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

On the eighth day, the illusory Leviathan began to move, and Zhou Wen also woke up from his sleep amidst the vibrations in his stomach wall space. The moment he sat up, he felt sore all over.

Zhou Wen slowly stood up and stretched his aching body. Yesterday, he had been wearing over 100 pounds of spiked armor and struggling in the water, putting all his muscles under extreme strain. It would be strange if he wasn't sore.

"Although it's quite dangerous, wearing heavy armor and splashing around in the water can be considered a kind of training," Zhou Wen said with a wry smile.

After warming up and getting used to the soreness, Zhou Wen immediately went to the seaweed planting box. He leaned over and peered into the seawater-filled stone trough, hoping to see the golden thread fruit sprout.

However, there was nothing in the stone trough. Zhou Wen was slightly disappointed, but it was also expected. The Golden Thread Fruit could increase strength by five points, so it must take longer for ordinary plants to grow.

With no progress on the golden thread fruit, Zhou Wen went to check on the watermelon and sweet potato that he had been looking at every day for the past few days.

After surviving overnight, the vines of watermelons and sweet potatoes have filled the small plantation to the brim, and a touch of yellow has also adorned this patch of green.

"It's blooming!" Zhou Wen saw a splash of yellow among the watermelon vines, immediately squatted down, and used his hands to part the leaves that were covering it, and saw a small yellow flower with five petals.

"It's already blooming so quickly, it looks like we won't be able to eat watermelons for long," Zhou Wen said with a smile of anticipation.

After looking at the small yellow flowers of the watermelon, Zhou Wen reached out and rummaged through the vines and leaves of the sweet potato, but found no flowers on the sweet potato.

“The sweet potatoes were planted on the fifth day, one day later than the watermelons. They should flower tomorrow, but it’s also possible that they won’t flower at all,” Zhou Wen speculated after thinking for a moment.

As for the pollination required for these crops to bear fruit, Zhou Wen simply ignored it. The watermelon's growth period of several months was compressed into a few days, so the pollination process was definitely skipped.

After inspecting his crops, Zhou Wen happily ate a piece of bread and drank half a bottle of water, which served as his breakfast.

Zhou Wen now eats two meals a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. He doesn't eat lunch, since he needs to move seaweed in the morning, and there's generally nothing to do at noon or after that, so he doesn't need to eat.

Zhou Wen currently has plenty of basic materials and is not short of food. Even if he runs out of stored food, he can trade it in the trading channel. He can easily afford three meals a day.

The reason Zhou Wen didn't eat three meals a day was partly due to saving money, but mainly it was because he had been eating bread for seven or eight days and was sick of it. Making him eat bread three times a day was simply too much for him.

"Sigh, when will the food be improved?" Zhou Wen muttered to himself.

Zhou Wen is now particularly craving salty food. For so many days, both his body's need for salt and his taste buds' craving for saltiness have made him recall the delicious food he used to eat from time to time.

"Slurp~." Just thinking about all that delicious food made Zhou Wen's mouth water.

"Humans are truly insatiable creatures." Zhou Wen suddenly thought of the days before when he was starving every day. At that time, he only hoped that he could eat his fill every day. Now that he can eat his fill, he has started to think about how to eat well.

At this moment, the sound of seawater surging came from inside Zhou Wen's esophagus, interrupting his fantasy. He then transformed into Leviathan and began to feed.

Zhou Wen quickly hid behind the algae oxygenation tank, put on the spiked helmet with one hand, and then used the equipment slot to store the spiked leg armor. With a thought, the spiked leg armor appeared directly on his legs, saving him the trouble of putting it on.

The remaining spiked groin guards and spiked boots were worn in the same way, and the remaining spiked breastplate was temporarily stored in the equipment inventory.

The spiked breastplate is the heaviest, so Zhou Wen won't wear it for now to save his energy. If he encounters danger, he can simply use his mind to instantly summon the spiked breastplate from his equipment slot to protect his upper body.

Zhou Wen gripped the fishbone knife tightly in his hand, listening intently to the sounds in the water. After confirming there was no movement, Zhou Wen opened the blueprint interface and began constructing 20 algae-generating tanks.

During the production process, Zhou Wen opened the world chat channel and found that many people were already sending messages urging him to quickly put the algae oxygenation tank on the market.

【Wait, what's wrong with you guys? Didn't we all say yesterday that the algae aeration tank was useless?】

Yeah, you guys are really eager to fall for it.

[A bunch of idiots.]

Yesterday, several people who wanted to return their products saw that there were still many people in the chat channel asking for algae aeration tanks to be listed. They quickly sent messages to stop them, but no one paid attention to their messages. Moreover, their messages were quickly drowned out by a large number of messages seeking algae aeration tanks.

[20 algae-based oxygenation tanks have been installed.]

After manufacturing 20 algae oxygenation tanks, Zhou Wen immediately put them on the shelf, as they took up too much space and would interfere with the feeding of the transformed Leviathan.

The moment it was put on the shelves, it was sold out again. Just like yesterday, the same amount of basic materials were traded back, and Zhou Wen put them all into his storage cabinet.

Today, Zhou Wen traded more spiky krill shells. He had almost used them all up yesterday while making spiky armor for Chen Xin, so he traded some more to store for future use.

After storing the basic materials returned from the transaction, Zhou Wen made two more algae oxygenation tanks and sent them to Chen Xin, who then replied with a message.

【Why only two? Ten units? You're not planning to give them to me over five days, are you?】

Chen Xin had thought Zhou Wen would give her five TVs a day, spread over two days, but when she saw that there were only two, spread over five days.

But so much can happen in five days in this world. If someone develops an oxygen-producing device by then, the algae oxygenation tank won't be as valuable as it is now.

I can't use up too much food from the Leviathan Transformation.

【You need seaweed, right? I'll give it to you directly. Just build the remaining eight units.】

Okay, wait a minute, let me calculate how much I need.

As the tide receded, Zhou Wen and others extended a mirror made of pike skin, along with a headlamp, out of the algae oxygenation tank, using the mirror's reflection to check for any aggressive creatures outside.

Zhou Wen came up with this method yesterday when he was dealing with the mirror-skin barracuda. ​​He reasoned that if he had to stick his head out to check for any creatures outside, the risk would be too great if he encountered a highly aggressive one.

Using the skin of a barracuda as a mirror to reflect the outside scene and survey the outside situation is a much better method. Although it may seem like making a mountain out of a molehill, as the saying goes, in this unknown world, it is always better to be careful.

After confirming that there were no large creatures outside, Zhou Wen slowly stood up and then checked the number of seaweed in the algae oxygenation tank.

The blueprints for the algae oxygenation tank did not specify the exact amount of seaweed required, since there was simply too much seaweed to be needed.

"Ten seaweeds, how do we count this? Do we count it as ten portions?" Zhou Wen counted the number of seaweeds in the algae oxygenation tank. The ten seaweeds were arranged in two rows, five seaweeds in each row, neatly arranged.

Okay, I've calculated it. We need 500 servings.