Chapter 8: 8. Emergency!

After only a few minutes of work, Raine was moving slower and slower, and finally simply stopped.

"Captain, I... I can't row anymore." Avril looked timidly at the bow, afraid that the fierce boat would scold her.

"Eh, take a break then. I'd forgotten you'd been floating in the sea for days. By the way, there are a few pieces of dried fish on the boat, you can have some first."

"May I?" Avril said cautiously, she was a little unconvinced that this guy who had grabbed her plank and bra had such a gentle side.

"Sure."

Avril was obviously hungry and with Raine's permission, grabbed the dried fish and ate it in one big bite, without any image at all. Wondering if all daughters of the sea were so spontaneous.

After taking a few bites, Avril suddenly thought of something and turned to White and said, "White, I'm sorry I ate your dried food, but don't worry, I'll catch more fish when I have the strength. By the way, are you hungry, you should eat some too."

Although White's food was always good, the fact that Avril could still consider White when she was so hungry made Raine think highly of Avril.

Just now Raine had been wary of Avril.

Raine was sympathetic to Avril's plight and he wanted to trust her. But after all, they had only just met and in times like these. With a man of Raine's stature, he had to be careful.

Women can't be trusted, especially not pretty ones! Raine doesn't want to capsize on a woman.

As to whether Avril was trustworthy or not, time and experience would have to tell.

When Raine saw that she was eating with White, he relaxed a little and opened the message panel himself, and began to check the messages.

[Host: Raine].

[Vessel: Small single-deck plank ship]

[Crew Size: 2]

[Ship Speed: ? (Open for details)]

[Battle Power: 1.5] [Crew Size: 2]

[Loading Capacity: 79.6/300 (kg)]

[Evolutionary Progress: 0.1/50 (Wood)]

The clothes were almost dry by now, so it didn't look like the weight would change again. White is 20kg and Avril is 50kg, so the total weight of the supplies on Raine's ship was almost 10kg.

"Holy shit, the ship's speed has changed, but what the hell is that question mark?"

Raine hurriedly opened the "Ship Speed" option, and a new list of information appeared in Raine's mind.

[Power Equipment: Oars*2]

[Power System: Manual Power]

The speed of the ship: Manual power is affected by the individual differences of the crew and the state of the individual, so it is impossible to count the speed of the ship. (Adding crew members can dilute the effect of individual differences)]

"Eh?" Raine thought about it, but the system had a point. There was only one person on board who could row, Avril.

By analogy, if there were 50 people rowing at the same time, it would be different again.

From this point of view, it seems that the crew is quite important.

Although the results were a little frustrating, Raine did see some encouraging results.

Although the speed of the boat is not yet displayed, Raine has at least been equipped with "power equipment" and "power systems", which is a historic step forward!

"Not bad, quite an improvement!" Raine nodded in satisfaction ...... The bow sank twice and Avril and White were almost thrown off.

Raine ignored them both as well and continued to check the next item.

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[Supplies Gathered: 79]

"That much?" Raine herself was a little surprised that there were 81 pieces of those supplies?

[Newly collected supplies (68): cotton and linen clothing (16), plastic bottles (4), antibiotic medicine (47), life preservers (1).]

[Existing supplies (11): fish skin rope (6), fish bone spikes (4), small simple seawater purification device: (1)]

Raine took a look at the small bottle of medicine and finally understood that the bottle of antibiotics contained an estimated 47 capsules, which was why his supplies looked so large.

"Damn, Happy for nothing." Raine was just about to shake his head when he thought of what had happened earlier and forced himself to hold back.

"Open the manufacturing list."

The manufacturing list now had two sub-options, one for "New Manufacturable Item List" and one for "Existing Manufacturable Item List".

The original list of manufacturable items was still the same 5 items, fish skin boat bottom, short rope, fish bone nails, dried fish, and a small simple seawater purification device.

Raine had already remembered these things and quickly skipped them,

"Check for new items."

[New Manufacturable Item List: 4]

[Hemp Rope: 157/1 (Cotton and linen material) Tougher than short ropes made from fish skin, can be used to secure masts, sails, etc., and is a common item for sailing.

[Sisal fishing net: 157/50 (sisal rope) used for fishing, the width of the net mouth can be set by yourself, and the net can be spliced between.

[Buoy: 4/1 (plastic bottle) 0.1/1 (wood) 0/1 (stone) for marking.]

[Rubber bottom: 1/10 (rubber) to increase the buoyancy of the boat, improve the load and reduce the corrosion of the bottom.]

"I can make so many things ...... Huh, no? Where's my mast? Where are my sails? Why don't I have either of those?" Raine was a bit confused this time, "Does the system have something good hidden away?"

No, he couldn't trust the system this time. Raine was going to ask his crew member, professional fisherman Avril.

"Hey, Avril!"

"Eh? Captain you calling me?" Avril put down his dried fish and looked over the bow.

"Can I rig a mast and sails on my boat?"

"Huh?" Avril was a little baffled, she was a little confused as to why the captain was asking her this question, but since the captain had asked it, she answered it, "Uh, let me see."

Avril looked closely at the planking and after a while, she suddenly exclaimed, "Oh Captain, your boat ...... isn't, your body ...... only has one layer of planking, but the workmanship is so good, the mortise and tenon inlay is so perfect, isn't it? I've never seen such fine woodwork."

"Stop, stop, stop, get to the point," Raine said.

"Oh, I'm sorry, but you can't fit a mast with only one plank."

"Why!" Raine asked defiantly.

"Masts are generally very long, and to keep them balanced, the mast has to be firmly fixed to the hull. In general, it goes deep inside several layers of planking. You only have one layer of planking, and once you insert it, it will be through, and then the boat will leak."

Raine didn't have anything to say this time, with his small frame he couldn't fix the mast ...... Still, an item that didn't appear in the system meant he wasn't of sufficient level!

"Oops, Captain." Avril was still there checking out the planking, her small hands gently stroking it, her face frowning as if she was worried about something, "The bottom of the ship isn't safe like this, without a coating it will easily take on water even with good craftsmanship."

"That bad?"

"Nah!" Avril affirmed, "It's possible we'll sink before we even reach the island."

Oh my god! What a shitty boat! It's worse than a bamboo raft!

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