Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi-Chapter 240 : Adding New Equipment for Small Business
Ye Nai had finished looking up the necessary information and purchased the recommended detergent. After resting for the night, she drove Little Lemon the next morning, when the rush hour had passed, to clean the surgical instruments.
There were several service providers in the city dealing in this business. Ye Nai visited each one, gathering their service items and price lists. By noon she had finished with the last one, and she found a restaurant to eat lunch while comparing the options. She picked the most appealing one and, after eating, hurried there, but would have to wait 48 hours to retrieve her items.
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This shop also handled medical waste disposal.
Awakeners couldn't carelessly throw medical waste brought back from the Secret Realm into street bins as city surveillance was always watching.
The shop offered such services and charged based on the size of the medical waste bags – large, medium, or small. Regardless of whether they were filled or not, they were priced per bag. Using ordinary trash bags would incur an additional fee.
There wasn't much to hesitate about; spending money made things easier.
Next, she went straight to the wastewater treatment plant to clean the tanks for bathrooms and laundries, and indeed, there was a special service for washing particularly dirty trailers, which were included in this service.
She brought her own detergent and only had to pay for the labor. A fully-equipped car wash worker in protective gear had her mutant beast-holding trailers sparkling clean in two hours.
There was still a smell, but it wasn't as overpowering. One had to be close to notice it. Considering this, it was acceptable.
Heading back to the city, Ye Nai swung by the Awakener Training Hall.
Having been out and about all day, she lacked the energy for combat training. Following the navigation, she went to the shooting range instead where her course and shooting scores were verified before the assigned instructor handed her a gun and bullets.
"Haven't seen you before. Is this your first time here?"
"Yes, I'm from East Ridge City," Ye Nai said as she expertly loaded the magazine.
"Ah," the instructor nodded, showing polite but lukewarm enthusiasm.
Ye Nai actually preferred not to have people chattering nearby. She knew her static target handgun scores weren't impressive enough to be warmly received by the instructor. This level of indifference suited her just fine.
Two hours later, she finished her practice and left. Today's average score was 9 rings, 9 points per ring, not far from the 500 points needed to upgrade to moving handgun targets.
Points to upgrade were calculated based on the average score of each session, which meant the upgrade progress was extremely slow; this also implicitly encouraged Awakeners to practice more and develop muscle memory instead of hoping for quick results.
After training intermittently for a year, Ye Nai finally saw the possibility of upgrading.
It was completely dark when she left the training hall, but fortunately, the area was replete with hotels, restaurants, and snack bars. Not only did she fill her stomach, but she also packed a bunch of snacks for later.
The next day, she continued her visits to the factories.
The time she hosted the Water Prison Team gave Ye Nai fresh inspiration. The gifted canopy was spacious enough for one person, but after placing two water tanks in the middle, the walking space on either side became limited.
She wanted to purchase a larger and heavier one. Yesterday, she found a factory online that manufactured electrically operated retractable canopies, customizable to any required size, with a steel rail on the ground for stable wheel movement, secure against windy weather.
After visiting several factories, Ye Nai chose one to construct an electric retractable awning that was 20 meters wide, 40 meters long, and 15 meters high.
The reason for this height was to accommodate the height of the steel beams inside the awning. Additionally, her two-story building was 6 meters tall; leaving some extra space, just in case she ever bought a three-story building.
A row of high-powered lighting fixtures was hung on the steel beams for use at night or when the sky was overcast.
The power supply was simple; both the awning and the light switches were controlled by a remote control. As long as she remembered to charge it regularly, just an outdoor power source was enough to operate the electric awning for several months. However, if the lighting needed power, a nuclear battery would be used, which could last indefinitely.
She chose a translucent light-colored fabric for the awning. She did not like the design where a transparent material is sandwiched between two different colored fabrics; she preferred a one-piece design to ensure that there was sufficient brightness in the middle of the awning during the day. The fabric reached the ground on all sides, and it was reinforced with steel plates along the edges to enhance stability and prevent the fabric from being blown up by strong winds.
After negotiating the price, the manufacturer agreed to manufacture and install the awning within a week. Both parties signed a contract, and Ye Nai paid a deposit and left.
She then visited other factories and bought one hundred hospital companion beds—lightweight, single folding beds that were selling for a hundred yuan each on the streets but only thirty yuan each at the factory.
This was inspired by the Water Prison Team, who had spent a night in a hospital ward and even paid her two hundred yuan per person for the bed. Ye Nai thought starting a similar small business was a good idea too.
If there was a demand again, with the electric awning deployed and the beds set up, she could charge a hundred yuan per bed. With a bathroom and laundry shop nearby, wouldn't that be wonderful?
No toilets were available; teams and Solo Hunters either brought their own or just dug a hole in the wilderness when needed.
Thinking about toilets, Ye Nai upgraded hers as well.
She sold her one-year-old toilet as a second-hand item and purchased a new microbial degradation toilet with a built-in sink and water tank, featuring all-white enamel and tempered glass doors. Upon entering, there was a sink, and inside to the right was a squat toilet, while to the left was a small door leading to a room where she could place a generator or outdoor power source and check the electrical circuits.
For an additional fee, the interior décor could be customized, so she had outlets installed in a wall-wide mirrored cabinet. The cabinet had three shelves whose spacing could be adjusted freely; the faucet was replaced with a plug-in instant hot water type, essential now that it was getting colder, to ensure hot water for washing hands.
A 100-liter water tank was installed on the roof, accessible by a lateral ladder for easy water refills. Photovoltaics filled the adjacent space, and the wastewater tank was outside, behind the wall directly opposite the sink. On the side of the squat toilet was a switch for changing the microbial cultures.
After finishing here, Ye Nai spent two days and purchased new drying sets, two new long sink sets, two new shower sets, and a few more commercial nuclear batteries and outdoor power supplies.
She went to the East Ridge Secret Realm and reorganized the layout of the laundry shop. She removed the long bench in the middle that was meant for resting, moved the wall-mounted clothes folding stations to fill the space, and installed the newly purchased drying sets where the stations were previously.
Overall, the wall at the entrance remained unchanged, while the other three walls were filled with washing and drying sets, significantly increasing the laundry efficiency.
She also restocked on cigarettes and even bought small packs of matches upon recommendation—hotel-grade cardboard matches with only ten per pack, but they were potent and highly effective, not the cheap, poorly made ones.
She also discarded the backpack she had never used since purchase, giving it to a second-hand vendor, explicitly stating she didn't want it anymore after a man had rummaged through it.
The vendor chuckled as he pulled out underwear stained with oily fingerprints from the bag and bought them at half price.
Having purchased everything she needed and retrieved the sterilized medical equipment, Ye Nai spent the next few days training with firearms at the Awakener Training Hall in the mornings. Then she would return to the hotel and diligently work in the East Ridge Secret Realm to cultivate and maintain her ten acres of land, which she was getting into shape.
