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

Just how far has this "big shot" progressed?

After Zhao Teng had Wu Hao challenge Zhou Wen, he kept a close eye on their situation. In the end, Zhou Wen won and Wu Hao's avatar disappeared.

This greatly exceeded Zhao Teng's expectations. Although in his mind, Zhou Wen should be doing well, after all, he had two top-quality blueprints in hand. Even if he didn't sell too many on the world trading channel, he would definitely trade with various guilds in private.

The equipment he wears is definitely quite good; he should have at least one set of white scale armor, and his strength attribute should also be decent, probably around 30 points.

Therefore, Zhao Teng trained Wu Hao, bringing his strength to 35 points, and gave him the best equipment currently available on the market. He even gave him a boosting capsule to increase his strength by 5 points to ensure that nothing unexpected happened.

Zhao Teng's purpose in having Wu Hao kill Zhou Wen was actually twofold. One was naturally to obtain the [Algae Oxygenation Tank Blueprint] and [Wooden Foundation Blueprint] from Zhou Wen.

The second layer was to improve his reputation among the survivors. He could ignore ordinary survivors before, but now everyone has a Duel Ticket. If a group of people went crazy and used Duel Tickets on him in turn, even if they couldn't kill him, it would still affect his development speed.

Let Wu Hao kill Zhou Wen, and then he will kill Wu Hao in return. This can be considered revenge for the "big boss". Then, he can lower the price of the algae oxygenation tank and continue to sell wooden foundations.

In this way, he could almost ease the tension with the ordinary survivors, and he would both obtain the blueprints and improve his reputation, killing two birds with one stone.

This is also why Zhao Teng asked Wu Hao to remove the guild name prefix; he didn't want ordinary survivors to know that Wu Hao's killing of the "big shot" was his doing.

Unexpectedly, after a few minutes of stalemate, Zhou Wen actually won, which made Zhao Teng realize that he had underestimated Zhou Wen.

“Even Wu Hao with 35 points of strength couldn’t kill him. This ‘big boss’ is not simple. Could it be that his strength has reached 40 points, or even 50 points?” Zhao Teng boldly guessed.

Meanwhile, Zhou Wen left the stomach wall space and went to the back of the illusory Leviathan, placing the honeycomb bone pieces on its body.

Like the stone and wooden foundations, the honeycomb bone pieces, once placed on the transformed Leviathan, adhered to its skin like magnets and would not fall off unless Zhou Wen actively removed them.

Having determined how to use the honeycomb bone pieces, Zhou Wen decided not to go back. Since he was already out today and the weather was nice, he might as well sunbathe and try making honeycomb bone pieces with other, larger biological skeletons to see if there would be any difference.

Zhou Wen took out a 20-meter-long biological skeleton from the deep blue treasure chest and began to make honeycomb bone pieces. However, to Zhou Wen's surprise, this time less material was consumed. Only 8 meters of the 20-meter skeleton were used to make a honeycomb bone piece.

"Is it because the skeletons of 20-meter-tall creatures are harder that they consume less energy?"

With that in mind, Zhou Wen took out the skeleton of the diamond sea serpent and made a honeycomb bone plate. As he expected, only 5 meters of the nearly 40-meter-long diamond sea serpent skeleton were used.

Then, Zhou Wen tested the honeycomb bone plates made from 20-meter biological skeletons and 40-meter biological skeletons to see if there was any difference in the defensive capabilities of the two honeycomb bone plates.

A honeycomb skeleton made from 40 meters of biological skeleton was discovered. Although it consumes less material, its defensive capabilities are improved to a certain extent.

Zhou Wen could use a fish-fin-shaped broadsword to cut two or three centimeters of marks on a honeycomb bone plate made of 20-meter-long biological skeleton, but on a honeycomb bone plate made of 40-meter-long biological skeleton, he could only leave two centimeters of marks.

Although the improvement was not significant, it provided Zhou Wen with a crucial piece of information: the larger the volume of the biological skeleton used, the harder the honeycomb bone plates produced, and the less material was required.

Zhou Wen used all the biological skeletons that met the production requirements, except for the teeth of the Steel Armor Leviathan and the skeleton of the Abyss Dragonfish, to make honeycomb bone plates.

Three sets of 10-meter-long biological skeletons were made into 3 pieces, two sets of 20-meter-long biological skeletons were made into 5 pieces, and a set of 40-meter-long diamond sea serpent skeletons was made into 8 pieces, for a total of 16 pieces.

"Almost all our possessions could only make 16 pieces."

It's estimated that it would cost 3,000 pieces to cover the entire body of the Transformed Leviathan. However, this doesn't take into account that the Transformed Leviathan is constantly growing. At its current growth rate of 1.2 meters per day, it will be over 90 meters tall in ten days, and its size will be even larger, so it might require even more pieces.

These mere 16 pieces are not even a fraction of the price, so Zhou Wen could only ask Chen Xin to acquire biological skeletons over 10 meters long. After all, biological skeletons are not very useful under the current circumstances, and their price should not be high.

After thinking for a moment, Zhou Wen decided to give the Abyss Dragonfish meat to Chen Xin in exchange for the skeleton of a creature over 10 meters long. However, before that, he needed to heat out the blood crystals from the Abyss Dragonfish meat.

Since they were both out today, Zhou Wen smelted iron ingots while cooking Abyss Dragonfish meat. By evening, he had smelted 20 iron ingots, cooked 3 tons of Abyss Dragonfish meat, and obtained 1000 portions of Blood Crystals.

"what?"

Just as Zhou Wen handed over 3 tons of cooked Abyss Dragonfish meat to Chen Xin and was about to start preparing dinner, the Phantom Leviathan suddenly uttered a question.

After some time, Zhou Wen saw a large number of dark shadows swimming in groups beneath the seawater dyed red by the setting sun, surging towards them like a black tide.

With a thought, Zhou Wen put all the items placed on the back of the illusory Leviathan into the deep blue treasure chest, and then put on a suit of armor with yellow scales and blade fins to ensure his safety.

Soon, these dark figures were within 30 meters of the transformed Leviathan, and Zhou Wen could see their general shape.

These dark shadows are a type of leaf-shaped fish, 2 meters long, with a body that curves like a crescent moon and is entirely silvery-white. Their underwater movement is strange; they move forward by rotating their bodies, making them look like a rapidly spinning boomerang at first glance.

The swarm of fish crashed directly into the transformed Leviathan. The transformed Leviathan originally wanted to flick its tail to hit the fish, but because Zhou Wen was still on its back, it didn't move.

"Whoosh!"

Suddenly, a rapidly spinning, leaf-shaped fish burst out of the water and flew towards Zhou Wen. In the setting sun, Zhou Wen could see the fish's dorsal fin, which resembled a blade, and large amounts of water mist were rapidly spraying out of its mouth and abdomen.

"boom!"

Just as the fish, its body spinning like a blade, was about to crash into Zhou Wen, the Fang Steel Longsword appeared in his hand. He swung it out, severing the fish in mid-air, then sheathed the Fang Steel Longsword and caught the fish carcass, now cut in two, with both hands.