The next thing to do was to wait: wait for the fish to be hooked, wait for the water to be distilled, and wait for the board to reach the shore.

Liam sometimes wondered how to make the 3% mark on the back of his hand rise, and sometimes he chatted with Tom and asked him if he could just fly them to the next island.

Unfortunately, if Tom wanted to fly, he needed various props. For example, if he were given a piece of wood, he could try to glide; if he were given a special piece of clothing, he could imitate the flapping of a bird's wings; or if he were given a broom, he could ride it.

However, the first two methods were unlikely to allow people to fly together, and for the latter method, even Tom himself was not sure whether the flying method he learned from the witch in his dream could be used for real.

While chatting about random things, Tom suddenly fell down with his upper body stretched out and suspended in the air above the sea, only his toes kept him on the boat– a fish was hooked!

Liam grabbed Tom's tail, and the next moment Tom's hind legs were also hanging in the air. The cat was pulled to ten meters long.

At this time, Liam did not care whether Tom was in pain or not. He just had to not let go. He stepped back with difficulty and let Tom's hind legs step on the board again.

At this time, Tom also began to exert effort, and his body shape gradually returned to normal, but the problem was that instead of retreating, the wooden board under their feet was rapidly approaching the fish!

How big a fish could have such strength?

And were the fish hooks made from two shoelaces and a key ring really that strong?!

Tom pulled the fishing rod back hard, and Liam saw with his own eyes that the hardwood stick bent into an abnormal and exaggerated arc.

But he could not care about all that at the moment and had to catch the fish first.

The hands that were originally holding Tom's tail began to move alternately upwards finally holding the fishing rod together with Tom.

The fish obviously had no intention of stopping, and it dragged Liam and Tom for thousands of meters before it slowly ran out of strength.

Liam and Tom looked at each other and nodded, and began to reel in the line. As there was no reel, they could only reel in the line manually. A half-meter-long fish was pulled onto the wooden board, jumping around with its mouth wide open.

Tom took out a mallet and knocked the fish unconscious with two bangs.

Looking at the poor unknown fish, Liam shed tears of sympathy.

He was not even in the mood to think about whether the fish's strength and size were reasonable.

Tom was a professional when it came to preparing a fish, deftly removing the entrails and scales before slicing it into sashimi.

It was definitely impossible to make a fire under the current conditions. As for whether there were parasites, they should just survive starvation first before worrying about that.

It was good to have something to eat.

By the evening, half a bottle of water had accumulated in the glass bottle, and Liam and Tom shared it, which at least helped moisten their throats.

Although Liam felt that the efficiency of that simple distillation device should not be so high, it was a good thing so he didn't bother questioning it.

Liam unzipped his collar and let Tom get into his clothes – Tom was actually quite afraid of the cold.

The man and the cat slept in each other's arms and spent the first day of their acquaintance.

Liam finally survived the second day of his dimensional travel with Tom's company.

…

This was Liam's fifth morning drifting on the sea.

Tom crawled out from Liam's collar and stretched.

They had been living a life these past few days where they had food but were just barely able to survive. They both looked much more haggard, with their cheeks having become exaggeratedly sunken.

Tom, who had experienced many things already, actually had no complaints about the current situation. At least he could feel the care of his new owner.

Although Liam did not look very smart and had poor hands-on skills, and could not even kill a fish properly, was not particularly attractive, had patchy fur only on his head, Tom did not despise him. As a master, just be nice to me and don't abandon me, especially if I cannot catch the mouse in the future, just don't scold me.

Tom's demands were humble. As a cat, he was kicked out of the house because he could not catch mice. This was his eternal pain.

Fortunately, even though Liam knew the reason why he was driven away, he was still very happy to accept him.

Tom was already used to the fact that his new master had his eyes tightly closed and his facial features were almost wrinkled. He must have had a nightmare again, as it had been happening every morning for the past few days.

"Morning, Tom."

The first thing Liam did when he opened his eyes was to look at the back of his left hand. The number inside the circle had become 7%, and he had no idea how this came about.

It inexplicably rose by 1% in the past few days, even though he did not do anything special. Could it be solar power?

Yawning, Liam began to tell Tom about his nightmare."Let me tell you, I dreamed that I turned into a scorpion spirit at night, and was exorcised from the home of Emma Stone by a scam artist pretending to be a priest played by Ryan Gosling. They threw salt on me and I couldn't breathe..."

Tom was usually quite interested in Liam's stories, but today, contrary to his usual behavior, he did not pay attention to what he said.

Tom rubbed his eyes, blinked hard, and his mouth gradually opened wider.

"What's the matter, Tom?"

"Ah~~~~~"

Tom cheered and started doing backflips on the spot, turning a full circle along the edge of the board before excitedly jumping onto Liam.

He tugged at his clothes and pointed in a certain direction.

Liam also looked in the direction where Tom's hand was, and a patch of green appeared on the blue sea!

It was a tree canopy! That meant there was land!

A look of joy immediately appeared on Liam's face; their rafting was finally about to end!

Liam also cheered immediately, picked up Tom and held him high up: "Let's go! Let's row over there!"

Tom and Liam lay on both sides of the board, paddling happily with their hands.

Logically speaking, Tom's short arms should have a low efficiency in paddling, but Tom almost turned his arms into a propeller.

As they were getting closer and closer to the island, Liam noticed something was wrong because he saw a tall mountain wall farther away from the island.

This mountain wall was completely red and towering into the clouds. It was impossible to see where the top of the mountain was, and there was no end in sight horizontally.

"No way?" Liam thought of something terrible.

Because Liam was distracted, his paddling movements slowed down, but Tom did not stop, so the board started turning in a circle on the spot.

Tom, who was still excited just now, gradually calmed down and looked at Liam. The expression on his face clearly said: "You aren't paddling!"

"Oh, sorry, Tom, I was distracted," Liam said, "We may have arrived at a dangerous place. Be careful and move closer slowly. If there is any danger later, remember to be ready to draw your gun at any time."

Tom blinked, seemed to realize the seriousness of the matter, and nodded thoughtfully.

The man and the cat continued to move towards the island.

Perhaps this is what they call "looking at the mountain and running the horse to death." From morning until noon, they gradually saw the scenery on the island clearly.

All you saw were tall trees with white numbers marked on the trunks. The magical thing was that bubbles of all sizes kept popping up on the ground and floating upwards. They looked very colorful under the sunlight and were very beautiful.

In Tom's eyes, this was a beautiful island, like a fairy tale.

But in Liam's eyes, this was not the case. Such a scene reminded him of a place called the Sabaody Archipelago, and the huge mountain wall in the distance was probably the Red Line.

This was... the world of One Piece!