Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi-Chapter 242: Keep Digging in the Secret Realm (2)

Footsteps discarded a large number of mining picks; they had been abandoned for so long that the handles had rotted away. When Ye Nai casually stepped on one, it snapped with a crack.

Ye Nai put away her oxygen tank and, holding a lamp, followed the mine path beneath her feet, searching high and low with no way out. Where exits seemed possible, huge stones blocked them tightly without a crack for air.

After searching like this for a while, Ye Nai began to have difficulty breathing and quickly used her oxygen.

She stamped her foot, feeling the ground beneath her was still solid, and the surroundings and height were fairly spacious. With a clatter, she launched the excavator and, dragging her oxygen tank, climbed inside.

Without mining machines available, she had to try with the excavator; if she damaged the bucket, she would fix it when she got out.

The Space Fungus had brought her here, there definitely must be treasures. The enemy had even sealed the place off when they left. Based on common sense, the treasure inside must be of substantial value.

Not knowing behind which wall the treasure lay, she could only try her luck. Selecting an angle, Ye Nai swung the bucket and crashed it against the wall.

The crash felt like the sky was falling and the earth was splitting. The mine, untouched for decades, rained down little rocks from the ceiling.

Luckily, Ye Nai sat in a fully enclosed cabin, worried only about the vehicle body getting hit and the glass shattering—otherwise, all was well.

After waiting a few minutes for the stone shards to stop falling, Ye Nai swung the bucket again, hitting the same spot with another loud thud.

This blow was even harsher. Under the light of the headlights, fractures could be seen on the rock face spilling small stones.

It was unclear whether the mine had reached this point back in the days or if the rock wall was just that brittle, allowing her to smash it to this state with just two strikes.

After waiting another five or six minutes, seeing no water gushing from the wall, she swung the bucket a third time.

This third blow had just finished when the Space Fungus inside the room reacted strongly. A powerful suction drew all the fractured rocks into the space, revealing the ore beneath.

The headlight shone right on it, reflecting a ghostly green glow.

The green light in the pitch-black space startled Ye Nai.

In the darkness, with no fresh air, and suddenly a dim green light—anyone who’s seen a horror film knows what that means.

At the same time, Ye Nai’s instinctively defensive spores rushed toward the ore embedded in the rock face, burrowing into unseen cracks, taking over the surface of the ore.

After watching for a while and, judging from her limited knowledge, deciding that waiting like this wouldn’t do, Ye Nai swung the bucket a fourth time.

More rocks fell from the rock face, obscuring the view of the ore, but the space’s suction grew stronger.

Ye Nai immediately pushed herself to produce an excessive amount of spores as ammunition.

The massive replenishment of spores made Ye Nai, in her daze, think she heard a soft "pop" sound.

A second later, a familiar trembling came from the space.

Ye Nai only had time to see that the stone just pulled into the space was as large as the previous one before she passed out.

Fortunately, the oxygen mask was still on her face, preventing oxygen deprivation after fainting.

Not knowing how long she was unconscious, when Ye Nai woke up, she was still sitting in the cabin.

She adjusted the slightly askew oxygen mask on her face and first "looked" at the situation inside the space.

Unsurprisingly, the space had expanded again because the huge mineral rock always hanging in the center of the space was further away.

Now, there were two big and small mineral rocks. Although both were densely covered with white fungus filaments, there was no mistaking them.

The piece from the East Ridge Secret Realm, after two tremendous expenditures, was now only a quarter of its original size. The new piece felt even bigger than the previous one.

Thinking of the East Ridge Secret Realm made an image of a miniaturized version of East Ridge Secret Realm spin joyfully in her mind.

The next second, Ye Nai felt a familiar sensation of teleportation. She closed and opened her eyes, and suddenly everything was clear in front of her, and she smelled fresh, fishy water.

She, along with her vehicle, emerged from the pitch-black, suffocating mine tunnel to the vast riverside, and outside the car window was the ten acres of land she had painstakingly cultivated.

"Damn!"

Ye Nai yanked off her oxygen mask, flung open the car door, jumped out of the vehicle, and grabbed a handful of loose soil, taking a deep inhale.

It was the smell of the homemade fertilizer she had scattered.

"Two Secret Realms are interconnected, and they can be traversed as long as there’s enough energy!"

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"Brilliant!"

Ye Nai, excited, did a backflip right on the spot.

"No wonder I dug up so many altars without any reaction; it turned out to be a lack of energy. Well, that’s easy to handle, just keep mining the stones, no matter the size."

Ye Nai climbed back into the vehicle, put on her mask, revisited the image of that mine tunnel in her mind, closed her eyes, opened them, and went back with her vehicle.

"Hahahahaha!"

"Brilliant!"

"Wait until I connect more Secret Realms, I’ll move freely, and I want to check out the enemy’s side too!"

Ye Nai secured herself in the seat, rotated the cabin, and tapped the surrounding mountain walls with the bucket.

Although she knew the probability of producing another large energy stone in the same mine tunnel was minimal, tapping didn’t cost anything.

After a round of tapping, hey, there was a reaction in the space again, and spores unearthed two stones from the crevices in the mountain walls, nearly the size of watermelons.

Ye Nai smiled like a misshapen Dragon King, cheerfully leaving the valueless mine tunnel behind.

In other parts of the mine tunnel where the Space Fungus didn’t take her, there were none. Ye Nai didn’t dwell on them.

Getting three large energy-dense stones from one mine tunnel was enough for her; being too greedy could lead to disaster.

This teleportation still didn’t take her outside the mountain but led her into another spacious, dark cave. Reenergized from her numbness and fatigue, Ye Nai swung the bucket and started working fervently.

She continued laboriously for another eight or nine days. Without checking her phone, Ye Nai almost lost her sense of time. It had been about a month since she started mining altars, and she had unearthed over fifty, with no end in sight.

There were only fifty altars in total in the East Ridge Secret Realm, but more than fifty in the Five Bridges Secret Realm.

When continuous machine operation once again made Ye Nai feel exhausted and numb, the Space Fungus ceased its activity. After she uncovered another altar, it didn’t lead her to the next location and simply stayed in place.

Ye Nai sat idle for a while, snapped back to reality, and after staring blankly for a couple of seconds, it suddenly dawned on her.

"Is that it?"

"Are all the altars in the Five Bridges Secret Realm gone?"

"But there hasn’t been a disturbance like in the East Ridge Secret Realm?"

"So, some altars were taken by others?"

"Tsk, where can I find them now?"

"Never mind, it’s probably for the best. Without the altars, the enemy can’t come here and destroy this wonderful city."

Ye Nai quickly got over it, no longer fretting about the few missing altars.

"Let’s go, let’s go, if I don’t return soon, I’ll lose my hotel reservation."

Ye Nai performed a Space Teleportation from the Five Bridges Secret Realm back to the East Ridge Secret Realm, landed by the cultivated land, pulled out the Courtyard House, took a bath, had a meal, and rested well throughout the night. At dawn, she returned to the recently mined cave in the Five Bridges Secret Realm and cautiously moved to the outside of the cave to release a large number of spores to find a safe landing spot at the mountain’s base where no one was around.