Stopping before the bedroom door, Su Xiao looked at the two open metal doors ahead and realized that he seemed to have skipped quite a few mission steps again.
The reason he thought so was that the bedroom doors ahead had a lock panel identical to the one in the Watchtower. Even the structure of every lock ring was exactly the same. It went without saying that both lock panels had been made by the Mechanical Creator.
The good news was that the lock panel before him only had three rings. Unlike the top floor of the Watchtower, which had an astonishing thirty rings, each ring here was also of a different type.
All three rings before him were combinations of Secret Patterns. Since he had no clues and no corresponding key to insert into the center of the lock panel, he could not even turn the rings. Su Xiao took out the Eye of Mystery and prepared to see whether this masterpiece of alchemical civilization could undo the Mechanical Creator's painstaking arrangement.
As for opening the door with the universal key, Su Xiao still had some respect for the Mechanical Creator's creations. He decided not to use it, lest he fail to kick the door open and only numb his foot.
After adjusting the Eye of Mystery's mode, Su Xiao attached it to the center of the lock panel. A precise mechanical tentacle extended from within the Eye of Mystery and first slipped into the keyhole. After changing through various combinations, it clicked, and the keyhole was solved. Then three mechanical tentacles attached themselves to the three lock rings and began rotating them at a dizzying speed.
Time passed second by second. After Su Xiao waited for more than twenty minutes, he heard a crisp click. The three lock