Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi? Chapter 78 – Chapter 78: Chapter 78: Identifying the Unknown Reasons About Ye Nai

Chapter 78: Chapter 78: Identifying the Unknown Reasons About Ye Nai
 

This was merely the money for the shell alone; if it included meat, it would be even more expensive—eighty or one hundred thousand per leg was not unusual. Spiders are tough to fight, after all, and high-quality ingredients fetch corresponding prices.

The money spent on the axe was quickly earned back.

After collecting the money, Ye Nai left. Next, they had to divide the shell. It was so thick that each person could make a pair of Protective Bracelets and still have leftovers. How the remaining material would be divided was not their business; she did not watch them fight over it.

Having eaten and drunk her fill, she went home to continue arranging meetups; she still needed to deliver the myriad of items she had purchased on behalf of others.

By the afternoon, she had delivered half of the items because some teams were still out on missions. They had to wait for their return. Meanwhile, the many boxes of spider leg meat she had just packed and brought back had sold by about half, and the team members who came to pick up items happily bought several boxes to take home and eat.

After finishing, Ye Nai, who now had some free time, sat in front of the computer and played games.

The newly installed high-performance computer was exhilarating not only for studying but also for gaming.

She downloaded and installed the latest popular online game and clumsily tried to figure out how to play, while in a Level 5 danger zone, Regimental Command Pan was in a conference call with Minister Zhang from the city's armed forces.

The results of the investigation into Ye Nai's personal and family situation were laid out on Minister Zhang's desk, and an electronic copy had also been sent to Regimental Command Pan.

The details of Ye Nai's life after her Awakening were straightforward; her upbringing, however, was depressingly typical of the eldest sister in a large family.

Her parents held professional certification and, although they had only ever attained the entry-level certificate despite working their whole lives, they had steady income with the certificate at hand. In addition, with a monthly subsidy totaling three thousand two hundred for four children, the family of six was actually beyond just making ends meet. Given the housing prices in East Ridge City, they could afford a small three-bedroom apartment on a mortgage, but they preferred to have their eldest daughter sleep in the living room rather than improving their living standards, and did nothing to pave the way for their children's futures—none of the children received dedicated upbringing.

Perhaps as retribution, Ye Nai did not tell her family about her Awakening. They still thought she was working in some danger zone clearing rubbish.

This was all information gathered by intelligence agents, who had visited the neighborhood under the guise of community visits and even chatted with Ye Nai's parents for a few minutes.

Ye's parents thought their family's affairs were unknown to outsiders, but the neighbors—the same people they saw every day—knew every little detail, though they wouldn't talk about it openly. The neighbors chuckled behind closed doors, though.

According to neighbors, after Ye Nai left home, an elderly couple moved in, causing daily chaos; the neighbors suffered from the noise and suspected that this was why Ye Nai had left. After all, there was no sleeping space—she couldn't possibly sleep on the balcony or in the kitchen, which would be ridiculous. Even a live-in nanny would need a safe sleeping environment.

The elderly couple stayed for over three months before being taken away, yet Ye Nai never returned, and her home never regained its former order. Without Ye Nai at home, it lacked the cleanliness and organization she maintained. Even when talking to Ye Nai's parents, the agents stood in the hallway with the door shut, fearing the sight of the messy living room might be exposed.

But actually, with the agents' keen observational skills, the brief moments when the door opened and closed were enough for them to see quite a lot.

Ye's parents expressed concern for their big daughter, who was making money through physical labor somewhere unknown, fearing she might be eating or sleeping poorly or being mistreated. They volunteered that they had already selected potential suitors at their workplaces, planning to arrange a meeting during the New Year, aiming for an early marriage and children while she was young. The children's underage subsidies would cover the daily expenses, providing a stable income, so they wouldn't have to worry about her anymore.

Minister Zhang and Regimental Command Pan were discussing Ye Nai's family matters.

“Her parents don't know the eldest daughter is an Awakener, so they want to rush the wedding during the New Year. That's understandable, but we can't watch Ye Nai jump into a pit,”

“Moreover, we don't have the right to decide for Ye Nai or to inform her parents about the Awakening. We won't interfere in her family matters.”

“Right, I was thinking along the same lines.”

“Let's keep her busy. have tasks lined up through the New Year so she won't have time to go home.”

“This bad idea, will it work? Won't Ye Nai think of going home by herself?”

“She has awakened, become an Awakener. Such good news, and yet she could hold it in without telling her family a single word which shows she knows her family can't be relied upon, she can even resist the desire to share such news. What do you think of her temperament?”

“Quite composed, not someone who can be easily manipulated.”

“If she were the timid and easily manipulated type, she would probably have already married according to her parents' arrangement, instead of having the success she has now.”

“Right, then let's assign her a task to keep her away from home. Her parents want her home for the New Year, but she'll be out of town and can't return.”

“Ha, perfect, the system has been suppressed by me too. Everything remains as usual, even the city doesn't know.”

“Hey, about that, what's the deal with the system? There should have been a system notification the day her information was entered.”

“Well, you won't believe it, but it's just a coincidence that the system was upgrading, can you believe that?”

“…What?”

“Those three days when data was being upgraded in the document database, right? To ensure stable data migration, programmers, following past experiences, removed all special tags. Who could have foreseen that a Big Space User would come to register within those three days? No special tags, no special alerts, the information entered was real and effective, and then, no one knew.”

“Seriously, such a coincidence. But, isn't it weird that the personnel entering the information didn't gossip about it everywhere? Normally, all kinds of news about Awakeners leak first from them.”

“Oh, it's because it's been reiterated in their center not to disclose the privacy of the Awakeners. Input the information, and forget about it after it's done. How their information is used isn't for the staff to chat about. If discovered, they'd lose their job.”

“What? Is this still the work attitude of the Awakener Center I know?”

“Ha, it's said to be a directive from the newly appointed director of the center.”

“No wonder.”

“You see how serendipitous it all lined up.”

“Good, as long as the city doesn't know, suppressed well.”

“Don't worry, it's already been switched to the important talent database. This girl is very clever; she's already transferred her residency into the center's group account.”

Originally, searching the data in the document database requires permissions, and searching the important talent database requires even higher permissions. It's not something that an office worker can just type into a computer and access. Ye Nai's 2000 cubic meters of Space capacity deserved to be in this database.

After Regimental Command Pan and Minister Zhang reached a consensus, the Regimental Command sent a message to several team leaders who were on good terms with Ye Nai, keeping her busy as there were rumors that her parents were selecting a marriage partner for her and were planning to call her home for a blind date.

At Brother Peng's house, right after they had finished distributing the spider shells, the three team leaders were drinking beer with Brother Peng when their phones buzzed together, startling them as they thought it was some emergency task.

After reading the message, they were stunned.

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