With the help of others, Li Chunlai put on his helmet, grabbed the vacuum tube, and swam into the river, where he began to slowly descend.
When Li Chun reached the bottom of the river, he suddenly realized that he didn't know what kind of inhaler to take.
There was no other way, so he could only hold the tube and start sucking on the spot. At the time, he was talking about the mud and sand at the bottom of the river, and he thought that would be enough.
Li Chunlai pressed the tube into the riverbed, and the silt and sand at the bottom of the river were sucked in by the vacuum tube, just like a vacuum cleaner.
He would focus on one spot and suck hard until the riverbed underneath was exposed, then slowly move forward and move to another spot to suck.
Meanwhile, the people on the shore saw the money-absorbing ship begin to spew mud and sand outwards.
"It's here, it's here! Spring has started sucking! Does this mean gold is coming?" Lin Nian excitedly walked over to take a look.
"Yes, that's roughly the process. It will take a long time, so let's see when he comes up," Chen Feng nodded in reply.
It's worth mentioning that while Huang Fei and the other two ran to see the money-attracting ship, Chen Feng stayed by the safety rope the whole time and never left.
Chen Feng knew where the gold deposits on the riverbed were most abundant, but since it was a trial operation today, he didn't specifically choose a location.
So we found a place and let Chunlai try it out first.
Moreover, according to Chen Feng's system display, there was indeed a considerable amount of gold sand at the bottom of the river, making it worth the risk for them.
Since it was all gold sand, Chen Feng had no way of estimating how much the gold was actually worth.
He could only observe for now. After a day of observation, Chen Feng would make a comparison based on the gold dust he had collected, and then he would be able to determine roughly how much this gold mine was worth.
"Fengzi, Chunlai is sucking down there, what are we doing? It feels like we have nothing to do," Huang Fei said after a while, somewhat bored.
"Wait a few hours, then you can go and replace him," Chen Feng said, sitting by the rope.
"That's fine, but what should I do now? I feel like it's not right for me to just sit here while everyone else is working," Huang Fei said, feeling a little guilty.
He used to slack off because it was his own business. He could earn whatever he wanted, or just lie down in his car and nobody could stop him.
But now that everyone is partners, he feels a little guilty just watching and waiting to get his share of the profits.
"Don't worry, this is just the beginning. Once things get on track, I reckon no one will be able to sit still," Chen Feng reassured him.
"Hey, why did it suddenly stop spewing out mud and sand?" Lin Nian asked, frowning as he looked at the money-absorbing ship.
The gold-sucking ship was spewing out mud and sand, but now it's spewing out almost all water.
"Maybe Chunlai has moved to a different place?" Huang Fei guessed.
"That's possible. Let's wait and see. He must have something going on." Chen Jianguo remained calm.
After all, the person down there wouldn't stop making money for no reason; something must have happened.
Several minutes passed, but the money-attracting ship remained unchanged, leaving everyone increasingly puzzled.
Logically speaking, changing locations shouldn't take this long. What on earth happened?
"Has the safety rope changed?" Chen Jianguo asked Chen Feng.
"No, everything is normal, there's no sign of it being pulled at all," Chen Feng shook his head.
"Sigh, what's going on? What's going on down there?" Chen Jianguo had never worked in a water mine before, so he didn't know what kind of situation he might encounter down there.
"If there's still no change in ten minutes, I'll pull the rope," Chen Feng said, glancing at his watch.
The main problem is that this isn't like land, where Chen Feng can know exactly what's happening. But underwater, he can't see the bottom at all, so Chen Feng has no confidence.
Just a few minutes earlier, Li Chunlai was sucking up gold. After he finished sucking up the gold in front of him, he saw a large rock protruding from the bottom of the river.
There was a lot of mud and sand underneath that big rock, so he couldn't suck it up at all.
Logically speaking, he could skip this piece and move on to the next one.
But having been with Chen Feng for so long, he had heard some things about gold.
Gold is heavy, so it usually sinks to the bottom, and the deeper it is, the higher the yield.
Li Chunlai was about to leave with the vacuum tube, but then he thought about it and stopped.
It would be such a waste to overlook this patch of rich mud, especially since this whole patch has already been absorbed, and he's only missing this big rock. He's not happy about that either.
So he put down the vacuum tube and went to try to move the big rock.
Although it's not as easy to pull in the river as it is on land, the river water also reduces the weight of the stones, so it's not too difficult to move them as I had imagined.
As soon as Li Chunlai lifted the stone, he saw a large clump of silt underneath. He grinned and continued to move it with all his might, trying to shift the stone's position.
The rock was quite large, so it wasn't realistic to move it all at once. He moved it little by little to one side.
After what seemed like an eternity of moving, the stone was finally completely removed from its original position, revealing a large patch of silt underneath.
Li Chunlai took a breath and prepared to turn back to look for the vacuum tube, but when he turned around, he found that the vacuum tube had already drifted to the side with the water flow.
"Grass!"
Seeing this, Li Chunlai cursed and could only swim backward to chase after the vacuum tube.
The key is that the vacuum tube isn't a real inanimate object; it's still shaking and sucking around randomly, and Li Chunlai tried to grab it several times but couldn't.
Finally, he swam forward a little, grabbed the back of the vacuum tube, and then slowly pulled forward, finally holding the vacuum tube in his arms again.
"They're pretty hard to catch, damn it."
Li Chunlai, holding the tube, swam back to the spot. When he arrived, he pressed the tube down hard and saw that all the silt had been sucked away without spilling a drop.
Honestly, this thing is quite stress-relieving, like inhaling dirty stuff.
Before he could play around for long, he suddenly felt a suction force coming from his back, pulling him upwards.
"Hey, hey!"
Li Chunlai turned around abruptly, and the familiar touch made him immediately realize what had happened.
"Damn it, here we go again! I finally managed to move the stone!" Li Chunlai said resentfully, holding the pipe.
He knew that the higher-ups thought something had happened to him and were worried, so they pulled the rope directly.
"Hey." Li Chunlai was all prepared to be pulled up, but suddenly the rope was lowered again.
"Um?"
A bewildered Li Chunlai looked up at the water. He didn't know what had happened, but it was good that he hadn't been pulled up. He quickly grabbed the pipe and swam downstream, diving straight to the bottom to suck up the mud and sand.
He breathed a sigh of relief when no one pulled him up after he finished inhaling, figuring they probably wouldn't pull him up again this time.
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