snowy mountain.
Upon closer inspection, it was clearly Nature L3, affiliated with Titan Throne.
This very Mobile City had once led a human convoy seeking refuge in the Archipelago Zone and had miraculously survived an assault by Zombie Forces.
Now, Lord Professor Annie was negotiating with a faction.
They were none other than the Dinosaurs who had migrated from the Cretaceous Zone to the Plateau Zone to escape the Zombies.
These Dinosaurs had now evolved into forms adapted for plateau life.
Some had thick bone plates on their backs; others were covered in fur, with subcutaneous fat layers reaching dozens of centimeters thick.
The Dinosaurs had even become adept at hunting Mutant Creatures in the Plateau: Condensed Frost Giant Spiders, Icefield Swift Wolves, Frostfang Worms, and even the cunning and intelligent Snowmen.
At this moment, a large group of Dinosaurs stared intently at the elderly human woman in front of them.
"I suppose you all wish to return to the Cretaceous Zone, your former home," Professor Annie spoke. "If so, then help us humans in this war. I promise you that after the war ends, the Cretaceous Zone will be yours entirely, and we humans will no longer interfere."
Hearing the words translated by the Universal Monster Translator, several leading Dinosaurs nodded slightly, seemingly pondering.
Then, one Dinosaur let out a roar.
The Universal Monster Translator translated its words.
"We still need to think it over."
Southern Continent, Old Civilization District, Tourism State.
Li Ye and Xie Jie were conversing.
"There are multiple Old Era Human Shelters in the Old Civilization District. Do you have any information on them?" Li Ye asked.
A look of confusion appeared on Xie Jie’s face.
"I’ve never heard of such a thing in all these years," he replied.
Li Ye sighed.
Even the Embers organization, which was spread throughout the entire Old Civilization District, had no leads—let alone himself finding anything.
However, Xie Jie stated that he would this information to headquarters, which would arrange to search for these shelters.
Xie Jie informed Li Ye that the Tourism State, while not very large overall, still contained several cities and many, many towns.
Whether in cities, towns, or the wilderness, there were many Giants roaming.
The number of Giants in the Tourism State exceeded 30,000.
Li Ye was immediately stunned.
Over 30,000 Giants—how long would it take to clear them all?
In a certain sense, these 30,000-plus Level 3 monsters could also be considered a very rich resource.
Xie Jie also told him that the area closest to the Old Civilization District was the Rift Valley.
To get there, one would have to pass through several states.
Upon hearing this, Li Ye immediately shook his head repeatedly.
Every state had at least tens of thousands of Giants; he wouldn’t act so recklessly.
"In that case, we’ll have to take the sea route," he thought.
Traveling along the coastline of the Southern Continent, he would dispatch Black Hawk Helicopters to observe the level of the areas along the way before deciding whether to land and develop.
As a large-scale human resistance organization, Embers maintained contact with Natural Selection, Titan Throne, and the Iron Oath Brotherhood.
These World-class Organizations occasionally provided them with large quantities of supplies to assist in their development within the Old Civilization District.
But for this Level 3 area, which had over a million Giants, Embers' plan to reclaim it was no different from the tale of the Foolish Old Man moving mountains.
No one knew how many generations it would take to succeed.
Li Ye then asked Xie Jie to relay a message to Natural Selection, inquiring about the Level 2 City Crystal that Bishop Heath had promised to help secure.
He also added that the Tomorrow had already been promoted to a Level 3 Mobile City—if the crystal was unavailable, then blueprints for Fighter Jets or Main Battle Tanks would also be acceptable.
"So is the wilderness very dangerous?" Li Ye asked.
Xie Jie shook his head.
"There’s no way to survive in the wilderness—not even for Mobile Cities."
There were many Giants roaming the wilderness, and Mobile Cities were too conspicuous and easily spotted.
When that happened, hordes of Giants would come charging over, joyfully "playing" with them.
If they were targeted by intelligent Giants, it would be even more troublesome.
In the Old Civilization District, compared to Bounty Hunters, Survivor Caravans, or Mobile Cities, it was actually easier for the Embers organization to survive.
Hearing this, Li Ye had no choice but to make a decision.
The Tomorrow Alliance could no longer explore this Level 3 area in depth.
Everyone would just quietly stay by the coastline. That way, they could either advance or retreat as needed.
If the Giants in the Tourism State could be completely cleared, they would gain a massive amount of loot, and the Tomorrow Alliance could enjoy a tremendous boost in development.
Just as the two were talking, a rumbling sound came from the nearby ground.
Li Ye walked to the Armor Deck and looked over in confusion, seeing a massive drill emerge from beneath.
It was clearly a Level 2 Underground-digging Mobile City.
Judging by its City Paint Scheme and the emblem on its banner, it was clearly affiliated with Natural Selection.
Li Ye immediately reacted.
"Could it be that the Level 2 City Crystal has arrived!"