Xie Bangui still didn't give up and said, "Is there anyone else in the Su family?" ”

"And Su Heng's daughter of the dead ghost, called Su Li'er." ┡ΔLiterature』『『Fascinating』." The tall fat man's squinted eyes emitted a faint green light: "That girl looks like a water spirit, like a little tender onion, but now she has become a fatherless and motherless orphan." ”

Su Li'er really felt pity for me, but Xie Bangui is not a person who knows how to appreciate beautiful women, and he also doesn't know what it means to pity fragrant and cherish jade, so he asked straight to the point: "Before your father died, was there anything different from usual?" ”

Su Li'er shook her head with tears in her eyes: "No! ”

Xie Bangui then asked, "What does your father usually rely on for a living, who does he associate with, and what close friends do he have?" ”

"I don't know." Su Li'er said: "My father's affairs are rarely mentioned to me, and he rarely cares about me, and he doesn't even see me a few times a year. ”

Xie Bangui nodded, and asked again, "Have you been to the study?" Is there anything different about the current study? ”

"It seems to be ......," Su Li'er pondered, "Father seems to be very interested in locks, and I often see him fiddling with locks in the study. ”

"Locks?" Xie Bangui's eyes lit up and said, "I understand, fat man, you immediately find someone who is still alive in Su Mansion, preferably someone who specializes in cleaning the study." Su Heng's study was completely restored, and the position of everything could not be changed. Old Qian, you go and find all the most famous locksmiths in the city, remember to be hard-handed, smart-minded, and don't look for those with two knives. ”

The tall fat man said in a daze: "Brother, what are you going to do?" ”

"Confirm my suspicions."

It didn't take long for Lao Qian to escort the four locksmiths back to Su Mansion, and scolded and said: "These people are cheap, and they refuse to come if they talk about it, so they have to be rude." ”

The tall fat man also spread his hands helplessly: "The miscellaneous servants of Sufu are similar, none of them dare to enter the door, or I took the water and fire stick to get in." ”

"Official! Hey-" Xie Bangui sighed bitterly, and then walked up to the locksmith and said kindly: "Don't be afraid, Lord Gao invited you just to solve some problems, and when the work is done, he will naturally let you go back, and he will also give a certain reward." ”

As soon as the locksmith heard that he was paid, he immediately came to his senses, but he looked at the old money as if he was a little afraid to do so. Lao Qian glared at him and scolded: "What do you see, do what Master Xie tells you to do." If you don't do a good job, you can't be treated badly, at least five taels of silver per person, and give cash. ”

"Five taels of silver!" The four locksmiths were gearing up one by one and eager to try, but they couldn't save less than five taels of silver without eating or drinking for a year. If you have money, let alone let them come to the haunted house, even if you let them dig the grave, it will never be ambiguous.

"Morale is available!" The tall fat man laughed and said, "Brother Xie, come on!" ”

Xie Bangui led people into the study and pointed to the furnishings in the room and reminded: "Everyone look at this study, does it look like a lock cylinder?" ”

"Like! Indeed like! The four locksmiths said in unison: "Look at the beam, the ground is the keyhole, or those protruding places......

Xie Bangui said: "Your task now is to find a way to unlock the lock, the sooner the better." ”

"Yes!" The four locksmiths are all people who are obsessed with the art of locking, and now they can still take care of answering Xie Bangui, and study the lock cylinder by themselves.

In order not to disturb their research, Xie Bangui led people to retreat, leaving only a servant to assist. As soon as the tall fat man went out, he couldn't wait to ask, "Brother, how did you see it?" ”

Xie Bangui explained: "The general study is boxy and well-lit, but Su Heng's study is a semicircular long hole, very similar to a cave in Shaanxi, and there are only two windows at the main entrance, and the light in the room is very poor, which is the strangest thing about the study." According to Feng Shui, the roof generally does not show beams, and even if the beams are exposed, they will not be placed on top of the owner's head. This study not only has a beam in the middle, but also has a lot of large and small convex convex concaves on the beams, which is a big disadvantage in feng shui, and it is a strange thing to be put into the study in a grand manner. It is even less likely that a large family like Sioux will do so. ”

The tall fat man glared and said, "Based on these, you conclude that there is a problem with the study?" ”

"More than that!" Xie Bangui said: "Judging from Su Heng's corpse, he himself is a master of the inner family who is not low in cultivation, but such a person still has to pay a lot of money to hire the outlaws of the rivers and lakes as a guard, which shows that he is a person who cherishes his life." Since he spared his life, why didn't he go out to fight after that ghost car killed the two wolves in Northern Xinjiang, but instead shrank in the study? ”

Mei Xin'er hurriedly said: "There are things in the instruction room that he has to guard even if he sacrifices his life!" ”

"Yes!" Xie Bangui said: "The fat man said, they have searched the study four or five times, but they have not found any valuable clues. It is enough to show that there are extremely secret mechanisms in the study. ”

"Yes, yes, yes......," Gao Fat agreed, "I have already asked people to knock on the walls and floors of the study inch by inch, and there is no echo of the existing dark grid." It seems that Su Heng's dead ghost has designed the mechanism very deeply. But what if those locksmiths can't find a way to pick the lock? ”

Xie Bangui smiled: "Then dismantle the study and find it little by little." However, it is too dangerous to do this, since there is a mechanism, it is not possible to have hidden weapons such as hidden arrows and poisons, and if you don't get it right, it will cause casualties. ”

The tall fat man almost didn't jump up: "Go, tell those locksmiths, get the lock cylinder, and I will reward five taels of silver more for each person, but if you can't open it, you will all go to prison." ”

Under the heavy reward and threat of the tall fat man, the four locksmiths burst out with amazing energy, and in less than an hour they came up with a plan.

A young locksmith said respectfully: "Several adults, according to the analysis of the grass people, the house is a chain lock between son and mother, and there are three lock cylinders that must be opened at the same time. And the grass people have already found the house where the other two lock cylinders are located. It's just that...... It's just that the grass people can't push the mechanism on the lock cylinder. ”

"It's easy to do! Aren't there still a few of us? Xie Bangui really unceremoniously ordered: "I am in charge of the study, the fat man and Lao Qian are each in charge of a room, the girl is standing outside to command, she says to move, we will move together." ”

Unlocking is nothing more than using a hard object such as a key or steel wire to provoke the tension spring on the lock cylinder. Even if the lock is changed to a mechanism, it is only a matter of the size of the tension spring, but the mechanism that the locksmith can't push is difficult for the three martial arts masters. In just a few moments, the muffled sound of palm hitting heavy objects in the air erupted in three rooms at the same time.

The wall facing the door of the study slowly dented with the sound, and a table covered in red silk gradually peeked out of the wall. In the center of the table was a one-foot-square wooden box. An iron skeleton sat cross-legged in the middle of the wooden box, its limbs clasped around its empty abdomen, clutching the keyhole-like black hole.

No matter which angle you look at it, you feel that the skeleton skeleton seems to be staring at you with a black hole hole with a hideous smile. It makes people's hearts flutter.

The tall fat man couldn't help but swallow his saliva: "This can't be a lock, right?" ”

Xie Bangui said solemnly: "You guessed it, it's just a lock!" Get out of the way, and I'll see what this lock has to offer! ”

Xie Bangui's set of soul claws, the real soul claws are all dark gold, it looks like it is made of brass, although there is no dazzling cold light, but with a dignified murderous aura, even if it is not set on the hand, it can make people instinctively afraid and dare not touch it easily.

Xie Bangui flicked the blade on the back of his claw and picked it at the skeleton's arm. The blade approached, and the small skeleton was completely blocked behind, but the smooth and mirror-like blade reflected the skeleton's frightened expression, and its body even dodged back a little at the moment when the blade was approaching. But everyone's eyes were focused on Xie Bangui's iron claws, completely ignoring the skeleton's subtle movements.

After the tip of the Soul Claw touched the skull's arm, it slid all the way down and tapped lightly on the lid twice, then flipped half a circle to the right, stabbed slightly into the gap in the lid, and slowly swiped to the left.

"Click!" The crisp sound of the tension spring clearly reached everyone's ears, and the blade retracted into its claws with a "boom".

Xie Ban, who was holding his breath, saw that there was no movement in the box, so he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "The skeleton should just be a strange lock." However, there is a mechanism in the box. Forcibly breaking the wooden box obviously doesn't work, so you can only find a lockpicking master to try. ”

The tall fat man turned to the four locksmiths and said, "Whoever can open the box will be rewarded by this official." ”

Four locksmiths, you look at me, I look at you, no one said anything for a long time.

Don't say it, that lock is so weird that it makes people feel furious, and the fact that there is a mechanism in the box alone makes people dare not take common sense easily. Who knows, what hell can fly out of the box if you accidentally fly out of it?

The tall fat man saw that no one squeaked and increased his chips: "Whoever can open the box, the official will reward one hundred taels of silver, no, two hundred taels...... If you don't want silver, it's okay to make up for a gap in the yamen, and it's better to eat a public meal than to fiddle with a lock? ”

The youngest locksmith finally couldn't resist the temptation and stood up: "Little one, I want to try." ”

"Maverick!" An old locksmith even made a look, but the calf just ignored it. Angry, he stomped his feet and said, "Maverick! That's a spirit lock, not a joke, be careful of that silver, you have a life to earn and a life to spend! ”

"Spirit locks?" Xie Bangui turned around and said, "Can you understand that lock?" ”

"Don't touch it!" The old locksmith didn't pay attention to the half-ghost at all, but rushed to the calf who was in a hurry to open the lock.

The calf, who had already been obsessed with money, heard the old locksmith call for breaking the "spirit lock", for fear that he would rob the business, so he hurriedly took out the master key and inserted it into the lock hole.

As soon as the key touched the keyhole, the skeleton sitting on the box jumped up and opened its five fingers to grasp the calf's eyes.

Turning into elbows and armpits, it was too late for Xie Bangui to come to the rescue, and in a hurry, his palm turned over, and his palm was blocked outward on the calf's eyes. Hearing only the sound of "dang", Xie Bangui's palm with a desperate soul claw burst out, and his arm followed and raised backwards, and the calf was also knocked to the ground.

Xie Bangui originally wanted to grab the flying skeleton, but he didn't want the skeleton to be so violent, it was no less than a projectile shot out of the fire gun, and the iron claw still shook Xie Bangui's palm painfully. After a moment's hesitation, he grabbed it again and the skeleton slid down his palm, falling right into the calf's mouth.

"Ahh......h Help me......"

Before Xie Bangui and the others could react, the skin and flesh of the calf's whole body exploded into a rain of blood, and the hazy blood mist spread out in the limited space, instantly blocking everyone's sight.

When Xie Bangui slowly put down the arm blocking his face, he saw that the locksmith calf had turned into a skeleton with no flesh and blood all over his body, sitting cross-legged on the ground, and using his hands and feet to protect the wooden box on the table in his abdomen. It looked like it was a living reflection of the strange lock.