Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi-Chapter 179: Dealing with Brothers Back in Town (5)

The two boys, having starved so long, couldn’t hold out anymore. After tasting their first bite, it was as if they had opened the floodgates of their appetite, burying their heads in their food and gobbling it up. Having finished what was in front of them, they wiped their mouths, stood up, and went to grab two more large plates.

Ye Nai just watched them eat, only occasionally reminding them that if they ate too much, they wouldn’t be able to walk around while shopping later.

But her reminders were useless to the brothers, who were possessed by their hunger at the moment.

It wasn’t until Ye Nai mentioned that they would pass by the night market while shopping, and if they were full now, they could only walk by it later, that the brothers finally put down their chopsticks.

However, by that time, they were already slumped over in their chairs, too stuffed to move. Ye Nai took out some antibiotics from her breast pouch and gave each of them four pills.

After resting for another half hour and watching them each devour a giant ice cream cone, they finally wiped their mouths contentedly and stood up.

"Sis, we’re done eating. Shall we go shopping?"

Twenty minutes later, the three siblings arrived at the shopping plaza closest to their hotel.

The twins headed straight for the men’s section, but they were indeed so stuffed that walking quickly made them want to throw up. They no longer felt the frenzied shopping urge they had during the New Year and could only walk slowly with their hands on their waists.

Ye Nai followed leisurely behind. Their discomfort was intentional; she had let the spores misbehave to make them uneasy and sick, yet unable to vomit.

The mall was already packed with people coming out to enjoy the air conditioning at night. If she allowed the twins to run rampant in the crowd, wouldn’t she have to keep apologizing to passersby?

This time, Ye Nai’s budget for each of them was five hundred. From inside out, they managed to piece together a full set of clothing for the next few days.

After buying clothes, they saw a mobile phone store in the mall. They went in to browse and ended up buying new student card phones for the twins.

"Thank you, big sis!" The brothers excitedly hugged their chosen mobile phone boxes.

"Use the phones for now, and when we get back to the hotel, connect to the network. First, log into your accounts again to kick the old phones off, then change the passwords. Change both the login and payment passwords."

"Okay, sure!"

"Let’s hold off on getting a new SIM card. I’ll try to see if we can get your phones back. We can’t just hand them over for nothing. If we really can’t retrieve them, I’ll take you to get new ones after your exams."

"Alright!"

Final exams were just around the corner; there was no way they could get new cards before the exams. It was obviously not going to happen.

"It’s still early, not even eight o’clock. Where else do you want to go?"

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"Can we go to the supermarket to buy some snacks?"

"Sure, let’s go."

The three of them went down to the basement level, where Ye Nai waited near the cashier’s desk while the brothers pushed a cart inside.

At the entrance, they saw the brothers push one cart, but by the time they reached the exit to pay, each was pushing one cart, both piled high. They hadn’t skimped on large tubs of beverages and ice cream. They also grabbed some pricey nuts. In the current environment, nuts were still being produced, but compared to pre-war times, the prices had soared. Even the recycled, processed lower-quality nuts were exorbitantly expensive.

Of course, the well-packaged canned nuts in the supermarket should be fine.

After paying, the total came to over eight hundred.

They were all heavy items, and Ye Nai refused to help them carry the bags. She would only foot the bill, not lend a hand, so the brothers had no choice but to struggle with the heavy lifting themselves, their hands overflowing. The large tub of ice cream couldn’t be left out for long, so naturally, they had to skip the night market and head back to the hotel.

As she passed the front desk, Ye Nai deposited five thousand for her brothers’ room bill, allowing them to alleviate boredom with room service over the weekend, to prevent them from glueing their eyes to their cellphones.

Ye Yong and Ye Ji were so happy they practically jumped for joy.

Back in their rooms, Ye Nai took a shower and, sitting on the edge of her bed, set up her laptop.

The computer swiftly connected to the internet, and before she could look at the posts that had piqued her interest earlier, she saw system notifications that results had come in for the two tasks she had posted.

For intelligence-gathering tasks, unless specifically requested otherwise, the information was usually sent to the client’s inbox as attachments.

Ye Nai downloaded the two attachments to her desktop, both of which were compressed files. After unzipping them, she found two files that wouldn’t open.

Puzzled, she checked the file extensions and realized they were both the same. A quick online search informed her they were a software format for mind maps, which her computer did not have installed, hence why she couldn’t open them.

She took a few more minutes to download and install the new software. After some fiddling, she managed to open the two files.

One contained the power dynamics of Six Bridge Park.

The other detailed personal relationships and gang affiliations with five spreadsheets within the file.

The first listed Jiang Hui and his little group’s personal and family backgrounds.

The second was about Huang Yuanhao’s personal and family backgrounds.

The third detailed Huang Yuanhao’s big brother Sun Guangjin and his power influence. Sun frequently hung around Gaofei Internet Cafe on Wuyuan Road. He acted like a manager there, a sort of overseer, but there was a true boss above him.

The fourth laid out the basic situation of Sun Guangjin’s Gaofei Gang, which had grown from the Gaofei Internet Cafe as its base. The cafe’s main clientele were students, and the underlings were in charge of keeping watch to avoid surprise police inspections, only pretending to be diligent for a couple of days during city-wide checks. The real gang leader, known as Brother Cai, didn’t frequent the cafe but spent his days in the mahjong parlor run by his lover, Sister Hong.

The fifth specified that the Gaofei Gang was just a front, with the real backing coming from the Skyfire Association based in the eastern part of the city. The name derived from both founding bosses being Fire Element Awakeners. The money the Gaofei Gang handed over was one of the income sources for the Skyfire Association.

After reading through this clear and concise intelligence report, which included photos of the mentioned individuals—with students shown in formal frontal portraits and shots of the bosses captured from sneaky angles—Ye Nai instinctively followed the contractor who took on the task, a username curiously called "Gossiping Keke".

Not minding the authenticity of the content in the intelligence for now, she found the five mind maps very pleasant to read.

The other report on the power dynamics in Six Bridge Park was also clear, but in comparison to the first one, it seemed to be quite ordinary without evoking her interest to follow the author.

Ye Nai reviewed both files several times and even took screenshots to save on her phone for easy reference.

As she was perusing, she returned to the Awakeners’ site messaging system and opened the message from "Gossiping Keke". She responded directly, asking whether it was possible to investigate the opposers of the Skyfire Association and the background of the smaller gangs hiding behind fronts, offering to assign the task specifically to them if they could do it.

Over an hour passed after sending the email, and after growing tired of browsing the trading posts, the reply finally arrived. The other party agreed to take on the task but warned that it would be risky to investigate these people, especially to provide photos, and therefore required additional payment.

Ye Nai agreed to the extra charge and quickly set up the specified task. Noticing it was getting late, she washed her face, turned off the lights, and went to bed.

The next morning, Ye Nai was still in the middle of a dream when her phone’s ringing woke her up.

"Hello, Sister Cao?"

"Where are you now? Still in the city?"

"Yeah, in the city."

"Good, stay in the city for a few more days, don’t rush back."