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Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi-Chapter 382 A Small Encounter to Showcase Strength (6)
Chapter 382: Chapter 382 A Small Encounter to Showcase Strength (6)
Even so, just the former ruling class and nobles she captured from various National Capitals, including men, women, and children, exceed five thousand people.
Thus, when Fan Zeyang and the others passed through the Transmission Port and stood about twenty meters away from the former nobles’ prisoner camp, they saw an extremely vast tent area.
The tent area had no barbed wire or other defensive facilities to restrict the prisoners’ movement. Quite a few children were playing chase games here, and when they saw the sudden strangers, they retreated to the nearest tent, searching for any objects that could serve as cover.
Women from all around ran over, gracefully bowed to Ye Nai and those beside her, then hurriedly dragged their children away.
They didn’t ask a single casual question; the arrogant noble demeanor that permeated their beings had completely vanished.
The Secret Realm follows the Blue Star’s time difference; the prisoners captured here for as long as over a month, as short as ten days to half a month, were all made so obedient.
Watching the women and children run away, the men didn’t say anything. Their attention was focused on the spot they stood at this moment.
This spot was special and happened to be on a boundary line.
On the left was the endless tent area, on the right was farmland being cultivated.
Having captured so many prisoners, Ye Nai naturally wouldn’t let them stay idle; she had them all opening up land for cultivation.
When they saw many people on the farmland swinging simple furniture to plow the land, Fan Zeyang and the four men were shocked.
"Farmland?"
"This is land cultivation?"
"Hey, hey, hey, when we came, we agreed to only see the prisoners, not to ask about other things."
"We didn’t agree at that time." The secretary smiled and added.
"What the hell...?" Ye Nai couldn’t help but curse, looking incredulously at these obviously sly men.
"Hey, hey, hey, don’t say things that affect unity." Fan Zeyang pretended to stop his secretary, but from his expression to his tone, there was no sign of anger at all.
The advisor even put his hand to his brow to gaze around. Just as Ye Nai sensed a superpower’s fluctuation, she saw the advisor had completed his observation and put down his hand.
"This is the Secret Realm." The advisor said confidently.
Ye Nai kept her mouth shut, simply staring at him, while the other three watched the advisor with interest, waiting for his follow-up.
"Don’t stare at me like that; this is indeed the Secret Realm. When we were young, we all risked our lives in the Secret Realm, and we’re very familiar with its environment. Especially since we just went to the Otherworld and felt the energy concentration over there, we definitely couldn’t mistake this place."
After the advisor’s analysis came to an end, Fan Zeyang, the secretary, and Camp Commander Lin all nodded in agreement.
"Correct, from the energy concentration standpoint, this is the Secret Realm; we noticed it as soon as we arrived."
"Moreover, I have evidence."
The advisor first pointed to his eyes, then turned and pointed in a certain direction.
Ye Nai glanced in the direction he pointed, her heart skipping a beat. Walking in that direction leads to Town No. 2.
"At the end of this wilderness, there’s a road and a small town behind."
"You can see? Are you the Thousand-Mile Eye? Was that your superpower fluctuation just now?" Ye Nai fired off questions like a machine gun.
"Yes, my superpower is in my eyes." The advisor admitted readily.
Ye Nai slumped her shoulders, "I’m at a big loss."
"Don’t be discouraged; there’s no huge loss. Although we’re curious which Secret Realm this is, we won’t ask."
"Oh, thank you for not asking."
"Even though we won’t ask, you can tell us proactively."
"Not saying."
"If you don’t say, then we’ll have to guess on our own?"
The advisor’s tone revealed a confidence, obviously fueled by his Thousand-Mile Eye superpower providing many clues.
Ye Nai pursed her lips, not wanting to deal with him.
The advisor simply laughed to himself.
"It’s actually easy to guess. The road and the small town behind have no people, no cars, no signs of any human activity. The buildings clearly exhibit our military style; thus, only one Secret Realm meets all these conditions."
The advisor spoke like giving a riddle, causing Fan Zeyang and the others to ponder for a moment. Except for Camp Commander Lin, who hadn’t grasped the core, Fan Zeyang and the secretary one after another had the answer.
"East Ridge Secret Realm!"
"The vanished East Ridge Secret Realm!"
"...Ah?!" Camp Commander Lin opened his mouth wide. "Can a disappeared Secret Realm be accessed again? Ye Nai, did you close the Secret Realm?!"
Ye Nai tilted her head, looking at them with displeasure, giving Camp Commander Lin a particular glance.
Slow to decipher riddles but quick to guess this.
"Are you here to see prisoners or to search for the Secret Realm?"
"To see prisoners, of course to see prisoners. However, the environment here is quite good; no need to relocate them out, saving external land space." The advisor nodded eagerly, followed by Fan Zeyang and the others.
"Are you implying restarting this Secret Realm, letting me set a fixed Transmission Port for you to come and go?"
"Restarting isn’t necessary; however, the prisoners would then be solely your responsibility—materials, ideological education, and health care—handled by you alone, as others couldn’t enter, right?" Fan Zeyang coaxed gently.
"Maintaining a long-term fixed Transmission Port requires consuming energy."
"Whose energy does it consume? If it restricts you from moving, then I’ll take back what I said."
Reactivating a ready Secret Realm, who wouldn’t be tempted?
At this moment, Ye Nai had officially become an integral figure in Fan Zeyang’s mind. If maintaining a Transmission Port long-term limited her freedom, it would be counterproductive, a pyrrhic victory.
"It doesn’t relate to me, the Transmission Port requires drawing energy for stability."
"Bang," Fan Zeyang excitedly slapped his thigh, "That’s fantastic!"
The others also happily nodded repeatedly.
"Where do you think the Transmission Port should be placed?"
"In dangerous zones, areas littered with waste, the more the merrier."
"Uh? Such places have energy?"
"Yes."
"Hmm?"
Now it was Fan Zeyang and the others who were puzzled. Elsewhere was hard to say, but Daijing and Purple Capital—these two places have been thoroughly studied, and they truly couldn’t discover energy in those waste zones that couldn’t be decomposed by Blue Star’s ecosystem and had to be burned.
Ye Nai shrugged, not explaining further. After all, it couldn’t be explained; they couldn’t see spores. To know how she accomplished it, scientists would need to come in for research.
"After seeing the prisoners, do you have any other questions?"
"You have them cultivate land; is it to genuinely farm, or just to exhaust their physical strength?"
"Of course it’s for farming; I won’t feed idle hands." Ye Nai said emphatically, in a very straightforward manner.
"...The Secret Realm can sustain farming?!"
"Can the Secret Realm not support farming?"