With a quick and calculated movement, Tan Xiuying used her wooden sticks to her advantage. Her sharp eyes picked up the pattern and rhythm of the shifting stone panels as she studied them. She tapped the right panels with her sticks with deft skill, stopping their motion and destroying the trap with a stroke of agility and precision.
Drawing upon her knowledge of mechanisms, Tan Xiuying learned that the trap was indeed an old and fairly primitive design compared to what she had encountered in the modern era. As was typical of older trap mechanisms, she saw that the timing and motion of the stone panels were very predictable.
With intuition and insight into the workings of such devices from her time, she skillfully manipulated the wooden sticks to block the moving panels. Her movements resembled a skilled hand directing a clock's gears, disturbing the mechanism's operation and successfully stopping the trap's movement.
