Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi-Chapter 205 Stirring Their Expectations for the Future (2)

Ye Nai had fully satisfied her younger sister and when she got home and did the math, she had spent just over a thousand, mainly on candies, chocolates, and nuts, and even more on milk-flavored popsicles and ice cream.

Locally, there was no surplus milk for making popsicles or ice cream, so the ones sold in the stores were transported from other places via cold chains. Looking at the prices, none of them were cheap, and Ye Nai bought an entire cooler box full of different flavors of ice cream.

After leaving the store, the cooler box was stowed away in her "Space", and only the snacks were carried home. Walking through the community with the attractive snack boxes sticking out of the bag, many children took notice, and not being able to get them from their parents, each one was crying.

Ye Nai did not look around and quickly walked home, pretending not to hear the crying, but the corners of her mouth were turned up high.

When she got home, Ye Nai took out the cooler box, and Yu Jiao picked a few boxes to put in the fridge, not taking too many to avoid being told off by Mom when she saw them, planning to put more in after they were eaten.

At nine o’clock, Yu Qing came home, saw the expensive new snacks in the house, and sighed as she looked at her younger daughter, wanting to say something but instead shaking her head and closing her mouth.

The next morning, Yu Jiao took the snacks with her to work with her mom, while Ye Nai went to scout the electronics market for new laptop parts.

Her "Space" really had many laptops, including the one that had belonged to Sister Hong and several others that had been found in an off-road vehicle of a military team.

The laptops used by the military team were even higher performance, and using them just for practicing accounting exams for her mom was indeed a waste, but she bought the hard drives anyway, cleaned them thoroughly, and kept them as backup machines.

After spending the morning at the electronic market and buying everything needed, she also purchased some groceries on her way home.

Back home, Ye Nai first made braised pork, blanching the meat and stewing it in a pot. After that, she returned to the cool living room, took out a stainless steel table, and began to disassemble Sister Hong’s old laptop, carefully cleaning the dust, and while reassembling it, installed the newly bought hard drive and keyboard, booted up the system, and restarted it—successfully.

Thanks to her own desktop computer, having a bit of experience made her not at all nervous about disassembling and assembling laptops.

After such refurbishing, there were no visible signs of prior use, perfectly resembling a directly purchased second-hand computer in the market.

After finishing with the computer, Ye Nai also replaced the door lock with one that had a visual function; the surveillance footage could be replayed and saved, and the lock cylinder was the best currently available.

When Yu Qing and Yu Jiao got home in the evening, they were surprised to see the new door lock. After receiving the new keys, they played with it for a while, figuring out the basic use.

Yu Qing went into her bedroom, and on the small desk, there was a shiny, clean second-hand laptop with a sticky note on it, listing the boot-up password.

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Of course, there was also a second-hand phone for Yu Jiao on the desk in her bedroom.

It had originally belonged to her twin brother—one was sky blue, the other sea blue. Ye Nai had kept the lighter-colored one, and the other two were sold at the electronics market.

"Wow, I have a phone now!" Yu Jiao excitedly ran out of the bedroom holding the phone.

"Come here, I’ll turn on the hotspot for you to use for now, and tomorrow Mom will get you a supplementary card. Once the home network is set up, it will be fine."

Yu Jiao sat next to Ye Nai, watching her set up the phone step by step. Soon, her own phone was connected to the internet and she could play on it freely.

Yu Qing turned on her laptop to test it. From boot-up to the password screen, it took eight seconds, and after entering the password, it was three seconds to the desktop—much more efficient than the computers at her work. At work, she could go make a cup of hot water while it booted up, only returning to her desk in time to see the desktop.

She immediately made a transfer to Ye Nai.

Ye Nai accepted the three thousand because this model indeed had hit the market last autumn and a new one still cost over six thousand, plus she had switched to brand-new accessories, so asking for half price for a second-hand one was quite reasonable.

And this three thousand, of course, she planned to spend it all at home during this summer vacation.

The next morning, Yu Qing went out to get broadband and a secondary SIM card. In the afternoon, she rushed to the school for a parent-teacher meeting, where Yu Jiao’s grades ranked twelfth in a class of fifty.

The following morning, the technician installed the broadband, and in the afternoon, Yu Qing stayed at home practicing with real test questions, her laptop running smoothly.

Monday happened to be July 1st, and Ye Nai had transferred eight hundred to each of the twins as promised in the wee hours.

After dawn, the family of three left the house together at 7:30 a.m., with Yu Qing taking Yu Jiao to work, and Ye Nai heading to the driving school in the suburbs.

Taking advantage of the cool early morning, Ye Nai treated it like a walk for a while before fetching her electric scooter at an intersection and going on her way.

She arrived at the driving school a little after eight, showed her registration and payment records, signed in without issues, and made it in time for the theory class that began at 8:30 a.m.

The theory class lasted twelve hours, split into six hours online and six offline, and only after completing all the classes could she book her first subject test.

Ye Nai had ample experience with driving tests since she had already passed the licenses for motorcycles and tractor trailers, so a four-wheeled vehicle’s traffic rules exam surely wouldn’t be too hard for her.

After today’s three-hour offline class, she returned to the city, had lunch on the street, bought vegetables for the evening, and walked home. Taking advantage of the empty house, she changed clothes and used Space Teleportation to go to the Secret Realm.

Having not visited for several days, she came to relax.

With a time difference of twelve hours, it was late night in the Secret Realm, pitch black as one couldn’t see their own hand, and without moon or stars in the sky, the Fungus had selected a no-man’s land that was devoid of outsiders for her.

Upon landing, Ye Nai immediately sensed that the area was indeed uninhabited; even the amount of her Fungus was very sparse, naturally grown over time.

On a closer inspection, beneath this layer of Fungus, deep in the soil, lay a slender strand of Fungus that had chased down energy to grow, reaching places where the Fungus absorbed organic matter from the soil and expanded the fungal community range by naturally growing in the shallow layers.

This had resulted in the formation of a layered structure of fungal bands.

Ye Nai felt inspired, followed the direction of the fungal band, and activated Space Teleportation to check out the endpoint.

The endpoint appeared in an instant, still a vast wilderness of grassland. Ye Nai shone her flashlight around, and apart from lush wild grass and uneven bushes, saw nothing unusual—there wasn’t even a sound from mutant beasts.

The air was hot and humid, and the ground soft—stepping on it left watery patches, resembling recent rainfall which was conducive to fungal growth. Beneath some bushes, Ye Nai found mushrooms breaking through the soil, varying in size, shape, and vibrant colors. She curiously gathered them into her Space, and would know soon enough if they were edible.

The Fungus beneath the soil continued extending forward.

This was merely the endpoint where the Fungus band had grown— not the location of the energy attracting the Fungus.

Ye Nai followed the direction of the Fungus growth slowly, planning to walk a bit further, leave a mark, and then head back to finish her class hours. She aimed to complete all twelve hours within two days and then take the first subject test.

After walking for an hour and still not reaching the end, the wild grass continuously brushed against her skin—itchy, tingling, and hot, she felt ready to call it quits.