Chapter 264 Entering the Secret Realm of Zijing
On the highway that leads into Zijing City from the south to the north, there is a toll booth outside the old Sixth Ring Road that collects city fees and also verifies identity. Both awakened people and ordinary people can enter. After paying the money, you will receive two large paper maps of Zijing City and a map of the Zijing Secret Realm.

The city map shows in detail various dangerous areas, official service stations, commercial streets and other areas, while the secret map marks the location of the small town in the rear. In addition, you need to sign a life and death statement, stating that you voluntarily enter Zijing City and are responsible for your own life and death.

Ye Na paid the fee to enter the city and drove slowly eastward along the Six Ring Road around the city.

Open the car window a little and a large number of spores will fly out with the wind. So what if there are twenty-five danger zones? They are just rich food for the growth of spores and mycelium.

According to the map, the infrastructure near the Sixth Ring Road is quite good. Official organizations, military camps and service-oriented enterprises are all built along this road. There are military police and teams or individuals who have been assigned tasks to clean the road every day to prevent mutant animals and plants from emerging and harming humans.

The infrastructure becomes worse as you get closer to the center, and only basic street lights and communication networks are available.

From the fifth ring to the first ring, it is all dangerous territory, and the most central ring is the secret place that stands tall and proud.

In the gaps between dangerous areas, official service stations and commercial streets formed spontaneously by the public are built wherever possible. If you miss a service station or commercial street where you can eat and sleep, you will have to walk several kilometers to see the next one.

Ye Nai saw the first service station, parked the car on the side of the road, went in, packed a fast food meal and ate it in the car. Fifty yuan cost three meat dishes, two vegetable dishes and two bowls of rice. The meat was from an exotic beast. Meat was cheap while vegetables and rice were expensive. Because growing vegetables, grains and spices all require land, exotic beast meat is the easiest to obtain.

There was plenty of meat and only a few vegetables, but fortunately there was plenty of broth. Ye Nai ate the broth and mixed it with rice, swallowing it mouthful by mouthful, but what she was thinking in her heart was that she must return to the secret realm when she had time to grow a batch of vegetables.

After eating and drinking, we continued on the road. After driving on and off for a day, we entered the Fifth Ring Road.

The street environment immediately became bad. Apart from a road that was cleaned every day, there were dangerous areas on both sides. The familiar stench filled the air, and large garbage trucks and tired garbage haulers could be seen on the streets at any time.

Ye Na drove until dark and didn't see any service station, so he simply turned off the car lights, carefully drove to a blind corner, and took the car and himself into the Dongling Secret Realm to rest. He also did a few hours of farm work before going to bed.

The next day, Ye Nai returned to the road before dawn in Zijing City and drove towards the secret realm for a whole day. He encountered traffic jams from time to time. The streets were too narrow, and there were many people and vehicles, so traffic jams became the norm.

Entering the first ring is the outskirts of Town No. 1. Behind the secret realm, under the thick shadow, is the Grand Palace, whose condition is unknown whether it is intact or not. Ye Na took a look as he drove past, then turned the steering wheel and followed the traffic, making a circle and slowly approaching the entrance of the secret realm.

Before entering the secret realm, he sent a message to his brothers and sisters, telling them that he had entered the Zijing secret realm and that his return date was uncertain. If they had any questions, they could leave a message.

The Zijing Secret Realm is half forest and half desert, a terrain that transitions from a humid zone to a semi-arid zone. After entering the secret realm, one must first pass through the semi-arid area to go to the forest to hunt, and a trip in and out takes at least three or four months.

Although there may seem to be no plants in the semi-arid areas, there are many poisonous creatures under the sand. It is best to use mobile homes when camping. Tents are not safe at all. The sharp mouthparts or large pincers of poisonous creatures can easily cut through artificial fabrics. Some of them have their own stingers, which can kill people invisibly.

Of course, there are also sturdy tents, which are made entirely of tough animal skins. They are very expensive. The money for one can buy several construction floor tents. This semi-arid area is dotted with large and small oases, which have become water supply points for going to the forest area. The small town in the rear is built around these oases.

This is the use of the secret map. There are no roads here, so anyone can drive in all directions. If there were no map, newcomers would really not be able to find a water source in the vast desert.

Oases attract humans to gather, and the smell of humans attracts poisonous creatures of all sizes to come and hunt, so the area around oases is also a dangerous area. You may just walk around and a poisonous stinger may extend from the sand and pierce the sole of your shoe, killing you.

Town No. 2 is also quite simple. Ye Na has been to several secret realms, and Town No. 2 in Zijing Secret Realm is the simplest one she has ever seen.

It was on a dry land where not a single blade of grass grew. Several construction site huts formed a courtyard for people to live and work. Signalmen ran in and out of the secret territory to deliver messages. Of course, all daily necessities were delivered from outside. Ye Nai even saw a water supply truck.

She changed into an off-road vehicle in the secret realm, and ran to each oasis one by one as shown on the map, releasing spores with each oasis as the center, connecting the dots to ensure that the spores could be spread in the secret realm as quickly as possible and the altar could be found.

Unexpectedly, her behavior brought the correct result. Every altar found was under the sand several hundred meters away from the oasis. They were buried quite deep, more than ten meters. But no matter how deep they were buried, as long as the spores could drill down, they could be taken away.

This made Ye Na full of energy when traveling every day and she didn't feel bored at all.

It took nearly a month to run through eight or nine oases before we finally crossed the transition zone and entered the forest.

Once in the forest, his behavior became even bolder, relying on his great spatial teleportation to run around in the forest, looking for altars and prey without any delay.

After collecting thirty altars one after another, Ye Nai finally established a connection with the Zijing Secret Realm. The next second, he returned to the Dongling Secret Realm to wash up and plan to have a good rest for three days.

Of course, these three days are not just for lying around and doing nothing. We still have to do farm work. The temperature in the Dongling Secret Realm has almost risen to the level where it is possible to sow seeds. Whether it will succeed or not depends on the next first half of the year.

She doesn't care about how much the harvest is, as long as it's not a complete failure. As long as the spores can sprout and grow and she can get a little harvest, it proves that her farming theory is correct. Her spores will naturally grow into special bacterial communities in the soil, and she can farm in the secret realm and solve the problem of food shortage.

In addition to letting the crops grow slowly according to natural laws, Ye Nai reserved an acre of land for herself to grow various vegetables, fruits and melons. She built a rack for vines and provided sufficient fertilizer and water. In three days, she harvested several hundred kilograms of each kind. Later, she also planted onions, ginger and garlic. The harvest was enough for her to eat for several years.

This kind of fruits and vegetables, which are grown using the principle of using fungi to promote plant growth, ignore seasonal factors and do not have to worry about long-distance transportation. They are picked when they are fully ripe and are so delicious.

Originally, I only planned to rest for three days, but due to various farm work, I ended up staying for a week before returning to the Zijing Secret Realm.