If it's not fair, it's not fair, and I didn't expect him to be fair anyway.

The eight-treasure box that Yan Yu took out was indeed a rare treasure, not to mention what kind of ingenuity was arranged inside, the fine workmanship alone could make it priceless.

This box should be a product of the Sui and Tang dynasties, and then it has undergone many renovations by later generations, such as the gold and silver threads inlaid on the surface of the box, which were inlaid and engraved in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. The four black copper buckles on the lid were embedded in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Since this thing can be renovated by later generations, it is enough to explain several key issues.

First, this eight-treasure box is very important to the Muren Valley, so it can be used from the Sui and Tang dynasties to the present.

Second, the frequency of use of this thing should be quite high, resulting in rapid depreciation, so it is necessary to renovate it side by side.

Thirdly, the descendants of the Wooden Man Valley should not be able to create the same thing, either because they have lost the inheritance of making similar items, or they are no longer able to find the materials used to make the Eight Treasure Boxes.

Considering these three points together, this box should be a toolbox, or a tool in itself, and the Karakuri inheritance of the Woodman Valley may have begun to decline after the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

While I was thinking about this repeatedly, I took out the bell hammer and knocked it on the box a few times.

It is said that the world is clever and Luban, but because the era in which Yanshi lived was five hundred years earlier than Luban, the mechanism technique of the Woodman Valley is probably very different from the mechanism technique I am familiar with.

But no matter how it changes, it will always change from its origin, but all organs are nothing more than a combination of hooks, teeth, tendons, buckles, and charms, no matter how powerful Yanshi is, I am afraid it will not be able to leave this category.

When I tapped the box repeatedly with a bell hammer, I realized that I was still thinking too simply.

The sound coming from the bell hammer was very muffled and astringent, and the eight treasure boxes seemed to be stuffed with roasted beef tendons, which were piled up haphazardly and seemed to be out of order.

I was able to crack those extremely complex mechanisms because no matter how complex they were, I could always figure out the patterns, but right now, I found myself unable to see through this eight-treasure box.

Yan Yu probably saw that I had a difficult face, so he smiled on the side: "It doesn't matter if you can't untie it, this eight-treasure box in my hand, from ancient times to the present, no one outside the Wooden Man Valley can unlock it." ”

I ignored him, just picked up the eight-treasure box and took a closer look at the surface.

As I said before, this thing depreciates very quickly because it is often used, even if the descendants of the Wooden Man Valley often renovate it, there are still some traces of cracking on the surface of the box, and the black copper nails on the lid are actually patches used to close the cracks, if these two nails are pulled out, the lid of the Eight Treasure Box will be completely cracked.

Thinking of this, I took out a small tool called anti-anchor from the toolbox, which is specially used to remove things like nails, which is very useful.

In order to prevent the lid from cracking directly, I tried to lighten the force on my hand as much as possible, and took out the nails with a reverse anchor little by little.

Yan Yu's face became a little nervous as soon as he saw me struggling against the nails, but he still didn't stop me, it seemed that he was still quite confident in this ancestral Eight Treasure Box.

Speaking of which, if the two nails are removed, the lid of the box can be cracked, and the ancestral Eight Treasure Box of the Wooden People Valley is too easy to deal with.

So I only removed one of the staples and stopped, and then leaned into the ghost's eye to observe the specific layout of the inside of the box.

After the nails were removed, the lid of the box only left two small holes the size of sesame seeds, and the box was very dark, so if there were no ghost eyes, you really couldn't see the scene inside.

When Yanyu saw that I had stopped, he smiled and said, "Why don't you dismantle it?" Are you going to throw in the towel? ”

I still didn't pay attention to him.

Looking through the inlay, I saw that there was indeed a very thick piece of leather glue pressed inside the box, and I couldn't tell what this leather glue was, a bit like softened amber, and a little like dried gum.

Obviously, you can see that the shadows of some small tools can indeed appear under the glue layer, and inside the glue layer, there are also some gear teeth and needle hooks, because the glue layer blocks the view, I can't see what the combination of those things looks like, but I can roughly guess that it should be a defensive arrangement in the box, once the box is opened forward, they will be activated.

I slowly shifted my gaze, finally fixing on a dark shadow to the left of Jiaozeng.

It was a large number of mechanical components hoarded there, and it was only then that such a shadow was finally formed.

My guess is that it should be the opening device of the Eight Treasure Box.

In order to confirm this idea, I deliberately turned the box near the shadow in front of my face and pretended to observe this part of the box.

Sure enough, Yan Yu's expression suddenly became a little solemn, obviously worried about something.

I took out a very thin crochet hook from the toolbox, threaded the needle through the hole left by the staple, and used the tip of the needle with a curved hook to hook the glue layer in the shadow area little by little.

As soon as the glue layer opened like this, I felt a very weak spiritual rhyme.

It seems that this box is blessed with some kind of magic.

If I'm not mistaken, this technique should also be a kind of blood test array that was more common in ancient times, that is to say, only people with the blood of the Yan family can pass the test of the formation and easily open the Eight Treasure Box.

No wonder Yanyu is so confident, I am not a Yanjia, and it is simply impossible to open this box from the outside.

But now that I've put the crochet needle into the box, as long as I find the most critical lock, even if I don't touch the formation, I can still open the Eight Treasures box.

After that, I carefully observed the mechanism near the blood test array, and finally found the pinned button that was only the size of a sesame seed under a pile of wooden teeth.

I pressed my hand steadily, carefully probed the crochet into the gap between the teeth, first with a gentle push, then with a gentle pull, and then pulled the clip away.

At the same time as the box clicked, I had already pulled out the crochet needle, and in the next moment, the lid popped open.

As soon as the lid was opened, the glue layer in the box was in contact with air in a large area, and immediately like a roller shutter, it rushed in one direction, and all the tools stored in the eight treasure boxes were revealed.

As if he didn't want me to see the contents of the box, Yan Yu immediately rushed over and snatched the eight treasure boxes.

How did he know how powerful the ghost eye was, and he thought that as long as he hid the Eight Treasure Box behind him, I wouldn't be able to see the contents inside, but I took a cursory look, and the things in that box were basically in my tool box.

Wu Lin, who had not said a word before, also opened his mouth coldly at this time: "How about it, admit defeat, right?" ”

Yan Yu looked unconvinced and irritable: "I said that I won two out of three sets, and you only won one set, it's early!" ”

I guess he didn't expect me to open the box, and I could still hear a hint of panic in his fiery tone.

Next is the second competition, I will come to the scene to make Karakuri, and the rain will crack it.

Given that Wu Lin and I both have relatively expensive time, it is obviously unrealistic for me to spend a lot of effort to build a Karakuri and let Yan Yu spend a lot of time to crack it.

So I quickly made a decision: "I don't have to compete in the second game, I admit defeat, let's go straight to the third round." ”

Yan Yu was suddenly a little confused: "You want to admit defeat?" ”

I said, "I'm going to be in a hurry, precisely, hurry, don't waste time." ”

Hearing me say this, Yanyu became angry again: "You look down on people!" Do you think that our Yanjia's ingenuity will definitely lose......"

I didn't bother to listen to his rambling at all, so I waved my hand: "I didn't look down on you, it really took me a lot of effort to crack that eight-treasure box just now, and the Muren Valley Trick really deserves its reputation, even if it is compared with the public loss class, I'm afraid it's not false at all." But buddy, I'm really in a hurry, and it's too much energy to let me set up a trick on the spot. ”

I can be regarded as saying these words neither humble nor arrogant, I have no intention of being above others, and I have no intention of being weak-hearted, because the mechanism of Muren Valley is really powerful, I can't override people, and the inheritance passed down by Luban is not weaker than them at all, and the two are not equal, and they can't be distinguished, so I have no reason to be weak-minded.

But I was really in a hurry.

Yan Yu may have heard the sincerity of my words, and after hesitating for a moment, he still nodded: "Since you abstained, even if I win this round." ”

I nodded, "Of course." ”

As I spoke, I had gathered two strengths under my feet.

Seeing that I was so happy, Yanyu was embarrassed to entangle any longer, so he said: "Since you are so anxious, then let you meet the Muren Valley now." As he spoke, he ran to the pile of timber again, flipped through it for a long time, and dragged out a one-meter-cube camphor wood box from it.

The age of this box is not very old, at best, it is an old product with a history of fifty or sixty years, but from the inside of the box there is a strong fragrance that only exists in the Zhou Dynasty, and it is estimated that the production time of that thing should be about 3,000 years ago.

Yan Yu quickly opened the copper lock on the lid of the box, then took out a bamboo leaf from his cuff, put it to his mouth and blew it gently, and the room suddenly raised the melodious sound of leaf flute.

The contents of the box seemed to be inspired by music, and they first slowly shook twice, and then saw the lid of the box slowly pushed open, and a wooden man in a long coat slowly stood up from the box.

I couldn't sense the slightest evil aura from this thing, and it was speculated that it should be a pure mechanism, not urged by magic or spiritual rhyme, but Yanyu didn't lift the thread or use other mechanical devices, and only relied on a bamboo leaf to make it move like a real person.

I quickly reacted that the wooden figure in front of me was most likely the dance artist who was dedicated to King Zhou Mu by Yanshi three thousand years ago.

(End of chapter)