Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi-Chapter 261 - : Continuing on to the Santai Secret Realm
Chapter 261 -261: Continuing on to the Santai Secret Realm
As long as there are minerals, her clandestine mining operations can continue, she’s not demanding—she sees these Secret Realms as her turf, and good things on one’s own turf must be excavated cautiously, starting from the outside.
She had realized by now that, for a simple reason, those super-concentrated energy stones must also be an important energy source for the enemy. Instead of grappling with mining in the expansive territories of the Secret Realm, why not just take the enemy’s? Wouldn’t that be better?
Space Teleportation took her directly back to the dense forest not far from Town No. 2, where Ye Nai casually rode her motorbike into the town, first stopping at the purchasing station behind the outpost to sell the promised Rat Teeth and pelts to the warriors.
The Fungus in her space meticulously cleaned the game, leaving it spotless without a trace of blood—just take it back, give it a wash, and it’s ready for the next step.
These trades didn’t accumulate points, only money, and since they were so cleanly prepared, Ye Nai naturally charged a bit more. But her prices made sense, and the deal was struck without much haggling.
She promptly dealt with the remaining rat meat by selling it to a meat vendor.
Having traveled through several Secret Realms, she had amassed too much rat meat. The vendor was eager for the business and promptly took her out of the Secret Realm to his own cold storage, calling a few colleagues to help complete the transaction.
This pretty much cleared out the inventory of rat meat.
Once finished, Ye Nai went to find Xueling Cold Chain to ship goods and sent the tracking number to her mother. Only then did she notice the messages from her twin siblings and younger sister, asking if she was coming back for the New Year.
Time in the Secret Realm made it hard to keep track of days, and only now did Ye Nai notice the New Year decorations all over the streets and, glancing at her phone’s calendar, realized it was already the 25th of the twelfth lunar month.
After some thought, Ye Nai replied to her siblings, sending each a New Year’s gift of one thousand yuan, and asked her sister to tell their mother that she wouldn’t be coming back for the New Year. She was heading to the Santai Secret Realm and would send their mother shipments after resuming work in the new year.
After spending a night in a hotel, Ye Nai embarked on her new journey.
Traveling to Santai City, where Santai Secret Realm is located, required crossing the Mother River. The bridge was backed up with a long line of cars; many people got out to stretch their legs, waiting for the line to move forward before driving a few meters ahead.
Like them, she didn’t dare stray too far from her vehicle, at most going to the East Ridge Secret Realm to use the restroom. Otherwise, she’d either make something to eat in her car, watch some videos on her computer, or get out to stretch her legs for a bit.
After spending an entire day like this, dusk approached, and she finally inched her way onto the bridge, crossing it at a snail’s pace.
After the bridge, the traffic still didn’t speed up as too many people were heading north. On the afternoon of New Year’s Eve, Ye Nai finally reached Santai City following the vehicle flow. The streets were as crowded as ever, and after checking three or four hotels with no vacancies, she decided to just go straight into the Secret Realm.
Inside, Town No. 2 was also overflowing with people. Many Awakeners brought their families here to wait for the New Year, as the next stop from Santai Secret Realm was National Capital and its Secret Realm.
For the populace, even with recent announcements of the enemy’s renewed invasion, the area surrounding the National Capital still exuded an overwhelming sense of security.
The geography of Santai Secret Realm was ordinary: plains with a small amount of forest. The plains were so flat they seemed limitless; rivers, lakes, and channels were abundant, making the fishing industry very prosperous. To go hunting, one had to drive for several days into the forest because the only wildlife available on the plains were field mice and hares—the mutant beasts of any economic value were all in the forests.
The abundance of waterfowl by the waters could also be hunted, especially when the fishing team hauled in their nets, attracting large flocks of birds ready for an easy meal. However, the fowling team couldn’t take advantage of this situation, as the birds would defecate once startled, and the stench of their droppings was comparable to biochemical weapons—it was dangerous enough to send someone to the hospital for half a month.
Therefore, the fowling team and the fishing team simply couldn’t coordinate their actions; otherwise, it would definitely turn into a brawl.
On her way to the forest in an off-road vehicle, Ye Nai scattered a generous amount of spores. If she still had to excavate the altar herself with a digger, there would be no way to avoid so many prying eyes on the plains. Fortunately, she had just in time developed a new use for the spores.
Visit ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com for the 𝑏est n𝘰vel reading experience.
After four days traversing the plain, she finally reached the edge of the forest. This was the shortest route within the Santai Secret Realm to the forest, where fewer animals and novices made it an ideal place to start. Veterans, on the other hand, ventured deeper into the woods, taking one to two weeks just for travel. With hunting included, a round trip could easily consume two to three months.
Ye Nai plunged into the forest and began her routine operations. She lived in the RV on a daily basis; too lazy to even put up the two-story small house.
The forest’s vegetation was overwhelmingly lush, and the soil was filled with rocks and dead leaves, making it impossible to set the house level. The vehicle was safer.
She had initially wanted to find a crowded place to do some small business, but now it seemed best to focus on her own tasks first. The dense forest wasn’t a good place to trade when one couldn’t display their wares properly, while the vast plains outside were ideal.
Ye Nai had spent over half a month in the dense forest, capturing several species of deer.
All were shot dead with her gun. She used them as moving targets to practice her exceptional dynamic vision, aiming for a headshot with a single bullet, never wasting shots on the body. Damaging the hide would devalue it and would be unprofitable.
There were ferocious animals like tigers, leopards, bears, and wolves as well, but Ye Nai did not bother with them, having no intention at all. The moment she sighted them from a distance, she turned tail and ran.
To hunt such fierce creatures, she could only use spores to capture them directly. She didn’t want to bother explaining why there were no wounds on their bodies to anyone, sparing herself the trouble of reinforcing the stereotype that Space Awakeners could easily hunt or kill using their spatial abilities, over and over again.
The altars were also collected. They were found in the forest, on the plains, and underwater. Surprisingly, the largest number of altars was located underwater, thrown deep beyond a hundred meters, where fishing team boats coming and going would never touch the bottom. Even if a boat accidentally sank, the difficulty of salvage would likely lead to giving up on the recovery, much less discovering the secrets beneath the water.
Ye Nai didn’t even count how many altars she had collected and wasn’t concerned about whether the officials might have accidentally excavated any. After all, she was keeping only one.
Using Space Teleportation to reach the outskirts of the forest, Ye Nai drove her off-road vehicle, following the river downstream, guided by the spores. Along the way, she saw many fishing boats moored by the river and cold storage trucks packed with fish making final preparations before departure. The bustling crowd walked to and fro, calling out loudly, creating a lively scene.
Ye Nai quietly drove through this scenery, and after five or six days of travel, she finally left the Santai Secret Realm.
Coming out in the morning, her phone, left inside the vehicle, started ringing incessantly as messages from the past several days flooded in. Ye Nai didn’t bother to check them yet, driving around in the streets until she found a hotel and settled in. Then she finally had time to look through the messages on her phone.
Her mother Yu Qing, her twin brothers, and her younger sister had all sent rather unpleasant news.
In summary, their father Ye Yu had developed an addiction to alcohol. Over the year, he had squandered the money from the divorce and his plan to find a wealthy woman to support him fell through. In his distress from being broke, he found out that their mother Yu Qing had come into a small fortune and demanded money from her at her workplace entrance. The two ended up fighting at the entrance and were taken to the police station, ruining their entire New Year.
