Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi..

Chapter 299: Chapter 299: First Contact with the Otherworld Natives (2)

Back in the village square, the sun was already setting in the west.

The huge time disparity meant that while preparing a dish took about ten minutes, ten hours had passed here, jumping from early morning straight to evening, and soon it would be dark.

She sat on an outdoor chair, her belongings on a folding table. Besides a bowl of cold marinated white mushrooms, there was also a steaming hot meat sandwich as the main course.

Finally, from the crowd of people lying unconscious all around, she chose a girl about her own age and woke her up.

The girl slowly opened her eyes, sat up confused, and when she saw that the villagers were lying all around her, she suddenly remembered what had happened and began to scream in panic, completely failing to notice the stranger sitting at the edge of the square.

Ye Nai watched her patting this person and pushing that one, shouting the whole time without anyone waking up.

As she became increasingly panicked and realized that none of the people around her was responding after she had slapped them all, she seemed to accept some terrible truth. Her shoulders fell, and she collapsed back to the ground, looking around bewildered. Then, finally, she locked eyes with Ye Nai.

“Halo～”

Among the few words Ye Nai understood, she was certain this was a universal greeting.

The girl was startled, then began to blabber excitedly, her face red and her neck swollen. Even if Ye Nai couldn’t comprehend, it was clear the girl was swearing a blue streak.

As she cursed, she thought about standing up, but then she finally realized she couldn’t; her legs were as weak as if they didn’t exist. She could only shuffle around on her hands, panicked, beating her legs and the ground until she finally figured that this stranger might be to blame and she made a pleading gesture with her hands in front of her chest.

Of course she couldn’t move; Ye Nai had only awakened her to listen to what she would say, not to let her bounce around.

Ye Nai listened to her talking non-stop without a break, still only understanding the few isolated words that didn’t form a complete sentence.

She picked up the bowl of marinated white mushrooms, eating while motioning the girl to continue talking.

Perhaps body language was truly universal; the girl kept on talking as Ye Nai gestured for her to do so.

Ye Nai ate silently with an expressionless face, occasionally biting into the meat sandwich when the dish got too salty.

Gradually, a miracle happened. More and more words became understandable, slowly forming sentences, until finally, Ye Nai could roughly comprehend what the girl was babbling about.

The girl kept repeating the same thing, pleading with her to spare the villagers, as they were all just ordinary villagers who provided food, laundry, and mending to the nearby Military Fortress and had done no other evil deeds.

Ye Nai put down the empty bowl, wiped her mouth, and took out a computer to create a new document. According to her own thoughts, she listed a few questions to organize her thoughts.

Suddenly seeing such a metallic piece of large furniture, the girl’s eyes grew wide and she shrank back in terror.

Ye Nai cleared her throat a few times and adjusted her vocal cords, attempting to make a sound.

“You, where is this?”

The pronunciation was smooth, not a challenge to the Blue Star people’s vocal structure, and the sentence structure was kept simple, starting with easy phrases.

The girl hesitated for a moment, then quickly responded, “This is Beigen Village.”

“The big house outside Beigen Village, what is that place?”

“Big house?” The girl faltered again before realizing, “Do you mean the Military Fortress? That’s the Military Fortress.”

“Military Fortress, does it have a name?”

“I don’t know, we usually just call it Military Fortress.”

“Military Fortress, how many are there?”

“Just one, only this one.”

“Outside the village, what is there?”

“There is a town, and around the town, there are other villages. Beyond that, I don’t know.”

“How long has the Military Fortress been here?”

“For a very long time, from the time of my grandfather’s grandfather, a very, very long time.”

“So long, and still new?”

“Every few years, it’s renovated by someone. It has been in use for many years.”

“Do you know what that place is for?”

“Inside there is a Transmission Platform, quite a few of them, but I don’t know where they lead to.”

“Transmission Platform, what’s it for?”

“It’s for teleporting to each other; you exit from one altar and enter another, going to different places.”

“No one stays behind?”

“Stays behind? No one stays; it’s just in and out, in and out.”

“You only provide the soldiers at the Military Fortress with food and water?”

“Yes, yes, we just take care of them; people coming out of the altar are not our responsibility.”

“Don’t the people coming and going from the altar ask you for food and water?”

“They ask the town for it; the town will provide. We only manage the eating and drinking of the soldiers inside the fortress.”

With each question and answer, progress went smoothly; Ye Nai typed away rapidly while the girl sneaked glances, eager to know what that thing looked like but not daring to ask.

“That, I’ve answered all your questions, can I stand up now?”

“No, I haven’t finished asking.”

“I don’t know much, what else do you want to know?”

“Name, the name of the country?”

“If I tell you, can I stand up then?”

“No.”

“Why not?”

“No reason. Tell me, the name of the country.”

“I don’t know, I only know the villages and towns.”

Ye Nai nodded, then woke another person, a middle-aged man.

Upon awakening, the man also began with a tirade of rapid swearing, threatening if Ye Nai didn’t release him, he would whip her severely, whip her to death, then strip her naked and drag her to the town for public display.

The girl tried to call for him to be quiet, but he wouldn’t listen, and because they were too far apart, one could not force the other to stop speaking.

From the girl’s calls, Ye Nai deduced that the middle-aged man was the village chief.

The girl called out a few times but couldn’t stop the village chief. Instead, she got scolded and then lowered her head in silence.

Ye Nai didn’t intervene; she allowed the middle-aged village chief to point at her nose and curse, and every curse word he used became part of Ye Nai’s expanding vocabulary, including the repeatedly used rural obscenities.

It must be said that the village chief had great stamina; he hadn’t eaten or drunk anything after sleeping a whole day, yet his tirade of curses didn’t even leave him breathless.

At the other end, the girl started to stir again. She struggled to drag her uncooperative legs, crawling over several people, and threw herself toward a child. She tried to wake him by shaking him, but when he wouldn’t rouse, she began to panic.

“Village chief, village chief, calm down for a moment. Haven’t you noticed that the entire village is unconscious? She’s stronger than you, stronger than the soldiers at the Military Fortress.”

The girl held tight to the child in her arms, using her loudest voice to drown out the village chief’s. From the effort, her already yellow skin turned a shade of red, turning into a mix of yellow and red.

The village chief’s voice abruptly stopped.

Ye Nai actually looked at the girl with admiration; the minds of young people are indeed quick.

“You, smart.”

The girl trembled with fear, lying prostrate on the ground, begging desperately.

“I don’t know you, but you must have come through the Transmission Platform. Has the Military Fortress been destroyed?”

“Yes.”