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

[Mirror-skinned barracuda?]

[Wow, you have so many amazing things! You're not the protagonist with the cheat system, are you?!]

[Holy crap! Now that you mention it, it seems like this big shot has been selling things we've never seen before lately.]

[Could there really be a cheat system, like in novels?]

[Looking for a powerful patron.]

…………

Then, there was no discussion about the transaction at all; instead, the screen was flooded with messages asking for favors. Zhou Wen was both amused and exasperated by these messages, so he decided to change the subject.

Stop thinking about those unrealistic things. Do you really think this is a novel? A cheat system, please? Let me tell you something realistic.

Today I built an algae oxygenation tank and tried moving seaweed. It does speed up the digestion of the Transformed Leviathan, and I also got an extra supply box.

Zhou Wen will start selling algae aeration tanks tomorrow, and these announcements are just a warm-up.

Sure enough, after Zhou Wen released the method for transporting seaweed, everyone in the chat channel was as if struck by lightning, and a large number of messages almost simultaneously filled the chat channel.

【Fuck! 】

[The theory about transporting seaweed actually works! I thought it was just something they were deliberately spreading to mislead us.]

【Huh? Why would you hurt us?】

Think about it, most of us already don't have enough food, and we're expending a lot of energy, so our food consumption rate will definitely be even faster. If we can't get any more supply boxes, won't we all starve to death?

[Holy crap! I think your idea makes perfect sense. Could this expert be in cahoots with that guy who came up with the seaweed transport hypothesis? Are they deliberately telling us the hypothesis is feasible to get us killed?]

[Bro, I think you have paranoia, and you're not quite right in the head either; you believe everything you hear.]

【What? Am I saying it's impossible? They're not related to us at all, why would they help us? There must be something fishy going on.】

It is indeed possible, but currently there is no conflict of interest among us, so there is absolutely no need for us to scheme against or persecute each other.

Who knows? Maybe they're all psychopaths.

"I think you're a bit of a psychopath." Zhou Wen felt a headache coming on. What was supposed to be good news had been turned into a conspiracy by these people.

He was too lazy to keep reading. Anyway, the message had already been sent, and the Leviathan was now in a resting state. Zhou Wen was going to sleep.

As Zhou Wengang lay down on the wooden platform, a private message arrived, from someone wanting to trade mirror-skinned mullet meat.

"Haha, I finally got the blueprints for the spiked breastplate." Zhou Wen laughed happily.

This blueprint is the most important part of the entire spiked armor set. It can protect the entire upper body, which has the most vital points. Without the armor's protection, Zhou Wen always felt a chill and a lack of security.

"Just thinking about it, I've had quite a haul today. I got a total of 12 blueprints and a fertilizer formula."

Zhou Wen lay down on the wooden platform, face up, opened the blueprint interface, and looked through all the blueprints he had obtained in the past few days.

"The blueprints for the fishbone blade...that's it!"

Zhou Wen exclaimed in surprise, stood up abruptly from the platform, went to the area where the supply boxes were piled up, and took out a silver fish bone from one of the supply boxes. It was the fish bone of the mirror-skinned barracuda.

"This fishbone is exactly one meter long. If we work it out, we can use it to make a fishbone blade." Zhou Wen smiled. After so many days, he could finally have a proper weapon.

"Make!" Open the blueprint interface and click "Make".

A burst of blue light enveloped the silver fishbone. A dozen seconds later, the blue light dissipated, revealing a knife that was entirely silver, with the tailbone as the handle, the spine as the blade, and the skull as the tip. The tip was slightly wider than the blade, making it a very suitable knife for slashing.

"Shh! Shh!"

Zhou Wen gripped the knife and swung it back and forth twice, finding it very easy to use.

"Haha, please call me Silver Blade Master!" At this moment, Zhou Wen's chuunibyou spirit erupted, and he kept striking various cool poses with his sword, and then said some flirtatious words. Fortunately, there was no one else in the stomach space, otherwise he would have been embarrassed to death.

After playing with the fishbone knife for a while, Zhou Wen put it away with satisfaction. Then he went to check on the watermelon seedlings and sweet potato seedlings. After a day of growth, both seedlings had started to climb.

"It's growing pretty fast," Zhou Wen said with a grin. He went to the compost bin again and tried to open the lid, but he still couldn't.

"Let's see tomorrow." Zhou Wen was in a great mood after today's harvest, and there was no rush to make the fertilizer.

Nothing happened that night. When Zhou Wen woke up, it was already the seventh day.

Today is a big day. In the world chat channel, many survivors have started discussing the price of algae oxygenation tanks.

I think the price of an algae-based oxygenation tank should be at least 50 sets of basic materials.

[What? Are you still dreaming? You think you can buy an algae aeration tank with only 50 basic materials? Dream on.]

[The price probably won't be cheap; we might even need to exchange blueprints.]

That's ridiculous! Blueprints? How could everyone possibly have blueprints?

[You don't really think everyone can trade for algae oxygenation tanks, do you? The number of users is displayed in the upper right corner of the world system channel; there are a total of 100 million people. Even if he didn't eat, drink, or do anything else, and could only produce one tank per second, it would take him nearly three years to produce 100 million tanks.]

[I don't care. If the price is 50 sets of basic materials, I'll gratefully call him "godfather." If the price is 200 sets of basic materials, I'll say "generous boss." If it's blueprints, sorry, I'll be up early.]

Haha, that's right.

Zhou Wen looked at these messages, smiled faintly, and closed the world chat channel.

He wasn't worried at all about the other survivors criticizing him, because he never intended to sell the algae oxygen tank at a high price; the big shots were already set on it.

The Leviathan transformation has only just begun, and there's still some time before the feeding phase. Zhou Wen glanced at the melon vines and sweet potato vines; the night had grown much longer.

"I wonder if the fertilizer is ready yet." Zhou Wen walked up to the compost bin and reached out to try to open the lid. This time, the lid opened very easily.

As soon as the lid was lifted, clumps of dark green manure flew out of the compost bin. Zhou Wen was startled and quickly dodged, and then a notification sound rang in his mind.

[Ding! You have obtained 10 low-level fertilizers. Using them will shorten the growth time of crops by 10%. Each crop can only be used once.]

Upon hearing the notification in his mind, Zhou Wen's face lit up with joy. Looking at the clumps of fertilizer scattered on the platform, shaped like cow dung, he casually reached out and picked them up, then put them into the empty supply box.

"This is a good thing. Although it only shortens the time by ten percent, which isn't great, it's better than nothing."