Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi..

Chapter 35: Chapter 35: Just Earned a Little Money to Take the Blame for Others

Ye Nai herself, aside from some disheveled hair and a few drops of sweat on her forehead, was absolutely fine, not even gasping for breath.

The warriors who had intended to take her in for questioning after receiving the alarm, and those who had called for backup during the scuffle, all stood silently in the back row, looking at her wordlessly.

Dragging an iron pipe with one hand, Ye Nai’s gaze swept over the faces of the shocked crowd as she walked up slowly, the metal scraping against the ground with a sharp, grating noise.

“Ah! Don’t come over here!”

“I was wrong, I was wrong, someone else put me up to it, it wasn’t me who wanted to trouble you!”

“My husband truly disappeared, someone said it was definitely you who did it, they told us to find you, it’s not my fault!”

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“My brother said last night before going out that there would be fun, I don’t know anything more, it was only this morning someone told me he must have run into trouble, and the last person who saw him was you, you must have killed him.”

“I just came along for the ride, I didn’t want to!”

Finally, someone had a bright idea and ran to hide behind the warriors, pushing them forward, “Don’t just stand there watching!”

The warriors all stood with their arms folded, none of them moved.

It wasn’t before the fight now, if such a brawl had occurred before, they would have been stopped before it even began, but now, with the reasons and consequences clear, even if the fight had finished, it wasn’t considered a big deal, in fact, it was easier to handle after the fight.

Ye Nai stopped walking and jerked the iron pipe on the ground a few times.

The few shouting about their innocence and ignorance immediately fell silent.

“Now do you know what a real murder scene looks like?”

“We know, we know.”

These seven or eight people were submissive, not even daring to look at the carnage before them.

Of course, by now they had all come to their senses, realizing that they and their families had been used as pawns by others, and that it hadn’t ended well.

They felt terribly wronged, crying out loudly.

“But my brother really did go missing.”

“My husband as well.”

“My younger brother too.”

“We all gathered together because our family members went missing last night.”

“Who told you that? Who is that person? Tell me the name, was it one person or several? Was it the same person who informed all of you?”

“It was…”

As these people glanced at each other, even a fool could tell there was more than one person stirring things up from behind the scenes.

“I’m really honored, to have offended the local big shots upon my arrival? Didn’t come to drink when I invited yesterday, now setting me up behind my back? Tell me the names, I can let you off, otherwise, all the guilt is yours.”

Ye Nai lifted the iron pipe and jerked it forcefully against the ground.

The harsh clanging sound made the seven or eight people tremble with fear.

Her expressionless face and the calm voice suggested an emotional stability rare among her peers, giving the impression she was easy to talk to, but combined with the aftermath at her feet, it was honestly terrifying.

“Everyone comes here to make money, whether you want to take the blame for others or not, you’re all adults and don’t need to be taught, I’m counting to three.”

“1, 2…”

“It was Boss Xie.”

“Old Guan told me, Old Guan is with Boss Jin.”

“The neighbor upstairs told me, that person is one of Brother Wen’s men.”

The very real threat made them all crack, and they blurted out everything they knew all at once.

Ye Nai waited for a while, but no one else spoke, and she took out her phone to glance at the mobile contacts she had added last night. None of the twelve bosses who had come for drinks had these three surnames.

“Anything else? So only these three bosses were involved?”

The seven or eight people looked at each other and shook their heads one after another.

“I was with him.”

“The three of us were together.”

The others who hadn’t spoken pointed fingers at each other, forming small groups, and confirmed that the only bosses they knew of were these three.

If there were any other bosses involved, they would need to ask those injured on the ground.

Ye Nai couldn’t be bothered to ask; these three bosses were already exposed, and the others wouldn’t be able to hide for long.

“Scram.”

In the end, Ye Nai let them go, not even sparing them another look, and turned on her heel with the iron pipe dragging behind her.

She remembered the item was forcibly borrowed and needed to be returned.

The injured on the ground couldn’t even move, and when Ye Nai walked past them, some of them shrank back their legs and feet.

She walked away, but the trouble wasn’t over. The group of warriors spoke up, took those who had escaped a beating for questioning, and the injured called for ambulances. Of course, they would have to pay for their own medical expenses. Times had changed, so for them, getting beaten was like suffering for nothing.

Onlookers on the street cheered for Ye Nai as she walked by, complimenting her on how awesome she was at fighting.

Ye Nai even politely nodded back to accept the praise; after all, she took the compliments as kind words. She believed none of them dared to admit they were cursing her.

Returning to the small shop where they were working on the storefront, Ye Nai held up the pipe and asked the workers if they still wanted it, stating she’d clean it and bring it back.

Seeing the iron pipe smeared with human skin, blood, and tissue, who would dare take it? The foreman flatly offered it to her, not even daring to touch it.

So Ye Nai just walked away with the pipe in hand.

On her way back to the neighborhood on foot, several ambulances were parked at the roadside, loading up the injured one by one. Those who could stand squeezed into one vehicle, while those who couldn’t were carried on board.

Back in the neighborhood, there was also a commotion. The security guard, seeing that it was her swiping the access card, even proactively approached her to chat.

“You’re back, they’re busy in there.”

“Still busy?”

“Yeah, a bunch of people are rolling around, clamoring that you committed murder last night, and now they’re checking the surveillance footage.”

“Our neighborhood’s surveillance is all working, right? They better clear my name.”

“Don’t worry about that, everything’s working fine. They’re just making false accusations. Those bosses, having made money here, have forgotten where they stand.”

“Speaking of which, I’m curious why someone would like to be a boss. They come here to sell their labor for a fixed wage. Can being a boss make them earn an extra buck or two?”

“Humph, the benefit of banding together is claiming territories. They’re the only ones allowed to handle the trash bags in that area; no one else may reach out. The people working for them have to give a cut of their earnings to the boss as tribute, and that’s how the bosses make their money.”

“So every newcomer has to pay respect first? They have to join a gang before they qualify to make money?”

“Exactly.”

Ye Nai remembered her first day on the job when a staff member had taken her in. She had shown her skills in a big “Space” and smoothly made some money.

It was only afterwards that someone warned her to be cautious of the local gang leaders.

“Isn’t that just sick? We already pay tax once at settlement, and giving tribute to the boss is like paying tax again. I see no benefit, but today everyone got their share of the beating.”

“Heh, they’re willing to fight, willing to suffer.”

“That’s true.”

After chatting, Ye Nai carried the iron pipe further inside. When she passed the spot where the fight had taken place the night before, she noticed people looking for evidence, like those crime scene investigations seen in detective shows.