"But this Qianlong Ye's Swiss watch robot, Old Man Zhong hasn't repaired it for ten years, can I repair it with my skill in building a tomb beast?"

The old man gasped and clenched Qin Beiyang's hand: "What about Xiao Qin...... I did it for 10 years...... But only the last breath was left...... You'll be able to do it......"

"Beiyang, you just take this last breath and renew this old clock, and it will not be in vain for the old man's ten years of hard work."

Ah Hai is another pun, since the old clock is a clockmaker, it is also this Swiss watch robot more than a hundred years ago, and the mission of breaking into the Forbidden City tonight is to renew the life of this "old clock".

Qin Beiyang whispered to him: "Ah Hai, you locked me up in the ancient tomb for a year, and transported me to the Forbidden City in a coffin, just so that I could repair a bell?" ”

"Isn't that the greatest pleasure of your life?"

Ah Hai, this guy is in one sentence - repairing utensils and doing craftsman work is indeed the greatest pleasure of Qin Beiyang's life. Restoring this Qianlong Emperor's Swiss watch robot is much more interesting than being the leader of the Assassin League of Rausz, the heir of Assasin...... How much should he understand the Emperor of the Apocalypse, who loved carpentering, and Louis XVI, who designed the guillotine and was beheaded?

But how could he be at the mercy of Ah Hai? Qin Beiyang looked around with the corner of his eye, the secret room on the second floor of the Crystal Palace was covered with steel on all sides, and he didn't even have a chance to jump out of the window. Now that his body is weak, the lung cancer in his chest has not recurred, and he has burned high incense, with an iron chain tied around his waist, facing Ah Hai, a top master. And the two men in black coats behind him, with swords hidden behind their backs, are by no means good, and they have no possibility of resisting and escaping.

The most important thing is that Qin Beiyang lacks an omnipotent helper - the town's tomb beast Nine Colors, not to mention An Lushan's Tang knife and Russian crossbow.

"Let me take a closer look at this treasure first......"

Qin Beiyang glared at Ah Hai, dragged the iron chain on his body, and slowly circled the Swiss watch robot. Although there were many lights in the secret room, he still carried a flashlight, which illuminated the back of the base of the clock, and two lines of foreign characters were engraved. After carefully distinguishing, it was found that it was French and German, and Qin Beiyang recognized the German in it-

The seventeenth Grand Venerable Pierre Jaquet-Droz of the Union of Artisans honored His Majesty the Great Emperor of China.

gasped, I couldn't have imagined that in the deep palace of the Forbidden City, Emperor Qianlong's favorite Swiss watch robot turned out to be the work of the Great Venerable of the Craftsman Alliance?

Qin Beiyang closed his eyes, remembering the true face of the twenty-third generation of the Great Venerable of the Craftsman Alliance that he saw in the underground secret room in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, more than a year ago, before the Great Kanto Earthquake......

Now, I am afraid that the whole world believes that it was Qin Beiyang who assassinated this Great Venerable. In the past year, the bloody storm between the Artisan Alliance and the Assassin Alliance has lost many lives in vain......

"Old man Zhong, do you know who made this Swiss watch robot?"

"The leather master of the Swiss country."

Hearing the old clock talk about "Master Pi", Qin Beiyang suppressed the urge to laugh, the name of the Swiss watchmaker Pierre Jaquet-Droz is Pierre, which is a French word, which is usually translated as "Pierre" in Chinese. The antique dealer in the French Concession in Shanghai, the nephew of the great painter Gauguin, was named Pierre Gauguin.

"How could this treasure of Master Leather fall into the hands of Emperor Qianlong?"

"On the occasion of Qianlong's 80th birthday, Fukangan, the governor of Liangguang, ordered this birthday gift from the British of the Thirteen Lines in Guangzhou."

Qin Beiyang remembered the legend - this powerful Fukangan was originally the illegitimate son of Emperor Qianlong, and he really had a filial piety.

"The British foreign company has found the leather master of Switzerland?"

"Yes, Master Pi is a skilled craftsman from the countries of Tessio Europa, who has traveled all over the world," Lao Zhong's eyes are blind, but his brain is very clear, "Master Pi is the best at making mechanical idols, these little robots have three unique skills, one is writing, the second is painting, and the third is playing musical instruments. So much so that the Beleges of the Great Austrian Country, the Great Universal Country, and the Great Rui Country thought that they had encountered evil witchcraft. It is said that the queen mother of France also spent a lot of money to buy these treasures. ”

The old man said that "the Bellegeges of Austria, Prussia, and Spain" must be the princes and princesses of Austria, Prussia, and Spain. "The Empress of Great France" once again made Qin Beiyang laugh dumbly, but he remembered the immortal face of Marie Antoinette, the decapitated queen in the sarcophagus of the catacombs of Paris, and couldn't help but feel chills in the Forbidden City after the fall of the imperial system......

"Since the emperor likes this watch robot, why don't you ask a Swiss watchmaker to repair it?"

"I have already asked the Swiss Legation, but the Swiss say that the descendants of the master watchmaker have only one watch brand left, and no one can repair this treasure." Lao Zhong coughed a few times in a row, and pointed to the bottom of his bed, "Xiao Qin, all the tools in my life are here, I will give them all to you, just accept a closed apprentice, let's ......"

Qin Beiyang took out all kinds of messy tools for repairing clocks and watches from under the bed of the old clock, many of which were seen for the first time, strange but thoughtful.

Ah Hai urged beside him: "Beiyang, time is pressing, we only have one night!" ”

"If I fix this treasure, will you let me go?"

"Do you believe me?"

"I don't believe anything you say." Qin Beiyang had already suffered more than one loss on Ah Hai, "What's more, why should I make a deal with the enemy who killed my father and mother, and the traitor of the Assassin Alliance?" ”

"But you don't have a choice......"

The scar on Ah Hai's face was warped, and the dagger hung above the head of the old clock, if Qin Beiyang did not agree, the old man would be splattered with blood on the spot. And his movements were quite light, and the blind old craftsman knew nothing.

This is a naked threat.

Qin Beiyang controlled his breathing, so as not to let Lao Zhong notice it, and sighed: "Okay, for the sake of Old Man Zhong, I promise you." ”

"Okay!" Lao Zhong got up quite excitedly, reached out and touched the Swiss watch robot, and grabbed a tool accurately, "Xiao Qin, let's start from the bottom fourth layer......"

"Beiyang, I have confidence in you." Ah Hai clasped his hands on his shoulders with great interest, guarding the door of the secret room, monitoring the restoration of Qin Beiyang and the old clock, he glanced at the dial on the clock, "It's ten forty-five in the evening, and there are still three and a half hours before the rooster crows tomorrow." ”

"I deserve to be a natural craftsman."

In fact, as soon as Qin Beiyang saw this baby, he already had itchy hands and wanted to open it and try it. For almost a year since he went to Taibai Mountain to marry Ah You, he locked himself on the top of the mountain and studied the restoration skills of large Swiss clocks. He also ordered the purchase of two antique clocks from the Jura Mountains in the 18th century from Europe, simulating the movement of flowers, birds, insects and fish, as well as the characters of the time, and even the war and fighting. This is Qin Beiyang's inescapable fate, if he dies, he will also ask to give him one last chance to tinker with machinery and do craftsman work.

He became the eye of the blind old clock, and he repaired it under the guidance of the old man. The old bell repeatedly said, "It's just a breath away." He unscrewed the screws of the base, only to see the intricate mechanism of exquisiteness. Some are as dense as spider webs, and the steel wire is thinner than a human hair, representing the highest level of Western craftsmanship before the Industrial Revolution.

Suddenly, Qin Beiyang's mind automatically floated various gears and sludge structures, like a drawing that made people feel dense phobia......

This was not the longest night in Qin Beiyang's life, but the longest night in this palace.