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

However, Zhou Wen quickly realized that the illusion of Leviathan wouldn't harm him. Since it had let him out, it meant that the owner of this eye wouldn't pose a threat to him.

Realizing this, Zhou Wen boldly stepped forward and observed the full appearance of the owner of the eye.

This is a large fish that is seven or eight meters long. Its body is covered with tiny scales, which reflect a metallic luster when the light shines on them.

At this point, the large fish was dead. Both of its eyes were bloodshot, with one eye even turning completely red. A large number of scales had fallen off its body, and tiny blood vessels were seeping from under its skin.

"This must be the creature that stole the supply crate." Judging from the fish's overall condition, it was clearly hit by a huge force and died from internal bleeding.

"So, the supply box is inside its belly?" Zhou Wen looked at the fish's abdomen and felt that his guess was probably correct.

However, before cutting open the fish to retrieve the supply box, Zhou Wen touched the large fish with his hand, then opened the biological encyclopedia to check its basic information.

White-scaled fish

Body length: 8 meters

Weight: 4 tons

Food type: Meat

Description: A small fish that likes to swallow objects floating on the sea surface. It is edible, and its scales can be used to make armor.

“Edible!” Zhou Wen’s eyes lit up as he immediately caught those three words.

"This fish is so big, I wonder how many attribute points it will add." Zhou Wen was somewhat excited, but he needed to take out the supply box first.

Zhou Wen arrived at the belly of the white-scaled fish. The scales on the belly were even finer and smaller, making it the weakest point on the white-scaled fish's body.

Zhou Wen used his iron broadsword to make several forceful cuts on the abdomen, but only produced a series of metallic scraping sounds; he couldn't cut through the scales on the abdomen at all.

There's no other way; since cutting won't work, the only option is to chop.

Zhou Wen stood in front of the fish's belly, his legs slightly bent and his body slightly crouched. He gripped the iron broadsword with both hands, holding it horizontally at his waist. After aiming at the fish's belly, he suddenly exerted force with both legs, raising the iron broadsword above his head to the right, and then slashing it diagonally downwards to the left.

"Swish~." The belly of the white-scaled fish was smoothly cut open by this powerful knife.

"Cough cough! Cough cough!" Zhou Wen coughed several times because when he swung his sword, he added all five free attribute points of the [Pioneer] to strength, and the decline in his physique caused the oxygen-rich bacteria to affect him.

Zhou Wen quickly added the five free points back to his constitution, which restored his body to normal. However, the situation was clearly not good. He didn't cough so frequently when his constitution was at 15 points yesterday.

Putting those aside for now, Zhou Wen had already broken through the protective scales on the white-scaled fish's belly, and began to widen the incision across the entire belly, which was also a physically demanding task.

After cutting for quite some time, a two-meter incision was made in the fish's belly, and a large amount of blood flowed out from inside, along with many fragments of internal organs.

"The power of Leviathan's tail is considerable; it even shattered the fish's internal organs," Zhou Wen exclaimed, reaching his spiked gloved hand deep into the fish's belly to search for the supply box swallowed by the fish's stomach.

After fiddling around for a while, he took a square wooden box out of the fish's belly.

"Why are they still just regular supply boxes?"

Zhou Wen looked at the blood-stained wooden supply box and felt somewhat disappointed. After all, he had transformed into Leviathan and been hunted down in order to get it, and he had also gone to great lengths to find it inside the fish's belly, only to find that it was just an ordinary supply box.

"Fine, a regular supply box is fine. As long as it contains some good stuff, that's enough." Zhou Wen thought with anticipation, then slowly opened the supply box.

[Ding! You have obtained 10 stones, 10 pieces of wood, and 10 pieces of dirt.]

"Braise!" Zhou Wen slammed the supply box onto the ground.

"How much effort did Leviathan and I put in for you, and you actually let us lose... so completely?"

Before opening the supply box, Zhou Wen was full of anticipation because he had a feeling that he could get an armor blueprint. After all, he had already obtained two kinds of materials for making armor today, so it wouldn't be unreasonable to give him a blueprint. But now it seems that he was just overthinking it.

"Sigh~, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment." Zhou Wen shook his head helplessly and looked at the corpse of the white-scaled fish.

"Let's just consider this white-scaled fish a reward that came with the supply box." Zhou Wen began to skin the white-scaled fish with an iron dagger.

This process is particularly lengthy because white-scaled fish are quite large, and their skin and flesh are tightly bound together, unlike mirror-skinned barracuda which is easier to peel.

But it doesn't matter, the illusionary Leviathan has already rested. It's nighttime now, so he has plenty of time. He can just peel it all night. With his current physique, staying up all night is no problem for him.

After making this decision, Zhou Wen suddenly remembered that Jiang Haitao was still waiting for support, so he used a large iron knife to cut a large piece of fish and sent it to him, asking him to tell him what attribute he would gain after eating the fish.

[Brother Wen, this white-scaled fish doesn't taste good, but it adds 2 points to your constitution.]

Okay, have you finished the fish? If not, throw it away. Don't tell anyone, and don't give it to any guild members as a reward.

I didn't finish it, so I've already thrown the rest into the digestive tract.

Okay, go to sleep.

After finishing his conversation with Jiang Haitao, Zhou Wen used an iron dagger to cut a piece of fish meat, peeling off the skin as he ate.

The moment the fish entered his mouth, a fishy smell filled his mouth, and Zhou Wen almost spat it out.

"This is more than just unpalatable, it's inedible," Zhou Wen complained softly, then forced himself to eat it little by little, hoping to gain 2 points of physique, which he still desperately needed.

However, Zhou Wen preferred to add two points of strength, since the [Steel Armor Leviathan Pest Control Coupon] only had two days left. Compared to the dangers of oxygen-rich bacteria, he had to survive the attack of a large number of parasites first.

Time passed slowly, and Zhou Wen used the required amount of fish meat, triggering a notification sound in his mind.

[Ding! Consuming white-scaled fish meat, Constitution +2.]

"Finally, the usage requirements have been met." Upon hearing the notification in his mind, Zhou Wen immediately spat out the fish he was still chewing, which made him feel extremely disgusted.

Six or seven hours later, Zhou Wen finally peeled off the skin from one side of the white-scaled fish, then cut the skin into several pieces and put them into the supply box.

The description of the white-scaled fish mentions that its scales can be used to make armor, and it doesn't matter if the fish skin is damaged.

Zhou Wen didn't plan to peel off the other side of the fish skin, because after being hit on the tail by the transformed Leviathan, most of the fish scales had fallen off, and the remaining fish scales were all broken, so they were probably unusable and not worth wasting time on.

He cut off another large piece of fish and put it into the supply box. Then, carrying the two supply boxes, he passed through his esophagus and returned to the stomach wall space.

He didn't want the rest of the fish meat; the white-scaled fish was too big to drag down his esophagus, and he didn't have the strength for it.