"Oh my goodness! The number of bodies doesn’t match the number of legs."
"It’s from the ones accumulated before," Ye Nai shrugged. She appeared generous, which wouldn’t lead others to overthink. Given the characteristics of her space, it was normal to store any amount of fresh goods.
"That’s enough to make the institute take another trip," soone among the spectators comnted.
"What do you an, ’another trip’? We sold them good stuff before?" the keen-eared cold storage manager overheard.
"Cal-hump Deer, alive, males, females, even with fawns," Ye Nai said with a chuckle.
"Hiss..." The cold storage manager felt that nothing Ye Nai brought them in the future would surprise him anymore.
"Let’s get it stored first; don’t change the subject," Captain Xiao Ni reminded, "It’s cold staying in there too long."
Ye Nai obediently retrieved the spider’s body.
"Anything else, anything else? Is there more stuff for the cold storage?"
The manager looked at Ye Nai as if she were a little sprite from a fairy tale, always hiding treasures, half-expecting that shaking her upside down might reveal sothing more.
"Only quantity? Not quality?"
"Quantity over quality?" The people present imdiately tensed up, a look of disgust on their faces, "It’s not rats, is it?"
"No way, I plan to sell the rats to the outside butcher, how about wild rabbits?"
"If there’s a lot, we’ll take them; wild rabbits yield a reasonable amount of at..."
Before the cold storage manager could finish his sentence, a mountain of wild rabbits appeared on the now clear spot that was just vacated by a forklift moving the previous ga.
"Oh my..."
"How many rabbit holes did this co from... "
The cold storage staff stood there stunned.
"You really went shopping..."
After struggling to find words, only this statent ca forth.
The combat team mbers similarly paused for a mont, then, suppressing their laughter, gave Ye Nai continuous thumbs up. Then they quietly edged toward the cold storage’s main entrance, steering clear of this bustling business dealing.
The manager, in agony, but having accepted nevertheless, still called his subordinates to bring all the floor scales and turnover baskets for weighing.
He even called back the combat team mbers who were already at the main entrance to help.
"None of you think about slacking off, co back here and work," he called out.
"No, we’ve just co back, all sweaty and tired, let’s go take a bath, a bath."
"You all ran off, leaving the young girl here alone, where’s your conscience?"
Under the manager’s poignant rebuke, everyone reluctantly helped out, and Ye Nai was busy too, keeping records by a floor scale.
Since everyone was busy, in such hot weather, they hastened to get the rabbits entered into the database.
Just as things busied up, Brother Peng, who ca to pick up beef, arrived and was also kept from leaving.
Brother Peng picked fifty plump rabbits. Of course, he wanted to stock up more at for his business, but his space was also a normal one, and fresh rabbits required skinning and deboning at ho. Taking too many would be hard to preserve.
After transferring the paynt to Ye Nai, he rolled up his sleeves and joined the line of people sorting the rabbits by size into boxes.
After a while, the cooking crew ca over to fetch the at to prepare dinner. Although they took the at, a few people were also left behind to help.
The ratio of at from wild rabbits was low, so the rabbits hunted by the team were generally consud by themselves, and few were brought back. The cold storage didn’t bother with it and didn’t do such small business, but the quantity this ti was too large; it was worth breaking their backs for the rabbit at and rabbit skins.
The quartermaster and the head of the cooking crew heard the news and ca to gawk. After seeing the at that had been entered into the database earlier, they told Ye Nai to stop working and go ho to take a bath, change clothes, and rest. She could co back later for dinner, and they would cook a special al just for her.
This blatant favoritism was sothing others could only envy.
Ye Nai created a new trade for the wild rabbit in the Awakener app and then cheerfully went ho.
The others continued to work tirelessly, repeatedly bending down and standing up; their waists were stiff with fatigue.
Brother Xiao Ma tried to slip away, saying he was taking the team for a dical examination, but it was no use; he was forced to stay and finish the work before he could leave.
Thus, everyone jeered, saying it was so laborious that they too wanted a special al, or else they would throw down their tools and leave.
The head of the cooking crew, bothered by their complaints, agreed.
Ye Nai went back ho, where she hadn’t been in two months. The floor was covered in dust everywhere, but fortunately, she had stored all the furniture and daily necessities in the Space before leaving, leaving the house empty. She quickly cleaned up the floor, and by the ti she was done, it was just right to take a shower, during which she even buzzed her long hair short again.
She threw her dirty clothes into the washing machine on the balcony, listened to the faint sound of the machine operating, curled up on the living room beanbag chair, turned on the computer projector to play a cody action movie, and while listening, she checked her historical ssages on her phone.
Since coming out of the Secret Realm, this was the first ti she seriously checked her ssages. Previously, she had only ssaged Brother Peng to ask if he wanted to buy beef, chatted briefly, and then put her phone away without checking anything else.
Now, she saw a long string of unread ssages. Aside from idle chat in the group, there were ssages from the twins and her mother.
The ssages from the twins stopped after about twenty to thirty ssages, which was less than two weeks.
Her mother’s ssages lasted a bit longer, about three to five ssages a week, asking her how she was doing, whether it was worth buying mutant beast at in the city, she couldn’t resist buying raw mutant beast at once, and it tasted awful after cooking; she spit it out after one bite and ended up reluctantly throwing it away—such a waste.
Checking the twins’ ssages, she noticed no good news. Ye Nai even inferred that long-term boarders like them were actually regarded as the lowest in the classmates’ disdain hierarchy.
Those dorrs who went ho once a week were like day scholars, which was considered normal. Those who didn’t go ho even once a month were seen by their peers as objects of neglect, easy to bully, with no one to stand up for them.
Ye Nai didn’t reply to those historical ssages. The last ssage was from a month and a half ago, and right now she had no way of knowing if such important possessions as their phones were still with them. Anyway, she planned to go into town to shop in a couple of days and would drop by the school to see.
After watching a movie and hanging up the washed clothes, her phone received a ssage that the rabbit trade was completed and the after-tax inco had been credited to her account, followed by several private ssages inviting her for dinner.
Ye Nai cheerfully headed out again, riding her electric scooter.
In the cafeteria, the exclusive third floor for the special al was set up, with Sister Cao and other teams present, and a table reserved for Brother Xiao Ma and his team, but they were at the hospital for a dical checkup at the mont.
Ye Nai plopped herself on the empty seat next to Sister Cao and looked around at everyone, each one massaging their waists, looking exhausted.
"Next ti sothing like this happens, just co by yourself, don’t call us,"
Sister Cao said, patting Ye Nai’s shoulder, not realizing her own back was in such bad shape.
Ye Nai nodded obediently, then changed the subject.
"I still have a bunch of wild rats on hand, do you know any butchers?"
"You should ask Brother Peng about that; he’s familiar with it since he deals with these butchers all the ti."
"Where is he? Didn’t he co for dinner?"
"He did. He was just slow. We ca up after washing our hands, and he was only reaching the tap; he’ll be here in a bit."
As they were talking, they saw Brother Peng covering his lower back, his upper body stiff, coming up the stairs. It was clear that his back had old injuries, and the bending and standing earlier had made the old injury uncomfortable.
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