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

Zhou Wen was suspicious for a while, but then he thought, this is clearly a world for survival, where would any dirty things come from?

Zhou Wen carefully recalled the sound he had just heard, and considering the current situation, a guess came to his mind.

"Could it be the illusory Leviathan speaking?"

To confirm his suspicions, Zhou Wen reopened the world chat channel to see if anyone else was in a similar situation, but the channel was only discussing whether seaweed was edible, and no one mentioned hearing a child's voice.

"Did I guess wrong?"

Zhou Wen carefully read through the messages on the world channel again. No one mentioned it, but he was certain that he hadn't been hallucinating.

"Could it be that only I can hear this?" Zhou Wen's eyes lit up, which meant that he was a special being.

"Could this be my cheat code? Am I the protagonist?!" Zhou Wen became more and more excited as he thought about it, and the more he felt that he was different from others. In that instant, he felt that he was the king of this world.

But then he immediately calmed down, because after some thought, he realized that this ability seemed to be useless.

Because he tried to communicate with the phantom Leviathan but received no response, meaning he couldn't command the phantom Leviathan, he could only hear its voice.

In that case, this ability wouldn't be of much help to him.

Just as Zhou Wen was pondering how to utilize this ability, his stomach began to slowly and rhythmically undulate. The seaweed that had accumulated in his stomach moved little by little toward the digestive tract as the stomach undulated.

However, the process was very slow. Zhou Wen stared at it for a long time, and even after charging his headlamp once, the seaweed had only moved a little bit. At this rate, it would take at least 7 or 8 hours to push the seaweed into the digestion tank.

"This digestion process is too slow."

Zhou Wen complained, but suddenly his expression changed.

"The Leviathan has stopped moving because it needs to digest its food, and this digestion process is very slow and takes a long time. What would happen if I helped it speed up the digestion process?"

Upon realizing this, Zhou Wen immediately took action, grabbing a large amount of seaweed and walking quickly to the digestion tank. He then threw the seaweed into the tank, where it quickly disappeared.

Back and forth, over and over again, it took Zhou Wen an hour to move all the seaweed out of his stomach.

"Huff...huff...why is it so hard to breathe..."

Zhou Wen was breathing heavily, but no matter how he adjusted his breathing rhythm, he still felt a little short of breath.

At that moment, Zhou Wen realized a problem: where did the oxygen in the stomach come from?

If the stomach cannot produce oxygen on its own, then his act of moving seaweed just now clearly accelerated the rate of oxygen consumption.

"No way, am I courting death?" Zhou Wen felt terrible at the thought. As the oxygen he could breathe decreased, the fear of death gripped his mind.

"Cleverness leads to mistakes."

Zhou Wen was filled with regret. He collapsed to the ground, trying to minimize his physical activity, but the increasingly thin air made his breathing more and more rapid, and his head was spinning from lack of oxygen.

"I'm such an idiot!" Zhou Wen felt like he was going to die, cursing himself inwardly.

Just as Zhou Wen was about to die from lack of oxygen, his stomach began to shake violently, and the phasing Leviathan began to move again, followed by a large influx of seawater.

"Hoo~!"

Zhou Wenmeng plunged into the water and began to breathe heavily. As the seawater rushed in, it was accompanied by fresh air.

After taking several deep breaths of oxygen, Zhou Wen managed to recover, leaning against his stomach wall to rest and alleviate the weakness caused by the lack of oxygen.

After the seawater receded, Zhou Wen had almost fully recovered.

"That was close..." Zhou Wen sat down heavily on the ground, still feeling a bit scared. Life and death were separated by a hair's breadth.

At this moment, the headlamp went out, and Zhou Wen cranked it again to charge. When the light came on, a brand new supply box appeared not far away.

"A new supply crate?"

Zhou Wen got up and looked for his two supply boxes. Due to the lack of oxygen, seawater rushed in, and he didn't have time to grab the supply boxes. He didn't know where they had gone.

But the supply box in front of him was obviously brand new and had not been opened. Zhou Wen picked up the new supply box and placed it next to him, then got up to look for the two supply boxes from before.

The previous supply crates weren't washed far by the sea, and Zhou Wen found them after only a few steps, relying on the light. He now has three supply crates.

Zhou Wen opened the new supply box.

[Ding! You have obtained 10 pieces of wood, 10 pieces of stone, and 10 pieces of dirt.]

"It's all materials." Zhou Wen looked at the box full of basic materials and was slightly disappointed.

He didn't know how to use these materials, so food and water were the most important things at the moment.

With nothing else to do, Zhou Wen opened the world chat channel to read the messages exchanged by other survivors.

After examining the situation, he discovered a problem.

The reason why the other survivors' Leviathan transformations didn't send any more treasure chests is that the Leviathan transformations were digesting something, and the digestion process was extremely slow. Because the survivors couldn't hear the Leviathan transformations' voices, they didn't think of helping with the digestion.

"It seems that my ability to understand the words of the transformed Leviathan is still somewhat useful."

Other survivors only received one supply crate from the Leviathan Phantom, while he has received two. Moreover, his Leviathan Phantom is still active, so there might be a third supply crate.

In this way, his development speed will be three times that of other survivors.

Zhou Wen certainly wouldn't tell anyone else that he helped Leviathan digest the supplies and obtained extra supply boxes; this was his unique advantage.

In this unknown world, you might clash with other survivors in the future. Only by maintaining a leading development speed can you ensure your continued survival.

"You don't have to harm others, but you must have the ability to protect yourself," Zhou Wen murmured.

After a while, the sound of churning seawater came from the entrance of the esophagus again. Zhou Wen immediately secured the supply box next to him and waited for the seawater to wash over him.

It's just unknown whether the seawater brought food or supply boxes that resembled Leviathan.

Wow~Wow~

As the tide receded, Zhou Wen immediately shone his headlamp to check. He didn't see any seaweed, which meant that this time it wasn't the Leviathan feeding, so it must be a supply box.

Zhou Wen was overjoyed and immediately began to search using the light, and soon found the new supply box.

I couldn't wait to open it.

[Ding! Obtained blueprint for algae aeration tank.]

When Zhou Wen heard the notification in his mind, he was slightly stunned, and then a surge of joy rose in his heart.

An algae oxygenation tank, as the name suggests, is used to produce oxygen.

Zhou Wen was still worrying about whether he should help the Leviathan digest food faster next time it transformed into a human. After all, it had been on the verge of death due to lack of oxygen before, and he didn't want to go through that again.

Unexpectedly, the third supply box contained blueprints for producing oxygen.

Zhou Wen used the blueprint directly, and the blueprint turned into a blue light and merged into the system interface, where a blueprint section appeared.

Open the drawing panel; there is only one drawing, which is the drawing of the algae oxygenation tank.

【Algae Oxygenation Tank】Construction Requirements: 10 Stones, Seawater, Algae.

After reviewing the materials required by the blueprints, Zhou Wen's face lit up with even greater joy. He could say he had all of these materials. The 10 stones had already been taken from the material box, and as for the seawater and algae, he only needed to wait for the Leviathan to feed again to obtain them.

"Ugh, I'm so tired, time for bed."

At this moment, the child's voice rang out again. This time, Zhou Wen heard it clearly and was completely convinced that he could indeed hear the voice of the transformed Leviathan.

As the vibrations in the stomach wall space ceased, it indicated that the Phantom Leviathan had also stopped its activity and had likely entered a resting phase.