Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi..

Chapter 39: Chapter 39: Suddenly Became the Target of Attacks

If it had been by previous practice, such a large piece of garbage would have to be divided to fit inside a garbage truck, hauled over, then stuck in a line of traffic slowly waiting. Depart in the morning, queue all day, and possibly not finish by the afternoon.

Ye Nai pulled out drinks and snacks she bought from the convenience store in the morning from her space and handed the bag with the drinks to the driver.

“Want some?”

“Sure.”

The driver picked a bottle of lactobacillus-flavored drink, grabbed a handful of individually packaged dried meat snacks, while Ye Nai drank fruit juice. Neither of them looked at the carbonated drinks, as those would cause burping, instead taking them home to drink.

So, they kept driving and stopping in the line of traffic, taking nearly an hour to finally reach beneath the ramp to the intake.

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From here, the wait was even longer. The ramp was narrow, forcing the garbage trucks to go up one by one. They would drive to the top, turn around, back up to the intake, tip the truck bed to dump the garbage, then drive down.

Seeing the garbage truck in front of them go up, they put down their snacks and drinks, and the driver slowly drove towards the uphill side of the ramp.

When the garbage truck in front started descending, the SUV immediately slotted into gear to go uphill, followed closely by another garbage truck that also started moving as soon as its predecessor nearly reached the top.

This all depended on the tacit understanding between experienced drivers.

After reaching the top, the SUV turned around, positioning itself horizontally in front of the intake.

Following the driver’s guidance, Ye Nai didn’t unbuckle her seatbelt, only opened the window, stretched her hand out to expand her space, and a giant mutant plant appeared out of nowhere, falling into the deep intake.

The large body of the SUV securely shielded Ye Nai, so at most, the garbage truck drivers and factory workers below could see a giant object suddenly appearing above the intake, but the Big Space User who delivered the gigantic object remained unseen, preventing any footage of Ye Nai and ensuring her safety.

“This intake is really big, can’t even hear a sound when things fall in.”

“Once the things drop, they get shredded and transported into the furnace from underneath.”

The car window closed slowly, and the SUV started, making its way back.

The return journey took a slight detour, not returning the same way to the garbage truck parking lot, but instead entering through the normal entrance of the dangerous area number 5 and directly driving to the gate of Yijia District.

Before getting out of the car, Ye Nai gave the driver two bottles of drinks, and they said goodbye to each other.

She was back home by not even eleven o’clock.

She turned on the air conditioner in the living room, flopped onto the reclining sofa, and took out her phone from her space, planning to play for a while before making lunch.

The phone automatically connected to the network and immediately started chiming with notifications. Dozens of unread messages popped up in the team captain group, mostly chitchats, but the last few messages specifically mentioned her needing intensified training. There wasn’t supposed to be an emergency today that would require her so soon.

[Done, just got home.]

As soon as Ye Nai replied, the previously quiet group came alive.

[You’re back pretty fast,]

[Looks like everything went smoothly.]

[It went smoothly and I gained some insights.]

[Haha, actually, if it weren’t for this sudden situation, I wouldn’t have wanted to hire you so soon. It’s quite risky for someone like you, a Big Space User, to expose yourself so early.]

[Spies and Cult Members hiding among the people really like types like you who lack combat abilities and are purely supportive.]

[Haha, right. Small space users aren’t enough for them; Big Space Users are their favorite targets. To give you an idea, a semi-trailer has a capacity of just over a hundred; how many semi-trailers would your space capacity equal? They’d definitely eliminate you.]

[You really need to focus on training, don’t waste your athletic talent. Pick a few combat sports, earn some points, and get to Middle Level 2, then you’ll have basic self-protection capabilities.]

[Don’t just practice unarmed combat; pick up a bladed or blunt weapon to train with too.]

[In any case, having many skills will not burden you.]

A flurry of messages came in the group chat, but Ye Nai’s attention was still on the words “spy” and “Cult Member.” She recalled having seen something related in her online classes over the past few days, but the information wasn’t in-depth, merely common knowledge for awareness.

She had known from a young age that the world was unsafe, but just how unsafe it was, ordinary people couldn’t know. The state protected ordinary people very well. A daily concern merely involved guarding against unpredictable mutant creatures. Frontline battles occasionally mentioned in the news to boost public morale, while covert operations were never discussed.

[I’ve seen about spies and Cult Members in my online course, but it was all very superficial, basic knowledge.]

[You took the general studies course? Finish those first, then look for other topics based on your interests. Everything’s available on our official website, don’t randomly search the internet. You can be easily misled by fake news.]

[The basic definitions taught in general studies are very important. Cults are easy to understand; they have been around since ancient times and flourished even more after the Otherworld invasion. The term ‘rapist’ specifically refers to Blue Star people who think the Otherworld enemies aren’t adversaries but friends coming to help us progress. They believe since the enemies could traverse the cosmic sea to attack Blue Star, they must be stronger than us. Blue Star couldn’t compete, so it’s better to drop weapons and embrace the enemy.]

[… I can understand the Cult, considering the immense pain brought by war, and religion can relieve some mental strain, even if it’s a Cult. But I really can’t understand the mindset of the rapists, seeing Blue Star torn apart like this, so many people dead, so many countries destroyed, and still thinking the enemy is here for our good?]

Ye Nai truly couldn’t understand what these people were thinking.

[Forget them, after all these years of development, rapists and Cult Members have developed their own sects. Some rapists are becoming more like Cult Members, and some Cult Members more like rapists. Regardless of how they evolve, in terms of carrying out terrorist attacks and assassinating Awakeners, they are always at the forefront.]

[Don’t even try to understand the mindset of those rapists. If you really do, then you’ll end up thinking like them, which would be even worse.]

[Oh, right.]

[Actually, quite a few people have been brainwashed this way, from staunch warriors to aligning with rapists and Cult Members.]

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Ye Nai was speechless.

If she couldn’t understand, she wouldn’t bother trying to grasp the enemy’s mindset. If she ever encountered them, they would just be nutrients for her Fungus.

After some casual chat, she cemented her resolution to train seriously. Ye Nai exited the chat to check her account in her personal backend and noticed the final payment had been made; she had earned over 210,000 in just under three hours of work, after taxes. She was elated.

She wasn’t in urgent need of money, didn’t withdraw it immediately, retracted her contact card, turned off job notifications, put away her phone, and went to the kitchen for lunch. She finished the leftover mutant beast braised meat from yesterday and picked a bone to make soup.

She had bought enough mutant beast meat to last a week, cooking it in various styles. The Awakener APP even had recipes for mutant beast meat—it’s a truly all-encompassing site.