Mobile Shelter

Chapter 134 Taking a Different Approach

Since farm space can gain upgrade experience by breaking down crops, then who can say that this patch of seaweed in front of us isn't a crop?

After all, in farm games, planting pasture not only grants experience, but it is also one of the most cost-effective crops in the game.

Looking at the seemingly endless seaweed in front of him, Dong Qi thought that if he had a farm space, he could gain experience by decomposing these seaweed.

That would allow Dong Qi to quickly get through the extremely awkward initial development period of the farm.

After all, a plot of land of only ten square meters can only yield a harvest of about a hundred kilograms of potatoes, and this process takes at least two or three months.

Now that the idea had taken root in his mind, Dong Qi no longer hesitated and directly controlled the newly installed mechanical arm on his natal vehicle.

The three claws at the end of the robotic arm open, and the robotic claws, originally used to grab objects, instantly transform into a highly efficient lawnmower after rotating at high speed.

And most importantly, because the vehicle can freely pick up unsecured items within a five-meter radius.

Therefore, after the mechanical claw cuts the seaweed, Dong Qi does not need to get out of the car to pick it up.

This means that as long as Dong Qi drives through the seaweed like a combine harvester, all the harvested seaweed will be sent directly to the farm's warehouse.

At this moment, Dong Qi not only had this idea in mind, but also made a corresponding work plan.

Immediately afterward, Dong Qi no longer hesitated and began to test whether the core of this plan was successful.

The core of this scheme is that farm space can gain upgrade experience by decomposing seaweed.

Once it's confirmed that the farm can indeed gain experience by breaking down seaweed, then even if the efficiency of harvesting seaweed with a robotic arm is unsatisfactory, Dong Qi can still acquire seaweed in large quantities through other methods.

Under Dong Qi's control, only a pair of mechanical arms extended from both sides of the vehicle. After these two mechanical arms extended forward, the mechanical claws instantly opened 180 degrees, and the three mechanical claws became a plane.

As the mechanical claw spun rapidly, two incredibly sharp turntables instantly appeared in front of the vehicle.

As the vehicle slowly moved forward, the dense seaweed in front of it was instantly cut off by the rotating mechanical claw.

The seaweed that was broken by the mechanical claw was collected into the farm's warehouse by the dedicated vehicle before it was thrown away.

Dong Qi did not stop there. He continued to harvest a lot of seaweed before driving his car away from the seaweed patch.

Don't be fooled by the fact that Dong Qi just drove his car into the seaweed field for a short drive.

However, during this process, not only were the sides of the vehicle attacked by small mutated marine creatures, but the rotating mechanical claws in front also shattered the bodies of several small mutated marine creatures.

The sight of blood-stained seaweed in the farm space revealed to Dong Qi that some small, mutated marine creature had definitely appeared in front of the vehicle, blocking its way.

Those small, mutated marine creatures never imagined that they would be as fragile as paper in the face of the high-speed rotating mechanical claws.

Once his vehicle was far away from the seaweed thicket, Dong Qi immediately focused his mind and retrieved the seaweed stored in the warehouse within the farm space.

Then, with a thought from Dong Qi, the seaweed that appeared in the farm space seemed to be weathered away, gradually disappearing from its ends.

As the seaweed continued to disappear, although there was no clear data indication, Dong Qi sensed that the farm space was indeed gaining upgrade experience by decomposing seaweed, just like decomposing ordinary crops.

Although compared to crops, the experience gained from decomposing seaweed is negligible.

However, compared to the extremely difficult-to-obtain crops at that time, the value of seaweed was negligible.

At this point, harvesting seaweed was much simpler for Dong Qi than harvesting wheat fields with a combine harvester.

Sitting in the passenger seat, Masako Suzuki was somewhat puzzled by Dong Qi's inexplicable actions, but she did not ask him anything.

After Dong Qi started to get busy, Suzuki Masako wisely became invisible, and even sitting in the passenger seat, she did not affect Dong Qi in any way.

After confirming that experience could be gained by decomposing seaweed in the farm space, the seaweed that Dong Qi originally loathed naturally became a hot commodity in his eyes.

However, before Dong Qi could harvest the seaweed on a large scale, he had to find a way to deal with the giant mutated marine creatures that were either wandering around or resting in the seaweed as soon as possible.

Through careful observation, Dong Qi determined that as long as the three mutated marine creatures in the vicinity were dealt with, the subsequent seaweed harvesting operation would no longer be affected.

However, those three giant mutated marine creatures were all deep in the seaweed, at the junction of land and sea.

However, the three giant mutated marine creatures did not stand together; instead, they were spaced quite a distance apart from each other.

At this moment, Dong Qi was also using the electromagnetic cannon for the first time after his vehicle was upgraded.

So, to add a touch of ceremony, Dong Qi directly chose the precision shooting mode.

As Dong Qi selected the attack mode in the intelligent hub, a phantom drone launch platform suddenly appeared on the top of his vehicle.

As the virtual drone launch platform gradually solidified, the two drones, after flying away from the virtual launch platform, gradually began to solidify.

Both drones that were launched were professional reconnaissance drones.

The standard way this drone is used is to provide detailed on-site information to the command center.

Furthermore, even in the face of natural disasters, and even in shooting at extremely long distances, the accuracy of the hits can be maximized with the intelligence support of this drone.

As the two drones approached, the giant mutated marine creature, which had been resting, was completely unaware of any danger.

Through the car's screen, Dong Qi was able to clearly see the texture details on the skin of this giant mutated marine creature.

Then, the giant mutated marine creature shrank again on the huge screen on the control panel of the vehicle.

To Dong Qi's surprise, the intelligent central processing unit then used data calculations to display the complete form of the giant mutated marine creature on the screen.

Even though the lower half of the giant mutated marine creature was completely hidden in the seaweed, the intelligent hub was still able to directly model it using the data through various scanning methods of the vehicle-mounted radar.

What surprised Dong Qi even more was that the intelligent central processing unit was able to use the information obtained from different radar scans and big data analysis to determine the vital parts of this giant mutated marine creature.

Looking at the red dot marked on the screen, Dong Qi was filled with emotion.

Dong Qi originally thought that the function of the intelligent central hub was only to determine the trajectory of the electromagnetic gun through calculation.

It's like the trajectory of the cue ball when you aim in a billiards game.

But no one could have imagined that by simply using different scanning methods of vehicle-mounted radar, big data analysis could roughly determine the vital parts of the giant mutated marine creature's body.

It should be noted that the giant mutated marine creatures that landed at this time were not actually the same species.

Therefore, unless one is a marine biologist, it is impossible to estimate the vital parts of a giant, mutated marine creature's body by combining previously learned knowledge of marine life with its appearance.

Or, by frequently fighting against a certain type of giant mutated marine creature, one can roughly figure out the vital parts of that giant mutated marine creature's body through repeated battles.

Although he already knew that the intelligent central processing unit was very powerful, Dong Qi did not expect it to reach this level.

Looking at the two flashing red areas on the screen, Dong Qi did not feel rebellious and deliberately ignored the two prompts.

Instead, I followed the prompts and honestly pressed the launch button.

As Dong Qi pressed the firing button, a phantom twin-barreled electromagnetic cannon appeared on the top of his vehicle. Then, when the two solid projectiles flew out of the barrel, they produced a sound that broke the sound barrier.

Ordinary vehicles simply cannot counteract the recoil generated when firing an electromagnetic gun.

However, for the vehicle that has evolved many times, the slight recoil generated when the electromagnetic gun is fired has no effect whatsoever.

Without any fancy firing process, the two solid bullets, after leaving the electromagnetic cannon, seemed to teleport, and before anyone could react, they had already pierced the skin of the giant mutated marine creature.

To Dong Qi's surprise, the two solid bullets actually pierced through the enormous body of the giant mutated marine creature.

Although Dong Qi did not see it with his own eyes, he could see two holes in the front of the giant mutated marine creature's body that allowed light to pass through.

This would reveal the extent of the damage suffered by the giant mutated marine creature.

The giant mutated marine creature that was attacked by the electromagnetic cannon showed no reaction whatsoever after being hit.

Looking at the blood flowing continuously from the giant mutated marine creature, Dong Qi guessed that the creature must have died instantly after being hit by the electromagnetic cannon.

Seeing this, Dong Qi no longer hesitated, switched the robotic arm to mowing mode again, and drove directly towards the already dead giant mutated marine creature.

Data obtained through continuous scanning by drones in the sky showed that the mortality rate of the giant mutated marine creature, according to the intelligent control center, had reached 99.99%.

When Dong Qi drove up to the giant mutated marine creature, he found that there were already many smaller mutated marine creatures around, attracted by the blood flowing from the giant mutated marine creature, constantly moving closer to him.

Even with seaweed providing cover, Dong Qi noticed some small, mutated marine creatures lying on the ground, drinking the blood that had accumulated into small puddles.

Seeing this situation, in order to reduce trouble, Dong Qi drove closer again, and then waited until his vehicle had reached the maximum collection range of supplies.

They directly stored the corpse of the giant mutated marine creature that was already dead in front of them into the warehouse of the farm space.

However, Dong Qi never expected that the originally spacious farm warehouse would become somewhat crowded after storing the corpse of this giant mutated marine creature.

It was only at this point that Dong Qi belatedly realized that no matter how large a volume of one thousand cubic meters could seem, in fact, it was just a 10*10*10 cube in terms of the formula.

However, if you remove the unusable parts of this giant mutated marine creature, you would only have less than a third of it left.

Of course, this amount of meat would be enough to sustain Dong Qi and Suzuki Masako for a long time.

The small mutated marine creatures that had been drinking with their heads down, their blood flowing on the ground, suddenly went berserk after discovering that the giant mutated marine creature in front of them had suddenly disappeared.

The small, mutated marine creatures that had been drinking the blood from the land suddenly began to swell.

Originally small mutated marine creatures, only the size of an arm, have inexplicably swelled several times their original size. Some of these small mutated marine creatures have even grown to a size comparable to that of a brown bear.

Immediately afterwards, the small, mutated marine creatures that were already berserk began to attack all living things around them without any regard for anything else.

After Dong Qi retrieved the corpse of the giant mutated marine creature, he immediately reversed his vehicle.

So when those small, mutated marine creatures began to rampage and attack the creatures around them, the vehicle was already far away from the chaotic area.

Seeing the small, mutated marine creatures that had gone mad, Dong Qi decided to abandon his original plan and leave for the time being.

After all, this was Dong Qi's first time hunting a giant mutated marine creature, so everything was done in the safest way possible.

In fact, even if Dong Qi's natal vehicle did not advance, those small mutated marine creatures that went berserk would not cause any damage to the vehicle's shell.

Even if Dong Qi keeps the car completely sealed and doesn't let any breath out of the car, those small mutated marine creatures that have already gone mad will not attack his car. They will only treat his car as an inanimate object like a stone.

When Dong Qi collected the giant mutated marine creature's corpse, he did not expect this situation to occur.

In fact, if Dong Qi had enough patience, he could have waited for the battle on the distant battlefield to end. At that time, Dong Qi would only need to send out mechanical wolves equipped with heavy machine guns to easily clean up the battlefield.

Even if Dong Qi were to reap the benefits, all he would gain would be a pile of small, mutated marine creatures that had died after undergoing a second mutation, the type of which was of unknown edibility.

And most importantly, Dong Qi could not predict how long this battle would last.

Since that's the case, Dong Qi decided not to stay any longer and drove away from there.

It has been confirmed that killing the giant mutated marine creature will not provide Dong Qi with a stable environment for harvesting seaweed.

Given this, Dong Qi decided not to risk venturing deeper into the seaweed thicket to kill those giant mutated marine creatures.

Instead, they harvest only on the outskirts of the seaweed beds, just like ordinary people on the island.

Anyway, the coastline of Daxia is very long, so Dong Qi doesn't need to worry that his repeated travels in the same area will attract the attention of giant mutated marine creatures deep in the seaweed.

Now that he had a detailed plan in mind, Dong Qi only needed to execute it.

Because Dong Qi was only harvesting the outermost seaweed along the coastline, even if he encountered attacks from mutated marine creatures, he would only encounter small mutated marine creatures.

It wouldn't attract the attention of the giant, mutated marine creatures that linger deep within the seagrass.

The harvesting process went very smoothly. Just as Dong Qi was calculating how much farm experience he could gain from breaking down the harvested seaweed, he suddenly heard the sounds of battle coming from afar.

Upon hearing the noise, Dong Qi immediately thought of the young man he had encountered earlier.

Upon noticing the commotion in the distance, Dong Qi did not continue forward but instead stopped in place.

Then, controlling the two drones that had not been retrieved, they took off and increased their altitude. Once they confirmed that their altitude was high enough to avoid most ground attacks, they slowly approached the battlefield area ahead.

As the drone approached, the battlefield situation ahead was instantly projected onto the display screen of the vehicle.

Compared to the heavy firearms used by the official professional hunting teams of the Great Xia Dynasty, this free hunting squad uses only melee weapons.

Dong Qi looked at those people. Even though they were holding huge, heavy weapons, those weapons were like toothpicks in the hands of humans when facing the giant mutated marine creature.

Unless you can accurately strike a vital point, ordinary melee weapons will not cause much damage to the giant mutated marine creature compared to its enormous body.

When faced with giant, mutated marine creatures, the size of a human is roughly the same as that of a grasshopper compared to an average person.

On the screen, Dong Qi saw a burly man with a full back, his hands tightly gripping two weapons that looked like fire axes, somehow jumping onto the back of the giant mutated marine creature.

He then used a one-handed axe to cleave into the body of the giant mutated sea creature as a fulcrum.

He then grabbed the axe handle, which was already embedded in the body of the giant mutated marine creature, with one hand, and swung it around rapidly with the other.

As another one-handed axe continued to cleave, pieces of torn flesh were constantly thrown to the ground from the wounds of the giant mutated sea creature.

This method of cutting flesh with a dull knife, while quickly killing the giant mutated sea creature, was an extreme form of torture, preventing it from fully engaging in the battle.

Manbeige wasn't the only one standing on the body of the giant mutated marine creature.

Several other individuals used different methods, employing melee weapons, to secure themselves to the back of the giant mutated sea creature, preventing it from throwing them off when it moved around.