The entire Treasure Pavilion slowly started to rotate.

The secret door between Glade's bedroom and the Treasure Pavilion was slowly blocked by the rotating wall, and the old housekeeper blurted out: "What did you do!?"

"Don't be impatient." Jiang Wan said coldly.

The wall continued to rotate, and then the door appeared again, and the Treasure Pavilion was opened again.

The old housekeeper walked in quickly in confusion, but except for the fact that everything had changed directions, nothing had changed in the Treasure Pavilion.

What the metal bars looked like before, they still look like now.

His expectations were dashed, and the old housekeeper's face turned gloomy.

Jiang Wan leisurely followed in, "Generally speaking, hidden secret doors can be divided into two types: trap doors and absolute doors. The mechanism of the trap door can be used repeatedly, but once the absolute door is opened or closed, the mechanism will be blocked. "

"So this is a trick?" the old housekeeper asked pointing at the metal bar unkindly.

"No, that's just a cover-up." Jiang Wan stood at the entrance and tapped the wall with her index finger, "Did you notice? The wall of Zhenbao Pavilion is very thick, with three layers inside and outside..."

"Isn't this normal? If I hadn't known that the wall here was thick and hard, I would have smashed it open." The old housekeeper said, as for why it didn't explode, it was because he was afraid of destroying the treasure.

"The Zhenbao Pavilion is circular, and these three walls are three concentric circles nested together. There are three secret doors in the directions of due south, due east, and due west. The two due south and due west connect the bedroom and Treasure Pavilion..."

Jiang Wan pointed to the metal bar: "It used to be true north, but after Zhenbao Pavilion turned ninety degrees counterclockwise, it is now in the west. The secret door that was originally in true east is now true north."

There are now five display cabinets fixed on the wall in the north. The old butler has searched countless times before and found no mechanism. But now he pushed the cabinet in the middle in as Jiang Wan said, and the cabinet was actually Promoted!

This mechanism is actually similar to the hidden elevator. They are both invisible doors that push inward.

The cabinet was pushed inward and then to the right, and it was pushed into the gap between the reserved inner layer and the outermost wall.

The way to crack the secret room in the Treasure Pavilion is to rotate the room ninety degrees counterclockwise.

The old housekeeper was suddenly enlightened. While he was angry that he could not discover such a simple mechanism and wasted years in vain, he was also ecstatic and ran into the secret room for fear of being beaten by Jiang Wan.

Li Jiazhuo was itching with curiosity: "Sister Xiaowan, let's go in and take a look!"

In the secret room is another upward staircase, leading to the top of a pointed tower.

Jiang Wan sent another message to Bai Suyi to report that she was safe, and then climbed up the deep tower with her friends, clinging to each other like five-petal pulp in a mangosteen.

The top of the tower is very narrow, and the back of a huge clock almost fills the entire space.

Circles of gears bite each other, and the complex metal mechanism is dazzling, but this is no ordinary clock back. The mechanism is engraved with complex patterns, giving people a delicate and heavy sense of oppression.

This is another mechanism.

Next to the mechanism on the back of the clock, leaning against the wall, sat a white skeleton. It could be seen from the clothing that it was a woman.

He Yufu was so scared that she covered her eyes.

Jiang Wan guessed that this must be the treasure keeper that the old housekeeper mentioned that he was chasing.

This was a treasure keeper they met, maybe the only one, but unfortunately he was dead.

The old butler lay on the back of the clock to study. He could feel that the treasure was behind it, only one step away from him!

"Click."

——The sound of the gun being loaded was very obvious in the silent tower.

Jiang Wan looked up at the dark muzzle of the gun.

The old housekeeper pointed his gun at her, "Quick! Unlock this mechanism! Or I'll kill you!"

The insane greed that had always been dormant within him was finally exposed.

He has been waiting and planning for so many years, and what he has been dreaming of is right in front of him!

Jiang Wan protected the four shivering "little chicks" behind her with her backhand, and looked directly at the old housekeeper: "I will unlock the mechanism, but you have to be careful not to set off the fire."

The old housekeeper was so anxious that he could not speak. He gestured to Jiang Wan to hurry up.

<divclass="contentadv">Jiang Wan turned around and comforted the cute babies, "Don't be afraid, look here -"

She pointed to a spot on the back of the clock where there were two little mice.

"It's a mouse baby..." Liu Tianxiang mustered up the courage to say.

Jiang Wan tried it and found that the two little mice could move.

"Here, there is a puppy here." Li Jiazhuo also forced himself not to think about terrible things and concentrate on the mechanism.

"There are also cows and rabbits." Jiang Wan took a comprehensive look at the mechanism on the back of the clock. "This seems to be a thumbnail sculpture of White Pigeon Castle."

She also discovered that there were square grids hidden between the gears and reliefs, which looked like movable paths, and it seemed that metal buttons such as puppy dolls and mouse babies could be operated to move on them...

"What can we do to help you?" Mei Yuqian asked.

Jiang Wan said: "You guys help me translate the parchments. We have to quickly figure out what the clues on these papers are."

There were a lot of parchments, and they were written in French. Jiang Wan and the others could only sort them out one by one. The old housekeeper was tortured by their slow movements and couldn't help but pace back and forth on the top of the tower.

The moon was setting and the sky was getting brighter. Jiang Wan finally figured out all the clues.

She looked at the back of the clock. Now she knew how to crack it, but she still had to take the last crucial step.

"Untied?" The old housekeeper stared at Jiang Wan with bright eyes.

"...Yeah." Jiang Wan responded.

She took one look at the upside down female corpse and decided to take a gamble.

She motioned the old housekeeper to walk to the mechanism, "Now you can explain it as I say."

The old housekeeper raised the gun in his hand, "You do it, I'll keep an eye on you."

He was afraid that Jiang Wan was being mean, so Jiang Wan told the truth: "I'm so short, I can't touch the top."

The old housekeeper almost forgot that she was a little bean curd!

After a moment of silence, the old housekeeper pointed his gun at Jiang Wan and stood in front of the clock-back mechanism, "... Just tell me."

"The back of the clock is a big chessboard. You just need to move the designated chess pieces to the destination according to the correct path." Jiang Wan first explained the principle of the mechanism in a concise language, and then directed: "First is the puppy doll. It’s the fourth room in the building, so after leaving the starting point, you have to go four squares to the left and then three squares down..."

The movements of each chess piece were numerous and complex. The old butler gradually put away his frivolous joy and concentrated on the mechanism, even breaking out in a sweat.

"...Okay." When the sky turned pink, Jiang Wan also finished the last step.

The old butler put down his hand, and everyone waited quietly. A few excruciatingly long seconds passed, and nothing happened.

"Did you make a mistake?" the old housekeeper asked.

"That's right." Jiang Wan was also puzzled.

She held her breath and concentrated, looking in all directions and listening, "...is there a sound of water?"

"Where is the sound of water coming from?" the old housekeeper asked irritably.

Mei Yuqian tugged on Jiang Wan's clothes and pointed to a small window on the top of the tower.

Looking out the window, you can just see the white-roofed church.

I saw that the lake water around the white-roofed church was swirling and falling like a toilet bowl.

In the flash of lightning, Jiang Wan understood: "The treasure place is in the Xinghu Well! The agency door has been opened!"

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