v2 Chapter 40： Chamber of Secrets and Basilisks

"The day of the draw at Hogwarts(

Seeing that the only possible witness had also left, Tom turned into a bird-snake and wandered around the sink. Finally, on the side of a copper faucet, Tom saw a delicate little snake.

"Open!" Tom said naturally, but it was no longer a human voice, but a kind of snake hissing sound.

"Hesha-Hassah!"

Immediately, there was a sound of a mechanism starting from behind the sink, and the table behind the sink where the mirror was placed gradually floated up, revealing a dark hole. Immediately afterwards, the sinks spread out. They watched as the pool slowly disappeared from view, revealing a bottomless water pipe, thick enough for a person to get in.

Tom took the roosters on and slid in through the hose.

The water pipe twisted and twisted, and fell all the way down a very steep **** for a while. Tom judged that he was already in a very deep part of the school at this time, deeper than the basement classroom and the rooms where the magic stone was hidden.

No one knows what's hidden beneath Hogwarts. For thousands of years, generations of outstanding wizards have left countless secrets here.

Soon, the angle of the water pipe became horizontal, and Tom slipped out of the nozzle and landed on the ground.

Outside the pipe was a very wide tunnel. Tom pulled the cart and took two steps. There was a creaking sound under his feet: the ground was full of small animal bones. However, there is a high probability that these small rodents are not the rations of the basilisks over the years.

Basilisks can grow as long as fifty feet. As a behemoth of more than ten meters long, even if something like a mouse is eaten, it will be digested together with the bones, and there is no possibility that there will be bones left. Snakes are extremely digestible, and can often digest their prey from scales to bones in a few days. The only thing left is hair and feathers.

However, it is not surprising that there are small animal corpses in the sewers.

"Fluorescent flashes!"

Tom saw his surroundings clearly. Judging from the traces left, this tunnel was also carefully built back then, but it has been in disrepair for a long time. In addition, it is located in the ground and it is extremely humid. It has become very dilapidated.

Tom passed through several circular arches, and after turning a corner, a behemoth appeared in Tom's eyes.

It is a snake slough, coiled on the ground, withered and decayed, and it looks like it has been sloughed off for some years.

Looking at this snake skin full of worm eyes, Tom felt a little nauseated.

The snake's skin was green and shiny, and even if it had dried up, you could still see the bright colors of the year. Based on the length of the snake's skin, Tom roughly estimated the length of the basilisk. The basilisk was at least thirty feet long, and he did not know how big it was. The snakes have grown up eating what they have eaten all these years.

Tom went around the snake skin and kept going, turning one curve after another, and finally Tom saw a wall at the end of the tunnel, on the wall there were two snakes entwined around each other, and the snake's eyes were four Huge emerald.

It can be seen that Slytherin was very careful when he built the secret room and invested a lot of resources.

Tom continued to open the door in Parseltongue.

The entangled snake separated, and the wall behind the snake also separated, and a huge room appeared in front of Tom's eyes.

There are many snake statues in the house, arranged in two rows on both sides of the house. The light in the room was extremely dim, and the only light source was the eyes of the serpentine statues in the room, which were glowing green. The ceiling was so high that Tom looked up and couldn't see the roof.

The room was filled with a green and mysterious haze, and various statues and stone pillars cast eerie shadows in the room.

"Fluorescent flashes!"

A ray of light shot out from the tip of Tom's wand, dispelling the darkness a few steps in front of him, making the atmosphere less gloomy.

Tom walked little by little by the light of his wand to the end of the room, where there stood a statue of the same height as the room. The statue was integrated with the back wall, or the statue itself was carved out of the back wall.

On the statue was a monkey-like, old-fashioned face, with a long, sparse beard that dragged almost all the way to the hem of the statue's robe—that's what Salazar Slytherin looked like.

The founder of Hogwarts is ugly. Tom felt that it was very likely that he had abused black magic. Black magic would distort people's hearts and souls, and eventually lead to distorted faces and worsened faces.

Tom looked back at this secret room. It was built quite grandly. Although the lighting is very poor now, Tom believes that there must be some mechanism in it to make it brighter.

The original purpose of the Chamber of Secrets was to have a place where it could teach its own students magic that the other three founders disagreed with. Slytherin and the other three founders actually had differences for a long time. The other three giants were reluctant to teach black magic to their students, but Slytherin was very enthusiastic about it.

This is the original function of the secret room: a place to open a small stove.

But this is a big project, and it has to hide from other partners, so the time is very long, and Slytherin's own mentality has also changed. After the completion of the secret room, he has more ambitions, and the other three differences are even greater.

This statue is a reflection of his mindset: none of the other founders have erected huge statues of themselves in the school. And this statue, everyone who wants to see his face must look up, otherwise they can only look at his instep.

Tom came to the statue, turned into a bird snake, then looked up at the face of the Slytherin stone statue hidden in the darkness, opened his mouth and made a hissing sound.

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

Tom decided to summon the basilisk here and kill it. Riddle wanted to open the Chamber of Secrets, didn't he? I'll just leave a secret room without the basilisk for you to open.

And Tom also intends to look for opportunities in the library to find out if there is any unique spell, the kind that will be triggered as long as others step into the room. If you place such a spell in the secret room, you can wait and see: Riddle will be obedient. Bring yourself to your door.

Slytherin's stone face moved, and its mouth slowly opened, forming a black hole.

Tom took the opportunity to release the roosters from the cage.

At this moment, a rustling sound came from the mouth of the stone sculpture, and Tom changed his form into a phoenix. Tom remembered very well that seeing the basilisk's eyes would bring death.

But this kind of seeing must be direct gaze, if it is indirect gaze, it can only be petrified. Wearing glasses doesn't solve the problem - Myrtle wears glasses when she dies, but the lenses don't keep her alive. The key to surviving is to see it through another medium: water surface, mirror surface, camera lens... The lethality of the basilisk's gaze through the medium will decrease by one layer, from instant death to permanent petrification.

Of course, if you're a ghost, the basilisk's gaze will only petrify you, after all, a basilisk cannot kill a dead creature.

But magical creatures like the phoenix are immune to the deadly gaze of a basilisk.

So Tom decided to take on Slytherin's basilisk first in Fox's form.

A dark green serpent emerged from the statue's mouth, and Tom saw its yellow lantern-like eyes. The moment it drilled out of the statue, Tom released the shackles on the roosters, but an accident happened. The roosters were attracted by the sound from the statue, and they were all looking in that direction. As a result, the moment the basilisk came out , before they could make a sound, they died by looking directly at the basilisk.

"The rooster's eyes should have been blindfolded!" Tom's plan had a loophole, which was an accident, but fortunately he had a backer: Phoenix form.

He flew towards the basilisk quickly. He saw that the basilisk was green and gleaming. At first glance, it was a highly poisonous snake species. Its body was as thick as an oak tree trunk, and its body length was more than ten meters. It had completely climbed out of the statue. Come out, coil your body in a circle on the ground

Seeing Tom flying towards it Basilisk raised its upper body, and its huge head swayed quickly with Tom's flying. The difference in size between Tom and the basilisk is like the difference between a man and a crow - but the basilisk does not have the agile hands of a human, and in the face of Tom's invasion, it can only demonstrate with dagger-like fangs, and at the same time emit a terrifying expression. Hissing, trying to deter the phoenix and make it retreat.

But in Tom's eyes, it's totally a slap in the face. Although the basilisk is a kind of snake, it does not have the amazing reflexes of its kind at all. On the contrary, its reaction speed is slow among snakes. From the perspective of Tom's incarnation as a phoenix, every movement of the basilisk is like slow motion.

"Bang!" The basilisk's upper and lower fangs slammed together fiercely. That force, even the heavy armor of the medieval knight in Europe, would be penetrated, but this violent bite only bit the air.

Tom dodged the attack of the basilisk. At this time, the upper body of the basilisk had already reached out, but its body froze involuntarily after the attack. Tom seized the opportunity and flew down. Tom's long golden beak stabbed the snake. weird eyes. Although the basilisk instinctively closed its eyes, the phoenix's beak penetrated its eyelid, blinding one of the basilisk's eyes.

A jet of black blood shot out and splashed onto the ground, and it seemed like it was raining in the secret room for a while.

The basilisk fell into a frenzy, and its tail swayed wildly, slamming the ground hard, leaving a crack on the marble slab. At the same time, its head swung more rapidly, but only brought more flaws. So after more than ten seconds, its second eye was also pecked out.

The black blood of the basilisk sprayed onto the ground, exuding a stench, and the piercing yellow eyes had disappeared, leaving only two dark blood holes.