v2 Chapter 41： Slytherin Chamber of Secrets

"The day of the draw at Hogwarts(

The basilisk twisted on the ground in pain, and the phoenix in Tom's incarnation attacked its head again and again, leaving wounds one after another. Maybe a toothpick can stab people blind, but no one will be stabbed to death by a toothpick.

The basilisk suffered from repeated pains, coupled with blindness in both eyes, and had lost his mind.

It wandered blindly in the secret room, spilling blood everywhere.

Tom hovered over its head and switched to a three-headed dog.

"boom!"

The huge three-headed dog fell from the sky and slammed into the basilisk's head, making a muffled sound. Tom felt that the head under his claws made a rattling sound, a bit like breaking a cucumber. .

Usually the basilisk is the natural enemy of the three-headed dog with many eyes, but now the basilisk is blind, and in the eyes of the three-headed dog, it is just a big spicy stick of more than ten meters.

A snake and a dog slammed heavily on the ground together. Tom, adhering to the spirit of taking advantage of his illness to kill him, patched up a few more claws until the claws were covered with white paste.

The basilisk stopped struggling, and its vitality was rapidly draining.

Standing on the almost smashed head, Tom changed back into a human form, quickly put his hand on the top of the basilisk's head, and recorded the form of the basilisk. Immediately afterwards, without any hesitation, he turned into a phoenix and flew into the sky, keeping a considerable distance from the Basilisk.

Tom knew the cockroach-like vitality of snakes. Every year several people who have been bitten by decapitated venomous snakes make the news. The basilisk alias is the snake king, he must be cautious. So Tom stopped on Slytherin's shoulder and watched the basilisk below make no more noise, and finally only the snake's tail twitched occasionally.

But Tom didn't go down either. He carefully observed the secret room, trying to find out if there was a switch for the light - there should be. After all, the secret room was originally used as a classroom. Now, in this light environment, it would be too outrageous to be a classroom. .

After becoming a phoenix, Tom's eyesight became much stronger, and he saw that the snake-shaped sculptures on the pillars seemed to have a layer of black dirt. He had a vague idea, and then combined with the style of this secret room, Tom turned into a bird and snake and said, "Turn on the lights!"

There was no response, and Tom changed the word.

"bright!"

This time Salazar Slytherin's sculpture reacted, with a green flame on his index finger. The flame floated down from the index finger and landed on a snake head embossed on a pillar.

Immediately, a flame rose from the snake's open mouth, and the flame quickly climbed up the snake's body. Soon, the snake coiled on the pillar turned into a fire snake - before the scales of the snake on the pillar should have been soaked with grease. The serpentine reliefs on each pillar were hooked on the ceiling, so the flames spread rapidly, and within two minutes, all the pillars in the house were lit with flames, lighting up the entire secret room.

It seemed to feel the light and warmth, and the basilisk on the ground suddenly twisted again. It unwillingly raised its upper body, its hammered head looked at the ceiling, its mouth was wide open, this movement was maintained for a few seconds, and then It slammed heavily on the floor, its flesh flying.

This top-notch magical animal, if it weren't for Tom's ingenuity, would be a tyrant in the magical world, with almost no natural enemies. But because of poor information, Tom was reckoned to death from scratch. It would be even easier to ask Tom to do it again.

But the danger is incalculable. Tom wouldn't come alone if he hadn't recorded the full Fox form.

The basilisk should be completely dead.

Tom looked around the secret room. The flames were burning fiercely, and the grease prepared by Slytherin should be very high-grade, because there was no smell of oil smoke during the burning process, but instead gave off a delicate fragrance. And with the emergence of the flames, the temperature in the room is also rising rapidly, and the gloomy and damp feeling has been completely eliminated - Slytherin thinks he is the greatest founder, how could he have his own secret room? To become the style of the villain's base camp, he must pursue the ultimate extravagance and grandeur.

The bright environment in front of you is proof. Tom estimated that this time, at least hundreds of kilograms of essential oil will be burned for the lighting. After smelling the good aroma, Tom felt that it was not the smell of oil at all, but the smell of Jin Galleon.

"The next step is to find out if Slytherin has left anything here."

In fact, it was already obvious that all the pillars were burning, except for one that did not have a flame on it.

Tom fell in front of the pillar, stood for a few seconds, the floor tiles on the ground lit up, the floor tiles rose slowly, and lifted Tom into the air, and he could see the ceiling clearly now.

About 50 meters above the ground, the wall of the secret room is recessed here, forming an aisle about two meters wide with the wall below, and the edge of the aisle is decorated with ornate railings - but after thousands of years, most of the The balustrades were all rotten, and only a few gold and silver carvings remained.

Tom landed gently on the aisle. He walked along the aisle to the left of the Slytherin statue and found a silver door.

He glanced outside, and found that the entire secret room had a panoramic view. He imagined that after the Slytherin had finished dealing with things in the room, he walked out of the room and stood here, overlooking the scenery of the lower level of the secret room like a god.

"Ant." These were the words that popped out of his mind. Standing so high above, it is easy to have the illusion that everyone in the world is an ant.

Tom turned to look at the silver door, which was smooth and unmarked, with no such thing as a doorknob.

He didn't dare to break in rashly. He remembered that Gringotts had a kind of magic that only allowed certain people to enter. Anyone else who wanted to do this would be sucked in by the door, trapped inside the door and couldn't get out.

Now if Tom is sucked in, it is conservatively estimated that it will take a few months before someone can release him. Then he estimates that there is no way to deal with it other than turning into a basilisk and choosing to sleep.

Thinking of this, Tom raised his hand and glanced at his ring. The fire dragon on it had disappeared, and it was replaced by a snake.

In doing so, Tom also made serious consideration. Although the ring has six sides, there are only five vacancies. He is about to transform into five magical creatures and inherit some abilities.

He has recorded bird snakes, phoenixes, fire dragons, unicorns and three-headed dogs before. Basilisk wants to record it and must replace one of them. The bird snake may be used in the next secret room exploration. The unicorn has a strong purification effect on the soul. Tom needs mental defense means. The three-headed dog in close combat has too strong advantages and cannot be replaced. , so only the phoenix and the dragon are left.

The phoenix is ​​capable of Nirvana! Tom will not replace this one even if he washes off all the others - God knows whether the recorded phoenix has Nirvana ability, according to the characteristics of the system, there is a high probability that it will not. What is the difference between a phoenix without nirvana and a flying turkey? That is, it can be used as a nanny.

On the other hand, the fire dragon, the flying ability is heavier than the phoenix, the magic resistance is similar to that of the three-headed dog, and the fire-breathing ability is very tasteless because Norbert was a child at the time of recording. After thinking about it, Tom replaced the fire dragon with a fire dragon. Basilisk.

This is also the problem he encountered: as he grew up, he encountered more and more powerful magical animals, and he always had to learn to choose.

Just like a game team, there are four positions. Generally speaking, there is a main C, a nurse or a shield, a support and a tool. No one will take the four main C lineup, and you must consider the coordination problem.

Tom moved a little farther from the silver door. He circled in the other direction and came to the other side of the Slytherin stone sculpture. He found that there was also a silver door here.

The exploration of the Chamber of Secrets leads to a dead end.

No, there was another spot where Tom looked at the black hole in the mouth of the stone sculpture.

Tom has always had a little question: what have the basilisks been eating for more than a thousand years?

Basilisks are mystical creatures, although they live long and can hibernate, but they are not immortals after all, and they cannot sit for a single retreat. The world has been around for thousands of years. In a thousand-year sleep, it must wake up several times and shed its skin, right? So what does it eat when it wakes up?

A giant snake that is more than ten meters long I can't get enough of mice! It can't be that Slytherin has left the basilisk with rations for a thousand years.

So Tom decided to go into the mouth of the statue to find out.

The mouth of the statue has also been carefully repaired, the ground is covered with neat bluestone slabs, and there are many mucus from the basilisk on the slab. The surrounding walls were inlaid with a lot of small fluorescent pebbles, which could provide a weak light source.

Tom walked along the flagstone road, walked dozens of steps, and came to a slightly wider hall. There were some snakeskin sloughs scattered throughout, but most of them had been broken into pieces.

It can be seen that this is where the Basilisk used to live.

The hall has one entrance and two exits. One exit appears to go above ground, the other goes underground.

Tom walked into the upward exit.

This time the road is a little steeper. The tunnel slowly ascends, and there is a door inside the tunnel, which needs to be opened in Parseltongue. After going through the door, Tom walked for ten minutes without seeing the end of the tunnel. So he simply turned into a phoenix and flew all the way forward. It took a few minutes to see the light of the exit. Finally, he flew out of the tunnel and found himself in a dense forest. Tom took his bearings a little and felt as if he were in the mountains around Hogwarts.

Tom seemed to know what the basilisk's food was.

When it wakes up from hunger, it will climb out of the tunnel, go outside to hunt for food, and then follow the orders left by Slytherin and return to the secret room to wait for the awakening of the heir of Slytherin. The probability of the basilisk leaving is Another downward tunnel.

As for the downward tunnel, Tom made a bold speculation: the tunnel is likely to lead to Black Lake.