Zhan Changfeng comforted Zhu Hongmei and went to the deck to blow the wind. Qingfengzi, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground, nodded to her, and Zhan Changfeng nodded in respect.
Her eyes paused on the little girl next to Qingfengzi, then fell on the black box in his hand, and said, "Fellow Taoist is a mechanical master?"
Qingfengzi was not bad at her senses, was cold and polite, and had a certain charm of her own. No wonder those who were rescued secretly called her like an immortal. And she does have the strength to back up her attitude.
"Hahaha, I'm a weapon refiner, not a mechanism master." Qing Fengzi tugged on his beard and sighed, "It's a pity that it's broken, even though every part is intact."
Zhan Changfeng saw through its structure and said, "Fellow Taoist, can I take a look?"
"Oh, are you a mechanic?" Qingfengzi became interested.
"I know a little bit about it." Zhan Changfeng took the black box he handed over and looked at it carefully. Qingfengzi reminded from the side, "You need to inject power to activate it. It is a flight aid. I just activated it. The fan blades are also opened, but I don’t know why they can’t move.”
"Fellow Taoist, that's a method of use, not a method of manufacturing or repairing." Zhan Changfeng was very interested in this. He hadn't encountered an interesting mechanism for a long time.
Qingfengzi felt a little dizzy when he heard this, "What should we do?"
Zhan Changfeng observed the almost invisible lines on the black box and said, "It is also a mechanism box itself. It needs to be unlocked to see the inside. Do you want to open it, fellow Taoist?"
"I don't know how to do this, why don't you help me?" Qingfengzi said shyly.
"Let me try."
This is similar to the machine box she played with in China, but also completely different. It has a formation on it!
The mechanism box is generally composed of small slide blocks. When the slide blocks are moved to the correct position, the lock tongue will be pushed to unlock.
The mechanism box in hand is made up of at least 381 sliders that are tightly spliced together. What's even more clever is that it separates the three formations and engraves them on 381 sliders. In other words, as long as one slider is in the wrong position, it is likely that all three formations will fail.
And its lock tongue is also a formation.
Zhan Changfeng used her clairvoyant eyes to memorize the positions of all the sliders and the formation patterns on them. What she had to do was to use the known formation patterns on the sliders to figure out the movement of the locked formation.
What's even more frustrating is that if you make one wrong move, this locking formation will self-destruct. Then the entire black box will explode. Her formation. The difficulty is that the movement of one slider will involve many other sliders, which only have one chance to be correct.
Zhan Changfeng did not take action directly. She built a model of the mechanism box in her mind, deduced the combination, and reached a dead end as expected.
Her brain speed was as fast as lightning. Aominezi only saw her meditating for a few breaths, but she didn't know that she had already proposed hundreds of solutions.
Snap!
Found the lock.
Zhan Changfeng did not take action immediately, but said to Qingfengzi, "There is a locking formation inside. If you make one mistake, it will self-destruct. Do you want to open it, fellow Taoist?"
She saw that Aomengzi was a little concerned about this black box, so even if she knew the solution, she had to inform him.
Qingfengzi hesitated for a while, looked at Zhan Changfeng's expression carefully, made a judgment in his mind, and then said with a smile, "Fellow Taoist, feel free to do it."
Then Aomengzi saw the black box rotating and deforming in her hand, and the sliders clicked and moved.
When the final piece is in place, it looks like a complete black box again. But a lock formation has been assembled inside.
Zhan Changfeng input a little bit of energy to activate the locking formation, and dozens of lights shot out of the black box. All the sliders that made up the black box separated one after another and were suspended in the light.
Qingfengzi scratched his beard, "What did fellow Taoist see?"
"It's because the formation pattern on this slider is worn." Zhan Changfeng took off the slider, deepened the mark according to the original formation, and then put it back.
Um?
Zhan Changfeng took another wooden block with the word "五木" engraved on it.
Aomengzi also saw it and nodded with a smile, "This is my granddaughter's name. If you meet, maybe you can have something to talk about."
"I think this fellow Taoist is very outstanding."
The light slowly converged, and all the sliders were pulled by the light and came back together.
Zhan Changfeng shifted again and restored the previous three formations.
"Is this good?" Qing Fengzi exclaimed.
"You can test it." Zhan Changfeng pressed a point on the box, input his elemental force, and a formation light wheel spread out, "This is the starting formation."
She pressed two more points, and the defensive array and the connecting array appeared one after another, functioning normally.
Qingfengzi laughed happily, "Thank you so much, fellow Taoist. It turns out that fellow Taoist is a mechanism master."
Zhan Changfeng returned the black box to him, "I just like to crack the mechanism. The mechanism is ever-changing and worth figuring out."
"It's a pity that my granddaughter is not in this world. Otherwise, I would have to let you meet her. She likes to create traps for people to break, and she also thinks she is very powerful." Qingfengzi was very happy when she mentioned her granddaughter, but she was also complaining and proud. Still a little nostalgic.
"It's really amazing." Zhan Changfeng said objectively. In fact, the black box was secondary. The first thing she noticed was the little girl next to Qingfengzi. This little girl looked like a real person, and she also had energy in her body. If she hadn't been a soul cultivator, she almost wouldn't have noticed that the little girl was not a human being.
This is a machine puppet.
After several conversations between Qingfengzi and Zhan Changfeng, she could clearly feel that she was a very polite and respectful monk, and she naturally had a good impression of her.
Seeing that she greeted him but did not look at the little granddaughter next to her, it was clear that she had noticed what was going on with her little granddaughter. So he took the initiative to introduce, "This is my granddaughter Xiaomu, do you want to say hello to her?"
Qingfengzi seemed to really love her granddaughter, but there was a hint of teasing in her smile, which made Zhan Changfeng puzzled.
Zhan Changfeng became interested, "Little friend."
Xiaomu looked up at her blankly, "Be good."
"..." Is she taking advantage of her?
Qing Fengzi was anxious, "Don't be offended, fellow Taoist, she should have replied 'Senior, hello', but did it trigger another chance of reaction?"
Zhan Changfeng was not angry, but in high spirits, jokingly saying, "Would you like to see what went wrong?"
"Fellow Taoist!" No matter what the problem was, Qingfengzi deliberately kept a straight face and said, "You can't tear this down."
"Tear it down, bad guy." Xiaomu also said vaguely.
Zhan Changfeng laughed sincerely, "What a wonderful workmanship, a great talent."
Qingfengzi touched Xiaomu's head and was happy, "This is based on the appearance of my granddaughter when she was a child. My granddaughter said she was worried about leaving me alone, so she asked Xiaomu to accompany me."
"Ling Sun is interested."
Qingfengzi joked, "We have met by chance many times. You even know my granddaughter's name. Isn't it time to get acquainted with her?"
"I'm Qing Fengzi, a weapon refiner."
Zhan Changfeng said seriously, "Qingxu, the doctor."
"Fellow Taoist is a medical practitioner?" Qingfengzi suddenly asked, "I wonder why there is a kind of herbal fragrance."
"Not really," Zhan Changfeng shook his head, "My family doesn't let me study medicine, but I just can't let it go, so I go out on my own. If possible, I want to enter Baicao Courtyard."
Qing Fengzi was a little sad, but didn't ask any more questions, "It's good for fellow Taoists to stick to what they want to do when they practice Taoism. However, given the strength of fellow Taoists, it may not be appropriate to enter Baicao Courtyard as a disciple."
Zhan Changfeng said it casually, but he understood something from Qingfengzi's unfinished words. It seemed that there was really a way to enter the Sixth Academy, so he asked for advice, "Do you have any advice?"
Qingfengzi was not too uninteresting, "In fact, each academy will recruit tutors, deacons, and guards from outside every once in a while. If fellow Taoists are interested, they can go to Baicao Courtyard and ask if there are any external recruitment positions. If fellow Taoists are alive or dead." A letter of recommendation from an extraordinary person or an alchemist, alchemist or doctor will give you a nine-point chance of getting in."
"I see, you can give it a try."
