Wang Dong had his reasons for not activating this optional function of the auxiliary system at this time.
One reason, of course, was the insufficient number of low-grade energy crystals, with only 2 units available.
On the other hand, in this life, Wang Dong did not want to bind himself forever to the Waraxe, now known as the Pond.
The Pond was merely a third-generation ship, with severely limited growth potential.
Its inherent quality was also not high.
Before his rebirth, he had no choice, but after rebirth, Wang Dong had higher requirements for his flagship.
The Pond could only serve as a transitional vessel.
It wasn't worth wasting energy crystals on it.
Regarding how to handle the Pond, Wang Dong had formulated a plan after his rebirth.
Firstly, the Pond, originally known as the Waraxe, had to be acquired.
Although the Waraxe would bring a series of troubles, especially the pursuit from the Jin Family, the three additional modules, including the Mirage System, were an irresistible temptation for Wang Dong.
Secondly, after inheriting the Waraxe from Yuan Shu, Wang Dong had a bottom line in his heart.
He absolutely could not reveal his identity.
If he couldn't even achieve this basic requirement, Wang Dong would decisively abandon the "Waraxe."
Life and wealth, which was more important? Wang Dong was not an ordinary hot-blooded youth, he could still differentiate between the two.
Of course, before abandoning the "Waraxe," Wang Dong would first remove and hide the several additional modules on it.
However, things progressed far more smoothly than expected.
After acquiring enough source points through multiple Interstellar Battlefields, it was necessary to repair the hull and rename the ship.
Due to the buffer time limit of the ship's Fire Seed, after each entry into the Interstellar Battlefield, it would require at least one month before it could cross spacetime again and enter the Interstellar Battlefield.
Originally, this process was estimated to take several months.
But thanks to the "generous contribution" of the Cliff Tai civilization, Wang Dong completed this objective in just a few days.
After upgrading both the Armor and Sky Survey Radar modules to LV.2, the main gun, armor, engine, and Sky Survey Radar, all standard modules of the Pond, had reached LV.2 level.
At the same time, the "Pond's" overall combat power rating rose to LV.7!
The ship's basic public information would change from "Scout-class Destroyer (Waraxe) LV.6" to "Scout-class Destroyer (Pond) LV.7."
Now it was safe enough.
Compared to the "Waraxe" with an overall rating of LV.6, the "Pond," with an overall rating of LV.7, was entirely a different ship.
Just now, Wang Dong had spent a full 1300 source points on renaming and reinforcing the ship modules, transforming the "Waraxe" into the "Pond."
1300 source points, according to the average rate of source point acquisition for a normal Fire Seed ship, would mean decades of effort.
Through this change, Wang Dong successfully established a significant boundary between the "Pond" and the original "Waraxe."
A boundary that would take at least decades to cross.
The current "Pond," upon returning to its original universe, would no longer directly associate it with the "Waraxe."
There were still a decent amount of source points left, enough to reinforce a standard module on the "Pond" a couple of times.
However, Wang Dong did not continue reinforcing the standard modules, but instead turned his attention to the additional modules.
Both the remote control function of the Quantum Entangled Brainwave Manipulation System and the super-strong concealment function of the Mirage System were indispensable to Wang Dong at this stage.
Therefore, it was more valuable to prioritize spending source points on these two modules.
The "Pond," with an overall combat power rating of LV.7, was sufficient for the current Interstellar Battlefield.
Once a Fire Seed ship's overall rating exceeded LV.10, the opponents it faced in the Interstellar Battlefield would no longer be the easy prey of Level 1 interstellar civilizations.
On the contrary, there was even a probability of encountering Level 3 interstellar civilizations.
To be safe, he decided to temporarily refrain from further increasing the "Pond's" overall rating.
After all, his next move was to hide carefully, not to jump out and fight head-on.
"Upgrade the Quantum Entangled Brainwave Manipulation System from LV.0 to LV.1."
"Consuming 200 source points and 1 ton of gas ore. Upgrading the Quantum Entangled Brainwave Manipulation System (Green) LV.0 to LV.1 will take 30 minutes. Confirm?"
"Confirm."
Remaining source points: 317.
"Consume 1 unit of low-grade energy crystal to double the module's growth value?"
This time, Wang Dong chose "Yes"!
Immediately, half of the only 2 units of low-grade energy crystals he had were consumed.
"Quantum Entangled Brainwave Manipulation System (Green) (LV.1) upgrade complete. Current attributes are as follows:
Energy consumption: 1 point/hour, range: 0.05 light-years.
Upgrade requirements: 1. Source points 200; 2. Gas ore 2 tons."
The range increased by 0.04 light-years!
If we exclude the double growth value of the auxiliary system, under normal circumstances, this reinforcement would have increased the range by 0.02 light-years.
The reinforcement improvement range of additional modules was clearly higher than that of standard modules.
This was one of the reasons why Wang Dong valued additional modules even more.
They had a higher growth potential.
Combined with the auxiliary system, a single reinforcement directly increased the range of the Quantum Entangled Brainwave Manipulation System to five times its original value!
Absolutely terrifying.
This was the correct way to unlock the power of a "cheater"!