Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi? Chapter 95 – Chapter 95: Chapter 95: First Solo Hunt in the Secret Realm (1)

Chapter 95: Chapter 95: First Solo Hunt in the Secret Realm (1)
 

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Brushing her teeth, washing her face, changing her clothes, and storing her belongings in her space, in less than an hour, Ye Nai locked the door, descended the stairs, and hopped on her motorcycle to rush to the Secret Realm.

Not long after she left, the team captains spread the gossip.

Of course, on the surface, they didn't reveal even a hint that Ye Nai had snitched behind their backs, and there were only a few restaurants in the dangerous area that served good food but were expensive—they all took turns dining there. Someone last night had seen it, a private room filled with drunken old men who had tried to outdrink a young girl and failed to outdrink her. In the end, she picked up the tab for them all.

The initial gossip was that simple, but after passing through multiple people and multiple mouths, it easily morphed into those famous private team captains deliberately inviting the young girl to drink, and when they couldn't outdrink her, they still had the nerve to duck out on the bill.

As expected, once the gossip got out, the reputations of those eight team captains plummeted. Their team members felt embarrassed when they heard it, but they knew it was true. The big tab from last night was indeed paid by that Big Space User, as the captains were all passed out under the tables, unrousable by shouts, carried back by their team members.

In the whole process, who knows how many people saw it, not ruling out the possibility that the servers at the restaurant were the ones spreading the gossip.

Renowned private team captains inviting someone for drinks and then getting drunk and dodging the bill themselves—just this sentence was enough to lose them all face and respect.

They wanted to find Ye Nai, but her phone was already unreachable. By the time they made inquiries everywhere, they found out that this year, the military barracks were going to have a great chef taking charge of the kitchen, and Ye Nai, luckily, could join them for a meal, so she specially went into the Secret Realm to gather ingredients.

Ye Nai said she would only buy fresh ingredients from various towns in the rear, but once she entered the Secret Realm and ran for over a hundred kilometers along the highway, she veered off the road and plunged into the wilderness.

It was a rare opportunity to go hunting, and she wasn't going to just wander around the small towns.

She downloaded the public hunting map of the Secret Realm, which was purely text-based. No matter which area she headed to, it told her to continue straight along the highway, pass by such and such number rear towns and travel a certain distance to some numbered sections off the highway, then walk a certain distance in such and such direction.

Ye Nai had a good sense of direction. The streets of East Ridge City were densely packed and narrow, but she never got lost once she had walked a road. This kind of map posed no difficulty for her, and she easily arrived at an area overrun with rabbits.

Normally, given the Chinese fondness for rabbits, there shouldn't be any areas overrun with wild rabbits, but rabbits in the Secret Realm were not easy to handle.

These rabbits could breathe fire, and thus were aptly named Fire-breathing Rabbits.

They were herbivores, eating grass roots and berries, but these were rabbits that could breathe fire.

If one was touched by their superpower fire, ordinary methods couldn't put it out, and without a Water or Earth Superpower User's help, one would simply burn to death.

It was for this reason, coupled with the rabbits' prolific breeding, that it was no surprise they multiplied unchecked. They weren't everywhere in the Secret Realm, thanks to the carnivorous mutant beasts that acted as natural predators, keeping the numbers of these rabbits in check.

To hunt rabbits, humans best use firearms. Rabbit fur has a certain elasticity, and handgun bullets are completely ineffective—at least a 7.62 mm is needed; otherwise, one shot wouldn't take down a rabbit but instead would only anger it and cause it to chase after the person, breathing fire.

However, if you shoot a rabbit, its fur will be ruined, and its value will plummet. Such good quality fur, of course, fetches the highest price when it is complete and undamaged.

Ye Nai took out a rifle from her space.

Where did she get her rifle? Of course, it was seized from the Cult Members. Last time she was deceived into going on a mission; all the firearms and ammunition on those people were now in her hands.

Spores scattered quickly, growing into fungus as they landed, absorbing nutrients from the soil, and releasing more spores to grow and spread in the vicinity.

A large amount of fungal mycelium formed, and along with Ye Nai's movements, the territory expanded. As long as she didn't step out of it, she was safe within the protective circle of the fungal mycelium.

The mycelium underground helped her to locate rabbit burrows, whilst Ye Nai, carrying her rifle, searched for active rabbits on the surface.

In the shooting range, her score with static targets remained consistently within the eight-ring; it would take shooting two boxes of bullets to occasionally hit the nine-ring three or five times. Nevertheless, she was quite accurate when using a grenade gun to shoot Bloodthirsty Vines. The coach had once said her dynamic vision might be very strong, more suitable for shooting moving targets.

But because her static target score was not improving, she couldn't advance to shooting moving targets.

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To validate her own ideas, she could only come to the Secret Realm for empirical proof.

The best dynamic target in the wilderness was none other than rabbits.

Small in size, quick in movement.

There was no better dynamic target than this.

The withered grass was obstructing her view, and it was difficult to walk while holding the gun, so Ye Nai switched to a scythe, cutting the grass as she moved.

In her Space, rabbits were being captured in groups, the Fungal Mycelium working much more efficiently than Ye Nai.

A sudden stroke of inspiration hit Ye Nai, and she wanted to bring some live rabbits back with her.

The mycelium was an extension of her will. Therefore, the newly caught rabbits after that—with the young ones all peacefully sleeping under the mycelium's protection in the Space—were adult and subadult rabbits that became food for the mycelium, leaving only furs and clean meat.

Just as Ye Nai had been laboriously cutting grass for half an hour without seeing a single live rabbit and was considering whether to change direction, she suddenly heard the sporadic sound of gunshots in the distance.

She startled, put away the scythe, and quickly ran in the opposite direction of the gunshots, using the cover of the dead grass on the ground.

The sound of gunfire meant there was a Hunting Team, and of course, she didn't want to stumble upon someone else's hunting scene and do something that could lead to misunderstandings.

As she ran and listened to the gunshots, just when she felt she had run far enough, she suddenly saw a gray rabbit dart right in front of her eyes.

It sprang out from a clump of withered grass, and after two hops, jumped into another clump, and Ye Nai lost sight of it after a few steps.

“Aha…”

Ye Nai spread her hands wide.

“No wonder they're overrunning the place, they're so hard to chase.”

Ye Nai decided to be kinder to herself. She released a large number of superpower spores, letting the spores find rabbits nearby. She followed the generated fungal navigation and pursued whichever rabbit was the closest.

The method worked. She chased, they ran. After competing with the rabbits in a running contest for an hour, she finally shot two, each rabbit killed with a single shot.

She was thankful for the gun in her hand.

And these two rabbits somewhat proved that her dynamic vision was stronger than she expected, because she had not received any training with moving targets; the two rabbits in her hand were the result of her instinctive reactions.

Ye Nai's confidence soared.

“I really am a Sharpshooter in the making.”

“Keep going, keep going.”

Ye Nai suddenly immersed herself in the sense of achievement that came with rabbit hunting, gleefully chasing rabbits. The continuous energy feedback from the mycelium made her tireless as if she had an eternal engine inside her, allowing her to run freely for the first time, enjoying the unrestrained expenditure of physical strength.

Not even the rabbits could outrun her; one was actually chased to death by her sheer persistence.

The rabbit would occasionally stop to spew flames at her, each time Ye Nai dodging agilely. After spitting flames repeatedly, the rabbit suddenly let out a belch, flipped onto its back with its feet in the air, and just like that, it died.

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