Entering the water is not a simple matter, especially the type of diving work, which is extremely dangerous, I agreed to Lao Li on the surface, but there is still a trace of apprehension in my heart.

Lao Li has already brought over the diving equipment at this time.

"Have you dived before?" Lao Li asked me.

"Nope."

"Can you swim?"

"Yes!"

"Enough, get into the water, just relax, don't run around, this lake is full of reef undercurrents, if you run around, it will be a big trouble to get stuck in the reef cracks." Lao Li told me a few words, let me take off my clothes, only wear a pair of underwear, and with the help of his men, put on a wetsuit for me.

This wetsuit is very different from the recreational diving suits rented out by the lodge.

This is the kind of deep-sea wetsuit with a helmet.

Lao Li helped me put on my clothes, and before putting on my helmet, he explained to me in detail the basic knowledge of diving, and when I was done, he asked his subordinates to put on the diving suits. Come with me to the water's edge, grab the rope, and slowly dip into the water.

Underwater is a wonderful world, and those who have dived in the water should have a deep understanding of this.

I won't go into too much detail about it.

I'll just talk about that, why do you keep diving down, and you don't stop doing things, here, how deep is it!

Lao Li and I each grabbed a rope and slowly went down, diving down for ten minutes, and then Lao Li made a gesture and signaled me to stop.

I looked down at the diver's watch on my wrist.

I'll go! 75 meters!

It was 75 meters underwater, and it was the first time in my life that I had been in such deep water.

I shook my head, felt my breath, and stared wide, looking closely at the bottom through the lenses on my helmet.

It is an area covered with countless rocks.

Occasionally, a few unknown big fish could be seen grinning at us, and then wagging their tails and walking away.

Lao Li made a gesture to me at this time, what he meant was that the person who came last time had picked red rock moss in this area.

I replied with an OK gesture.

The brain began to remember the appearance of the red rock moss.

The so-called red rock moss (there may also be other names, whatever.) This thing, strictly speaking, is a microorganism that grows on the bottom of the water, and it's similar to that kind of polyp, which is a worm that grows by sucking nutrients from seawater.

When I was learning medicine at home, my father once told me that if you want to take a whole piece of red rock moss, if you don't take it completely, its own pharmacological properties will change.

The surface of the intact red rock moss is ugly, a bit like the skin of a toad, and in addition, it has a dark red color, which is different from other bryophytes.

OK, toad, dark red, rocky surface.

I memorized these three key words, and while holding on to the diving rope, I groped around underwater.

At this time, Lao Li untied a diving flashlight from his waist and handed it to me, I pressed it, and I began to search carefully by shining on the large and small rocks that were all over the bottom of the lake.

There are many stones, and they are covered with moss, and some of them are dark red. Unfortunately, although their surface form is special, they are by no means toad skin.

I wandered around the neighborhood and didn't find the legendary red rock moss.

Now, if I go any further and leave this area, the length of the rope will not be enough. If you don't go forward, well, you won't be able to find the goods at all.

I turned my head and made a gesture to Lao Li, which meant to walk forward, walk.

Lao Li waved his hand to me vigorously and asked me to go back.

I shook my head disdainfully, hum! Diving isn't so scary, I'll go too!

My hand let go of the rope, and Lao Li grabbed it for me.

At the same time, I felt my body float up uncontrollably.

I fluttered in the water, and finally took the rope handed by Lao Li, and after I stabilized my body, I broke out in a cold sweat.

What a hang! If you are more than 20 meters deep, if you do not take measures to rise to the surface quickly, you can easily get stress decompression sickness, and then your life will be unbearable!

Lao Li made a decisive gesture, which means to say, do I really want to move forward?

I replied with a decisive look in my eyes.

Lao Li pulled the rope upwards hard, pulling it three times in total.

After a while, I saw a large iron cage slowly lowered from above, with pieces of lead ingots neatly stacked inside.

Lao Li pointed to the lead ingot, and then pointed to the hook on my waist, and motioned for me to hang that thing on my waist.

I nodded, struggled to lift the ingot, and slowly hung it on my waist.

One piece was hung, and I was about to hang the second one.

Lao Li motioned to me and that's it.

When he was done, he hung a piece for himself.

At the same time, we loosened the rope and sank half a meter before stepping firmly on the bottom of the lake.

With a diving flashlight in hand, we slowly moved forward, bypassing clumps of seaweed, and a deep ravine came into view.

I took my flashlight and swept it inside.

Suddenly, my eyes lit up!

Toad skin......

I suddenly quickened my pace, jumped forward a few times, and then, taking advantage of the situation, I grabbed a large rock, leaned over the side of the ditch wall, held up a diving flashlight, and looked at it.

Sure enough, on a steep rock wall more than one meter deep in the ditch, a red rock moss of half a square size suddenly appeared.

This thing, beautiful, students with dense object phobia will definitely have a headache when they see it, haha!

I took the flashlight and shone it repeatedly, and I carefully pulled an underwater work knife from my waist and was about to go down and cut it off the rock.

Lao Li grabbed me again.

I'm puzzled, baa again! (I can speak Cantonese too.) ）

Lao Li gestured with his hand, meaning that I would try the water.

I put one hand free, put it in the deep ditch, tried it, and I went, and there was a turbulent flow in it.

I'm going to jump if I'm not careful.

Oh, selling cakes, the Buddha can't save me.

What to do?

Lao Li gestured again at this time, and he asked me to hold his hand, and when he was done, he hugged a big stone with his other hand.

I agreed.

Lao Li first grabbed the stone, and then reached out to hold my wrist.

This old fellow, with his hands like big iron pliers, probably floated to the surface of the water in a moment, and the skin of my wrists was almost blue.

With everything in order, I leaned in, slowly descended, and reached out my hand, the tip of the knife just touching the red rock moss.

I remembered what my dad had told me, picking some of the keywords for this thing.

I took a knife and made a few gentle cuts along the bottom of the red rock moss, against the rocks.

I pulled the knife back, and sure enough, the blade was stained with something as strange as a hair.

This thing has a bit of a glue characteristic, so you can't deadlift it, you have to use a knife to separate the corners from the rock, and then slowly lift it up.

Be sure to pay attention to those filaments, if they are completely separated from the red rock moss, the medicinal effect of this thing will be greatly reduced.

I played with the knife carefully, although I am not a master, but fortunately I have a few years of kung fu foundation.

Slowly stick to the rock, gently scratch and cut.

I don't know how long it took, but I felt layers of sweat on my head under the helmet. Eventually, the red rock moss was finally completely peeled off, like a large dark red towel, drifting slowly on the rock with the undercurrent.

I put the knife away and stuck it back into my waist.

But at such an instant, it is estimated that the speed of the undercurrent is surging too fast, and it actually lifts up the entire red rock moss, and with the undercurrent, it is about to float towards the bottom of the ditch.

Your uncle! Brother's hard work! It can't be in vain!

At that moment, I didn't care about any safety at all, I didn't have that concept in my mind at all, I directly twisted my other hand, struggled, and got rid of Lao Li's shackles.

Oh!

Finally, I caught the red rock moss.

I smiled with relief.

The next second, I realized that I was going to be finished.

My body lost balance, and I grabbed the red rock moss, and I was about to go with the undercurrent and merge with the sea.

You can't die! As soon as I gritted my teeth, I moved my bulky legs with a wetsuit on, and a straight horse came straight to me.

But the two big feet wearing duck webs had just hit the cliffs on both sides of the deep ditch, and another torrent rushed up from behind.

Oh, I'm going to fall head-on.

But just as I was about to fall headlong into the deep ditch, my head was suddenly grabbed by two strong hands.

I looked up.

Okay, Lao Li played a scorpion to climb a tree upside down, with two legs, clamping a protruding big rock, his body turned down, and his two hands just grabbed my head.

The current situation is that I am a horse, and my two feet are against the ditch wall, swaying. Lao Li was facing down, with rocks between his legs, and his hands around my head.

We froze like this, and no one dared to move.

Who's going to move a little bigger, okay? The big fish in this sea are blessed tonight!

I looked up and looked through the waterproof mirror to see Lao Li.

The old guy moved his mouth.

Through lip analysis, I knew that he was scolding me: "Hit the street! ”

Brother, this time it's really not a street fight, brother...... It's the sea that flutters!

We held this position for a few minutes.

Finally, help arrived.

It is estimated that the guys on the shore saw that we had not gone up for so long, and they were afraid that we had really fed the fish, so they came down to see what was going on.

As a result, when he saw us like this, he didn't say a word, turned around and ran.

What's going on? Is Lao Li too mean to his subordinates? People want to kill him?

The facts tell me that I think too much.

The people went back to get the rope.

After a while, the rope arrived, and the fellow carefully threw one end of the rope over. With great difficulty, I grabbed the rope in the rushing waters and tied it around my waist.

Then, the guy and Lao Li worked together.

Finally got it for me.

We returned to safety exhausted, again tossing and turning, slowly ascending, decompressing......

Eventually, back to the surface, someone pulled it up.

I threw myself on the ground and fell to the ground.

Uncle He, in this life, my brother won't play diving anymore, this job is too dangerous!

A few guys ran over, surrounded me and Lao Li for a while, and took off our diving suits.

I had just carefully rolled the red rock moss that I had cut with my life.

Lao Li sat up with his ass, raised his legs and rushed over, and opened his mouth to roar: "Hit the street!" ”

I stood up in a hurry: "What's the matter, you still have to beat people?" Isn't this also here to help you collect medicine? ”

Lao Li stopped, looked me up and down, and when it was over, he hahahaha......

He burst into a series of heroic laughs, then walked over, slapped me on the shoulder twice, and said in standard Mandarin, "You guy!" How daring! Don't be afraid of death! It's a man! ”

I grinned: "Okay, don't boast, you see, it's going to be a typhoon this day, we have to think of a trick to send this medicine out." ”

Lao Li looked up at the black cloudy sky, called a man, put the red rock moss I picked into a green bucket, soaked it with seawater to keep it fresh, and then said a few words in Hakka.

The man took the order, carried the bucket and ran wildly.

I looked at the guy's back and asked, "Are you in a hurry?" ”

Lao Li: "Speedboat, full horsepower, it will be there in twenty-five minutes!" It's totally urgent! ”

I breathed a long sigh of relief, and when I was done, I turned my head and asked Lao Li: "Hey! Can you tell me who this medicine is for? That goods, it must be some kind of dignitary. ”

Lao Li smiled and said, "It's not a rich man, it's just a group of poor workers." ”