I woke up to find myself transmigrated into a disabled child.

Chapter 390 Flooded Space

"Then why did you call me? Did you already know I could understand?" Lezhi didn't stop for a moment. After looking at the turtle's weathered carapace, she turned to its belly. The carapace on the belly was not as hard as the one on the back, and the color was lighter, appearing milky white.

However, there weren't many patterns on the abdominal shell that were worth studying, unlike the carapace, so Lezhi only glanced at it briefly before returning to the turtle's ear.

At this distance, the tortoise's muffled reply was louder, like hearing the sound of bells and drums up close, "I just thought that since you can talk to that little guy, maybe you can understand me too, so I wanted to give it a try, and the result was exactly as I expected."

The little guy, Lezhi, was stunned for a moment, then immediately realized that the turtle was talking about the fur ball. "Then what about Lei Xiu? Can you hear what the turtle is saying?"

Lei Xiu, who had just finished fighting and rushed forward, was taken aback, then shook his head suspiciously, "Can turtles talk? I didn't hear anything."

He didn't doubt Lezhi's behavior. When he first started raising Maoqiu and Kele, Lezhi often talked to himself. Sometimes he would even talk to the vines in the house and the plants in the vegetable garden. Lei Xiu was already used to it.

Upon hearing Lei Xiu's denial, Le Zhi immediately squinted at the turtle, suspecting that the turtle was simply teasing him.

"Hehehe, don't be angry. You are naturally different, but I can't say exactly how. You'll have to find the answer yourself." With a mischievous wink, the turtle felt it had explained enough. It began to slide its limbs to determine the direction, then shook its head, signaling Lezhi and Leixiu to follow.

"Let's go, the sun is about to set, the children should go home."

Seeing that the tortoise clearly didn't want to say anything more, Lezhi didn't ask any further questions.

Ji Ying did not return to her clan with them this time; they parted ways halfway through the journey.

Like Cang Jin, when the clan leader was busy, they had to take on more work, so they were not as leisurely as before.

The tortoise escorted them to a spot not far from home before leisurely departing. Watching the tortoise leave, Lezhi remained silent for a long time before noticing the gruesome scratch on the tortoise's back that he himself had inflicted. From a distance, it looked particularly menacing, a testament to how reckless he had been in his attack.

"Zhizhi, what are you thinking about? It's time to go back."

"Ah, oh, it's nothing. I was just thinking that I wondered if there was anything that could help the turtle's shell heal quickly, since the wound looks a bit serious." Although the turtle said it didn't feel anything, Lezhi was still a little guilty.

"Maybe next time we can bring him some food, hard-shelled foods would be good," Lei Xiu suggested.

"Eating shells to replenish shells, no problem," Lezhi nodded upon hearing this, then suddenly remembered the brood of crabs she had caught that day. "Okay, that brood of crabs looked pretty good today. Let me see if they're still alive."

Dead crabs don't taste good.

"No, what's going on..."

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Lezhi's space was flooded, but fortunately the damage was not too serious. Most of the food was fine, with only a small portion soaked in water. Lezhi plans to do her best to salvage it.

The rotten parts were thrown away. Most of these were leafy vegetables, and Lezhi had cultivated quite a lot of them before entering the Endless Abyss. After the consumption of the past two days, there weren't many left. Originally, he planned to finish them all today, but now they've all been soaked in water and become bloated, so they're definitely inedible.

"Fortunately, these things are easy to cultivate." Le Zhi murmured. Since he woke up in the Lingquan Clan, he has been familiarizing himself with the environment for the past two days. The Lingquan Clan is said to be the clan closest to the land among the three water-based clans, but in reality, their clan's territory is still some distance from the land.

Because of the scarcity of land resources, Lezhi hasn't been able to cultivate any plants in the past two days, and is just relying on his existing stock. He had originally planned to tell Canglong that he wanted to find some land, and now, a perfect excuse has been delivered to his doorstep.

Looking at the thorn seeds in his hand that were already showing signs of sprouting, Lezhi sighed. If there was one thing he stored most in his space, it would undoubtedly be staple food, with thorn seeds making up the majority.

Therefore, the prickly fruit was the most affected this time. However, the good thing is that seeds with high starch content are more resistant to damage. Although the prickly fruit, hard powder fruit, and stone fruit were also soaked for the same amount of time, they basically did not rot. Instead, they sprouted and took root in the water.

It can be considered a blessing in disguise.

"Why did Zhizhi store so much water in the space?" Lei Xiu asked, puzzled, as he helped clean up the disaster relief supplies.

Lezhi's explanation to Lei Xiu was that the water he stored in the space was accidentally spilled by crabs that had broken free of their restraints, causing the flood. Lei Xiu accepted this explanation with some skepticism. His tribespeople had never put any living creatures that could still move in the space before, so this situation had never occurred. Lezhi's explanation seemed reasonable enough, so Lei Xiu was simply curious about Lezhi's motive for storing so much water.

"Uh, hehehe, we were going into the Endless Abyss before, and we didn't know what it was like down there, so I prepared a little bit of everything. Better safe than sorry." Lezhi laughed it off and brushed the question off.

Everyone knew that the size of his space would gradually increase as his talent improved, but he had never heard of anyone whose space contained a pool of water, and also...

Running a finger over the newly sprouted buds on the seed, healthy and robust, it was clearly a promising seed that could grow. Previously, only mosses could grow in this space, but now it seemed that this restriction was no longer a problem.

What is the reason for this lack of restriction? This is what Lezhi is curious about. It is not surprising that mosses can grow in space. They naturally require very few growth elements, do not need light, do not need much water, and do not even need much substrate, and they are very resilient.

However, thorns are different. If they are to grow naturally, the most basic water, air, temperature, and nutrients are indispensable. The stimulating growth uses energy to replace those, but there are no conditions in the space for them to grow.

unless……

Lezhi's eyes shifted to the spring-fed lake in the space. In the center of the lake was a constantly bubbling spring, water gushing outwards, and the lake's area was gradually increasing at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye. Lezhi deliberately placed other items in a corner farthest from the lake, and then manipulated the terrain to artificially create a large pit to hold the lake water.

The overall terrain of the pit is the lowest in the area, which ensures that the lake water will not spread to other places to the greatest extent.

His space is already very large, almost boundless at a glance, more than enough to hold a lake. However, the premise is that the growth rate of the space keeps pace with the growth rate of the lake; otherwise, sooner or later, the space will turn into Heze.

Frustrated, Yuezhi rubbed her temples. Then, her eyes lit up when she saw the round spikes of fruit in the basket.

"How could I have forgotten about it?"

"Huh? What?" Suddenly pulled by Lezhi's arm, Lei Xiu did not resist and got up with the force, following him into the kitchen.

Seeing Lezhi proudly present a basket of plant seeds, which looked larger and rounder than prickly seeds, Lei Xiu raised an eyebrow. Judging from Lezhi's excited expression, he could tell that it was probably another edible food.

Sure enough, Lezhi didn't keep her in suspense. "Ta-da! This is round spike rice, or you can call it rice. It's a staple food. I discovered it by chance and confirmed with Cangjin that it's edible."

“Hmm,” Lei Xiu said, not surprised. “Okay, tell me how to do it. Do you want to grind it into powder like the seeds?” As he spoke, Lei Xiu rolled up his sleeves and dragged over the shelling machine that Le Zhi had just taken out to inspect and clean it. The seeds clearly needed to be shelled before proceeding to the next step.

"No need, this method is much simpler than using thorns, let me tell you..."