Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi

After a brief conversation, Ye Nai opened the Transmission Port, sending the Commander back to the East Ridge Secret Realm. Then she continued running trade with the security team, reconnecting with previous business relations.

After a few hours of operations, some people were still there, while others, along with their families, had vanished without a trace.

Some lands previously bought from the nobles had new owners, who adamantly refused to acknowledge Ye Nai's land deed, insisting that she, a person from the Otherworld, had forcibly seized the land, and thus the land deed must be fake.

Ye Nai wouldn't tolerate this. If they didn't recognize her land deed and could identify her as an Otherworldly, it certainly meant they were backed by Great Nobles, possibly having even visited Blue Star.

So, she immediately took action to capture and interrogate them on the spot.

Indeed, she managed to extract information about the Great Nobles behind them and the complex networks.

The security team accompanying her also witnessed firsthand Ye Nai's efficient methods of interrogation.

The entire process was her classic three-pronged approach.

According to her usual practice, she would leave spores in every location she visited, letting them naturally grow, reproduce, and expand.

Now, after several years, upon her return, those spores had fully integrated into the local ecosystem.

This meant that with just a single thought, everyone present fell instantly under the spores' influence without any transition or buffer.

Ye Nai then proceeded to question each individual in turn, giving uncooperative ones a package of five minutes of continuous pain.

The agony brought forth piercing screams capable of frightening others, even startling Ye Nai's security team.

As the first person screamed in stiffness, Ye Nai had already moved on to the second person, treating any hesitation as non-cooperation, subjecting them likewise to the pain package, and then questioning the third.

The security team worried that the screams might attract outsiders, but upon looking around, everyone was rigidly crumpled to the ground.

Questioning continued in this fashion; as the number of screams increased, those afraid began to cooperate, revealing everything without a hint of concealment.

After securing the confessions, Ye Nai didn't let them off. She cast different Puppet Curses on them and her security team, with each team leader carefully escorting the new captives through the Transmission Port back to the East Ridge Secret Realm.

Ye Nai ensured not to mix these new captives with the existing ones and instead left them in the wilderness outside Town No. 2, merely two or three kilometers away from the temporary cattle and sheep pens.

To prevent escape, she stimulated the growth of shrub seeds in the soil, forming an enclosure.

The warriors could see this additional group of captives standing on the highway.

Leaving behind this batch of captives, Ye Nai returned to the Otherworld according to the confessions given, to seek out the senior nobles assigning districts.

The senior nobles were also absent; wars were everywhere, and they had to strive to protect their territories, leaving only one family in the vast mansion.

After controlling everyone in the mansion, Ye Nai returned to the wilderness outside Town No. 2 of the East Ridge Secret Realm, pulling out a large basin a meter in diameter filled with seafood as a reward, borrowing troops for assistance.

The seafood remained from portions previously divided by the war zone Commander.

The Company Commander presiding over affairs, eyes glowing at the sight of the towering basin of seafood, was absolutely driven by camaraderie, not seafood.

Sanitation warriors immediately dropped their brooms and cloths, grabbing their guns, rushing into the Otherworld, rounding up the softened captives who had just returned from stiffness, and escorted them back to the East Ridge Secret Realm, locking them in that enclosure.

Following the escort team back to the East Ridge Secret Realm, Ye Nai left some food supplies with each group of captives before returning to the apartment with her security team.

The time spent capturing captives and extracting confessions was considerable; thanks to the time difference, only a little time had passed on Blue Star, but for those running around physically, exhaustion was inevitable.

Before parting, Ye Nai handed each team member a large bag of corn from the Secret Realm, along with several bags of seafood.

The Commander and warriors in the Secret Realm had theirs; Ye Nai's security team had theirs as well.

Team members left joyfully, laden with goods.

Shutting the door, washing her hands, Ye Nai collapsed onto the couch, scrolling through her phone for nearby meal options on the delivery app.

Just then, the phone vibrated with a new message.

Upon opening it, she found an announcement about an independent laboratory entering next Monday with a project team researching grain and vegetable cultivation in the Secret Realm. It was learned one member, an old expert on corn, was over eighty.

Ye Nai replied with a smiling acknowledgment and returned to the delivery app, continuing to place her order.

Initially she thought the dedicated multi-storey lab was for cultivating Translation Mushrooms. Clearly, she had overthought.

But it was understandable; being the sole person able to open the Transmission Port, experts naturally were placed within her view for streamlined efficiency.

Ye Nai completed her takeaway order and used it as lunch, filling herself before noon and taking a nap, then called on her security team to resume trade operations in the Otherworld.

Meanwhile, the newest batch of captives sent into the Secret Realm underwent questioning by Staff Department personnel who consumed Translation Mushrooms, detailing how they had confessed under Ye Nai's methods.

These captives cried with grievance on recounting, a group of burly men sobbing uncontrollably.

Ye Nai's interrogations didn't involve physical torture but inflicted psychological torment, causing nightmares; in the Secret Realm's midnight environment, they slept uneasily, waking startled, dreaming of being tortured.

Observing their stressed states, it was deduced how others had disclosed confessions.

They bought so much video material from Ye Nai, deploying fifty members to several simultaneous analysis teams, with a large portion focusing on interrogation content, questioning and responding cooperatively as if perfectly compliant.

No wonder they seemed cooperative; evidently non-cooperative content wasn't present in the videos.

Upon writing and submitting the report through the Staff Department, national leaders comprehended Ye Nai's formidable capabilities, exceeding expectations, realizing her superpower might be uniquely unparalleled.

For if others possessing similar abilities existed, their characteristics would have been documented long ago, ensuring Ye Nai couldn't obscure herself as a Space Storage Awakened for so long.

Ye Nai spent several hours trading in the Otherworld, selling some items, acquiring others, and searching the desert for locals to purchase fruits, discovering yet another desert town devastated by war.