Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi

She immediately took out the light machine gun and held it in her hands, slowly walking out.

Just as she was about to step out of the city gate, silence fell outside again.

Fearing an ambush, Ye Nai grasped the gun with one hand and held a small mirror with the other, slowly squatting down with her back against the wall. Carefully, she extended her hand holding the mirror and swiftly scanned the surroundings.

There really was no one outside, aside from the corpses of civilians that had been thrown out earlier, and a few more ox carts had appeared.

She sensed for spores again and realized there were still people present, just lying behind the ox carts, out of sight from the mirror.

Only then did she walk out with peace of mind.

There were five ox carts outside, all large and tall, well-suited for the natives' towering statures, filled with fresh food, and the last one was loaded with barrels of wine.

The wine barrels reached up to her chest.

That is to say, the characteristic of this Otherworld's species is their large size, larger than those on Blue Star. The mutant beasts in the East Ridge Secret Realm that astonished the Blue Star people were actually not so extraordinary in the eyes of the natives.

Ye Nai couldn't understand why they would invade Blue Star if the planets' gravities were different. With the ability to traverse worlds, wouldn't it be better to plunder other planets? Were they unable to defeat them?

After staring at the ox carts for a while and pulling her wandering thoughts back, Ye Nai walked around the ox carts.

The cart drivers were lying behind the cart that delivered the wine, with their backs to the avenue facing the city gates, obviously having fallen to the spores while screaming and fleeing after seeing the corpses at the city entrance.

Ye Nai didn't touch these things. She went back inside the Military Fortress and continued sorting things out. After finishing, she collected everything into her Space one by one and built Fungal Mycelium partitions.

The five ox carts still stood obediently in place. Ye Nai didn't know how to drive an ox cart, so she tried to pull the reins of the lead ox cart, walking it towards the Military Fortress.

As the lead cart moved, the four behind also began to follow.

She circled the square and managed to turn around and head out smoothly.

Then Ye Nai tried letting go, gently patting the oxen's rumps, letting them walk on their own, and she followed behind, collecting the bodies of the civilians.

They say an old horse knows the way, today she wanted to see if Old Niu also knew the way.

The ox cart moved at a leisurely pace, and after an hour, Ye Nai finally heard voices and saw a small village.

By this time, the villagers were already working in the fields. They found it strange to see the ox carts return alone. Noticing that their cargo remained intact, they started shouting, and soon men, women, children, and elders all ran to the edge of the village, babbling endlessly.

Ye Nai crouched and hid in the roadside weeds. The lush wild grass concealed her figure, and none of the villagers nearby noticed her presence.

Through the gaps in the grass, she could clearly see their faces.

There were men, women, the elderly, and children, even mothers with breastfeeding infants came out to see the commotion. Regardless of height, weight, or shape, they all had the same wide-set eyes and earthy yellow skin, identical to the Enemy Soldiers' faces.

But whether this Otherworld had other races with different appearances required further observation.

While she was lost in thought, the loud discussions among the villagers also reached her ears.

The next second, Ye Nai was stunned.

Because of the language barrier, what had previously seemed like noise was now sounding like a few comprehensible words.

Thinking that it might be her turn to experience auditory issues, she held her breath and listened carefully for a few more minutes, only to realize that it seemed she truly could understand a few words, albeit unable to form complete sentences.

"Is my language talent also triggered by certain conditions, like a game quest?"

"Can't be that all the good luck falls on me alone, right?"

Ye Nai muttered to herself as she pushed away the wild grass tickling her nose and she almost sneezed.

Just as she was listening and pondering how her language talent worked, suddenly a child ran nearby to pee.

Ye Nai immediately stood up from the bushes and looked at the child who wore only a shirt, his bottom and feet bare.

The child was startled for a moment, not until the cold barrel of the gun was pressed against his forehead did he scream and run back into the crowd.

The adults looked over together and saw a stranger standing on the village path, holding an odd weapon aimed at them, short and small, clearly not a local.

More people screamed, those with farm tools in hand hurriedly lifted their tools, shouting loudly as they rushed toward Ye Nai.

They hadn't run far before they began tripping over their own feet, everybody falling flat on the ground without a sound.

The others let out even shriller screams, some wanting to run, others still wanting to charge forward and fight for their lives.

Ye Nai found them noisy and used spores to bring them all down.

Now the spores acted with incredible speed, taking down the villagers at the entrance while the rest of the villagers inside, no matter their age, quickly followed suit.

This time she didn't kill them all, she kept some alive temporarily until she understood what was going on with suddenly being able to understand a few words.

She collected all the people into her Space and walked into the village to stroll around, the roads were dirty, the air stank, and the houses were low.

Ye Nai picked the best-looking house and walked in.

Upon entering, there was a large open space; on the side were a fireplace and a cabinet filled with sundries, a roughly made long dining table in the middle that also seemed to serve as a living room, with a wooden staircase to the side that creaked when stepped on.

The dining table was bare except for a few simple pots and pans and there was no food.

Judging by sight, the room area was only about twenty square meters, it wouldn't exceed thirty at most, and this was a house that looked good from the outside, the other villagers' homes appeared even smaller and darker.

Ye Nai stood by the dining table and glanced at the ceiling, guessing it was just over three meters tall. Given the average height of the natives, it was indeed low; a stretched arm could touch the top.

Upstairs there were only three bedrooms, all with messy bedding, indicating that several people slept in one room, the beds were only padded with straw and smelled foul, likely not washed for a long time. There were windows but no glass, light was controlled by a wooden board, and once closed, the room went pitch black.

That was all there was to the house, with no attic. Ye Nai walked outside, breathed in the animal manure-laden air, and felt that even this smell was more pleasant than the one inside the house.

Next, Ye Nai randomly visited several other houses, all alike, none better. They looked dark and tiny from the outside, and were indeed dark and small inside, pitch black during broad daylight once doors and windows were shut.

Fortunately, there was a large central square in the village. Ye Nai dumped all the villagers from her Space there.

Then, she took out her personal outdoor chair and sat down to seriously think about what she had done in the past few days and why she suddenly no longer thought of the natives' language as noise.

Thinking back, ever since she entered the Otherworld, the unusual occurrence was that the Fungal Mycelium had sprouted mushrooms after absorbing sufficient energy.

Could it be those little white mushrooms?

Ye Nai immediately returned to the East Ridge Secret Realm, washed her hands, took out the pot of cooked little white mushrooms, grabbed a large bowl used for eating rice noodles, and mixed a full bowl to take out of the Secret Realm.