Fishermen's live stream: Twelve bodies were retrieved at the start.

Lin Mo's lips curled up.

It turned out to be the case.

This bronze box is not a single, independent entity at all!

It is a component of that anchor that stabilizes the sea!

The square groove hidden at the bottom is the keyhole for the final mechanism.

You can't open it by pressing the texture on the surface with your fingers, even if you break your fingers.

The entire bronze box must be fitted perfectly into the notch in the base of the magic needle.

Using the hidden mechanisms inside the pillar, it is precisely inserted into this square groove.

Only then can the final step of unlocking be triggered.

Lin Mo couldn't help but curse inwardly.

These ancient craftsmen were simply a bunch of incomprehensible madmen.

Turn a box into a component of a colossal pillar reaching to the heavens.

The lock body structures are also interconnected.

Even today, using the most advanced high-precision CNC machine tools to scan and model such intricate mortise and tenon joints and mechanisms, it is not necessarily possible to perfectly replicate them.

Not to mention that the ancients relied entirely on hand polishing.

Pity.

Ancient craftsmen had a bad habit of taking their unique skills to their graves.

As a result, no one in later generations could understand this incredible craftsmanship.

If it weren't for Lin Mo standing here today.

Any top-notch archaeological team would be better off.

Even if you hold this box and ponder for ten or eight years, you might not be able to come up with the idea of ​​assembling these two completely unrelated things together.

Lin Mo, carrying the bronze box, turned and walked towards the enormous object that lay across the deck.

A pillar that stabilizes the sea.

He walked to the thick pillar and squatted down.

This sudden action completely stunned everyone on the ship and the tens of millions of viewers in the live stream.

What's going on? Why did they suddenly stop demolishing it?

Could it be that it's stuck in a knot and can't be untied?

[Hahaha, I knew it! Did he really think he was a tomb raider? This is a mechanism from a thousand years ago; it's not something you can easily dismantle with your bare hands!]

[What were you complaining about earlier? Were you blind to see Mo Ge's technique just now? He clearly discovered something new!]

[Found nothing! I bet he just can't solve it. He's complaining that this damn box is too difficult and is planning to use it to smash the magic needle in his frustration!]

[Smash it? Do you think Brother Mo is some kind of powerless, furious keyboard warrior like you? He earns more money in a day than you could spend in ten lifetimes. Is it worth getting angry at an inanimate object?]

[Exactly! With Brother Mo's wealth and skills, even if he were to smash something and make a noise, that's his freedom. It's none of your business, you poor bastards, to complain!]

The live stream chat instantly erupted into chaos.

The barrage of comments—from skeptics and onlookers to die-hard fans arguing—refreshed so fast that the words were practically invisible to the naked eye.

Lin Mo was completely unaware of these arguments.

His gaze was fixed intently on the intricate cloud and thunder patterns and sea beast designs on the surface of the Dinghai Divine Needle.

While disassembling the bronze box, the resistance feedback from my fingertips helped me construct a mental model for the final step.

The internal mechanisms were loose, but the most crucial slot could not be unlocked by pressing it from the outside.

The shape of that slot was extremely strange.

It is not a conventional circle or square, but a star shape with extremely strong, irregular barbs.

If you forcibly destroy it with external force, the contents inside will be instantly shredded.

The original plan was to bring the box back to land and grind it apart little by little using a high-precision industrial cutting machine.

But just as he stood up to give up, he caught a glimpse of the "stabilizing force" out of the corner of his eye.

The surface of this pillar is not perfectly smooth.

Hidden among those lifelike sea creature reliefs are some extremely difficult-to-detect pits.

Lin Mo stretched out his finger and slowly stroked the scales of a sea beast on the Dinghai Divine Needle.

Rough.

Icy.

The sensation from my fingertips quickly conjured up a three-dimensional model in my mind.

"The barb on the left is 3 millimeters thick, the angle on the right is 45 degrees, and the depth is 1.2 centimeters..."

He silently compared it to the hidden slot at the bottom of the bronze box.

It's exactly the same.

Perfectly fitted.

This is not a standalone puzzle box at all!

This thing comes as a set!

The magic needle that stabilizes the sea is the only key to unlocking this bronze box!

"I see……"

Lin Mo murmured something under his breath.

The sound was so soft that it was carried away by the sea breeze as soon as it was uttered.

Da Zhou and A Yan, who were standing three meters away, looked at each other in bewilderment.

"Brother Mo... what are you muttering about?"

Da Zhou lowered his voice, his Adam's apple bobbing with difficulty.

Ah Yan shook his head, his eyes filled with awe.

"I don't know. But don't you think... Brother Mo's eyes are a little scary right now?"

It was a gaze of extreme focus, as if seeing through a thousand years of time and engaging in a cross-temporal dialogue with the ancients.

They had only ever seen that look in the eyes of true national treasure-level masters.

No, even more pure and more insane than those masters.

Lin Mo didn't give them much time to fill in the blanks.

After confirming the location of the groove, he gripped the bronze box tightly with his right hand.

Without the slightest hesitation.

Without the slightest hesitation.

In front of everyone on the ship, and in front of tens of millions of eyes in the live broadcast room.

He slammed the bottom of the bronze box hard into the inconspicuous dent on the surface of the magic needle!

Holy crap!

Da Zhou was so frightened that he immediately cursed and covered his ears tightly with both hands.

Lin Siyu screamed in fright and closed her eyes.

It's over! It's over!

This guy's gone mad!

If this triggers the self-destruct mechanism, we're all doomed!

however.

"Snap!"

A crisp, deep metallic clanging sound was transmitted with unparalleled clarity throughout the live broadcast room via the drone's high-definition microphone.

There was no explosion.

There are no poison needles.

There was only one kind of mechanical friction sound, like gears perfectly meshing, that sent chills down your spine.

The bottom of the bronze box was perfectly fitted into the groove on the Ruyi Jingu Bang (the magic needle used to stabilize the sea)!

It fits perfectly, as if it grew out of the pillar!

After a full three seconds of deathly silence, the entire live stream room exploded.

The barrage of comments surged like a tsunami, causing the live streaming platform's main server to freeze for up to two seconds.

[Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap!!!]

[What kind of insane move is this?!]

Am I blind? That box is stuck in the pillar?!

[I'm speechless! Absolutely speechless! Is this some kind of ancient design? The precision of this mechanism would require a top-of-the-line CNC machine tool to produce even today!]

[This is terrifying to think about, brothers! What does this mean? It means that the bronze box and the magic staff were a set from the very beginning!]

[My goodness... what were the ancients thinking? Making a keyhole into a massive pillar weighing tens of tons and throwing it into the seabed? That's some seriously advanced security awareness!]

[Incredible! If Brother Mo hadn't retrieved the magic needle, even if someone else got their hands on this box, they absolutely wouldn't be able to open it! Forcing it open would definitely destroy it!]

[The difficulty of this salvage operation, the solution to this puzzle—I can only say, Mo Ge is awesome (voice cracks)!]

Amidst a barrage of frenzied worshipful comments.

Lin Mo twisted his wrist suddenly.

It utilizes the reaction force of the internal mechanism of the "Sea-Stabilizing Needle".

"Click".

The last lock inside the bronze box snapped open.

He grabbed the lid and pulled it off forcefully.

He pulled the entire bronze box off the pillar.

The box, which was originally perfectly sealed, now has a thin crack.