Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi..

Chapter 82: Chapter 82: Hunting with Captain Xiao Ni (4)
 

Upon Captain Xiao Ni’s order, the team stayed in this fertile land for a full eight days, exhausting all their ammunition. Warriors even resorted to brawling with the mutant beasts, unconcerned about getting injured.

This daring venture was possible because of Ye Nai’s space ability to preserve freshness; there was no worry about spoilage. Special thermal boxes and ice packs brought by the logistics team were not even used, allowing for maximum hunting.

The wounds on their bodies, though frightening, were only superficial and did not involve severe tissue or bone damage, enabling them to maintain their combat effectiveness. This also gave Ye Nai real-world practice opportunities, allowing her to apply her intermittent first aid course knowledge.

Ye Nai naturally took the chance to experiment with them quietly, having preemptively placed fungus in their bodies to stabilize their injuries and meticulously experience all the details of the fungal treatment process.

If they hadn’t charged at mutant beasts in hand-to-hand combat, she wouldn’t have had this opportunity, would she?

In the end, everyone but Ye Nai was covered in bandages, even Big Eye had set down his sniper rifle and took up a hand axe to fight.

If the battling had continued, they wouldn’t have even been able to muster a driver; all the fresh food was consumed, and everyone was sick of hardtack. Moreover, everyone was dirty and smelly, and all the clean clothes were used up before they finally turned around to head back.

Over those days, Ye Nai’s tractor driving skills improved dramatically, but crossing the river was still reliant on Ah Qi.

After crossing the river, Ye Nai parked the tractor and rode a motorcycle following the convoy.

How else to practice driving skills if not by riding? And if not practiced, wouldn’t buying the vehicle be a waste?

After racing through the wilderness for more than three days, they finally reached a paved road and arrived at a small town in the rear, where everyone’s first task was to wash their hair, bathe, and launder their clothes.

After eating a warm meal and getting a good night’s sleep, they set off again the next day.

After two more days, they finally left the Secret Realm and returned to Area 5 Danger Zone.

After resting for a night, the next morning Captain Xiao Ni led the team, along with Ye Nai, to hand over the materials to the logistics procurement division.

Since it was all mutant beast meat, they agreed to meet directly at the cold storage.

The mutant beast meat, which had been stored in the space for at least ten days, took almost a hundred turnover boxes to pack. The meat and skin were separated clearly.

The meat, still elastic to the touch and slightly sticky, resembled the texture of freshly slaughtered meat.

The skin was the same, with unscraped sinew, fat, and blood still attached—whatever it looked like when it was peeled off was how it looked now when taken out.

“Not bad at all this time, your haul is richer than previous ones,” said the buyer.

“Hehe, we’re just lucky. We found a beast’s den,” replied Xiao Ni.

The procurement representative was a clerk, as the trophies the squad brought back were small business, and a clerk’s presence was sufficient for settlement.

When Ye Nai had sold two armored off-road vehicles previously, that was a big deal in terms of value, so it was handled by the department head Zhuo Yonglin.

The three managers in the cold storage were responsible for random inspections. With so many boxes, they could only inspect one in every few. Otherwise, this phase would take a long time.

“The meat quality is excellent, just like it’s freshly killed. If there are no other issues, I’ll weigh it now. Once it’s weighed, it must be frozen quickly,” said one manager.

“Go right ahead,” Xiao Ni replied.

Each box was lifted onto the floor scale, the weight was recorded, and then another box replaced it.

Weighing so many boxes was physically demanding. With a box of meat weighing several dozen pounds, lifting and moving the boxes was exhausting. Yet, the managers did not mind the hassle and preferred more since it decreased the danger in the Secret Realm, and everyone could enjoy a feast during the festivals.

After more than two hours, all the weights were recorded. The price of the hides and meat were fixed. The purchasing clerk calculated the total amount on the spot. Captain Xiao Ni confirmed it was accurate, and the money would be received shortly.

The hunting trip was completely over, they just had to go home and distribute the money.

The fresh skins would be processed in the cold storage, as they knew how to freeze them in time without damaging them, waiting for unified handling.

That afternoon, Ye Nai was still napping at home when her mobile phone’s messages woke her up. Checking it, her share of the hunting profit had arrived.

She was a temporary member, so her share was purely a bonus. The permanent team members surely didn’t receive as much as she did, as some of the money had to be left in the public account as communal funds.

Working with a reliable team on missions had this advantage, prompt payment without any delays.

Income distribution in other official and private teams varied wildly, some received salaries, others got bonuses, each team was different, and as long as they could establish a system that worked, it was fine. But smaller teams with fewer members were more chaotic, formed on impulse, and built up conflicts day by day until they collapsed one day.

Online, such drama surfaced every now and then. Today, one team would fall out, tomorrow another would get backstabbed.

Ye Nai was sick of such drama.

She turned over and continued sleeping. The electric blanket was on in her bedding, warm and dry, making her not want to get up at all.

Without Ye Nai, Captain Xiao Ni was advertising for her in the captains’ chat group. Over the past few days, a few captains had returned, and through messaging, they knew they needed to keep Ye Nai busy so her unreliable parents wouldn’t lead her by the nose.

[You guys must take Ye Nai on your hunts, she’s incredible, not only did she buy a motorcycle, she even bought a tractor and trailer, can you believe it?]

[Did you use the tractor to cross the river?]

[Just right, if the water were deeper, the tractor couldn’t have crossed.]

[Only a Big Space User could manage to do this, stuffing such a big thing like a tractor.]

[Why do I feel like if she has a few days free, she’ll buy a boat next?]

[Boat or no boat, while you guys were discussing tractors, I already booked her.]

[Wow, that was fast!]

[Too much!]

[Hehe, it’s your own fault for being slow, I just happen to have a new route that needs a tractor to clear the way.]

[How long are you planning to go? Give us a chance.]

[How long did Xiao Ni go?]

[A total of half a month, the actual hunting lasted for a full eight days. We came back after running out of ammo, the hunt went smoothly, and no one was seriously injured.]

[Opening a new map takes time, Ye Nai will need a few days to rest after a trip, probably about twenty days per round, what do you all think?]

[Alright then, let’s all take turns, if not before the New Year, at least after the New Year.]

[Right, let Ye Nai store the hunted game, her space can keep it fresh for a long time, and the meat we bring back is of fresh, just-killed quality.]

[Okay, keep this information restricted to essential personnel only, and don’t let unrelated outsiders know, we all understand the value of a Space User who can keep things fresh for a long time in a large capacity.]

[East Ridge City is small and poor, our boss could hardly beg for anything, so the Task Gold we can offer her is at the lowest level, what Anyuan City gives matches the starting level she deserves, we need to take her hunting more so she can earn more.]

[Right, it’s good she met us first. If she had been with a private team initially, there’s no telling how much she might have been exploited.]