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

Splash~ Splash~.

The sound of seawater churning came from inside the esophagus. Soon, the esophageal diaphragm opened, and a large amount of seawater carrying seaweed entered the stomach wall space.

Zhou Wen set up a manual seaweed crusher and sent the other two to Jiang Haitao and Chen Xin respectively.

After checking the water surface with a powerful headlamp and confirming that there were no parasites, Zhou Wen began to crush the seaweed.

Just after finishing the first round of seaweed shredding, a private message from an unknown number arrived, which Zhou Wen immediately opened to view.

"Boss, I want your [Algae Oxygenation Tank Blueprint] and [Wooden Foundation Blueprint]. Of course, I'm not one to take things by force. I'll offer two hundred sets of basic materials in exchange for these two blueprints. What do you say?"

"This guy is the guild leader of that small guild that challenged me to a duel, right?" He Youwei had already told him yesterday, so he didn't take it seriously and simply ignored the message.

"Boss, I advise you to hand over those two blueprints, or I might challenge you to a duel."

Once you're in the dueling arena, begging for mercy won't work. One must know when to yield.

Zhou Wen still didn't reply to the message. Instead, he took out the unused white scale armor and spiked armor from the storage cabinet and put them on together.

If he hadn't known the other party would be accompanied by companions, and if Zhou Wen hadn't been worried that not wearing gear would alert them, he wouldn't have bothered wearing these pitiful outfits.

Although He Youwei had said he would have his guild members challenge the other side's companions to duels in advance, he couldn't guarantee 100% success; he would still have to deal with any who were missed.

Those who come with him can disengage themselves, so Zhou Wen must appear weak to lower their guard and then instantly kill them before they can react.

[Ding! A survivor has challenged you to a duel using a [Duel Ticket]. Please prepare your weapons and armor as soon as possible and enter the duel arena.]

A system notification sounded in Zhou Wen's mind, and a red message also appeared in the world chat channel.

[Boss, the leaders of those smaller guilds have already challenged you to duels, but don't worry, our people are all arranged. You just need to let me know when the preparation phase will end.]

At this moment, He Youwei sent a private message, explaining that the reason he wanted Zhou Wen to inform him of the end time of the preparation phase was because they needed to launch a duel against each other's companions right on time.

If a duel is initiated too early, the opponent might find out and temporarily change their partner. After all, he is the guild leader, and it's not a problem for him to mobilize some of his guild members to help.

In the final few seconds of the preparation phase, Zhou Wen notified He Youwei. The next second, 10 red duel messages appeared on the world communication channel, and Zhou Wen turned into a blue light and disappeared into the stomach wall space.

In the blink of an eye, he appeared in the duel space formed by the blue light screen. Zhou Wen was wearing four pieces of white scale armor: a white scale helmet, a white scale breastplate, white scale boots, and white scale leg armor. The configuration was very reasonable, and the rest of the body parts were spiked armor.

A short while later, the two blue light screens merged together. Through the blue membrane in the middle, three people could be seen on the other side, each wearing a full set of white scale armor and holding steel weapons.

After the blue membrane in the middle disappeared, the three people on the other side were still arguing about something. Their plan was that ten people would come with them, a total of eleven people, to deal with the "big boss" to ensure that nothing went wrong, but now only two people had come.

The three are Li Wanliao, the guild leader of the "Death God" guild; Song Ming, the guild leader of the "Survival" guild; and Zhao Si, the guild leader of the "West Heaven" guild.

The three of them were still pulling at each other, as things were not going according to plan. The two who had come with them wanted to break off their entanglement and leave immediately, but they were stopped by Li Wanliao, the initiator of the duel.

“Look at him, he’s just wearing miscellaneous gear. The three of us are all in full sets of white scale armor. What’s there to be afraid of?” Li Wanliao said to his two companions, pointing at Zhou Wen opposite them.

"It does seem pretty bad." Song Ming glanced at Zhou Wen's equipment and instantly became much more confident, deciding not to leave.

"That can't be right. No matter what, this big shot has two top-tier blueprints. How could his equipment be so bad? Could he be hiding something in his equipment inventory?" Zhao Si asked suspiciously.

"Hmph, if he really knew how to use two top-grade blueprints, he would have already established a guild and become the leader of the strongest guild. It just goes to show that there are some people in this world who can't even catch a pie falling from the sky." Li Wanliao said contemptuously, pointing at Zhou Wen with his finger.

"I don't think he was hiding anything. He was just holding a steel weapon, wasn't he? With equipment slots being so rare, why would he use them to hide a piece of armor instead of a weapon?"

Song Ming immediately chimed in, looking at Zhou Wen as if he were a piece of fat meat, his greed undisguised. If he could get Zhou Wen's two blueprints this time, he might be able to develop into a large guild.

"That makes sense. So, since no one else came, does that mean the spoils will just be shared by the three of us?"

Zhao Si pondered for a moment and realized that Song Ming was indeed right, so he began to ask about the distribution of profits, as if Zhou Wen was already fish on their chopping board.

"Is there any need to say more? Naturally, it's the three of us who will split it. I just don't understand, the title of 'big shot' is enough to scare them away. With that kind of courage, their maximum level is only a small guild leader. Unlike us."

Li Wanliao couldn't hide his smile. Originally, the profits from the two top-quality blueprints he obtained were to be split equally among the 11 people. However, the other 8 people stood him up. But now that he was sure that the "big boss" didn't have much strength, he wished there were as few people as possible, preferably just him alone.

Li Wanliao looked at his prey again with a smile, but suddenly Zhou Wen's figure became blurry. He thought he was seeing things, so he rubbed his eyes. But when he opened his eyes again, Zhou Wen's figure had disappeared.

"Hey, you two, hurry up and look for him! Where did that 'big shot' suddenly go?" Li Wanliao stared at the spot where Zhou Wen had been standing, patted the other two on the shoulder, and wanted them to help look for him.

"Pfft!"

"Pfft!"

But as soon as he patted the other two people, he noticed that their bodies fell straight backward to the ground as he patted them.

"You...!" Li Wanliao felt that the two of them were too relaxed, and his temper flared up. He turned around to scold them, but found that the two bodies lying on the ground were headless corpses.

Crimson and vivid blood flowed from the headless corpses, slowly spreading across the ground and gradually reaching Li Wanliao's feet. His expression was stiff, his anger frozen on his face, and his eyes stared straight at the space between the two headless corpses, where a pair of white-scaled boots were standing in the pool of blood.