Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi-Chapter 209: Digging and Digging in the Vast Secret Realm (2)

She didn’t dig around the altar in circles; she only dug on one side until the foundation of the altar was exposed, and then she left the rest to Space, who removed it with the technique "pulling up a radish."

Once the altar entered the Space, new fungus attached itself to the magic pattern and altar, initiating another round of energy surge.

Ye Nai, enduring her heart being severely pounded with a sledgehammer, went home to take a bath and sleep.

After sleeping for about three or four hours, she got up with a calm expression, showing no sign that her heart discomfort had kept her from sleeping well.

When she left the house after breakfast, the energy surge had ended, just like the first time, completely ceased.

Timing it, it was a bit shorter than the first time.

Ye Nai’s eyes brightened, and her mood relaxed.

She had only collected two altars so far, and given such a large area in the Secret Realm, there must be many more altars that had not been found. If the discomfort could decrease each time she found one, then it was bearable.

"I really wonder what this Secret Realm will turn into after all the altars are found?"

With great interest, Ye Nai rode her electric bike to the driving school and methodically completed the remaining three hours of offline classes, feeling light-hearted.

After having lunch on the street and returning home, Ye Nai washed and chopped the vegetables for dinner and stored them in the Space, then changed her clothes and re-entered the Secret Realm.

She landed right inside the big hole of the second altar.

Ye Nai opened the Space, and the magic pattern of the second altar was already being devoured by the fungus, which was absorbing the energy from the altar’s materials.

She believed that the current situation could no longer be called decomposition, absorption, or extraction since those terms applied to organic matter. The process of absorbing energy was better described as "devouring."

Just like the first time, a magic pattern "tattoo" quickly appeared on Ye Nai’s wrist and took her to the location of the third altar.

She took photos first, then started digging with the excavator, pounding away.

Then, enduring the discomfort in her heart, she went home to keep up with her online classes while cooking dinner and, once her study hours were complete, she booked her theory test for the second slot on Friday.

By evening, as she had guessed, the discomfort caused by the third altar shortened a bit more.

It was only Tuesday, and the exam was on Friday, so on Wednesday and Thursday, Ye Nai stayed home except to buy groceries and used the excuse of needing to practice with real questions to let Yu Jiao continue to follow her mom to work while she bought snacks and drinks in exchange.

In reality, those days, after buying groceries early in the morning, Ye Nai would lock her home and head into the Secret Realm to work.

She found altars, took photos, dug them out, stored them in the Space, then moved onto the next one.

Thanks to Ye Nai’s relentless effort over those two days, she collected six altars, making a total of eight with the previous two, yet the fungus indicated there were still more in the Secret Realm.

And after collecting eight altars, the heart discomfort time had reduced to less than four hours.

In the Space, materials of altars that had their energy devoured turned into a pile of debris, barely recognizable as they once formed an altar.

Ye Nai felt fortunate that she had taken photos of each altar, thinking that after the battle, she could still play by modeling them according to the pictures.

On Friday, during the theory test, Ye Nai passed smoothly on her first attempt and immediately scheduled her practical driving lessons starting from Monday.

This week, with various treats bought by Ye Nai, Yu Jiao successfully established her position among her mother’s workplace’s kids’ circle, but she found it uninteresting and still wanted to join Ye Nai to watch her learn driving.

Ye Nai no longer outright refused but made it clear from the start that there was a tin shed by the driving practice area where students waited. Adults would bring their children, and then the adults would practice while the children waited in the shed. However, nobody specifically took care of the children, and if a child wandered off and something happened, no one would take responsibility.

Since driving schools aren’t meant for child care, adults who leave their children in such dangerous places should anticipate the risks. If they can’t even foresee this, how can they drive? They would all be road hazards once they hit the streets.

Yu Jiao promised she would behave, ensuring she wouldn’t run around, and if she did, she would be punished by having no snacks for the entire summer vacation.

Ye Nai agreed.

On Saturday morning, Yu Qing had Yu Jiao take online lessons, testing her academic level on the national online platform by having her answer real exam papers. The results, which had been quite acceptable during the final school examinations, were barely passable on these real exam papers.

Yu Qing instantly became anxious.

"Yu Jiao, how will you transfer to a key primary school with these grades?!"

Yu Jiao turned her head to look for Ye Nai to rescue her, but Ye Nai just sat in the living room without showing her face, letting Yu Jiao face the scolding alone.

"Mom, let’s not talk about transferring schools; first, get your license and then worry about the promotion and salary raise."

"Ha, I’ll reflect on it if I don’t pass, but does that mean you don’t need to study diligently?"

"Sis, save me!"

Ye Nai stayed silent, quietly turning up the volume on her phone so both people in the bedroom could hear her streaming short videos.

With Yu Jiao’s plea for help ineffective, her mom made her sit back at the computer to study from the first grade to identify where her academics started to lag.

The mother and daughter spent the weekend like this.

You wouldn’t know without testing, but the more you test, the sadder it gets.

In East Ridge City, where educational resources were generally lacking, Yu Jiao’s grades also lagged behind the national average, forcing her to start catching up from the first grade.

During the first-grade Chinese lessons, when learning new words, the national-level top teacher who recorded the course would occasionally insert some extended knowledge, which neither Yu Jiao, Yu Qing, nor Ye Nai had ever heard of.

Thus, Yu Jiao’s online summer tutoring was set. Yu Qing left the computer at home, letting Yu Jiao go with her elder sister to watch her practice driving in the morning, studying under her sister’s supervision in the afternoon, and her mom took the computer to night school in the evening.

With activities planned during the day, the operation to excavate the altar was officially scheduled for nighttime.

That night, after 10 p.m., Ye Nai put her mother and younger sister into a deep sleep, then entered the Secret Realm and dug out the ninth altar.

Early Monday morning, Ye Nai took Yu Jiao out, only pulling out her electric scooter when they reached the corner of the street.

Upon reaching the driving school, Ye Nai left Yu Jiao under the shed with a bag of snacks and drinks, then went to look for the instructor to start her second subject lessons.

She arrived early when there was no one else, so she started her class first. There was a theory class before the practical training, a standard procedure she had to undergo, as the driving skills she had honed in the Secret Realm were of no use here.

She had to practice both manual and automatic transmission vehicles; while most family cars are automatic, the off-road vehicles commonly seen in the Secret Realm are manual.

Before getting into the car, Ye Nai instinctively scanned the surroundings but did not circle the vehicle, a step that most capable Awakeners tended to skip.

Since one needn’t watch out for someone hiding in the car’s blind spots in the Secret Realm, Ye Nai had also naturally acquired this habit.

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