Chapter 44: The Big Spaceman’s First Mission (4)

What she got was a green bean-sized, irregularly shaped granular object, and she could feel some kind of energy contained in it, which made her want to absorb it and turn it into her own power.

With this strange feeling, coupled with the education gained from the online classes these days, Ye Nai recognized that this was the heart core found only in creatures from other worlds.

The size of the heart core determines the level of strength, but just like those awakened ones, it is probabilistic and not everyone has it.

If everyone has it, they cannot be killed by ordinary hot weapons. It is necessary to use heavy weapons or let the awakened ones fight for their lives.

Ye Na played with it for a while, then threw it back into space, letting the mycelium absorb it. The energy fed back was not much. Anyway, among the large amount of energy fed back at this moment, the feedback from the heart core was not outstanding.

After more than two hours, the fighting began to gradually subside. The sounds of gunfire and the supernatural lights were no longer so frequent, and the soldiers who had been on guard on the rooftop for three hours also relaxed.

Yenne was also yawning. Judging from other people's reactions, she might not necessarily believe it, but when she saw that the space filled with prey of all sizes was finally free, she truly believed that tonight's battle was coming to an end.

"Squad Leader Chen, is the fight almost over?" Ye Nai walked towards them with a bag of drinks in her hand and stuffed it directly into the hands of squad leader Chen, "Can I go downstairs to the dormitory to sleep? I promise not to run around."

Squad Leader Chen touched the cold bag, raised his telescope to look at the battlefield in the distance, and finally nodded.

"You can go and rest now. Remember your promise, don't run around, and wait for your captain to come back."

"Promise to be obedient."

Ye Na left quickly, and Squad Leader Chen distributed the drinks to his soldiers.

"Come on, let's divide the shares. As long as the girl doesn't leave, she will be a frequent visitor here in the future."

"Oh, it's still cold. Is this a spacer that can keep things fresh?"

"He will indeed be a regular customer in the future. It depends on whether the higher-ups are capable of keeping him here."

"Haha, the girl doesn't want to join the army. It may not be easy to keep her."

"You're so brave to say you don't obey discipline right away."

Everyone shared the drinks with a smile. They were indeed hot and thirsty after lying here for three hours, but even though they drank, their eyes were still fixed on the direction of the battlefield without slacking off unless the order to end the battle came.

Ye Na returned to the dormitory downstairs and took a shower. Before lying on the bed and falling asleep, she gave a new order to the mycelium space, leaving some edible meat for her.

There is very little edible meat on the alien beasts. She wanted to try whether the mycelium was an extension of her will and whether the clean meat could be left for her as she requested. This way, she wouldn't have to spend money to buy meat in the future. How much money could she save?

Not long after she fell asleep, the fighting outside the town ended and everything returned to normal.

When Deputy Captain Shen and the others returned to the dormitory, they saw Ye Nai sleeping soundly. They laughed at her for being so careless. She could sleep so soundly even after entering the secret realm and seeing the battlefield for the first time. She looked like a good candidate for joining the army, but she had revealed that she was disobedient.

The next morning, Ye Na woke up to the sound of Deputy Captain Shen's alarm clock. She sat up and saw that they had all returned. She smiled and greeted each other good morning.

While washing up, Ye Nai took a look at the space and was surprised to find that the space that was packed before going to bed was now mostly empty. The clean meat she ordered was even more scattered here and there. So she cleaned up the space while washing her face, and put the meat in piles on the ground not far from the shelf. She didn't pile them all together, but just moved them in a strict manner according to the order of the mycelium.

The edible meat of exotic beasts can be divided into delicious and unpalatable ones. The unpalatable meat, when stewed with spices, tastes sour and strange, as if it has gone bad. Now it is impossible to tell which exotic beast these meats originally belonged to. Ye Nai feels that there must be a reason why her mycelium has divided them this way.

I have to say that the meat is really clean. It does not have any hair, internal organs, glands, blood vessels, or other waste. It is just a big piece of clean meat. Some of the meat has bones, and the bone marrow has been removed. If it is really edible, I guarantee that there will be no inedible ingredients when it is cooked.

Look how caring her mycelium is.

She also saw a lot of pig's trotters, the same kind she had eaten at Brother Peng's barbecue stall. Ye Nai guessed that if pig's trotters were not edible, with the decomposition ability of the mycelium, there would probably not be even a piece of bone left for her.

After washing up, the whole team gathered in the camp cafeteria to have breakfast. Then Deputy Captain Yang led the other team members to prepare the car. Captain Mei and Deputy Captain Shen took Ye Nai to the camp logistics to get the mission items.

After a series of identity verification procedures, Ye Nai followed them to the cold storage in the camp, and indeed, they were there to get the exotic beast meat.

Everyone put on cotton jackets and walked into the cold storage. The meat inside was all cut into pieces, and it was impossible to tell what it was like. It was frozen hard.

Both of them had lists in their hands, and Ye Na followed them and took whatever they wanted. After they took everything they wanted, the space occupied was exactly over 900 square meters.

At this time, they had almost reached the back of the cold storage, where there was a large open space. They took out all the meat and counted it again. Ye Na also took the opportunity to take a family photo with his mobile phone, and finally put all the meat into the space, and the collection was completed.

When they walked out of the cold storage, Deputy Captain Yang and his men were already waiting there in a car. Ye Nai and the other two got in the car and immediately set off for the return journey.

Before leaving, Ye Na did not collect the spores outside. She would come back again in the future, so there was no need to collect them. She just let the mycelium reproduce and grow freely.

The return journey was smooth. We drove for a whole day and arrived at the small town to settle down at night. We continued our journey the next day. The team members took turns driving and drove all the way to the town at the entrance of the secret realm and went out directly.

There is a 12-hour time difference between the secret realm and outside. When you step on the accelerator, it's broad daylight outside.

The convoy rushed back to the military camp's cold storage to unload the goods. After the things were put out, Ye Nai opened the photo album on her mobile phone and confirmed with Deputy Captain Shen that everything was correct. The mission was successfully completed, and after tax deduction, she received a reward of more than 100,000 yuan.

Ye Na was overjoyed as she looked at her account.

Captain Mei even teased her, "How do you feel about this mission?"

"Very good, very good. I am very satisfied." Ye Na nodded repeatedly. "But let me ask, is it cheaper to hire me or the team?"

"Of course I'll ask you to give me a cheap price. Not only is it cheap, but it's also cost-effective. We have to hire a refrigerated fleet for frozen meat. For driving safety, each vehicle needs two drivers. It's not easy to find a driver who has the training level to protect himself and can enter the secret realm without fear of fighting. When there are too many people, it's easy to cause trouble if there's an accident. Looking after you alone is very different from looking after a group of people."

“Then I’m pretty cost-effective.”

"Of course. We can't waste our money recklessly, so we have to choose something cheap and good. In our opinion, it is more important to complete the task safely, reliably and efficiently."

"That's it..."

(End of this chapter)