Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
“City Lord! We’ve struck a fortune this time! The City Lord is indeed wise!”
“That’s right, that’s right. The City Lord is truly a brilliant strategist!”
When the residents of the city saw the ore field in the square, they all let out joyous cries.
After advancing for tens of minutes, the Luo Yang Mobile City was completely out of danger. Wang Cheng ran into the control room excitedly from outside and came to Luo En’s side. He said excitedly, “City Lord! We have lost a lot of shells this time, but the ore field is enough to make up for our losses!”
“Let’s go! Let’s see how much ore there is in that ore field!” Luo En stood up from his chair and said happily. The joy on his face was evident.
With that said, Luo En walked towards the square.
“Yes, City Lord!” Wang Cheng replied respectfully and followed closely behind.
The two of them soon arrived at the square.
At this moment, in the square, a group of people had surrounded the ore field and were chatting. They were probably making guesses on how much ore the ore field could yield.
“Greetings, City Lord!”
The crowd saw Luo En approaching and greeted him respectfully. They parted to both sides to give way to Luo En.
Luo En nodded indifferently and came to the side of the ore field.
With such a huge ore field before one’s eyes, the visual impact was beyond words. Luo Ee could not help but exclaim in shock.
This was an ore field covered by a layer of special black stone. The ore was in the center of the ore field. As the slab of black stone was made of special material, it was impossible to see the ore inside clearly. Specialized machines would be required to cut away the external slab of black stone. However, by the size of the ore field, the amount of ore inside could be roughly estimated.
“Such a huge piece should have more than 30 tonnes of ore… The risk was worth it,” Luo En muttered as he carefully inspected the ore field in front of him.
After he had walked around the ore field once more, Luo En eventually gave the order, “Wang Cheng, take it for cutting!”
After saying that, he took the lead and walked toward the cutting zone.
“Yes!”
Wang Cheng replied respectfully. Then, he came to the machine that had been prepared beforehand and sat inside.
As Wang Cheng pressed the start button, the machine immediately let out a rumbling sound. Wisps of white smoke emerged from the pipe above the machine.
Wang Cheng manipulated the control stick, pressing it down, and a pair of mechanical arms extended out from both sides of the machine. Then, Wang Cheng held the control stick, moving it up and down, and the ore field on the ground was grabbed firmly by the mechanical arms under Wang Cheng’s control.
After another operation, the machine slowly moved toward the cutting zone.
Soon, everyone arrived at the cutting zone.
The entire cutting zone was very spacious, with only two tall cutting machines and some necessary machines.
Wang Cheng’s gaze swept to Luo En. After seeing Luo En nod, he moved downward and pressed down the control stick. Immediately, the mechanical arms on both sides of the machine placed the firmly grabbed ore field on the cutting machine.
When everything was ready, Luo En came to the side of the cutting machine and pressed the activation switch.
The machine immediately emitted a humming sound as the ore field was sent into the cutting machine in the blink of an eye.
Only the piercing sound of a blade cutting something could be heard. A green light lit up on the cutting machine, indicating that it was working. When the cutting machine was operating, what was happening inside could not be seen. They could only wait for the cutting machine to finish its work and send the ore field out.
“Hey, how much ore do you think this ore field can produce?”
“This… is hard to say, but it should be at least twenty tonnes!”
“I’ve taken a close look. I think it’s more than thirty tonnes!”
“I think it’s forty tonnes! If you don’t believe me, let’s make a bet!”
“Fine, let’s bet. Who’s afraid!”
The surrounding residents had all started to speculate about the amount of ore and even made bets.
“Alright. Let’s just wait for the result,” Wang Cheng, who saw the situation was about to turn chaotic, spoke just in time.
Thus, everyone waited with anticipation.
At this moment, Luo En was not idle either. He planned to continue to purchase a few design blueprints for small detectors as well as the design blueprints for drones. Now that he had the most important gold ore for producing drones, he was only waiting for the design blueprints.
With this in mind, Luo En immediately opened the system panel. He clicked on it a few times with his hands and bought the design blueprints for five small detectors and two drones. Originally, Luo En had wanted to buy a few more design blueprints for drones, but there was too little gold ore. Making two drones would already exhaust the gold ore he had just obtained.
Beep!
[Merchant City System: Purchase successful!]
Along with the mechanical voice of the system and the reduction of Evolution Points on Luo En’s personalized panel, seven yellow blueprints appeared in the storage space of the System.
Luo En could be regarded as somewhat rich now. He did not even blink at the purchase of seven design blueprints.
Now everything was ready, he just had to wait for the cutting machine to finish its work.
A few hours passed. Then, the cutting machine let out a rumble and a red light lit up. Finally, the cutting had been completed.
“It’s finally done…” Luo En, who was lying on his chair, muttered as he stood up.
Everyone looked over.
A piece of ore with a lustrous surface had come out on the conveyor belt. At the same time, the screen on the cutting machine displayed the amount of ore after the cutting.
32 tonnes of iron ore! It was close to what Luo En and the others had guessed!
When Luo En saw the results, he smiled happily and said, “Wang Cheng, use the ore before us and those in the Resource Room to make five small detectors and two drones!”
As he spoke, Luo En took out the seven yellow blueprints from the System’s storage space and handed them to Wang Cheng.
“Yes! I will not disappoint the City Lord!”
Wang Cheng received the seven design blueprints from Luo En excitedly and took his leave respectfully.
He had not expected Luo En to give him seven design blueprints all at once. It was already very good for a small mobile city to have a design blueprint of their own, yet they had so many design blueprints and even multiple design blueprints for drones.
Although he could not understand why the blueprints were all single-use, this had not affected his worship of Luo En. In his eyes, Luo En had become more and more mystic.
After giving the instructions, Luo En turned round and made his way toward the control room.
In the control room, Luo En looked at the big screen before him. As Luo En’s right hand clicked on the upper left corner of the screen, a map was enlarged on the screen.
The entire map was divided into five regions: north, south, east, west, and central. The five regions each had their own unique characteristics. Some regions were abundant in copper ore, some were abundant in iron ore, some were abundant in silver ore, and some were abundant in gold ore. Of course, this was only relative to the other regions.
The closer to the central region, the more abundant the resources were. Of course, there would be more mobile cities encountered there and the friction would also be greater. Although they would not generally fight each other to the death, if the difference in strength was too great, the weaker side would be reduced to pulp. Hence, the central region was full of powerful large mobile cities.
The place where Luo En was currently in was on the edge of the eastern region. The resources here were extremely poor, yet the number of mutated creatures were extremely large. In order to develop the mobile city, he would have to get closer to the central region because only that region had the ample resources to sustain the development of mobile cities. Thus, the closer to the central region, the more lively it would be, unlike the other places where the land was vast and the people sparse.
Luo En intended to set off from the east and move closer toward the central region.
After choosing the direction, Luo En moved the control stick and steered the mobile city, advancing rapidly in the direction he had chosen.
“Where is City Lord Luo going?”
Just when Luo En had steered the mobile city ahead for a few minutes, a frivolous voice could be heard coming from the distance.
Following which, the ground shook. A mobile city, several times larger than the Luo Yang Mobile City, with the words “White Tremor Mobile City” engraved, had moved rapidly from a distance and entered everyone’s sight.
“White Tremor Mobile City?”
As Luo En looked at the mobile city coming over from the distance, a glint was seen in his eyes..