After descending to the bottom, they did not rush deep into the jungle. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info found a relatively flat place nearby to light a fire and rest, walking around the small gravel, it is difficult not to make a sound when stepping on it. With a wide field of vision, they have time to react to whatever comes out of the woods.

Phoenix raised his hand and glanced at the time. It's been three hours since they came in, and it's time to relax the nerves that have been tense. In fact, the cheongsam performed quite well, and since entering the ancient tomb, they have not encountered any trouble except for the Yin corpse.

It's just that the three of them have one more thing in their hearts than him, which makes them work harder. The soreness and numbness of the muscles relaxing when they sit down make them almost incapacitated.

The caftan told them to rest in place, and he went to find something to eat. Phoenix followed him, and caught some snakes nearby—with the unique control of snakes in the Parseltongue—and in a few moments a fragrance rose from the cauldron.

"It's snake soup, we'll rest for an hour after eating. With that, the cheongsam lifted the mask, revealing his chin and lips, and gulped down the soup.

Phoenix deliberately noticed that his face was covered in hideous scars, some of which were still very fresh.

After eating, the cheongsam did not make any communication, and rested on a stone to pretend to sleep.

Harry and Hermione reluctantly lay on the gravel floor, trying to rest for a while. There was a slight noise in the woods, and I couldn't see anything clearly. Phoenix brought a large rock, leaned against it, and hummed a little song with a cigarette in his mouth.

The shorthand quill brush brushes across the parchment.

Harry lay down for a while, unable to rest in peace with the movement in the woods, so he simply sat down next to Phoenix. At his feet lay a long serpent that had survived, lying motionless at his feet.

"Don't worry, it's not good to be quiet in the woods. Phoenix dusted off his cigarette ashes, "Do you want to smoke it?" It is made of raw materials of life and death water, and it is a potion when put into a crucible, which can be ignited directly and inhaled, which can calm and calm the nerves. ”

He hesitated for a moment and said, "I heard that smoking too much is not good for your health. ”

"Life is short. Phoenix waved his wand, and the flames were stirred up and exuberant.

"What are you writing about?" Harry tried to stir up the conversation.

"Isn't it all over for Eden to take some money from the vault. Phoenix sewed the letter with fire paint, and the ring was covered to create a clear pattern.

Eden flew from afar with a soft roar, landing silently on his shoulder. Shaking his feathers, water droplets splashed all over his face.

"Is it possible for you to maintain a little bit of the grace that a phoenix deserves. Phoenix wiped his face.

It squinted at Phoenix.

'I like to be uninhibited. Eden said.

Their communication goes directly through the soul, not the voice.

'It's good if you're happy. ’

Harry watched as the winged phoenix vanished into the dark and chaotic sky. Phoenix wand pointed at the caftan and said silently: Close your ears and listen.

"Do you hate Voldemort?" Phoenix asked abruptly.

"Of course. "But sometimes, I can't help but wonder if if his mother had chosen to use magic to save herself and take care of him - would have changed anything if Voldemort hadn't grown up in an orphanage?"

He hesitated, and looked at Phoenix inquiringly.

"Then maybe, you will grow up in a happy family. Birthdays are piled up with gifts, and there are a few siblings who sneak a broomstick ride with friends. But a dark wizard like Voldemort still appears, and maybe there will be, a wizard named Harry Lee will become a savior, and you will become a close friend. ”

Phoenix suddenly found this assumption interesting, and finally looked at Harry with a smile.

"You mean, it's a human necessity. Harry said.

Phoenix turned his head, his slender fingers teasing the long snake, the fire reflected in the black scales.

"It's not quite like what you say. After speaking, he said softly and sternly in a parseltongue: Don't move!

Harry could hear a subtle hissing as the snake motionless as a rope.

"Hermione told me. ”

As expected, Phoenix remembered reading this sentence in a certain book, and he couldn't remember it for a while. But this does not prevent the understanding of this sentence.

"People don't have the same thoughts and values, and most of the time, it's normal. You have your position, I have mine. But there will always be a few people who feel that their own views are correct, and more people should know and agree with his views. In other words, he will create a new political group, sometimes within the rules, sometimes not. ”

"There is no shortage of people who try to achieve political goals by force. "Phoenix put the body of the long snake into a knot," and it has even happened in history that the leader was tired of fighting with official power and wanted to 'retire'. But he was forced by his men to continue fighting. ”

"Why?" said Harry, stunned, "if those people were dark wizards like Voldemort, they wouldn't be threatened, would they?"

"People have weaknesses. Phoenix whispered, "As long as there are enough benefits, people can do more than you can imagine." ”

The long snake in Phoenix's hand had now turned into a complex knot of death - at least it seemed like it.

"You feel miserable, but everybody has their own sufferings and tribulations. Just because you don't know doesn't mean you don't exist, your parents' decomposing bodies lay in the dirt, and so did my parents - I couldn't even find their bodies, I could only bury some of their usual belongings. ”

Harry looked at Phoenix with a complicated expression, and a feeling of sympathy struck for a moment. He had never met anyone his age who was like him.

For a moment, he wanted Phoenix to continue. Then I felt that such an idea was really disgusting, who would want to mention such a tragic thing.

"Do you remember that we had a girl named Melinda this year? ”

Harry nodded subconsciously, not even hearing what Phoenix was saying.

"Her family wanted to kill me, and they have already started to do it, but it didn't work out. "She didn't want my life, but her brother or father did." ”

Without waiting for Harry to speak, Phoenix continued.

"Because they feel that it is more profitable to help my uncle kill me than to help me. My parents had been killed, and I was alone. But they didn't expect that it would be difficult for my uncle to succeed. Why?" said Phoenix, as if at the end, asking himself.

Harry didn't know how to answer.

"Because of the interests. My uncle wanted to take the position of patriarch, and there were people in our family who supported him - some people. He added, "But there are more vested interests who don't want to see him in power." Because I'm very small, it will take a dozen or decades to start deploying my own people to replace them, and they can stay in their current position for a long time. If my uncle wins, those who support my uncle, will replace them. So the people you met at the banquet, Gustav, Detreville, my uncle—they wanted me to die, and they wanted me to live. It didn't come as a surprise that it fell to me in the end. ”