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

On the tenth day, Zhou Wen woke up and, as usual, sat up from the wooden platform. Then, his head hit the wooden planks of the wooden foundation above.

"Hiss~." Zhou Wen gasped, remembering that he had built two wooden foundations above his head last night. He had brought this upon himself, so he could only helplessly rub the sore spot on his head and crawl out between the two wooden foundations.

But as soon as he braced his arms on the wooden platform, he felt an intense soreness in his arms, and even a slight stinging sensation in the muscles of his arms.

Yesterday in the treasure cave, he almost entirely relied on his two arms to move forward. During this time, he even competed with the Rock-Hiding Worm in endurance. When his life was threatened, his adrenaline surged, and his muscle strength was also exceptionally high. It was probably at that moment that he injured his tendon.

"I hope no anchor worms come today," Zhou Wen said hopefully as he slowly crawled out.

He can't use his arms right now and needs to rest today. Of course, if he really encounters an anchor worm, he'll have no choice but to fight despite the pain, but that would definitely cause secondary damage to his tendons, making recovery even slower.

"That's not right, what happened to the two points I added to Constitution yesterday? Why isn't it having any effect?" Zhou Wen opened his character attribute panel.

[Zhou Wen] (Normal human attributes are 10 points)

Intelligence: 10

Power: 10.5

Constitution: 12

Speed: 14

Evaluation: A healthy person who is above average.

"My physique is already at 12 points, which is beyond the average person, so why is the recovery speed of my injuries still so slow?" Zhou Wen felt that since his physique was already at 12 points, it should have some effect.

However, Zhou Wen was overthinking it. While increasing his physique could indeed speed up recovery, a physique of 12 points only slightly increased the recovery speed compared to before, and it was impossible for him to recover from his injuries simply by sleeping.

Moreover, if it weren't for his 12-point physique, he would have had a hard time sitting up from the wooden platform today.

However, Zhou Wen was just complaining. After all, the task attribute panel didn't explain what the specific effects of these attribute increases would be, and he was just guessing. He wasn't even sure if his guesses were correct.

After looking at his physical attributes, Zhou Wen turned his attention to his strength, and then stared blankly at his 10.5 points of strength.

He had previously thought of increasing his strength through exercise, and the result did indeed confirm his guess, increasing his strength by 0.5 points, but that was within the normal range of 10 points.

His strength has now reached 10.5, exceeding that of an average person, and he feels that further push-up training is no longer effective.

"Forget it, let's just keep doing push-ups. At least make up for that 0.5." Zhou Wen was still in the exploratory stage of training. He couldn't just guess; he could only slowly try and summarize a set of methods to increase strength.

After reviewing his attributes, Zhou Wen began to inspect the coral. He first glanced at the Boiling Blood Coral he had brought back yesterday.

Because the Boiling Blood Coral was transmitted through the system interface, Zhou Wen was somewhat worried that the coral polyps on the coral would be affected.

Zhou Wen held the headlamp in his hand and carefully shone the light on the blood coral in the small aquarium. After observing it for a while, he was relieved to find that the coral polyps on the coral were still alive.

"But the food for the Boiling Blood Coral is blood, so where do we get that?" Zhou Wen was troubled by the thought of feeding the coral. He couldn't very well give away his own blood.

"Should we release the blood of the Illusionary Leviathan?" Zhou Wen thought about it carefully and felt that releasing the blood of the Illusionary Leviathan was the most appropriate, because the Illusionary Leviathan was large, and releasing a little blood would have almost no effect.

However, Zhou Wen eventually gave up on the idea; at least for now, he wouldn't release the blood of the Transformed Leviathan for the Boiling Blood Coral Worm.

Because he thought of another way to generate blood, which was to kill anchor worms.

If I encounter an anchor worm in the future, I can kill it and bleed it to feed the Boiling Blood Coral. If I don't encounter one, I can post a message on the world chat channel to buy it. One anchor worm's blood should be enough to feed the Boiling Blood Coral.

Zhou Wen still remembers the scene of blood splattering everywhere when he killed the first anchor worm; the amount of blood loss was enormous.

After looking at the boiling blood coral, let's look at the gel planarians in another small aquarium.

There was very little water in the aquarium, and there was no way to get seawater when he returned yesterday. So Zhou Wen scooped up seawater from the boiling blood coral's aquarium and poured it into the gel planarian several times.

In any case, based on what Zhou Wen saw in the cave, gel planarians don't necessarily have to live in water; some water to moisten their living environment is enough.

Zhou Wen observed the ten gel worms and found they were all fine. They were slowly crawling on the glass of the small aquarium, leaving trails of mucus.

The description of gel planarians in the biological guide is quite straightforward: their bodies can produce hemostatic gels and they have a strong regenerative ability.

So Zhou Wen decided to test just how strong the gel planarian's regenerative ability was. He caught one, cut it in half with a fishbone knife, and then put it in a small aquarium.

After that, it was just a matter of waiting for the results. Zhou Wen didn't waste time waiting in one place, but instead went to see the golden silk fruit that he had been longing for.

As soon as Zhou Wen approached the seaweed planting box, he spotted a tiny seaweed, only three centimeters tall, growing among the pebbles in the water. The seaweed was golden all over and shimmered in the light.

"It's sprouted!" Zhou Wen was extremely excited. He couldn't even believe it for a moment, afraid that he was seeing things. He looked at it several times and confirmed that there really was a golden seaweed seedling. He was overjoyed.

It's no wonder Zhou Wen reacted so strongly. You see, golden seaweed can produce golden seaweed fruit, which can increase the user's strength by 5 points. Plus, there's the golden seaweed fiber needed for the [Fishbone Armor].

This clearly shows how important the golden seaweed is to Zhou Wen. Now that the golden seaweed has successfully sprouted, how could Zhou Wen not react strongly?

Based on Chen Xin's previous transaction with Zhou Wen for Golden Silk Fruit, it can be inferred that Chen Xin obtained at least two Golden Silk Fruits, meaning that at least two Golden Silk Seaweeds can grow on one plant.

Of course, it's also possible that Chen Xin had incredible luck and encountered two golden seaweed plants at once, but the probability of that is too small, and Zhou Wen thinks it's unlikely.

Moreover, Zhou Wen had a bold guess: the golden seaweed might produce three fruits at a time. Based on his own experience, he usually eats anything that increases attribute points twice to make sure it won't increase attributes a second time before selling it.

Chen Xin was probably the same; after eating two Golden Silk Fruits and confirming that she couldn't increase her strength any further, she traded him for the last one.

Zhou Wen stared at the delicate, tiny seaweed seedling with shining eyes. The thought that he could mass-produce the Golden Silk Fruit, which had such a significant attribute boost and was extremely rare, filled him with excitement.

After calming down, Zhou Wen went to check on the rock crystal leaf tree he had brought back yesterday.