Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi-Chapter 222: Big Cities Are Great, They Have Everything (5)

Jiu Dai swallowed hard twice, thinking about that rusty iron pipe from earlier. He didn’t dare to ask if it was really bought for his own team.

Rules are rules, but are they more important than one’s own head?

"Sir, the quantity you want is too large, I’ll need a few days to get the goods. How about you pay a deposit first?"

"Sure, how long will it take to get them?"

"Not counting today, day after tomorrow or the day after that. I’ll call you as soon as the goods arrive."

Jiu Dai wrote up the order, and Ye Nai unzipped her chest bag, took out her mobile phone, paid the deposit, and left her number. As she put away her phone, she asked a question.

"By the way, do you know any tobacco agents?"

"I do know, but are you really buying for yourself?"

"Of course, for my own use. Awakeners easily go through two packs a day, as you should know."

"If you still want to buy so much, it’s better to get a license, an Awakener’s Tobacco Permit, which allows you to buy more without a quota. You can purchase whatever brand your team likes."

"Oh, okay, thanks."

"You’re welcome."

Jiu Dai watched Ye Nai leave, shaking his head. She clearly didn’t understand the norms, obviously a novice.

Upon leaving, Ye Nai rode directly to the Awakener Center in Five Bridges City to inquire about getting a tobacco license. The staff checked her and found she was at Training Level 2 with a history of missions collaborating with the military teams, all completed, maintaining a 100% mission completion rate and a credit score of the full hundred—no points deducted in a year. They issued her license on the spot after she paid a fee, handed her a printed ID card with her photo, and a digital certificate also appeared in her personal Awakener profile, complete with a link instructing her on how to purchase tobacco.

Back at the hotel, she researched and registered as a self-employed individual and a first aider, acquiring two dedicated payment codes for easier tax payment.

Then, searching online, she found several popular tobacco brands in Five Bridges City and ordered one box of each online, fifty cartons per box.

The next morning, just as Ye Nai opened the take-out breakfast delivered to her room, she received a call that the tobacco had been delivered.

In the two days while waiting for the alcohol, Ye Nai did nothing but sleep at the hotel or farm in the East Ridge Secret Realm.

Last time, she had used a Land Clearing Machine to push down the trees and shrubs, and this time she used a plow to dig out tree roots and rocks of various sizes from the soil, then a rock crusher to turn the roots and stones into pieces.

After such work, the soil layer was already very loose.

But Ye Nai felt it was still not secure enough. She took out an excavator and, not minding the hard work, turned the loose soil deeply again, indeed digging up several large stones that could not be moved by human strength.

The large stones were buried deep in the soil layer. As the excavator turned over the soil above, there was a clanging sound when the bucket went deeper.

Once the soil was turned, she left it aside to be dried by the sun for a few days.

For newly cleared land, turning and drying it three times is a basic operation.

Spores were also sown; the newly grown fungus would destroy harmful entities like insect eggs in the soil. She planned to gradually improve the soil quality by adding organic fertilizer bit by bit.

After taking a shower back at the hotel room, she received a call from Jiu Dai that her ordered liquor had arrived, but this time in a large quantity, stored in a large warehouse on the outskirts of town.

Ye Nai drove Little Lemon to pick up the liquor and then returned to the hotel. Without considering the late hour, she immediately entered the East Ridge Secret Realm and stood on the highway outside Station No. 2.

Ten automatic vending machines were lined up in a row on the road. Ye Nai took out a nuclear battery, connected the machine to the power source, then laid out the goods she was going to stock on the ground, unpacked everything and stored the packaging in Space, and then one by one, began stocking the machines.

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Truly, as a Space Awakened loading an automatic vending machine was incredibly efficient; there was no need to keep bending and turning, just support the loading port, roll the items in, and it was done.

After loading everything, she printed and attached the labels to each product, because otherwise, she would forget the next time which compartment held what.

She then placed display samples in the display cabinet, locked the cabinet door, and turned on the electronic panel to input the setup password and enter the product settings.

At this point, Ye Nai took out her computer, connected it directly to the machine with a data cable, finding it more efficient to type on the computer keyboard than to inefficiently tap on the touch screen.

She had spent extra money on the new model just for her convenience.

After setting the prices for each product, she clicked finish, and this machine was ready to start earning money.

She did the same for the other nine machines.

After setting up everything, she turned off the machines, unplugged them, took out a laundry kiosk, and placed three machines on each side of the main door.

One side had three cabinets for cigarettes, liquor, and snacks, and the other side for beverages, snacks, and bathing products.

Originally containing small bags in sets of three, she opened up a hundred bags for aesthetics, took out all the shampoo and shower gel, and left the soap still in its mesh bag as a freebie with the soap purchase; after several tests, she confirmed the mesh bag wouldn’t cause jamming and fell smoothly.

With these adjustments, the vending machine still looked empty, so Ye Nai took the items back to the hotel to continue searching online for more bathing and care products, choosing local brands’ travel-sized offerings for men and women, as well as disposable underwear and socks, arranging for a batch pickup with customer service, and beginning her store-to-store run early the next morning.

Once these items were received, the bathing products vending machine was finally filled.

She reserved four machines for the hygiene clinic as a complete set; three stocked beverages, snacks, and small dry rations, while another stocked external-use medical supplies like gauze, bandages, suture lines, alcohol, iodophor, hydrogen peroxide, medical cotton swabs and gloves, alcohol cotton balls, hemostatic bandages, large saline bottles, electrolyte mix, and more.

But upon further thought, she considered that this medical supplies machine could also be placed at the laundry kiosk.

She glanced at the two snack vending machines inside the laundry kiosk and decisively removed one to make room for the external-use medical supplies.

After rearranging, she converted the machine that was removed into a second external-use medical supplies machine, still intended as support for the hygiene clinic. Enjoy exclusive content from novelbuddy

The business preparations were finally done, and Ye Nai was utterly exhausted. In preparation for stock, she rode an electric scooter all around the city, developing an "iron butt" from the extensive riding.

After sleeping off the exhaustion at the hotel for a whole day, the rejuvenated Ye Nai checked her business license and medical practice license, both approved, and her specialized payment code was also ready; she finally felt up to visiting the Five Bridges Secret Realm two streets away from the hotel.

She rode her electric scooter there leisurely.

As she turned the corner of the street, Ye Nai saw the bustling grand square.

The Secret Realm had overtaken the space of the original riverside dock. After driving the enemies back into the Secret Realm, the large expanse of dockland had been transformed into Secret Realm Square, with one of the five rivers of Five Bridges City, the Xiadu River, lying beyond it.

Surrounding the square were colorful yet uniformly sized large tents. Ye Nai parked her scooter and strolled over, only realizing up close that the tents all displayed signs for recruitment agencies, recruiting on-site laborers for the Secret Realm, most of them hiring Secret Realm Laborers at a very uniform daily wage of one thousand, the same as in East Ridge City.