Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi?

Chapter 93: Chapter 93: Everyone Wants Good Meat and Good Skin
 

Ye Nai pulled out a giant piece of mutant beast wild bull skin. It was as large as a whole quarter section she had specially cut with an axe while sleeping in the small room in the bath center, telling every cobbler she wanted a pair of custom mutant beast cowhide boots, and customizing her private last.

This bull skin, of course, came from a wild bull she had killed with Fungus while on a mission in the Secret Realm. Although it was fresh bull skin that hadn’t been tanned, such a large piece of skin also proved her urgency for new boots.

The cobblers were used to seeing teams, but it was rare for so many people to come in needing custom shoes, so they were very enthusiastic when drumming up business.

The bull skin in Ye Nai’s hands naturally caught her companions’ attention.

“Where did you get this bull skin? Nice stuff, a big fella from the Secret Realm.”

While her other companions distracted the cobbler, another small group squeezed Ye Nai to the side to whisper, rubbing the bull skin in their hands, feeling more and more that it was top-quality leather.

“Got it from the Secret Realm.”

“Why is it fresh bull skin? Fresh skins are rarely released.”

“Haha, I don’t know what the seller was thinking, but they just let me have it.”

“The seller’s funny, huh? Look at this texture, it’s fresh skin without preservation, but they cleaned out all the impurities. Why wouldn’t they go a step further and process it into raw skin?”

“Better stash it away, don’t let the fresh skin spoil.”

Ye Nai took back the skin.

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“But this skin is great, it’s from a giant wild bull. It’s not something ordinary teams can handle.”

“That’s why it’s weird. Why would a hunting team directly release fresh skin?”

Ye Nai shrugged and with an innocent face claimed she was just a buyer who accidentally got her hands on something good. She didn’t know anything beyond that.

“Can you still find that person? Get more?”

“How much do you need? Give me a total, and I will look for someone in the Secret Realm.”

Ye Nai went with the flow, she had so much skin on hand that she could definitely use this opportunity to sell a little bit at a time; keeping more would just take up space.

“That works, let’s start with the lasts, and we can talk about the bull skin later.”

With so many people, they had been to every cobbler in town, some specialized in men’s shoes, others in women’s shoes, and some could make boots suitable for the environment of the Secret Realm as well as regular shoes.

Everyone customized according to their needs.

There were too many of them; they had to queue up to customize their shoe lasts. Since they weren’t taking any missions now, they went back to the bath center to rest and have fun until it was their turn to see the cobbler.

Ye Nai idly stayed in the bath center for two days and finally managed to handle the customization of the shoe lasts, but such handcrafted items required waiting for the final product.

The group returned home, and soon they all messaged Ye Nai, each team had calculated how much bull skin they needed.

Ye Nai could get fresh, clean, top-quality giant mutant beast wild bull fresh skin, priced by weight, and even though expensive, it was still a high-end product among bull skins, merging at 14 dollars per kilogram, a full skin weighing at least 120 kilograms.

Looking at the weight of the entire skin also showed how gigantic the bull was, they didn’t even dare get too close. No wonder it takes extraordinary teams to hunt such a beast.

The clean meat left for Ye Nai after the Fungus had decomposed could amount to thousands of pounds from a single bull.

“[Everyone, clean meat from a giant wild bull, a single bull can leave thousands of pounds. If there is, do you want some?]”

“[Yes, yes, yes! If you can get it, just collect it; we want it from the dangerous zones.]”

“[Beef, good stuff, we’ll take as much as we can get.]”

“[OK, wait for my message.]”

Having business to do energized Ye Nai, who made preparations seriously, and the next day, she rode her motorcycle into the Secret Realm.

This was her first time venturing into the Secret Realm alone.

There was no one else around, and no one knew whether she was seriously conducting business inside the Secret Realm, but she would definitely return with beef and cowhide.

Riding her motorcycle, she passed town after town until she finally found the steel processing shop she remembered, purchasing a two-meter-long stainless steel triple-layered workbench.

This kind of item was commonly used in restaurant kitchens, and Ye Nai bought it as a workstation for butchering meat.

The clean meat left by the Fungus was intact; she set up a tent in the wilderness and, using the axe she had specifically purchased, chopped the beef into pieces, each weighing roughly over ten pounds. The cuts weren’t precise, just roughly hewn, and no one would guess how the meat was butchered.

There were also cow bones, including entire rib racks and four leg bones—the rest were gone—but they were sufficient for making broth, even if the army’s cooking squad’s large pots wouldn’t be enough.

Ye Nai spent two days intermittently cutting the meat from three cows. Her arms grew so tired and swollen during the day that she couldn’t lift them, but they recovered overnight, and the next day she was ready to tire them out again until evening.

With the meat from three cows and four pieces of Fresh Bull Skin, Ye Nai headed home.

Once out of the Secret Realm, she messaged everyone to meet at the army’s cold storage and called up the procurement department.

Two hours later, she met with the various team leaders at the entrance to the cold storage.

“How did it go?”

“The meat from three cows, four skins.”

“We’ll take the skins, and each team wants a hundred pounds of beef.” It took two hours to get back from Town 1, and all the teams had already discussed how much meat they needed, which wasn’t much. It was enough for a few meals, and more than that wouldn’t be storable.

“It’s all fresh skin,” Ye Nai pointed out beforehand.

“Don’t worry, we have a Tanner, and we’ll handle that piece of skin as well.”

“Done talking? Let’s go, into the cold storage. The space has been cleared out.”

The procurement staff and the cold storage manager were waiting, grinning from ear to ear upon hearing that clean meat from a giant mutant beast had been secured.

Who doesn’t love beef?

The cold storage accepted the beef and bones, and when the four skins were brought out, the cold storage wanted them too, but the team leaders wouldn’t have it.

“No way, no way, we need those skins for new boots.”

“Didn’t we give you giant toad skins?”

“Only their two teams got the giant toad skins, okay? If we want some, we have to get it ourselves.”

“Giant toad skin for the lining, cowhide for the outer part of the boots. Even these four skins might not be enough.”

“You’re kidding, right? Four skins aren’t enough for how many people we have here.”

“Hey, hey, hey, all of us team leaders are standing right here. Whose share do you think you’re taking?”

“No, it’s just that these skins are so intact, not a bullet hole in them,” the cold storage manager said, fondling the skin, unable to let go.

“Don’t ask; I don’t know. I just took the skins without asking how they hunted,” Ye Nai quickly disclaimed, noticing the conversation had turned her way.

“Not asking is good—each team has its own tricks. For their own safety, it’s best not to be nosy about unrelated matters.”

“Either they have a Sharpshooter, or they have some other means. Such a large mutant beast, they couldn’t have gotten such intact skins without some special method.”

“Such good quality skins, selling them as fresh skins, really generous.”

“What’s the difference? If they’re skilled in hunting, they don’t care much about that. Look how cleanly the skins were prepared.”

“Really, such clean fresh skins. I guess there’s an Awakener in that team who specializes in handling skins.”