Cave Refuge-Chapter 839 - 540 Consecutive Promotions_2

Actually, before the natural disasters occurred, whenever Dong Tianyu saw the unread message notification—the small red dot—on his cell phone, he would invariably click it open. Even if he’d already seen the message in a pop-up window, Dong Tianyu just couldn’t resist opening it.

Upon clicking open the app, he discovered it was the built-in chat software on the tablet, although Dong Tianyu didn’t seem to have added many contacts. Could it be a message from Ye Liuyun? 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

As Dong Tianyu had guessed, Ye Liuyun had indeed sent him messages, and not just Ye Liuyun—others had sent messages as well. Dong Tianyu decided to open Ye Liuyun’s messages first to see what the other party wanted.

Maybe it was because Dong Tianyu had asked Ye Liuyun to purchase a large quantity of low-priced dark green Trick Nuclei from those scavenging teams. Perhaps because of the low prices, some members of the scavenging teams were highly dissatisfied.

They had secretly sold them on the side, and when they got caught, to save themselves, they revealed the source of the dark green Trick Nuclei outright.

After the source of the dark green Trick Nuclei became public knowledge, many hunting teams started to shift their attention to the water’s depths.

With the strength of martial artists on the rise, the previously dreaded ghost ships had now turned into sought-after targets for everyone.

After all, even though the water bases could produce some crops and livestock, the quantities were still far from sufficient to meet the demand of the water bases.

Bold adventurers rise where there are great rewards, so many people, in order to get supplies, deliberately used their Companion Spiritual Treasures to come into direct contact with ghost ships. After forming a True Guicore Realm, they would then freely scavenge all sorts of materials inside.

As the number of hunting teams large and small continued to grow, the once ubiquitous ghost ships became quite rare.

Just when everyone was feeling frustrated due to a lack of prey, someone suddenly revealed the production area of the dark green Trick Nuclei.

And after this information was corroborated by others, the hunting teams, which were gradually facing disbandment due to the reduction in ghost ships at sea, directly shifted their hunting targets.

The members of these hunting teams may not have the expert skills of the frontline scavenging team members, but when it comes to the strongest individual’s power or the average cultivation level of team members, the vast majority of hunting teams were by no means inferior to the scavenging team members.

So it wasn’t long before hunting teams began sending personnel to explore underwater, and with more and more people getting involved, prices for the dark green Trick Nuclei—which had originally been only slightly lower than those of the Blood-Colored Mysterious Cores—began to plummet.

When the price hit rock bottom, it was even lower than the average market price of the Black Devil Cores. Of course, this price did not last long before it rose again.

Once the market price of the dark green Trick Nuclei stabilized, it was about one and a half times the price of Black Devil Cores; after all, to obtain dark green Trick Nuclei, one must dive into the water, so a slightly higher price was understandable.

However, even so, the price of dark green Trick Nuclei had dropped quite a bit from the time Ye Liuyun had helped with the purchase.

But this doesn’t mean that Dong Tianyu had made a bad deal—there’s still that same old saying: "Buy early, enjoy early; buy late, enjoy a discount."

If Dong Tianyu hadn’t bought so many dark green Trick Nuclei in advance to upgrade weapons that could directly attack other ghost ships, he reckoned he wouldn’t have crafted the Demon Path Three Flags.

In the information Ye Liuyun conveyed, besides the drop in price of the dark green Trick Nuclei, the most important news was that the Imperial Court had once again manufactured water planes and had restored air transportation between the various water bases.

Dong Tianyu wasn’t particularly surprised by this development. Even with successive natural disasters afflicting China, its societal order didn’t descend into chaos, and the Imperial Court always maintained a dominant position.

So, whether in terms of resources or talent reserves, the Imperial Court always possessed an absolute advantage. Though the constant natural disasters definitely led to some areas experiencing warlordism,

this was just because the Imperial Court hadn’t yet intervened, and since those warlords weren’t committing egregious acts that stirred public fury, the Imperial Court looked the other way and turned a blind eye to them.

Aside from Madeline, Mr. Thompson also sent numerous messages to Zachary. Although Zachary didn’t respond to any of them, he had already greeted his parents in advance, informing them that he might not be able to reply in time and not to worry.

At this time, Zachary still replied to his father first to report his safety, and then he checked the remaining messages.

The rest of the messages were group broadcasts from the Imperial Court and from the officials of Magic City Number Three and Magic City Number One bases, but now these messages were outdated.

Zachary briefly scanned them, and just when he thought these messages were of no use to him, he suddenly noticed one that was rather special.

It said someone had been attacked by missiles from a very advanced warship. Whether it was now or before the natural disasters, those warships equipped with missiles were not something ordinary people could get their hands on.

Although some people managed to acquire warships through certain channels, let alone missile ammunition, the launch platforms had long been dismantled.

Nowadays, firearms and ammunition are readily available for purchase, but powerful lethal weapons like missiles, each with its own unique serial number, were not to be touched by just anyone as far as the Imperial Court was concerned.

So when someone provided evidence of being attacked by a warship’s missiles, the Imperial Court would immediately issue a warrant and offer a reward for the precise location of the warship.

Just when Zachary was a bit bored and ready to find someone to chat with, he inadvertently spotted a red dot in the distance, and upon closer inspection, he confirmed that it was most likely a Blood-Colored Ghost Ship.

Compared to other colors of Mysterious Cores, the Blood-Colored Mysterious Core was quite rare. After all, before this, to obtain a Blood-Colored Mysterious Core, one had to enter a gu-trap-like Mysterious Realm where only by stepping on the corpses of others to claim victory could one acquire a Blood-Colored Mysterious Core.

But now, the Companion Spiritual Treasure, with its ability to attack ghost ships directly, was something Zachary had actually been wanting to test on a Blood-Colored Ghost Ship, to see if it, like other mysterious ships, would enter a sea battle mode when attacked with melee weapons.

As the Companion Spiritual Treasure controlled by Zachary approached, the full view of the distant Blood-Colored Ghost Ship gradually came into Zachary’s sight.

But what Zachary never expected was that the Blood-Colored Ghost Ships he had encountered before were mostly not much larger than other small ghost ships, yet the one not far away, shrouded in a blood-red aura, was almost as large as those huge cruise ships.

Although Zachary had encountered such large-sized ships before, those were from the independent Mysterious Realm of the Black Ghost Ship. As for the multiplayer Mysterious Realm of the Blood-Colored Ghost Ship, Zachary didn’t just lack experience; he had not even seen one before.

However, this time, Zachary didn’t rush in headlong but decided to attack tentatively with the Long-Range Giant Crossbow first.

Since Zachary had already acquired many Dark Green Trick Nuclei, he wasn’t in short supply of ammunition like when he first got the crossbow cannon.

As bolt after bolt lodged into the side of the Blood-Colored Ghost Ship, Zachary was sure they were now in sea battle mode.

But just as Zachary hesitated whether to continue using long-range weapons to attack the ship, the Giant Bolts previously lodged in the side of the Blood-Colored Ghost Ship began to disappear gradually.

Witnessing this eerie situation, the idea of controlling the ghost ship to ram straight into it vanished from Zachary’s mind in an instant.

Still, Zachary continued to maneuver the Companion Spiritual Treasure closer to the Blood-Colored Ghost Ship.

Of course, the purpose was still to test whether melee weapons could ensure that the Companion Spiritual Treasure wouldn’t merge with the Blood-Colored Ghost Ship into a new Mysterious Realm.

As the Companion Spiritual Treasure drew closer, before Zachary could use the Giant Crossbow for another tentative attack, the Blood-Colored Ghost Ship, uncharacteristically, took the initiative to launch an attack on Zachary’s side.