Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi-Chapter 301 - : Returning to Blue Star to Tidy Up

Chapter 301 -301: Returning to Blue Star to Tidy Up

“We’ve never had a good relationship with the Mayor, and if he finds out what happened, will he pin a charge of collusion on us? Otherwise, why is the entire Military Fortress empty, while only a few people in our village died?”

“Not all who died were from our village, those carts and cart drivers were from the town.”

“Do we go to the town now or wait for daylight?”

“Wait for daylight? It’s dangerous to travel at night.”

“Wait for daylight? Aren’t we just handing the Mayor a big stick to beat us with?”

“Actually, they should also be searching for people now, right? The delivery carts are still in our village.”

“This is bad!”

The village head no longer hesitated, waved his torch, and called out.

“No more talking, let’s head back quickly.”

When the village head led the able-bodied men back to the village in a hurry, the village itself was also in chaos.

The town had indeed organized a search party.

They first reached Beigen Village, intending to understand the situation. When they saw the carts and the dead townspeople, a fight broke out on the spot.

The searching townspeople were outnumbered and were fighting as they retreated. The village head arrived back with his people just in time, blocked the townspeople, and forcibly took them to the Military Fortress to let them see the current state of it for themselves.

The townspeople were just ordinary people following the Mayor’s orders. After calming down, they realized this was no small matter. Putting up their entire town and the villages beneath wouldn’t be something anyone would dare to do unless there was only one answer: an enemy invasion had bypassed the frontline and was heading straight for the rear.

The townspeople, legs gone soft with fear, hurried back to Beigen Village, hitched up the carts, and took the village head and others to report the situation to the Mayor.

The relationship between the village and the town was in disarray, with people running from the village to the Military Fortress, from the Fortress back to the village, and then from the village towards the town. This back and forth had left everyone utterly exhausted. By the time they finally sat down to rest, it was almost midnight.

Meanwhile, within the East Ridge Secret Realm, Ye Nai had just finished using the toilet and was washing her hands, preparing to take a break before returning to Blue Star.

Before leaving, she took out the leftovers of the small white mushrooms from her Space, mixed them well, and blanched a fresh pot as a backup.

She also decided to name the small white mushrooms “Translation Mushrooms,” the more the better.

“Little spore, oh little spore, if you grow new mushrooms in the future, could you put a few words under the gills? I’m afraid I won’t be able to recognize them if there are too many varieties,” Ye Nai chattered as she stirred the Translation Mushrooms in the pot, wishing her spore, which she found cute, lively, considerate, and capable, would understand her.

With everything ready, Ye Nai stepped back to Blue Star.

It was the same basic square of the Military Fortress, but upon landing, she saw the square as if it had gone through a demolition, with the compacted dirt floor completely overturned, holes east and pits west.

No matter what the people who dug up the place before had been after, now there was no one there, silent and deserted. Beyond the walls, not a sound could be heard.

The spores all over the city brought Ye Nai information; only a small group of people remained in the city, while most had left. And, of course, the spores also pointed out the direction they took.

Ye Nai followed the spores’ guidance to first check out who had stayed behind.

In order to understand the street layout within the Military Fortress, Ye Nai mounted an action camera on herself and took out an electric bicycle to slowly wander around.

After going around, she only realized that there was a small city gate when she drove out of the large military district, and the street view outside was decent, with generally two-story buildings, each with a small front garden.

Further down, she unmistakably entered the slums, where low shanties stretched as far as the eye could see, not even a proper roof in sight.

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The sewage flowed across the streets, and men, women, young, and old were crammed near the city gate of the slum, all with numb expressions and vacant stares, having clearly lost the will to live, lying down to await death. Among the crowd, some children’s bellies didn’t rise and fall with their breath, having already fallen silent.

Ye Nai rode her bike around the slums twice. In addition to these bottom-class citizens who seemed close to death, the slightly better-off overseers and Awakeners were absent.

As expected, when the entire city was evacuated, these Blue Star people who had been squeezed dry were left behind as burdens.

Ye Nai also did not reach out to concern herself with their fate; she didn’t have the capability to do so. She was more concerned about the tightly closed city gates, which were blocked by huge stones, impossible to move by human strength.

She rode her bicycle around the city, seeing that the other gates were also blocked in the same way, except one was sealed from the outside using the Gold Element superpower, and beyond this gate was a rammed earth road with a flagpole on the city wall.

She took away those stones that could kill a person, opened all the gates that could be opened, then returned to the slum gate, and from the enemy’s supplies, she found a sack of fine salt and placed it at the city gate.

If there was anyone who wanted to live, they could make an effort to crawl out of the city, and chewing a few leaves wouldn’t kill them. Having salt greatly increased their hopes of survival.

Shortly after she left, several men and women lying at the city gate struggled to get up.

They had been fully conscious all along, coldly observing a clean stranger rush about busily, removing the large stones and opening the gate. The wind from outside the city touched their skin, bringing with it a breath of life.

Driven by the instinct to survive, they crawled over their feeble comrades, discovered the bag of salt, and with expressions of surprise, carried it out of the city with stumbling steps, making their way into the forest.

Ye Nai exited the city from the slum’s gate and circled back to the gate with the flagpole, where the enemy’s flag was still flying. She pulled it down and replaced it with her own.

Then she headed straight to the surface, took out her off-road vehicle, removed the action camera from her body, positioned the lens towards the national flag fluttering on the city wall, used it as a starting point to move the camera for a panoramic shot of this side of the city wall, concluding at the city gate.

Maintaining the shot, she sat in the driver’s seat, affixed the camera to the dashboard, aimed the lens at the road ahead, and plugged in the charging cable.

Everything was ready; she started driving.

Pursuing the enemy army was quite easy. They had built rammed earth roads, and Ye Nai drove along the road, heading in the same direction indicated by the spores.

Such a road increased Ye Nai’s confidence in taking down another enemy Military Fortress. By her reckoning, despite the lack of good roads between frontline camps, any military outpost with decent infrastructure capabilities would not likely just have a rammed earth road between two rear command fortresses for military purposes.

Would the rear command headquarters of Dahua Country be connected by such roads?

So, this was the extent of the enemy’s road-building capabilities.

With the massive time disparity of 60:1 between the two sides, the majority of the countries on Blue Star had been destroyed, scientific technology devastated. The enemy had been here for fifty years and essentially gained no advantageous assets.

The countries with valuable assets, they couldn’t conquer.

Because she didn’t know how long the enemy had been gone, Ye Nai floored the accelerator and sped off fiercely.

Unexpectedly, only a half-hour after leaving the Military Fortress, the quality of the rammed earth road declined, becoming increasingly bumpy and uneven.

Fortunately, the off-road vehicle excelled on such terrain. After driving along the main road for four to five hours, the front-pathfinding spores sent feedback that the rear of the enemy’s column was within reach.