Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi..

By the time midnight arrived, the main courses were served.

Ye Nai changed into her going-out clothes, packed her computer, and communicated with the spores and fungus dispersed in the city. She intended to go directly back to East Ridge City, choosing to land on the balcony of her mother’s home.

But after standing for a few minutes, nothing happened.

So, she communicated with the miniaturized East Ridge Secret Realm in her mind. Entering the Secret Realm was a breeze, without any hindrance, and she landed directly on the highway outside of Town No. 2.

After steadying herself, she recalled her mother’s home balcony again, and, whoosh, with her left foot afloat and her right foot firmly planted, she opened her eyes to find she was standing on her mother’s home balcony.

On the balcony, only the air conditioner in her mother’s bedroom was working. Ye Nai glanced through the window and saw her little sister sleeping with their mother.

She smiled slightly, disappeared on the spot, first returning to the Secret Realm, then back to the hotel in Five Bridges City. Enjoy new stories from NovelBin.Côm

Standing in the bright hotel room, Ye Nai fully understood the Secret Realm’s function; aside from being her personal sanctuary, it also served as a transfer station.

Wherever she was in the country, as long as she wanted to go to another province or city, she could easily get there through the Secret Realm.

She could even travel the entire world this way.

But the prerequisite was that she had to traverse the country on foot, leaving spores everywhere, as her spores were an essential medium for location determination.

Traveling across the country wasn’t a small feat; it would take several years to travel the whole country. Ye Nai opened the window and released a large amount of spores, letting them travel for her first.

The next morning, Ye Nai rode her electric scooter out of the city, then switched to her Little Lemon and headed straight for the industrial park to check out the mobile houses.

Before dealing with customer service or anything like that, she approached the entrance of one factory, took out her cellphone to locate the corresponding online shop, chatted with the customer service for a few minutes, and showed the chat record to the security guard, who let her in and directed her to the warehouse.

Ye Nai kept visiting one factory after another. After a day, she had seen five or six factories and had discerned differences between them. Even though they were all classic courtyard styles, there was a distinction between rough and exquisite craftsmanship.

She took a liking to the more refined courtyards, considering assembling a Courtyard House for herself to live in, and another, slightly rougher triple courtyard to serve as a medical facility. In one courtyard, she could have examination rooms, trauma cleaning, surgery rooms, and simple wards all together.

Without a surgery room, where would she place the surgical equipment she bought?

When Ye Nai expressed the idea of setting up a first-aid room, the factory immediately indicated that they had categories of mobile hospitals, and based on the desired size, they could be bought and arranged on their own. With these mobile houses, it was even possible to assemble a top-tier hospital.

The classic courtyards were designed for residential use and had not taken into account the water and electrical design of a hospital. Using a residence as a first-aid room was feasible for setting up a room for one’s own use, but it wasn’t suitable for any larger equipment, especially types that needed to be fixed to the floor, with wires hidden underneath. The floors in mobile hospitals could be opened to fit wire channels, whereas residential floors were truly just tiles or laminated flooring.

Ye Nai recognized that one of her strengths was being receptive to advice. As soon as the factory explained, she immediately discarded her amateur ideas and decided to buy a mobile hospital instead.

Luckily, the mobile hospital buildings could also be freely combined, with the scale and extravagance up to the individual.

After a day of looking, she didn’t rush to place an order. In the end, Ye Nai went back with a bunch of brochures to give it some more thought.

The next day, she rushed to the construction machinery market to take a look at the engineering vehicles. Upon leaving the market, she purchased a high-horsepower, crawler-type bulldozer from the leading machinery enterprise. The salesperson guaranteed it was absolutely suitable for various off-road and Secret Realm environments, claiming that crossing mountains and wading through waters would be a breeze.

With some time still left in the day, she hurried to the agricultural machinery market, where she bought a high-horsepower, crawler-type tractor from the same leading enterprise. The salesperson assured her that not only would it handle plowing with ease, but it would also navigate through the secret realm wilderness’s mountains and waters without faltering.

Having acquired the vehicles, she made a round of the market, equipping herself with a full set of farming machinery from land-reclamation to harvesting. She also purchased sprinkler and drip irrigation systems scaled for ten acres of farmland.

Ye Nai felt like a novice farmer with only some experience in growing a few plots of vegetables, most of which came from the assistance of her fungus. Now she was about to start with ten acres of land, and while paying was exhilarating, she had no firm expectations for the yield.

After finishing with the farm machinery, Ye Nai then dashed to the agricultural resources wholesale market. She bought seeds, pesticides, chemical fertilizers, organic fertilizers, pesticide drones, and medication tanks. She even came across livestock salt licks, which were sold in standardized square blocks, four to a box, advertised with different functions, and irregular-shaped salt blocks, packaged in bulk, sold by the bagful.

Ye Nai bought the salt blocks.

In a wholesale market, it was natural to buy in wholesale quantities. The owner, seeing she was a Space Awakened, didn’t ask many questions, quickly sourcing stock from colleagues when his own was insufficient. In one trip, Ye Nai had almost bought out the entire salt block market, ignoring the 50-pound bags of animal salt as they were inconvenient to use.

Of course, the salt blocks were intended for distribution in East Ridge Secret Realm, to be placed near the water where animals frequently drank. Over time, as animals grew accustomed to migrating routes with accessible water and salt, they would frequent the area, potentially taming wild mutant beasts into breedable specimens over the long term.

After buying the salt blocks, she then thought about the deployment issue—would leaving them on the ground over time affect the soil?

Consequently, she searched for outdoor feed troughs for cattle and horses. She wanted to buy metal ones, but the store owners didn’t offer them, explaining that the animals might ingest metal filings from excessive licking, and in winter, there was also the risk of tongues sticking to the metal.

As such, all these feed troughs used metal frames with wooden bodies, some intricatelycrafted with mortise and tenon joints or nails, while others were rough in style, consisting of a tree split down the middle with the core hollowed out and simply placed on the frame.

Looking at the rough-style troughs, Ye Nai figured she could make them herself, so she left without buying anything, empty-handed.

Lastly, she went to the non-staple food wholesale market and did a big shop. She bought a box of every kind of seasoning, with the most heavily used sugar and salt bought in huge sacks.

Sugar was still a controlled item. Lands capable of growing sugary crops required planting other agricultural products. With low yield and high consumption, sugar was expensive.

Ye Nai managed to buy more white sugar only because of her first aider certificate.

The difficulty of purchasing sugar made her consider growing sugar beets and sugarcane in the Secret Realm herself.

Of course, this would have to wait until after she had learned the necessary skills.

Ye Nai, utterly inexperienced in farming, decided to study diligently on online course platforms.

She was grateful for this comprehensive online platform that offered a wide array of courses for everyone.

After finishing her shopping, the day had grown late, so she returned to her hotel to get a good night’s sleep, ready to hit the markets again at dawn.

She visited the medical equipment market and quickly found that large stores provided one-stop services. Just by disclosing her needs, the salesperson could draft a supply list, then tailor it according to the customer’s budget.

Presenting her first aider certificate, Ye Nai inquired at various stores for a one-million budget, requesting a standalone clinic setup suitable for performing surgeries within the Secret Realm, including a complete operating room setup and portable or movable devices like mobile X-ray machines that operated on 220V voltage, as well as postoperative care, IV drips, oxygenation, and hospital room equipment.