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

Zhou Wen searched for a long time in the muddy space, but there was nothing but mud.

"Could this excrement be the treasure of this space?" Zhou Wen wondered, looking at the mountains of excrement from the rock-dwelling worms.

Zhou Wen thought about it more and more and felt that this was true. Since it was excrement, it must be able to be used as fertilizer. Perhaps the excrement of this rock worm could promote crop growth even more than his low-grade fertilizer?

So Zhou Wen immediately took action and no longer found the mud disgusting; it was all good stuff.

He opened the gold-rimmed supply box directly, grabbed a lump of food with his hands and put it into the box. After collecting dozens of items, Zhou Wen found that using his hands was too slow, so he used his wooden shield as a shovel and shoveled the food in one scoop at a time.

Soon, the 100-slot supply box with gold trim was filled, but only one-tenth of the space was filled with the excrement of the Rock-Hiding Worms.

“This won’t do. All of this excrement must be taken away.” Zhou Wen thought of a solution and then went to find Jiang Haitao again.

[Jiang Haitao, I'll send you a bunch of mud later. Keep it for now, and send it back to me after I'm done with my work here.]

Jiang Haitao naturally had no reason to refuse, but Zhou Wen's unusual behavior made him even more curious about what Zhou Wen had encountered.

After notifying Jiang Haitao, Zhou Wen looked at the more than ninety samples of excrement in the gold-rimmed supply box, instantly stored them in the system interface with a thought, and then sent them to Jiang Haitao via private message.

Next, Zhou Wen used the same method to fill the supply boxes and send them to Jiang Haitao through the system interface. He repeated this process until all the excrement of the rock-dwelling worms at the edge of the space had been collected by Zhou Wen, leaving only the largest pile of excrement in the middle.

"Finally almost done digging." Zhou Wen took a short break, sat on the ground, looked up at the small mountain of excrement in front of him, and smiled.

His cave exploration was incredibly fruitful. He not only obtained three blueprints, but also iron ingots, a rare material that is currently very difficult to acquire, along with two creatures with special functions.

After that, he only needs to finish digging this small hill in front of him, then he can go back and get some rest. He's exhausted today.

After a while, Zhou Wen had finished resting and began to continue digging for excrement. The excrement mound was originally made of soft mud. As Zhou Wen dug below, the mound gradually collapsed and became shorter and shorter, and the top could already be seen.

"Is there something there?" Zhou Wen shone his headlamp on the top of the mountain of feces and found that the top was reflecting a bright light, as if there was something on it.

"There's more treasure!" Zhou Wen was startled, then overjoyed. He immediately sped up his digging until the entire hill had turned into a small mud mound. Finally, he could see what the thing reflecting the crystalline light at the top was.

This is a very peculiar plant, about half a meter tall, with a trunk made of a rock about the thickness of a little finger. Three branches grow from the rock trunk, and the branches are covered with leaves made of crystal.

The crystal leaves are flat and long-conical in shape, similar to bamboo leaves on Earth. The leaves are covered with fine crystal bristles, and when light shines on them, they sparkle beautifully.

At the fork of the three branches, three even thinner branches extend out. These branches are bare, without any crystal leaves, except for a stone the size of an egg hanging at the end.

The stone's surface was rough and uneven, making it look rather ordinary.

Zhou Wen didn't know what kind of plant it was, so he decided to touch it with his hand.

The moment his hand touched the stone hanging at the end of the branch, the stone fell down. Zhou Wen reacted quickly and caught the stone with his backhand. The next moment, a notification sound appeared in his mind.

[Ding! You have obtained 1 Rock Fruit.]

"This stone is actually the fruit of this plant?"

Zhou Wen had previously guessed that the three irregular stones hanging on the branches of this plant were its fruits, but the fruits looked so much like the stones that he could hardly believe it.

"Since it's a fruit, it should be edible, right?" Zhou Wen thought to himself, opening his mouth to try the stone fruit.

Just as Zhou Wen was about to put the fruit in his mouth, he hesitated for a moment, asked Jiang Haitao for a bottle of mineral water, and used the mineral water to wash the stone fruit.

You should know that this place is full of the excrement of rock worms, and this excrement is soft mud, so it is inevitable that the surface of the stone fruit will be covered with excrement.

Although Zhou Wen no longer found the feces disgusting, he still couldn't eat it.

After washing the stone fruit with mineral water, Zhou Wen put it directly into his mouth and then bit down hard.

"Crack!" The Rock-Rock Fruit didn't budge, almost knocking out Zhou Wen's back molars.

"Hiss~, is this really a fruit? It's so hard." Zhou Wen hissed in pain, looking at the stone fruit with only a shallow tooth mark on its surface, and couldn't help but complain.

"Can't this fruit be eaten?" Zhou Wen's mind was filled with all sorts of questions. There was no way around it; he knew far too little about this plant.

After thinking about it, Zhou Wen felt that the stone fruit should be edible, but it might have a protective shell on the outside, just like a nut.

So, Zhou Wen took the stone fruit and went to the edge of the space. He gently tapped the fruit on the rock wall, but there was no reaction.

Zhou Wen increased the pressure a little more, but there was still no response, so he continued to increase the pressure.

"Crack!" The stone fruit finally split open, and through the crack, you could see the crystal-like pulp inside.

Zhou Wen was pleasantly surprised. Just as he had guessed, the outer stone was indeed a shell.

Carefully peeling back the outer shell of the stone, the crystal-clear fruit pulp inside was revealed.

The flesh is round, about the size of a ping-pong ball, covered by a thick layer of transparent flesh, with a white seed in the center. It looks similar to a lychee, except that the flesh of a lychee is soft, while this one is hard.

Zhou Wen put the fruit pulp in his mouth again and took a gentle bite. This time, he easily bit off a piece of fruit.

The flesh has a crisp texture, like a crisp apple, but it tastes very sweet, especially the core, which has a rich fruity aroma and is sweet and delicious.

Zhou Wen initially thought the pit would be hard, but it turned out to be only slightly harder than the flesh covering it, and crunchy like eating lotus seeds.

The flesh of the stone fruit was not large to begin with, and Zhou Wen finished it in two bites.

[Ding! Gained Strength +1, Constitution +1, Speed ​​+1.]

A system notification sounded in his mind, instantly adding three attributes to Zhou Wen.

"Great, three attributes added at once." Zhou Wen's eyes lit up after hearing the notification, and he said with a smile.

Although he only gained a little bit of each attribute, he was already very satisfied. He had already gained a lot from this treasure hunt, and the increased attribute points were an extra bonus.

"I wonder if this Stone Fruit can repeatedly increase attribute points?"

Zhou Wen picked another stone fruit, ready to try it out. However, he didn't have much hope, because since coming to this world, he hadn't encountered anything that could repeatedly add points.

[Ding! Gained Strength +1, Constitution +1, Speed ​​+1.]