Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi-Chapter 244: Returned but Nowhere to Live

The canopy hadn't been retracted in the morning; it was stowed away as a whole unit in the Space, with only the light turned off. Now when it was taken out, turning on the light made it immediately usable.

Yesterday there was only one team, so two sets of bathrooms were enough. This time, all four sets were taken out, forming a circle with the laundry shop, with four rectangular sinks in the middle.

The hot water in all four boilers was ready, and people queued up for a bath at once.

Last time Ye Nai left after completing the task, it was only early October. Now it was nearly the end of November. Over a month's time had made the soldiers of the Mountain Leopard Team almost indistinguishable from savages.

The logistics team's Space could hold a lot, but for a two-month-long hunting mission, they couldn't bring too many household appliances like washing machines; they were used on a scheduled rotation. The makeshift bathrooms provided hot showers, but the insulation was poor; if you didn't finish in ten minutes, the water turned cold.

That kind of comprehensive life support was only provided to the front-line troops; their kind of team didn't have such arrangements unless they spent money to set up their own professional and advanced logistical support team.

Poor them, the Mountain Leopard Team had a well-known reputation, yet they couldn't afford a logistical support vehicle. There were too many expenses, and they couldn't allocate funds to equip themselves with capabilities comparable to the front-line troops.

Ye Nai's little business, why, it was just like a fairy descending to earth.

That night, everyone in the Mountain Leopard Team contributed over a hundred in bathing fees to Ye Nai, not counting the revenue from the vending machines.

The next morning, Ye Nai packed her stuff, said goodbye to the team, and drove back.

After driving for an hour, she saw a forest on the horizon, turned the steering wheel, and drove into it, taking both herself and the car back to the East Ridge Secret Realm.

Under normal conditions, driving an off-road vehicle from the Mountain Leopard Team's main camp back to Town No. 2 would take at least four days. She could have disregarded that if she hadn't shown herself, but since she had made an appearance, she had to account for the time difference.

Fortunately, she had enough remaining time in the hotel room.

Ye Nai spent three days in the East Ridge Secret Realm doing farm work, using the Land Clearing Machine to prepare fifty to sixty acres of new ground, on which she also applied fertilizer, planning to plant grass there next spring.

The ten or so acres by the river were intended for planting soybeans and corn, as they were easier to manage even if they failed or were flooded.

Once finished, she stepped back to the Five Bridges Secret Realm, used Space Teleportation straight to the wilderness half a day's journey from Town No. 2, then drove from there.

She was afraid to arrive too close, which might let the town's surveillance catch her.

One must never underestimate a wealthy Secret Realm.

Back in East Ridge City, they didn't have money to consider setting up surveillance in the Secret Realm; Five Bridges City was rich as could be, care to bet against that?

Ye Nai didn't dare, she was an honest person.

She drove to the road outside the town, then switched to an electric car, passing through the town and smoothly left the Secret Realm.

Back at the hotel, she first went to the reception to swipe her card and check how many days were left on her rented room.

While the front desk was processing it, Ye Nai sharply caught the flicker of panic across the clerk's face as they checked the room information with the card.

If it had expired, they could've just said so, no need for panic.

She quickly leaned over the desk, grabbed the clerk's hand that was reaching for the phone, and pinned it down.

A colleague at the reception shrieked.

The other guests at the reception, waiting to be attended to, crossed their arms and watched the unfolding drama. No one interfered without understanding the situation, while the guests resting in the lobby also gathered to watch the excitement.

"What's the panic? Is there something wrong with the room I rented?"

"No, there isn't."

"Then why the panic? Who were you thinking of notifying in front of me?"

"No, I wasn't planning to do anything, let me go, I'm going to call for help."

"Fine, I'd like to call for help too."

Ye Nai's empty hand produced a thick wad of red notes, which she waved in front of the reception desk, drawing a chorus of cheers and whistles from the spectators.

"Let's go upstairs together. If I'm mistaken, all this money is yours."

Ye Nai returned the money to her Space, leaving one note which she stuffed into the receptionist's uniform pocket, grabbed a room card from the card machine, and forcibly took the receptionist up the elevator without further discussion.

Curious guests quickly followed, those who didn't make it on hurriedly caught the next elevator.

"Don't mind us, don't mind us, we'll bear witness for you."

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Those who managed to squeeze into the elevator with Ye Nai, anticipating further drama, cheerfully said.

"Thank you very much."

Ye Nai was very welcoming, but the receptionist she was holding looked faint, especially when the elevator doors closed, her face filled with despair as she slumped to the floor.

The people present could clearly see there was really something wrong.

The elevator quickly reached the floor, the room card smoothly opened the door, from the doorway they could see personal items on the TV cabinet and hear running water from the bathroom.

"Wow!" exclaimed the crowd at the door.

"What's going on?"

"Aren't you going to look inside? Is it an adulterer or an adulteress?"

"Your hotel has some nerve, my room was renewed, how dare you double-book it and let someone else stay here while I'm gone?"

"Damn!" the crowd was shocked again, "Could my room also have been used like this by others?"

Around the Secret Realm, hotels and lodgings are hard to come by, guests who stay often habitually pay to extend their stays to ensure their residency, now to blatantly see the hotel's duplicity, everyone began to take it personally, filled with righteous indignation.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, please forgive me this once. I'm just a receptionist, I don't have the authority."

The receptionist was crying in fear, she was just an Ordinary person, while the men and women surrounding her were menacing Awakeners.

In the room, the sound of running water in the bathroom suddenly stopped, then the door opened and out walked a man, his lower half wrapped in a towel, his hair still dripping water.

"What are you doing? Blocking my door, what do you want?" the man yelled fiercely.

"It's not your business, the hotel double-booked the room, now we have conclusive evidence." Ye Nai held the receptionist's wrist with her left hand while her right hand suddenly produced a handgun aimed at the room's guest, "Close the door, you can come down later to claim your rights."

The room guest slammed the door shut without a word, locked it with a loud bang.

Ye Nai flipped her wrist, concealed the gun again, and pulled the receptionist towards the elevator.

"You're just a receptionist, I won't trouble you. Now we're going downstairs to check out, return all my room fees for the two months, plus compensate me for the inconvenience of having to find another room in this cold weather."

The receptionist merely sobbed, neither agreeing nor refusing to refund the money.

Back at the lobby on the first floor, even more people surrounded the reception area, word had spread quickly, many checked whether the rooms they paid for during their time in the Secret Realm had been double-booked by the hotel.

The previously absent lobby manager and public relations manager were now profusely sweating trying to calm the guests' emotions.