Departure, Hunting the Lava Spider Queen!

Morning.

With a heavy roar, Roland Fortress's massive gates slowly opened.

Tomorrow started up and headed into the wild. Behind it followed Conqueror and Azure.

Li Ye stood by the railing, gazing in the direction of Fire Feather Forest.

Before long, a fierce battle would erupt there.

I hope everything goes smoothly, he thought silently.

At this moment, everyone aboard Tomorrow was also making tense preparations. When they heard that three Mobile Cities had formed an alliance to attack a Wild BOSS, they were all stunned.

After the initial shock came tension, fear, excitement, and a host of other emotions.

Beside the cannon, Ning Wen, the newly appointed gunner, nervously adjusted it and occasionally held up his thumb to gauge the distance—before the battle began, he needed to get into fighting shape as quickly as possible.

Hearing movement beside him, Li Ye turned his head and found Lin Wu.

After learning the terms of the agreement, Lin Wu nodded and lightly adjusted his glasses.

"The deal is acceptable. Only an alliance based on mutual benefit can possibly last."

The three Mobile Cities departed, while in Roland Fortress's upper district, someone leaned against a hospital bed and silently watched them through the window.

He was a middle-aged man, pale and frail, with a thin body. From time to time, he covered his mouth and coughed.

He was the lord of Roland Fortress.

What Li Ye and the others did not know was that the reason the lord of Roland Fortress had not personally received them was because he had long been too ill to leave his bed.

Nor was Roland Fortress as impregnable as it appeared. After years of mining, the mine where it stood was nearly exhausted, and the Freshwater Lake had been almost drained. Outside, Crimson Hound watched like a powerful enemy; inside, factions struggled against one another.

Roland Fortress was mainly divided into two factions.

The radicals believed that resources were nearly exhausted and could no longer support so many people. Roland Fortress should return to being a Mobile City and set off again to search for resources. With its current limited supplies, Roland Fortress could take at most five hundred people on the road. Therefore, they wanted to select five hundred people from the fortress and abandon the rest.

The conservatives believed that this method was too cruel and heartless. Leaving aside how to choose fairly, it would very likely cause the conflict to erupt ahead of time. Their current resources could still last for a while, and perhaps they might find another solution.

The reason the conflict had not erupted was that the lord of Roland Fortress still had enough prestige to suppress both factions.

But in truth, he did not have much time left either.

The lord of Roland Fortress quietly watched the three Mobile Cities, occasionally rubbing his forehead as though pondering something.

With a soft sound, the door slowly opened, and the butler entered carrying a tray of medicine.

"It is time for you to take your medicine." He looked gently at the lord he had served for over a decade. "Come to think of it, whenever a Mobile City leaves, you always watch it like this."

The lord coughed softly a few times.

"Old Li, sometimes I often wonder."

He spoke slowly.

"If Roland had not become a fortress back then, would it have traveled farther by now?"

After arriving at their destination, Li Ye, standing in the cockpit, raised a hand to rub his face and took a deep breath.

Everyone aboard Tomorrow was already in position. Since Old Zhou, the Combat Captain, had been sent out as a hostage, Tomorrow's battle would be commanded by him.

As the three Mobile Cities slowly closed in on the forest, the Lava Spider Queen, the Wild BOSS, had already tensed her body and let out wary hisses. The Lava Spiders and Spider Guards surrounding her surged like a tide.

At Li Ye's command, Tomorrow sounded its long whistle three times.

The whistle meant the attack had begun.

In an instant, the cannons of all three Mobile Cities fired at once, and the Lava Spider Queen was swallowed by explosions.

"Excellent! We hit her!" A delighted smile appeared on Ning Wen's lips.

Yet even amid his excitement, his hands continued to tremble faintly.

As Tomorrow's newly appointed gunner, he had thought his first battle would be attacking a Mine or Lumber Yard occupied by monsters. He had never expected his first fight to be against a Wild BOSS.

Tomorrow's two cannons were operated by him and another member of the Combat Personnel. Before firing, Ning Wen had nervously calculated the wind speed, distance, and humidity.

But only a few seconds later, the smile on his lips froze.

After the smoke cleared, the Lava Spiders and Spider Guards had suffered few casualties, while the Lava Spider Queen was almost completely unscathed.

Li Ye's expression grew grave.

This was actually within his expectations. This volley from the Normal Cannons could not achieve much, at most providing suppressive fire. After all, these monsters were Elite, Elite Captain, and Wild BOSS-level creatures. To truly injure them, they would have to rely on Level 1 Firearms, Level 1 Heavy Machine Guns, or even Level 1 Artillery.

The spider swarm had been enraged by the barrage and surged toward them like a tidal wave.

One thousand meters, nine hundred meters, eight hundred meters. The distance between both sides rapidly shrank.

The Lava Spider Queen, charging at the front, suddenly bent her legs and leaped. Her enormous body swept through the air, covering more than five hundred meters in an instant.

No one had expected this. The Lava Spider Queen was now less than three hundred meters away, and everyone could clearly see her hideous, terrifying compound eyes.

For a moment, countless machine-gun bullets and shells rained down on her. Yet these ordinary weapons had little effect.

The Lava Spider Queen charged forward through the barrage, and the remaining distance grew shorter and shorter.

Just then, Conqueror's Level 1 Artillery fired.

A violent explosion erupted on the Lava Spider Queen's body, blasting off one of her side limbs. At the same time, her movements slowed.

"So this is the power of Level 1 Artillery?"

At that moment, Li Ye felt shocked and fortunate, but also intensely envious.

Among the firepower of the three Mobile Cities, only Conqueror's Level 1 Artillery could suppress the Lava Spider Queen, a Wild BOSS.

Li Jin felt the same way.

As lords of Mobile Cities, they both desperately wanted a Level 1 Artillery piece of their own.

Just then, the Lava Spider Queen suddenly made an unexpected move.

She shot out spider silk like cannon shells, rapidly wrapping it around the wheels and tracks of all three Mobile Cities.

The sudden change stunned everyone.

At the same time, the spider swarm surged forward in dense masses.

"Fire! Everyone, fire on the spider swarm!" Li Ye immediately roared.

Tomorrow immediately poured firepower into the spider swarm with abandon, while Azure fired alongside it—the two Mobile Cities' task was to eliminate the spider swarm, while the Lava Spider Queen would be handled by Conqueror, which possessed Level 1 Artillery.

At the same time, the Mechanical Arms of all three Mobile Cities activated and began clearing away the spider silk tangled around their wheels and tracks.