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

Just as Zhou Wen was about to send a message on the world chat channel to collect a guide to foods that accelerate the growth of the Leviathan Transformation, Jiang Haitao sent him several private messages.

[Brother Wen, thank you for giving me the three spiky krill and the spiky helmet the other day.]

I traded those three spiky krill, just like you did, Wen-ge. I got six loaves of bread, six bottles of mineral water, and some basic ingredients. For now, I don't have to worry about food, hehe.

I just opened a supply crate and got a recipe. I'm sending it to you; please receive it.

Just as Zhou Wen finished reading these messages, Jiang Haitao sent him a recipe. Upon seeing the recipe, Zhou Wen's eyes lit up, and he immediately clicked to accept it.

"This formula is just in time!" Zhou Wen couldn't hide his smile, because the formula was for making fertilizer.

[Low-grade fertilizer crafting recipe: Crafted in a compost bin, requires 5 hay and 5 Leviathan manure.]

Upon seeing the materials needed to make this low-grade fertilizer, Zhou Wen's smile froze. He had compost bins and hay, but where was he going to find the excrement needed to transform into Leviathan?

Even if Leviathan excretes, it's still expelling it from the body. How does it get feces in its stomach?

"Could it be that feces can be obtained from the digestive tank?" Thinking of this, Zhou Wen suddenly remembered the blueprint for the shovel he had obtained earlier.

"So the dung scoop is used to scoop out the excrement of the Leviathan." The paused smile reappeared on Zhou Wen's face.

Open the blueprint interface and use 5 pieces of wood to make the manure scoop.

After a flash of blue light, the manure scoop was made. The wooden handle was three meters long, and the end was connected to a cylindrical bucket with a diameter of thirty centimeters, which was used for scooping manure.

The compost bin had already been prepared. Zhou Wen first added 5 portions of hay to the compost bin, then went to the digester and dipped the manure scoop into the digester, which was full of digestive fluids.

The three-meter-long wooden handle reached two meters into the digestive pool before encountering resistance. Zhou Wen guessed that it had encountered the excrement of the illusory Leviathan, so he gripped the handle with both hands and scooped a spoonful from it.

The scoop was retrieved from the digestion tank, and the cylindrical container at the end was filled with a green, viscous substance mixed with some plant fibers.

"This must be the excrement of the Leviathan."

Zhou Wen spoke casually, then dragged the manure scoop filled with excrement to the compost bin.

The wooden handle of the manure scoop was three meters long, and the round bucket was thirty centimeters in diameter. It was still quite heavy when filled with manure. Zhou Wen used a lot of effort to pour the manure into the compost bin.

According to the basic fertilizer formula, three parts of the manure are needed to transform Leviathan. If one bucket of manure is counted as one part, then two more parts are needed.

So Zhou Wen emptied the feces twice more and poured it into the compost bin, thus completing the materials needed for the fertilizer formula.

Zhou Wen stood in front of the compost bin filled with feces and hay. The stench emanating from it made him frown. When he was emptying the feces earlier, he was far away and the smell wasn't too strong, but now that he was closer, the smell was quite pungent.

Zhou Wen quickly picked up the lid next to him and put it on the compost bin.

"I wonder how the fertilizer was finally made successfully," Zhou Wen said, puzzled.

There are many things in this world that don't have specific instructions. There's no mention of crop growth cycles, no mention of the time required to make fertilizer, and no mention of what attributes shrimp meat or fish meat adds. You have to try everything to find out.

This basic fertilizer formula is very useful to me, but I can't just take it for free.

Zhou Wen sent Jiang Haitao a message, along with a picture of an algae aeration tank.

Zhou Wen didn't want to owe anyone a favor. If Jiang Haitao really gave him something that was useless to him, he would just accept it as a token of his appreciation.

But this low-grade fertilizer formula is a godsend for his farming business, so he can't just take it for free. Exchanging it for an algae oxygenation tank is fair.

[Algae-based oxygenation tank! Isn't this a bit too expensive, Brother Wen?]

Jiang Haitao naturally knew the important role of the algae oxygenation tank. With the algae oxygenation tank, seaweed could be transported to help the Leviathan digest faster and obtain extra supply boxes, which were extremely valuable at the moment.

Jiang Haitao had originally planned to shamelessly ask Zhou Wen to trade one of his units when Zhou Wen started selling them to the public tomorrow, but unexpectedly, Zhou Wen gave him one directly.

It's alright. The formula you gave me is also very important to me; it's a fair trade.

"Brother Wen, I... I don't even know what to say. When I was out of food, you were the only one willing to trade with me, which saved my life. After that, you gave me extra spiky krill and even equipment."

[Brother Wen! I won't say more, I'll follow you from now on, I'll give you all the blueprints I get, I just want to be your crony.]

【No, no, it's not that bad. If you'd like, you can prioritize trading with me if you get blueprints or recipes in the future.】

Zhou Wen did not fully accept Jiang Haitao's attempt to curry favor. There's a saying that goes, "You can know a person's face but not their heart," especially in a world where you can't even meet in person.

Even though Zhou Wen had spoken with Jiang Haitao many times, and from their conversations, Jiang Haitao seemed to be a rather honest and simple person, Zhou Wen still remained somewhat wary.

Of course, if Jiang Haitao is really willing to give him all the blueprints in the future, he wouldn't treat Jiang Haitao unfairly.

By the way, if you're moving seaweed tomorrow, it's best to take a break after moving for a while. The oxygen produced by one algae aeration tank might not be enough to sustain your continuous activity.

Before ending his conversation with Jiang Haitao, Zhou Wen gave him a heads-up. Overall, Zhou Wen had a good impression of Jiang Haitao, and Jiang Haitao's survival was also beneficial to Zhou Wen.

Jiang Haitao didn't ask any further questions and agreed immediately.

After finishing his conversation with Jiang Haitao, Zhou Wen prepared to send another message to the world chat channel to search for fragments of the food encyclopedia for accelerating the growth of the Leviathan, but another private message came in.

[Brother Zhou Wen, this is Cheng Yongming. I'd like to exchange an algae aeration tank with you ahead of schedule.]

[Rest assured, I will absolutely not let Brother Zhou Wen suffer any losses. I am willing to trade you a precious blueprint.]

"That makes it sound like I got the better deal," Zhou Wen said with a faint smile as he looked at Cheng Yongming's message.

Although Zhou Wen did indeed gain a great advantage, from the perspective of others, the algae oxygenation tank, according to Chen Xin's conjecture, was no less important than the blueprints.

After all, there are many types of blueprints, some of which are useful and some are not.

For example, the wooden bed blueprints are not very useful to Zhou Wen. Given the current huge gap between the supply and demand of algae aeration tanks, the wooden bed blueprints are not worth the algae aeration tanks at all.

Sorry, I didn't have enough materials, so I made two for my own use and can't trade them.

Zhou Wen looked at the remaining 12 algae aeration tanks and then replied.