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

After reviewing the basic information about the Mirror-skin Barracuda, Zhou Wen learned that it was edible, meaning that eating its meat would likely increase his attribute points.

This made Zhou Wen feel a little uneasy. What he needed most right now was to increase his strength attribute, and he really hoped that the Mirror Skin Barracuda could give him strength points.

So Zhou Wen placed the mirror-skinned barracuda on the wooden platform, made a show of bowing, and murmured something under his breath.

"Power, power, give me power!" he murmured at the end, then suddenly raised his arms, looked up at the sky, and shouted it out, like a cultist.

After doing all this, Zhou Wen began to use sharp spikes to process the mirror-skinned barracuda.

The mirror-skinned barracuda had died because it had been out of the seawater for too long and could not breathe oxygen. Zhou Wen no longer needed to find a way to kill it; he could simply skin it.

Looking at the smooth, mirror-like fish skin, Zhou Wen was at a loss for what to do. He had never killed a fish before and was afraid of ruining the flawless surface.

After thinking it over, Zhou Wen came up with two methods for skinning the fish. The first method was to cut the skin open from the belly of the fish, just like killing a fish normally.

The second method involves making a circular cut around the fish skin behind the head and then peeling it off. This method preserves the integrity of the fish skin to the greatest extent possible.

Ultimately, Zhou Wen chose the first option. The reason was simple: he lacked the technology and the appropriate tools.

Although Zhou Wen had never killed a fish before, he had seen it before. Fish skin is not easy to peel, and the second method was too difficult for him at the moment.

So Zhou Wen began to use the first method to peel the fish skin.

The skin of the mirror barracuda is very tough, about as tough as the body of the anchor worm, but it can't compare to the shell of the spiny krill. Zhou Wen can still cut it open with his spines.

Zhou Wen cut the fish skin slowly and carefully, since fish skin could be used to make diving suits. Although he didn't know what the diving suits were for, he wanted to stock up on the materials so he could use them someday.

It took Zhou Wencai about half an hour to cut open the belly of the mirror-skinned barracuda. ​​The next step was to skin it.

However, to Zhou Wen's surprise, the skin of the mirror-skinned barracuda was not as difficult to peel as he had imagined. Although it still took some effort, it only took him ten minutes to peel off the entire skin.

"Not bad, not bad." Zhou Wen was in a great mood and spread out the fish skin, which was exactly like a mirror. Looking at his clear face in the mirror, he nodded in satisfaction.

After putting the fish skin into his supply box, Zhou Wen turned his attention to the fish meat of the mirror-skinned barracuda. ​​Next, he would eat the fish meat and see what attributes it would increase.

Zhou Wen cut off a piece of fish meat with a sharp spike. The fish meat was very special. It was crystal clear and similar to the meat of the sharp spike krill, but it was more transparent than the translucent meat of the sharp spike krill. It was like crystal and reflected a silvery light when illuminated.

Zhou Wen hesitated for a moment, then opened his mouth and put the fish meat into his mouth.

After chewing for a while, there was no strange smell, but it also lacked the sweetness of krill meat. It was bland and the fish meat was too firm, like eating tasteless pork skin. In short, it wasn't very tasty.

But in order to gain attribute points, Zhou Wen gritted his teeth and ate piece after piece of fish. After eating a third of the whole fish, the system notification sound finally rang.

"Finally, it rang! I could barely eat anymore," Zhou Wen complained to himself.

Although the mirror-skinned barracuda is one meter long, it is not very big. Its body is only about ten centimeters wide. A third of the meat is not enough to make Zhou Wen feel full. The main reason is that the fish meat has no taste and is not tasty. Moreover, Zhou Wen is not used to eating raw meat.

[Ding! Consuming a mirror-skinned barracuda increases Constitution and Speed ​​by 1.]

"Holy crap! Two attributes were added!" Zhou Wen was stunned at first, then exclaimed in surprise.

Although it wasn't the power points he had hoped for, and he was slightly disappointed, he was still very happy to be able to increase two attributes at once.

Zhou Wen immediately opened the character attribute panel.

[Zhou Wen] (The baseline for a normal person is 10)

Intelligence: 10

Power: 8

Constitution: 10

Speed: 12

Assessment: A healthy and fast person.

"Is this what you call healthy? My strength hasn't even reached the level of a normal person yet," Zhou Wen said with a smile as he looked at the comments below.

After a brief moment of thought, Zhou Wen concluded that the health rating should be based on physical fitness scores, not overall attribute scores.

"I just don't know if the increase in attributes from this mirror-skinned barracuda meat will be a one-time thing or multiple times," Zhou Wen said with some anticipation, looking at the remaining two-thirds of the fish meat.

Zhou Wen naturally hoped to increase his attribute points multiple times. Even if it wasn't the strength points he urgently needed, a significant improvement in his other physical stats would be beneficial.

However, Zhou Wen is currently unable to finish the remaining third of the fish and will have to wait until tonight to see the results.

Zhou Wen put away the remaining fish meat. With nothing else to do, he continued exercising.

Perhaps it was because his physical condition had improved a bit, but this time Zhou Wen felt that doing push-ups was easier than before. Before, he would struggle to do ten push-ups at once, and his form was not even correct.

This time, doing ten push-ups was still strenuous, but my form was much better.

About an hour later, Zhou Wen finished all one hundred push-ups he had set for the day, and it was time for him to transform into Leviathan and swallow the second supply box.

Having learned that during the Leviathan transformation and the ingestion of supply boxes, creatures would also enter the stomach wall space, Zhou Wen was no longer as careless as before.

Although the mirror-skinned barracuda was not aggressive towards Zhou Wen, that doesn't mean other creatures are the same.

Therefore, Zhou Wen wore all four spiked armors. Although these armors affected his mobility, he was currently on the wooden platform mainly for defense, fearing that he might be ambushed by unknown creatures in the water in the dark.

Only after the tide recedes and Zhou Wen sees the creature's appearance can he make a preliminary judgment as to whether the creature poses a threat to him, and then consider whether or not to take off his spiked armor.

Fortunately, the seawater that delivered the supply crates did not bring any living creatures. After the tide receded, Zhou Wen took off three pieces of spiked armor, leaving only a spiked helmet, jumped off the platform, and opened the second supply crate of the day.

[Ding! Obtained 1 fragment of the Food Compendium for Leviathan's Transformation (2/10).]

"It's this food encyclopedia again. This encyclopedia should be quite important for transmogrifying Leviathan."

This food guide requires collecting ten fragments. Zhou Wen hadn't paid much attention to it before because he had a significant advantage at the time, so there was no need to go any further.

Now that the advantage is about to disappear, this food guide that can accelerate the growth of the Transformation Leviathan becomes very important.

"Looks like I'll have to search for it on the world chat channel."