A finely crafted small device, the surface is engraved with ancient text. The inner ring represents the Four Spirits of Heaven, indicating the location. "East, the Teal Loong, West, the White Tiger, South, the Vermillion Bird, North, the Black Tortoise". The outer ring represents the Twelve Earthly Branches, indicating the time. "Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, Hai".
This sundial has a secret compartment. Rotate the two disks to the right positions to unlock it and discover its hidden contents.
An unlocked Sundial-shaped puzzle box. The direction and time symbols on its disks have been rearranged. However, you have already obtained the key information given by the Jinzhou Magistrate. Now, it appears to be an ordinary small sundial. Only upon closer inspection can you see a faint light source at the top and the shadow of the needle is distorted, almost like a hushed whisper.
A finely crafted small device, the surface is engraved with ancient text, the inner text represents the Four Spirits of Huanglong Heaven, which seems to imply directional information: "East, the Azure Dragon. West, the White Tiger. South, the Vermillion Bird. North, the Black Tortoise".
The outer ring represents the Twelve Earthly Branches, which seems to imply temporal information: "Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, Hai".
A complete sundial-style mechanism box, there is an interlayer inside the box, it seems to hide something. The two sundial faces can now rotate freely, if the correct orientation and time information is found, the mechanism box may be opened.