Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi-Chapter 267 - : A Shock from the Big Space User
Chapter 267 -267: A Shock from the Big Space User
The bed cart only shuttled back and forth between the outside of the operating room and the folding beds, never entering the operating theater. Every time Ye Nai came out to wash her hands, she didn’t mind the trouble of changing shoes back and forth.
The second patient began receiving treatment; outside, the warriors guarded their comrades with IV drips while keeping in touch with the rear via radio. The support team was already on its way, but it would take several hours to arrive.
By the time the support squad was halfway there, Ye Nai had already finished treating all the patients. They were lined up on folding beds, receiving IV drips and sleeping peacefully.
They wouldn’t be woken up; rather, a Mutant Plant Extraction Liquid with anesthetic properties was used instead of general anesthesia, and they would naturally wake when the time came.
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It was only now that both parties finally had a moment to exchange names and titles, although they skipped reviewing resumes; at this point, they were too deep into the Secret Realm to have a mobile signal. The only unaffected service was scan-and-pay, as transactions could be settled later when back in signal coverage.
“How long before the support team arrives?”
“They’re halfway here, probably will arrive after dark.”
“Okay then, just in time to clean up. Want to take a bath?”
“…Huh?”
The warriors were puzzled, thinking they had misheard, when they saw Ye Nai walk to the other end of the canopy. Suddenly, a laundry and a men’s bathhouse appeared before them.
“Wow!”
“You’re carrying a bathhouse and laundry with you?”
“Ah, just a little side business, to earn some water money and cleaning fees. By the way, is there a service around here for cleaning medical supplies?”
The warriors looked at each other in bewilderment, facing a question that really touched on their blind spot of knowledge.
“We don’t know about that, but we can go out and ask for you.”
“Sure. I’m going to start the boiler. Maybe you guys want to check out the vending machine at the laundry for some underwear?”
“You offer such comprehensive services?”
The warriors immediately dashed into the laundry, and soon their cheers could be heard—they bought packs of cigarettes first, then snacks, drinks, underwear, socks, and bathing supplies.
When they came back out, they saw that next to the laundry, a two-story construction site board house had appeared, with a single shower and washbasin beside it. Near the doorway, there stood an all-stainless steel kitchen counter and an outdoor stove.
Ye Nai was at her feet, sorting through a pile of coarsely woven large baskets filled with vegetables.
“In half an hour, you can take baths, and after that, it’s cooking time. The support will be here just in time for dinner.”
The warriors crowded around, their faces showing envy at the sight of the fresh and juicy vegetables.
“How do you have such fresh vegetables in this season?”
“Don’t ask where they came from, just if you want to eat them or not.”
“We’ll eat!”
“You handle those, and after we take our baths, we’ll take care of the rest.”
Just frying a few vegetables wouldn’t be enough to wait for the support squad to arrive for a meal together, so Ye Nai took out a large basin of Mutant Beast Meat. She had a large commercial soup pot—might as well make a big stew.
The half-hour quickly passed, and they all bathed separately, cleaning up before gathering around the kitchen counter to bustle about.
Ye Nai was in charge of the stove; she didn’t need to lift a finger to wash or cut the vegetables and meat—the menu was decided by everyone, and the cutting was done to make the food look as abundant as possible. Needless to say, the warriors, with their steady hands from constant training, were quite skilled and managed to cut evenly without any pieces too big or too small.
The support squad still on the road heard there were hot meals, hot dishes, and hot baths available here, and the driver’s feet couldn’t wait to press deeper into the gas pedal, not at all for the sake of collecting enemy corpses, definitely not.
First, Ye Nai put the meat on to stew, then she went to set up the second men’s bathroom, starting the boiler to heat water, and returned to the bedroom on the upper floor of the two-story plank building. She sat in front of the computer to hastily write up medical records, not only for the sake of settling medical expenses but also related to whether she could qualify as an Intermediate first aider after a review of her experience in five years.
The five warriors, after taking their laundered clothes out and placing them in the dryer, each lay down on a foldable bed for a short rest, their bodies elevated off the ground, safe from any toxic threat that might approach from underneath with poisonous stingers.
The radio was left on, occasionally replying to the other side, telling them that meat was stewing and rice was cooking, and that once the meat was ready, they would start frying the dishes, waiting to see whether the support would arrive first or the meat would finish cooking first.
In a corner under the canopy, the ground where a wounded warrior had lain was stained with fresh blood; the warriors had shoveled a few scoops of sand over the bloodstain, abiding by the principle of ‘out of sight, out of mind’.
As dusk fell, a message came through the radio.
“Patrol Team, we might see your canopy now; we’re about one kilometer away.”
“Understood, I’m turning on the vehicle lights now.”
The radioman, who was on watch, jumped up and ran out from under the canopy to climb into the military vehicle, started it, and turned on the vehicle lights, flashing Morse code signals while communicating with the incoming patrol team via the vehicle’s radio. It didn’t take long before he saw the flashing lights of the approaching vehicles getting nearer.
Ye Nai, upon hearing the warriors calling her from inside, came out at once, first checked the stewing meat, then seated a matching frying pan on another burner, heating up the pan to start cooking the vegetables, while the few warriors helped her out, the five of them bustling around the stove.
Frying large batches of food was something Ye Nai had plenty of experience with. She feared nothing of the sort; she had bought this large stove precisely so she could cook a lot at once and have food to slowly consume over time, as when things got busy, she really didn’t have time to cook three meals a day on schedule.
Just as the sound of brakes could be heard just outside the canopy, and after a moment, the support squad was led inside where Ye Nai was just frying the first dish of hot peppers with meat—using, of course, pre-marinated Mutant Beast Meat.
The incoming group consisted of three teams with a total of thirty people—two battle teams and one intelligence team, mainly there to collect the current situation on-site for analysis.
Upon entering the brightly lit canopy, seeing the rotating lights of the bathhouse and the laundry sign and smelling the pungent smell of cooking, they were all momentarily stunned.
“You said there was only one person helping, right?”
“Yeah, just one person. All this is her stuff. See those foldable beds? They’re all new. You guys will have a place to sleep tonight instead of cramming into your vehicles.”
“My goodness, how vast is her space?”
“Look at this canopy, the size of her space is no joke. Have you really never heard of her name before?”
“No, she’s from East Ridge City.”
“East Ridge has some great talents.”
“Is this because the Secret Realm is lost, so people are flowing out?”
“Put your stuff down and say hello.”
The logistics team members immediately took out several foldable tables from their own spaces, everyone set down their personal bags and boxes, and the six team leaders, both main and deputy, approached the busy Ye Nai.
Before even getting close, they were hit by a strikingly fresh spicy scent that tickled their noses and instantly made their mouths water.
Ye Nai was in the midst of cooking and couldn’t conveniently use her hands, so she turned her head to glance at them and nodded her chin toward the direction of the bathrooms.
“You’re here, go take a bath. The boiler is all heated up, perfect timing for dinner after you wash up.”
“Sure, we’ll talk later.”
The captains nodded briskly and went back to their own teams to play rock-paper-scissors to decide the order for taking showers.
In this semi-arid region with scarce water, a half-hour hot shower cost forty dollars, and laundry with drying only one hundred, adding up to just over a hundred dollars for a clean and tidy person. These captains and warriors had the same reaction as the Mountain Leopard Team from the Five Bridges Secret Realm: were they really not here for charity?
