Hogwarts Castle at night is a little eerie.

The dim light shone on the walls, and the creaking footsteps were corresponding...... An unfamiliar Eastern European face appeared in the hallway on the eighth floor of the castle, a black cloak covering most of his face.

Jon Hart kept his pace as fast as he could, as there was a good chance that a teacher or administrator would be patrolling the school late at night...... You have to hurry and be careful, you can't get caught.

Turning the corner, at the end of the corridor on the eighth floor, he saw a portrait of a very wealthy woman dressed in pink. The rich woman had closed her eyes and was asleep.

It seems to be a portrait of a fat lady...... So that's probably the Gryffindor common room.

While Jon was thinking about it, suddenly, there was a loud sound from the other side of the portrait.

Jon's face changed, and he quickly dodged behind a piece of armor.

The portrait of the fat lady was pushed away, and he saw a tall boy with fiery red hair crawling out from behind the portrait. His face, Jon, is somewhat familiar and appears to be the prefect of Gryffindor: Percy Weasley.

I saw the sixth grader of Gryffindor, humming a little tune, walking past the armor, not noticing that there was a person hidden behind the armor.

After the other party was completely out of his sight, Jon crept after him.

Unfortunately, he seems to be in contact with Percy Weasley.

Percy Weasley walked unhurriedly past the Muggle Studies classroom and then down the stairs, and Jon had to slow down and follow him.

After descending several flights of stairs together and through a long hallway, Percy Weasley chose to turn right...... Looking at the direction he was heading, it seemed that he was preparing to go to the Ravenclaw Tower?

Jon suppressed his gossip and stopped...... Around the corner of the hallway, he was ready to wait for Percy Weasley to be completely out of sight before heading downstairs to the basement and back to the Hufflepuff common room.

Percy Weasley only took a few steps before he stopped, took out the mirror from his pocket, and slowly began to comb his hair.

Jon was a little speechless and choked, didn't you dress up in advance when you TM went out on a date, but had to hug your feet impromptuly?

I had only taken a little compound decoction before, and the transformation time was only ten minutes...... It had been delayed by the Gryffindor prefect for almost three or four minutes now.

With patience, Jon sat down around the corner of the hallway.

......

Suddenly, in the darkness of the night, Jon heard a strange sound.

From the other side of the West Tower, the sound was small at first, but it was getting closer...... It sounds like old leather rubbing against the floor.

Jon's face changed suddenly, how could this be possible!

Could it be a basilisk?

But why did the basilisk appear at Hogwarts during this time period?

According to the original plot, Tom Riddle's diary shouldn't have been in Harry Potter's hands at this time, and Potter hasn't found a way to talk to the diary yet.

The plot is so coincidental that it has changed during this time period!

Without the slightest hesitation, Jon quickly pulled the rooster alarm clock out of his pocket and turned the clockwork.

"Who is it?" Percy Weasley also seemed to notice the oddity, but before he could pull out his wand, it was all over...... In the mirror in his hand, he saw a bright yellow-green light, and then his body froze there, turning to stone.

Moreover, the old leather rubbing on the floor sounded again, getting closer and closer...... Jon frowned, the basilisk was crawling towards him, it had already spotted itself!

"Oh...... Oh...... Oh......" The sound of the rooster alarm clock also rang at this time.

With this shrill cry, Jon noticed that the behemoth in the darkness seemed to stop.

The basilisk hissed in the air, and it seemed to be terrified and jealous of the sound of the rooster alarm clock.

However, instead of turning away, it continued to hover the other side of the hallway.

The crowing of a rooster is deadly to a basilisk...... However, the rooster crow simulated by the alarm clock is only a simulated crow after all, and it does not have the same effect, at most it can only make the basilisk habitually fearful.

The two sides seemed to face off like this.

Jon decisively placed the screaming alarm clock on the ground.

The alarm clock only lasts 20 seconds, and if it stops, it will take at least five seconds to readjust it before it can make it crow again.

The basilisk was so close to him that Jon couldn't guarantee that it would be able to crawl in front of him and kill himself in five seconds.

So he started backing away from the rooster alarm clock.

But he didn't go too far, or just run away.

During this half semester, he spent a lot of time studying the nature of the basilisk...... From his research on the basilisk, he knew that the basilisk was large but lightweight...... When attacking its prey, it can reach speeds of up to 15 meters per second.

Even though Sergei's body was quite athletic, it was still impossible to outrun the speed of the basilisk.

Therefore, running away is the stupidest choice, once you leave your back to the basilisk to chase, even if you run a distance of more than 100 meters first, the end will be ten seconds later, and the back will be pierced by the basilisk's fangs.

That would either become food for the basilisk, or die from the basilisk's venomous venom. After all, he can't guarantee that a phoenix will run out to save people.

The only thing you can rely on is yourself!

Jon only chose to step back a little more than ten meters.

According to records, the basilisk of the ancient Greek sorcerer "Hellbo the Mean" lived to be almost nine hundred years old, and it was nine meters long when it died...... And this basilisk in Slytherin lived for more than 1,000 years, so his length should be around ten meters.

The ten-meter-long behemoth may take a little time to turn around at the junction of the corridor.

Although the farther away you are, the more you can ensure your safety, but the power and accuracy of the pistol will be greatly reduced from a long distance......

Therefore, this position can not only ensure your safety for a short time, but also allow the Desert Eagle Mark I pistol to exert its maximum power, and in the case of life and death, you must take some risks.

In his left hand, he picked up the Bamboo Wand, and in his right hand, he held the pistol steadily......

Jon Hart, or more precisely Sergei Pavlov, lay on the ground, glanced around the corner of the hallway ahead, and closed his eyes.

Quietly waiting for the arrival of the hunter or the prey.

The sound of the alarm clock finally stopped.

The sound of old leather rubbing against the floor resounded in the hallway.