Chapter 239: Flocking

As dinner approached, a noise suddenly came from a courtyard in Vanke Villa. Several of Ye Tao's guards rushed to the scene immediately and found a man covered in blood and seriously injured in a warehouse in the villa. Although this man was ragged, he could see that the clothes were originally of a pretty good texture. His body was shabby. It was probably because of the previous escape. After being discovered by the servants of the villa, the man actually fought to the death in a semi-unconscious situation. His blindly waved his short sword and did not dare to approach the village households. The man was holding a square thing wrapped in thick brocade in his arms.

After Ye Tao's guards passed by, things became simple. The two guards simply knocked the man out and then let the sects take care of the man. After taking apart the bag wrapped in brocade, the two guards looked at each other. There was a box of unknown materials, looking at the fluorescent light on the surface, like some kind of metal. According to the size of the box, it should be the kind of small box that the wealthy family placed in the study to store letters and contracts. However, although this box had a small keyhole as thick as wheat straw, it seemed that there was no way to open it. The fine carving of dragons and phoenixes coiled around the box and the auspicious clouds was nothing. Since the previous dynasty, it gradually became

Since the current situation of four parts of the world, the exclusiveness of the dragon and phoenix graphics has no longer exists. If it is matched with the stamp at the center of the box, it makes people understand that this box and the people who are desperately guarding this box may have a great reputation. The stamp was once circulated throughout the continent and was regarded as a symbol of supreme and full power. The stamp was divided into two semicircles on the left and right, with different images: one side is a tiger and the other side is a dragon. They represent the two most important qualities of power: force with power and use authority to suppress it... Yes, the stamp on this box must be the landmark of the royal family in the previous dynasty. No matter who the young man who is desperately protecting this box is, he must have an extraordinary identity.

"Leave the person to us. You can take care of it for a while. Let us go back and let the doctor and a few guards come together. It's hard to say whether he can move now." A guard said to the cautious Zhuang Dings.

The monks were not as good as those of these two men who came from palace guards, and the Vanke Villa was extremely large, and there were so many people who needed care at once. They were a little too busy to do it. They had to set aside several people to see the dying young man, but it made these monks very annoyed. They agreed quickly and then began to urge the guards to come and get people as soon as possible.

And the box was held in front of Ye Tao. Ye Tao carefully studied the box, looked at the material, picked it up and shook it, listened to the sound in the box, and studied the keyhole with added intention, and frowned.

Bi Xiaoqing, who was watching once, wondered: "Sir, can't you open it either? After searching for that guy, there was nothing besides a sweat towel and a little money, and no keys were found around him."

Ye Tao frowned and said, "The question is, what are you doing when you open it?"

"If you can know the identity of that guy. If you know why he was chased, you should know why a group of people came in this direction." Bi Xiaoqing said in wonder.

Ye Tao looked at Bi Xiaoqing with his head tilted and asked, "Didn't Feng Zi say that this guy is nothing serious and will wake up in a while? Can you ask him these questions then? I really don't see you so much that you can open this thing before that guy wakes up."

Bi Xiaoqing scratched his head and asked strangely: "Is this thing that difficult to deal with?"

Ye Tao shrugged and said, "I don't want to smash this thing hard. It will naturally take some time to open it intact."

Bi Xiaoqing went to find Feng Zi to hear when Feng Zi could wake up to judge when this person with a strange origin could wake up. Ye Tao was competing with the box in Wang Shi's study. Not long after, Wang Shi, who received the news, also came to the study to see how Ye Tao broke the box without any damage.

Wang Shi's study room has become a workshop. In just one hour, Ye Tao installed the coaxial escapement center clock. Because this escapement is too complex and sophisticated and not very reliable, Ye Tao did not explain much to Wang Shi. But he spent a lot of time personally guiding Wang Shi assembled the anchor escapement clock. After all, this escapement is really classic. Although Wang Shi is old, he has been collecting various exquisite machinery for disassembly and assembly over the years, and his experience and comprehension are different. Although he does not have a very understanding of the principle, he really installed the thing. When he heard that a very strange box suddenly appeared without a key, Ye Tao was thinking, and Wang Shi immediately became interested.

"Ye Jingluo, if I read it correctly, this should be the Zanglong Box, one of the three treasures in the palace of the previous dynasty." Wang Shi stood by the side and studied it carefully for a while and said.

Ye Tao was not surprised. There were some descriptions of this in the technical data library at his home, but he did not deliberately collect such things. This canglong box is actually called the canglong box. Because this box was used by the previous dynasty to collect the most confidential documents. Every time the canglong box was opened, it almost caused huge shocks in the court and the public. It caused some important officials and nobles to fall, and even influence the issue of the throne.

Ye Tao didn't believe that after hundreds of years of falling from the previous dynasty, the Zanglong box still had such power. At best, it was to reveal some secrets. Ye Tao was not very concerned about this time and space, and he didn't care much about what really happened. What's more, even if this was the original Zanglong box, the things contained in it should not be preserved when the previous dynasty was destroyed. The Archives Bureau also had documents at that time. The paper and ink used in the inner court were different from those used in the ink, and the storage conditions were very ideal. However, until natural rubber appeared in front of him, the sealing problem seemed to have never been completely solved. The paper was so crispy that it was touched lightly.

"It takes time. You can't make mistakes. I listened carefully and found that there should be a mezzanine inside and there is liquid stored. It is probably used to destroy the things inside when it is destroyed. It is probably something like a strong acid." Ye Tao said helplessly at Wang Shi.

"I don't know anything about it. I don't have the courage to know what's inside. But the design of this box is really exquisite and I can't help but have no idea." Wang Shi said with a smile: "Ye Jingluo. I have something else here. Although the level of detail cannot be compared with this Zanglong box, the lock floor style is the same."

As he said that, Wang Shi moved a stack of books on the bookshelf and took out a wooden box from the back. The box looked ordinary, and the box was empty and not locked at all. Wang Shi directly opened the lid, took out a large size key from it, and respectfully handed it to Ye Tao, explaining: "Ninety people can do this kind of lock now. Perhaps it has been lost. I also spent a lot of effort and money to make the owner agree to sell the box.

Give it to me. However, this thing is really too fine, and I dare not take it apart. Look at this key, there are two nests inside and outside. If the key hole is inserted correctly, after rotating it for half a turn, the second much smaller key hole in the lock core will be opened. Then push the small handful on the key, and the small key in the second layer inside the big key will be pushed out from the tip, insert it into the small key hole inside, and then rotate it back half a turn, and the box will be opened."

Wang Shi said with a smile: "If those documents are not nonsense, the Zanglong box should have been written by Master Musiyu. The box in my hand was made by Musiyu's third generation disciples. The specific shape of the lock core is unknown, but since it is a lineage, it should not be much different in principle. It can be used as a reference for Ye Jingluo."

Ye Tao secretly praised. Wang Shi is a bit meaningful. If it were another aristocratic family, it would be a big sum of gold and silver to make a thing like this, but he would definitely put the most important document contracts in it and hide it in the safest corner of the mansion. However, Wang Shi never seemed to have planned to use this thing, just for collection and research, or for one day he consciously developed his skills to be able to dismantle this thing and collected this precious box.

Ye Tao said: "That's the case, then you're welcome."

Although Wang Shi did not dare to remove the box, he had worked a lot of effort on it. He knew very well where to disassemble it. Ye Tao only took a quarter of an hour to solve the box and key. Looking at the exquisite structure and the solution to maximize the technical creativity under the limitations of the craft level, he was very impressed. This kind of work that almost ignores the average level of craft technology in an era and jumps to a new level seems to have it in every era, but without solid scientific ideas, craft level, material supply and other factors, these products that are destined to serve the ruling class cannot be mass-produced.

Once he was trapped in thinking about these technology, Ye Tao immediately began to ignore the existence of time and other problems. Ye Tao called his entourage, Ye's worker, and now he worked in the Yunzhou Manufacturing Bureau, but he also had a technician license. With Wang Shi, the three of them hid in the study and studied the box. At dinner time, Dai Qiuyan, who had finished sketching in a villa, came to see it once, and only ordered the kitchen to send the food to the study. Dai Qiuyan knew Ye Tao too much and understood that Ye Tao would be so busy that he had to stop working or the work would be over.

When it was completely dark, the man who protected the box had not woken up yet. But a group of people suddenly appeared at the entrance of the villa, saying that they were from a gang and came to investigate the traitors in the sect. It is reported that the man is now in the villa and asked the villa to hand over the people.

The monks didn't have any idea of ​​paying attention, so they naturally looked for the manager of the village when they encountered such a thing. Wang Shi's son was not very patient. The Wang family was very influential in the local area, and they were blocked by a large group of people in the martial arts world. He had never encountered any incidents before. He had a very tough attitude, gathered the monks who had received basic training, and invited several entourages who had been raising land for many years in the villa, and was ready to do a big move. This guy named Wang An was so tough, so he was naturally confident. He could not disturb the guests in the villa. Anyway, if he did this, he could deal with the best in the past. It was really not possible to have hundreds of elite soldiers living in the village now, and a large number of masters would naturally cure the aftermath for themselves.

It seemed that he was shocked by the behavior of Vanke Villa. Although the gang of figures blocked the roads of the villa and clamored, they seemed unable to decide whether to increase the pressure and force the villa to hand over the villa.

But just a quarter of an hour later, two shrill screams broke out in the villa, which broke the apparent balance. It turned out that although this group of strong men had no action on the surface and sent someone to negotiate with Wang An, they had privately arranged people to sneak into the villa quietly.

If it were normal, this move might have been successful, but now the defense power in the villa is so strong. A total of three infiltrators met Huo Dong, who was rectifying defense. They were wondering whether Huo Dong could be safe and was killed on the spot. This move of conducting negotiations while sending people to take action made the royal family Wang Shi and Huo Dong very angry. Ye Tao's rush to Jinzhou, because Ye Tao has always been very low-key, and although things like flags look majestic, they have no effect on maintaining the speed of the march and maintaining safety. They did not show their flags at all. They sent special personnel to contact and implement all the matters along the way. Not many people knew about it when they settled in Vanke Villa. Unexpectedly, someone really dared to get into trouble now.
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