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

[Ding! The transformed Leviathan has traveled 10,000 nautical miles and is about to leave the Sea of ​​Birth. The protection phase has ended. Based on the current speed, it will cross the border sea and enter the Deep Blue Sea in one day.]

Zhou Wen, who was preparing to go to sleep, was startled awake by a notification sound that suddenly appeared in his mind. He sat up abruptly, bumping his head on the wooden foundation above him without even noticing.

"Right now... it's still in the protection phase..." Zhou Wen's expression froze, looking somewhat wooden. He couldn't believe the notification in his mind.

In the past eleven days, Zhou Wen has experienced everything that can only be described as extremely dangerous. But now he is being told that he is still in the protection phase. Just how dangerous would the unprotected Deep Blue Sea be?

Originally, these days, as his character attributes increased, he was wearing a full set of spiked armor, wielding a newly acquired iron greatsword, and possessing a hemostatic gel worm and a blood-boiling coral that amplified his strength and speed.

Zhou Wen already felt that he could live well in this world. Even the Razorback Bug he had just encountered today, although dangerous, had its weakness found by him.

Based on his previous experience with the anchor worm, Zhou Wen thought he might encounter the razor worm in the next few days. He even prepared his blood in order to get through the next few days safely. At that moment, the unknown world seemed to become less terrifying.

But now, the unknown world has once again become like a fog, blurry and hazy.

"Heh, protection phase, damn it!" Zhou Wen gave a helpless bitter laugh, then cursed under his breath to vent his dissatisfaction.

But what else could they do? Survival had to go on, and they had no choice but to wade into the even more dangerous deep blue sea.

"Never mind, I'm going to sleep."

On the twelfth day, the transformed Leviathan began to move. Zhou Wen sat up listlessly. He hadn't slept well the night before. The unknown deep blue sea made him very uneasy, and he kept imagining what dangers he would encounter next.

"Ha~." Zhou Wen yawned, climbed out of the rest area, and began his patrol for the day.

The boiling blood coral polyps and gel planarians are growing very healthily. The golden seaweed has grown another five centimeters. At the three-forked point of the rock crystal leaf tree, small branches have grown again, and a small rock flower bud is growing at the end of the branch.

"The Rock Crystal Leaf Tree is growing so fast! It looks like it'll be flowering soon." Looking at the pleasing growth of the Rock Crystal Leaf Tree, the lingering worry in Zhou Wen's heart faded a bit.

Then, three portions of Rock-Hiding Worm feces were added to the Rock Crystal Leaf Tree, and that concluded today's patrol.

As the Leviathan began its feeding phase, Zhou Wen hid in the resting area, waiting for the sea to arrive. He wondered if there would be any dangerous creatures in the sea today.

Today is the last day to enter the Deep Blue Sea. It's fair that the world system is somewhat considerate, at least giving us a day to prepare.

To Zhou Wen's surprise, the Leviathan he transformed into today did not eat.

"Huh? There's something good over there."

Suddenly, the voice of the phasing Leviathan rang in Zhou Wen's mind.

"What good stuff? Aren't you going to eat?" Zhou Wen asked, puzzled. The Leviathan transformation he had today was acting strangely.

After a while, the esophageal diaphragm opened, and a large amount of seawater rushed in. Zhou Wen immediately perked up and used a mirror to refract the water surface to observe whether there were any organisms in the water.

But after looking for a long time, I found nothing. I don't know why the seawater was so murky this time; it seemed like a lot of mud and sand had been mixed in.

After waiting for a while, the water surface remained calm, and there seemed to be no life underwater, not even seaweed. Zhou Wen still needed to make 20 algae oxygenation tanks today. Since there was no seaweed this time, he had purchased 10,000 portions of seaweed in advance on the World Trade Channel.

Twenty algae oxygenation tanks were made using 200 portions of seaweed and put up for sale on the World Trade Channel.

At this moment, the murky seawater gradually receded, leaving behind a large amount of mud and sand on the ground, as well as a white sphere the size of an ostrich egg.

"What is this?"

Zhou Wen donned all his gear, holding a shield and an iron broadsword. Upon closer inspection, he discovered that it appeared to be a fish egg.

He quickly touched the shell of the fish eggs with his hand, then opened the biological encyclopedia to take a look.

Bighead fish

Body length: 20 meters

Weight: 100 tons

Food type: Meat

Description: A type of fish that likes to hide in the sand and use food scraps as bait to hunt. It has a certain level of intelligence, its flesh is delicious and edible, and its teeth can be used to make weapons.

"I touched fish eggs, but the description said it was an adult fish." Zhou Wen was a little surprised, but he was immediately attracted by the fact that it was edible.

Generally, if the description mentions edible creatures, it can increase attributes.

"I wonder if fish eggs add any attributes." Zhou Wen picked up the fish eggs and looked at them. The shells of the fish eggs were very thin but very hard. Through the semi-transparent shells, he could vaguely see the inside.

However, this egg appears to have been laid recently, as there is no fish embryo inside; it is still in the fertilized egg stage.

Zhou Wen used a large iron knife to gently crack open the shell, revealing the transparent egg liquid inside. He brought his mouth to the opening and took a small sip.

"Ugh! It's so fishy." An unprecedented fishy smell rushed to Zhou Wen's head, and he almost vomited, but he managed to hold it in and swallow it down.

"Do these fish eggs actually increase my attributes? If they don't, then all this suffering has been for nothing." Zhou Wen felt the fishy smell in his mouth and tried his best to suppress the churning in his stomach.

After hesitating for a moment, he ignored it, closed his eyes, and drank all the egg liquid in one gulp.

Zhou Wen practically poured the egg liquid down his throat and swallowed it immediately, not wanting it to linger in his mouth for even a moment—it was just too fishy.

[Ding! Consuming bighead carp eggs increases intelligence by 1.]

The moment the notification sound appeared, Zhou Wen's mind suddenly felt clearer than ever before. Memories that were once very distant and blurry could now be recalled clearly, as if they had just happened.

"This feeling is amazing! Can 1 point of intelligence really improve things so much?" Zhou Wen felt as if he had gained the ability to remember everything he saw.

Moreover, he felt that after gaining more control over his body, he could easily draw a square with his left hand and a circle with his right hand, as seen in martial arts dramas.

"Huh? More good stuff." The voice of the transformed Leviathan rang out again.

"More good stuff? Could it be that there will be a major resupply before we leave the Sea of ​​Birth?" Zhou Wen suddenly remembered the saying that there must be resupply before a great battle.

While waiting for the Leviathan to devour the good stuff, Zhou Wen glanced at the system interface. The death toll had already reached two million, and this was only the beginning of the feeding phase. Once the feeding phase was over, there would probably be ten million deaths.

"This is still in the protection phase."

Zhou Wen quickly made two batches of Boiling Coral Powder and sent them to Jiang Haitao and Chen Xin, telling them to be careful and explaining the amplification and side effects of the Boiling Coral Powder, and advising them to pay attention to the timing of its use.

Based on Jiang Haitao and Chen Xin's current equipment, they should have no problem with one anchor worm. The real concern is having multiple worms. They need a way to save their lives, since they are two of their own, and they can't afford any accidents.