Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi-Chapter 178: Dealing with the Brothers Upon Returning to the City (4)

Ye Yong hurriedly snatched up the schoolbag thrown under the bed and took out a pen to quickly write in his notebook.

"Jiang Hui took your mobile phones and asked for the payment passwords, but did he ask for the account numbers and login passwords as well?"

"No, he only asked for the payment passwords."

"Up until today, has he ever asked for the account numbers and login passwords?"

"No, he never asked for them."

"What about your bank cards? Did they take those?"

"No, after they got our phones, we left our bank cards at home."

"We can see our bank balances on our phones, so we didn’t think it was necessary to carry the cards."

"So the phones are still in their possession, and they charge them every day to ensure there’s money available."

"Yes, that’s right!"

"Jiang Hui’s little gang are just minions who take orders. Do you think it’s possible they are still holding onto the phones?"

"No, we don’t know."

"Who gave you the two dollars?"

"Jiang Hui gave it to us. He wanted us to be his minions and kept telling us every day how powerful Huang Yuanhao is, saying that if we cling to his coattails, we could also get by well."

"So this Jiang Hui group is our current focus of interest."

"Yes, that’s correct."

"If I hadn’t come today, what were your plans? Where would you have dinner after finishing your duty, and how would you spend this evening and weekend?"

"Just like usual, we’d go to the cafeteria to buy a steamed bun, stay in the dormitory, and rewash our clothes that got dirty from being stepped on."

"Ah, right, Jiang Hui wants us to go somewhere tomorrow, and told us to dress clean."

"Is there an address for the place you’re going tomorrow?"

"He said it’s at Six Bridge Park."

Ye Nai went straight to the local section of the Awakener forum and searched for Six Bridge Park.

She quickly found a map of the local gangs in East Ridge, with the poster carefully marking the territory of the gangs. Several influential gangs had smaller factions under them, and it was these offshoots who typically committed acts of crime; when trouble arose, they were quickly disowned, shielding the real leaders from implication.

Six Bridge Park was originally a community park serving residents, but recently there have been more and more thugs active there. During the day, residents could still go and enjoy the sun, but from evening till dawn, it became the territory of the hoodlums.

"This park is a place used by both residents and hoodlums alike. What time are they telling you to go?"

"At eight o’clock in the evening, at the main entrance of the park."

"Alright, I’ll meet them tomorrow."

"We’ll come with you."

"What are you going to do there? With all the injuries on you, in that kind of place, can you run or fight? I’m going to negotiate with them, and you want to provide two hostages? Have you been beaten stupid these last two months?"

The two young boys, just beginning to brace themselves, shrank back down, mumbling and not daring to speak out.

Sister’s imposing manner just now was terrifying.

Ye Nai put away her phone, picked up the notebook Ye Yong had finished writing in, and placed it in her chest bag.

"Take a break. We’ll meet at the self-service restaurant on the second floor at five o’clock," he said. "Your room key is also your meal card, so remember to carry it with you or you won’t be able to get into the restaurant or back into your room. After we eat, we’ll go buy some clothes, otherwise, you guys will have to sleep naked tonight."

"Mm-hmm," the boys nodded earnestly.

Ye Nai returned to her own hotel room, took out her computer, and thoroughly searched for information about Six Bridge Park, familiarizing herself with the park layout.

The reason she didn’t upgrade to a suite and stayed with her brothers was precisely to avoid this scenario—if the boys saw something they couldn’t explain.

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Most importantly, she wanted to keep the fact that she was already an Awakener a secret for as long as possible; if no one knew, it wouldn’t arouse anyone’s suspicion.

After looking through the information, Ye Nai anonymously posted a bounty for intelligence on Awakener, seeking local private investigators to probe Jiang Hui and Huang Yuanhao, the boss behind Huang Yuanhao, and even the boss’s boss, as well as gang information, preferably with photographs of the people involved.

Additionally, another anonymous mission regarding Six Bridge Park was posted; she wanted to find out which local gangs were frequently active in that area.

An army marches on its stomach.

Provisions could be money or food, but for Ye Nai, it certainly could also be information.

She had to consider the possibility of people using fake identities; generations of school bullies and gangsters controlling schools and cultivating new underlings is a basic process for gangs to maintain a fresh influx of members.

Ye Nai had experienced similar situations in middle and high school, but back then, she was the ’Ox and Horse Sister’ at home; parents enraged because she didn’t make it home in time to help with chores were more terrifying than any gang leader or school bully.

Plus, she was a day student who never boarded at school. Day students had more contact with others and could attract trouble. After being harassed a few times, people stopped bothering her, sparing her from many messy situations.

In fact, day students and students who went home weekly were not the targets for gang leaders and school bullies to recruit; it was the students who seldom went home that they were after.

Ye Yong and Ye Ji were probably targeted for that very reason.

And that was all their father, Ye Yu’s, fault, with no room for argument.

After Ye Nai posted the two missions, they were accepted by someone within minutes.

Ye Nai then glanced through the local trade section of the forum. Of the friends she added yesterday, only two had approved her request, but without initiating a conversation, Ye Nai did not greet them either and simply left them on her friend list.

She added friends merely as a precaution, to avoid the hassle of finding people when she really needed to make a trade, not because she was eager to sell any rat meat she might have.

Just as she spotted an interesting forum post title and wanted to click on it for a closer read, she glanced at the time on the bottom right corner of her computer; it was time to go downstairs for dinner.

Without shutting down the computer, she put it in Space, washed her hands, and left the room.

At five o’clock sharp, she appeared at the entrance of the self-service restaurant on the second floor, but her two brothers were not there yet.

She sensed the spores inside their bodies, which were still in their room upstairs; she simply manipulated those spores to let them sleep for half an hour more.

Ye Nai walked into the restaurant and at the end of the buffet area, there was another luxuriously decorated small door. She showed her Awakener badge to the doorman, swiped her room card, and smoothly entered.

This was a special dining area for Awakeners, where all the food and drinks were made from mutant beast and mutant plant ingredients.

No wonder Ye Nai liked staying here.

Without these special services, how could it be the best hotel in the city?

After enjoying a delicious dinner, Ye Nai retraced her steps back to the main dining area, grabbing an ice cream from the drink station. As she indulged, she used the spores to wake her brothers, who were still sound asleep in their room.

About ten minutes later, Ye Nai, who was sitting in a spot directly facing the restaurant’s entrance, saw the twins hurriedly making their way over.

Ye Yong and Ye Ji swiped their cards to enter the restaurant, too hurried to admire the layout; upon looking up, they immediately saw Ye Nai at the opposite table having ice cream.

"Big sister."

"You’re here. Had a nap, huh? Go get plates and choose your food," she instructed. "Take as much as you eat, and if you’re not full after finishing, you can go back for more. But remember, no waste allowed, or you’ll have to pay the full meal price, 198 yuan per person."

Seeing that their big sister hadn’t scolded them, the brothers joyfully went to get plates. They behaved well, returning with only two plates and a drink each on their trays, filled with delicacies they had never experienced at home.