Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi..

Chapter 38: Chapter 38 How Big Space Users Earn Money

[Yezi, are you free this morning? We need someone to move a huge pile of trash deep into the dangerous zone.]

[Sister Qiao, how big is the pile of trash?]

[Hehe, it’s so big that only you can handle it. We will calculate based on your 1000 cubic meters of space capacity. It’s a direct trip to the garbage incineration power station, 73 kilometers there and back, three yuan per cubic meter, 1000*3*73=219000 before tax, with a 25% tax.]

[Pfft, for real? Is it that much?]

[Oh yes, Big Space Users can earn a lot. Jobs within two days are calculated by the kilometer count, so your base is 3000 multiplied by the kilometers. If it takes more than two days, then it’s calculated by the day, no longer three yuan but twenty yuan, so your space base would then be 20*1000=20000, hiring you for ten days would be 20000*10=200000 yuan before tax.]

[Is there such a big difference? Then short trips are more cost-effective.]

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[But where are there so many short trips suitable for Big Space Users? Long trips are the vast majority. Is it bad to earn a stable few hundred thousand a month? Plus, this pricing also considers maintaining income equality, avoiding large income disparities between Space Users and other types of Awakeners, keeping the Space Department from becoming a useless ability.]

[That’s true.]

[These three and twenty yuan figures are official rates. Private hires might offer a bit more, depending on how you negotiate. You can check all these rates on the app, haven’t you seen them?]

[Meh, I’ve only been moving trash for a few days, earning enough to spend; I’m really not in a hurry to take on space jobs.]

[Indeed.]

[Got time to grab some breakfast then?]

[No problem, go ahead and eat, just remember to list yourself as available in the app afterward. I’ll handle hiring you through the system; all payment and tax deductions are done through this app.]

[Alright, where should we meet?]

[Eight o’clock, the usual place.]

[OK.]

Ye Nai fiddled with her phone for a bit, and right under her personal card, there was a button to list herself as available. She clicked it, and her card appeared in the system, looking for jobs. Soon enough, she received an in-app notification confirming her employment. The total fee was the same as what Sister Qiao had calculated, the 30% deposit had been transferred over, and after completing the job, she could cash out to her bank account or keep it in her account.

She quickly changed her clothes and went downstairs, pushed out her electric scooter from the charging spot, ate breakfast on the street, and even bought some drinks and snacks from a convenience store. When she arrived at the usual meeting spot, it was just a little past eight.

She didn’t wait long before Sister Qiao arrived, dressed in full protective gear. They exchanged smiles, and Ye Nai quickly suited up. Sister Qiao drove her in an electric tricycle deep into the dangerous zone.

“Sister Qiao, you told me to take a few days off yesterday, yet today you’re sending me in here. What happened overnight?”

“Right, the morning shift first discovered a huge Heavenly Pit, then they found a dead giant mutant plant inside it. It’s too big, cutting it into pieces to move would take too much time. I immediately thought of you, knowing we could clear it quickly before too many Awakeners come in to work.”

“I see.”

Ye Nai immediately thought of the intense energy burst from the middle of the night, clearly originating from this giant mutant plant.

The ride took over half an hour, and when they arrived in front of the Heavenly Pit, caution tape had already been set up. Everyone was in neat protective gear, and Ye Nai could only distinguish who was staff and who were warriors by whether or not they were armed.

“Captain Fu!”

Sister Qiao, driving the electric tricycle, stopped near a group of armed people and shouted.

Soon, a man approached, his muscular figure barely contained by his protective suit, walking with a brisk pace.

“Captain Fu, this is Ye Nai.”

Ye Nai hurriedly got off and also called out to Captain Fu from below the vehicle.

The man nodded and asked Ye Nai a question.

“Are you afraid of the dark or heights?”

Ye Nai was startled, glanced at the Heavenly Pit, and shook her head.

“I’ve never been in such a situation before.”

“Then it doesn’t matter. Even if you are afraid, you’ll have to endure it.”

“Okay.”

Ye Nai felt that even if there were any issues, she would surely overcome them. After all, running this job and deducting taxes, she would take home 210,000 yuan.

Who could say no to that kind of money?

Soon, Ye Nai was secured with a safety rope, equipped with a walkie-talkie, and lowered by the people above into the bottom of the Heavenly Pit, where they collected the dead giant mutant plant into Space.

There had always been light on the way down, and the bottom of the Heavenly Pit was even brighter, with large illumination lamps lighting up the surroundings as if it were daylight.

To remove such a large fellow, people had already been working below, digging up its roots completely, leaving no hidden dangers to avoid a new one growing over time.

After landing, Ye Nai touched the mutant plant, which felt wooden, but only the outer shell remained.

Don’t ask her how she knew, but she just did; the essence inside had been eaten overnight by the fungus, leaving this part, which despite its massive size, was only worth something as firewood.

No wonder it had to be taken into Space decomposition.

Ye Nai guessed that the hazardous area had already been assessed for dangers, and knowing it was worthless, they hired her to remove it; otherwise, it wouldn’t have been her turn to earn this money.

“I’m here to move this thing, is everything ready? Can I take it now?”

“It’s ready, take it away.”

Ye Nai reached out again and, in an instant of contact, the hollow giant mutant plant disappeared from the spot, taking up more than 950 cubic meters in her Space; you have to admit, they measured it exactly.

“Wow!”

The crowd that had been busy at the bottom of the Heavenly Pit since morning couldn’t help but gasp as they watched the huge object suddenly vanish.

Many people had seen a Space User collect items, but it was rare to see a Big Space User gather something so large.

“Impressive, impressive!”

“Oh yeah, pack up, pack up.”

Ye Nai called over her walkie-talkie, and she was quickly hoisted back to the ground.

While Captain Fu still had to lead the cleanup, it was Sister Qiao who took Ye Nai to the parking lot of the garbage trucks in an electric tricycle, where a military SUV was waiting for her.

“I thought I’d be following the garbage truck.”

Ye Nai undressed from her protective suit, laughing with Sister Qiao as she did so.

“Waiting for the garbage truck is too slow, you never know which one will be full and ready to leave, riding in the SUV you can still get back for lunch.”

After shedding the stuffy protective suit, she suddenly felt refreshed and then felt the searing heat of the sun on her skin, hurriedly pulling open the car door to sit in the passenger side where the air conditioning was on, much more comfortable.

As the car shifted into gear, Ye Nai felt a strong pushback and glanced at the warrior driving seriously, silently gripping the car’s overhead handle tightly.

With a round trip of 70 kilometers, and 35 kilometers one way, the route consisted of straight highways, and the car flew down them, and in less than half an hour, Ye Nai could see the large smokestack of the waste incineration plant in the distance.

“What do I do next? Should I get out of the car?”

Ye Nai asked the driver, marking the first time the two had spoken since setting off, as she didn’t dare distract the driver while driving.

“No need, just drive right up to the garbage input.”

“That big thing can fit into the input? How big is this input then?”

“It’s both big and deep, just go up a slope, throw the thing down, and there are large saws below that cut the large pieces of garbage into smaller ones before burning them.”

“Oh, okay…”

Ye Nai had never seen it before and couldn’t imagine how big the input must be, so she just patiently waited.

The car was checked at the gate, then proceeded along the main road toward the input, but it wasn’t long before they encountered a traffic jam.

All were large garbage trucks; from her passenger side view, she couldn’t see the end.

“So we have to line up now?”

“Yes, this is still early; if we came later, the line would be longer, and we wouldn’t even be able to enter the gates.”

At that moment, Ye Nai gained a new appreciation for Big Space Users.

Unlike her simple understanding of cheerfully making money by moving mountains of garbage for a few days, she now deeply experienced the efficiency of Big Space Users.