Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi

Impatiently, Ye Nai directly gave him a minute of pain.

The man immediately twitched non-stop, as if he had been electrocuted.

Fortunately, one minute isn't long. Although he looked like he was going to pass out in the latter half, he held on.

"Don't talk nonsense with me, do you want money or your life?"

"Money, money..." the man said, gasping for breath. That bout of twitching had messed up his neatly combed, oily hair.

Ye Nai threw a gold coin onto his chest.

"Get up slowly, and identify a few people for me."

"Okay, okay."

The man pocketed the gold coin, cooperatively got up, and under Ye Nai's indication, saw a group of people lying on the other side of the basement.

"Oh my God of Nature!"

"Stop calling God. If your God was useful, you would have won the war already."

"..."

"Keep walking, identify all those people for me."

"Yes, I understand."

The man stepped forward to identify each person, Ye Nai recorded on paper at the side, sticking a sheet on each identified person.

"This is the current King and Queen."

Ye Nai glanced over and saw the two oldest people in the group; she had guessed early on that they might be the King and Queen.

"Alright, do they have an heir?"

"Yes, this one is the heir Prince."

Ye Nai placed a sheet, looking at the person.

"This person looks quite young, how old is he?"

"He just turned thirty this year."

"How old are the King and Queen?"

"In their seventies."

"Had an heir at over forty? Did your King marry late?"

"No, no, they married quite early. The Queen first had several princesses and miscarried several times. It wasn't until she was older that she finally had the Prince and the Second Prince."

"To have a male heir, your Queen went all out."

"There's a throne to inherit."

The man continued to identify, pulling out the heir's family of five.

"The Second Prince isn't in the palace?"

"He's not, he's stationed on the eastern border to guard against disturbances from neighboring countries."

"Which neighboring country? Yours or mine?"

"It's ours, a barbaric country called Notica Kingdom, constantly fighting us over a pasture suitable for grazing."

"What's so good about that place that it's worth two countries fighting over it?"

"It's said that in winter, it doesn't snow there, it freezes but doesn't accumulate snow like here."

"Is that barbaric country fighting over the pasture to develop cavalry?"

"No, their animal husbandry is very developed. Notica is the name of their revered prairie god. They consider themselves servants of the god. All prairies in the world belong to Notica, and any country with a prairie is their enemy, and that's how they are even back home. No country likes them."

"Does this country have wizards? Do they use the transmission platform?"

"They do."

"What decorative patterns are on their transmission platform?"

"I don't know, I've never seen it."

"Okay, let's change the topic. I saw the snow in the palace is quite heavy. Does it snow like this every winter or is it a rare occurrence?"

"It's a rare occurrence. It's just the start of winter when it snows lightly, melting on the ground. Heavy snow comes in the next two months."

"Is it really an occasional occurrence or is it a new climate pattern caused by fifty years of merging realms?"

"That, I don't know. I'm just a humble steward in the royal palace."

"Who would know about these geographical and climatic details?"

"You have to go to the Wizard Institute."

"Wizard Institute or Wizard Academy?"

"Wizard Institute, a place only official wizards can enter. I don't know the specifics, but it's definitely not the academy for cultivating new wizards."

"The Wizard Institute handles this?"

"Yes, their research on astronomy and geography is the deepest and best. They even publish the calendar every year."

"How do you get to the Wizard Institute?"

"The Wizard Institute is outside the city; exit the royal palace, go along the right side of the main street, and you'll be out of the city."

"Okay, has the royal family been fully cleared? Why are there still women and girls? Are they the families of ministers visiting the palace?"

"No, no, they are the two mistresses and illegitimate daughters."

"The King's?"

"Yes."

"The King is over seventy and still has illegitimate daughters? How come he can't have sons?"

"That... I don't know."

"The Queen doesn't have lovers?"

"That..." The steward was sweating, awkwardly smiling, "I don't know either."

"If a mistress has a son, can he inherit the throne?"

"No, only children born to the Queen can. Illegitimate children have no inheritance rights."

"It's not easy being a Queen."

Ye Nai shook her head while writing furiously, then placed a sheet respectively on the two mistresses and four girls.

"Why are there so few commoners on the street outside the square?"

"This is the royal palace's inner city, forbidden for commoners."

"But there are coachmen on the square."

"That's different. Coachmen driving for important people often live with their masters in the inner city. They are inner city people; they can go anywhere, but outer city commoners can't enter and exit freely without a permit."

"For example, what kind of commoners can get a permit to enter and exit the inner and outer city?"

"Merchants providing daily necessities to the inner city. Fresh grain, meat, vegetables, and fruits are all brought in by specific merchants."

"Your home country's royal palace doesn't have this rule?"

"My home country, I'm not sure. I was born and raised here."

"I can tell; you have no affection for your homeland."

"Speaking of home, can I ask how it is over there?"

"What do you think? I'm standing here now; where do you think I came from? Are there many straight-access transmission platforms to the royal palace basement?"

The person's shoulders trembled slightly, eyes filled with sorrow and despair, "Is our Selsa country really finished?"

"Pretty much, the old capital over there already has people over, but the priority is this side, after all, this is our homeland." Ye Nai lied easily because she didn't consider such deception real lying.

"If we're to be executed, can we at least have a whole body left?"

"Yes, definitely; not only a whole body left but also cremated, with the ashes scattered in the wild as fertilizer, returning completely to nature."

The person nodded despondently.

"If you want to commit suicide, go outside; don't dirty this royal palace."

"Alright, I understand."

As soon as he finished speaking, his legs buckled, and he fainted.

Ye Nai took him back into the space, collected the papers from the royal family members on the ground, and awakened another palace steward to bring over for another identification.

The results of this person's identification were exactly the same as the previous one.

Only then did Ye Nai confidently take the royal family into the space.

Then, the palace steward confessed, only the Palace Guard Captain knows the correspondences of the five transmission platforms in the basement.

Ye Nai didn't find the Guard Captain from the soldiers captured but instead retrieved the soldiers she had stored in the basement.