Chapter 488: The Secret of IIII
"Introduce a bell...... Lin Yafeng stared at the European-style standing clock that was ringing with a suspicious face, and slowly approached it step by step, then turned around and shrugged as the bell stopped, and said, "There is nothing wrong with the bell." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Lefu Gatling thought so, the bell rang just to mean that it was 12 noon, and it didn't mean anything. And they've just pushed the bell, and if they could, they would have done so a long time ago.
Just when Lin Yafeng and Lefu Gatling were about to find another way to find clues, Su Xiao's legs and feet did not move at all, but stared directly at the dial of the standing clock, frowning as if thinking about something?
"What's wrong?" Lin Yafeng and Su Xiao have gone all the way, knowing the perseverance in his bones and not admitting defeat. He didn't believe that Su Xiao was deliberately pretending to be stupid because he was too lazy to continue looking for clues, since Su Xiao cared so much about the standing clock, he must have found something strange on the bell, so he asked, "Is there anything strange on this bell?" ”
Su Xiao tilted his head and said: "The numbers on this dial are Roman numerals, although I don't have any research on Roman numerals, but I remember that the Roman numerals 5 are V and 10 are X, so if you work backwards to 4, 6, 9 and 11, it should be a vertical (IV) on the left side of V, a vertical (VI) on the right side of V, a vertical (IX) on the left side of X and a vertical (XI) on the right side of X." The others are fine, but if you look at this 4, it's actually represented by four verticals (IIII), is this a mechanism? ”
With Lin Yafeng's big temperament, he would never notice the Roman numerals on the dial. But there were connoisseurs present, and Lefgatling knew the structure of clocks better than anyone else, and couldn't help nodding his head and saying, "Our family has been watchmakers for generations, and I know that." ”
Su Xiaoyong is right, under normal circumstances, the 4 on the dial is indeed represented by IV, but although it is not commonly used, it is not impossible to use four I's to represent 4. If you think it's a mechanism just because 4 is written differently, I don't think it's going to be. We stayed in the vault for the past two days, and the clock would be on time at four o'clock every day, and didn't the door to the secret room be opened? I guess it's just a coincidence, right? ”
Su Xiao was only slightly skeptical, and he just did it when he heard Lefu Gatlin say this. However, Lin Yafeng grasped a key point very keenly, looked at Lefu Gatlin and asked, "Your family is a watchmaker, does Uncle Sam know?" ”
Lefu Gatlin was stunned for a moment, then nodded and admitted: "In the Snow Capital, there should be nothing that Mr. does not know. ”
"Hehe......" Hearing such an affirmative answer, Lin Yafeng once again locked his eyes on the European-style standing clock, and said brightly: "If Uncle Sam wants to leave a clue that is not discovered by the murderer, but can be found by us, then the carrier of the clue must be designed as something that only we and he knows." Xiaoxiao and I have only known you for half a month, and even if we train together every day, the connection between us is nothing more than a grenade and a Gatling gun, and these two things are too dazzling in this world to be suitable. But he knows that you were once a watchmaker, and with your years of master-servant affection, the possibility of hiding the clue in the clock is not ordinary! ”
Su Xiao touched his nose and said, "You have a lot of sense, but Rifle is right, we heard this bell ring with our own ears yesterday afternoon, didn't nothing happen in the vault at that time?" ”
"Oh!" Su Xiao patted his head and suddenly said, "I know, nothing will happen at four o'clock in the afternoon, but we are never here at four o'clock in the morning, maybe the door of the secret room will open at that time?" ”
Lefu Gatling shook his head and said: "Su Xiaoyong, you think too much, the clock is a very accurate machine, whether it is four o'clock in the morning or four o'clock in the afternoon, it is just a matter of twelve turns of the hour hand." If the bell at four o'clock in the morning can open the door to the secret room, then the bell at four o'clock in the afternoon must also do. ”
On the one hand, seeing Su Xiao's eagerness to try, and on the other hand, he was also a dead horse as a live horse doctor, Lefgartrin personally walked to the standing clock, opened the glass cover that protected the dial, stretched out his index finger to drag the minute hand, first turned it four times, set the time to four o'clock this afternoon, waited for the bell to finish, and then turned the minute hand twelve times, set the time to four o'clock tomorrow morning, and then listened to the pendulum strike four times, but of course nothing happened.
Facing Lefu Gatlin's "Look, I'll say it" gaze, Su Xiao could only nod helplessly and admit his mistake. However, just when the two of them were already about to lift the floor again to take a look, Lin Yafeng suddenly shook his head and said, "That's not right! ”
"Tell me what's wrong?" When it comes to clocks, Lefgatling is an authority, and he also has the conceit of not losing to anyone in his old profession.
"You're not doing the right thing." Lin Yafeng walked to the dial and said calmly: "It is precisely because you were a watchmaker and you have the blood of cherishing clocks in your bones, so you will use your fingers to turn the dial by turning the minute hand to avoid the collision of the gears inside the clock." However, even if you make 10,000 turns, the time displayed on the dial is still normal, and every time the hour hand points to 4 o'clock, the minute hand will inevitably point to 12 o'clock. ”
Lefu Gatlin asked, puzzled, "yes, what's wrong with that?" ”
"Big problem!" As he spoke, Lin Yafeng stretched out his hands and grabbed the two hands on the dial very roughly, and dragged them together to the direction of 4 o'clock, "If this 4 is really a clue, then according to your rotation method, the hour and minute hands will never point to 4 at the same time!" ”
As soon as Lin Yafeng's voice fell, the even and orderly ticking sound of the original standing bell suddenly became "Click!" There was a muffled sound, and then, I saw that the European-style standing clock, which the three of them couldn't move even a single inch, slowly moved about 1 meter horizontally to the left, revealing a small door made of stainless steel that was only large enough for one person to enter and exit!
"The Chamber of Secrets! It's really a secret room! Lefu Gatlin jumped up and down in surprise, "We've found the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets!" ”
"Shenma? Didn't Lao Tzu look at the gold coins for two days in vain? Sun Chengfang rubbed his red and swollen eyes, looking like he was going to hit someone.
Su Xiao looked at the sudden iron door in front of him, shook his head in shock, and then gave Lin Yafeng a thumbs up, "Awesome!" ”
"Just kidding, it's your brains that solve cases!" Lin Yafeng's smug nostrils almost rolled to the sky, "I said early in the morning that there was something wrong with this clock!" What do you think! Who else! ”
Lefu Gatlin professionally dismantled the stage and mended the knife, "Lin Yafeng brave, how do I remember that you said that there is nothing wrong with this clock?" ”
"Forehead......" Lin Yafeng opened his mouth in embarrassment, and said indignantly for a long time: "You kid really can't chat!" ”
The four of them laughed together, and then they focused on the iron door in front of them, but saw that there was only a small keyhole on the bare door panel, that is, if you want to open the door, you have to find the key first.
"Paralysis!" Lin Yafeng took out the gold digger's exclusive prop level 10 skill variety key, but found that he couldn't insert this keyhole at all, so he frowned and said to himself, "Uncle Sam is worthy of being an old thief, knowing that the gold digger's variety key can open the locks of all treasure chests, so he specially embedded a door lock that is one size smaller than the treasure chest lock, and he can't poke it with the variety key." ”
"What then?" It was easy to find such a key clue, and Su Xiao planned to counter violence with violence, "Why don't we blow the door open with a blasting shovel?" ”
"No!" Lefu Gatling didn't want to protect the door with his body, opened his hands and begged: "Su Xiao Yong, let's think of another way, okay?" This castle is the home of the gentleman after all, can we not destroy it? ”
"Don't laugh and laugh and beep, don't worry, we won't blow up the door." Seeing Lefgartling's pitiful appearance, Lin Yafeng shook his head and said: "This is also the place where Uncle Sam hides things, the secret room in the vault, it's exciting to think about, the ghost knows what gas is filled in the inflatable doll, what if it's all explosives?" It doesn't matter if the door can be blown open, whether it will affect the sunglasses is also secondary, the key is not to go down with a shovel and bury us alive. The case hasn't been solved yet, so I don't want to die. ”
Sun Chengfang sat on the ground with his butt slumped, and said angrily: "I finally found the door to the new world, and you actually told me that you still need the key?" I'm really drunk, I'm really drunk, such a big castle, where do we go to find the key? ”
Hearing this, Su Xiao, who was repeatedly looking at the keyhole on the door, smiled, "I understand, it turns out that Mr. Richard gave us the key early in the morning!" ”