Based on Li Yuan's personality, the answer is, of course, to save both!

The system could locate Avril and Rookie, and at the moment they fell into the water, Li Yuan adjusted his direction and quickly rushed towards the nearest Avril.

Avril was desperately flailing in the ocean waves when suddenly her hands touched a life buoy. Li Yuan had already thrown the life buoy in front of her.

"Grab the life buoy!" Li Yuan shouted, and seeing Avril clutching the buoy tightly, he immediately headed towards Rookie.

The seawater repeatedly submerged Avril's eyes, and in her intermittent vision, she saw Rookie in the water. In a critical moment, she grabbed Rookie's tail and pulled it to her side, "Rookie!"

Although Avril and Rookie were still in the water, by holding onto the life buoy and the rope attached to the ship's body, they at least didn't get separated.

Seeing another big wave approaching, Li Yuan hurriedly changed course, rushing once more towards the distant island.

After an unknown amount of time, Li Yuan finally broke out of the reef zone, bringing Avril and Rookie within the island's range, heading towards the beach.

When the ship's bottom touched the hard land, Li Yuan was already exhausted. He looked back to see Avril holding Rookie and walking towards him.

"Captain, we did it, we made it! We didn't die!"

"What's there to be happy about? This was... too easy for me." However, before Li Yuan could properly show off, his vision uncontrollably began to close.

In the last moment, Li Yuan saw the raging storm in the distance, dark clouds pressing down, and the fierce wind howling, seemingly more furious because of Li Yuan's escape.

Li Yuan sneered, "Damn heavens, this time, I won..."

……………………

When Li Yuan opened his eyes again, the terrifying storm was gone. It was still a blue sky, blue sea, sunny beach, and...

"Huh? Why am I in the sky?" Li Yuan quickly checked his situation and found himself stuck in a tree.

Then, Li Yuan felt himself being pulled down by someone, crashing onto the ground.

Since his rebirth, this was the first time Li Yuan touched the ground, and he didn't expect it to be so intense.

Fortunately, the ground was soft, so the fall didn't hurt.

"Phew." Avril exhaled deeply, hands on her hips, still holding a rope, "Captain, I finally got you down from the tree. Let me rest a bit, then I'll push you back into the sea."

Rookie, seeing Li Yuan on the ground, wagged its tail excitedly, circling around him.

Li Yuan didn't want to bother with this pet that favored beauty over its owner. He shifted his gaze from the two of them to the surroundings.

He was already on this legendary island. Calling it an island was a bit of a stretch; it was less than half the size of the previous two islands, about the size of a football field.

However!

This island was covered with many trees. After last night's storm, many trees were leaning, but it made the sturdy trunks even more prominent.

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"Timber!" In Li Yuan's eyes now, it was all about the timber!

Li Yuan eagerly said, "Surviving a disaster indeed brings fortune! Quick, quick, gather all this timber!"

"Yes, Captain! But first, I'll make a stone axe." Avril saluted Li Yuan, looking full of fighting spirit!

Before long, the sound of chopping wood echoed from the forest, which was the most beautiful music to Li Yuan's ears, and he enjoyed it all with great ease.

After a week of logging, Avril had cleared the small forest completely.

Li Yuan immediately opened his personal information panel.

[Host: Li Yuan]

[Vessel: Small Single-Layer Plank Boat]

[Number of Crew: 2]

[Ship Speed: ? (Open to view details)]

[Combat Power: 1.5]

[Load Capacity: 6.3/300 (kg)]

[Evolution Progress: 142.3/50 (Timber) Currently Evolvable]

"Over a hundred pieces of timber, hahaha, this time I'm really in luck!" Li Yuan was in an extremely good mood. It seemed that the storm and reef zone were worth it!

Li Yuan's body was covered in injuries from the ship, but that didn't matter now. He could build a new vessel!

"Evolve!"

With a command, the system immediately began constructing the next-level vessel.

Right beside Li Yuan, the prototype of a ship was quickly taking shape, leaving Avril dumbfounded.

The keel, hull, dragon tendon, deck... were all being completed rapidly, and before long, a double-layer wooden boat about four meters long was finished.

"Captain, did you build this?" Avril asked in shock.

"Who else? You and Rookie go play somewhere else, see if there are any useful supplies." Li Yuan didn't have time to deal with her, so he sent the two of them away.

With the consciousness and materials transferred, the recovery of the single-layer plank boat was quickly completed. When Li Yuan's consciousness merged with the new ship body, he immediately felt different.

"Wow, I'm four meters long now! At least one and a half meters wide! I'm now a double-deck ship! There's even a helm now, this craftsmanship, hmm hmm hmm, now this is a real ship!"

"Right, open the information template again!" With a new ship, Li Yuan naturally wanted to see his new data.

The system quickly presented itself in Li Yuan's mind.

[Host: Li Yuan]

[Vessel: Small Double-Layer Plank Boat]

[Number of Crew: 2]

[Ship Speed: 3 knots (Open to view details)]

[Combat Power: 1.5]

[Load Capacity: 6.3/1000 (kg)]

[Evolution Points: 92.3/150]

"Hmm? Wait, why has my ship speed changed? Open it up and see." Li Yuan couldn't wait to check the other data changes and opened the speed submenu first.

[Power Equipment 1: Oar*2]

[Power Equipment 2: Wooden Hand-Crank Propeller]

[Power System: Artificial Power]

[Ship Speed: Power Equipment 1: Speed cannot be calculated; Power Equipment 2: Maximum speed is 3 knots (1 knot = 1 nautical mile/hour = 1.852 km/hour) Actual speed depends on operator's performance]

"Three knots is 5400 meters per hour! It's a bit slow. And Avril, with her combat power of 0.5, probably can't reach the maximum speed, but it's much better than oars!"

As usual, after the ship upgrade, new manufacturable items appeared. Li Yuan didn't forget this and opened the manufacturing list.

Perhaps due to his limited resources, the new manufacturable items were only the canopy, cargo hold, and the mast he had been longing for.

However, now Li Yuan had over 90 pieces of timber, and he was only 60 short of upgrading to the next level. He hesitated whether to use the timber for these attachments.

"Prioritize evolution, I'm not too short on timber now, and these things aren't urgently needed, so I'll wait and see." Li Yuan calculated.

Additionally, Li Yuan suffered some losses in the storm.

The fish-skin hull membrane was in tatters, and with the ship's body enlarged, the membrane area needed to be increased, so it seemed necessary to redo it.

The water purification equipment had long disappeared, but fortunately, there was timber here, and with some fish skin, he could make a new one... no, he could make two, just in case!

That means fishing is still necessary!

"Captain!" At this moment, Avril came running with Rookie, excitedly saying, "We found fresh water!"

With plants on the island, there was naturally fresh water. Li Yuan thought for a moment and said, "Well, my water purification equipment is gone, but since there's fresh water here, there's no rush. This island is in a dangerous location, so probably no one will come. We'll develop here for a while."