Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton-Chapter 1791 - 1352: There’s One Thing, Mine

"Puppet Snake? How do you know? Who told you?" Negris asked in astonishment.

Ange was with everyone every day, always playing with his own things whenever he had free time. Now he was engrossed in the Space-Time Chessboard, and hardly had time to pay attention to outside information. How could he know things that nobody else did?

"There is one, mine," Ange said.

"???" A huge question mark popped up in everyone’s mind. What does ’there’s one of yours’ mean?

After asking for a while, they finally figured it out: "Pooh, you mean your bug burrowed into one of the Puppet Snake’s eggs, ate it, and then parasitized its body, becoming one of the Puppet Snakes?"

Ange nodded, then shook his head: "Not an egg, a seed."

"A seed was parasitized by a bug? Isn’t that unreasonable?" Negris muttered.

Ursman said: "Reasonable, it’s reasonable. Don’t fungal parasites also exist on bugs or ants? Cross-species parasitism is not impossible."

"Alright, I forgot about Zombie ants and Cordyceps, but what do we do now? Should we let the Puppet Snake take us over? The defense here is so tight, even if we virtualize, we can’t pass," Negris said helplessly.

Not to mention virtualization, even soul shifting might not get through. How tight is the defense here? Earlier, they almost stepped on some moss.

This fluffy moss theoretically shouldn’t exist here.

The surface of the Divine Tree of All Worlds doesn’t have a place lower than a thousand degrees, whether in sunlight or shadow. Sunlight directly hitting the sunlit side reaches two or three thousand, and the shaded side, without direct sunlight, is still more than a thousand.

Only in the crevices and gullies can the temperature be below a thousand, but even then, it’s at least five to six hundred, an environment completely unsuitable for moss growth.

Yet, the trunk is even harsher than the canopy environment but still has lush moss, which is suspicious.

Upon calling the Little Tree Man to take a look, it turned out indeed unusual. These are Ancient Man Snake sensory plants, not the moss but the needle-like spikes under the moss, which are very sensitive to vibrations. Even a butterfly passing by with fluttering wings can be detected.

If these furry spikes are scattered on the path ahead, soul shifting is almost impossible, as the movement of soul shifting can’t be smaller than a butterfly’s.

Ange nodded.

"Huh? Nodding? What do you mean?" Negris asked in astonishment.

"Fetch us," Ange responded.

"Uh, I was just joking. If it’s too dangerous, forget it; it’s not easy for a bug to infiltrate their camp." Negris quickly said.

It was just a casual remark, surely Ange wouldn’t actually call the Puppet Snake over because of it?

A vine, a size smaller, slowly slithered up the tree trunk like a snake.

The reason Ancient Vine is called Ancient Man Snake is because their movements mimic those of a snake, whether coiling on a tree or slithering around.

It slithered to the hiding place of Ange’s group and suddenly turned its body, changing direction.

This movement was nothing special, except for being slightly faster and noisier. But when it slithered back down, there was already a group of virtualized Star Descendants on it.

Despite being a smaller-sized Puppet Snake, it was still very large. Ange’s group stood on it as if on a gigantic mountain, able to hide securely at any spot.

"King—" A low call echoed in everyone’s ears.

Ange nodded.

"Uh... hello, what’s your name?" Anthony greeted.

Anthony was very curious about this parasitic Puppet Snake. Was it an animal or a plant? The example of Ursman’s Cordyceps and Zombie ant couldn’t fully explain its mystery. How did such a creation as the Ancient Man Snake become parasitized so easily?

There were countless questions, but Ange just greeted and stopped, leaving everyone itching to know more.

"I’m Little Vine," the Puppet Snake responded in a deep voice.

Alright, understood, the ’Little’ club.

Everyone quickly adjusted their mindset. Ange was lazy with naming newcomers, so naming rights were generally seized by Negris, but if Ange named it and it was a ’Little,’ it was equivalent to Ange’s child.

"Hello, Little Vine, I’m Anthony," Anthony introduced himself.

"Hello, Anthony, I know you, you’re the King’s spokesperson. The King said to listen to you," Little Vine said curiously.

This Little Vine was like a child mastering language but using it for communication for the first time. With Anthony’s proactive questioning, it responded warmly.

"Hello, Little Vine, I’m Negris. Do you know me?" Negris quickly asked.

"Hello, Negris, I know you. You’re the King’s translator. The King said he doesn’t understand, ask you," Little Vine replied.

"Oh, didn’t he say to listen to me?" Negris asked.

"No, King, should we listen to Negris?" Little Vine directly asked Ange.

Ange was busy with the Space-Time Chessboard, and upon hearing this, he quickly shook his head without even looking up.

"Haha..." Watching Negris get thwarted, the atmosphere lightened with cheer.

Since Ange instructed it to listen to him, Anthony asked directly: "Little Vine, how did you parasitize the Puppet Snake? What state are you in right now? Is there anything uncomfortable?"

Little Vine responded blankly: "I don’t know either. I crawled and crawled one day into a tree tumor with strong life force. I ate whatever was inside and then felt very tired, soon fell asleep, and upon waking, I became like this."

Strong life force? Tree tumor? Ate it? Anthony silently jotted down these keywords and then asked: "How does the Ancient Man Snake communicate with you? Can you hear its orders?"

Little Vine answered: "It doesn’t talk to me. It controls the body, and when it controls, I hide."

Anthony and Ursman’s expressions shifted.

"So, the Puppet Snake means a mindless shell? Do other Puppet Snakes have consciousness? Usually, is it Ancient Man Snake controlling the Puppet Snakes?" Anthony asked a series of questions.

If it were usually Ancient Man Snake controlling the Puppet Snakes, would these wandering Puppet Snakes be under its control?

"Yes, normally they control the body. When Ancient Man Snake arrives, they hide as well. They are afraid," Little Vine responded.

In other words, Puppet Snakes do have consciousness and usually control themselves, but when the Ancient Man Snake descends, their consciousness retreats out of fear, giving control to the Ancient Man Snake.

At this moment, Little Fireman suddenly pointed at a large tree tumor on the trunk and said: "There, there, there."

It seemed the location had been reached. As Anthony was contemplating whether Little Vine could divert there, Little Vine abruptly said: "It’s coming..."

The words weren’t finished when they felt a powerful mind landing on Little Vine.