Chapter 704 Hidden Mystery
"Wow..." Steve lowered his head and looked at the golden round box. Just as he was about to reach out and touch it, Nie Yao tapped the back of his hand.
"I said, you can only watch, not do anything!" Nie Yao warned in a low voice.
Steve quickly stuck out his tongue, retracted his hand, lowered his head and looked carefully at the golden box in front of him, hesitantly said: "Senior sister, why do I see this artifact as a woman's dressing box?"
"At first, I also thought it was a dressing box used by ancient Egyptian nobles!" Nie Yao nodded and answered with a smile.
At first, she could only speculate based on the photos. It wasn't until she accompanied Li Jinxing to the Swiss Bank, opened the safe and saw the real thing that she realized that the photos had almost blinded her to her understanding...
Of course, those people who have been chasing after Li Jinxing, whose identities are unknown and whose means are ruthless, are also constantly using their actions to hint to her and Li Jinxing that this cultural relic is definitely not as simple as it seems!
"So this artifact is not a dressing box?" Steve asked in surprise.
Nie Yao nodded, pointed to the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs engraved on it, and explained to Steve, "If you look closely at the text above, you can see that this artifact is not a dressing box, but a key..."
"Key?" Steve thought he was seeing things. He rubbed his eyes and exclaimed in disbelief, "How can this not be a key..."
"If you can't see it, forget it!" Nie Yao smiled indifferently and planned to put it away again. Steve quickly took out the magnifying glass he used from his pocket and said enthusiastically, "Wait, let me see what the words on it say first..."
Nie Yao then stopped putting the artifact back and let Steve take a closer look at it with a magnifying glass. Steve began to silently recite the hieroglyphs on it, and his face began to change as he read to the end.
"Senior, this seems to be... seems to be... a code..."
Steve said this, took off the magnifying glass and looked at Nie Yao. Seeing that Nie Yao did not deny it, he immediately rubbed his hands and said excitedly: "Senior sister, can you let me try..."
"Put on gloves!" Nie Yao whispered. Steve nodded excitedly and took out a pair of gloves and put them on. Then he carefully took the artifact and began to try to rotate it.
Seeing Steve's hand touching the base, Nie Yao frowned slightly and whispered a reminder: "Be careful with your hands——"
There was a click, and all the gears on the base were exposed. Steve was startled and retracted his hand quickly. His glove was only scratched by the sharp gears, but his palm was not injured.
"This speed is too fast, it scared me to death!" Steve breathed a sigh of relief, patted his chest and sighed softly.
"I just reminded you to be more careful!" Nie Yao said with a smile.
"If I had been a step slower, my hand would have been cut by this gear..." Steve sighed in fear, lowering his head to look at the protruding gear, still feeling a little unbelievable.
"I never thought that this artifact, which looks like a makeup box, could actually hold such a secret!"
He raised the artifact in his hand and knocked it carefully, then hesitantly said, "But I still can't see how something this big could be a key. How can there be a keyhole this big?"
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