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

Once Zhao Teng's threatening message was sent out, the world communication channels became much quieter.

In the past, the survivors in the world chat channel would have already started cursing, but most of them kept quiet in the face of Zhao Teng, because their own lives were more important.

President Zhao, isn't what you're doing a bit too unreasonable?

[Reasoning? What is reason? Let me tell you: strength is reason, I am reason. Make your choice now, I don't have time to waste on you.]

The survivor who obtained the [Iron Longsword Blueprint] fell silent. He didn't want to hand over the blueprint, nor did he want to join Zhao Teng's guild. The reason he publicized the blueprint was that he wanted to establish his own guild, but he didn't expect it to turn out like this.

Don't hand it over to this guy surnamed Zhao. Give it directly to the big boss. He won't dare challenge the big boss to a duel.

Suddenly, someone sent a message, and in an instant, the survivors seemed to have found their pillar of support, all shouting for Zhou Wen to come forward.

"This guy, how could he repay kindness with enmity!" Zhou Wen saw that the person who sent the message was one of the people who had spoken up for him before and then been scolded. At that time, he had sent this person two wooden foundations.

This guy may have meant well, but in the current situation, isn't this practically adding fuel to the fire?

【You're right, I've already sent the blueprints to the expert.】

Before Zhou Wen could stop them, the other party had already sent the [Iron Longsword Blueprint] via private message.

"What's going on?"

Zhou Wen held the [Iron Longsword Blueprint] for a moment, then immediately sent a message to Chen Xin, asking her to step forward and compete with Zhao Teng for the blueprint. He also sent her a [Duel Ticket].

[Hello, I'm Chen Xin, the guild leader of "Survivors". Could you sell this blueprint to our guild?]

You should talk to the friend who got this blueprint; I'm just keeping it safe for them.

Zhou Wen and Chen Xin pretended to send two messages on the world channel, which was a way of diverting everyone's attention away from themselves.

[President Chen, this isn't following the rules. I got this blueprint first; what's the meaning of you barging in like this?]

【Oh dear, Chairman Zhao, you've misunderstood. It's not that I wanted to interfere; it's just that this friend didn't want to do business with you in the first place, so I gave him more options.】

[Chen Xin, I'm not going to beat around the bush with you. I'm taking this blueprint. You know about the duel ticket, so don't push me!]

[Heh, a duel ticket? I have one too!]

After Chen Xin finished speaking, she sent the information about the [Duel Ticket] to Zhao Teng so he could see it.

Chen Xin told Zhao Teng that she also had a duel ticket, but her purpose was not to duel with Zhao Teng. Rather, she wanted to tell Zhao Teng that she also had someone behind her, and that he had better think twice before trying to deal with her.

[President Zhao, don't forget, your progress is still behind mine. I advise you to carefully consider who is stronger between us.]

In an instant, the world chat channel fell into a deathly silence as everyone waited for Zhao Teng to react.

[Haha, I was just joking, Chairman Chen, please don't take it seriously.]

[Our two guilds had such a harmonious relationship before, how could we really fight with you? This blueprint belongs to Miss Chen, and I, Zhao, voluntarily withdraw.]

"Oh dear, of course I know Brother Zhao was joking, otherwise I wouldn't have dared to be so assertive. Thank you so much for your consideration, Brother Zhao. I'll accept this drawing and look forward to cooperating with you again in the future. Thank you so much."

In the end, Chen Xin accepted the [Iron Longsword Blueprint], and added the survivor who obtained the blueprint to the guild. He also gave him a set of spiked armor, two wooden foundations, and 100,000 basic materials.

Then, the [Iron Longsword Blueprint] returned to Zhou Wen's hands. Zhou Wen used it directly and made one to play with. The materials required were the same as those for the Iron Greatsword, which were 3 iron ingots. However, its attack power was not as good as the Iron Greatsword. Its main advantage was its appearance.

[Boss Zhou, Han Dong asked me to give him the blueprints for the iron longsword. What should I do?]

[He's in such a hurry, it seems he hasn't explored the treasure cave. We can't give him the blueprints; he hasn't done you any favors, why should he want them? We can give him an iron longsword, though.]

After Zhou Wen finished speaking, he handed the iron longsword in his hand to Chen Xin, asking her to deal with Han Dong.

By this time, the iron ore in the furnace had been smelted. He added charcoal three times during the process. In total, it took 20 portions of charcoal to smelt one piece of iron ore.

Zhou Wen used a piece of wood to remove a dark, irregularly shaped lump of metal from the furnace, and then threw it into a wooden bucket filled with seawater.

"Hiss~".

The scorching hot iron block cooled rapidly in the seawater. After waiting for a while, Zhou Wen, wearing spiked gloves, scooped the cooled iron block out of the seawater.

[Ding! You have obtained 1 Small Iron Ingot.]

The moment Zhou Wen touched the irregular iron block, it transformed into a sharp-edged, shiny iron ingot, though this ingot was only one-fifth the size of a normal iron ingot.

"Small iron ingots? That means it takes five small iron ingots to make one normal-sized iron ingot?" Zhou Wen suddenly realized that the 200 portions of charcoal that Chen Xin and Jiang Haitao had burned all night could only make two iron ingots.

"This efficiency is too low."

However, on second thought, Chen Xin and Jiang Haitao only used one earthen kiln to burn 200 batches of charcoal in one night. If they wanted to increase the speed of charcoal burning, they could have made more earthen kilns and burned them at the same time.

Two people can fire five kilns at the same time and produce 1 batches of charcoal in one night, which is equivalent to 10 iron ingots. Fire ten kilns and produce 20 iron ingots.

Although it's not a lot, iron item blueprints are scarce right now, and we can smelt 20 iron ingots every now and then. Stockpiling them up is enough.

Once Jiang Haitao and Chen Xin enter the Deep Blue Sea, they can be allowed to further train the guild members, increasing their strength to 15 points. Then, the guild members can be made to burn charcoal, which will be much more efficient.

Next, Zhou Wen made four more furnaces, making a total of five furnaces, to smelt iron ore simultaneously. In two rounds, all the charcoal was burned out.

Zhou Wen put the ten small iron ingots together, and they fused together to form two iron ingots.

[Ding! You have obtained 2 iron ingots.]

The smelting of iron ore takes a long time. After three rounds, it was already afternoon. Zhou Wen asked Chen Xin for the iron pot and started cooking dinner.

What is Mr. Zhou eating today?

Seafood fried noodles.

Zhou Wen placed the iron pot on the furnace, then took out a can of pork, scooped out the white lard from the top, and threw it into the pot to use as cooking oil.

Then, slice the chewy fish meat, such as the meat of spiny krill, mirror mullet, and white jade clam, into thin slices, stir-fry them in a pan, and add instant noodle seasoning packet for flavor.

What flavor of instant noodles are you having today?

[Spicy.]

Anyway, I can't cook without instant noodle seasoning packets, I just change the flavor a bit.

[By the way, Brother Wen, have the iron ingots been smelted yet?]

[It's been refined, but there are only two pieces.]

Afterwards, Zhou Wen told Jiang Haitao and Chen Xin about the iron ore smelting. Jiang Haitao wanted to stay up all night to make charcoal, but Zhou Wen stopped him.

Their physical condition is not good. Jiang Haitao stays up to 14 PM and Chen Xin stays up to 12 AM. They can manage to stay up all night for one day, but their physical condition definitely can't withstand it if they stay up all night for several days in a row. They may also face attacks from parasites during the day. Their mental state is too poor, and they are prone to accidents.