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

On the 21st day, the transformed Leviathan began to move. Zhou Wen felt the vibration of the stomach wall space and sat up from the wooden platform with a dazed look in his eyes.

His mental state seemed worse today compared to the previous two days, and he felt a vague sense of weakness, which he knew was due to the oxygen-rich bacteria.

However, he currently has no way to deal with oxygen-rich bacteria and can only try his best to improve his physical condition in order to suppress the infection.

After jumping off the platform and retracting the foundation, Zhou Wen began his inspection for the day.

"These oxygen-enriched bacteria, judging from their name, should be related to oxygen." During the inspection, Zhou Wen unconsciously began to think about the problem of oxygen-enriched bacteria.

His current physical condition is already 27 points. With such a high level of physical condition, even oxygen-rich bacteria can affect him, which means that the infection caused by oxygen-rich bacteria is becoming more and more serious. He has to think about ways to suppress oxygen-rich bacteria.

"Does this 'oxygen-enriched' mean the need for oxygen, or the production of oxygen?"

Zhou Wen recalled the scene in the fanged eel's cave, and at the time he felt that the fanged eel's death was very strange.

Firstly, the enormous razor-toothed eel died under suspicious circumstances without a single wound. Zhou Wen now knows that it was infected with oxygen-rich bacteria.

Secondly, it's unusual that the saber-toothed eel, which is supposed to live in the ocean, would live in an underwater air cave.

If the water in the cave was emptied by the illusion of Leviathan, just like in the Yellowfin Knife Fish Cave yesterday, seawater surged into the stomach wall space multiple times before Zhou Wen was allowed to leave. This was clearly the illusion of Leviathan emptying the seawater in the Yellowfin Knife Fish Cave so that Zhou Wen could move.

But upon closer inspection, that doesn't make sense either, because before the Leviathan allowed Zhou Wen to explore the razor-toothed eel cave, it didn't use the space in its stomach wall to drain water. Instead, after Zhou Wen went out, it used seawater from outside to allow him to enter the razor-toothed eel cave.

Thinking about it this way, the fanged eel cave was filled with air from the very beginning, so where did this air come from?

"It seems that these oxygen-enriching bacteria produce oxygen." Zhou Wen was still a little unsure, so he tried holding his breath and found that his breath-holding time became very long. He held his breath for half an hour before his body felt oxygen-deficient.

"These oxygen-rich bacteria seem pretty good, but..." But at the current rate of infection, Zhou Wen's body can't handle it.

At this moment, the transformed Leviathan entered the feeding phase, so Zhou Wen temporarily put aside the problem of oxygen-rich bacteria, put on a suit of armor, took up an iron broadsword, and prepared to face the parasites he might encounter today.

The esophageal diaphragm opened, and seawater rushed in. A large amount of seaweed also entered the stomach wall space along with the seawater. Zhou Wen stood in the seawater and then used the beam of his headlamp to continuously sweep across the water surface in front of him.

"what is this?"

Zhou Wen suddenly saw a blood-red, strip-shaped object floating in the seawater. These objects were less than two centimeters thick and a little over a meter long, but there were many of them, clustered together like rubber tubes twisted together.

Zhou Wen was always cautious when encountering unfamiliar creatures. He raised his iron broadsword, found a single one, and with one stroke, cut the blood-red strip in two.

The blood-red, strip-shaped thing suddenly came to life and began to writhe. One end extended a cone-shaped spike, two or three centimeters long, which resembled a tooth and could split into three pieces from the middle.

The spiked end began to swing wildly, seemingly searching for a target. Zhou Wen then extended his iron broadsword to let it attack, but the blood-red, strip-like creature's attack was weak; it bit the iron broadsword once and then gave up.

Seeing that the attack was so weak, Zhou Wen became bolder and picked up the other severed section, which should be the body, but it was no longer moving.

【Angioworm】

Body length: 1 meter~?

Weight: 300 grams?

Food type: Blood

Description: A parasite that lives inside giant organisms. It burrows into the host's body, enters the blood vessels, occupies and replaces them, reproduces as larvae, and grows alongside the host. Eventually, it occupies all the blood vessels in the host's body, and its body can be used to make flexible tubes.

"This...is a bit scary!"

Zhou Wen imagined a colossal creature whose blood vessels had been replaced by parasites. Was this colossal creature a colossal creature or a nest of parasites? The thought sent chills down his spine.

They quickly grabbed all the vascular worms, cut them into pieces with a large iron knife, and threw the corpses into a wooden barrel.

After the seawater receded, Zhou Wen emptied all the seaweed from the stomach wall space and carefully checked it. If a blood vessel worm had burrowed into the body of the transformed Leviathan, it would be troublesome.

During the inspection, several vascular worms were indeed found using the sharp spikes on their heads to pierce the stomach wall. They then widened the wounds on the stomach wall by spreading the spikes, and slowly burrowed their bodies into the stomach wall.

However, the process was very slow. After such a long time, the vascular worm hadn't even burrowed into the head of the worm. Seeing this, Zhou Wen felt a little relieved.

This means that it takes a long time for the blood vessel worm to fully enter the body of the transformed Leviathan, so Zhou Wen doesn't have to worry about missing any.

After killing the vascular worms, Zhou Wen repeatedly examined the stomach wall space three times to make sure there were no remaining vascular worms before he was completely relieved.

"Blood worms are also parasites, yet there aren't any in the Leviathan Steel Armor?" Zhou Wen thought for a moment. It was probably because the Leviathan Steel Armor was iron-eating, and its blood vessels were also nourished by steel, so they couldn't be replaced just like that.

After several rounds of feeding, no more vascular worms were found. Zhou Wen then started the manual seaweed grinder to grind the seaweed, and then threw the vascular worm corpses in the wooden barrel into the grinder to grind them as well, and then threw them into the digestion tank.

However, according to the introduction, the body of the blood vessel worm can be used to make hoses, so Zhou Wen kept three of them, but cut off their heads and left only their bodies.

The body of the vascular worm is hollow in the middle, which can indeed be used as a flexible tube, but Zhou Wen didn't know what its specific use was, so he could only put it away for the time being.

With the feeding phase over, the supply crate phase is next. Zhou Wen doesn't plan to go out again today. He was injured the day before yesterday while transforming into Leviathan, and yesterday he was delayed for almost a whole day because he needed to smelt iron.

Keep in mind that there are survivors chasing him who have entered the Deep Blue Sea. In the current situation, he cannot afford to lose the [Pioneer] title; those five free points are very important to him.

While waiting for the supply crate, Zhou Wen continued reading the novel on the world chat channel. Nothing unusual happened on the chat channel today, except that some people were discussing the treasure cave.

However, they only discussed the treasure cave, but no one said whether they had entered the treasure cave or obtained anything. After yesterday's incident where the survivor had his blueprint stolen, the survivors started to act furtively.

[Brother Wen, I've entered the border waters.]

This is a private message from Jiang Haitao, informing Zhou Wen that he has entered the border waters.

Zhou Wen told him to feed his Leviathan form, so that the Leviathan form wouldn't be in a hurry to leave the border sea area and would find more silver-edged supply boxes.

Afterwards, Chen Xin also told Zhou Wen that she had entered the border waters, and Zhou Wen repeated what he had told Jiang Haitao.

You'll encounter many white jade clams in the border waters; you can give the clam meat to a trustworthy guild member.

[Next, we need to quickly train a group of members who can leave the stomach wall space and have them burn charcoal; this will be more efficient.]

[Understood, Brother Wen.]

【Received, Mr. Zhou.】