As is Raine's nature, the answer was to save both!
The system could search for Avril and White's position, and at the moment of the fall, Raine redirected himself and quickly tried to reach the nearest person, Avril.
Avril was floundering in the waves when suddenly her hands felt the lifebuoy that Raine had flung in front of her.
"Grab the lifebuoy!" Raine shouted, seeing Avril had already clung to the lifebelt and immediately sailed in White's direction.
The sea repeatedly flooded Avril's eyes, and Avril saw White in the water in the intermittent vision. In the nick of time she grabbed White by the tail and pulled him to her, "I got you, White!"
Both Avril and White were still submerged in the water. But the rope keeping the lifebuoy attached to the hull was still firm, so at least they were not separated.
Seeing the next big wave was about to hit, Raine hurriedly changed course and sped towards the island in the distance.
After an unknown amount of time, Raine finally broke out of the reef area and took Avril and White into the confines of the island. He was heading for the beach.
Exhausted when the bottom of the boat touched the hard land, Raine looked back as Avril was carrying White and running towards him.
"Captain, we made it, we made it! We're not dead!"
"What is there to be happy about? That was too easy for me..." However, not waiting for Raine to put on a good speech, his vision quickly darkened and faded.
At the last moment, Raine saw the storm raging in the distance, dark clouds overwhelming the sky, and the wind howling with fury. It seemingly becomes even more furious at Raine's successful escape.
Raine sneered, "Fuck you God, this time I won..."
......
When Raine opened his eyes again, the horrible storm was gone. The setting was still a blue sky, blue sea, sunny beach and...
"Eh? Why am I in the sky?" Raine hurriedly checked his situation and found that he was stuck in a tree.
The next thing Raine knew, he found himself being pulled down and hitting the ground in one swift motion with a thud.
This was the first time Raine had touched the ground since his rebirth, and he didn't expect it to be so rough.
Luckily the ground was soft, and the fall didn't hurt.
"Whew." Avril exhaled a long breath, hands at her waist, a rope still being held in her hand, "Captain, I finally got you down from the tree. I'll push you out to sea after I take a quick break."
White looked at Raine on the ground, wagging his tail excitedly and circling him.
Raine doesn't want to deal with this guy who values sex over their master. He took his eyes off the two and looked around.
He was already on this legendary island, which was a bit of a stretch to call an island. It was less than half the size of the two islands before it and the size of a football field.
But!
On this island, however, many trees were growing. After the storm raging last night, many fell to the east and west. But instead, they made the thick trunks even more striking.
"Timber!" Raine's eyes were now sparkling and reflecting the image of the wood!
Raine couldn't wait, "I'm sure it's a blessing to have survived the disaster! Quickly, gather up all this timber!"
"Aye, Captain! I'll also go ahead and make a stone ax." Avril was saluting Raine. She looked combative!
Before long, there was the clunking sound of logging in the woods, which was the most beautiful music to Raine's ears. He enjoyed it with immense relief.
After a week of felling, Avril had cleared the grove clean.
Raine immediately opened his information panel.
[Host: Raine
Vessel: Small single plank boat
Crew Size: 2
Ship Speed: ? (Open for details)
Combat Power: 1.5
Crew Size: 2
Load Capacity: 6.3/300 (kg)
Evolution Progress: 142.3/50 (wood) currently evolvable]
"Over a hundred and forty timbers! Hahaha, it's a real fortune!" Raine was in an extremely relieved and happy mood. It seemed that weathering the storm and going through the reef area was worth it!
Raine's hull was now covered in wounds, but none of that mattered. He could build a new ship from scratch!
"Evolve!"
At the command, the system immediately began to build the next level of the ship.
Right next to Raine, the beginnings of a ship were rapidly being completed. Avril looked on in shock.
The keel, the hull, the dragon tendons, and the deck... were all being completed quickly, and not much time passed before a double-decker wooden ship about four meters long had been built.
"Captain, this- did you build this?" Avril asked in shock.
"Who else? You and White go play off to the side and see what other useful supplies are here." Raine had no time for her right now. Let's get these two guys out of the way.
His consciousness and supplies were transferred, the recycling of the single-plank wooden ship was soon complete, and as Raine's consciousness fused into the new ship, it suddenly felt different.
"Wowza, I'm four meters now! At least a meter and a half wide! I have two decks now too! I can't believe I have a steering wheel now! Look at the carving, hmm, that's more like a boat!"
"Right, open the information panel again!" With a new ship, Raine naturally had to look at her new data.
The system info was quickly presented in Raine's mind.
[Host: Raine
Vessel: Small double-decker plank ship
Crew size: 2
Ship Speed: 3 knots (open for details)
Combat Power: 1.5
Crew Size: 2
Load Capacity: 6.3/1000 (kg)
Evolution Points: 92.3/150]
"Eh? Wait, why has my ship's speed changed? Open it up and take a look." Not bothering to look at the other data changes, Raine first wanted to open the speed sub-menu first.
[Power Equipment 1: Boat Oar*2
Power Equipment 2: Wooden Hand Crank Thruster
Power System: Manual Power
Boat Speed: Power Equipment 1: No statistics on boat speed. Power Equipment 2: Maximum boat speed is 3 knots (1 knot = 1 nautical mile per hour = 1.852 km/h). Actual speed is subject to the operator's operating effect]
"Three knots is 5400 m/h! A bit slow. And Avril, that little minion with 0.5 combat power. It probably won't be able to reach the maximum ship speed for sure, but it's better than the oars!"
Customarily, new build-able items will appear when a ship is upgraded. Raine didn't forget this. He opens the list of build-able items again.
Perhaps it was because he had so few resources, but the only new items that appeared were the canopy, the living cabin, and the mast he longed for.
However, now that Raine was over 90 timbers rich. Just 60 timbers short of upgrading to the next level, he was a little hesitant to use them on these accessories.
"Evolution is definitely the main focus, I'm not particularly short of wood at the moment, and these aren't really needed urgently, so I might as well wait and see." Raine mulled over the situation.
Also, Raine suffered some losses during the storm.
The fish skin bottom membrane was in a bad state of disrepair. It looked like it would have to be reworked as the boat's hull had increased in size, requiring an increase in the membrane area.
The water purification equipment has long since flown off to who knows where, but the good thing is that there is still wood here, and with some more fish skin, we can make a new one... No, we can make two, just in case!
That said, there is still a need to fish!
"Captain!" Avril came running over with White in tow with gusto, saying, "We've found fresh water!"
There were plants on the island, so naturally, there was fresh water. Raine thought about it and said, "Yes, we lost water purification equipment. Since there's some water here, then there's no need to rush. This island is in a treacherous location, there shouldn't be many people coming. Let's develop here for a while."