Chapter 670

The night gradually deepened.

The night of Hogwarts castle was dark, except for the light scattered by ferci's lantern on patrol.

Of course, the underground passage of hutchpatch's bedroom is also dark. Coupled with the complexity of the head here, even the old students who have lived here for several years will not walk along unfamiliar routes after turning off the lights.

But at this moment, Ernst felt the darkness all the way and couldn't help going deep into it.

He didn't know why he did it. He only knew that the wonderful feeling was still guiding him and asked him to follow that hunch step by step. He knew that as long as he followed this feeling, he would eventually get some unexpected benefits.

Just like in the corridor outside the public lounge, I knew I shouldn't have followed filch, but in the end, I was surprised to get a chance to bring disaster to the East.

"... if I hadn't found a scapegoat for Slytherin just now, it wouldn't be good to wait until filch reported the matter to the headmaster," RNs thought as he walked away, "Guiding him away with a tapestry can only be regarded as a temporary escape at best, but once he finds that he has been cheated... Even if he can't find me for a while, the headmaster will understand it all when he asks those house elves tomorrow..."

Yes, if no one mentioned it, the house elf wouldn't take the initiative to report. But since filch was fooled at the door of Hufflepuff's common room, if this matter is found out, it will naturally start from the most likely place. I'm afraid it will be revealed sooner or later.

At that time, the time was urgent, and Ernst must have had no time to think more. If he could use the tapestry to lead filch away, he would have been blessed by the blessing agent. If the effect of the blessing agent was not particularly excellent, that trace of inspiration just guided him to throw the cause on Slytherin's head, his quick and wise way to avoid disaster would have been completely in vain.

Now, when Ernst felt that strange premonition again at the door of his bedroom, he naturally chose to let it go without hesitation.

Seriously, with this feeling especially strong, he has to take a good look at what "luck" is waiting for him in the end.

The underground passage was still so dark. The deeper he went, the more hazy his eyes became. At the back, he even lost his fingers.

However, the effect of the blessing agent still maintained his intuition, so that he didn't miss a step. Even if he bent his head here and disappeared in the dark, he was bound to turn accurately every corner and move forward seemingly irregularly in these channels.

"... is this it?"

Suddenly, he murmured to himself, then stopped his steps. Almost at the same time, his right hand looked to his side and caught a smooth and round hard object the size of a palm.

"Click -"

It was the sound of turning the latch. It seemed that what he was holding was a door handle.

Ernst nodded to himself, confirmed the guidance in his heart, and then turned around and stepped out steadily.

"Click."

When his hand left the cool handle, the door leaf he couldn't even see clearly closed again.

"Fluorescent flashing."

This is a magic spell that will be taught to students in grade one. It is also the second practical magic spell after the floating spell. In fact, even if he doesn't eat chocolate, Ernst can still use it smoothly, but at this time, the light from the tip of his staff is much brighter than usual.

The second after the magic wand glowing spell took effect, a room with a lot of dust immediately appeared in front of Ernst.

It can be seen that this should have been a living room for quite some years, with bed boards, tables and chairs, lampstands and other daily necessities. But perhaps it is because no one has lived here for too long, it has already become an alternative storage room, and even the period when it was turned into a storage room is afraid to be some years.

Ernst stood at the door with a magic wand in his hand and took photos back to the ground. He found that the sundries stacked here were all pots and pans, and some had even broken up long ago.

"This room is not a short distance from the current dormitory area," he thought casually. "It seems that at some time in the past, the number of students in hutchpatch college may be much more than now..."

Of course, it was just Ernst's thought by the way. He soon put the idea aside and planned to walk somewhere in the room according to the guidance of his heart. However, this time he only took one step and suddenly stopped again.

The wand in his hand suddenly dropped, and the light immediately shone on the ground near him, and a string of footprints that were not his own were immediately revealed.

"Who has been here?"

Because the room is full of dust accumulated over the years, if someone walks past without cleaning up the footprints, it can be seen at a glance. At the moment, there are several quite obvious footprints on the ground, which can be seen at a glance by the light.

But to be honest, it's no big deal to have a few footprints here. Students are not allowed in and out here. If he can come, can't others come?

It's just that Ernst obviously doesn't think so.

But I saw him squat down immediately, stretch out his left index finger, gently wipe it on the footprints, and then put it under the light for a little look.

As mentioned before, this is actually a very deep channel. It may have been used a long time ago, but it has long been in a semi abandoned state in recent years. If the structure of Hogwarts castle were not maintained by magic as a whole, the underpass would have collapsed more than half if it was in disrepair.

If there's no purpose, who will come here to wander around?

"No matter what benefits you get later, you have to pay attention... Maybe others know..." RNs thought carefully and added a reminder to himself secretly.

It's always good to be careful, he's Ernst Taron, that's the kind of person.

"However, judging from the fact that there is dust in the footprints, most of the man has been away for some time. It's strange that there are only so many footprints from the door to the middle of the room and back to the door... What's that guy doing here?"

Because the function of lucky chocolate is time limited, Ernst only considered it for a moment, and soon buried it in his heart.

This trip tonight, he came to get benefits!

After that, Ernst didn't think much, but went straight to the corner on the right side of the room.

Because there were a lot of messy sundries in the way, and he had to keep the magic wand luminous spell to disperse the darkness, he only had to push and kick the ground to sweep all those things. Instead, he made the clothes with black background and yellow edge black and white, which looked a little embarrassed.

However, this toss was worth it after all. When he directly pulled down a half broken wooden shelf, a cupboard with a lot of damage was revealed.

It's just different from those fragile and rotten wood products. This cupboard is built directly on the wall with stone bricks. It's right that the door fell off, but it's barely formed inside. On the polished stone cupboard, piles of silver dishes with fine decorative patterns are still placed on it.

However, the objects once used to hold delicious food are now only full of dust... If the craftsman who made them was still alive, I'm afraid he could cry for you on the spot.

However, of course, Ernst is not interested in feeling this. He only cares whether he can get something valuable. Just glancing at it, he directly extended his hand to a pile of silver plates and held the edge of the bottom plate accurately.

Sure enough, he just dialed and knew that the silver plate was fixed on it. Then, he pinched the edge and turned it hard. With a burst of mechanism transmission, the cupboard that seemed to be built directly on the wall opened like a door.

"Sure enough, it's worthy of being a wizard's castle. It's the same as those in the story books. There are so hidden secret roads and secret doors..."

Although Ernst was amazed at it, he didn't know that it was a real novelty to find such a "Muggle" secret door in Hogwarts castle.

Generally speaking, if wizards build secret rooms, they usually use all kinds of magic. The more powerful a wizard is, the more he will use complex and exquisite magic spells to hide secret doors and secret ways. How can he use this pure physical structure that Muggles can design?

But that's what most wizards don't think of, but sometimes they can deceive the talented teachers and students in Hogwarts, can't they?

Of course, now Ernst is just a little wizard who has just come into contact with the magic world. Even if he is deep-minded and flexible, his knowledge is still limited after all. Maybe one day in the future, he will make another different sigh for this strange design, but he won't have that idea at this time.

So he just took a step with his wand and walked into the exposed dark passage with full curiosity and expectation.

This is a dense path of downward sloping stone steps. The slope is not steep, but it is very long, and it seems to be a spiral downward channel. On the outer stone wall of the spiral channel, an armrest groove has been carefully cut, but now it has long been full of dust and stains, so it can't be helped.

However, because of the exuberant surprise in his heart, Ernst didn't feel very tired and walked down quite briskly.