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

The wooden foundation can lift the survivors off the water, at least allowing them to escape the water and avoid facing the anchor worms underwater.

[Damn it! Are they trying to kill us all? So many people have died! Is this supposed to be survival? This is blatant suicide!]

Thank goodness I didn't encounter them. The mortality rate is too high! What about those people with spiked helmets? Are you still alive?

[Yeah, are spiked helmets even useful?]

The Leviathan's feeding phase has ended, and the survivors are temporarily safe. The world chat channel is bustling again, but while there used to be occasional jokes in the world chat, today it's filled with words of fear and anxiety.

[It worked! I encountered that anchor worm. When it burst out of the water, it almost scared me to death. Luckily, I was wearing a spiked helmet, which blocked its attack. The spiked helmet really was useful.]

Later, some people who owned spiked helmets began to tell others in the world chat that spiked helmets were indeed effective against anchor worms.

This further increased the demand for spiked helmets among survivors.

Zhou Wen looked at these survivors who had escaped the disaster, waiting for the right opportunity to promote his wooden foundation.

At this moment, Jiang Haitao sent another message. Zhou Wen thought it was another request from survivors to lower the price of the spiked helmet, but after reading the message, a wicked smile appeared on his face.

"Since you've come to me for free, don't blame me for taking advantage of you."

It turns out that Zhao Teng, seeing the rising demand for spiked helmets, shamelessly approached Jiang Haitao again to collaborate, hoping to take this opportunity to raise prices significantly.

"Brother Jiang, look at those survivors, they're going crazy trying to survive. Let's take this opportunity to cooperate and set the price at one blueprint for one spiked helmet."

[Didn't you want to set this price before, and then that damn big shot stopped you?]

[There are a lot of survivor deaths right now, and many people have proven that the spiked helmet is effective against the anchor worm. Now is the perfect time to charge exorbitant prices! It's a business opportunity, Brother Jiang, don't miss it!]

Wait, wasn't it you who stopped me from trading the spiked helmet with the blueprints?

"Oh dear, it was definitely my fault yesterday, brother. I apologize again. I really did something wrong yesterday."

[But, even if you're going against me, you can't go against all this basic material. If we both set such low prices now, we're just making others profit. Why bother, right?]

How would you like to collaborate?

[Haha, Brother Jiang, you're so magnanimous to not hold grudges! Let's stick to your initial pricing: one blueprint for each spiked helmet. It'll be a perfect opportunity to cash in on those fools' blueprints, how about it?]

[Are you kidding me? You really dare to set this price? Aren't you afraid of being cursed to death by the survivors?]

Let them curse. It won't hurt them. No matter how much those idiots curse, they'll still come to us to trade spiked helmets in the end. It's ridiculous. Let them curse. We'll just keep raising the price and make them beg us to trade.

Jiang Haitao felt a surge of anger as he read Zhao Teng's utterly shameless words; this was nothing short of profiting from someone else's misfortune.

[I've agreed to the collaboration, but this time I don't want to be the one getting yelled at. Since you're the one who asked me to collaborate, you need to show some sincerity first. You announce the price increase first, and then I'll follow suit.]

When Zhao Teng saw Jiang Haitao agree to cooperate, his face immediately lit up with joy, but when he saw the requirements that followed, he hesitated for a moment.

[Um... does it make any difference whether I announce it first or you do?]

[Hmph! Of course there's a difference. When I announced the use of blueprints to trade for the Spiked Helmet, you were the one selling it at a low price and then leading the survivors in calling me a heartless capitalist.]

What? You don't think I'm stupid and want to do it again, do you?

[Hehe, of course not. I'll announce it first: I hope Brother Jiang won't miss this rare opportunity.]

Of course, I wouldn't mess with blueprints, no matter who I'm after.

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Teng announced that he would raise the price of the spiked helmet to the price of a single blueprint.

This message acted as a fuse, instantly causing the already fearful and depressed survivors to explode. Everyone started cursing Zhao Teng, using the most offensive and offensive language imaginable.

But Zhao Teng didn't care about the curses. He just hoped that Jiang Haitao would announce a price increase soon so that he could finally put his mind at ease.

In Zhao Teng's eyes, Jiang Haitao had some mental issues, almost like he had a split personality. Although this opportunity could make them a fortune, anyone would know to put aside their differences and focus on acquiring the blueprints first.

However, Jiang Haitao, who has a somewhat split personality, cannot be predicted by common sense. He is very worried that Jiang Haitao will suddenly abandon the cooperation and continue to maintain the current price.

Although he can still earn some basic materials if the current price is maintained, basic materials are still just basic materials. What can enable him to live a better life is only blueprints. No matter how many basic materials he has, it is difficult to exchange them for a single blueprint.

Finally, after a few minutes of internal turmoil, Jiang Haitao also announced a price increase, which made Zhao Teng breathe a huge sigh of relief.

[It's been a pleasure working with you, Brother Jiang.]

[It's been a pleasure working with you, haha.]

The survivors were in an uproar. They had just witnessed the death toll skyrocket, and now the only thing that could save them—the spiked helmet—had been priced exorbitantly by two unscrupulous merchants. It was practically killing them!

[You two better not run into me, or I'll kill you!]

[Beasts! Two beasts!]

[You two are utterly inhuman! How could there be such scum among humanity!]

All the survivors who failed to acquire the Spiked Helmet watched as the price of trading a blueprint for one Spiked Helmet vanished, replaced by endless rage.

At that very moment, Zhou Wen sent a message.

Those two guys are scumbags, especially Zhao Teng. I thought he was a good person because he made the spiked helmets go on sale.

Later, because the price of spiked helmets had dropped so low, he even came to me wanting to cooperate with me to fight against unscrupulous capitalists. I agreed at the time and also gave him a thousand sets of basic material purchasing materials.

[I can't believe they've betrayed me and chosen to cooperate with unscrupulous capitalists, driving up the price of spiked helmets to exorbitant levels. They're utterly despicable! Give me back the thousand basic supplies you swindled from me!]

Zhou Wen already had a good reputation among the survivors, and now, with Zhou Wen's provocation, they completely forgot about Jiang Haitao and were all indignantly criticizing Zhao Teng.