Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi-Chapter 157 She is Suitable for Hunting Alone (1)

If acceleration is what it takes, then why should they care about running away heedlessly, utterly indifferent to the mass casualties the Five-clawed Vine could cause.

"Ha, who compensates the frightened public? The five adults I saved, one had rib injuries, and vines had entangled two children, good thing there was a Gold Element firefighter among them."

"Count it as a sudden accident, then, a mere scare, hand out a few shopping vouchers and call it a day."

"Alright then." Ye Nai shrugged her shoulders and spread her hands, "So, is this matter closed?"

The captains all nodded, with only that bit of evidence Ye Nai could provide, this incident had to come to an end.

Hanging up the call, Ye Nai pondered for a moment, then suddenly smiled.

She hadn’t expected that by instantly killing the Five-clawed Vine, the higher-ups would think some unknown big shot did it, which was fine. With an untraceable shadow taking the front, when those teenagers start showing mutations, no one would associate it with her.

She knew her actions technically amounted to vigilante justice, but so what? She wanted to flaunt her powers, to demonstrate that she was all-powerful.

If it’s about flaunting power, whoever’s stronger is more noble.

The next day, Ye Nai rested at home for the entire day. Her phone was quiet, with no one contacting her about yesterday’s incident, and even her family hadn’t sent a message, indicating that the news reports hadn’t stirred up any discussion.

After all, in the current times, mutant plants popping up in the city was far too common.

It was good that no one knew, as long as there were no casualties, everything else wasn’t worth mentioning.

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In the evening, after dinner, she cleaned up her home and then went out.

As she passed Town #1, she picked up her newly customized shoe lasts on the way and bought some supplies.

Then, she plunged into the Secret Realm.

She headed wherever it was secluded with no spores taking root.

The three captains had said, the Five-clawed Vine was killed instantly, and those who could do such a thing were the top big shots of today, with only a handful of them in the entire country.

Now she had to quickly verify just how strong her instant killing power was.

Plus, she wanted to see how strong the Fungal Mycelium had become.

Previously, the mycelium only decomposed organic matter, including the organic components of bones, breaking down everything that could be broken down, then leaving the bone itself.

Now she wanted to see if it could decompose substances like bones and shells.

The easiest substances to find for this purpose were ubiquitous wild rats and insects.

However, before hunting, the spores she had scattered in the soil gave her a little surprise.

Their growth rate was astonishing, almost immediately reaching full maturity upon touching the ground.

This was undoubtedly an advanced ability resulting from that extremely powerful Heart Core, and the instant kill was surely related to it.

The Fungal Mycelium intertwined into a mycelial carpet beneath the soil, and the insects and their eggs caught were directly decomposed, none retained in the Space.

The decomposition was also very clean, from the shells to the viscera, spotless, without leaving any residues.

With such efficiency, when raiding the rats’ holes, none could escape, not even the newly born pink rat pups were spared from entering the Space.

Not counting the tail, the body of a wild rat as long as a person’s forearm, calling it a mutant beast with abilities like that of a Fire-breathing Rabbit might seem over the top, but calling it an ordinary wild rat would be underrating it: a pair of large Rat Teeth gnawing on Ye Nai’s metal water pipe as if it were a snack. They don’t eat metal, but they gnawed it into fragments all over the floor.

Such mutant rats from the Otherworld, if they got loose on Blue Star and wreaked havoc, that would be the end. The metals commonly used in people’s daily work and life couldn’t withstand their big teeth.

Exterminating rats is everyone’s responsibility.

In the Space, Ye Nai selected a few huge male rats for her experiments; the Fungal Mycelium decomposed them cleanly within a quarter of an hour, leaving not a hair, pair of Rat Teeth, or a piece of bone behind.

Thus, during the process of unrestrained hunting, Ye Nai prioritized killing wild rats and had the Fungus separate their Rat Teeth for separate storage.

These teeth are very sharp and have economic value. There are always dealers outside collecting wild rats, not just because rat meat could be sold as low-grade Mutant Beast Meat to ordinary folks and small restaurants, but mainly for these Rat Teeth, followed by the skin, and the meat was the least valuable.

Among the Secret Realm Hunters, there were specialized Rat Hunters, who had limited strength and couldn’t capture medium or large prey, but catching rats and rabbits was enough to make a living.

Ye Nai had no intention of competing with these small-time hunters for a livelihood. She rode her motorcycle around haphazardly, scooping out rat dens with the Fungus whenever she found them; if she didn’t find any, she just moved on.

Her main purpose for this trip was to scatter spores; hunting was secondary, so she specifically went to remote places.

Ironically, it’s these sparsely populated areas that had high-value game.

Ye Nai scooped up nests of large ants and spiders that were tough for combat teams to handle, one by one. She didn’t care what species they were; as long as they could be eaten or used, she did so.

There were also medium to large mutant beasts, some herbivores, some carnivores, some that lived in groups, and some that were solitary. Birds, beasts, amphibians – she found them all.

Ye Nai first stumbled upon a group of beasts that resembled deer and sheep, with this one group alone numbering in the tens of thousands.

With so many of them and each being as large as a normal ram, Ye Nai pulled out her privately stashed firearms for shooting practice.

At the sound of a gunshot, the herd bolted, and she followed, picking off animals—to hell with whether they were male or female; she took down as many as she could.

When tired of shooting, she released spores to collect them by batches into her Space, picking out the sub-adult males to keep, and letting the rest go.

After all, she was meant to be the Master of this Secret Realm; she had to consider sustainable development.

While following this group, Ye Nai continually discovered other types of mutant beasts she had not seen before, each with their own strengths and weaknesses.

With a collector’s mindset, Ye Nai captured two pairs of males and females from every new species she encountered.

So, as she followed and collected, Ye Nai unexpectedly received a significant boon.

During a hunting trip she had taken to gather food for a commemorative day, she had mentioned that she wanted to capture alive but never encountered a Wood Element Mutant Beast called Camel-hump Deer; she now saw one.

Just like the description, it was a large-horned deer with a camel-like hump.

Regardless of sex, they all had large builds, and even the young deer in the group were horse-sized—with the difference being whether they were beautiful tall horses or small sturdy workhorses.

Following the herd for two days, Ye Nai personally witnessed the birth of over a dozen fawns.

The newborn fawns were a bit larger than foals, as the mother deer were large themselves.

Ye Nai caught three mother-child pairs, captured additional five sub-adult males, and then dug up plenty of the plants they liked to eat from the root for storage in her Space, planning to take the live animals back with her when returning.

Before she knew it, tracking the animals for nearly a month, plus the travel time, operations like hers basically lasted one and a half to two months at minimum.

This was with her acting solo, carrying sufficient supplies, not having to worry about menstrual cycles, and being able to maintain basic hygiene. If it were a team, staying a month in the Secret Realm would turn them into wild people.

Besides, the planting kit she bought on a whim proved to be a great success during this period.