Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi

Ye Nai looked at the divided officers and Blue Star natives on the ground, put them into space, and then returned to Blue Star's No.2 Military Fortress.

The natives were left in the fortress to awaken in a few hours.

Meanwhile, the transmission platform taken from this fortress had been completely consumed by Space Fungus. Ye Nai opened the Transmission Port, doing nothing for a full minute.

There was no movement on the other side, not even a soldier dared to probe over.

No one came over, so she went there herself.

Ye Nai stepped across to the other side.

The small courtyard where the transmission platform was placed was indeed empty, and there were two platforms here—one she had just crossed over, and another presumably used for communication with the No.2 Military Fortress.

One transmission platform only had one Transmission Witch Pattern inscribed; Military Fortress No.3 connected to No.2 and No.4 Fortresses, naturally requiring two platforms.

Ye Nai unceremoniously pocketed the transmission platform.

She then took a trip to the Selsa Capital in the Otherworld, planning to take back a batch of newly bred spores for work.

As soon as she arrived, she saw that the city seemed to have been through a fierce battle.

Ye Nai didn't linger; she wasn't concerned with how the local natives were faring. She gathered the spores and left, quickly returning to the No.3 Military Fortress on Blue Star, releasing the spores.

While the spores were taking some time to seize control of the fortress, Ye Nai took out her RV and prepared a meal for herself.

After eating and drinking her fill, the spores completed their occupation, and she lay lazily in the seat of the aviation cabin, resting for two hours before getting up to work.

The first task was to return to the Otherworld's Selsa Country, this time to the initial starting point of Beigen Military Fortress.

The fortress was empty; the Selsa people had not reclaimed their fortress.

Now it was filled with spores on both the inside and outside, with a thick fungal blanket underground. Ye Nai lightly sensed it, and found that the growth of the fungal blanket had already extended past Luoke Town, spreading further out.

She didn't bother to sense the current boundary in detail, because she was in a hurry.

Ye Nai extracted a wave of spores and left.

Returning to the No.3 Military Fortress, she opened the Transmission Port to No.2 Military Fortress, patiently waiting one minute. With no enemy coming, she immediately went to deploy spores and then returned.

Afterward, the plundering began.

The Blue Star natives used as laborers were left as is, while officers, soldiers, resources, furniture, and documents were all taken, with the currency and Heart Core carefully stored.

After completing all this, she headed again to No.2 Military Fortress, where the previously deployed spores had just completed their occupation.

The same process was repeated: draw spores from the Otherworld and deploy them in Military Fortress No.1, then return to plunder No.2 Military Fortress.

First, gather all personnel into space.

Next, Ye Nai went to inspect each resource warehouse with a flashlight. She dared not gamble that the Selsa people and the current natives understood the principles of safe fuel storage; she needed to see for herself to feel reassured.

After searching several warehouses and collecting a pile of ordinary resources, she finally smelled what seemed like oil.

Following the scent, she quickly found the oil warehouse, which was really just an ordinary warehouse filled with barrels of crude and refined oil.

That's how they distinguished them.

The large warehouse was divided in two, one half for crude oil and the other for refined oil, with barrels labeled with just these two kinds of oil in paint.

The barrels look poorly made, whether crude or refined oil, and oil was seeping from the barrel bottoms and edges.

Ye Nai looked on with disdain, unsure of how to collect them as she didn't have any absorbent pads.

At this moment, a large number of fungal mycelium emerged from the ground, wrapping the barrels layer by layer, quickly concealing the leaking spots.

Ye Nai stood for a few minutes and randomly checked a few barrels. Seeing no further signs of leakage, she created two new fungal compartments in space to properly store the two kinds of oil barrels.

Upon clearing it all, she released the Blue Star natives to naturally awaken, then continued her journey to the last location, Military Fortress No.1.

The spores that had been sent in advance had already successfully completed their tasks. Ye Nai landed and first collected people, then resources, finally releasing the local natives.

Only then did she exhale a long breath.

The five military fortresses that Hida mentioned were cleaned out at last.

As for the fortresses in other countries, she would return once she had more leads.

Ye Nai returned to the South Royal Capital Camp in the Selsa Capital, tossing out all ordinary soldiers before returning to Blue Star, landing in the oil warehouse of No.2 Military Fortress.

The long-standing odor of oil in the warehouse was hard to dissipate, so Ye Nai put on a mask and scattered the officers belonging to this fortress on the ground.

She picked one with nice clothing, woke him up, shone a flashlight in his face, pressed a gun barrel to his head, and directly questioned him about the origins of the oil in the warehouse.

As soon as he woke up, despite trying to nimbly turn over, he realized the next second that his limbs couldn't move and his eyes couldn't open, with blinding light shining on his face.

"Who are you?!"

Ye Nai listened to him speak but didn't respond. She had talked enough that day; her mouth was tired, so she administered a minute of pain as a cooling-off session.

"...Ah!"

The man's body instantly went rigid, staying perfectly still for the entire minute until the pain subsided, and then he relaxed, lying on the floor gasping for air.

"Calm now?" Ye Nai finally spoke her first words.

"Who are you?"

"Tsk, can't you stop asking who I am? Use your dumb brain and think, in this area, which enemy is most likely to sneak in and kill your entire family?"

"...The Alkinte Empire?"

"What? There's a fortress from this country nearby?"

"Aren't you from this country?"

This man was a bit flustered.

"Ha, the Alkinte Empire, well, I'll keep it in mind. Are there any other countries?"

"None."

"Tell the truth, otherwise, do you still remember the pain just now? It was one minute before, next it'll be five."

"There really aren't any more. This area only has the Selsa and Alkinte countries."

"The five fortresses of Selsa here were seized from other countries, which country? Alkinte?"

"Of course not. If it were Alkinte, they would have fought to take it back long ago. The land here occupied by that country was split between us two countries."

"Did that country withdraw? What's its name? Does it still exist now?"

"That country is called the Southern Holmes Kingdom, there is also a Northern Holmes Kingdom. The two nations are separated by the Hommes River. They were originally one nation before splitting into two. Both the north and south want to unify, they've been fighting each other vigorously. I don't know if these two countries still exist now."

"You know so much detail; are you a commander?"

"...Yes."

"Ahaha, what luck I have, I was just looking for you."

"I've said so much, now you should tell me who you are, right? Are you a new national force?"

"Tsk tsk, you're this supposed 'commander', but your mind just can't work it out? This land still has a mighty native nation."

"Ah…!"