You went on a blind date and presented an A-level wanted criminal as a meeting gift?

01: 32.

Those who hadn't finished running in the main hall all froze in place.

Lin Chen squatted in front of the magic box, his mind working on three skills simultaneously.

[God-level insight] He scanned every processing texture on the outer shell of the magic box and the position of every rivet into his brain.

[God-level Mechanical Mastery] In a fraction of a second, the complete meshing diagram of the internal gears was restored—six sets of main gears, a three-layer linkage locking structure, the spring safety of the chemical trigger and the transmission relationship between the main shaft, all were clearly visible.

[Master of Materials Science] Tell him the most crucial piece of information.

The outer shell is not made of ordinary tungsten steel.

It is a nickel-titanium shape memory alloy.

This alloy has a fatal physical property: its thermal expansion and contraction scale is five times larger than that of ordinary metals.

At the moment of a sudden temperature change, the alloy will produce an extremely brief deformation window of about 0.3 millimeters.

0.3 millimeters.

A gap that ordinary people can't even see.

But enough.

01: 15.

Lin Chen stood up and turned to the dining table.

The dishes on the table were untouched, and the bowls, chopsticks, cups, and plates were neatly arranged.

He picked up two things.

A glass of ice water with ice cubes.

A silver dinner knife.

Su Qingge frowned even more as she watched his movements.

"Lin Chen, you need to..."

"Don't speak."

Lin Chen returned to the Magic Box and squatted down again.

He held the ice water in his hands and closed his eyes.

In my mind, the three-dimensional wireframe of the magic box was magnified further.

The transmission chain of the six gears is clearly defined down to the meshing angle of each tooth.

The spring safety mechanism of the chemical trigger is controlled by the central shaft of a main gear.

As long as the main gear is still turning, the safety is in a pending state.

At the moment the countdown reached zero, the main gear completed its final rotation, the safety pins popped out, and the valve of the gas cylinder was forced open by mechanical force.

Therefore, the key is not to remove the trigger.

The key is to stop the main gear from rotating.

However, ordinary external force intervention will trigger the anti-tamper sensor on the side, which is a set of pressure-sensitive springs. As long as the box is subjected to an abnormal external force exceeding two Newtons, it will directly skip the countdown and trigger the release of toxic gas.

We can't force it.

But shape memory alloys gave him a third way.

00: 58.

Lin Chen opened his eyes.

He poured ice water into four spots on the outer shell of the magic box.

It's not something you can just dump anywhere.

Those four points correspond to the four fixing rivets of the outermost set of the six sets of gears inside the gearbox.

The temperature of ice water is about two degrees Celsius. When it comes into contact with the alloy surface, the sudden drop in local temperature causes the shape memory alloy to shrink and deform.

A gap of 0.3 millimeters.

Appeared.

But this gap will only exist for less than two seconds.

Because the indoor temperature will rise quickly, the alloy will return to its original state.

two seconds.

Lin Chen's silver dinner knife in his right hand had already moved.

[God-level magic hand speed] at full speed.

The tip of the knife pierced the hairline of the rivet with incredible speed, too fast for the naked eye to follow.

The blade tip penetrated less than one centimeter into the box.

However, this one centimeter is precisely stuck between the rotating shaft of the main gear and the first layer of linkage locking structure.

Lin Chen twisted his wrist slightly.

The knife deflected three degrees.

"Click".

The main gear is stuck.

00: 09.

Jump to 00:08.

Then it stopped.

The red numbers on the LED screen are frozen at 00:08 and no longer change.

The entire main hall seemed to have been paused.

Lin Chen remained in a squatting position, his left hand still holding the edge of the magic box.

He waited five seconds to make sure the gears were completely locked and there was no more mechanical noise inside before he released his grip and stood up.

"Click."

He pressed down on the latches on both sides of the box with his back hand; these were the manual release mechanisms that would only be exposed after the gears stopped rotating.

The lid pops open to both sides.

The inside of the box is lined with a layer of shock-absorbing foam, and a pale green glass bottle is embedded in the center.

The bottle neck is connected to a brass mechanical valve, and the valve's striking pin is less than two millimeters away from shattering the bottle neck.

Lin Chen reached out and took out the gas canister, plugged the valve, and casually put it into a nearby metal trash can.

"Put the lid back on and find a professional to handle it later."

He patted the water off his hands, walked back to the dining table, sat down, and put a piece of duck meat into his mouth.

I chewed it twice.

"Too much salt."

The entire room fell silent.

The bomb disposal expert, Lao Zhou, stood there with his mouth agape, his dentures almost falling out.

He worked in the military's bomb disposal team for twenty years and had seen all sorts of booby traps and explosive devices.

But can you dismantle Archimedes' box with just a glass of ice water and a knife?

Is this something a human being could do?

Su Rui had sneaked back at some point. He stood at the door, craning his neck, and saw the opened magic box on the ground and the silent poison gas canister in the trash can. His legs went weak, and he slid down the door frame while holding onto it.

Su Jianguo sat in the armchair, his hand holding the teacup slightly unsteady.

He took a sip of tea and put the teacup down.

There was a slight, almost imperceptible tremor in his voice.

"it is good."

He only said one word.