Chapter 18： Night visit to Room of Requirement

Tom shook his head like a rattle.

"Don't worry about it, I'm going to find out tonight."

"You're acting like a Gryffindor!" Hermione patted the table, her cheeks puffed up like a blowfish, but she finally gave in like a deflated ball. Because she realized that she couldn't seem to stop this guy at all. The only way to stop him was probably to go to the men's dorm and call the prefect, but she didn't want to.

If she really did such a thing, Tom would be severely punished, and the friendship between the two would probably come to an end.

So, after going through some ideological struggle, Hermione made a compromise: you can go, but bring me, and I will supervise you to prevent you from making more mistakes!

After saying that, he kept his face straight and made a very dignified look.

Although she had a stern face, the atmosphere between the two eased. Tom agreed to Hermione's request. But he stood there motionless.

"Why didn't you leave?"

"Are you just wearing slippers and wandering around the castle with me?" Tom reluctantly pointed to the shoes under Hermione's stool, "Anyhow, change your shoes?"

Hermione glanced at him, jumped off the stool, and ran back to the bedroom. It's not that she didn't expect this, but she was worried that Tom would sneak away while he was changing his shoes. She returned to the dormitory, hurriedly changed into a pair of brown snow boots, and ran out, not even changing the nightgown, but just put a wizard robe over it.

Fortunately, Tom still stayed in the lounge honestly.

"I thought you would just run away."

"If you want, you can go back and change your clothes again, I promise to go away alone."

The two opened the door of the lounge and ran out quietly.

Fortunately, the Ravenclaws lived in a tower of the castle, not far from the eighth floor. Tom and Hermione just searched for the stairs for a while and found the way to the eighth floor. If they were Slytherins and Hufflepuffs living in dungeons and basements, they probably wouldn't even be able to find their way to the eighth floor tonight.

The two wandered on the eighth floor for a while before they found their destination tonight: the Room of Requirement.

Tom knew that the room was on the eighth floor of the castle, opposite the tapestry of a troll stick hitting Barnabas. But even if there was a clear clue, it took him nearly half an hour to find it. He stood in front of the empty wall, thinking concentratedly: I need to solve the puzzle, and at the same time walked back and forth three times in front of the wall, and the third time passed, a very smooth door appeared on the wall.

"Hermione, I'm going in." Tom informed Hermione and opened the door of the Room of Requirement. At the moment of entering the door, the task of the third stage of leisure travel in the world was also completed.

What appeared in front of Tom at this time was an empty room with a length and width of more than 100 meters. There were five pillars standing in the center of the room. Each pillar was more than ten meters high, and there were several scratches on it. , consistent with the column arrangement.

Curiously, Hermione walked up to the pillars and looked at them.

"What's this?" she asked Tom.

"I don't know either." Tom shook his head and stepped on a stone, which slowly sank and made a crisp sound. Hermione shouted excitedly: "I understand!"

At this time, she was completely attracted by the puzzles and left school rules and the like behind. She took Tom to the pillar, pointed to the scratches on it and said, "Look, these scratches correspond to one to five, I think this is the order, and these stones and pillars are in a one-to-one correspondence. That is to say, as long as you step on the corresponding stones in the order of numbers on the scratches, you can solve the puzzle!"

With that said, Hermione excitedly went to solve the puzzle. She stepped on the corresponding stones No. 1 to No. 5 in the order indicated on the stone pillar, and each stone would make a crisp sound when stepped on it. But when she stepped on all five stones, nothing happened, and the pillars and stones were still standing there stupidly.

Hermione thought for a while, and felt that she might have stepped on a stone just when she came in, causing the result to be inaccurate, so she repeated it again, but there was still no response.

Tom stood on the side, quietly watching Hermione solve the puzzle again and again, and finally Hermione gave up. She had to admit that there was something wrong with her thinking.

She stood in front of the stone pillar, her brows furrowed, and she didn't say a word, her toes scratched on the ground. Tom walked silently to the edge of the room, walking slowly around the wall. Tom's behavior caught Hermione's attention, and she called out, "Have you found anything?"

"Not yet—wait a second, Hermione, come here!" Tom found something interesting in the corner and hurriedly called Hermione over.

"Look!" He pointed to the five shallow bumps for Hermione, "I think this is the key to breaking the game."

He put his hand on the bump, and the floor in front of him was actually concave. With a roar, a hole appeared on the ground. The four walls of the pit are all rock, with three scale lines on it, and a handle at the bottom, I don't know what it is for. Two rough taps appeared on the wall above the pit.

"This should correspond to the fifth pillar!" Hermione found the clue, she ran quickly along the wall, and soon found other four corners and the midpoint of one wall. of four stone pits.

She tried to turn the faucet again, and found that one of the two faucets can release water and the other can absorb water. I don't know how many years have passed since this device was installed, and the water released is still crystal clear.

But Hermione was still in a deadlock. She found all the stone pits, but she didn't know the relationship between these stone pits and the stone pillars.

Tom turned on a faucet and let it keep pouring water into the pit. When it reached the first mark, a slightly low sound suddenly came out of the pit.

"I understand!" Tom suddenly realized, "So it is!"

"What?" Hermione felt that there was an answer vaguely in her mind, but she didn't have a clue for a while.

"Before you stepped on a stone, the stone would make a sound. I remember that the sound of a stone was very similar to the sound in the puddle just now."

"You step on the first stone again, and I'll go to the No. 1 puddle." Tom assigned Hermione a task.

Sure enough, the sound of the first stone was the same as the sound made when the water level in Puddle No. 1 reached the second mark. Puzzle solved.

Next, the two did the same, filling the remaining four puddles with the right amount of water.

"Still no response, did we hear something wrong?" Hermione was a little nervous at this moment.

Tom shook his head and set his eyes on the five stone pillars. He stepped on one side of the stones according to the order. After this time, a burst of music suddenly sounded in the whole room. The music was ancient but pleasant, making people feel like they were in a ruin.

After the music was played, the ground between the stone pillars cracked, and a treasure chest appeared in front of Tom and Hermione.