Rubber

Ye Mu's question seemed extremely abrupt and rather inexplicable at this moment.

"Yes, Captain Ye Mu. What's wrong?"

Dan asked strangely.

Freya was also somewhat puzzled.

"What's wrong? Is there anything strange about rubber?"

Ye Mu shook his head.

At that moment, his mind was filled with countless thoughts.

There was naturally nothing strange about rubber, but the Gum-Gum Fruit was a different matter.

That was the Devil Fruit the protagonist would possess twenty years later.

"Is it a coincidence?"

Ye Mu muttered to himself. The strange expression on his face made everyone aboard the ship sense that something was off.

But everyone tacitly chose not to disturb him.

As if he had suddenly remembered something, Ye Mu also walked to the edge of the deck. He lowered his head and looked at Fish-Man Island beneath his feet, which resembled a crystal ball, then glanced at the three enormous roots of Sunlight Tree Eve surrounding Fish-Man Island and the pitch-black world above their heads.

Suddenly, he asked everyone a question.

"What do you think we need to prepare if we want to split apart a hard piece of wood?"

The question left everyone stunned, but they all knew that Ye Mu never spoke without purpose, so they began pondering it.

"We should probably find an ax first."

Freya answered.

"And then?"

"Then... then we just chop it, right..."

"But what if this piece of wood is so hard that one swing isn't enough?"

At that moment, Eric, who was a swordsman, seemed to understand something and answered,

"Captain, do you mean that we should find the wood's weak point, such as its grain, and chop there? That way, we can split it easily and with less effort. Is that what you mean?"

Ye Mu nodded and looked up at the