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

Zhou Wen cautiously approached, then used the tip of the spike in his hand to flick the glowing sphere.

The glowing sphere was turned and rolled a few times, its glowing body gradually dimmed, and then Zhou Wen saw the pinhole-like mouthparts at the bottom of the sphere, and four tentacles used for suction.

Zhou Wen subconsciously took a few steps back, in case the glowing sphere had any attack methods.

But the glowing sphere seemed uninterested in him. Its four tentacles moved, straightened its body, and attached itself to the stomach wall. Then, its dim body emitted white light again.

"What kind of creature is this?"

Suddenly, Zhou Wen remembered the biological atlas, so he immediately opened the system interface.

【Heliola coccidia】

Body length: 10 cm

Weight: 1 kg

Food type: Blood

Evaluation: A bioluminescent parasite that is not aggressive and may be used for lighting.

"Another parasite, but these are much cuter than anchor worms," ​​Zhou Wen muttered to himself, looking at the two glowing coccidia.

According to information provided by the biological atlas, the size of the solar coccidia is 10 centimeters, but the two in front of us are only 6 or 7 centimeters long, so they should not have reached adulthood yet.

"Wait a minute! Sun-damp coccidia? Couldn't that provide sunlight for watermelon seeds?"

Zhou Wen suddenly realized the key point and immediately became excited. So he took off his clothes, wrapped them in his palms, and picked up the solar coccidia from the ground.

Unable to feed on blood, the light on the sun worms dimmed, and their four short tentacles twitched constantly, while their pinhole-like mouthparts seemed to be searching for blood.

A short while later, seemingly finding it unable to reach the stomach wall, the solar coccidia retracted its needle-like mouthparts into its body, and its four short tentacles also retracted, completely transforming into a sphere.

"Quite cute."

Zhou Wen led the solar coccidia up the wooden platform and arrived at the place where the small planting boxes were placed.

The small planting box was located close to the stomach wall, so Zhou Wen placed the coccidia scintillans close to the stomach wall.

Seemingly sensing the presence of food, the solar coccidia extended four tentacles, attached them to the stomach wall, and then inserted its needle-like mouthparts into the stomach wall. As it sucked blood, the solar coccidia's body glowed again, illuminating the entire small planting box.

"I hope it works," Zhou Wen prayed silently.

Afterwards, Zhou Wen picked up another solar coccidia and placed it on the stomach wall next to the small planting box. The two lights overlapped, making the light even more abundant.

After a period of time, the transformed Leviathan entered the digestive state, and Zhou Wen had already moved all the seaweed he had eaten into the digestive pool.

Today was peaceful; I didn't encounter any highly aggressive creatures like anchor worms.

There were only five spiky krill today. Zhou Wen killed and shelled them, then traded the meat from the five spiky krill left over from yesterday for 250 basic materials.

While moving seaweed, Zhou Wen discovered another solar coccidia, bringing the total to three. He instructed Zhou Wen to use them all to provide sunlight for the watermelon seeds, hoping they would germinate quickly.

While waiting for the Leviathan to digest, Zhou Wen opened the world chat channel to check on the situation of the other survivors.

Just as Zhou Wen had guessed, a large number of survivors discovered Spiky Krill today, and those survivors who traded supplies with Zhou Wen for Spiky Krill yesterday were now filled with regret.

They felt they had traded a large amount of resources for something they could have obtained anyway, and some even contacted Zhou Wen in the world chat demanding an explanation and asking him to return the traded resources.

Zhou Wen naturally refused to return it and came up with a plausible excuse.

[I didn't know you guys would encounter spiked krill. When I encountered them, none of you did. It's perfectly reasonable for me to sell them; there's no reason for me to return the supplies.]

Even after he said that, those people continued to pester Zhou Wen to return the supplies, but Zhou Wen ignored them.

Yesterday, many people approached him to trade for spiny krill, but only a few asked to return their supplies. This shows that most people think the trade is reasonable.

He didn't say that to the people who wanted to return the supplies, but to the people in the world chat, to give a reasonable explanation so that other survivors wouldn't think he was a shrewd businessman, which would make it harder to do business in the future.

Soon, no one in the world chat paid any attention to those troublemaking clowns, because after their encounters with the spiky krill, many people discovered that killing them was an extremely difficult task.

The spiny krill has a very hard shell and a sharp spine on its head. You can easily get cut by the spine if you're not careful. Without a weapon, it is very difficult to kill a spiny krill.

So, someone thought of finding Zhou Wen, the person who sold a large quantity of spiky krill yesterday.

Hey bro, you sold 50 spiky krill yesterday. Could you tell me how you killed them?

[Yeah, yeah, please, please tell us!]

Zhou Wen didn't hide anything and told them how he killed the spiny krill for the first time, and asked them to use the spikes on the spiny krill's head as tools to peel the shells off the krill.

This method wasn't a hard-to-think secret; anyone could come up with it if they thought about it a little more. Zhou Wen simply told everyone, thus gaining the favor of the other survivors.

After discussing how to kill the spiky krill, the survivors on the world channel started chatting, and one of them came up with an idea.

Zhou Wen frowned after seeing this person's statement, because the person's idea was to increase the Leviathan's activity time by helping the Leviathan digest its energy.

[After observing for the past few days, I've noticed that while the Leviathan's stomach motility is very slow, its digestive system digests seaweed very quickly.]

The process of transporting seaweed into the digestive tract via stomach peristalsis is extremely lengthy, so I have a hypothesis.

[If we transport these seaweeds ourselves and throw them into the digestive tank, could we skip the stomach's peristaltic movement process and accelerate the digestion of the Leviathan?]

This would allow for more time to engage with the Leviathan skin, and will this extra time generate more resource boxes?

This person's conjecture immediately attracted the attention of everyone on the world channel.

Holy crap! That makes a lot of sense.

Indeed, there are differences between people; I had never noticed it before.

[Perfect timing! The Leviathan Illusion just finished feeding; I can give it a try.]

Some people thought this conjecture made a lot of sense, so they prepared to try it out, but were stopped by another person.

[Don't try this yet. This hypothesis does make a lot of sense, but there's a very serious problem.]

【what is the problem? 】

Oxygen content.

Many people have probably experienced shortness of breath during the period between digesting the Leviathan and starting to move around. This shortness of breath only disappears when the Leviathan consumes the supply box.

【Have it? 】

That seems to be true.

Some survivors, upon careful reflection, confirmed that this was indeed the case.

This indicates that the oxygen content within the stomach wall space can only support static respiration, and is far from sufficient to support the dynamic behavior of transporting seaweed.

The conjecture proposed by that friend is indeed very reasonable, but without resolving the oxygen content issue, it should not be attempted recklessly, otherwise, one might die from oxygen deprivation.