Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi..

Ye Nai saw that the people from the frontline camp in the Secret Realm had all been forcibly moved to a small town in the rear, so she went back home.

She knew what would follow was a series of meetings, preparations, and evacuations, nothing worth watching. After all, everyone would evacuate, and even if a few refused to leave, she would see them off herself if necessary.

In the following days, the Secret Realm became busy as the current situation was announced through the town’s loudspeakers, prompting everyone to pack up their things.

The teams that were forcibly brought to the town had many bold and daring Awakened Warriors turning back towards the wilderness to retrieve the vehicles owned by their teams. Without their vehicles, leaving would amount to declaring bankruptcy.

Ye Nai entered the Secret Realm daily to observe and, upon noticing that there were people in the wilderness again whose only goal was to retrieve their abandoned assets, she helped them by gathering all scattered off-road and refrigerated trucks and releasing them all at once in Town No. 2.

In the No. 5 danger zone, the vehicles belonging to Brother Xiao Ma’s team were also sneakily stuffed with her goods by Ye Nai.

There were so many vehicles that they blocked the road leading out of the town.

The warriors from Town No. 2 naturally went to check the large number of vehicles that appeared out of thin air. After inspection and registration, they notified all the rear towns through loudspeakers, inviting anyone who had lost a team vehicle to come to Town No. 2 to claim them.

There was no fear of false claims, as anyone who bought a vehicle had to register it; those who could produce legal documents could take the vehicle, and unclaimed vehicles could find their owners or inheritors when taken outside.

The Awakened Warriors who had gone deep into the wilderness looking for vehicles faced more trouble – some had walkie-talkies and mobile phones within the town’s communication range, so they were immediately called back.

However, those who had gone far were completely out of touch and needed Ye Nai to gather them back to the nearest rear town.

Thankfully, after such a tumult, no one ventured back into the wilderness again but chose to follow the main force instead.

Individual proprietors with vehicles closed their businesses; what they could take, they took themselves, and what they couldn’t, they sold to the military. The military bought what they wanted and discarded the rest as junk, packing it all to take away for disposal.

Those with vehicles left first, while those without rode in the army’s large trucks to Town No. 2. All the little town garrisons followed the same protocol, sending the civilians out first.

The warriors from the frontline camp were still concerned about the supplies and weaponry left in the camp, but every time they went into the wilderness, Ye Nai would pull them back out.

She had her eyes on those supplies, as she was short on weapons and equipment, which she intended to keep for her use.

She also took all the unfinished food, vegetables, fruits, and groceries; even if she wouldn’t eat them, the spores would decompose them, ensuring nothing went to waste.

After several stubborn rounds, the warriors also accepted that the Secret Realm was indeed driving people out and that one should not leave town or stray from the roads to venture into the wilderness.

Being stubborn was futile; they couldn’t expect to test how many days the Secret Realm would tolerate their presence, as food in every town was depleting day by day.

Once all the civilians were sent away, the garrisons in the rear towns could only take weapons, medical supplies, and leftover food. What couldn’t be taken was sealed in warehouses, hoping it could be retrieved in the future.

Military trucks crammed with personnel drove out of the Secret Realm, and one by one, the rear towns turned off their main power supplies and lost their former vitality.

Town No. 2 was the last to evacuate, with the highest-ranking leaders of each town present to ensure everyone had left before they would depart.

Town No. 1 was now empty, with all businesses closed to clear roads and streets for tents to accommodate teams coming from various danger zones for support.

Meanwhile, these bosses and workers were also considering and watching whether Town No. 1 could continue to exist.

Those leaving the Secret Realm sighed in relief at the peaceful scenes outside, later venting online, confessing their fears of emerging to witness apocalyptic war-torn scenery.

Ye Nai was still in the city, not called back by Danger Zone No. 5. She speculated everyone was stunned, observing what sort of changes would follow in the Secret Realm before deciding on future actions.

Her latest thought was that it would be nice if the Secret Realm could close now that everyone had evacuated, becoming her own personal Secret Realm, accompanying her wherever she went, just like the Pocket Worlds and personal dwellings described in fantasy novels.

If she could close it, perhaps she had indeed discovered a method exclusive to her for closing the various Secret Realms.

The altar wasn’t buried deep, only about five meters down—an easy depth for ground-penetrating radar. During the many years of infrastructure building within the Secret Realm, there must have been coincidental discoveries of mysterious altars that just weren’t publicized, so nobody knew.

Not knowing didn’t matter. Once she had visited and excavated all the Secret Realms in the nation, the truth about which had unearthed altars would naturally emerge.

Ye Nai silently made her decision; if the East Ridge Secret Realm could be closed, then she could justifiably move to other places.

Two more days passed, and the people from Town No. 2 had also evacuated, leaving the entire East Ridge Secret Realm completely empty.

Ye Nai’s desire to close the Secret Realm was realized.

As the last vehicle from Town No. 2 drove out, the East Ridge Secret Realm began to pulsate rhythmically, its towering presence having pressured the city’s people for many years now shrinking and expanding in plain sight.

This pulsating continued for a week.

Under the nationwide live internet surveillance, numerous eagle-eyed netizens noticed the vast Space Channel shrinking by the day.

After a week, both its height and length had halved, and it no longer touched the ground but floated in the air, still visible from every corner of East Ridge City with just a glance.

People across the country exclaimed in shock—East Ridge Secret Realm was closing!

Countless individuals turned to history books; even those netizens who had promptly discarded their history lessons after exams now remembered that when the Secret Realm first appeared as a Space Channel, it too formed slowly, giving Dahua Country time to organize its military defenses.

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Of course, in the initial exploratory probes, countless military drones of various types crashed, a loss only Dahua Country, with its unmatched global industrial capability, could afford. Upon realizing the incoming threat, the country immediately entered a national wartime state.

Other countries in the world, lacking significant industrial capabilities or having none at all, suffered greatly once the enemy revealed themselves. During those years, Blue Star truly experienced scenes of the apocalypse.

The emergence of the Space Channel interfered with satellite communications, gradually weakening the world’s observational capabilities and eventually losing contact with other nations. Every country fought its battles alone, unable to rely on others. Given the circumstances, one could only imagine the fate of the many small and weak nations on Blue Star.