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

Why do you always ask for the fishbone blade blueprint? You don't have the crafting materials right now, so giving it to you is useless.

【It's indeed useless, but I can post information about the Fishbone Blade on the world channel to promote it. Currently, weapon blueprints are scarce, and given the strength of the Fishbone Blade, it will definitely attract some survivors with substantial assets to join.】

Looking at Chen Xin's message, Zhou Wen understood her purpose: she wanted to use the Fishbone Blade, currently the strongest weapon, to gather a group of relatively wealthy survivors and thus become the strongest guild.

In fact, Zhou Wen already has the blueprints for the iron broadsword and could give the fishbone blade blueprints to Chen Xin, but he doesn't quite trust Chen Xin.

Most survivors are now forming guilds. Chen Xin can use his previous prestige, along with the Fishbone Blade blueprint, to break away from Zhou Wen once the guild grows bigger.

However, on the other hand, if he is always so suspicious and doesn't trust Chen Xin, then there's no point in him bringing Chen Xin into the group.

"Alright, you can have the fishbone blade blueprint, but you must return it to me every night."

[Sure, actually I never intended to keep the blueprints indefinitely. I don't have the materials, and even if I had the blueprints, I couldn't make it.]

[I'm asking you for this so that those who joined the guild can see something, so they have something to look forward to.]

[I just didn't expect you to actually agree, Mr. Zhou. Could it be... that you obtained blueprints even better than the Fishbone Blade?]

We're all in this together. Stop scheming against your own people all the time. Manage your guild well, and I'll give you a reward.

What kind of reward? Is it something for farming?

No, let's talk about it after your guild has finished setting it up.

【All right. 】

After the conversation ended, Zhou Wen extracted the fishbone blade blueprint from the system interface and sent it to Chen Xin. Like Jiang Haitao, this was also a test, only the stakes were a bit high.

Soon after obtaining the Fishbone Blade blueprint, Chen Xin immediately posted the information about it on the world chat channel and then established the "Survivors" guild.

The Survivors Guild has high membership requirements, requiring the submission of 300 basic documents.

Even so, many people still rushed to join, firstly because Chen Xin already had some fame, secondly because of the importance of the fishbone blade blueprints, and thirdly because Chen Xin had previously sold 10 algae aeration tanks, and many people thought she had a way to privately trade algae aeration tanks with Zhou Wen.

Since there is no official guild channel in the world system, survivors who join a guild usually need to add the guild name before their name in the system's communication channel so that it can be identified at a glance which guild they belong to.

Of course, this method has a major drawback: anyone can change the guild name at will, and there will definitely be people who change their own names and impersonate guild members.

This requires the guild leader to record the avatar of each member. Names can be changed, but avatars are fixed. By using the built-in camera function in the system interface, the avatars of these people can be saved to determine whether they are members of the guild.

Chen Xin recruited 500 guild members in one go. Nearly half of these members possessed blueprints, but their blueprints were not very valuable, such as the [Simple Filter Blueprint], [Wooden Axe Blueprint], [Wooden Spear Blueprint], and so on.

These blueprints aren't particularly valuable, but they have a market and can be sold to earn some basic supplies, especially now that survivors are being attacked by anchor worms.

Survivors, driven by an insatiable will to survive, began pinning their hopes on these wooden weapons, allowing those who possessed the blueprints to make a fortune.

"Isn't that guy who sells filtered water the one with the simple filter blueprints?" Zhou Wen muttered to himself as he looked at the guild member blueprint information sent by Chen Xin.

"Hmm? Wooden house blueprints!" Zhou Wen was flipping through the pages when he saw a guild member who had wooden house blueprints. His expression brightened, and he immediately sent a message to Chen Xin.

[They tricked us into giving them the blueprints for this log cabin.]

[I can't lie, I already asked when I saw it.]

Why? The blueprints for a log cabin probably aren't that valuable now.

[It wasn't very valuable before, but after you sold a lot of wooden foundations, he discovered that log cabins could be built on them, causing the value of log cabin blueprints to skyrocket, now only slightly less than spiked helmets.]

[If it weren't for the fact that the wooden cabin required four foundations to build, its value would have far exceeded that of the spiked helmet.]

【Huh? That can't be right. I limit the number of wooden foundations I sell; each person can only buy one. Where did they get four wooden foundations?】

[Through private transactions, after it was discovered that some items could only be built on wooden foundations, people began to buy them privately at high prices.]

"Good heavens, those who sell wooden foundations are really greedy for money and don't care about their lives. I kindly sold them wooden foundations to increase their chances of survival, but I never expected them to betray me in the end."

After ending his conversation with Chen Xin, Zhou Wen was somewhat annoyed. These people were really courting death. They limited each person to one, and once it was sold out, it was gone. Weren't they worried about the anchor worms sneaking up from underwater?

So Zhou Wen decided to gradually stop selling wooden foundations. To date, he has probably sold about 100,000 wooden foundations.

Although the price is low and the amount of wood earned each time is not much, the wood earned can be remade into wooden foundations for sale. This process of accumulation and growth continues, and now he has 30 units of wood.

There is already a lot of wood, and it's dangerous. The stomach wall has a limited space, and if the wood is processed slowly and piles up in the stomach wall, it could rupture the stomach wall.

So for whatever reason, he must temporarily stop selling the wooden foundations.

The problem is that he's seen as a good guy by the survivors, and he needs a convincing reason to gradually stop selling wooden foundations.

"What a hassle. I knew I shouldn't have tried to cultivate a 'good guy' image. I'm just making trouble for myself." Zhou Wen scratched his head a few times, unable to think of a good reason for the moment.

Just then, Zhou Wen saw on the world chat channel that many people were adding him. He glanced at the messages these people were sending and his eyes lit up.

[Hey bro, can we replace the price of the wooden foundation with the base materials instead of the wooden foundation itself?]

[Yes, yes, the price of wood is now three times that of other basic materials. The little basic materials we have can't even be exchanged for 30 units of wood.]

[And could you please remove the quantity limit?]

Please, boss.

Looking at the information of these survivors, Zhou Wen smiled with satisfaction, as if the problem had been solved.

"The reason just came to us on its own."