Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton

If he didn’t know, then it’s as if he had never asked.

Had the cave been a small space, he would have peeked in and then left. However, the cave might be a vast space, even another world. Ange had no interest in that. He has no desire to explore new worlds; outside, there was seaweed waiting to be planted.

He sealed the hole and left the reef. Alice came to him immediately. Today, the ‘Breath of the Sea’ ended too early. It usually lasts a whole night. This change must have something to do with Ange.

“I plugged it up,” Ange said.

Alice looked shocked: “You could move the stone ball?”

Ange tilted his head, was it difficult? He easily pushed it and stomped hard a couple of times after placing it inside the hole, ensuring it was firmly in place.

Watching Ange’s receding figure, Alice murmured: “The Sky People are so powerful. Are all Sky People this powerful?”

Ange moving a stone ball with a seven or eight-meter diameter didn’t mean Alice could. Not even underwater. Even if the entire clan worked together, they could only push the ball with difficulty. They could not stabilize it, and it would spurt out as soon as the wind blew in the night.

Eventually, the Sea People gave up on sealing the leak. They timed it well so that everyone would leave at nightfall and return the next day when the wind stopped.

It was still the time for the gusts of wind, yet no bubbles were arising. Apparently, the hole had been thoroughly sealed.

To be sure, Alice and her clan didn’t return to the reef until the next morning. They dived into the pool below to see…

“Alice, that Sky Person is so terrifying. He shoved the entire stone ball in there, only leaving less than half a meter exposed. Even when our clan was at its peak, with everyone working together, we could only just block the hole with at least three metres left sticking out. Even a large sea monster couldn’t blow it open,” a clansman said apprehensively.

Now they understood why the only warrior in their clan was so respectful towards a Sky Person.

“Alice, does this mean we don’t have to flee at night in the future?” a clansman suddenly realized.

No one liked leaving home at night, sleeping outside before returning, feeling unsafe and worried. Moreover, it was troublesome. They could endure one or two days, but living like this for a lifetime is torturous.

“That seems to be the case…”

Unexpectedly, Ange casually solved a significant issue for them. Filled with gratitude, the Sea People decided to send Alice on a mission to deliver some shells as gifts.

Alice, carrying a bag of shells, arrived at the seaweed field. Not seeing Ange, she began wandering around, looking for any sign of him. While searching, she vaguely saw some objects floating ‘in the sky’.

From the seabed, her view of the sky was, naturally, slightly upwards. Glancing up, she saw a large object with tentacles drifting vaguely, extending all the way to the sea surface.

“My god, what huge tentacles! Is that a Sea Demon? Has the Sky Person been caught and eaten?” Alice quickly lay down in the mud and nervously watched.

However, after a while, Alice noticed something was not right. The swinging of those ‘tentacles’ was too regular, consistent with the fluctuations of the water flow. It did not look like independent movement but more like it was drifting with the waves. Could it not be alive?

Gathering her courage, Alice sneaked closer to the ‘tentacles’ and was then met with a shocking sight. It was not a tentacle but a piece of seaweed.

“How…how’s that possible? A piece of seaweed grew this long in two days? Has it been feeding on male seahorses?” Alice murmured.

Legend has it that male seahorses had the effect of nourishing Yin and strengthening Yang. Like humans tapping into adrenaline, these seahorses provided an energy boost, making consistent consumers grow faster.

Two days ago, there was no seaweed here when the Sky Person hadn’t arrived. There was no doubt that the seaweed’s emergence had something to do with the Sky Person. But no matter their relationship, it was impossible for the seaweed to grow this high in two days. Was magic involved?

Realizing it was only seaweed, Alice was no longer hiding. She swam around, and when she reached a certain height, she noticed the base of the seaweed was wrapped around the Goddess statue.

“This Sky Person. He’s disrespecting the Goddess. I…” a conflicted expression appeared on Alice’s face.

The Sea People living here undoubtedly had some connection with this statue and the Goddess of Redemption. They may even be part of the Guardian Clan.

As the name suggested, Guardian Clans were beings protecting the deities. Their mission was to guard the statues, tombs, miracles, and other deity-related things.

Alice remembered when she was young, the elders in the clan would tell her about her mission during training. Protecting the Goddess’ statue and keeping it clean, destroying creatures that disrespected the statue, and so on.

Now, is it time to sacrifice for the mission?

After contemplating for a while, Alice sighed, “Forget it. We haven’t cleaned the Goddess’s statue for years; we’ve already failed our mission. Let there be disrespect if it must. Besides… it does look quite nice.”

Because Ange had wrapped the net between the statue’s legs, the seaweed naturally grew to cover the lower half of the figure. From a distance, it looked like a green dress.