Chapter 123: The Story of Xiandou and the Third Level
The white mist turned into Xie An and Jinni, and the two held each other's hands. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info so that Ginny can successfully get out of the second level. In Xie An's white mist, no one else could see clearly except himself.
A small box was placed on the ground not far away, and Ron opened the box, and sure enough, there was a delicate gold Galleon inside.
Ron saw a magical plant with pods engraved on the front of the Golden Galleon, and then turned it over to the back, and the Golden Galleon had the words "Rulers of this world, besides wizards, there are also plants!", and the middle was engraved: Jack Fairy Bean.
"It turns out that this is the kind of fairy bean that can grow indefinitely. It's the first time I've seen such a magical creature. Harley Black was curious about the Golden Galleon in Ron's hand.
"What is a fairy bean? I've never heard of the so-called fairy bean story. Luna asked curiously. Luna is confident that she knows a lot about the fairy tales of various wizards, but she has never encountered the so-called fairy bean story.
"None of you have heard of this story about Jack and his fairy beans?" everyone shook their heads together, and Hallie Black looked at everyone in surprise, thought for a moment and said, "This story is a bit long, do you have time to listen to it?"
"Of course, there is still time to listen to a story. Just take a break. Ron Weasley said. Xie An leaned against the tree in the Forbidden Forest boredly. Harrie Andrew didn't object, organized the language, and began to tell the poignant story of the fairy beans she had heard.
"Once upon a time there was a little boy named Jack who lived with his single mother. They were very poor, they only had a dilapidated house and a pot for cooking. The most valuable thing in the house is a cow left by Jack's father when he died. Although the mother and son had a hard time, they loved each other very much. At this point, Halle Black suddenly paused, she also has a mother who loves her very much, and after confirming this, Halle Black is in a better mood.
One day, his mother told Jack that the family had run out of food, and that it was not time to harvest the food, and that if they could not get some food, then the mother and son would starve. ”
"Jack, who has been dependent on his mother since he was a child, is a very sensible child, he knows that his family is poor, and he has never caused trouble to his mother. Because this child is sensible, he has had some inferiority complex since he was a child. Moms have long found out about this, but how much can a single mother help her child. Although his strong mother strongly encourages Jack to be strong, Jack is still shy and afraid to play with other children. So in order to train Jack, my mother decided to let Jack do a big thing this time, that is, let Jack, a little man, sell the only valuable cow in the family. ”
"Jack loves his mom very much and is very obedient. He did all the farm work his mother gave him, and he did it very well. This time, his mother suddenly asked Jack to do such a big thing, which was indeed unexpected by Jack. But Jack agreed without even thinking about it. ”
Jack went out with excitement to do big things, he didn't know, in fact, his mother had arranged everything for him, as long as he followed his mother's instructions, he could complete this task excellently. The bazaar was a little far from home, and Jack had to stop and go, and he refused the invitation of the beautiful daughter of the village chief's family, with whom he had always had a good relationship, to play with him, and left the village with a high sense of responsibility. ”
Halfway down the road, Jack, who was a little tired from walking, rested under a shady oak tree. Suddenly, in front of them appeared a small, rickety, ragged wizard. He says he'll buy the cute old heifer and that he'll give Jack a handful of fairy beans in exchange. Jack saw the man in a trance for a moment, and somehow, Jack forgot his mother's instructions and agreed to the strange deal. The rickety wizard took the mooing cow away, and Jack returned home in a daze. ”
Mom looked at Jack in amazement, she had made an appointment with the merchant in the market, and Jack only had to take the cows to the market and get the money back. It takes at least a morning to go back and forth, and Jack is back in less than two hours, something must have happened!"
"Jack went home and showed his mother fairy beans. He also didn't understand why he would agree to the deal, and there was always a kind voice in his heart telling him that his mother would be happy with the deal. The mother looked at Jack in surprise, she didn't know what was wrong with her son? This is just an ordinary pea, Jack has been helping his mother with farm work, he should know this kind of thing, why do you want to say that this is a fairy bean? There must be a hateful bad guy who deceived Jack! Thinking of this, my mother couldn't help crying: 'You are so stupid, Jack, our family is all over now!'"
Jack went back to the house at a loss, for the first time that night he had insomnia, tossing and turning and couldn't sleep, and his mother seemed to be crying quietly. Jack was terrified. The moonlight shone through the little window of his bedroom on his tattered quilt, and Jack clutched the beans in his hand, and he finally understood that he had been deceived!
Jack was remorseful, but the young boy had no ability to recover his legal property, and in despair, Jack had to swear to the beans in his hand that if anyone could help him get the cow back, Jack would give everything for it!
The moonlight was still there, but a few peas trembled violently. They scurried out of Jack's grasp, rolled across the house, and ended up in the courtyard of Jack's house. The pea quickly took root and grew, and it didn't take long for it to grow into a vine that reached into the sky. A loud and old voice came from the clouds: Who makes a wish to me again, I am the master of the fairy bean, climb up, I can fulfill your wish!"
Jack had no choice but to climb up the vine. Fortunately, this vine is very magical, as long as Jack touches this vine, he feels that his body is as light as a feather, and he easily climbs up to the clouds. ”
There was nothing on the clouds, just an old man with a white beard sitting on a chair made of clouds, looking at Jack. Jack was about to say something, but the old man said impatiently, 'I can fulfill your wish, but you have just promised to give everything for it, can you still keep this promise now, even if I want your future and soul?'
Jack, who didn't know what his future and soul was, nodded without hesitation, and the white-bearded old man smiled slightly and said, Take these bean seeds, they can fulfill all your wishes and realize your great dreams. It can be transformed into a sheltered house for you, a hen that can give birth to countless gold ingots wrapped in eggshells, or a beautiful and cute and obedient woman, as long as you work hard to water it with your blood and sweat. ”
Jack took the bean seed as if he didn't understand, and the white-bearded old man suddenly said: "I forgot to emphasize one thing, remember, your soul is also mine, and everything you have is ours, so, in fact, these things will eventually have to be returned to me, do you understand?"
Jack nodded ignorantly, and then Jack felt a familiar trance again, and he lost consciousness. ”
By the time Jack woke up again, her mom was already busy in the kitchen. Jack patted his head, having completely forgotten what happened in the middle of the night as a dream, and found his mother standing in front of the stove with a sad brow, and Jack remembered what stupid things he had done yesterday. Despair and regret enveloped Jack again, when a flock of chickens suddenly chirped outside, and Jack and his mother came out of the house curiously, and found that the yard was full of strange peas, and strangely enough, these peas quickly formed pods, and after the pods cracked, colorful hens jumped out of the pea pods. ”
"Jack and his mother were very surprised, at this time Jack remembered the strange dream at night, he remembered that the old man with the white beard said that these hens hatched from the fairy beans can lay golden eggs, and hurriedly stepped forward to pick up an egg that the hen had just laid, peeled off the eggshell, and it was indeed a golden ingot!"
"With the hen that lays the golden eggs, Jack and his mother live a rich life, many people in the village started the idea of Jack's house, one night, a group of robbers wanted to snatch Jack's hen, but they were taught a lesson by the soldiers turned into fairy beans in Jack's yard, and no one dared to come to Jack's house to rob things easily. This is the legend of Jack and the Fairy Bean. Halle Black reminisced and narrated, and it took more than ten minutes to finish the story. Ginny and Luna both listened with relish, Ron let out a low cry of surprise and envy from time to time, only Xie Ancheng was expressionless, as if he had known the story for a long time.
"Andrew, have you heard this story?" asked Hallie Blake, seeing Shay's flat face.
Xie An shook his head, "Then why don't you seem to be curious at all when you hear it?" Harley Black then asked.
"I just think about it again, we're participating in the school's outward bound training now, not participating in the story conference, and after this plant vs. wizard, we still have at least seven levels to wait. I think you can tell your story when we're done. ”
"It just took a few minutes to listen to a story, no big deal. Maybe this story is related to the next level. Ron defended Halle Black.
Xie An didn't say anything, and said directly: "Then let's go now, it's almost noon, I think many students have already passed the first two levels." We may be behind schedule. ”
After walking along the path in the Forbidden Forest for more than ten minutes, he had already encountered another team. There was a Chinese wizard in it, a first-year wizard, Xie An had met once, it seemed to be called Zhang Qiling, and he claimed to be an unruly spirit from the East. The character is a self-acquaintance, and that time I saw the same oriental face as myself in the corridor, and I pounced without hesitation, and was almost injured by Xie An.
The unruly spirit greeted Xie An very warmly, Xie An nodded expressionlessly, Zhang Qiling was very enthusiastic and discussed with Ron Weasley the situation encountered in the first two levels, it turned out that everyone was almost the same in the first level, they all had to face the fear spirit Boggart, and only by defeating this could they enter the next level. The second level is slightly different, Zhang Qiling and his group encountered the Devil's Net, fortunately, a first-year Ravenclaw white wizard named Tony Cut in their group was well aware of the weaknesses of the Devil's Net, and he and a Muggle-born Gryffindor named Kds Fsd claimed to be very knowledgeable about plant-based magical creatures The wonderful cooperation of the first-year wizard narrowly passed the second level.
After the two teams converged, they walked for a few more minutes and came to a very open place. Several sixth-graders were already waiting at the intersection. Xie An looked at the creatures in the clearing in surprise, this can't be the third level!
Grace Zhi looked coldly at the ten students who were scattered, most of them were from the impulsive and irritable Gryffindor and the timid Ravenclaw, wandering in the Forbidden Forest like an outing without discipline or organization, and when they knew what they were going to face in a moment, maybe they would be scared to tears.
"Come here, I'm Grace Zhi, the Slytherin in charge of this level, you're going to challenge that two-headed one-eyed troll over there in a moment, so prepare here for now. Grace Zhi's voice was haughty and cold, with a hint of sarcasm in her seriousness.
"What! Merlin's God, you're going to let us take on that two-headed troll that has risen more than ten meters! The school is crazy, it's Chi Guoguo's murder!" Ron Weasley was the first to question.
Grace Zhi glanced at Ron coldly and explained, "To be exact, it is an eight-.9-meter-tall adult two-headed one-eyed troll, I think the troll has been mentioned in the level manual sent to you by Professor McGonagall, as long as you endorse it carefully and make preparations, then this troll is not difficult to deal with at all." And it's not ten of you, I've been instructed to wait for five groups to pass at once, which means that there are twenty-five of you! If you can't beat this troll, hehe..." Grace smiled coldly, with a mockery that was more obvious than Professor Severus Snape.
"You're saying we're a group of five working together to attack this troll?" asked Harley Black, confused. To be honest, if a group of first- and second-year young wizards were to fight such a troll, it would be no more dangerous than directly sending them to death.
Grace Zhi didn't answer, and the two groups that arrived first had to rest in place. Ron and the Unruly Soul are chatting loudly, and Halle Black wants to get some news from the other seniors. Luna asked Xie An a little nervously, "Andy, can we get past this level?" I heard my father say that trolls are very cruel magical creatures, and some of the two-headed trolls also have magic, and such enemies are not something we can deal with. ”
"Don't worry, the professors won't let us get seriously hurt. And there are a lot of us, you can stay behind me when the time comes, and besides, Grace didn't say it, we just want to defeat the troll, not kill it. ”
After waiting for more than an hour, two more teams came, and Grace Zhi motioned for all the students to come around her, and then said, "There were originally five teams in our area, but there was one team where all the students were eliminated. Now it's just the four of you. "Opposite Xie An was a fourth-year student, he looked a little embarrassed, the wizard's robe was stained with an unknown liquid, emitting an extremely pungent smell, only three of them in this group had passed the level, and they had arrived here. In the other group of students, it seems that only one wizard has passed the first two levels, so in fact, there are only fourteen people in this area to challenge the troll level, which is too disadvantaged!
"Your mission is to defeat this troll or get the Golden Galleon from the wooden box it guards. It should be noted here that there are five gold gallons, all of which are in the box, so you don't have to worry. Also, you must have known the power of the trolls, and in order to ensure that you don't die on the spot, no one needs to take this potion, it will protect you from dying immediately. So what's the problem?" Grace Zhi, handing out a strange green pill to each student, and supervised the ingestion of it. This pill tastes cold in the mouth and tastes like mint.
"Is there a time limit?" asked a third-year Slytherin, the only one in his group to pass.
"Yes, you have two hours at most. ”
"What about the combat range?" asked Ginny.
"Well, in order to ensure your safety, trolls can only operate in this venue, and you can choose to enter all at once, or you can choose to enter in batches, it should be noted that once you enter, in addition to defeating the trolls or completing the task, otherwise you will be eliminated if you leave early. Grace explained.
"Are you saying that when we enter, we will be eliminated if we quit unless we complete the mission?" asked the fourth-grader. Grace Zhi didn't answer, and gave him a cold look.
"Can any spell be used?" asked Ron Weasley.
"Yes, any spell is fine, but be warned, before you know for sure, reckless provocation will only anger the trolls!" Grace Zhi glared at Ron, Slytherin hated Gryffindor.
More than a dozen students looked at each other, not knowing what to do for a while, the corners of Grace's mouth rose slightly, nodded at them with her chin, and said, "You have a maximum of ten minutes to prepare, and when the time comes, it will begin!"
The fourth-year students wanted to build a group to fight the trolls with the advantage of being outnumbered, but the gloomy Slytherin disagreed, saying that he didn't want to be cannon fodder, and the other group of students looked at each other, and seemed to have the intention of going it alone. Born calves are not afraid of tigers, and the five first-graders have long secretly despised them when they saw the miserable situation of the other two pairs. At this time, it is better to add a few teammates who are dragging their feet, and it is better to unite and fight.
Luna Ginny and Halle Black both looked at Xie An, Xie An was expressionless, did not say anything, everyone said a word, did not give in to each other, and ten minutes passed quickly. Grace Zhi came to the crowd and waited for everyone to report, and the result was that fourteen people were ready to go together, so that no one would suffer! )