Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi

Seeing so many men and women in sharp uniforms made Fro very nervous.

"Honorable Great Witch, are these the high-ranking officials coming to receive us?"

"They are high-ranking officials, here to check on your situation, count the numbers, and prepare supplies for next time. The ones who will truly take over you will be seen later."

Just these two sentences, and the three Vice Ministers and others instantly had varied expressions.

Particularly Camp Commander Lin and others standing slightly farther away involuntarily turned sideways, casting a glance at the various foods on the table.

Fro came running here just to find out if they would be taken over today. Since it wasn't the case, he said a few words and then bowed and left.

As soon as he went far, Ye Nai felt a strong arm wrap around her shoulder.

Turning her head, it was Vice Minister Su holding her and returning to the table.

Her secretary was in charge of keeping watch, observing the crowd far outside the rain canopy, preventing anyone from coming over.

"What are you doing, Vice Minister Su? Take it easy, let's talk properly~"

"You be quiet first." Vice Minister Su lightly patted Ye Nai.

"Okay." Ye Nai was exceedingly obedient.

The consultants were already analyzing the various foods on the table.

Previously everyone tasted them one by one, and as Ye Nai talked with Fro, in just a few words, they found that they could almost all understand.

This made them realize that this was the shortcut Ye Nai told them about. Just one meal's time, simple and quick.

"First exclude the staple food." The consultants' eyes were sharp, "Ms. Ye Nai doing intelligence business with Otherworld nobles, getting them to speak Dahua Country language, it surely isn't these staple foods causing it."

"Then it's among these side dishes?"

"Cold vegetables are all our own vegetable varieties, contain no energy, all artificially grown, so it's not them either."

"Then there's only one dish left."

The consultants moved all other bowls and plates to both ends of the long table, leaving just a plate of cold mixed fungi in the middle.

The plate of sour and spicy delicious cold mixed mushrooms.

Everyone looked at Ye Nai, their eyes filled with excitement and anticipation.

"The mushrooms have a faint energy, is it this?"

"Yes, I call it the Translation Mushroom."

Ye Nai was not pretentious, immediately nodding to acknowledge, then took out five leaf bags, filling each with Translation Mushrooms.

"Here, these three are for you, these two, one for the government and one for the experts."

"Great, thank you!"

Three consultants happily hugged the five bags.

"Camp Commander Lin, don't mind, here's a pot of soy-braised pork, add a dish tonight."

Ye Nai didn't forget Camp Commander Lin, she directly took out a pressure cooker of braised meat, opening the lid, mixing a rich aroma of meat and energy.

Experienced individuals could tell a whole pot of meat was rich with energy ingredients just by the smell.

Ye Nai then took out a large takeaway box and filled it to the brim for Camp Commander Lin.

Camp Commander Lin gladly received it.

"Thank you!"

After cleaning the table, finally, Ye Nai took out a pile of letters.

"These are the Knight's Family's daily letters, suitable for accumulating basic vocabulary, how about eating more? See how much you can understand?"

"Eat, keep eating."

The previously moved aside food was brought back and set up properly, and the previously used paper bowls and chopsticks were thrown away, and new ones were used.

Previously they were only serving half spoons of staple food; this time they filled the bowls, eating heartily with the cold mixed Translation Mushrooms.

Ye Nai took out all cooked Otherworld staples she had, and there was still a big bowl of Translation Mushrooms, letting them eat to their heart's content.

After everyone ate a bowl of rice, wiping their hands and mouths, they distributed the noble letters, reading them one by one.

This time with more intake, the effect was astonishing. Any random piece of paper turned out easily understood, even what seemed like incomprehensible handwritten text slowly revealed its meanings.

"My god, I can really understand it!"

"Ms. Ye Nai, are these Translation Mushrooms easy to grow?"

"Very easy, but they can only be grown in the Otherworld environment."

"What conditions are needed? Like mushroom substrate?" Vice Minister Cheng of the logistics department asked.

"Even without a substrate, it's fine. A forest with rich nutrients is enough, fast-growing mushrooms, they mature in a few days, harvesting requires manpower."

Ye Nai deliberately held back, not letting them know that in the Otherworld environment, these Translation Mushrooms could grow in just a few seconds.

"Manpower is easy to arrange, but going over to grow the mushrooms requires a safe living environment."

"Yes, there is a Military Fortress at the foot of the mountain, and not far from the fortress are villages and towns, further afield are the former Knight and former Baron's old territories that I control, absolutely safe."

Everyone immediately thought of the few families they had seen earlier; if memory serves, those were the former Knight and former Baron's families.

"Then it's no problem at all."

"Do you want to take these letters back for others to try? These are originals, take good care if you do, as I don't have copies."

"No, no, we're not taking them this time, taking photos and bringing the images back will do."

The secretaries promptly gathered to take pictures of the letter content.

"This could be displayed in a museum one day."

"No need to be so tense, I have plenty of letter and book materials like these."

Ye Nai stood still, and the open space near the alfalfa field suddenly had several tall bookshelves appear.

These bookshelves were the movable type, just placed on the ground, not affixed to walls, not the kind embedded sky-high-type bookshelves.

The display here was just a part, with Ye Nai's penchant for collecting wherever she went, her Space was full of all sorts of paper books and records.

"Do you want to take a look? See if that little bit of Translation Mushroom just eaten helps you understand those books."

Before Ye Nai finished speaking, people already rushed toward the bookshelves, randomly pulling out a book and running back under the rain canopy to flip it open.

Upon this trial read, Ye Nai witnessed these people of high status also having their eyes glazed over like mosquito coils, turning to tidy the table, pretending not to see.

In the knowledge-monopolizing Otherworld global environment, any carefully kept book, even casual novels, had convoluted language, let alone the professional books. Even Ye Nai, after consuming plenty of Translation Mushrooms, disliked reading those books, often sleeping after just two pages.

If she had to read, she'd rather read daily letters and children's storybooks.

Further up, popular novels, historical biographies, political economics, military culture and geography, as well as philosophy and wizard series books, each class more difficult; she didn't even want to look at the covers.

By the standards of Otherworld's upper society, she'd probably be considered semi-literate there, but she had no issue with language exchange, or else she wouldn't have managed business with so many mid-to-high-level clients.