Chapter 272: Don't be like this, the goddess statue can't plant things

Compensate? This might be the most absurd thing Alice had ever heard in her life. Compensate? There was no such habit on the seabed. She had heard that the empty people on the White Sandbar had this habit. The so-called empty people referred to humans living in the air.

The world of the seabed was more about robbing, killing, and enslaving.

Alice had just touched over with the determination to die. These seaweeds were the staple food for the sixty or so people in her tribe. If they were stolen or eaten, all of them would starve to death.

Such things had happened many times. The algae fields that originally covered the entire seabed now only had a few dozen plants left. Before she was born, the tribe was said to have thousands or tens of thousands of people, but now only the lonely sixty or so remained, and the warriors were only left with her as the sole seedling.

Before, she was full of fighting spirit, thinking that she would definitely be able to guard the algae fields. But now it seemed that she could at most drive away the sea fish that stole food. Encountering empty people, she didn't even have the ability to fight back.

What she didn't know was that not all empty people were such perverts.

As for the habit of compensation, the world of the seabed would have it even less. More often, they would be caught and eaten. For example, those snake-fish water monsters that raised large sea monsters would lure and trap their lone clansmen.

She was stunned, but Ang wasn't, and asked again: "What do you want?"

Alice gathered her courage and said: "You took away the rations of our entire tribe, you have to compensate us with food."

Ang reached out and took out a bag of grain, handed it to Alice, and asked: "How many people in the entire tribe?"

The dry grain bag was taken out and entered the water, bubbling with strings of small air bubbles. Alice suspiciously picked open a small hole, and plump grains floated up.

Alice's eyeballs were wide with shock. She covered the small hole and said in disbelief: "These are for us?"

Ang nodded.

A look of struggle appeared on Alice's face. After a long while, she suddenly gritted her teeth: "You follow me."

She turned and swam toward the distance. After swimming for a distance, Alice was worried that the empty person wouldn't be able to keep up, so she looked back, only to see Ang following her slowly, bubbling "gurgling" behind him, without any sign of effort.

So empty people also know how to swim? And can breathe in the water? Alice thought the bubbles behind Ang were caused by breathing.

Seeing that Ang could keep up, Alice hurriedly accelerated. Before long, she swam out of the seaweed field area and came to a seabed reef area. That area was like a rock exposed on the seabed, with holes on the surface, like a huge porous volcanic rock.

Alice found a hole and swam in.

Ang followed in, swam through a narrow passage, and his head popped out of the water with a "splash."

This was a closed space. Because there was air in the space, water couldn't get in, forming a space with air, just like a bottle pressed into the water with its mouth facing down.

Alice couldn't wait to open the grain bag, held the plump grains soaked in it, and took a big bite.

"Hey... it hasn't been cooked yet..." Naigelis wanted to say something, but as soon as it said it, the voice became smaller and smaller, because it realized that there was no way to cook things on the seabed. Even if it said it, this female sea person still had to eat it raw.

Fortunately, Alice had good teeth. After chewing slowly for a period of time, her eyes became brighter and brighter, and finally she swallowed it together with the shell and germ, excitedly saying: "It really is grain, it's the taste of energy."

It wasn't the taste of energy, but the taste of starch, the taste of "sugar." Of course, starch has high calories, and calories represent energy, so she wasn't wrong.

"Really compensating us with grain?" Alice was both excited and thrilled. Grain was much more valuable than the seaweed she planted. In her tribe, it could even save lives.

Why would this be? Because the energy of rice is high.

The seabed is dark and lacks photosynthesis. The starch content in seaweed is very low, and most of it is water, plant fiber, and protein. It is definitely first-class for losing weight.

If the Tauren aunt ate seaweed every day, the fat circles on her body would definitely disappear quickly.

But the problem is, the seabed is cold, the density of water is high, and swimming consumes a lot of energy. High-calorie sugar foods are very much needed. Protein and plant fiber don't keep you from being hungry.

Sea person tribes all take fat as beauty. Alice's tall figure is an ugly girl in the tribe. It's not that she doesn't want to be fat, it's just that there is no high-calorie food to eat, and she is hungry and thin.

The most calorie-rich thing on the seabed is the subcutaneous fat of those marine creatures. In the past, sea person tribes would also hunt some marine creatures to eat, and there were quite a few fat people at that time.

But now, with the decrease in quantity, they can only plant some seaweed on the seabed to eat.

Of course, she herself didn't understand the reason for this. These were all deduced by Naigelis later.

Anyway, sea people are extremely lacking in sugar, so they would see rice and their eyes would shine.

In the case of long-term lack of sugar, there will be many low-sugar symptoms. For example, her clansmen have many low blood sugar cases, and it is easy to faint during strenuous activities.

Supplementing a little high-sugar food from time to time can alleviate the symptoms, so she would say it could save lives.

Ang nodded, found a relatively dry place in the cave, continuously transferred grain, and then asked: "You, how many people?"

"Sixty... sixty-four." Alice looked at Ang's ability to "create something out of nothing" in a daze, and the awe in her heart added a few more points: Empty people can actually conjure grain out of thin air...

This misunderstanding lasted for a long time, until Alice earned enough money and bought her first space magic tool.

After compensating with enough grain, Ang returned to the seaweed field on the seabed and requisitioned a part of it.

Alice had no opinion at all, and didn't dare to have any. Anyway, the tribe only had sixty-something people left. Planting a few dozen seaweeds was enough for them to eat. Any more would be too much to manage and would be eaten by small fish.

Ang inserted seaweed one by one in the seaweed field, and then stepped on the ground. The seaweed was rapidly urged to grow, and roots grew.

After the roots grew, Ang removed the footprint and stopped the Speed Death Halo. Growing too fast, the nutrition of the seaweed clearly couldn't keep up.

Thinking about it, Ang got some soil in the farm, mixed it with diluted insect ash liquid, kneaded it into balls, and then fired them. Soon they were fired into stone balls similar to pottery tiles.

Dig a new pit, replace the gravel with pottery balls, fill them in, and plant seaweed.

The roots of the seaweed entangled with the pottery balls and then pierced into the silt, growing wildly under the Speed Death Halo.

In the original seaweed field, the seaweed grew at most thirty or forty meters long, but this one planted by Ang grew to over a hundred meters in a flash.

The larger the volume, the greater the influence of the water flow. After growing to over a hundred meters, a dark current surged, and the seaweed was uprooted and floated away.

"You need something heavy to press the seaweed down," Naigelis said.

Ang nodded, but on the seabed plain, where could he find something heavy? Looking around, Ang cast his gaze toward that giant goddess statue.

"Don't be like this, don't be like this, that is the Goddess of Redemption statue, not a tool for planting things," Naigelis persuaded repeatedly.

Unfortunately, the persuasion was ineffective. Ang piled up pottery balls at the base of the statue. This time, the pottery balls not only added insect ash liquid, but also added bird dung, dragon soil, plant ash, etc., striving for balanced nutrition.

Then he pulled ropes between the two legs of the statue and made a climbing net. The seaweed climbed on the rope net, and the rope was tied to the statue's legs to disperse the impact of the water flow.

The only drawback was that it was a bit unsightly.

"Ku Ba Da, if the people of the Light Church see you offending their goddess like this, they will definitely launch a holy war against you," Naigelis scolded irritably.

Ang tilted his head, puzzled. Clearly, he couldn't understand why borrowing a goddess statue to press water algae was called an offense. He used the Balance Ring to weigh things, and no one said he was offending.

Piling up a large pottery ball pile with a diameter of a few meters, Ang only planted one water algae, because he discovered that water algae floats in the water, without the pressure of weight. As long as it can resist the water flow, it can grow infinitely thick and infinitely long.

The larger a single water algae grows, the higher the utilization rate of nutrition. Planting more is a waste instead.

Just like this, a water algae was urged to grow by Ang, growing longer and longer, growing thicker and thicker, extending toward the sea surface.

This seabed is only about five hundred meters deep from the sea surface. If the water algae can grow to five hundred meters long, it can really pop out of the water surface.

Just like this, busy, the large reef in the distance suddenly bubbled with a large amount of air.

Ang swam over to take a look, only to see Alice and her clansmen hiding a few dozen meters away from the reef.

"What happened?" Ang swam over to inquire.

Alice's clansmen were startled. They were all hiding, but Ang saw through their hiding at a glance. If Ang were an enemy, they wouldn't have any ability to fight back.

On the contrary, Alice knew Ang's strength, didn't care too much, and answered directly: "The sea is breathing. Every night, it has to breathe out air. There will be a strong wind in the reef. We come out to hide and wait for the wind to stop."

Every day? What is the principle? Thermal expansion and contraction? How magical.

Naigelis was surprised by this magical physical phenomenon and didn't think much about it, but soon it discovered that Ang was staring at the bubbling reef, looking thoughtful.

Naigelis couldn't help but look a few more times, then thought hard, racked its brains, and finally came to a conclusion: Bubbling reefs shouldn't be used for planting things, right?

"What are you thinking? Can this reef be used for planting things?" Naigelis probed and asked.

Ang's strange methods made it a little unconfident. Even if it felt it wouldn't work, it had to ask Ang first, to avoid being slapped in the face.

Ang shook his head and said, "Here, night, windy."

"Oh? Windy at night." Naigelis looked up at the pitch-black surroundings, not knowing why, and asked. The seabed is pitch black, and it's impossible to distinguish whether it's night or not.

"Night, windy," Ang repeated.

"I know, night, windy, and then?" ===== CHAPTER 273 =====