Chapter 257: Nation-level Construction on the Super Mobile Giant Island
Li Ye could not help freezing for a mont.
“1.8 million Crystal Coins is not a small amount. It has to go through layer-by-layer approval,” Albert patiently explained. “As a world-class organization, the Apocalypse Sect maintains extrely strict control over the sources of its funds.”
He then inford Li Ye of so good news.
The series of aerial combat-type Mobile Warrior accessory Design Blueprints Li Ye previously requested had already been prepared.
As soon as the approval process for the 1.8 million Crystal Coins was completed, Li Ye would be able to use the funds to purchase those Design Blueprints.
In truth, 1.8 million Crystal Coins was still far from enough.
Li Ye would additionally need to sell the batch of Level 3 Design Blueprints he had obtained earlier to the Apocalypse Sect.
“Understood. Thank you for the information, Bishop Albert.” He nodded.
After chatting with Albert for a while, Li Ye unexpectedly learned sothing.
Albert was currently also in Oceanic Azure Continent.
The reason was because the human side had indeed already begun construction on the Super Mobile Giant Island.
According to the expectations of the upper leadership, they planned to establish a modernized nation upon the giant island.
Naturally, a project of such scale required the three major human organizations to dispatch enormous numbers of personnel from within their own organizations.
And Albert, as a Bishop, was among them.
“What? Your Tomorrow Alliance is coming to Oceanic Azure Continent too?” Albert asked in surprise.
He stated that Li Ye could conveniently et up with him there, and the Design Blueprints Li Ye required could also be delivered directly upon the giant island.
Li Ye readily agreed.
He needed Albert to act as an interdiary so he could et with the higher-ups of the Apocalypse Sect and learn about the Inner World and the Elental Planes.
“If nothing unexpected happens, we’ll probably et within a few hours, Bishop Albert,” he said.
Albert burst into loud laughter.
“Hurry over! The sights here will absolutely leave you stunned!”
Just before ending the call, Li Ye suddenly realized sothing.
“Right, Bishop Albert. Is Archbishop Heath still carrying out escort missions in South Glazed Continent?” he asked.
“I’m not too sure about that,” Albert answered. “When you arrive, you can ask the Apocalypse Sect higher-ups about his whereabouts.”
The call ended there, and Li Ye continued handling the matters at hand.
The Tier 4 City Structure Upgrade Blueprint was used to upgrade the Textile Factory, enabling production of Level 4 Fabric.
As for the Level 4 Tire Design Blueprint, Li Ye planned to first produce Level 4 tires for the Stardust and the Iron Whale, since those two Mobile Cities had comparatively greater demands for speed.
anwhile, regarding the Tier 4 Naval Combat Vehicle Upgrade Blueprint, Li Ye hesitated over whether to use it on destroyers or submarines.
In the end, he made his decision.
“I’ll use it on the destroyers.”
Several hours later, the Tomorrow Alliance passed through the wormhole and arrived at Oceanic Azure Continent.
Strictly speaking, however, it was now more accurate to call it the Oceanic Azure Archipelago.
Because of the activities of the Emperor Beast Jormungandr, the continent had already been shattered beyond recognition.
Stretching before them were countless fragnts of the continent—or rather, newly ford islands.
The tens of thousands of islands resembled a chessboard smashed apart by the gods, scattered chaotically across the sea.
Looking into the distance, massive fractured islands the size of cities tilted into the ocean, exposing honeycomb-like sea caves within their cliffs. Smaller chunks of land no larger than millstones drifted like discarded ga pieces, intermittently appearing and disappearing amid the waves.
Li Ye imdiately took out the Level 4 satellite phone.
“Hello, Bishop Albert. We’ve arrived.”
Albert then provided the location of the Super Mobile Giant Island.
After completing their water-navigation modifications, the six Mobile Cities of the Tomorrow Alliance leisurely advanced toward the destination.
Twelve hours later, everyone arrived.
A strange expression imdiately appeared in Zhou Xing and the others’ eyes.
Because the sea before them was completely empty. There was not a single island in sight.
“Did Bishop Albert give the wrong coordinates, Alliance Leader?” Fang Yong exclaid in frustration.
Li Ye smiled and shook his head.
“I think the island they constructed probably has camouflage systems installed. The giant island is right in front of us.”
Just as he predicted, when the Tomorrow Alliance slowly moved forward, a ripple suddenly distorted the air over the distant sea, and one corner of the island silently erged.
There was clearly a newly constructed harbor there.
The mont Li Ye saw it clearly, he was instantly shocked.
Because the scale of this harbor was large enough to accommodate dozens of Mobile Cities simultaneously docking there.
Looking into the distance, the gigantic harbor resembled a chanical beast crouching at the boundary between sea and land, while hundreds of gantry cranes ford a steel forest that cut jagged silhouettes across the horizon.
Within the main shipping channel, nurous Level 1 and Level 2 Mobile Cities were slowly entering their berths.
The six Mobile Cities of the Tomorrow Alliance gradually sailed into the harbor.
Before arriving at the giant island, Li Ye had originally been sowhat worried. After all, the Tomorrow was already a Level 4 Mobile City, and its sheer size was enormous. He feared the giant island might not be capable of accommodating it.
But after seeing the harbor’s docking areas, he realized his concerns had been completely unnecessary.
There were docking positions specifically designed for Level 4 Mobile Cities.
“Alliance Leader, just what level of Mobile Cities can this giant island accommodate?” Yang Zheng could not help asking.
Li Ye carefully observed the size of the docking areas to obtain the answer.
The largest docking areas were designed for Level 4 Mobile Cities, aning the highest level of Mobile City the giant island could support was Level 4.
Not only Mobile Cities were present in the harbor.
There were also large numbers of fleets, bounty hunters, and survivors.
So planned to permanently settle here in the future, while others intended to use the Mobile Giant Island as a base to explore the wastelands.
Half an hour later, Albert arrived by helicopter to et Li Ye.
The mont they t, he handed a box over to Li Ye.
“Hold onto this carefully.”
“What is it, Bishop Albert?” Li Ye asked curiously.
“The Mobile Warrior accessory Design Blueprints you’ve been dreaming about,” Albert answered. “The full set.”
Li Ye’s breathing imdiately halted as he excitedly opened the box.
Inside were neatly arranged stacks of Level 4 Design Blueprints.
“Thank you, Bishop Albert,” he said excitedly.
Albert rely shrugged.
“You earned these yourself. Why thank ? The total value of this batch of Design Blueprints is 2.8 million Crystal Coins—and that’s already after a discount. So you still owe the Apocalypse Sect another 1 million.”
“......”
After regaining his composure, Li Ye smiled and nodded.
For the current him, 1 million Crystal Coins truly did not amount to much anymore. The Tomorrow Alliance’s money-making speed was still quite fast.
It had to be said that the world-class human organizations truly were excellent as trade interdiaries across the wastelands.
Otherwise, gathering this entire set of aerial combat accessories would have taken the Tomorrow Alliance an absurdly long ti.
If he relied solely on Level 4 Monster drops and external trade, Li Ye estimated it would take several months of nonstop effort.
The task of selling that batch of Level 3 Design Blueprints had anwhile been handed over to the Tomorrow’s newly established Trade Departnt.
The responsibilities of the Trade Departnt mbers were not as simple as buying and selling goods.
They also needed to understand market conditions across the wastelands, know the approximate values of high-level Design Blueprints, and understand how to negotiate prices while dealing with the three major organizations.
Li Ye led Albert on a tour of the newly upgraded Level 4 Tomorrow while the two chatted along the way.
“How long does your Tomorrow Alliance plan to stay here?” Albert asked.
After pondering briefly, Li Ye gave his answer.
“Probably only one day,” he said.
A trace of surprise appeared in Albert’s eyes.
“You’re in that much of a hurry?”
Li Ye slowly nodded.
The main reason was still to reach Breathsoil Continent as quickly as possible, gain control over multiple regions, and gather resources.
Not only that, the Tomorrow Alliance also needed to locate and attack Level 4 Monsters in order to kill them and obtain dropped resources.
“Everything is for the sake of developing faster,” he thought.
As he spoke, he turned to glance back toward the docking area.
At this mont, the six Mobile Cities of the Tomorrow Alliance were quietly gathered together in rare stillness. Under normal circumstances, each city usually had its own separate tasks to handle.
Zhou Xing and the other two also hurried over.
“Then please give us a tour of this island, Bishop Albert,” Li Ye said.
Unexpectedly, the transportation this ti was not by vehicle, but by helicopter.
“This island is truly enormous. If we relied only on ground vehicles, we wouldn’t be able to finish touring it in a single day,” Albert explained.
“So just how large is it exactly?” Li Ye asked instinctively.
Albert briefly introduced the giant island.
Its na was Holand Island, and its total area reached 2,110 square kiloters.
“2,110 square kiloters?” Li Ye exclaid in shock.
If he rembered correctly, Clouddream Island, which he previously boarded, had only been 83 square kiloters in size.
“Of course. We’re planning to establish an actual nation on this island. How could it possibly be small?” Albert answered.
According to the human side’s plans, Holand Island was expected to eventually contain three major cities, seven dium-sized cities, and more than twenty small cities and towns.
Its terrain allocation would be divided as follows:
Urban Construction Areas: 30%
Agricultural and Green Areas: 40%
Water and Vegetation Preservation Areas: 20%
Infrastructure and Transportation: 10%
As everyone boarded the helicopter, the harbor of Holand Island was once again covered in camouflage and vanished without a trace across the sea.
Inside the helicopter, Albert enthusiastically introduced the island to everyone while Zhou Xing and the others listened and nodded repeatedly.
anwhile, Li Ye carefully fell into thought.
If one wanted to construct an aerial Mobile Island, four foundational core components were required.
Anti-gravity Core.
Levitation Engine Array.
Ecological Do.
Island Structural Frawork.
Given Holand Island’s scale, it was probably at least Level 5.
Thinking of this, he subconsciously raised his head toward the sky.
Sure enough, an Ecological Do clearly existed there.
Looking into the distance, the Ecological Do resembled a giant crystal hemisphere embedded upon the island.
Following Li Ye’s gaze, Albert noticed this and imdiately began explaining it to everyone.
The Ecological Do possessed a shocking diater of forty kiloters and stood over five hundred ters tall. It was assembled from hundreds of thousands of hexagonal high-strength composite glass panels capable of independently adjusting light transmission and ultraviolet filtering intensity.
This ant it was sufficient to cover most of Holand Island.
Li Ye carefully examined it.
The do’s foundation was supported by a three-layer concentric titanium-alloy frawork deeply embedded within the giant island’s rock strata, while the surface was covered in biomitic solar panels capable of adjusting their light-absorption angles according to day and night cycles.
The titanium-alloy frawork was incomparably gigantic, resembling spears thrust upward from the earth and converging perfectly at geotric angles high in the sky.
Following the titanium-alloy frawork upward, Li Ye also spotted a spiral-shaped central tower—
The convergence point of the titanium-alloy supports.
The circular platform installed atop the tower resembled a floating crown, surrounded by twelve spherical weather regulators constantly spraying ionized mist to maintain the internal climate balance.
The Ecological Do’s primary function was maintaining a precisely operating biomitic weather system within the giant island.
As needed, it could simulate environnts ranging from temperate forests to tropical rainforests, wetlands, grasslands, deserts, and even oceanic climates.
Gentle breezes.
Light rainfall.
Seasonal changes.
Everything was included.
The top layer of the do was embedded with a dynamic spectrum regulation layer capable of simulating natural sunlight variations and even recreating the angles of sunrise and sunset.
At night, the inner walls of the do emitted soft cold light to simulate moonlight and starlight, maintaining proper day-night cycles.
Compared to sea-based Mobile Islands, aerial Mobile Islands absolutely required Ecological Dos because the climate conditions at high altitudes were far harsher than those at sea level.
“So this should be Level 5-scale, right? Bishop Albert?” Li Ye asked.
Albert nodded.
“That’s right.”
Li Ye imdiately asked another question that interested him greatly.
“How exactly are you constructing the island structural frawork?”
Among the classic four-piece set for island construction, the Anti-gravity Core and Levitation Engine Array were comparatively manageable.
The Ecological Do and island structural frawork, however, were enormously troubleso.
The forr needed to be constructed above the island, while the latter had to be established throughout the island’s interior—
Otherwise, once the island beca airborne, it would collapse and be destroyed.
Albert chuckled.
“Look over there.”
Li Ye turned his head and witnessed an astonishing scene.
There were countless Level 0.5 Mobile Cities busily moving about there, all carrying various engineering facilities.
From an aerial perspective, the entire Holand Island was being split apart by endless arcs of welding light flashing one after another.
The Level 0.5 Mobile Cities were forging new bones for this colossal giant.
Beneath the sea, even more Level 0.5 Mobile Cities modified for underwater operations sward around the underside of the giant island like a hive of bees. They dragged titanium-alloy trusses hundreds of ters long, weaving them beneath the island like silver threads stitching together a wound.
Many of the Level 0.5 Mobile Cities carried gigantic electromagnetic rivet guns spraying blue-violet electric sparks while anchoring truss joints into the bedrock beneath the island.
Every impact generated shockwaves that rippled through the surrounding clouds.
Under the orderly coordination of the Level 0.5 Mobile Cities, the underside of the island gradually beca covered in a web-like tallic frawork, as though the giant island were growing a chanical exoskeleton.
Another group of Level 0.5 Mobile Cities operated along the island’s sides, mainly responsible for installing adaptive hydraulic support pillars.
Whenever a support pillar successfully connected into place, pulsating blue patterns illuminated across its surface like newly implanted nerve endings becoming activated.
“......Bishop Albert, exactly how many Level 0.5 Mobile Cities did you deploy to construct this island?” Li Ye asked.
“Over a thousand, probably,” Albert answered casually. “If we had to manufacture them from scratch, we definitely couldn’t gather this many in such a short ti. Most of them were transferred over from the batch previously sent to Coldpole Continent.”
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