The woman's cry for help woke White, and he opened his eyes in a daze, but the first thing he noticed was that the place where he was sleeping had become more spacious.
Excited, he walked around the boat happily, his tail wagging like a propeller.
From afar, the woman saw something moving on the boat and instantly shouted, "Please help me...!" She began to swim in Raine's direction.
She only swims a little farther than 20 or 30 meters towards the boat and looks at the wooden boat with pleading eyes.
"We were shipwrecked, my family is missing, the water is cold at night, and I, I have no more strength... please, let me get on board." The woman pleaded and cried.
The sight of the woman in the water was blocked by the side panels of the boat so she could not see into the boat.
However, Raine could see the woman clearly from his viewpoint.
She was in a bit of a mess. Her hair was messy and plastered to her face. She was shivering, and her clothes were unkempt. But by the looks of it, this was quite a pretty woman.
She had freckles on her fairly delicate face, presumably from spending a long time in the wind and sun. But her skin was very pale and her features were perfect.
The woman was looking at the wooden boat with pleading eyes.
White has had enough happiness and was straining his neck to look at the woman curiously.
"I will do anything if you save me!" When she saw that the people on the boat hadn't stepped forward, the woman added, "I have nothing left now. If I die, I won't find the man who did my whole family in. I'd sacrifice everything for my life!"
Raine was a little angry. In his last life, he had been so handsome. But how he has encountered this kind of situation?
Now he was separated from his brother, and a woman offered him such a tempting deal! You can do whatever you want, but the question is, what can he do?
"White, go and get the timber."
The woman heard someone speak from the boat, then saw a large dog happily jump into the water, swam behind her, and had the plank of wood to the boat.
Gain wood +0.2
Raine said with satisfaction, "Turn around."
So it wasn't for nothing that Raine had been single his entire life before this; between the wood and the woman, he hadn't hesitated to choose the former and leave the latter behind. And this was a woman of unknown origin.
The rudder was adjusted, and the wooden boat was about to sail away... The boat was adjusted in the right direction, but the boat never moved.
Raine is a boat, but now his situation is similar to the woman's, he couldn't go anywhere. Now Raine is following the water flow, and the woman is too, and the two are keeping a very steady relative distance as if they hadn't moved.
The only difference was that Raine didn't have to worry about sinking.
Still, there was some awkwardness, a delay in leaving when he had said he would.
The woman was unsure why, but the boat hadn't left, so she hurriedly fought for more, "Wait! You, you... please, help me. If you go, I will die!"
"I don't care if you die or not, we don't know each other well."
"But, I'll do anything ..."
"What a joke, am I a lecher?!" Raine said this with considerable conviction.
"So, what do you want? I can still do the washing and cooking. I can clean, I, I can even help you with the boat. You can make me do anything you want!"
"..." Raine was rendered speechless.
Washing, cooking, and all that didn't interest Raine, but the woman's last words touched his heart.
I can help you with the boat!
White used to be able to help Raine move with his little paws, but now that he evolved, White was instead bad to move it, and now Raine was completely following the direction of the current, letting himself drift with it.
He had a little wood left, and if he made two oars, White couldn't control them, but this woman could!
No rush, no rush, think again first. He was a boat now, and even if a woman could be a threat to him, too. He had to be extra careful.
It was true that there had been a shipwreck here last night, which was consistent with the woman's story, but the woman said they had been attacked by others, something Raine could not verify. When he had come to the waters around here, he had only seen a few scattered items, no other ships.
But that didn't mean that the woman was lying. Maybe the gang had gotten away and left. In that case, the woman's identity was certain.
However, there was one more doubt: he hadn't found the woman when he arrived here and was alerted by the system until midnight. It was possible that she had drifted far away and was out of the system's range at the beginning, or that she hadn't been a passenger on that shipwreck.
It wasn't hard to verify this.
"Hey, let me ask you, what size is your bra? What color do you like?"
"U-um, I thought you said you weren't horny?"
"It's just a question. Just answer honestly."
"Well," the woman stammered with her head down, "if I meet those men at sea, I'm likely to get caught by them. So I usually wear a smaller size that doesn't look sexy. The color can't be too dark, either. Usually, I'm flesh-colored."
"What size is it anyway!"
"34a..."
"A? A? Just A! Why are you Stammering for half a day?"
"But I'm actually supposed to be a B." The woman muttered in a low voice.
"For b, barely passable... Wait, that's not the point. I almost led you astray." Raine grumbled, then asked White to turn the flesh-colored bra inside out and check the number, which was indeed a 34a.
Flesh-coloured, size 34a, it all matched!
Such a personal piece of information. It shouldn't be that coincidental?
After a few moments of thinking, Raine finally decided to ask the system to tie the rope he had left earlier to the lifebelt and throw it in front of the woman.
"Listen, I saved your life. From now on, you must obey me completely. I'll throw you down with the fish if you resist any of my orders! Do you understand?" Raine said fiercely.
"Okay, okay, you're my savior. I'll do whatever you want. Except, I must make one thing clear, if I find out who my enemy is, you must allow me to take revenge! Success or failure is none of your business. If I succeed, I will return and continue to follow you. If I fail... then..."
"Got it, get on board."
...
It took a lot of effort for the woman to get on the boat, but she was baffled as soon as she did.
"Hey, where's the guy who I just talked to? And, aren't these my things? My clothes, and my..." The woman picked up the bra that was on the floor.
Raine's voice rang out, "Now these are mine!"
Raine was also chagrined. Damn it, why am I fighting a woman for a bra? Why!
"Who's talking?"
"Look under your feet!"
The woman came to the side of the boat and looked down at the bottom, "Are you a shark-man?"
"Shark-man your ass, I'm the boat you're sitting on right now! Get your A-cups off my board, please!"
It looked like it would take some time to explain to this woman, but while the woman was confused, Raine opened the basic information panel only to find a piece of good news.
[Host: Raine
Vessel: Small single-deck plank ship
Crew Size: 2
Ship Speed: Not equipped with a power system, not measurable
Combat Power: 1.5
Load Capacity: 85.2/300 (kg)
Evolutionary Progress: 1.3/50 (wood)]
Now he has a second crew member!