Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi

Chapter 294 -294: Finding the Enemy’s Rear Military Fortress

She released a massive amount of spores around herself, then disappeared on the spot, following the direction of the dense energy.

Seconds later, when she saw where she was, Ye Nai opened her mouth wide and laughed silently.

She was standing on the altar, and the Magic Patterns were glowing faintly.

Ye Nai quickly jumped off the ground and found that there was no place to hide near the altar; all around were solid steps and rammed soil ground.

There were no torches nearby, it was pitch black; only the light from the torches on the outside shed a little light, enough to see clearly the distance from the altar to the surrounding wall.

With this bit of light, Ye Nai, with her back against the steps, squatted on the ground and looked around, only then seeing clearly that this was a simple square without any guards, very square in shape.

Thinking about the purpose of the altar, the use of this space was also easy to guess—it was none other than for the temporary accommodation of personnel and materials that arrived, so there was no need to make it too luxurious or beautiful, as long as it was functional.

When it wasn’t in use, there was no need for torches or guards.

The corners of Ye Nai’s mouth were so upturned, not even a sniper rifle could press them down.

A great number of spores swooped down on the altar, seeking out the gaps between the steps, burrowing into the soil to check for any anti-theft measures; she didn’t want to take the altar only for the enemy to know about it immediately after.

Although she didn’t fear a citywide manhunt, she thought it best to have fewer complications. If she could take it stealthily, why cause a citywide commotion and compromise her low profile?

The location with the altar was definitely a Military Fortress; Ye Nai immediately linked up with the spores within the city.

People who had planted trees during the day brought back a lot of spores with them. Several hours had passed, and the spores had rooted themselves throughout the city, reproducing a considerable number within their own territories.

Now as Ye Nai mobilized them, the spores throughout the city brought her information within moments.

The first was the warehouses.

There was more than one warehouse, and one of the rooms had an energy response even denser than the altar.

Ye Nai decided to loot the warehouses first, then visit the room with the dense energy last.

If the room was heavily guarded and difficult to approach, or if she was unlucky enough to be discovered, at least she would have emptied the warehouses, so her trip wouldn’t be wasted.

She did not let the spores take the items for her; when collecting large amounts of goods, it was more efficient to do it herself, using Space Teleportation to gather everything directly in one go.

Therefore, Ye Nai used her control over Space Teleportation to rapidly move in and out of various warehouses, staying only a few seconds each time, taking all the supplies before moving to the next.

In less than fifteen minutes, she emptied all the warehouses of the Military Fortress, including weapons, equipment, and food supplies.

There was more outside.

Not far from the fortress was a huge warehouse district.

Lined up were large warehouses, each categorizing food and building materials. Ye Nai saw for herself a crate of decorative tiles, even these had to be brought over from the Otherworld.

After looting her way through, by the time she emptied the last warehouse, Ye Nai realized something strange.

There was no fresh produce warehouse.

The spores also reported that there were no farms or animal ponds inside or outside the city.

Theoretically, the enemy, coming from the Otherworld, is sustained by the land and water of their origin, and energy is an important component of their power system.

Yet, on Blue Star, there is no environment or energy like that of their homeworld, and they cannot grow energy-containing crops.

Therefore, the enemy’s daily diet must also rely on supplies sent from the Otherworld, since the food stored in the warehouses were all long-term dry rations and cured goods, without a trace of freshness.

People cannot live without fresh vegetables and meat; even if the low-ranking soldiers didn’t, the high-ranking officers and Commanders had to, otherwise how would they maintain their status?

Additionally, for the Blue Star people who depended on the enemies for their sustenance, without farms or breeding industries, their daily diets must certainly rely on supplies from the Otherworld as well.

Those who eat enough energy-rich food and manage to awaken join the upper class; those who can’t awaken remain in the lower class. The people urging the saplings to grow during the day are probably cultivated in this way.

Ye Nai then thought about the unguarded and rudimentary square and altar. It seemed she had been mistaken, it wasn’t that they were unused, but rather that they weren’t used during the night, only in the daylight.

She had to move even more now.

Without the altar, without the storage, it was a good opportunity to see what kind of reaction the enemy would have.

After confirming that the storage was indeed emptied by her, Ye Nai directly performed the Space Teleportation to the room that emitted a strong energy response.

No tactics, just a straight charge.

The landing spot was behind a door. After steadying herself, Ye Nai used a night vision device to see that this place was actually a spacious office, complete with a desk and a conference table.

Looking at the setup, it resembled the various boss offices she had seen in dominating CEO dramas, a similar arrangement.

As for the intense energy response inside the room, there was no need for spores to guide her, as Ye Nai could sense it herself.

She walked behind the desk, put on gloves, and cautiously pulled at the three drawers on the left side of the cabinet.

Not one opened.

That was right.

This indicated that the three drawers were a mere facade, actually a single integrated cabinet.

Ye Nai felt around on the handles of the three drawers and was able to press down on the third one, revealing a secret lock.

An even stronger energy emanated from this lock.

Ye Nai nearly laughed out loud.

That was great, saving her the trouble of picking the lock.

A batch of spore entered the cabinet through the lock, and the next second, two pebble-sized Heart Cores entered Ye Nai’s space.

They were true Mutant Beast Heart Cores, taken from the beasts themselves, fiery red in color, sleek on the surface, richly colored, and dense with energy.

It was obvious that the Mutant Beasts providing the Heart Cores were of a much higher level than those living in the various Secret Realms, as the Heart Cores Ye Nai had collected from the Secret Realms were only the size of rice grains and mung beans, pale and translucent in color.

One could imagine how beautifully colored and energetically powerful these two Heart Cores, deserving of the descriptor “vividly colored,” must be.

With the treasure in hand, Ye Nai quickly returned the lock to its original state and vanished from the spot.

When she landed again, she was back at the side of the altar.

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The spores here were ready, and the Fungal Mycelium that grew underground had already separated the altar from the soil.

Following Ye Nai’s thought, the altar disappeared on the spot.

After that, Ye Nai returned to the East Ridge Secret Realm.

As soon as she set foot on the land of the East Ridge Secret Realm, a violent shake erupted within the space, and the huge unspent ore and the newly acquired Mutant Beast Heart Cores shrank drastically because of the rapid loss of energy.

Ye Nai felt a severe explosion in her head and darkness before her eyes, and she fell to the ground unconscious, with blood slowly oozing from her mouth, nose, eyes, and ears.

The inside of her space shook violently and expanded continuously. All the materials flew about chaotically, but fortunately, the liquids and solids didn’t mix together, and the several thousand tons of clean water were spared from contamination.

The altar, which had just been taken in, quickly disintegrated under the cutting of energy, and the Fungus absorbed the energy from it, creating a new Magic Pattern, slightly different from the many patterns on the previous altars.

When the energy from the ore and the Mutant Beast Heart Core was completely depleted, the continuously undulating space slowly calmed down. The chaotic materials sorted themselves out once again, with liquids floating on the top layer and solids remaining on the bottom layer, and the entire space was divided into compartments.