122: Chapter 122 Advancement Completed! A Two-Hundred-Meter Steel Behemoth Descends on the Wasteland

The growth speed in the final forty-four seconds was thirty percent faster than the previous one hundred and thirty-six seconds.

The color of the blue light shifted from violet-blue to pure white.

The pure white light illuminated the entire Polaris from the inside out, making the outline of its internal steel skeleton visible from a hundred meters away.

In the final thirty seconds, the vehicle's length surged from one hundred and fifty meters to one hundred and eighty meters.

One hundred and ninety meters.

Two hundred meters.

The width expanded from fifty-five meters to sixty-five meters.

Seventy-five meters.

Eighty meters.

The height shot up from twenty-three meters to twenty-eight meters.

Thirty meters.

The body of the Polaris stabilized within the final ten seconds.

The rate of expansion began to decrease.

From two meters per second to half a meter per second.

From half a meter per second to zero.

It stopped.

The white light began to fade from its pure white state.

It vanished.

All the light extinguished in the same second.

The entire Rustwind Wasteland plunged into three seconds of total darkness after the light faded.

Then, the engines of the Polaris started.

A single engine could not produce this kind of commotion.

The power system of the entire fortress-level Mobile City ran under load for the first time after completing its upgrade.

The humming sound of steam turbines emanated from the bottom of the fortress.

The steady frequency of the diesel generator sets layered over the turbine sound.

Electricity spread from the generator sets in all directions along thick copper-core cables.

The entire vehicle was powered up.

Every electric light inside the vehicle illuminated in the same second.

The full-spectrum LED light strips inside the roof dome lit up.

The greenhouse space of several thousand square meters beneath the dome was illuminated by warm, simulated sunlight.

Looking from the outside, a steel behemoth two hundred meters long, eighty meters wide, and thirty meters high sat quietly on the ice of the Rustwind Wasteland.

The roof was covered by a wide, transparent dome, and the light from within the dome enveloped the entire fortress in a circle of warm yellow radiance.

The coverage radius of the Wide-Area High-Heat Dispersion Generator expanded from fifty meters to two hundred meters.

A snow-free zone with a two-hundred-meter radius spread out around the fortress.

Accumulated snow melted into water at the boundary of the hot air currents, and steam rose from the boundary line.

The wind and snow curved and bypassed the area two hundred meters away.

The system panel lit up before Lu Chen's eyes.

【City upgrade evolution complete.】

【Polaris has been upgraded to: lv.3 fortress-level Mobile City.】

【Because the host maxed out all sixteen nodes across the four major branches during the Lv.2 stage, this upgrade grants a super-specification bonus reward.】

【Super-specification bonus details: Initial area expanded by 240% compared to standard Lv.3. Internal spatial structure upgraded from the standard two levels to three levels. All equipment in the vehicle expanded proportionally by area. Output efficiency of existing technology nodes increased by 50%.】

【Current vehicle parameters:】

【Total length: 206 meters. Total width: 82 meters. Total height: 31 meters (including the highest point of the dome).】

【Internal usable area: approx. 48,000 square meters (total for three levels).】

【Main engine: Lv.3 steam turbine and diesel-electric hybrid power group, rated power increased by 400% compared to Lv.2.】

【Dome greenhouse area: approx. 14,000 square meters (85% of roof area).】

【Protein synthesizers: 12 units (expanded proportionally by area). Daily production capacity can supply the basic protein needs of approximately 600 people.】

【Wide-Area High-Heat Dispersion Generator: Coverage radius increased to 200 meters.】

【City resident management system has been upgraded to Lv.3.】

【City Lord authorized shield available slots increased to: 10. Currently used: 2/10.】

【Truth Points balance: 8855 points.】

Lu Chen stared at the numbers on the panel for five seconds.

206 meters.

82 meters.

31 meters.

48,000 square meters.

From a twenty-meter-long war chariot to a two-hundred-and-six-meter-long fortress-level Mobile City.

"City Lord!"

Lin Wan's voice came through the communicator.

It was far beyond the close-range shouting of a few meters away.

The sound originated from the communicator transmission, because the planting area was already too far from the cockpit to hear shouting.

"Where are you?"

"I am in the planting area—no, this can no longer be called a planting area!"

Lin Wan's voice was trembling.

"City Lord, this is a field!"

"An entire field!"

"The hydroponic racks have gone from three levels to nine levels, from three meters long to twenty meters long, and there are twelve sets in a row!"

"That dome! I can look up and see the dome; it's over ten meters high!"

"Sunlight! There is sunlight inside the dome!"

Her voice cracked.

"I can see the watermelon seedlings I planted; they are still here, moved from the original small boxes to larger planting troughs, and every single one is alive!"

"The strawberries are alive too!"

Lu Chen did not reply, looking at the upgrade completion report on the panel, his gaze resting on the last line.

【Note: During the upgrade process, the system has comprehensively repaired all existing damage to the vehicle. Repair list as follows:】

【Homogeneous Manganese Steel Ramming Horn: Cracks repaired, strength restored to 100%.】

【Left Mechanical Arm second joint hydraulic line: Replaced, output restored to 100%.】

【Right Mechanical Arm second joint reduction gear set: Gear surfaces recast, precision restored to 100%.】

【Entire vehicle armor plating: Recast according to Lv.3 standards.】

Fully restored to peak condition; all damage sustained during the decisive battle with Ice Thorn Lv.4 was completely repaired by the system force field within one hundred and eighty seconds.

"Zhou Yuan."

Lu Chen switched the communicator to Zhou Yuan's frequency.

"Chief of Staff Zhou Yuan."

The other end of the communicator was silent for four seconds.

"Lu, City Lord Lu Chen."

Zhou Yuan's voice revealed an uncharacteristic loss of composure.

"I am here."

"How big is it?"

"Two hundred and six meters long, eighty-two meters wide, thirty-one meters high."

The breathing on the other end of the communicator paused for two beats.

"A standard lv.3 fortress-level is about one hundred meters long and thirty-five meters wide."

"My specifications exceed the standard."

"I see that."

Zhou Yuan's voice gradually regained its rhythm.

"City Lord Lu Chen, your Lv.3 is more than twice as large as a standard Lv.3."

"More than two times."

"More than two times larger than the iron wall."

"Yes."

Lin Xiao's booming voice came through the communicator.

"Brother Lu Chen! I know you are special!"

Every word Lin Xiao uttered was mixed with heavy, irrepressible panting.

"But I didn't think you were this fucking special!"