Cave Refuge-Chapter 242 - 240: Cave Mansion Upgrade_1
Such backward production efficiency equipment was only seen in small towns. If the company in Pengcheng was still using such equipment, it would most definitely face modification demands from various departments in Pengcheng.
However, due to the relative backwardness of domestic technology at the time these devices were made, the materials used are particularly solid.
With plenty of gains, Dong Tianyu didn’t linger around any longer. He directly boarded the dark car and set off on his return trip.
On the way back, Dong Tianyu was still pondering. The sights he saw in the county town, bearing no trace of survivors’ lives, let alone corpses of survivors after death, were truly abnormal.
Even when collecting resources in the industrial park, Dong Tianyu occasionally saw some corpses of survivors, but he found no bodies in the county town.
The seemingly powerful Divine Sense, if used by Dong Tianyu without much finesse, would yield results similar to a mini-map in a game.
When used broadly, it can only project a rough terrain and life signals in his mind. Only when Dong Tianyu focuses all his attention on a certain area, a 3D perspective will form in his mind, allowing him to visualize specific images of that area.
When Dong Tianyu patrolled the county town in the dark car, he merely wanted to check if there were still survivors there, so he didn’t use the Divine Sense very thoroughly in the beginning.
After confirming no survivors, although he narrowed down the coverage of the Divine Sense for a clearer perception of the surroundings during his further meandering in the county town, he didn’t invest much attention to observation within the Divine Sense range.
Using Divine Sense consumes Dong Tianyu’s mind. If the coverage range of the Divine Sense quantifies the strength of mental power, the strength of his mind then quantifies the capacity of the mental power.
Exactly because of this, Dong Tianyu doesn’t always deploy his Divine Sense to scan his surroundings, only activating it when necessary.
Dong Tianyu, who had left the county town, was unaware. Although there were no signs of survivors living in the county town, there were clues left behind by survivors who had died in the previous rounds of natural disasters.
What Dong Tianyu dismissed as garbage in his Divine Sense was actually bits of clothing left behind after the corpses of the survivors had disappeared.
Saxon County originally had survivors, a considerable number of them. They have just disappeared now.
As Dong Tianyu moved farther away, Saxon County remained desolate, with only the occasional collapsing sound of the remaining buildings in the town.
No one knows whether this is due to the erosion of time, or other reasons.
As soon as Dong Tianyu returned to his cave mansion, he went straight to the disassembling pit and quickly dumped the collected resources for disassembly. As the items in the Shadow Space continue to decrease, the upgrade progress of the cave mansion also continuously increased.
When more than half of the possessions gathered from Saxon County had been consumed, no matter how much more material was processed, the points required for the cave mansion’s upgrade in the Data Layout did not decrease.
Dong Tianyu realized that mundane resources can no longer lower the survival points needed for the cave mansion’s upgrade. Only resources imbued with Spirit Energy will work.
Although the Spirit Energy has revived on Blue Star, due to the concentration of Spirit Energy in the air, no infused animals or plants have been born.
Perhaps martial artists who have cultivated to the Inner Breath Realm by absorbing the Spirit Energy meet the standard, but Dong Tianyu doesn’t have the intention of using the corpses of martial artists for experimentation.
Dong Tianyu knows that if an attempt fails, it doesn’t matter, but if it succeeds, he could go on a killing spree to upgrade his cave mansion. In that case, if the blood got to his head, Dong Tianyu doesn’t believe he could confront the court now.
And that’s exactly why, even though Dong Tianyu has killed countless martial artists, he has never tried to disassemble their bodies, he didn’t even dare to take them into the Shadow Space.
Although Dong Tianyu’s mentality has undergone a significant change from before, he has always adhered to the bottom line of being human. He could kill others for benefits, but he could not desecrate the bodies of his kind.
Of course, if he falls into the demonic path and learns the skills of refining corpses and souls in the future, that is another story.
But at least for now, Dong Tianyu would not easily cross his moral boundary.
When Dong Tianyu chose to upgrade his cave mansion in the Data Layout in his mind, unexpectedly, two different directions for upgrading the cave mansion were given.
Cave Mansion Upgrade Path - Cave: The cave mansion will leave its current location and retreat into chaos.
The Cave can absorb the chaotic energy to slowly expand its space and purify the chaotic energy to enhance the concentration of Spirit Energy within the Cave.
Unless the exact coordinates of the Cave within the chaos are known, only the owner of the Cave can open the teleportation channel to the Cave.
Cave Mansion Upgrade Path - Blessed Land: The enhancement effect of the mansion will extend to its surroundings, and as the level of the cave mansion continues to rise, the effect coverage range will also continuously increase.
Looking at these two different upgrade paths, Dong Tianyu fell into thoughtful contemplation.
Generally speaking, the fewer the words, the stronger the effect.
This time is actually no exception, if the cave mansion is upgraded to a blessed land, not to say too much, at least, the effects of the blessed land should be able to cover Nameless Mountain.
Take a simple example, referring to the recently ended extreme heat disaster, the cave mansion has the effect of adjusting the temperature. This kind of effect is an enhancing effect, which means that inside Nameless Mountain within the realm of the blessed land, the temperature is very suitable for ordinary people to live.
This also means that no matter how bad the external environment, as soon as you enter the range covered by the blessed land, the weather will be favourable and the climate pleasant.
Unlike the blessed land whose space changes little after being upgraded, to expand the size of its own space, the Cave beyond can either continue upgrading or slowly expand by absorbing Chaos Qi.
Although it seems to have stronger effects in the later stages, according to Dong Tianyu’s guess, based on the System’s unusual characteristics, if it solely relies on the Cave’s absorption of Chaos Qi, even a hundred years would not guarantee enlarging the space by one cubic meter.
On the other hand, it’s different with blessed lands. Each upgrade only increases a fixed range, but this increased range is usually larger.
And if Dong Tianyu chooses the blessed land, he can work with others, while he occupies the core cave mansion, allowing others to develop the blessed land around the cave mansion.
Dong Tianyu is even considering, if he upgrades the cave mansion to a certain level, would the coverage of the blessed land extend over the whole Pengcheng, or even all of Daxia, a dreamy thought—would it cover the entire Blue Star?
The Cave and the blessed land are two completely different upgrade directions. Choosing the Cave only increases the size of the inner space of the cave mansion, while choosing the blessed land might not seemingly increase the inner space of the cave mansion, but it does allow more places to reap the benefits of the upgraded cave mansion.
Dong Tianyu listed the enhancements the cave mansion currently possesses:
Suitable Climate: When choosing the mysterious side, with the heat pump as the technology item, the resulting enhanced effect: it can adjust the temperature inside the cave mansion freely (temperature range from -10 to 40 degrees Celsius).
Bountiful Grains and Flourishing Livestock: When choosing the mysterious side, the auto planting equipment and auto-feeding equipment were used as the technology items. The resulting enhancement effects: decrease the chance of plants and animals getting diseases and slightly accelerate the growth of plants and animals.
Favorable Wind and Rain: When choosing the mysterious side, used the automatic sprinkling irrigation equipment and fresh air equipment as the technology item. The resulting enhancement effect: it can generate a breeze in the cave mansion to promote air circulation and rainfall (up to light rain).
Stability: A built-in enhancing effect from the large resource area: stabilizing the surrounding land, reducing the effects of earthquakes and spells that change topography.
Large Resource Area: Built-in enhancing effect of large resource area: increase mineral storage and have a tiny chance to generate spiritual mineral deposits.
Spirit Gathering: The inherent enhancing effect of the Spiritual Spring: absorb Spirit Energy, increases the concentration of surrounding Spirit Energy, when the Spirit Energy concentration reaches a certain proportion, it has a chance to condense into Spiritual Stones.
These are the six major enhancements the cave mansion currently possesses. If the blessed land allows Nameless Mountain to also have these effects, it will surely become a place that everyone will envy.
Even if other disasters will continue to occur in the future, it is more likely to become a holy ground that everyone yearns for.
Faced with the two completely different choices of Cave and blessed land, Dong Tianyu hesitated slightly, ultimately choosing the Cave and not the blessed land.
Although Dong Tianyu may seem a bit selfish, he remains steadfast in his initial choice. Although choosing the blessed land can benefit the public, once the effects of the blessed land are understood by others, whether Dong Tianyu will still be the owner is debatable.
After choosing the Cave, no matter how upgraded, the owner of the Cave will still be him.
Choosing the path of upgrading to a blessed land can’t be concealed from others, perhaps for those who want to declare dominance, the blessed land is absolutely the best choice, but for Dong Tianyu, who is cautious by nature, prefers the Cave.
If Dong Tianyu had thoughts of dominating, he wouldn’t have chosen the slightly weaker developmental path of the mysterious side from the beginning, but would have directly chosen the powerful technological side in the early and middle stages.
Once Dong Tianyu confirmed the Cave as his upgrade path in his mind, his consciousness suddenly entered an unknown space.
In this space, Dong Tianyu saw Nameless Mountain where he was, and then saw a cube floating out of Nameless Mountain.
Although Dong Tianyu didn’t know why, he instantly understood that this cube was his cave mansion.
Under the cube that floated out from Nameless Mountain was a shadow, and Dong Tianyu understood that this was the Shadow Space he used to store items.
As Dong Tianyu was in a somewhat bewildered state, the cave mansion he saw before his eyes suddenly transformed. The Shadow Space, which was an uncertain shadow, had turned into a solid hemisphere, and the original cube of the cave mansion had changed into a hemisphere like an upside-down bowl.
In Dong Tianyu’s vision, the hemisphere shaped cave mansion and the same hemisphere shaped Shadow Space formed a complete sphere.
As the cave mansion and Shadow Space combined into a new form in Dong Tianyu’s view.
Even though the sphere in front of him hadn’t changed, Nameless Mountain was shrinking rapidly in sight until it disappeared.
It felt like the sphere in front was moving rapidly while his own sight was locked around the sphere.
After an unknown period of time, Dong Tianyu suddenly returned to his senses. He was still standing in the cave mansion, and the scenes in his mind just now seemed like an illusion.
