Seeing that he had been startled, Lin Man Zhang asked worriedly, "Can you manage on your own?"
"I'm fine." Lu Ao added, "I'm already wearing my wetsuit, so it's more convenient."
He was already a very mature and experienced diver.
No one was particularly worried, really.
Lu Ao put on his diving mask, bit down on his snorkel, and swam straight out into the sea.
After a while, he dove to the seabed in a few quick strokes and searched the spot where Ge Ranzhou had fallen into the water.
There was more sand and fewer rocks there. Ge Ranzhou had struggled a little earlier, so his snorkel might have been buried beneath the sand.
Lu Ao carefully felt around with his gloved hand, intending to find the snorkel.
Anything could be hidden in the sand—crabs, shrimp, fish, and so on.
Many marine creatures were poisonous or covered in spikes. One careless move, and his hand could be pierced straight through.
Lu Ao only brushed lightly as he searched, never gripping anything firmly, ready to pull back at any moment.
Who knew that instead of finding the snorkel, he would find a hard object with a curved shape.
That definitely didn't feel like a fish.
Lu Ao was somewhat puzzled. He looked through his diving mask at the thing beneath him.
This stretch of sea was four or five meters deep. The sunlight filtering through the water was no longer very bright.
Still, he could see clearly enough.
Lu Ao could make out a small bulge in the sand beneath his hand. When he gently brushed it aside, he found an arched bottle mouth inside, small and rather delicate.
He gently pulled it out and saw that it was an intact porcelain bottle.
The bottle had a white base with