Chapter 349

Standing at the place where Ms. ellebella was attacked, Zhao stepped forward to look around. Along the steep and twisted spiral staircase, his room is just above, but the door is just not visible from this position. If you squat down, Zhao Mai's eyes can just see Tolkien's room over the handrail of the stairs. As the magic wand cast will not turn, so the attacker's position will certainly not be lower than the level where Tolkien lives.

There are three paintings on this short flight of stairs. One is a clown who is blindfolded and tied to the turntable. The flying knife flies towards him and bangs on the turntable. He will dance and struggle, but he can't get away. The second painting is a huge willow, with its thick body supporting the luxuriant branches and green leaves dragging all the way to the green grass. The third picture is an old woman drinking tea in front of her portrait. She is always crying, with a sad expression.

"Excuse me, did you see anything when it happened?"

The woman who drank tea turned her head, removed the handkerchief that wiped her tears, and covered the fresh tea stains on the table. She shook her head and pointed to her throat to show that she could not speak. But she dipped her finger in tea and wrote a line on the table. After the mirror flipped, Zhao Mai knew that it was "I didn't see anything."

"No? Didn't you see how Ms. ellebella got down? " This time without writing, the woman shook her head, continued to pour water from the teapot to the teacup, and then began to drink it silently. She's always going to do it again, in the past and in the future.

The clown cried out: "ah, I heard the bang, I thought there were too many knives! But I'm blindfolded, blindfolded! Can you untie it for me? At least I need to know who's been throwing me with a knife! "

"You didn't hear the sound of the incantation?"

"I only heard bang bang, and bone rolling, just like the ball, solid ball!" The clown turned round and round: "Oh, I'm dizzy, dizzy, but why don't I faint?"

Zhao Mai then asked the reserve grain to come and smell it. Is it fresh and strange. A Liang wagged his tail, walked up and down the steps, and ran up and down the stairs. Soon, he licked Zhao Mai's leg with his tongue, and then pointed straight in the direction of the willow painting.

"Is there anything wrong with this painting?" Zhao Mai looked at it carefully, and the more he saw it, the more strange it was. It seemed that there was something hidden under the luxuriant branches and leaves. When he got closer, the willows changed. The sharp green leaves turned into claws, and the slender willow branches swelled into thick vines, wrapping the whole tree. The original enchanting willow trunks became rough and twisted, and layers of nodules and small holes secreting blood like SAP piled up on the trunks. Now it's not willows, it's dragonfly and Acanthus, the two most dangerous plants in the Hogwarts forbidden forest.

After the change of the picture, Zhao Mai saw a shadow jumping down from the branches, hiding behind the trunk and running away. Reserve grain issued a "wangwangwang" cry, pointing to the shadow to remind Zhao Mai attention. How did the shadow get into the painting?

Zhao Mai reaches out his hand and can only touch the canvas. It's useless to poke it with a magic wand. He leaned close to the canvas and looked around at the edges of the picture. He could barely see a curved moon in the sky. Now the moon outside is the first quarter of the moon, which means that the time in the picture is different from that outside.

"Can pictures be used to escape?" He felt a little strange. At this time, the grain reserves put their forepaws on the wall, kept scratching, and looked at the master with their heads askew. Zhao Mai suddenly realized that there was a passage in the back of the painting!

It's just a door with a pull ring painted on the wall. Zhao Mai reached for the flat wall, but he could hook the raised door ring with his magic wand. After another hard pull, it showed a narrow dark channel. This passage is not big. Zhao Mai's figure can only squeeze in reluctantly. It seems that the tree landscape painting saw the process of things, but it could not speak, so it used the method of image transformation to remind Zhao Mai that the attacker hid behind him, and then ran away.

"I'm going after the murderer. Don't worry about me." Zhao Mai said to Tolkien, "take good care of yourself, and take good care of Addo and dorgian."

"I want to go, too!" Floret floating in the air said.

"Not this time. There are too many channels to go through, and it's hard to reserve enough grain, let alone carry flowerpots. You stay here and protect everyone. It is possible that there is not only one attacker. What if it is an organized gang operation? "

"Well then..." Xiaohua has always been unhappy about not being able to take risks with her.

With that, Zhao Mai turned into a python by using the natural force, swam up along the wall, and then got into the passage. The Grain Reserve tried to stand up straight, then arched its head into the passage and tried to jump in, but it failed several times. He looked tearfully at Tolkien, who held his butt in his hands and finally pushed it into the passage.

The walls of the staff building are only as thick as a layer of stone, but the passage is quite long. Zhao Mai crawled for half a mile. In the middle of his climb, he heard a whimper coming from behind. It turns out that the grain reserve is already very big. It's bowing all the time and can't climb for a while. Zhao Mai turned back, wrapped it with his tail and dragged it forward. The four claws of the grain reserve stretched out from the snake's winding, tilted their heads and licked the snake's skin with their tongues. Because it was too cold, he sneezed at Zhao Mai.The exit of the passage is a hole in a willow tree, facing the Forbidden Forest in Hogwarts. Zhao Mai put down the grain reserve, sniffed around the cave entrance, raised his paw and pointed to the direction of the forbidden forest.

"Did the man run inside?" Zhao Mai turned into a boa constrictor and could only hiss. Reserve grain barked twice as an answer. Hissing and barking are two completely different animal languages. They can't communicate at all. Zhao Mai no longer talks nonsense, let the grain reserves run in front, and wriggle his body behind to "swim" to catch up.

The Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts covers a large area, extending from herb fields and plantations to the end of the horizon. Only a small part of the forest belongs to Hogwarts. There are simple paths, better than nothing signboards and several wildlife observation areas in the area. However, with a number of Warcraft attacks around the world and the Dragon attack on the wizard, most schools have stopped the course of observing animals in the field and changed to look at pictures and take written examinations instead. So there was no one in the forbidden forest for a while - except for troublemakers and adventurous fools - so it was very lonely.

The part of the forbidden forest near the campus is not dangerous, but the deeper it goes, the more likely it will be. Known dangers include the dragon claw vine and the hemp thorn tree, both of which are cannibal plants. They are good at hiding themselves and have great power. To a certain extent, they can resist magic and take the initiative to capture food. Other dangers include all kinds of poisonous plants and animals, a primitive Centaur settlement, pests that can cause all kinds of deadly magic effects, and the fog of confusion that makes people disoriented.

It's said that there are even dead people here.

Now there is a new danger: Zhao Mai.