Chapter 1711

It's really strange. Just now because of Hibiscus, Harry seldom felt happy in the dark.

He galloped along the dark path, as if he had a lot of strength in his body, and from time to time he used directional mantras to determine whether the direction was correct.

His desire to win the cup was stronger than ever, but he found himself walking into a dead end. The maze was so big that he never met any other players for a long time.

He counted the numbers in his mind. Hibiscus needed to rest and pause. Krum was knocked unconscious and could not wake up for a few hours. Then he removed himself and Hermione. Then there were six students from other schools in the maze.

Just be careful of the man from the moon mountain in Africa. Animagus, who can use guns, is definitely not an opponent you want to meet in a narrow space.

Harry doesn't take the initiative to attack others, but he's worried that they will take him as prey.

The feeling of being watched came back, but he looked around, but he didn't find a camera with lights in the trees.

As time went by, the sky became more and more gloomy. The dark clouds like black cotton indicated that it might rain soon. But Harry felt that he was lost, and the rain might be fixed.

Neither the rain spell nor the food curse was advanced, but he had never learned either. On rainy days, he only had to stay in the house, eat some candy, and then bake the fireplace with Ron and them.

Now he has some regrets. He knew that he should have spent more time learning basic knowledge in the past, instead of playing wizard chess or chatting with Hagrid.

At this time, he suddenly heard something. When his eyes turned to a long and straight fork road, the light of the magic wand was shining on a very strange monster. He only saw a picture of it in "where are the magic animals".

This is the Sphinx, or Sphinx, a specialty of North Africa. It has lion like claws, a long yellow tail, and a tuft of fluffy hair on the tip of its tail, like a small duster.

But she had a woman's head. She should have been following the light. Her round eyes in the dark looked at Harry and purred like she was laughing.

Harry didn't know whether he should have done it first, because if it was the same as the book records, Sphinx preferred riddles to cannibalism, and it was certainly best to avoid wasting his energy in fighting.

P.E. professors have talked about the necessity of reasonable distribution of physical strength in the course. It is not necessary to fight against any enemy. Sometimes it is better to talk about conditions or reason.

She didn't really have the cat's intention of crouching down and then pouncing, just squatting on the path to block Harry's way.

Then she spoke, in a low, hoarse voice: "you're about ten miles from the target. Of course, the quickest way is through me."

Her tail swung and pointed behind her.

"Excuse me, then?" Harry replied tentatively.

"No way." She blocked the path between the hedges, and her big hairy tail swung back and forth: "unless you can answer my riddle, if you guess me right, I will let you go. If you don't, I will kill you!"

Harry was a little nervous. The answer was Hermione's specialty, but not his.

But there was a flash of light in his mind. If the riddle was too difficult, he could not answer it. As long as he didn't speak, it would not be right or wrong. Sphinx would not hurt him. He could go back and find another way.

"All right." He took a deep breath, patted his chest and cheered himself: "please work out the question!"

Sphinx sat down on his hind legs, tilted his head and began to ask:

"there was a man who had five big macaques. He bought them a pile of peaches, but he couldn't share them equally. So he drove away the monkeys and said that he would divide them the next day."

"But in the middle of the night, a monkey came to him and prayed. He was soft hearted and gave the first monkey a peach, so that the remaining peaches could be shared equally by the five monkeys tomorrow."

"The first monkey took his share in advance and went back to bed. But it wasn't long before the second monkey came to this human prayer

"It also ate a peach, the rest of the peach can be divided into five parts, so it also took one of its own ahead of time."

"The third, the fourth and the fifth monkeys are all in the same situation, that is, when they eat one and take a fifth, they can be eaten by the next monkey and then divide it into five parts again."

There was an indescribable smile on the monster's face, as if it was funny that it could not be said. It took a long time for the monster to say the question:

"excuse me... When will this black Nick Frey die?"

"Can you say it again... Speak slowly?"

Harry, who is Nick Frey, who is looking at the total number of peaches? Did he offend Sphinx?

The Sphinx patiently asked again, and her paws were still tugging at its tail, but it was not her who was in a hurry.

"Why is there such a problem? That's strange. "Black long straight boy's face is dead, this question he can answer, do not have to run away.

Sphinx blew his sharp fingernails: "well, you have to ask the man who brought me here. He came to Egypt to see me and made a deal with me. If he can answer my question, but I can't answer his, then I have to come here to solve riddles with you human cubs."

"That's the question that baffled you at that time?" Harry asked, this familiar style, it must be the physical education teacher did not run away.

She scratched her chin:

"it's not difficult, it's mainly because I answered... Before he put forward the final question, I replied" 3121 ". I thought that the question was about the total number of peaches, and the result was a ridiculous joke. Well, I have been in the guessing circles of Egypt for thousands of years, but I fell into a psychological trap because of my arrogance. That man is really defenseless

Harry wiped the cold sweat on his head. Fortunately, he was not good at math and did not calculate the number of peaches. This was the first time that he was happy that he was not a bully.

If you are smart enough to answer, I guess I have to run for my life now?

"This man Nick Frey is going to die the next day, because he said he would have peaches the next day, but he had secretly distributed the peaches the night before, didn't he?"

Harry calmed down, licked his lips and gave the answer. Thanks to the fact that the Ron family had been to Egypt in the second grade, they showed off some knowledge with Harry when they came back. He still remembers:

"Professor Wilson said," you can't stand without faith. "This is the question he gave you. He also specially emphasized that Frey was a black man, that is to say, the next morning, because he lost his faith in a monkey This person of the sons will not stand, literally lying down. In Egyptian frescoes, the black body lying down represents the dead. "

Sphinx got out of the way, and her big furry paws clapped in front of her: "you're really smart. Five layers mean you can see the second layer. It's good for humans. Anyway, you've passed the test. As long as you keep running on the road behind me, you can find the trophy

"Thank you." Harry rubbed past the monster. The other side didn't mean to attack him at all. He was very trustworthy, but he still had some things that he cared about: "you said the riddle has five meanings. What's the third layer?"

The Sphinx monster glanced at him and fell back on the intersection:

"the man said," human beings are just like the monkeys in this story. They only care whether they get less peaches than other monkeys, but they forget who bought them, so they will get the hand that feeds them... "Tut, this story is very interesting, isn't it

Harry grinned. He did think that he almost went to the direction of "monkeys kill human beings and their vested interests after the fruits are divided unevenly". It's dangerous.

This is probably a trap specially prepared for smart people. If someone really thinks so, he will analyze the combat effectiveness gap between macaques and humans and try to calculate the death date of human beings?

The wrong way of thinking will undoubtedly lead to the wrong answer...

Harry said goodbye to the monster again, and he ran forward and determined that he would never be a monkey... No, he would not be ungrateful.

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