Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi-Chapter 135: Let’s Go Hunting (6)

Almost an hour had passed, and it had gotten dark. Ye Nai turned on the camping lantern, and a small table with drinks and snacks had been placed next to the chair. At last, on the distant horizon, a massive convoy appeared, with a conspicuous tractor following in the rear section of the convoy.

The walkie-talkie on her had a direct call.

"Hello, hello, Xiao Yezi, where are you?"

"I’m right in front of you. Do you see that heavy-duty forklift with the crane on top? That’s me."

"What the heck? Didn’t you buy an excavator?"

"Can an excavator be used as a crane? You need a proper crane, right? It’s a track-type off-road forklift with a tail crane, front fork lifts 5 tons and cranes up to 6 tons."

There was a burst of laughter and whistles over the walkie-talkie, and the entire convoy was speeding up frantically.

A few minutes later, they stopped in front of Ye Nai. Regardless of how chaotically the vehicles were parked, they firstly rushed to crowd around her forklift, and then climbed onto the trailer to look at the live cattle.

"This vehicle is really not bad!"

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"The cattle are alive too!"

"Hey, is that a cage of foxes?!"

"Look at that little one, oh, so cute!"

"Xiao Yezi, you’re awesome!"

"These many cattle, if we bring them back, everyone will treat it as a Level 1 mission."

"One cow isn’t enough to eat, we need to hunt a few more."

"Xiao Yezi, have you spotted any herds of cattle nearby?"

"No, just found this wandering one."

"No rush, if a young bull has appeared, there must be a herd nearby. Let’s not split up tomorrow, we’ll just roam around here."

"Okay."

"Xiao Yezi, don’t go off too far again."

"I promise I won’t."

After the excitement had passed and their curiosity was satisfied, the people scattered to set up the campsite.

The previously chaotically parked vehicles also turned around, waiting for Ah Qi who was trailing behind driving the tractor, to catch up and park next to the forklift. The off-road vehicles then formed a large circle around these two big machines, with the circle’s center being the campsite for the night.

It was perfectly located inside the Fungal Mycelium safety wall.

Ye Nai packed up her small table and chair, watching the Earth Wood Department team members deal with the wild grass and idle flowers, leveling the ground and compacting the soil, before finally everyone set up their tents.

Fortunately, the military tents were easy to set up and take down, done once in the morning and once in the evening, not taking up much time. Each Space logistics team member could manage on their own; they didn’t need to rely on Ye Nai. Otherwise, with her habit of running off and not showing up all day, if she didn’t come back, nobody would be able to set up their tents, which wouldn’t be good.

After setting up the campsite, the work wasn’t over yet. Several people went to the back of the forklift’s trailer and lowered all the fold-down gates.

They needed to adjust the young bull’s position, changing it from lying down to sitting, because with its large body weight, if the internal organs were squeezed together for too long, it would die.

"Having gone to such effort to capture a live one, how could we let it die easily."

Ye Nai detached the forklift, slowly reversed to the side of the vehicle, parked it, then moved to the crane’s driver seat, rotated the boom into position and extended it over the calf.

The lifting straps bound to the calf’s body were re-hanged on the hook, and Ye Nai gradually raised the boom, lifting the calf from the pallet as people adjusted its limbs to lay it back down in a reclining position.

"Good!"

The crowd gathered under the vehicle clapped and cheered.

"This vehicle was a really good purchase!"

"Should we transfer the piglets from that vehicle over to this one, or just leave them as they are?"

After a lively discussion, they unanimously agreed to put the piglets and the calf together. The tractor model was specifically chosen by Ye Nai for transportation; it couldn’t match military armor in speed but could reach the highway, had powerful horsepower, and could pull three fully loaded trailers — the maximum legally permitted on the road. A forklift is just a forklift and shouldn’t become a pulling tool.

Ye Nai tidied up the boom and returned to the forklift’s driver seat, driving it toward the trailer housing the piglets. The pallets specially placed under the piglets the day before proved very useful now.

A pig lay on each pallet, and Ye Nai lifted one pallet at a time, simply turning the vehicle around to place them onto the trailer behind her.

With her novice efficiency, it took just a few minutes to transfer three pallets.

She stored the now empty trailer in Space, then brought out an excavator. Many wanted to try their hand at operating it. After teaching them the basics, she let them play on their own while she returned to the tent area to wait for mealtime.

An hour later, Ye Nai sat in the logistics tent with the logistics team to reconcile accounts, collecting the hunting spoils they brought back and also taking pictures of the various mutant plants she had picked that day for recording.

Then, the nighttime cinema opened again, while she borrowed an off-road vehicle and practiced driving on the periphery for two hours.

About half an hour’s drive from their camp, a dimly lit small campsite lay hidden. Two armored off-road vehicles and eight burly men were there, led by a captain with a shiny, bald head reflecting light.

As team members patrolled in the vehicles during the night, they spotted a powerful, well-lit military squadron from afar, noticing their tractors, excavators, and heavy-duty forklifts.

Without completing their patrol, the rushed back to their camp to report. After a quick discussion, they speculated whether they had entered a military operation site. Feeling unequipped to confront the military, they decided to leave at dawn the next day to avoid any misunderstandings should they cross paths.

The next morning, before dawn even broke, the bald captain and his men packed up and left.

At Ye Nai’s camp, this was just the time when everyone was starting to wake up, queuing up in front of the water barrels to wash and freshen up.

After breakfast, the team leaders, including Ye Nai, met for a brief meeting. They decided to search for the herds of wild bison using drones, spreading out in four directions from the camp as a base.

Shortly afterward, the departing teams assembled and set off, while those who stayed back at the camp began to work, feeding and watering the mutant beasts in the trailers that had awakened from their night’s sleep and cleaning up after them.

The fox cubs were quite endearing. The little ones, their eyes barely open, would wake up and immediately start crying for food. Fortunately, the two adult foxes were now too weak to revolt, not even managing to shake their tails to teach these annoying humans a lesson.

These were Gold Element Double-bladed Tail Foxes; their tails served as their weapons. Each tail forked into two at the center, resembling human swords with fluffy fur. When swung, they created a slicing wind, striking against humans or animals as though they were blade edges.

If there were Double-bladed Tail Foxes, their close relatives were the Single-blade-tailed foxes, whose tail outline more closely resembled a large, handleless cleaver.

The native foxes of Blue Star were known for their swift movements; the Blade-tailed Foxes from Otherworld were even more agile, known for their unpredictably elusive running paths. The foxes that made it to the market were all killed by stray bullets; the cubs, though hardy and easy to raise, were wild and difficult to train from a young age, proving to be very demanding for the caretakers.

Compared to the piglets and large bison taken back as food ingredients, this litter of Double-bladed Tail Foxes were truly precious treasures that needed careful handling and proper delivery.

Ye Nai still worked alone. Everyone agreed that while she often got lost, her efficiency was better when she was on her own.