Chapter 223： Infiltrator

There is no light in the bathroom, and it is dark under the shroud of night.

Lynn was disturbed by the slight evening breeze, squinted his eyes and did not move rashly.

If during the day, there may be a little wizard who can't hold back to come to this bathroom on the first floor to go to the toilet, but who else will come here at this late hour?

There is a hunch in his heart that he doesn't need to wait too long, and today he can catch the person who opened the secret room and took the basilisk away.

The dark figure who broke into the bathroom didn't use the magic wand to illuminate the curse. He moved slowly in the bathroom, and slowly fumbled to the location of the sink.

The surroundings are too dark, and Lynn can only judge the direction of his movement based on the movements he made, but he can't see his specific movements clearly.

But there is no need to see clearly, because soon the figure told Lynn through action what he was doing.

A "hissing" sound that Lin is very familiar with, the next moment the sink on the side of the bathroom becomes a "rumbling" sound of activity!

The entrance to the secret room was opened!

The figure still didn't use the magic wand to illuminate the curse. After opening the entrance to the secret room, he crawled into the huge pipe without hesitation.

Lynn still didn't move rashly on the spot. He counted silently for 60 seconds in the bottom of his heart. After judging that this time was enough for the figure to crawl into the Slytherin chamber from the pipe, he lightly drilled from the entrance of the chamber. Went in.

He crawled very slowly in order to prevent the pipe from making a sound. When Lynn climbed to the end of the pipe and approached the exit, he suddenly stopped.

Some faint voices came, and the person who sneaked into the secret room is now below!

The phantom curse on Lynn has not been lifted. He carefully wriggled his body in the pipe like a bug, approaching the exit bit by bit, until he could see the situation in the secret room through a slightly inclined angle. .

The environment in the secret room is far less dark than in the bathroom. A green flame that has never been extinguished for thousands of years is beating on the lamp. Through the shining green light, Lin can see that the figure who sneaked into the secret room is putting it away. A huge snake skin.

The figure faces Lynn, wearing a dark robe, the color of the hair is not clear, but the figure is thin and not tall, from the back, he should be a male.

He held a small bag made of unknown fur in his left hand, and held the colorful snake skin in his right hand and kept stuffing it into the bag.

The small bag doesn’t look big. Observing its capacity from the outside, it won’t fit even if the snakeskin is cut into a tenth of the size. The bag is obviously used like Lynn’s pockets, similar to non-mark. Expansion spells such as magic.

The unknown man looked very patient. He slowly stuffed the snakeskin into the bag without rushing, and kept it for about ten minutes, until Lynn became numb with his arms supported on his body. , He put the whole snake skin into the bag.

Then the intruder put away the small bag without even taking out the magic wand in his hand, and walked slowly into the depths of the secret room.

Lynn did not immediately follow, he turned over and adjusted the position of his body and waited quietly for half a minute before crawling out of the pipe.

The figure did not move fast, and the space added to the secret room was not too small. Lynn waited for half a minute before he walked forward less than a hundred meters.

Can't see the face for the time being, Lynn can only guess his identity while quietly following behind him.

Not tall, thin, short hair, male.

None of the professors at Hogwarts fits all of these characteristics, and the possibility of a person from outside the school is extremely low, so there is a high probability that this person is a student.

Lynn has been a professor for three weeks, and the entire Hogwarts students are full of no more than a thousand students, so it’s not realistic that everyone can recognize it after all the classes in the grade, but basically what grade should have He can still distinguish the height of this kind.

If the infiltrator is a little wizard, then he should start at least in the third grade, and the children in the first and second grades can't grow so tall even if they start with the snack Jinkra.

The intruder had already walked to the huge Slytherin statue in the deepest part of the chamber, and Lynn was hiding behind a pillar with a large snake relief, carefully poking out his head to watch the figure move in front of the statue.

He stood quietly in front of the statue, as if in a daze, he did not move at all. He seemed to be remembering something. It took about three minutes before he uttered a "hissing" snake language from his mouth.

Lynn immediately dropped his eyes from the Slytherin statue and stared at the lower body of the figure, preventing the basilisk from staring at him and petrifying himself when he crawled out of the statue’s mouth.

However, the "hissing" sound of the figure did not stop for a long time. He didn't seem to be talking about secret orders, but more like chatting with the basilisk behind the statue.

Lynn couldn't help but regret it. He should tell Tom in advance, hold him in his hand and listen to what this man said in snake language. He doesn't know if Tom is asleep in his pocket now, can he Hear the voice of this figure.

Slytherin's mouth did not open until the figure stopped talking, but Lynn heard movement from behind the statue, and the basilisk seemed to have received some order and began to connect to Hogwarts city behind the statue. Action in the fort’s pipeline.

At this time, the figure finally turned around. With the help of the green firelight in the secret room, Lynn saw his face!

was an acquaintance, this was the first thought that came to Lynn in his heart.

Hubert McLean, Slytherin's third-year student, Lynn's first-year roommate, was tortured by Kira to a pure-blooded little wizard!

I don't know if it was because of the green light. Hubert's expression was a bit numb. He didn't notice Lynn's gaze in the dark. After turning around, he left straight in the direction of the exit.

Why is it him?

Lynn frowned. He had guessed Harry before, and he had guessed that it was Little Tom who is now in his pocket, but he had never thought about which other student at Hogwarts was.

Not to mention that in the original work, there are only a few little wizards who have left their names. The prerequisite for opening the secret room requires a snake-like voice to eliminate almost all the little wizards.

A wizard who is born with a snake-like voice is not necessarily a descendant of Slytherin, but this kind of talent is not very common, and it is easy to show his abilities without paying attention.

But Linn and Hubert have been classmates for three years. Although they don’t usually have much contact after that unpleasant incident, if Hubert’s cynicism accidentally leaks out, Linn It is absolutely impossible not to know.

Because in the eyes of most people, especially the little wizards of Hogwarts, the talent of being born with a snake tongue is equated with the identity of a descendant of Slytherin, and he will never conceal Hubert’s character. , But triumphantly regard this as the capital to show off.

Or is it that Hubert actually deceived everyone? All his usual performances are pretends?

Lynn sensed the strangeness behind this "truth".

After Hubert left the secret room and climbed out of the pipe, Lynn did not leave with him. After Hubert went out, he would inevitably close the entrance of the secret room again with snake language, unless Lynn followed him closely. , Otherwise he will still be locked in the secret room first.

And following him too tightly in the narrow environment of the pipe, he will inevitably be discovered by him. Lynn does not need to take the risk. He only needs to wait in the secret room for Hubert to leave the bathroom, and then let Tom get out of the pipe. You can go out by opening the entrance of the secret room.

Lynn walked out from behind the pillar. He observed the secret room after Hubert left. Now it is exactly the same as when he came in three weeks later. The basilisk shed its skin and was taken away, while the back of the statue’s mouth was connected. It remains to be verified whether the basilisk is still there in the pipeline.

He took Tom out of his pocket first. Tom looked confused, as if he wanted to sleep, but he was not asleep yet.

"Tom, did you hear someone speak in snake language just now?"

Tom was awakened by Lynn shaking, he blinked his non-existent eyes, and said lazily.

"I just heard someone say something in snake language to go to treasure places, etc., but his snake language is very unskilled, and I might have heard it wrong."

Treasure Place?

Lynn pinched his chin with his fingers, feeling that this word didn't have much to do with the style of the secret room and the basilisk, but the sentence Tom said later provided Lynn with useful information.

"Why not proficient? Like a person who knows nothing about English deliberately imitating English?"

"Yes, that's what it means. He imitated the rough syllables, but it sounds very twisted to me."

This information is very important, which shows that Hubert's ability to speak snake language is not necessarily a natural snake tongue. It is very likely that he learned these snake language from others. Unless snake language is also divided into dialects, the pronunciation of snake language in each Snake Chamber is different.

Lynn did not continue to struggle with this matter, he told Tom: "You open his password before saying it to this statue again."

"What's that password?"

"Speak to me, Slytherin-the greatest of the Big Four at Hogwarts."

Tom followed the command Lynn told the statue and repeated it in snake language to the statue.

The Slytherin statue's mouth opened slowly, revealing the dark pipe inside, and at the same time a fishy smell filled the pipe.

The Basilisk was gone, but apparently it hadn't been long since he left, just after Hubert finished the long snake talk to it.

Now the secret room is of no value to Lynn, but even if he sees the face of the person who took the basilisk, the mystery of this matter has not been completely solved.

Lynn’s next goal is not to guard the secret room, but to figure out what happened to Hubert.

About thirty minutes after Hubert left the secret room, Lynn also crawled out of the pipe holding Tom, left the secret room and closed the entrance.

It's almost 1 o'clock in the morning on September 6, and Myrtle hasn't come back from the ghost meeting, so Lynn doesn't have to keep guarding in this bathroom.

He put Tom back in his pocket so that he could rest peacefully, but he came to the entrance of the Slytherin lounge after leaving the bathroom.

"Above the honor." Lynn uttered the password for the Slytherin common room this week, and then the cat's waist got in. He did not remove the phantom spell from his body and lay on a remote sofa in the common room. On the chair, waiting quietly.

Lynn was not sure whether Hubert went back to the dormitory directly after leaving the secret room or went to meet someone else. He didn’t need to bother to find someone at Hogwarts when he was so old. He just had to make sure he was coming out of the secret room. It’s okay to come back immediately in the future.

So he just waited in the common room of the Snake Yard, and by tomorrow morning, he would know if Hubert had returned.

Although Lynn squinted his eyes and looked like he was asleep, he actually kept paying attention to the main entrance of the lounge, because it did not rule out the possibility that Hubert would return in the middle of the night after meeting someone outside.

The whole night passed, and the little wizards in Slytherin were very honest. No one came in from the outside, and no one ran out secretly to prepare for a night tour. Until the morning, the little wizards started to get up and go to the auditorium to eat. At breakfast, Lynn saw Hubert in the middle.

As if he had done anything last night, he was excited and chatted with the two roommates around him and left Slytherin’s bedroom. From the outside, he couldn’t see the slightest appearance of him in the secret room last night. The performance of the little wizard in the third grade is generally the same.

After seeing Hubert, Lynn got up from the sofa followed him and left the Slytherin common room.

All day after 　　, Lynn followed Hubert. But everything was normal. He ate, went to class, bragged with friends in the common room, and finally went to sleep in the dormitory. He has never been in contact with any suspicious people.

Lynn even sneaked into Hubert’s bedroom in the middle of the night and turned over his things, but did not find the small bag he brought out of the secret room to hold the basilisk and shed the snake skin.

Either this bag was deliberately hidden by Hubert, or he didn't know when he gave it to another person.

Now it seems that there are no clues. Hubert's performance is very normal, and he is almost like two people in the secret room before, but Lynn obviously will not let him go like this.

After the transformation get out of class on September 8th, Hubert did not go to the auditorium for dinner with his two roommates. His last transformation work was found to have traces of plagiarism, and Professor McGonagall was sent to her office. , Rewrite the homework in front of her.

Schubert dangled and wrote that it was not until seven o'clock that he was released by Professor McGonagall.

"Unlucky." He whispered with a sour arm, and walked towards the Slytherin lounge. "Supper must be gone. I don't know if the **** Michel and Mark brought me meals. "

He sighed and wandered down the unmanned corridor. The next moment, a bright red spell shot out from the corner and hit him!

Hubert was affected by the coma spell and collapsed to the ground with his eyes closed. Lynn slowly revealed his figure from the shadow with a blank face, used the phantom body spell on him and himself again, and then grabbed His legs walked in the direction of the responsive house.