After listening to the fat man's words, Lao Dai nodded slightly, and then immediately shook his head.

"No, no, that still doesn't make sense, if it's really a helpless move for the ship to be hit and sunk, then it should also stay on the deck and wait for rescue. They're fine, running around the cabin, and besides, we've looked for a lot, and we didn't even see the shadow of the cabin door, how did they get in? ”

"Practice is the only criterion for testing the truth, let's stop guessing here, won't everything be clear if we find them." The fat man slapped off the dust on his hands because he had touched the big wooden box just now and stood up.

He didn't move when he got up, and stood in front of the wooden box, gesturing with something in his hands.

It took me a while to stand up, and my legs were numb. When I got up, I noticed that he was gesturing a mark on the box with his hand.

It was a palm mark, and on the originally thick dust, the movement of the two palm marks was like trying to open the box.

I was shocked for a long time when I saw this palm print, the left hand was normal, but the palm of the right hand was obviously very different.

At this time, the fat man used his right hand to compare the palm print on the box, and the reason why the palm print on the right hand was strange was because there was no middle finger and ring finger on the palm.

There are only traces of three fingers on the palm, and the action of lifting the lid of the box is generally to press the thumb to borrow force, and the remaining four fingers to exert force, so that the upper force can be used to open the box.

There is no such thing as a special habit of lifting the middle finger and ring finger, so the person carrying the box must not have the middle and ring fingers of the right hand.

The fat man gestured a few times, and then his eyes moved to the place where the big lock was: "It seems that they haven't opened it either." After saying that, he flicked the big copper lock with his hand a few more times.

There were already traces of a touch on the lock, because it was the same person. The fat man flicked the lock a few more times, then turned his head to look at me.

"What's in it, you say?"

As soon as he opened his mouth, I knew what he was going to fart, and this guy probably had the idea of hitting the box.

"You can't open it with gold." I said angrily.

The fat man didn't know if he didn't hear it or didn't care about my tone at all, and then I said, "Hey...... Don't say that, as long as it's gold, I can bite it open with my teeth. ”

"What can be in this broken box, let's hurry up and get down to business, if we really can't find anything, let's quickly withdraw." I kicked the box and said helplessly.

The fat man immediately replied: "How do you say this, it's not just to find clues to do business, isn't this a clue." He kicked the box a few times as he spoke.

I sneered: "I don't know about your little fancy intestines?" You can do whatever you want, I don't agree, can you still be willing? ”

The fat man smiled and picked up the big copper lock on the box. These chests are all of the same style, and the brass locks are all of the same standard.

"How are you going to open this lock?" The old generation, who was looking at another box, suddenly asked.

He was fiddling with the brass lock on another wooden box, which was already a little deformed. It seems to have been violently smashed, and the traces must have been done by those people.

From the traces, it can be seen that the tool used by the person who violently picked the lock was a blunt instrument such as a hammer. A piece of the black paint of the wooden box near the edge of the lock has fallen off, but the lock is only slightly deformed.

"They all smashed the locks, why don't they just smash the boxes." I looked at the big wooden box, and thought that those people were really stupid, and they didn't smash the sturdy wooden box without smashing it, but they had to smash the lock with a tendon, but they didn't smash it open.

As I spoke, Lao Dai pointed to the top of the wooden box, and then I realized that there were several pits on the surface of the wooden box, which had been smashed not long ago, and it seemed that it was also from the hands of those people.

"You're telling me these people are fishermen?" I asked the fat man back.

"These people are robbers, more direct than me."

The fat man stood up and saw the marks of the wooden box being knocked out, and after looking at it for a while, he swung his fist and slammed the big wooden box a few times. Except for a muffled sound, the wooden box did not change at all.

"When the boat sinks, who will have the heart to get a tool up, I said that those people must not be that simple, at least they are definitely not fishermen, and it is possible that they took the initiative to get on the boat." The old man took the short harpoon from the fat man's harpoon gun. I walked to the place where the fat man was squatting just now.

Fat tapped on the wooden box with two fingers: "Take the initiative to come up, will it ......" Before he finished speaking, he held back himself.

"Alas...... It's not like that. The locks have been broken for you, and this thing is an antiquity, and maybe it's worth 1800. ”

The fat man saw the old man who was priing the copper lock with a short harpoon, and hurried up to stop him.

"If it's really gold, you care about that." Old Dai Dao.

The fat man took the short harpoon in Lao Dai's hand, squatted down and said: "No matter how small the fly is, it is fast meat, besides, what is inside, we don't know yet, if there is really nothing, don't you look for both." ”

Saying that, the fat man squatted down and studied the copper lock, this guy is familiar with the door, and he opened the shell of the lock after a few flips.

I couldn't help but be a little surprised when I saw this: "You really have two brushes, and you can do this job of picking locks at the sliding door." ”

"Fuck you," he said suddenly, and after a pause, he said, "This doesn't look like a fucking lock." ”

Shao lock often appears in many costume TV series, a palm-length key can be opened by inserting it from the side, and the structure is quite simple.

I looked at the appearance of the lock, it was a Shao lock form, and then said: "If you can't open it, you can't open it, this is not a Shao lock or something." ”

Before he finished speaking, the fat man lifted the lock cylinder that had been removed from the copper shell with a stretch of his hand. Just when I saw that my scalp was numb, how could this thing be so complicated.

According to common sense, the inner wall structure of Shao lock generally has only one caliper. The key is inserted through the lock hole and the clip is pressed against the circlip. The calipers will open naturally.

In the early days, one of the outer three thieves was usually equipped with a short lead thorn, similar to the three-edged army thorn, but it was thinner. The lead spike pierced the keyhole and pressed down on the circlip, which was not an obstacle in the eyes of those people.

But now the lock cylinder with the copper shell removed is an extremely complex metal core, and just a little look at it, I can't count how many copper gears there are in the lock cylinder.

"Can this thing be made at the beginning of tomorrow? It can't be modern or modern, right? I asked, puzzled, really impressed by this sophisticated mechanical structure.

"The Carpenter Emperor has always heard of it, right?" The old man asked behind us.

I said yes and nodded. Lao Dai continued: "Although the carpenter emperor Zhu Youxiao was a faint monarch, his craftsmanship made some top craftsmen have to admire at that time, and it is rumored that there was almost no difference between the Western clocks and watches copied by him at that time. ”

"So you mean this technology was possible at the time?"

The fat man took a sip: "What he means is that there was definitely at that time, and this kind of lock cylinder mechanism was not only in the Ming Dynasty, as early as the Warring States period, there was already a similar prototype." And don't always look down on our ancestors, you can't think of some things at that time. ”

As soon as I saw that he was far away, I immediately stopped: "Don't talk nonsense, you just say if you can open it, if you can't open it, we will withdraw first." ”

"yes, if we can't open it, we won't waste it here. You see, those guys smashed it and didn't open it. The old generation also responded at the same time.

The fat man immediately sneered and said, "Smash it, it's strange if you can smash it." As he spoke, the fat man scraped the brass lock with the blade of the arrow of the short harpoon.

Immediately, a little bit of blue-black came out from under the peeling copper, and the blue-black gave off some metallic luster, and it didn't look low at all.

The fat man continued: "This thing is not copper, the forging process is more troublesome than the current steel, and it cannot be smashed open." And once it is smashed and deformed, the lock cylinder will immediately freeze, and then don't think about opening it again. ”

"You don't have to do it?"

The fat man smiled: "If you fat man and I are not here, there is really no way to take it." Coincidentally, I'm here today, and although the lock is strong, it can be opened, but it's a little troublesome. ”

The fat man has made up his mind to open this wooden box, and he will not stop if he can't open it. I half-crouched next to him and lit him up, and the old generation was not interested and just leaned on the box and looked at me and the fat man.

The fat man said while fiddling with his hand: "This lock is called "Sixteen-foot Turnaround", and it not only requires a key, but also a password to open it completely. ”

As soon as I heard it, I thought of something and immediately blurted out: "Safe? ”

"So let's say, this kind of mechanism, the ancients have thought of it a long time ago, and we are all just playing with other people's leftovers." The fat man was talking, and the work in his hands did not stop.

"Sixteen-foot turnaround" is its direct meaning. It is mainly constructed by sixteen diamond rulers, and generally the more rulers, the more difficult it is to unlock. So there are often variants of "thirty-two feet turnaround" or sixty-four.

The teeth of the ulnar are interlocked, one foot after another. Each ruler has six teeth, and the key is inserted into it, and then it can be opened in the corresponding order.

Imagine the sixth power of sixteen, this kind of password is simply impossible to try out by experiment. However, this kind of machine will also increase in size due to the complexity of the structure, so the diamond lock in front of it naturally can't fit more than sixteen feet, so most of them may just be gimmicks.

The fat man was very careful, and I was afraid of disturbing him by talking, so I just remained silent on the side. The vajra lock under his hand just kept making a clicking sound.

According to the guess I saw, the fat man should have come directly to "Wu", because after only a while, I saw him remove a piece of ruler teeth from the King Kong lock.

After this piece of ulnar teeth was removed, there was no chain reaction, and the other ulnar teeth did not fall off, but the fat man's complexion seemed to be tighter. Suddenly, the King Kong lock let out a crisp "snap" sound, and then the fat man also let out a rough exclamation.