Giant Fish Survival: I Can Hear the Giant Fish's Heart

A large amount of blood gushed from the severed wound. In pain, the big fish opened its mouth and frantically shook its head, trying to shake Zhou Wen out of its mouth. However, Zhou Wen plunged the steel long knife into the big fish's flesh and gripped the handle tightly.

The more the big fish thrashed about, the more serious the damage became. As it struggled, blood sprayed out like raindrops, falling into the seawater and creating a splash of bright red. The red blood slowly dispersed in the seawater.

A dozen minutes later, the seawater turned red with blood. The fish's struggles grew weaker and weaker until it finally plunged headfirst into the crimson water and lost all life.

"Pfft!" A dark brown long knife pierced through the flesh at the throat of the big fish, cutting a triangle about one meter in size on its body.

Zhou Wen smashed through the cut fish flesh, crawling out from the gap covered in blood. The amplification effect of the Boiling Blood Coral Powder had expired, and he was now in a weakened state.

After storing the steel longsword in his equipment slot, Zhou Wen stood in the red seawater and took a good rest. The frantic struggle of the big fish before its death had shaken him quite a bit, but fortunately he had managed to hold on.

After washing off the blood with seawater, Zhou Wen opened the biological encyclopedia to check the creature's information.

【Knife-finned Yellow Ribbonfish】

Body length: 80 meters

Weight: 560 tons

Food type: Meat

Description: A ferocious and highly aggressive fish that will attempt to entangle even creatures of similar size and use its sharp fins to cut them. It is edible, and its fins and scales can be used to make weapons and armor.

"80 meters! Longer than a razor-toothed eel." Zhou Wen exclaimed inwardly, circling the head of the razor-finned yellowtail to finally get a clear look at its features.

Its head is similar to that of a ribbonfish, and its body is flat, but it is entirely yellow. Its skin surface is covered with small scales, and it has fins on both the upper and lower body. The fins look like they are made up of a series of blades, with a cold gleam on the surface and are extremely sharp.

At this moment, Chen Xin sent a private message. After Zhou Wen received it, he found that it was half a roasted sweet potato.

The aroma of roasted sweet potatoes should have been particularly strong, but Zhou Wen was currently surrounded by a sea of ​​blood, and the strong fishy smell in the air completely masked the aroma of the roasted sweet potatoes.

Why is it only half?

The other half got burnt, so I broke it off and threw it away. Burnt food isn't good to eat.

Tonight, we'll be burning charcoal all night.

I didn't steal any; it really was burnt.

[I didn't say you stole food, this is your task. By the way, how's your cooking going? What did you make?]

[The seafood soup I made, eaten with bread, should be alright, right?]

【Then add another portion of meat.】

After saying that, Zhou Wen cut off a piece of the yellowtail bream and sent it to Chen Xin.

Then, looking at the half-eaten roasted sweet potato in his hand, Zhou Wen realized he didn't have much of an appetite in the current situation, so he handed the half-eaten roasted sweet potato to Jiang Haitao.

Next, Zhou Wen explored the entire cave, hoping to find a pure gold treasure chest, just like he had in the cave of the razor-toothed eel. In the end, he actually found a chest at the very back of the cave.

It wasn't a pure gold treasure chest, but a supply box with silver trim. Zhou Wen was slightly disappointed, but a supply box with silver trim wasn't too bad, so he immediately went forward and opened it.

[Ding! Obtained the blueprint for the Bladefin Yellowtail Scale Armor.]

[Ding! Obtained the blueprint for a large sword made from the fins of a yellowtail ribbonfish.]

The notification sounds from the two drawings completely stunned Zhou Wen; these two drawings were entirely unexpected.

Zhou Wen's face was filled with surprise. He quickly used the two blueprints and then checked what was needed to make them.

[Blueprint for the Bladefin Yellowtail Scale Armor: Requires 1000 Bladefin Yellowtail Scales, 100 Cloth Pieces, and 10 Bladefin Yellowtail Fins.]

[Blueprint for a large sword made from a yellowtail fin: Requires 1 yellowtail fin and 2 iron ingots.]

"We have all the materials, so we can make it right away."

Zhou Wen originally thought that peeling the skin off the yellowtail amberjack would take a lot of time, but with these two blueprints, he could directly peel off the material from the yellowtail amberjack by making two items.

Jiang Haitao sent over a thousand pieces of cloth. Then, the blueprint for the scale armor of the yellowtail finned fish was found. The fish was placed on the corpse of the yellowtail finned fish, and the crafting process was initiated. The scales and fins on the yellowtail finned fish turned into blue light and merged in the air.

Soon, a set of scale armor, entirely yellow and covered with fish-scale patterns, was made.

This set of scales resembles a knife-finned yellowtail with a head that looks like a knife-finned yellowtail, sharp fin blades embedded on both sides of its arms, a serrated fin on its back, and hook-like claws at the ends of its fingers. The overall shape of the scales is like a human-shaped knife-finned yellowtail.

Zhou Wen saw that the Bladefin Yellowtail Scale Armor was a complete set, so he tried to put it into his equipment slot. As he had guessed, the Bladefin Yellowtail Scale Armor was successfully put into his equipment slot.

Then, the next second, the entire set of scale armor appeared on his body, but the moment the scale armor was put on, Zhou Wen felt a heavy pressure.

He was already in a weak state, and his body suddenly felt heavy, causing his legs to buckle and he to kneel on the ground.

Zhou Wen quickly put away the scales, and the heavy pressure instantly dissipated.

"Let's try again tomorrow."

Currently in a weakened state, he couldn't estimate the exact weight of the scale armor. However, the moment he put it on, Zhou Wen could feel that his body could actually support it, indicating that although the scale armor was heavy, it wasn't beyond his body's weight-bearing limit.

Next, Zhou Wen used the materials from the carcass of the yellowtail arowana to make nine sets of scale armor. Even with so many materials, only one-third of the materials from the carcass were used.

Zhou Wen asked Jiang Haitao for another 2 pieces of cloth and made 20 more sets, for a total of 30 sets of knife-finned yellowtail scale armor.

With 30 fins remaining, Zhou Wen used his steel longsword to cut the fins off the yellowtail and put them into the supply box.

After finishing all that, Chen Xin had also prepared the meal and sent him a bowl of oddly shaped seafood soup.

The reason it's considered incongruous is because she used instant noodle seasoning packets, specifically the braised beef flavor. However, there's nothing that can be done about it, as there are currently no normal seasonings available besides instant noodle seasoning packets.

Zhou Wen finished the seafood soup in one gulp, and then a notification sound rang.

[Ding! Consuming seafood soup increases Constitution by 1 and Strength by 3.]

“Sure!” Zhou Wen naturally knew where the 1 point of physique and 3 points of strength came from. The 1 point of physique came from the Water Bag Sea, and the 3 points of strength came from the Knife-finned Yellow Ribbonfish.

The meat of the yellowtail amberjack can add 3 points to strength, which is of great value. Zhou Wen looked at the carcass of the yellowtail amberjack in front of him and felt an urge to put it up for sale.

But in the end, Zhou Wen gave up the idea. He used a long steel knife to cut off three large pieces of fish, keeping one for himself and giving one each to Chen Xin and Jiang Haitao, so that he would have more ingredients to cook with in the future.

The main problem is the lack of a refrigerator. If there were a refrigerator, Zhou Wen could store some fish and meat, and once a large number of survivors enter the Deep Blue Sea, he could have Chen Xin and Jiang Haitao put them up for sale and make a fortune.