Hearing Zhuang Haikuo's scolding, Tian Zhilang immediately said innocently: "Mayor, it's not because it's cold. There's no way to light a fire in the bell tower to keep warm. It's windy here on the first floor. We can't just hide up there." While speaking, this Tian Zhilang's eyes were still open.
From time to time, he swept over Lin Haoming and others.
"You have so many excuses. Experts, this is the person in charge of the bell tower. His name is Tian Zhilang. When I was a child, it was his grandfather who was in charge of the bell tower. Then it was his father. Now he is in charge. It can be regarded as the third generation. He knows the situation of the bell tower best.
." Zhuang Haikuo said with a smile.
"Experts, come in and talk, it's cold outside." Tian Zhilang was obviously not a dull person, and he greeted quickly.
Lin Haoming and others followed him into the bell tower, but the mayor did not go in. He just smiled and signaled that the rest would be left to Tian Zhilang, and he went back.
Everyone ignored the mayor. After all, the person in front of them was obviously better at figuring out the bell tower, and the bell tower was really quite big. It was a complete tower. There were four floors, and the top floor was the bell tower. And every time
The first floor is very high, at least one meter higher than the previous hotel.
There is a table and two chairs on the first floor, with some papers on them, mainly forms and other miscellaneous items under the stairs.
The staircase is a spiral staircase and is very narrow along one side of the wall. It is difficult for two people to walk side by side, so they can only go up one by one.
After arriving on the second floor, Lin Haoming found that it had been completely transformed into a living room, with a bed facing the wall of the stairs, cabinets and some sundries.
"Sorry, I don't actually live here, this is just a temporary resting place." Tian Zhilang smiled sheepishly.
After he finished speaking, he continued to go upstairs. After everyone followed, they found that the third floor contained some items related to the big clock on the top floor, some gear parts, some engine oil, debugging rods, measuring instruments, etc.
Looking at these things, there is not much dust, which shows that these items are often used.
The third floor leads to the fourth floor. There is a cover on it. Only when you open the cover can you enter the inside of the real big clock. However, this place is obviously relatively small. The clock itself takes up most of the space. At most, it can accommodate three people standing in a relatively spacious place.
Any more would seem crowded.
The big clock has stopped now. According to the information given by the soul ring, it is because some core components are aging and need to be completely repaired. Now a group of people are here to check the specific situation and at the same time protect the integrity of some parts of the big clock, because many things have more than a hundred pieces.
With ten years of history, it can be regarded as an important cultural relic.
Several people took turns to go up to the top floor to check the situation here. First it was the three guys on the third floor who knew Lin Haoming, then the three women, and finally it was Lin Haoming and Machete's turn. This situation clearly meant that no one wanted to go with him.
Together.
Of course, this made it easier for Lin Haoming to move. He carefully observed the situation here. The reason why the roller clock tower is called the roller clock tower is entirely because of this square clock tower. Behind the hands that display the time on all sides, as the background
A picture scroll, the picture scroll rotates along with the gears like a clock.
A day in this world is about the same as that of the earth, but here the day is divided into twelve hours, which are represented by numbers, or can also be called hours. Each hour is divided into twenty-four points, one point is five minutes, and one point is divided into one
One hundred drops, one drop takes almost three seconds.
The reason for this division is also related to the beginning of accurate measurement of time in this world. According to the information of this world, the earliest scholars who built clocks used water drop clocks. A drop of water is the shortest unit of time. Even if the water drop clock later became a historical antique
, but the time title was still inherited.
After the machete checked, he glanced at Lin Haoming. Lin Haoming finally shook his head, indicating that there were no clues here. Indeed, there were just some mechanical things here, nothing special.
When Lin Haoming came down, he saw people who had come down early in the morning, asking questions around Tian Zhilang. On the surface, they seemed to be asking about the big clock, but in fact they were making many insinuations.
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Huang Changting was particularly approachable. As long as she asked, Tian Zhilang would tell her something even if he didn't know it. This made Huang Changting suddenly become a very important person among everyone.
From her words, everyone knew that this big bell was indeed built after the ale factory was built to prevent workers in the town, or in other words, workers in the village from being late, and it was originally built by people in the factory.
However, as the village gradually turned into a town, the malt factory donated the ownership of the bell tower to the town, and from that time on, the town assigned dedicated people to maintain the bell tower.
The first person in charge of the bell tower in the town was Tian Zhilang's grandfather. He started taking care of the bell tower when he was younger than Tian Zhilang now. Although he is still the bell ringer, he is actually the maintainer of the bell tower, and the accuracy of the time is important.
It was the bell ringer who determined it, and his grandfather had always done a good job. The profession of bell ringer was passed down from father to son, and from son to grandson, and it was passed down to Tian Zhilang now.
However, seeing Tian Zhilang's eyes keep scanning Huang Changting, especially in some attractive places, his eyes would stay for a long time. In addition, before knocking on the door for a long time before opening the door, I always felt that this Tian Zhilang was not that reliable.
After listening to what he said for a while, Gao Shang was a little surprised and said: "Hey, why is it dark?"
Except for the door on the first floor, the bell tower has no glass windows, but there are wooden windows, which are pushed open and supported by wooden brackets. They are not opened because of the cold weather now, but because the cover to the top floor was not closed before.
So you can see outside through the translucent plate of the clock from below.
Everyone was a little surprised when they heard what he said, but Tian Zhilang said very normally: "It's almost nine o'clock now. It's normal for it to be dark. After all, it's almost winter."
After hearing this, Lin Haoming soon realized something. The nights in this place must be very long in winter, and nine o'clock is equivalent to three to four o'clock. If you put it this way, in this place, a day is actually six hours long.
During the day, the remaining eighteen hours are all at night, and at night I can only stay in the clock tower.
"We are pressed for time. We just checked. It is not easy to find out the problem with the clock. We only have three days. I think we should take the tools and check them first while it is not completely dark yet." Guan Yiming said.
He said as if he were leading a team.
Others naturally knew this too, because they didn't realize that the days here were short, so they had to be prepared to spend the night in the clock tower.