Frostfire Titan Mech City (Please Bookmark)

Chapter 2

Li Mu listened intently for a long while before the thunderous booms from the Thunder Beast Wasteland gradually died down.

Obviously, the battle between the Thunder Beasts and the Fierce Wolves had ended. ＼(＞０＜)／

Li Mu immediately took out his Infrared Telescope to observe. Sure enough, all the Fierce Wolves had left. The Thunder Beast herd was missing three members. One corpse had likely been dragged away by the Fierce Wolves, while the remaining two Thunder Beast corpses were surrounded by the herd.

Thunder Beast Meat was only valuable when fresh, so he could not delay any longer.

Li Mu took out his loudspeaker again. This time, however, it did not broadcast wolf howls, but the sound of human gunfire and artillery. Just days ago, this herd of Thunder Beasts had been hunted by several Spark Hunters. Hearing gunfire now would surely send them fleeing in panic.

Just as expected, the Thunder Beast herd abandoned the two corpses and migrated overnight.

Once the herd had moved a sufficient distance away, Li Mu immediately put away the camouflage cloth and left the underground hole where he had been hiding. From the Seedship within his soul, he retrieved a steam-powered off-road motorcycle, started it up, and sped toward the two Thunder Beast corpses.

The instant he approached, he reached out and touched them, storing both Thunder Beast corpses in the Seedship's cargo hold.

Amid the roar of the engine, Li Mu kicked up a cloud of dust and sped away.

Frostfire Titan Mech City was not particularly large, yet its diameter still exceeded five thousand meters, while its height surpassed one thousand meters.

However, due to the cover of the mist, the outline of such a colossal object could only be seen clearly from several kilometers away. White vapor billowed from chimneys across the steel city. Its interior was brightly lit and densely packed with buildings, while sweeping searchlights barely dispersed the surrounding mist.

The city walls stood nearly a thousand meters above the ground and were packed densely with gun barrels.

Beneath the walls were wheels and tracks several hundred meters high. These were the Titan Mech City's primary means of propulsion.

Although Frostfire City was a Spark City, its conventional power sources were Nuclear Energy and Steam Power.

Steam Power was the main one. Aside from the fact that Spark Energy was precious and needed to be conserved, many mist-covered regions in the Spark World caused electrical power to fail. In contrast, primitive Steam Power had become the Titan Mech City's most widely used conventional power source due to its extraordinary adaptability.

Li Mu arrived at the side of Frostfire City and took an elevator to the city gate, which stood several hundred meters above the ground.

The soldiers guarding the gate checked his ID Card and let him through directly.

However, as he passed through the gate, a beam of red light swept over him.

That red light was the real inspection.

He pushed the motorcycle to a rental shop near the city gate and returned the Steam Motorcycle before heading straight home.

Although Frostfire City was enormous, weapons and factories occupied most of it. The Residential Area was extremely crowded by comparison, and housing in districts far from the factories was especially expensive. After walking for more than half an hour and taking countless turns, he finally returned home.

The fifty-story metal high-rise would not develop any structural problems even after ten thousand years.

If Blue Star's real estate developers saw a building like this, they would definitely flip the table in rage.

After taking the elevator back to his tiny home, Li Mu prepared some simple food.

It was all canned food, the staple diet of the city's residents.

Fortunately, it tasted good, was nutritious, and offered great value for money. Frostfire City did not exploit ordinary residents, because they were the foundation of its population. The larger the population, the more talents could emerge. No one knew whether a genius might appear during the Awakening Ceremony in some poor family.

If they treated ordinary residents badly, how could they retain talented people?

Besides, ordinary necessities were not expensive. Other than limited living space and fewer forms of entertainment, Frostfire City had sound laws in every other regard. Ordinary residents actually lived far more happily than people trapped in the 996 grind in his previous life.

At the very least, housing here was assigned free of charge, and ordinary people's daily work was not particularly demanding.

After eating and drinking his fill, Li Mu lay in a rocking chair and began cultivating the Spark Meditation Technique.

Spark Energy was everywhere in the Spark World. The Spark Meditation Technique was a universal method for tempering one's spirit and sensing Spark Energy. Although he had not yet awakened his Innate Spark and could not absorb Spark Energy, he could use the Spark Meditation Technique to sense the Seedship within his soul.

In the next instant, Li Mu's spiritual consciousness entered the Seedship.

Although only his spiritual consciousness had entered, it possessed a physical form here.

Li Mu went to the cargo hold. He could move freely within it, but the supplies stored there were as though time had stopped. The only way to release something from that frozen state was to hold it in his hands.

The two Thunder Beast corpses were piled in a corner, beside a Chainsaw he had prepared long ago.

After working for most of the day, Li Mu felt that even his spiritual body had become somewhat weak. Only then did he finish dismantling the two Thunder Beasts, sorting their bones, meat, and hides separately. Then, grinning happily, he hugged a bone and a piece of meat before leaving the Seedship. (￣▽￣)／

There were still two months until the Awakening Ceremony.

He had long since completed the Spark Academy curriculum through self-study. He could spend these two months at home eating the two Thunder Beasts.

With the Spark Body Tempering Technique helping him digest and temper his body, he could eat even several thousand jin of meat.

Two months later, Li Mu happily ate the last piece of Thunder Beast Meat.

At that moment, he could not help marveling at humanity's talent for food. Many things in the Spark World tasted terrible but offered tremendous benefits when eaten. For foods like these, HuoZhong Professionals who specialized in cooking had developed all kinds of delicious foolproof seasonings.

Even meat stew made by a complete cooking novice could still be nutritious and delicious enough to leave one wanting more. () Awesome.

After two months of grueling cultivation, the Spark Body Tempering Technique had greatly strengthened his physique.

He could now wield a two-hundred-jin weapon with one arm for an entire hour. This did not refer to weightlifting strength, but to swinging a two-hundred-jin weapon continuously for an hour. That required not only pure strength, but also powerful endurance and bodily resilience—a comprehensive physique. ()

Tomorrow was the day he would awaken his Innate Spark. Nothing was more important today than resting and restoring his energy.

Early the next morning, Li Mu tidied himself up and headed for the Spark Academy.

There were no pedestrians or vehicles on the streets today. Only Trolleybuses traveled back and forth.

Just like the college entrance examination on Blue Star, everything in Frostfire City had to make way for the Awakening Ceremony today.

All Spark Academy students could ride the Trolleybuses for free.

As for everyone else, even HuoZhong Professionals could only travel on foot.

After riding the Trolleybus for nearly half an hour, he finally arrived at Frostfire City's only Spark Academy.

Frostfire City had a population of one hundred and sixty thousand, yet fewer than a thousand youths participated in the Awakening Ceremony each year on average.

The vast majority received extremely weak Origin HuoZhong. Fewer than thirty percent were truly qualified to become HuoZhong Professionals.

Poor Origin HuoZhong talent did not necessarily mean misfortune. At the very least, one could live peacefully in the city and survive for two hundred years.

In contrast, among the fortunate thirty percent with somewhat better Origin HuoZhong talent, their chances of surviving the next ten years were only thirty to sixty percent. Nor were they completely safe afterward. It was simply that after ten years, they had become seasoned veterans who knew how to survive better.

At that moment, a long queue had already formed outside the main entrance of the Spark Academy.

Li Mu waited in line for quite some time before he was allowed into the Spark Academy after his identity had been strictly verified.

Following the crowd through the underground passage beneath the academy's main building, he saw HuoZhong Professionals from Frostfire City's City Lord's Mansion standing guard along the way. Before long, they had descended deep into the Titan Mech City, passing from the surface residential district through the underground factory district, until they finally reached the deepest underground core of the Titan Mech City.