Chapter 198: Chapter 198

Chapter 198: Monster Side’s Continent-level Construction

Inside the Production Workshop, Li Ye looked at the six newly crafted Freeze Ray Guns.

After that Black Hawk Helicopter had brought back the Frost Ore discovered in the Giant Tree Zone, he immediately began forging without delay.

“Spent so many resources building this, its power shouldn’t be too bad, right?” he thought.

He decided to test the weapon’s might—not on the Tomorrow, of course, but on an abandoned office building nearby.

When Li Ye pulled the trigger, a dazzling blue beam instantly struck the office building.

The entire structure was swiftly draped in a sinister shroud of ice.

The glass curtain wall at the point of impact crystallized first, while the ultra-low temperature spread through the steel framework at thirty meters per second. The already decaying concrete slabs popped like popcorn under the sudden freezing, and the rebar inside twisted outward like frostbitten nerves.

In no time, the whole office building was completely frozen solid.

Li Ye put away the Freeze Ray Gun, stretched out his hand, and gently knocked on the frozen wall.

At that single touch, the entire building collapsed with a roar, like a stack of toppled blocks.

“Not bad at all!” Li Ye exclaimed in awe.

The Freeze Ray Gun’s destructive force was indeed worthy of its cost.

From a distance came the rumble of engines. Li Ye turned and saw two newly manufactured Prometheus units.

Now the Tomorrow possessed three of them, which undoubtedly boosted their sense of safety on land.

While gathering metal resources in the Basin Region and managing population absorption, Li Ye had not let his combat troops sit idle either.

He assigned the Stellar, the Iron Whale, and the Peacemaker to enter the outskirts of the Giant Tree Zone every day, hunting monsters within to obtain resource drops.

As a result, the Tomorrow Alliance regularly received Level 3 resources.

Among them were quite a number of Level 3 Blueprints.

At this moment, a Black Hawk Helicopter had arrived, carrying carefully sorted design blueprints from the spoils.

Taking the blueprints from the pilot’s hands, Li Ye immediately examined them closely.

This time, there were land combat vehicle types—and three of them at that. Thɪs chapter is updatᴇd by ɴovelfire.net

【Item Name: Leapfrog Mech】

【Bonus Effects: 1. Jumping Ability +40% 2. Damage against Infantry-type Enemies +30%】

【Requirements: 175 Level 3 Iron Ore, 50 units of Level 3 Precision Vehicle Components】

Though called a mech, it was actually a land-combat anti-infantry light vehicle with powerful leaping and high mobility.

Its design featured four mechanical legs supporting a red armored body, equipped with twin rotary autocannons and a flamethrower. The Leapfrog Mech relied on hydraulic drive to achieve its jumps, generating massive tremors upon landing.

If enemies were too close, they would be shaken off their feet.

Li Ye then turned to the second blueprint.

【Item Name: Rapid-fire Mortar Bike】

【Bonus Effects: 1. Damage +20% 2. Mortar Deployment/Aiming/Retraction Speed +50%】

【Requirements: 75 Level 3 Iron Ore, 25 units of Level 3 Precision Vehicle Components】

The Rapid-fire Mortar Bike resembled a three-wheeled motorcycle, with a foldable mortar mounted on its chassis. When the barrel was extended, rear wheel supports locked in place to stabilize it for firing.

Overall, it was designed for guerrilla warfare, specialized in harassing enemy forces.

Thanks to its +20% damage effect, it wasn’t merely a nuisance weapon.

Looking at these two land vehicles, Li Ye nodded slightly.

Although their practical value remained to be tested, at the very least they enriched the Tomorrow’s ground forces.

He then looked at the third blueprint.

【Item Name: “Phantom” Transport Vehicle】

【Bonus Effects: 1. Amphibious Capability 2. Camouflage Concealment 3. Speed +30%】

【Requirements: 150 Level 3 Iron Ore, 25 units of Level 3 Precision Vehicle Components】

He hadn’t expected a Level 3 vehicle to come with camouflage concealment.

Looking closer, the camouflage was almost identical to Mobile City Camouflage.

It could dynamically blend into its surroundings or disguise itself as any other vehicle.

The Phantom Transport Vehicle was large and spacious, capable of carrying thirty passengers at once.

The first thought that came to Li Ye was to assign it to the Special Forces for ghost operations behind enemy lines.

If used wisely, it could deliver remarkable results.

After feeding the blueprints into the Production Workshop, Li Ye immediately invested resources to begin manufacturing.

This time, he crafted six Leapfrog Mechs, ten Rapid-fire Mortar Bikes, and two Phantom Transport Vehicles.

As for Shadow Falcon Fighter Jets, he built four.

Fortunately, the Basin Region was rich in metal resources, or else he would have struggled to find enough Level 3 Iron Ore.

Once the crafting was done, Li Ye boarded a Black Hawk Helicopter and set off toward the Engineer to inspect the progress.

Mobile Cities inherently possessed strong engineering capabilities, and with an entire fleet of Level 3 engineering vehicles assisting, the construction speed of the Underground City advanced by leaps and bounds.

When Li Ye arrived, he found the progress even faster than he had anticipated.

The three designated layers had already been excavated by the Underground-digging Mobile City, giving the Underground City a neatly structured scale.

Next came installing various buildings and constructing subway tunnels and stations.

“These past days, have you not slept at all?” he asked Zhou Xing in surprise.

“I arranged rotating shifts,” Zhou Xing replied.

The construction speed of the Underground City exceeded expectations. Unlike conventional projects, it used modular construction.

Modular construction referred to dividing a building or project into multiple standardized modules, prefabricated at another site, and then transported to be assembled directly.

This method applied widely to buildings, tunnels, subways, and bridges.

In such construction, Mobile Cities held a natural advantage.

On one hand, they possessed powerful engineering capabilities; on the other, they had versatile Production Workshops. By simply inputting the relevant blueprint, modules could be rapidly manufactured.

At this moment, Li Ye saw a massive stockpile of subway station modules.

Ceiling modules with integrated lighting systems.

Vertical transport modules preinstalled with elevator shafts.

Wall modules with built-in ventilation ducts.

Floor modules fully tiled.

All pre-fabricated and neatly arranged.

The Engineer itself could not produce these; they were manufactured by Holy Mechanism C21 and transported here by convoy.

Under Li Ye’s watch, the Engineer and its engineering vehicles began assembling a subway station.

The process resembled piecing together an intricate 3D puzzle.

The crane on the Engineer’s deck precisely lifted each module into place, while its personnel and engineering vehicles secured connections and bolted them tight.

All modules were standardized, plug-and-play like USB connectors. The seams were sealed with special waterproof treatment, making them both durable and visually seamless.

In a short time, a subway station rose prominently within the Underground City.

“Amazing!” Li Ye couldn’t help but sigh in admiration.

At the same time, he quickly noticed something.

“How did you even get these modules?” he asked.

Zhou Xing admitted he was curious as well, and had even gone to consult the Lord of Holy Mechanism C21 about it.

The other side stated that all that was needed was a single Level 3 Standard Module Blueprint.

Once the blueprint was fed into the Production Workshop, the Mobile City could begin modular production of existing construction projects.

For example—office buildings, stations, marketplaces, and so on.

However, construction materials such as glass, tiles, and wooden boards still had to be prepared in advance.

“In short, construction with Engineer-type Cities is far more convenient than we ever imagined!” Zhou Xing said excitedly.

Not only had the subway station already been completed, but even the subway tunnels were halfway finished.

The massive tunnel-boring machine resembled a steel behemoth, its rotating cutterhead gnawing at the rock layers. Shattered stone and dust sprayed out amidst high-pressure mist, while orange engineering lights pierced through the haze to illuminate the tunnel’s interior.

Inside the tunnel, rebar frameworks stretched like the spine of a dragon. The mechanics and apprentices of the Engineer wielded welding torches, sparks flying as they secured curved concrete segments. Ventilation ducts, already dug in advance, snaked upward like arteries, while pumps ceaselessly drained the seeping groundwater.

Elsewhere in the Underground City, a subway train forged by Holy Mechanism C21 stood on display.

Just as Li Ye and Zhou Xing were speaking, someone hurried over.

It was none other than Bishop Albert.

Seeing his hurried appearance, Li Ye couldn’t help but feel curious.

“What is it, Bishop Albert?” he asked.

Albert’s expression grew grave.

“The Human Forces intend to conscript your Tomorrow Alliance and throw it into a great war,” he said.

“Conscript our Tomorrow Alliance?” Li Ye asked in puzzlement.

Zhou Xing, sensible enough, quietly stepped aside to continue supervising the construction work.

Albert then gave a detailed explanation.

This so-called “conscription” meant that the world-class organizations of the Human Forces would recruit high-level Mobile Cities or City Alliances in the Wasteland to serve them.

Li Ye felt quite surprised.

After all, the Tomorrow Alliance at best only barely counted as a Level 3 City Alliance. He had not expected that human world-class organizations would still find it worthy.

“Level 3 Mobile Cities are not low-tier anymore,” Albert explained. “Even world-class human organizations don’t possess that many Level 3 or higher Mobile Cities.”

After some thought, Li Ye realized the logic was sound.

The three major world-class human organizations all had the capability to produce Level 0.5 and Level 1 Mobile Cities, but upgrading them required the classic three-piece set of City Crystal, Structure Blueprint, and Promotion Blueprint.

Even obtaining that set at Level 1 was troublesome, let alone at Level 2 or Level 3.

“So, Bishop Albert, do City Crystals only drop from the rulers of Monstrous Civilizations?” he asked.

“All monsters in the Wasteland may drop them, but rulers of Monstrous Civilizations have the highest chance,” Albert replied. “If luck favors you, even killing a single Goblin might drop one.”

“So that’s how it is?”

Li Ye couldn’t help recalling that Bounty Hunter he had once encountered in the Wasteland Zone. That man’s luck was outrageous—he had obtained a City Structure Blueprint just from killing a Goblin.

Albert waved his hand in front of him, signaling him not to drift off in thought.

“Before the conscription begins, I need to introduce you to something.”

“What is it?” Li Ye asked reflexively.

Albert replied slowly.

“The Continent-level construction the Monster Side has built in the Southern Continent.”

“The ‘Raging Wave’ Super Dam.”

From Albert’s words, Li Ye learned of this colossal project.

It had been constructed more than fifty years ago, at the end of that continent-scale war, by the three great organizations of the Monster Side.

The Raging Wave Super Dam was located in the Level 3 region, the Canyon Zone.

The Canyon Zone lay in the eastern center of the Southern Continent, occupying one-third of the entire eastern expanse.

This Level 3 region was traversed by many great rivers, featuring treacherous gorges, sheer cliffs, and turbulent rapids.

Albert began to describe the scale of the Raging Wave Super Dam in detail.

Its dam body stretched 5.7 kilometers—equivalent to fifty-seven football fields lined up end to end. Like a colossal wall of steel and concrete, it severed the coursing rivers in its path.

Its reservoir was vast as an inland sea, holding up to 150 billion cubic meters of water—enough to fill six million Olympic-standard swimming pools—with a basin control area of 2.8 million square kilometers.

Within the super dam were installed thirty-two giant turbine generators, with a total installed capacity of 22,000 megawatts. Its annual electricity generation equaled the combustion of fifty million tons of coal.

Thanks to the Raging Wave Super Dam, the Monstrous Civilizations of eastern Southern Continent could rely on its hydroelectric power.

Beyond electricity, the dam also provided navigation, flood control, water supply, and farmland irrigation.

“Doesn’t it sound absurd that monsters not only use hydropower but even build dams?” Albert spread his hands. “Yet that is the truth—monsters now live on this planet just as humans do.”

Li Ye nodded gravely.

The monsters of the Wasteland resembled humans too much—in some sense, they had even surpassed them.

“So the Human Forces plan to attack the Raging Wave Super Dam this time, is that it?”

Hearing this, Zhou Xing also leaned closer curiously.

“Of course!” Albert nodded.

Destroying such a continent-scale dam would spell nothing less than catastrophe.

Once the reservoir collapsed, floodwaters would surge downward in waves over a hundred meters high.

The flood speed would reach 100 to 200 kilometers per hour—far beyond that of a tsunami.

All the downstream regions would be submerged.

These regions were controlled by the Monster Side—their cities and towns would be drowned, and their railways, highways, and bridges obliterated.

For the Human Forces, however, it would have virtually no impact.

In the Southern Continent, their deployments consisted only of the Great Wall and the Scrap Zone.

And the Scrap Zone’s high-rise cities had already been destroyed by the Earth Tremors of the Giants.

“As long as the Human Forces destroy the Raging Wave Super Dam, the Monstrous Civilizations of eastern Southern Continent will suffer devastating losses,” Albert concluded.

Li Ye, however, was less optimistic.

“What humans can think of, monsters can think of too,” he said. “They will surely station heavy forces to defend the Raging Wave Super Dam, won’t they?”