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

The sudden closure of the esophageal diaphragm made Zhou Wen feel nervous and uneasy, as if he had nowhere to retreat.

Zhou Wen patted the esophageal diaphragm with his hand, hoping that the illusory Leviathan would understand his meaning and open the esophageal diaphragm. However, the illusory Leviathan did not react, nor did it respond in any way, perhaps because it did not feel anything at all.

"Forget it, let's just keep going. The Leviathan transformation shouldn't hurt me." Zhou Wen hesitated for a moment, then decided to leave the esophagus first.

But as soon as he took a step, the entire space began to shake violently, and then the ground began to rise slowly. Zhou Wen lost his footing and stumbled backward several steps, crashing into his esophageal diaphragm.

"What is going on?" Zhou Wen was filled with questions as he felt the ground gradually tilting. The Leviathan he had conjured seemed to be looking up.

"Hey! Little guy, stop messing around!" Zhou Wen was getting anxious. His entire body, which was transformed into Leviathan, was tilting. What would happen to the supplies in his stomach cavity?

The items placed on the foundation are fine, because the foundation has an adhesive effect, so the items are like they are stuck to it. The two small aquariums also have glass covers on top, so there is no need to worry about seawater spilling out. However, there is a very important item that is not placed on the foundation.

"My golden seaweed!"

Zhou Wen was really panicking. He couldn't afford to have any problems with the golden seaweed he had worked so hard to cultivate.

Based on the blueprints, recipes, and related information he had collected over the past few days, the importance of the Golden Silk Seaweed was immeasurable. Not only could the fruit add five points to strength, but it could also be used to craft equipment, and feeding it to the Transformed Leviathan could accelerate its growth rate by 50%.

He now really wants to give up on this treasure hunt, and he's also worried that another plant might be causing problems—the Rock Crystal Leaf Tree.

Because the Rock Crystal Leaf Tree is not planted in the soil of a small planting box, its roots are embedded in the excrement of the Rock-Dwelling Worm. If the tilt angle is too large, the Rock Crystal Leaf Tree may detach itself from the excrement of the Rock-Dwelling Worm.

Golden silk seaweed and rock crystal leaf tree are two plants that are extremely important to Zhou Wen, but now they are both at risk of being destroyed.

"Stop raising it! Stop raising it! I don't want the treasure anymore!" Zhou Wen shouted. He was truly on the verge of tears; the loss was too great.

However, the worst-case scenario that Zhou Wen had anticipated did not occur. The Leviathan that had transformed raised its head to a certain height stopped, and its body only tilted at a 45-degree angle, which made Zhou Wen breathe a deep sigh of relief.

This tilt angle, while having some impact on the golden seaweed in the seaweed growing box, is not enough to cause the entire box to tip over. Some seawater may spill out, but since there is seawater every day, it can be replenished as needed.

"It's finally stopped. Luckily, it didn't stand up like last time." But Zhou Wen also realized that this was a problem, and he had to solve it after returning from this treasure hunt.

"Wait, how am I supposed to get up there?"

Although there was no wet mucus inside the esophagus of the Leviathan, the surface was still very smooth. At a 45-degree angle, he slid down after taking two steps up.

The problem was solved in no time, as a large amount of seawater entered the esophagus and quickly submerged up to Zhou Wen's neck.

"Oh my god!" Zhou Wen was startled. He quickly tied the supply box to his back with strips of cloth, freeing his hands, and used treading water to float on the surface of the water, rising with the gradually increasing water level.

After rising a few meters, Zhou Wen left the esophagus and entered the mouth of the transformed Leviathan. The mouth was still pitch black, and his body felt the cold seawater. He was a little scared because there was no guarantee that no creatures might have followed him into the seawater.

However, Zhou Wen's worries were unnecessary. No creatures mixed in with the water. After a while, the seawater rose to the level of the barbel plate, and he successfully climbed onto the barbel plate using the rising seawater.

Zhou Wen used his headlamp to check the situation and found that what was under his feet was the lower jaw of the illusory Leviathan, but above his head was a downward-sloping hole, and he could not see the upper jaw.

The scene resembled a Leviathan with its mouth wide open, blocking the entire entrance to the cave, then letting some seawater in through its palate, allowing Zhou Wen to float up and enter the cave.

"Luckily, I learned to dog paddle in the pond when I was a kid." Zhou Wen was somewhat relieved. If he didn't know how to tread water, he might have drowned by now.

The toothed board was still some distance from the cave entrance. Zhou Wen stood on the toothed board waiting for the tide to rise, and also took a break, since treading water was quite tiring.

The illusory Leviathan seemed to know that Zhou Wen was about to reach the cave entrance, so it increased the amount of seawater being introduced. Soon, the seawater rose to the same level as the cave entrance, and Zhou Wen swam to the shore of the cave entrance in a few strokes and climbed up smoothly.

Upon entering the cave, Zhou Wen did not act rashly. He first used his headlamp to observe the area.

This cave is much more spacious than the treasure cave, with the ceiling more than four meters above the ground. Although the cave is damp, there is no standing water, suggesting that it is an underwater air cave.

Zhou Wen opened the supply box, put on all the spiked armor, held a shield in his left hand and an iron broadsword in his right, and naturally put the heaviest spiked breastplate in his equipment slot for the time being.

Furthermore, a packet of Boiling Coral Powder was wrapped with a hemostatic bandage on Zhou Wen's left wrist.

Since there was no paper, he used seaweed leaves to wrap the blood coral powder into a triangle about two or three centimeters long, like a small rice dumpling.

In a crisis, he would tear open the bandage, chew and swallow the seaweed package, and then use the increased speed of 5 points to escape.

"Buzz~ Buzz~ Buzz~." Zhou Wen turned the headlamp to charge it. The sound of the shaking spread throughout the cave and echoed further and further away.

This was Zhou Wen's intention. Rather than encountering a giant creature deep inside the cave, he would rather lure it out at the cave entrance and see if it would be afraid of transforming into Leviathan.

After shaking for a while, there was no movement inside the cave, and the headlamp was fully charged, so Zhou Wen had no choice but to put on the headlamp and begin to explore deeper into the cave.

"What's that smell?" As they went deeper, a foul odor filled the air, seemingly the smell of some kind of rotting corpse.

Zhou Wen frowned, becoming alert, and pressed himself against the right wall of the cave so that he only needed to pay attention to the situation in front and to the left.

After walking for a while, Zhou Wen found nothing in the cave, but the stench grew stronger and stronger, making him feel nauseous.

"There's a corner?" The headlamp shone ahead and revealed a corner.

Zhou Wenqiang endured the stench and carefully made his way to the corner. Instead of turning directly into the corner, he took out a mirror from the supply box, extended it out of the corner, and then held his headlamp against the wall, shining it into the corner.

"Fuck!"

When Zhou Wen saw the image reflected back by the mirror, his heart skipped a beat, and he was so frightened that he dropped the mirror and ran out as fast as he could ever go.

During the escape, he complained that the speed was too slow and threw away all the spiked armor he was wearing through his equipment inventory.