Gamers Are Fierce - Chapter 1099

[Chapter 98 My Love (3)]

  ”In short, let’s observe the surrounding situation first.”

  Li Ang glanced around the room. In addition to the lampshade, the ceiling also had the grid-like air outlet of the central air conditioner, the smoke alarm, and the sprinkler fire extinguishing device.

  If smoke detectors sense heavy smoke, an alarm will sound, and a lotus-shaped sprinkler fire extinguisher will start spraying water or extinguishing agent.

  ”Sounding the alarm might scare the real murderer, and getting the sprinkler to start doesn’t seem to help me at all. The handcuffs are so tight that even with water or fire extinguishing agent, it’s unlikely that my wrist will get through the lubrication. , break free from the handcuffs.”

  Li Ang glanced around the room, and finally his eyes stayed on the padlock.

  In terms of shape, this pair of padlocks is the most common straight-opening padlock. The   lock   beam is

  silver and the lock body is bronze. The

  whole is made of stainless steel. .   ”On one side of the lock, there are obvious scratches and polishing marks. That is to say, the label was deliberately polished off.”   Li Ang frowned slightly, using the light to observe the lock more carefully, and said silently: “I don’t want to let me Know the brand of the lock?   But does it make sense? Even in modern times, the use of this kind of direct-opening padlock has been greatly reduced.   There are still many in supermarkets and shopping malls. It is easy to buy and has many users   . It is impossible to judge the geographic location of the buyer by the brand.   Besides, the lock cylinder technology used by each brand and each model is very different, and you don’t know how to open the lock and pick the lock just by seeing the brand.”   Li Ang shook his head and continued to observe.

  There are three metal rings with smaller diameters on the lock beam, and on each metal ring, there is a complete or incomplete key.

  The A key is in good condition, the

  B key has only the upper half, and the

  C key has only the lower half, which is connected to the metal ring through a small hole.

  Li Ang thought for a moment, then slowly stood up against the wall a little, then let go of his hands, let the flashlight fall, and

  bit his mouth, just holding the flashlight.

  He sat down against the wall and used the light of the flashlight to point upwards. With his

  slightly unbalanced hands, he took a lot of effort to remove the three keys together with the metal ring.

  Li Ang is still very confident in his lock picking skills. Ordinary mechanical padlocks can be easily opened with small steel wires, small iron pieces, and iron hooks.

  Even a slightly more difficult lock cylinder has a variety of lock picking methods. can use.

  Screwdrivers, tin foil, chewing gum, mud, matches, pumps, limes are nothing to unlock.

  But the problem is that it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. The

  metal ring is the closest to the lockpicking tool on hand,

  and the three metal rings are small in diameter and strong in hardness. Li Ang’s slightly unbalanced hands have no strength to straighten them, and the

  teeth are also due to Due to the position of the head, there is no way to cooperate with both hands to bite the metal ring apart.

  ”If you don’t give any tools, you can only open the lock normally.”

  Li Ang squeezed the three keys between the thumb of his left hand and the middle finger of the index finger. After careful observation, the

  three keys were all in-line keys made of imitation copper, with key teeth. Corresponding to the marble structure in the padlock,

  ”Huh?”

  Li Ang carefully compared the three keys under the light and found the problem.

  Both the B key and the C key have a fractured cross section. From the perspective of the shape of the cross section, the two can match, and the tooth shape can also match.

  It seems that the BC key should be able to form a key consistent with No. 1.

  However, the number of teeth of the A key is six,

  while the number of teeth of the BC key is only five,

  and the lengths of the two are also different. The total length of the A key is longer than the sum of B and C. still long.

  ”BC isn’t the two parts of a complete key that broke apart? Or they don’t correspond to this lock? Or, is A the key to another lock?”

  Li Ang hesitated for a moment

  . Under certain conditions, if the key is rashly inserted into the lock cylinder, it is very likely that the key is wrong,

  stuck, or even broken, which cannot be repaired.

  ”Then try the B key first.”

  Li Ang took a deep breath, inserted the B key with only the upper half into the lock cylinder, and tried to turn it.

  The entrance of the lock cylinder is a little loose, and the B key can be turned back and forth to open a distance of two or three millimeters, but it cannot be turned ninety degrees.

  ”I did hear the sound of marbles moving in the lock cylinder just now. Although the key didn’t turn, and I don’t know how many marbles moved, the B key didn’t get stuck in it.”

  Next, it was the A key.

  Li Ang inserted the complete A key into the lock cylinder, but it still didn’t turn.

  ”Huh? What does this mean?” The

  lock cylinder is the heart of the lock.

  Generally speaking, mechanical locks can be divided into two types: blades and marbles according to their structure, the former is better than the latter.

  In the lock cylinder of a lock, the more marbles and blade structures are, the more complex it is, and the more difficult it is to pick the lock. This is because the marble blade structure in the lock cylinder is arranged in a dog-tooth shape, and it can go up and down. move.

  The key is inserted into the lock cylinder, and the tooth shape of the key squeezes the blade of the lock cylinder, which will lift it up.

  If it is the correct key, all the blades can be returned to their positions at the same time, and the completion of the unlocking is the so-called one key to open one. put the lock.

  The basic principle of picking locks is to use foreign objects such as iron wires and iron sheets to lift the marble blades in the lock cylinder to make them return to their positions, so as to complete the unlocking master key.

  ”Key A doesn’t work, so I can only use key C.”

  Li Ang took a deep breath, pushed key C into the lock cylinder little by little, listened carefully to the sound of marbles moving inside, and kept turning key C, trying to Open the lock cylinder.

  Unfortunately, the lock did not open until the C key almost completely entered the lock cylinder.

  ”If you push the C key in, you won’t be able to get it out. I tried it just now, and the other two keys and the metal ring are not magnetic, so the broken C key can’t be sucked out.”

  Li Ang hesitated for a while, just about to take out the C key , the shape of the A key flashed in my mind in an instant, “Wait, just now I remembered that when the A key was inserted all the way, the key handle was partially exposed, and it did not completely match. The

  error length is exactly equal to the A key, which is added to the BC key. That is

  to say, this is a hint

  that the lock cylinder that cannot be completely matched by the A key can be matched by the BC key.”

  Li Ang was refreshed and no longer hesitated to push the C key into it. The B key is also inserted, and the

  key handle just fits the lock body exactly.

  ”Huh.”

  Li Ang grinned and turned the key handle of the B key.

  Still not moving.

  ”Huh?”

  Li Ang squinted his eyes and turned back and forth in both directions. After a lot of effort, he couldn’t turn the key.

  ”What did I miss? It shouldn’t be, just now I clearly heard the sound of all the marbles bouncing upwards, whether it is the bottom half or the top half.

  Wait, don’t tell me”

  Li Ang will only have the B key for the top half , along the side of the lock body, press it back slightly,

  only to hear a “click”,

  as if a switch was triggered, and the B key can suddenly be turned.

  ”Sure enough, if the C key has completely entered the back half of the lock cylinder and all the marbles have been opened, then the problem lies in the B key.

  The lock cylinder of this lock should be divided into two composite structures, one is the front One and the rear. The

  front and rear structures can be opened by B and C, but at the same time, the front and rear composite structures interfere with each other

  . The vertical marbles in the structure opened by the B key will lock the C key like a door bolt. Rear structure.

  Only by pressing the B key down can the hidden door bolt be opened,

  which is also the key entrance of the lock body, and the reason it is a little loose is that it was originally an active switch.”

  Li Ang bit the flashlight and took a deep breath. With a sigh, turn the B key to the end, and

  with a “click”, the silver-white lock beam of the padlock bounces up.

  The lock is open.

  ”Huh”

  Li Ang shook his head and slowly rotated the padlock so that the curved lock beam no longer tied the handcuff ring.

  Break free!

  Li Ang took off the padlock, stood up straight, shook his hands and wrists that were squeezed and hurt, and took down the flashlight in his mouth.

  Although the cuff ring has not been completely removed, it is still a little twisted, but at least he has regained the ability to move freely, and he does not have to worry about the imbalance of blood supply to his hands.

  ”Huh.”

  Li Ang took out the B key on the padlock,

  probably because the lock cylinder was divided into two parts, and the silver-white lock beam also fell out.

  He put the AB key, the padlock beam, and the lock body into his pocket.

  The pocket of the high-end suit was empty, cleaner than Li Ang’s face, so he couldn’t give any information.

  He took a flashlight to observe the house, first tapped lightly on each floor, then tapped on each wall, tore off the wallpaper, but did not find any hidden doors

  . Firmly fixed together, unable to move, obviously cannot be removed as a self-defense weapon.

  ”The next thing to search is these boxes in the corner.”

  Li Ang took two steps, squatted in front of the boxes, and searched several times, and found four open cardboard boxes filled with records, vinyl records and CDs CDs are available.

  Through album covers, you can find these songs, mostly from American stars in the real world at the end of the twentieth century.

  Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Michael Jackson and more.

  ”The state of preservation of the records is very good. The owner of this house is a music lover who just moved?”

  There is no time limit for the mission objectives of the first stage. There may be other clues in the whole room.

  Li Ang is not in a hurry to escape. After reading all the records, I took them out and put them on the ground, and looked through the record packaging and cardboard boxes.

  I searched inside and out, and even tore the cardboard box into small pieces, and

  finally confirmed that this is an ordinary box for recording records, and there are no key props such as passwords, keys, screwdrivers, etc. hidden.

  ”Okay, what about other things?”

  Li Ang stood up and looked at the metal pipe on the wall.

  He stepped forward, supported the wall with his left hand, stepped on the metal pipe with his right foot, slowly pushed his left arm, shifted his center of gravity to

  the right, leaned against the wall, stood on the metal pipe, and touched the grille of the central air conditioner with both hands. Grid air outlet.

  At this angle, he was just barely able to reach the air outlet, and put his fingers in about two or three centimeters.

  Li Ang groped for two minutes, but found nothing but ashes.

  There is nothing near the air outlet,

  and the grid-shaped air outlet is made of metal. The nut inside needs a crank screwdriver to unscrew, which Li Ang can’t do with his own hands.

  No more clues could be found, and Li Ang was not too disappointed.

  He patted the dust off his hands and looked at the only door in the room.

  ”After all the searches are done, this is the only door left.”

  Li Ang took out the heavy padlock from his pocket with his left hand and used it as a weapon to approach the door

  with extreme vigilance. , hold the door handle (to prevent the small probability event such as the door handle being poisoned, and by the way, it can prevent the palm from leaving fingerprints on the door handle), and slowly pull down.

  The doorknob turned down, unexpectedly smoothly, and

  without any hindrance, the door opened.

  ”Huh?”

  It went so smoothly, but it was a little weird. Li Ang frowned slightly, slowly opened the wooden door to a gap, and looked outside.

  Unlike what he imagined, the scene outside the room was a very ordinary American-style residential corridor.

  The ceiling is hung with bulbous bulbs,

  the floor is carpeted, the

  walls are covered with beige patterned wallpaper, and the frames on which there are several landscape paintings are not high-end, and the paintings themselves are just mass-produced prints.

  Directly opposite the room where Li Ang was, was a wooden door of the same shape, which was not opened.

  On the left side of the corridor is an L-shaped corner. The lights at the corner are not on, and

  you can vaguely see the half-height stool placed in the corner and the landscape plants placed on it.

  On the right side of the hallway, there is an open kitchen that leads to the house.

  The lights in the kitchen were not on, and

  through the corridor lights, I could vaguely see the console in the middle of the open kitchen, as well as the dining table and chairs in the dining room behind the kitchen.

  ”Nordic style decoration, the economic conditions are not particularly good, but it can be seen that it is relatively warm, the home owner is quite diligent, there is no oil fume and unwashed tableware on the operating table, the tables, chairs and stools are arranged in an orderly manner, and the carpet in the corridor It is also very clean and tidy.

  The husband and wife live together, and there may be children.”

  Li Ang thought silently about what he saw, and suddenly,

  a dim light lit up on the left side of the restaurant, and the voice of an adult male broke the silence of the house.

  ”Welcome back, this is Monterey TV.”

  The voice was low and magnetic, coming from the left side of the restaurant, and it sounded like a male host on the TV station.

  Is someone watching TV in the room?

  Li Ang raised his eyebrows, and pressed the flashlight button twice. The flashlight was always on, and the second time it was in anti-riot mode, it would continuously emit strong flashing light, enough to blind people.

  Press the third time to close.

  He turned off the flashlight, crept out of the room without a sound, blocked the door with the scraps of a cardboard box to prevent the door from being completely closed,

  and then did not walk to the left of the restaurant where the light source came from,

  but walked to the door directly opposite.

[End of this Chapter]