"What are you doing? What are you researching?" Huang Fei asked.

"It's raining really hard today, the river seems to have risen. Will we still be able to make money today?" Lin Nian asked, looking at the river.

"Let's wait a bit longer, there's no need to rush," Chen Feng thought, deciding to assess the situation before making a decision.

As the group walked back, they saw the pit they had dug earlier, which was now full of water. Forget about sifting gold, it would be difficult to even scoop it out.

"Damn, how did this guy get so drunk? Huang Fei, you're such a waste. If you had known, you should have just washed in this pit, it would have been like taking a bath," Li Chunlai laughed.

"Go inside and wash up, I'm perfectly clean now," Huang Fei said irritably.

"What should we do? Just let it seep in slowly?" Lin Nian said with some regret.

He had originally thought that if he couldn't make money, he could at least sift through the gold for a while, but he didn't expect that he couldn't even sift through the gold now.

"What should we do? We'll have to wait for it to seep in for a while. Let's find some basins and pour it out," Chen Feng said, rolling up his sleeves.

"Okay." Upon hearing this, Lin Nian turned around and found a few basins. Everyone took one and started scooping.

Many hands make light work. Although the puddle was not shallow, they managed to scoop out about half of it in no time.

"This won't do, we have to go inside, I can't reach it." Chen Jianguo was practically crawling on the ground.

The key is that because they dug the pit so deep, the water at the very bottom is completely out of reach of those on the outside.

"Wait here, I'm coming down." Lin Nian took off his clothes, leaving only a pair of shorts, and jumped in.

Now that it was big enough, Lin Nian picked up the basin and splashed it a few times, but it felt too small and not convenient at all.

"Chunlai, hand me the bucket we use for sifting gold. I'll just use the bucket directly," Lin Nian called out, looking up.

"Okay, you wait here." Li Chunlai went straight to get two buckets and threw them into the pit.

The bucket floated up in the pit. Lin Nian filled the bucket to the brim with water, only to find that he couldn't splash it out at all; it was too heavy.

"Wait a minute, I'll go find you a rope, you can hang it on the bucket." Li Chunlai immediately ran back and brought back two ropes.

Lin Nian threw the rope down, tied it to the bucket, filled it with water, and then Li Chunlai lifted it out, emptied it, and threw it back to Lin Nian.

This method increased efficiency many times over.

"Perfect!" Lin Nian finally took the small basin, splashed the water out of the pit, and then climbed out.

"In that case, I estimate it will be almost dry in a day," Lin Nian said, patting the mud off his body.

"Why don't you go wash up by the river? Let's go back and cook something, then we can get back to work this afternoon," Chen Feng said.

Lin Nian went to the river to bathe, and everyone went back to prepare a meal. When Chen Jianguo returned to the cooking area, the first thing he did was pick up the pot and spit out the water.

Although the ground was extremely wet, they had charcoal, so cooking wasn't difficult.

It's fortunate that they bought charcoal; otherwise, if they had relied on chopping firewood and collecting branches, they probably wouldn't have had a hot meal for the next week.

While eating, Chen Feng kept checking the weather forecast to make sure there wouldn't be another rainstorm. However, he felt that with such a sunny day, it was unlikely to rain again.

After finishing their meal, the group went to the riverbank, where Li Chunlai first washed his diving suit in the river.

It rained before, and sand got into the water tank.

After washing up, Li Chunlai put on his clothes, grabbed the pipe, and went down into the river. Chen Feng fiddled with the machine, and the money-absorbing boat started spraying water out.

Li Chunlai went down into the river and found that, perhaps because of the heavy rain, a lot of the mud and sand that had been washed clean yesterday had returned today, forming a neat layer.

However, because of the gold-absorbing ship, the silt was sprayed upstream, and this layer of silt was also washed over from upstream.

To put it bluntly, it's all mud and sand that they've already sifted through; there's no need to vacuum it up again.

Following the trail from yesterday, Li Chunlai began sucking with the tube, but before he could suck for long, he saw a stone blocking his way.

He first cleaned the area around the stone, then kicked it aside with a few forceful kicks, and then sucked up the mud and sand underneath.

As he continued to inhale, Li Chunlai looked at the tube head in confusion, wondering why the suction seemed to be weakening.

Could it be that Brother Feng adjusted the parameters up there?

He tried it again and felt that although there was a slight difference, it wasn't significant, and he could still continue working.

There must be a reason why Brother Feng did this. Maybe he was worried that the rain might be too heavy and cause some kind of malfunction.

Since the machine hasn't stopped, I can just keep working on it.

Meanwhile, Chen Feng was on the shore, his safety rope tied to a stake nearby. He was looking down at a short video, holding a chicken foot in his hand, which he was gnawing on with relish.

Li Chunlai was underwater. After a while, he noticed that the suction of the pipe was sometimes strong and sometimes weak. What was going on?

"Is something blocking it?" Li Chunlai shook the tube forcefully to straighten it, then stuck his head in to look inside.

The pipes are clear and there's nothing wrong with them.

"This is really strange. Could it be that the newly bought gold-digging boat is ruined by just one rain?" Li Chunlai said, puzzled.

Despite his doubts, Li Chunlai continued working. Although the suction strength fluctuated, he was still able to get the job done.

But after he worked for another half hour, he was shocked to find that the tube had lost its suction.

In the past, when he put the pipe down on the riverbed, the surrounding mud and sand would be sucked in instantly, and even tree branches would get stuck.

Now, let alone putting it on the ground, even if he grabbed a handful of mud and sand and stuffed it into the pipe opening, the pipe couldn't suck it in. In fact, it would fall out after only a little bit was sucked in.

"Damn it, there's definitely something wrong with the machine." Without further hesitation, Li Chunlai carried the pipe back to the shore.

Chen Feng listened to the song listlessly, staring blankly at the river, lost in thought.

The next moment, a large black loach emerged directly from the river, startling Chen Feng.

"What's wrong? Why are you back so soon?" Chen Feng asked in surprise.

Li Chunlai took off his helmet and said in a puzzled tone, "Brother Feng, the pipe is broken, it's not working."

"What the heck?" Chen Feng didn't understand for a moment.

"It suddenly lost its strength, the tube can't suck anything up, it's completely useless, could the machine be broken?" Li Chunlai asked.

"Ah, let me see what's going on."

Upon hearing this, Chen Feng immediately stood up and walked to the gold-absorbing ship. If the pipe was weak or blocked, the gold-absorbing ship would definitely not be able to suck anything up.

As soon as he reached the money-attracting ship, he stared at the surging water column and fell into deep thought.

"Ah, how could this be?" Li Chunlai was also dumbfounded. Wasn't it supposed to be unable to suck up anything? Why was the gold-sucking ship still spraying water out?

"This doesn't look like a traffic jam, so what's going on?" Chen Feng said, stroking his chin thoughtfully.