Cave Refuge-Chapter 830 - 536: Major Upgrade

Under Mr. Thompson’s persuasion, Mrs. Thompson went straight to the kitchen to prepare for tonight’s celebration feast.

During dinner, Mrs. Thompson constantly reminded Dong Tianyu to be careful when he was out, and then, with a sigh, she brought up Walker Violet, who had only visited once.

Although she had only met Walker Violet once, Violet was the only female companion Dong Tianyu had ever brought home. Therefore, even after just one meeting, Mrs. Thompson still treated her as a daughter-in-law.

Hearing his mother say this, Dong Tianyu responded to her advice and promised his parents that next time he returned, he would try to bring Walker Violet back with him.

When Mrs. Thompson finished dinner and went to tidy up, Dong Tianyu once again reminded Mr. Thompson to try to purchase more Mysterious Cores and to feed his Companion Spiritual Treasure as soon as possible to help it advance.

Early the next morning, Dong Tianyu had breakfast with his parents, then bid them farewell and left Magic City’s Base Three again.

The first thing he did upon leaving the base was to summon his Companion Spiritual Treasure and then fed it all of his more than three thousand Mysterious Cores.

Just like the last time, after the Companion Spiritual Treasure devoured all the Mysterious Cores, it immediately communicated with Dong Tianyu through consciousness to decide which equipment he wanted to obtain after digesting the Mysterious Cores.

It would take too much effort and time for Dong Tianyu to choose from over three thousand Mysterious Cores one by one.

Fortunately, being his own Companion Spiritual Treasure, with a sudden idea that arose in Dong Tianyu’s mind, what would have been more than three thousand choices were reduced to over a thousand fewer in an instant.

As these choices disappeared, Dong Tianyu’s Companion Spiritual Treasure immediately reverted to its original form, and then, from within the previously empty Companion Spiritual Treasure, various pieces of equipment appeared.

Apart from the basic power devices that already existed, there was a new engine Power Module, and even a display screen appeared in the control cabin. All these independent devices only consumed one Dark Green Trick Nucleus each.

Given the situation, using Dark Green Trick Nuclei on those unnecessary devices would surely be a waste, but when Dong Tianyu had all the equipment that should be equipped on his current Companion Spiritual Treasure’s form fully realized,

Only then did Dong Tianyu realize that the realized equipment could be upgraded, and the prerequisite for starting the equipment upgrade by consuming Mysterious Cores was that the current form’s ordinary vessels needed all the equipment that they should normally be equipped with, realized through the Mysterious Cores.

Theoretically, the lower the level of the Companion Spiritual Treasure, the fewer the pieces of equipment needed to unlock the upgrade.

However, theory is just theory; in practice, even though fewer types of equipment are needed to unlock the upgrade at lower levels, there is a clear upper limit to how much the equipment can be improved.

It’s like the balance pursued in some games, where the level gap between the equipment realized through Dark Green Trick Nuclei cannot be too large.

However, if this were the case, Dong Tianyu felt that the value of the Dark Green Trick Nuclei should far exceed that of the Black Devil Cores.

While the Black Devil Cores could concretely increase the volume of a Companion Spiritual Treasure, the Dark Green Trick Nuclei enabled the acquisition of onboard equipment.

Although Dong Tianyu had only equipped a Ram and a Giant Crossbow at the time, it should be noted that the equipment obtained through the Dark Green Trick Nuclei is considered part of the Companion Spiritual Treasure and can be directly stored in the Sea of Consciousness.

Even though all Companion Spiritual Treasures can be stored in the Sea of Consciousness, as they continue to upgrade, more and more people voluntarily give up the ability to store their Companion Spiritual Treasures in the Sea of Consciousness.

The reason is quite simple, just like when people move into a new house before the calamity. When they first move in, the new house appears particularly clean and tidy.

But as they live in the new house longer, the number of items that won’t be used for ten or eight years gradually increases.

An even simpler analogy is like most women’s wardrobes, where they buy new clothes for the changing seasons every quarter, but those new clothes from the past two years haven’t worn out, and they are reluctant to throw them away.

Because of this, the number of clothes in their wardrobes increases, and only when the wardrobe truly cannot fit any more clothes will they consider sorting out clothes they haven’t worn in a long time.

Now, most people’s Companion Spiritual Treasures are like the women’s wardrobes in the analogy; because Companion Spiritual Treasures continue to grow, many people start to hoard things that have some value but won’t be used in the short term.

As they hoard more and more items, survivors are even more reluctant to discard them. Gradually, many people forgo storing their Companion Spiritual Treasures in the Sea of Consciousness to have a little more Storage space.

Of course, if there is a very urgent situation, they can abandon everything inside without hesitation.

This situation is different from the last time when choosing an evolutionary branch, after all, if one chooses the evolutionary route of a transport ship, everything stored in a designated space can be brought into the Sea of Consciousness.

But like in Dong Tianyu’s case, his Companion Spiritual Treasure could still only bring in those devices obtained by consuming Dark Green Trick Nuclei into the Sea of Consciousness; any other foreign objects still could not be taken into the Sea of Consciousness.

However, even so, in certain underwater areas, it is possible to obtain a large quantity of Dark Green Trick Nuclei.