Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi..
Chapter 394: The Second Meeting with the Higher-ups (7)

Chapter 394: Chapter 394: The Second Meeting with the Higher-ups (7)

"A meal? Really eating?"

"On-the-spot conversation?"

The three people from the Staff Department couldn’t help but glance at the prisoners, who were still standing off in the distance watching them.

"I want to give it a try," Vice Minister Su decisively decided, "The prisoners you brought back are very valuable. After the logistics supplies are in place and they are resettled, we need to interrogate them one by one. If we can talk freely with them, it would save us a lot of costs."

"Does this quick method solve vocabulary issues?"

"It doesn’t solve that, vocabulary is accumulated. Start with everyday letters and gradually increase the difficulty. Eventually, you’ll even be able to understand wizard books."

"What’s the cost to reach that level?"

"No cost really, just eat regularly. It’s just everyday food."

"Oh my, this counts as everyday food?"

"Really, agricultural experts would be very interested."

"Is it really grown?"

"Come on, stop chatting, do you guys want to eat or not?" Vice Minister Su looked at these two colleagues with some exasperation.

"Eat, eat, eat."

"Want to eat? Then let’s move, with a bunch of former nobles you won’t have a conversation. Their language habits are part of the noble tongue, we have to start from the common folk tongue."

"...There are commoners among your prisoners?!"

"Caught in passing, they’re the fewest."

Ye Nai opened a transmission port and went ahead to set up a rain shelter and table.

The others followed one after another. When they emerged, they found themselves still at the edge of a large farmland, but this time they saw crops.

"Is this... pasture?"

"Yep, alfalfa."

"What’s the point of growing this? Are you raising livestock?"

"No, it’s used to attract herbivorous mutant beasts, which attract carnivorous mutant beasts. Don’t go too far, the outskirts are full of meat-eating big guys."

The words from Ye Nai made them instinctively reach for their guns.

"You’re thinking of attracting herbivorous mutant beasts using the pasture and then penning them for domestication?" A flash of insight hit Vice Minister Cheng.

Ye Nai gave him a thumbs up.

"No wonder you’re Vice Minister Cheng."

"Is it effective?"

"Not bad, anyway, the numbers are increasing. I’ve also scattered salt blocks on the periphery, I bet the mutant beasts can’t resist being drawn in."

"Wow, with food, salt, and water, over time, perhaps this method of penning and domesticating will work?"

"The prisoner of war camp can’t be set up here."

"Then let’s set it up along the road, continue with tents, and the dormitories matching their height will have to be specially made by the factory, which will take some time."

"The small town behind needs to be cleaned up, for the staff to live in."

The three vice ministers met up and in just a few sentences, they decided on where to place and settle the prisoners.

"Ms. Ye Nai, where are the commoner prisoners?" someone came over to ask.

"Over there," Ye Nai pointed towards the alfalfa field, "Go around and look that way."

The group immediately moved, and Ye Nai followed them. But she didn’t go far before stopping, setting out an apricot-colored rain shelter, tables, and chairs, and laying out food.

When the vice ministers went around the alfalfa field, they saw countless tents under the illumination of night bonfires.

Among the prisoners Ye Nai captured, the number of wizards was the highest, comprising more than ten thousand out of nearly twenty thousand, though most of them were lower-level wizards and apprentices, with only a few higher-ups who were good at hiding and escaping.

The initial place where Fro and others were placed couldn’t be extended further due to proximity to farmland development, so the large number of wizards captured later could only be stretched towards the alfalfa field.

So once the vice ministers went around the alfalfa field, they didn’t even need to stand on tiptoe to see the prisoner tent area.

"Oh my, there are so many prisoners here?"

"Do these prisoners have tattoos on them?"

"No, they’re not soldiers, those are wizard tattoos!"

"...So many wizards?!"

"Quick, retreat, retreat!"

After confirming that the nearest prisoners were all wizards, everyone sprinted back under Ye Nai’s rain shelter.

"Huh? Back so soon?"

Ye Nai was putting new cherry tomatoes into a big stainless steel bowl, innocently smiling as she saw them run back.

"Ms. Ye Nai, those prisoners are all wizards!"

"Yeah, just wizards, nothing to worry about, they’re all well-behaved."

"They have tents but sleep outside?"

"It’s hot."

"Still, aren’t you afraid having so many wizards together will cause trouble?"

"No, just put some restrictions on them."

"Restrictions? Can you make wizards unable to use their powers?"

"Yes."

"I see there are quite a few wizards, right?"

"There are a lot, over ten thousand."

"Jeez!!!"

"You’re really bold, putting more than ten thousand people in one camp!"

"How would I know I’d catch so many? It’s easier to manage them all in one place, food distribution only has to be done once, and they’ll distribute the rest among themselves. I don’t even need to worry."

Ordinarily, those at the positions of the vice ministers would have cultivated the skill of staying calm in all situations, but this time they couldn’t restrain themselves, Ye Nai’s actions were too bold.

"Although you haven’t enclosed them with walls, the surroundings are wild, full of dangerous mutant beasts and plants. Without their powers, wizards don’t dare wander off, are you having them willingly sitting in their own prison?"

"Yes, if they want to die, they can die. I’m not too concerned with their lives. Just because there are a lot of them, doesn’t mean there are many high-ranking wizards; it’s mostly middle and low-level wizards and a large number of apprentices, all obediently clearing the land."

"They’ve lost their wizard powers, but their physical abilities remain, and they have tools. Aren’t you afraid they’ll unite and cause trouble?"

"No, they’re not united at all." Ye Nai grinned widely, "Wizards look down on each other, at every level they think they’re superior in some field. The idea that they would unite is laughable. Now, they’re temporarily compliant because of the restrictions I’ve imposed, not causing trouble, but also not working. They just eat for free every day, complaining that the food I give is too basic and insults their wizard rank. It’s the low-level wizards and apprentices doing land clearing work with the commoner prisoners, but since there are many, they’re efficient, so I let it slide."

"What do you feed them every day? Why do they have so many complaints?"

"I haven’t treated them badly, it’s all food from the otherworld. I’ve cut off the otherworld’s supply routes to Blue Star, seizing the food to feed so many prisoners, I’m proud to say I’m treating them well. Yet they keep complaining, wanting meat and wine. If I had such things, I’d sell them for money."

"Do all these prisoners hold such a grudge?"

"No, no, it’s the middle and high-level wizards making trouble, the lower-level wizards and apprentices are quite obedient. They don’t have the status to act high and mighty and don’t dare confront me. You guys, when you take over, be careful not to let them sway you; eat or don’t, don’t pamper them. They may curse daily, but can’t skip a meal. They eat while they curse, just let it go in one ear and out the other, don’t pay them any mind."