Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi-Chapter 171: Returning to the Danger Zone is Where the Real Business Is (4)

"Oh my goodness! The number of bodies doesn’t match the number of legs."

"It’s from the ones accumulated before," Ye Nai shrugged. She appeared generous, which wouldn’t lead others to overthink. Given the characteristics of her space, it was normal to store any amount of fresh goods.

"That’s enough to make the institute take another trip," someone among the spectators commented.

"What do you mean, ’another trip’? We sold them good stuff before?" the keen-eared cold storage manager overheard.

"Camel-hump Deer, alive, males, females, even with fawns," Ye Nai said with a chuckle.

"Hiss..." The cold storage manager felt that nothing Ye Nai brought them in the future would surprise him anymore.

"Let’s get it stored first; don’t change the subject," Captain Xiao Ni reminded, "It’s cold staying in there too long."

Ye Nai obediently retrieved the spider’s body.

"Anything else, anything else? Is there more stuff for the cold storage?"

The manager looked at Ye Nai as if she were a little sprite from a fairy tale, always hiding treasures, half-expecting that shaking her upside down might reveal something more.

"Only quantity? Not quality?"

"Quantity over quality?" The people present immediately tensed up, a look of disgust on their faces, "It’s not rats, is it?"

"No way, I plan to sell the rats to the outside butcher, how about wild rabbits?"

"If there’s a lot, we’ll take them; wild rabbits yield a reasonable amount of meat..."

Before the cold storage manager could finish his sentence, a mountain of wild rabbits appeared on the now clear spot that was just vacated by a forklift moving the previous game.

"Oh my..."

"How many rabbit holes did this come from... "

The cold storage staff stood there stunned.

"You really went shopping..."

After struggling to find words, only this statement came forth.

The combat team members similarly paused for a moment, then, suppressing their laughter, gave Ye Nai continuous thumbs up. Then they quietly edged toward the cold storage’s main entrance, steering clear of this bustling business dealing.

The manager, in agony, but having accepted nevertheless, still called his subordinates to bring all the floor scales and turnover baskets for weighing.

He even called back the combat team members who were already at the main entrance to help.

"None of you think about slacking off, come back here and work," he called out.

"No, we’ve just come back, all sweaty and tired, let’s go take a bath, a bath."

"You all ran off, leaving the young girl here alone, where’s your conscience?"

Under the manager’s poignant rebuke, everyone reluctantly helped out, and Ye Nai was busy too, keeping records by a floor scale.

Since everyone was busy, in such hot weather, they hastened to get the rabbits entered into the database.

Just as things busied up, Brother Peng, who came to pick up beef, arrived and was also kept from leaving.

Brother Peng picked fifty plump rabbits. Of course, he wanted to stock up more meat for his business, but his space was also a normal one, and fresh rabbits required skinning and deboning at home. Taking too many would be hard to preserve.

After transferring the payment to Ye Nai, he rolled up his sleeves and joined the line of people sorting the rabbits by size into boxes.

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After a while, the cooking crew came over to fetch the meat to prepare dinner. Although they took the meat, a few people were also left behind to help.

The ratio of meat from wild rabbits was low, so the rabbits hunted by the team were generally consumed by themselves, and few were brought back. The cold storage didn’t bother with it and didn’t do such small business, but the quantity this time was too large; it was worth breaking their backs for the rabbit meat and rabbit skins.

The quartermaster and the head of the cooking crew heard the news and came to gawk. After seeing the meat that had been entered into the database earlier, they told Ye Nai to stop working and go home to take a bath, change clothes, and rest. She could come back later for dinner, and they would cook a special meal just for her.

This blatant favoritism was something others could only envy.

Ye Nai created a new trade for the wild rabbit in the Awakener app and then cheerfully went home.

The others continued to work tirelessly, repeatedly bending down and standing up; their waists were stiff with fatigue.

Brother Xiao Ma tried to slip away, saying he was taking the team for a medical examination, but it was no use; he was forced to stay and finish the work before he could leave.

Thus, everyone jeered, saying it was so laborious that they too wanted a special meal, or else they would throw down their tools and leave.

The head of the cooking crew, bothered by their complaints, agreed.

Ye Nai went back home, where she hadn’t been in two months. The floor was covered in dust everywhere, but fortunately, she had stored all the furniture and daily necessities in the Space before leaving, leaving the house empty. She quickly cleaned up the floor, and by the time she was done, it was just right to take a shower, during which she even buzzed her long hair short again.

She threw her dirty clothes into the washing machine on the balcony, listened to the faint sound of the machine operating, curled up on the living room beanbag chair, turned on the computer projector to play a comedy action movie, and while listening, she checked her historical messages on her phone.

Since coming out of the Secret Realm, this was the first time she seriously checked her messages. Previously, she had only messaged Brother Peng to ask if he wanted to buy beef, chatted briefly, and then put her phone away without checking anything else.

Now, she saw a long string of unread messages. Aside from idle chat in the group, there were messages from the twins and her mother.

The messages from the twins stopped after about twenty to thirty messages, which was less than two weeks.

Her mother’s messages lasted a bit longer, about three to five messages a week, asking her how she was doing, whether it was worth buying mutant beast meat in the city, she couldn’t resist buying raw mutant beast meat once, and it tasted awful after cooking; she spit it out after one bite and ended up reluctantly throwing it away—such a waste.

Checking the twins’ messages, she noticed no good news. Ye Nai even inferred that long-term boarders like them were actually regarded as the lowest in the classmates’ disdain hierarchy.

Those dormers who went home once a week were like day scholars, which was considered normal. Those who didn’t go home even once a month were seen by their peers as objects of neglect, easy to bully, with no one to stand up for them.

Ye Nai didn’t reply to those historical messages. The last message was from a month and a half ago, and right now she had no way of knowing if such important possessions as their phones were still with them. Anyway, she planned to go into town to shop in a couple of days and would drop by the school to see.

After watching a movie and hanging up the washed clothes, her phone received a message that the rabbit trade was completed and the after-tax income had been credited to her account, followed by several private messages inviting her for dinner.

Ye Nai cheerfully headed out again, riding her electric scooter.

In the cafeteria, the exclusive third floor for the special meal was set up, with Sister Cao and other teams present, and a table reserved for Brother Xiao Ma and his team, but they were at the hospital for a medical checkup at the moment.

Ye Nai plopped herself on the empty seat next to Sister Cao and looked around at everyone, each one massaging their waists, looking exhausted.

"Next time something like this happens, just come by yourself, don’t call us,"

Sister Cao said, patting Ye Nai’s shoulder, not realizing her own back was in such bad shape.

Ye Nai nodded obediently, then changed the subject.

"I still have a bunch of wild rats on hand, do you know any butchers?"

"You should ask Brother Peng about that; he’s familiar with it since he deals with these butchers all the time."

"Where is he? Didn’t he come for dinner?"

"He did. He was just slow. We came up after washing our hands, and he was only reaching the tap; he’ll be here in a bit."

As they were talking, they saw Brother Peng covering his lower back, his upper body stiff, coming up the stairs. It was clear that his back had old injuries, and the bending and standing earlier had made the old injury uncomfortable.