I suddenly had the courage to smile at Liu Ye. But Liu Ye seemed to be unable to see me at all, her eyes were empty and she was dazed.

I looked a little scared, so I coughed on purpose, and then asked Liu Ye softly what he was thinking so obsessed with.

Liu Ye woke up as if he was dreaming. After looking at me, his expression instantly returned to normal. His brows stretched, he smiled apologetically at me, and explained that he didn't know what messy things he was thinking about just now, and he might be a little distracted.

I nodded twice, but didn't say much, but I was still a little suspicious in my heart, and I couldn't help but look at Liu Ye secretly. However, Liu Ye was completely different from the previous one. Seeing me secretly glanced at her, I lowered my head and smiled slightly.

Seeing Liu Ye's expression, I suddenly felt a little uneasy. For a moment, I was at a loss. I shook my head, ignored it, took a deep breath, then looked at the blue bricks under my feet, and reached out to buckle it.

Daya was staring at me all the time. Seeing that I was about to take action, he quickly blocked me: "Lai Liang, have you thought about it or was confused? Should you press down or pull it up in this game?"

I glanced at Big Teeth and shook my head and smiled bitterly: "If we get it wrong, we will really fart and smash the heels and be in trouble. However, there is a saying in this hexagram saying "Tao Di Wu to draw the Mao Ru to its collection". I guess it is still a big door to pull it up. There is no trick now. It is better to have a rod than not. Climb up!"

When Daya heard what I said, he stuck out his tongue, his face wrinkled like an eggplant that had been left for a week, and his facial features were twisted together. He shook his head with his big mouth, then pointed his shoulders, forehead and heart, and then closed his eyes at me: "Amen, may the Lord bless you, my poor child!"

Seeing his appearance, I almost vomited me up. I had to have a choice to pretend to be a foreign priest. I glared at him, too lazy to pay attention to him, so I waved my hands to him and Liu Ye, signaling them to take a few steps back, then looked at the brick in the middle of the fourth horizontal line, grabbed the gap between the bricks with both hands, and began to pull out forcefully.

After using my strength for a long time, I just moved my left and right, but I couldn't pull it out at all. I didn't give up, so I pulled out the dagger, inserted the tip of the knife into the crack of the brick, and then slowly turned it up. This trick was still effective, and I really pried up a few centimeters of this brick.

I held the brick with my hands and didn't dare to pull it up rashly. I turned my eyes left and right, and saw that there was no abnormal movement around me. Then I felt relieved and pulled out the brick with a little force.

Unexpectedly, this brick was just half a piece of brick, all over black, with a fine texture, and it was very weighty when you touch it.

Daya opened her mouth wide in surprise, took it directly from my hand, weighed it a few times, and handed it to Liuye.

I did the same thing and quickly picked out the D brick between the fifth and sixth horizontal lines. Just after the last brick was picked out, the ground under my feet began to shake. We were like frightened birds, frightened. When we saw that the bottom of our feet began to shake, we didn't care about anything else and ran to the door.

Before we could reach the door, the ground suddenly calmed down again. I was a little puzzled, so I turned around and looked around for a few seconds, and saw a stone pillar rising at the center of the hexagram.

The stone pillar is only one meter high, about the same thickness as a washbasin. The pillar is a round-carved magpie, standing upwards to the sky, raising its body, one foot on the ground, and the other claw curled behind it, flapping its wings, as if it was about to swell into the air at any time, but there was a box on its back.

I was stunned for a moment. Seeing that there was no danger, I turned around again. I held my breath and walked back. When I got closer, I gently picked up the box with a dagger. I didn't see any hidden arrows in my mechanism, so I reached out and took the box directly.

The box is the size of a bowling ball, with a spherical appearance, and is made of stone strips stacked and inlaid. The stone strips are crisscrossed and uneven. The thickness of each stone strip is exactly the same, with clear edges and corners, and the polished smoothly as a mirror. The stone strips and stone strips are very closely connected, so they cannot even insert their hair into them. At a glance, this craft is definitely a magical work.

The box was uploaded in our hands and finally reached my hands. Everyone fiddled with it for a while, but no one understood how to open it.

I felt familiar, but I couldn't remember where I had seen it for a while. I fiddled with my hands a few times, but I didn't know how the stone strips were connected. They were very firm and very strong and could not move at all.

Seeing that I had been fiddling with each other for a long time, Daya grinned at me: "Let's Liang, this box is not glued with marble, right? It's really strong and solid. Why don't we cut it open and take a look?"

Liu Ye frowned and looked at Daya: "I don't think so. This stone box shouldn't be a modern handicraft. There is no marble glue!"

I looked around for a long time, and the stone strips were shaking from side to side for a long time, but I didn't see anyone who could move, and I had no idea for a moment.

Daya pointed to the box and cursed, "I want to see it. I can't take it anymore. It's the boredom of the ancients. I just stuck all the stone strips together and treated them as treasures. In fact, there is nothing to show off. Now, just as the whole marble glue sticks to it, it's all over. To put it bluntly, technology was underdeveloped at that time, just like a broken bicycle that made Pu Yi happy. Times are different, and happiness is also different."

Liu Ye obviously disagrees with Daya's view. Liu Ye insists on his position, believing that these twenty-four stone strips are interlaced and closely spliced, and they don't look like ordinary things. There must be a way to open them, but we haven't found a way yet.

The speaker is unintentional, and the listener is intentional. Suddenly I thought of something, slapped my thighs, stared at Liu Ye with his eyes and asked, "What did you say just now? How many?"

Liu Ye obviously didn't understand why I was so excited. He looked at me in a daze and told me that it was twenty-four!

Sure enough, there are really twenty-four!

I excitedly patted my thighs, took the box and looked at it again, yes, there were really twenty-four. I looked at the willow leaves and big teeth beside me, pointed at the box and told them, I know what this box is! This box is indeed designed based on a special mechanism lock, and the name of the mechanism lock is "Twenty-Four Arhats Turning Heart Lock"! And this box is naturally the "Twenty-Four Arhats Turning Heart Box".

This kind of box is made of twenty-four stone strips. The tenon and rivet structure on each stone strip is different and requires a special order to untie it, otherwise it will not be opened with external force.

After hearing what I said for a long time, Liu Ye asked me with some uncertainty: "Brother Hu, are you talking about Luban Lock?"

I nodded.

Luban Lock is also called Kongming Lock, also known as Liuzi Lianfang, Monao, etc.

Legend has it that in the Spring and Autumn Period, Lu Ban, a craftsman in Lu State in Lu, used six wooden strips to make a piece of pie and detachable toy, and asked his son to disassemble it. The son was busy all night and finally disassembled it. This toy was later called the "Lu Ban Lock". In fact, this is just a legend. It originated from the mortise and tenon structure first created in ancient Chinese architecture.

This lock applies the ancient mortise and tenon structure to the extreme, which is very clever and difficult to disassemble. The original is a wooden structure, and the appearance is a cross cube that is tightly slit, fully reflecting the wisdom of the ancients. Now, the structures are amazing and a bit ashamed. They don’t need a nail at all. Just a few mortise and tenon can make it unbreakable.

It looks simple, but in fact it is infinitely mysterious and difficult to complete the assembly. Later, the people gradually learned from the mortise and tenon structure according to the mortise and tenon structure, and many other difficult mortise and tenon locks were derived based on the standard Luban lock. The types are complex and changeable, such as four-season locks, twelve square locks, square locks, twenty-four locks, eighteen insert hook locks, fourteen prince locks, three-three knots, etc.

The stone box in front of me is obviously a large "twenty-four locks". I once encountered this kind of lock while wandering in Panjiayuan. According to the old man who sold the goods, this lock was improved on the basis of the Luban lock. It has empty in the middle and can place some small items. The unlocking method of this lock is very complicated. If you don't know the key points, you may not be able to find a way even if you have studied it for ten or eight years.

The box in front of us is definitely not as good as an ordinary toy as an ordinary toy. I guess if you don’t pay attention, you will damage the things inside. Fortunately, we just looked through it carefully and did not fiddle with it.

Daya listened to me for a long time and didn't say anything. After looking at me for a long time, he asked me: "Lai Liang, you said a lot, and it seemed like you were a big understanding. Will you open it?"

I touched my head and found that there was a fixed order. I tricked it out at that time, but I forgot it all. It doesn’t matter. As long as I know where it comes from, I will go back and check it online. I guess I will definitely find a way to solve it.

I was about to let Daya and Liuye see this box, but when Daya exclaimed, "Not good", then shouted at me and Liuye: "Let Liang, girl, it's bad, run away quickly. If it's too late, you'll be dead. Hurry up and put on the gas mask quickly!"

We had always been wearing gas masks, but it was so hot that just now that time, so we took them off and hung them around our necks. Suddenly, when Daya roared, Liu Ye and I didn't know what happened at all. Seeing Daya didn't seem to be joking, we quickly put on the gas mask, and didn't care about anything else. We grabbed the box and ran towards the door.

PS: I know that this type of subject matter and this writing style is not suitable for online literature, but along the way, I didn’t expect that so many people would support me all the time, and I was very moved.
Chapter completed!