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

【Mr. Zhou, do you think I'm stupid? I have algae aeration tanks; by any calculation, I don't need 500 servings.】

[Ms. Chen, you're so smart, how could I possibly treat you like a fool? The 500 portions are to compensate for the other materials used.]

"That's not right. We're trading for ten algae-based oxygenation tanks, not for you to build ten for me. Mr. Zhou, are you deliberately misleading me?"

【Um... okay, I made a mistake. Let's make it 400 then. I won't count the 100 sets of compensation materials.】

[200 portions of seaweed, and please send over the remaining eight algae aeration tanks. Thank you.]

A few minutes later, Zhou Wen looked at the 200 portions of seaweed he had traded for, a thoughtful expression on his face, and then an idea popped into his mind.

He came up with a way to get four supply boxes every day: trade basic materials for seaweed, which would save him the time of eating while transforming into Leviathan.

Moreover, by saving time on eating, no aggressive creatures will enter the stomach wall space, thus avoiding many dangers.

Just as Zhou Wen was considering the feasibility of the plan, he caught a glimpse of a spiky krill hopping around in the seaweed pile out of the corner of his eye.

Jumping off the wooden platform, I quickly processed the spiky krill, separating the shells from the meat, and placed them in the storage cabinet.

"Let's forget about it." Zhou Wen abandoned the plan to acquire seaweed, thus skipping the Leviathan's feeding phase.

While processing the spiny krill, Zhou Wen suddenly realized that although the feeding phase could bring danger, it could also bring benefits.

Whether it's the spiky krill that gives you a little strength after eating, or the solar coccidia that emits sunlight, these are things you only encounter during the feeding phase, and the golden silk fruit that Chen Xin obtained is most likely the same.

Moreover, danger also represents a kind of tempering, allowing him to gradually adapt to this unknown world. If he skips all dangers, he will surely die if he encounters an unavoidable danger later.

"However, we can trade some seaweed to give the Leviathan a treat."

After thinking for a moment, Zhou Wen decided to have the Transformed Leviathan eat two meals a day, just like him, except that the Transformed Leviathan would eat one meal in the morning and one meal in the evening.

After making the decision, Zhou Wen sent a message on the world communication channel to purchase seaweed.

[Buy seaweed; 100 units of seaweed can be exchanged for 10 units of basic materials. 1000 units of basic materials can be exchanged daily, first come, first served.]

Zhou Wen can now obtain more than two thousand basic materials every day. He can take out one thousand of them to trade for seaweed, which can help alleviate the storage pressure.

[Holy crap, what is this guy doing? Why is he exchanging basic materials for seaweed that has almost no value?]

This is a huge thank-you gift from the boss!

[What kind of "thank you giveaway" is this? It's probably just that we have too many basic materials and nowhere to put them, so we're using them to exchange for seaweed.]

[That makes sense. If you do the math, the top players can get over two thousand basic materials every day, but each supply box can only hold one hundred, so there's really no room for them.]

[My god, I'm so envious! The pros are already worrying about having too many basic materials, while I'm still praying that I'll get food and water from supply crates. How can the gap between people be so huge?]

[Who can argue with that? There's only one supply box a day, and if you're unlucky, you might get a metal ore, not even enough to buy a loaf of bread. And who knows when you'll ever get an algae oxygenation tank for trading.]

[Damn it, before 10 basic materials could be exchanged for a loaf of bread, but now bread and bottled water cost 20 materials each! These greedy merchants!]

The price increases in bread and bottled water have little to do with people. The main reason is that basic food ingredients are consumed very slowly and in ever-increasing quantities, while bread and bottled water are constantly being consumed, causing the value of these basic ingredients to depreciate relative to food and water.

Ultimately, the problem stems from the scarcity of blueprints. A single useful blueprint can instantly make someone rich, leading them to aggressively buy up blueprints at exorbitant prices. This concentrates most blueprints in the hands of one person, who then controls production and profits at the expense of everyone else.

"Who are they talking about?" Zhou Wen was looking at these messages and thought they made a lot of sense, but then he saw this one, which was clearly talking about him.

What do you mean? You're clearly talking about a big shot.

[Hey bro, I want to report this person and blacklist them from the algae aeration tank trading platform. That way they won't dare insult you again.]

Holy crap! This young man will stop at nothing to increase his chances of getting into the algae aeration tank.

[The big boss is actually quite nice. He's giving back to everyone right now. Although it might be to alleviate storage pressure, he's exchanging seaweed for it, so everyone can participate, which is a kind of wealth distribution.]

[You guys are still discussing this? The big boss's 1,000 sets of basic materials have already been traded.]

【Fuck! 】

【Fuck! 】

………….

In order to store the 10,000 portions of seaweed that had been traded back, Zhou Wen made another storage cabinet and used the one square meter of space that had just been cleared out to put the second storage cabinet, returning the living space to its original state.

One storage locker can hold exactly 10,000 portions of seaweed. In the long run, a second storage locker will inevitably be made, since we can obtain more than 2,000 portions of basic materials every day, and we will need to make a second storage locker every three or four days.

After storing 10,000 portions of seaweed, with nothing else to do, Zhou Wen began moving the seaweed from the space inside his stomach wall.

"Wait a minute, why should I carry it manually? I can just put it directly into the supply box, walk to the digestion pool, and then take it out of the supply box. Wouldn't that save me the effort?" Zhou Wen suddenly realized this problem.

So Zhou Wen quickly traded a supply box from the trading channel and put his idea into practice. The result was feasible, but not entirely feasible.

Seaweed can indeed be put into supply boxes, but unlike listing it on the trading channel where an item can be added to the trading channel with a thought, you still need to manually put it into the supply box.

"It's nothing." Zhou Wen threw the supply box directly onto the wooden platform and continued to move it by hand.

Actually, using supply crates to move things is better than relying on manpower. After all, a supply crate can hold 100 portions of seaweed without increasing the weight, while a person can only move about 50 portions at a time.

The reason Zhou Wen didn't use it was because the process of putting seaweed into the supply box, then carrying the supply box, and then taking the seaweed out in the digestion tank, added up to three extra steps, enough time for him to carry the seaweed back and forth three times.

Of course, just because it's not useful now doesn't mean it won't be useful in the future. Right now, the Leviathan is still small and has a small stomach wall space. As it grows, the stomach wall space will become larger and larger. At that time, the distance to transport seaweed to the digestive pool will be longer, so it can be transported using supply boxes.

After moving the seaweed, Zhou Wen returned to the wooden platform, and suddenly, a question popped into his head.

"Today is the eighth day, and I encountered the anchor worm on the fourth day..."