Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi-Chapter 172: Returning to the Danger Zone is Where the Real Business Is (5)

Ye Nai raised her arm to gesture, and in passing, a few small spores entered Brother Peng’s body. They wouldn’t act up for now, so when he got home, he could have a good sleep, and by tomorrow, the slight discomfort would be gone.

Brother Peng approached her, casually petting her fluffy head as he did so.

"What’s up?"

"Got any reliable meat vendors?"

"What are you selling?"

"Wild rats, with the teeth pulled out."

"The teeth?" Brother Peng and everyone at the table asked in unison, with Captain Xiao Ni from the next table also leaning in.

"No, shouldn’t you be asking how much rat meat I have?"

"Rat meat isn’t worth much, Rat Teeth are the real deal."

Clang, Ye Nai dumped over fifty bulging, extra-thick household garbage bags beside her feet, the kitchen-grade kind that are puncture-resistant and leakproof, filling up all the space around their table and then some, with stacks on top.

A rustling sound came from the bags as they hit the ground.

Everyone was stunned.

Ye Nai casually opened one, revealing a bag full of wild rat incisors, those that had been pulled out with the roots intact.

The Space Fungus had been instructed to pull out the rat teeth for her, and she had also made sure to separate the upper teeth from the lower teeth, which is why there were bags of upper teeth and bags of lower teeth all over the place.

"Damn, that’s a heck of a lot of wild rats. Seems like it’s no less than the number of rabbits."

"Wild rats are a bigger problem than wild rabbits, and their teeth are so strong they can chew metal into bits."

Ye Nai remembered rats flowing into the Space like goods, and she felt a bit queasy.

"Yes, we want Rat Teeth to make grinding paste and grinding stones for metalworking."

"Do they make especially sharp edges for knives?"

"Of course, Rat Teeth sharpening stones are incredibly useful."

Ye Nai nudged one of the bags with her foot. "Any in stock? Can I get two?"

"No problem."

Several people reached for their phones.

"Hold up, hold up, don’t rush," Sister Cao hastily interjected. "Are we calling people or are we eating?"

"Let’s eat first, then call. Then they can bring the sharpening stones right along."

"Right, right, let’s eat first."

Ye Nai packed up the bags, and the excited crowd each returned to their seats. Not long after, Brother Xiao Ma and his whole team came back from their physical examination.

"Weren’t you going for a physical? That was fast."

"Pfft, all that happened was we took off our clothes for the doc to check the wounds, see if they’re all healed."

"Any complications?"

"None, the wounds have closed up, healthy as can be."

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"That’s good then."

While they chatted idly, the food was served. In front of Ye Nai, a plate of farmed jumbo shrimp was deliberately placed, with each one complete from head to tail, a characteristic of cultivated seafood.

One plate held five shrimp. She pulled off the head and peeled out shrimp meat that was still as big as her entire palm.

She had never seen shrimp this big at the Seafood Restaurant.

No other table had them; they were prepared specifically for her.

When they said she would get special treatment, she really did get special treatment.

The food for these three tables was specially prepared, just as the blanched jumbo shrimp for her were.

Ye Nai ate with such joy that her eyebrows danced and her eyes sparkled.

Everyone else was the same, gobbling down the food like wolves and tigers, agreeing that nothing beat the taste of a home-cooked meal.

As she peeled shrimp, she looked around and realized that apart from their few tables, not a single leader was present.

Someone casually mentioned it, but no one seemed to care. The leaders were always busy with work, hardly sticking to regular meal times, and it was mostly their secretaries who came to pick up food.

The few times Ye Nai had dined here, she had always tagged along with others, oblivious to the busy lives of those up the hierarchy. After hearing these comments, she stayed quiet and concentrated on her meal.

The dinner battle was over in fifteen minutes, including the time Ye Nai spent peeling shrimp.

After wiping their mouths and clearing the table, everyone gathered on the open space outside the cafeteria under the bright lights, where the post-dinner dessert began.

Ye Nai placed the bag filled with Rat Teeth on the ground, opened a few tops, and two people were taking photos to help draw attention to her trades.

So many Rat Teeth were excellent materials for processing. Within moments, she received responses.

"All set, someone from the workshop is on the way. Just wait for them here."

"The procurement department will send someone too. With so many Rat Teeth, the workshop might not have the budget for it."

As they waited simply, the bustling entrance to the cafeteria attracted many curious warriors who’d finished their meals. Seeing the Rat Teeth, they exclaimed in amazement.

Then they saw many of them pulling out their phones to send messages and make calls, seemingly to the workshop about the large quantity of wild Rat Teeth available, sufficient for orders of new grinding stones.

While waiting, Ye Nai unveiled even more new items.

The Spider Legs had either been eaten or sold to the cold storage, but the massive body was still in the Space, along with so many different kinds of large ants that could yield formic acid.

One by one, bag by bag, the space outside the cafeteria became crowded again.

The onlookers pitched in, frantically calling the workshops and research institutes to hurry over, otherwise it would be impossible to walk through the entrance of the cafeteria.

During the commotion, many sensed a surge of residual, full energy. They didn’t mind the hassle and searched everywhere, carrying the bodies of the female spiders to the cafeteria steps and leaning them against the wall.

"These are all females, right? The energy is so powerful."

"Definitely, you can feel the rich residual energy leaking out from these cuts."

"And all the meat has been scooped clean."

The bodies of the female spiders drew a crowd, and when they realized that there was no more flesh inside, they swarmed around Ye Nai, chattering and asking if there were any leftovers.

Ye Nai thumped two foldable tables onto the ground and displayed the tinned scraps of Spider Meat.

Of course, there were scraps. Nothing could go to waste. She used the largest aluminum foil boxes, those that could serve as pots when camping. One table held the scraps from the males, and the other was for the females.

Both were stacked high and looked quite impressive.

Anyone who was able to cook outside the cafeteria menu came forward to buy.

Sister Cao and Brother Peng, who had stayed with her, moved quickly to grab a few boxes first.

Brother Peng even pulled out his digital scale for buying meat, weighing each box on the spot. Each container was a standard four pounds and a bit more, excluding the weight of the box itself; the meat was definitely a full four pounds.

Hence, six thousand for a box of males, and eight thousand for a box of females.

Ye Nai then took out a stack of small boxes filled with loose fish roe and rearranged the Spider Meat, still separating male from female, but stacking every five boxes of meat with a box of roe on top.

She decided to sell it like that.

She opened the payment code for her own account in the Awakener app, placed it on the table, and let them scan to pay.

The rich energy in the fish roe spilled out through the boxes, tantalizingly inviting.

Yet, the common knowledge of not consuming mutant beast offal made people hesitate, even though the roe was very tempting.

At this moment, the chief of the cooking squad arrived with his team, wielding an Energy Detection Needle for testing the safety of Otherworld food materials.

With a smile, Ye Nai inserted her hands in her pockets and let them carry out the tests on the spot.

About twenty minutes later, after testing more than ten boxes of fish roe without setting off any alarms, all showing safe green lights, the tests were done.

The successful testing prompted a massive surge of people from behind, pushing the cooking squad back out and starting a frenzy to buy the Spider Leg meat and the freebies that came with it.