Chapter 237: Treasury No. 1
Evan didn't know what Sirius's unpleasant scene would be, but the wind blowing from the crevices of the surrounding rocks seemed a little strange.
It's tens of thousands of feet underground, and it stands to reason that there shouldn't be wind. Moreover, these winds are not the kind of yin winds that blow from the depths of the cave, but have a slight temperature, like a warm midday breeze.
In a place where the wind shouldn't be, and there is a strong wind with high temperatures, could there be a legendary magic item underneath?!
At the edge of the staircase, Ra Ring clapped his hands, and a small cart creaked out of a dark, hidden crack in the rock wall, and he motioned for everyone to sit down.
Everyone climbed up one by one, huddled together, and looked nervously ahead, not knowing what was waiting for them.
The tab snapped a finger and the trolley restarted. This time, the cart wasn't as fast as it had just been.
As it slowly turned around the corner and rushed out of the cavern, Evan felt an even stronger warm wind blowing up from below.
He hurriedly looked out, and in the endless darkness, he noticed that he was floating in mid-air.
In front of them, all the rocks vanished, and a huge bottomless crater suddenly appeared in front of them, and gusts of wind whistled upwards from below.
The pit is bottomless and goes straight down, as if it extends all the way to the interior of the earth.
Everyone clung to the edge of the trolley and looked out cautiously.
If you accidentally fall from here, you will definitely fall to pieces, and you will not even be able to find the corpse.
Underneath the cart, a narrow track stretches forward at an eerie angle.
The old wooden supports propped up from the rough rock walls around them were their only support. The rusty track runs intricately, extending densely through cracks in the rock walls, with no end in sight, sometimes intertwined with each other and quickly separated.
Evan turned his head and saw that the place where they had just come out had turned into a small crack in the blink of an eye, no different from the crevices that were everywhere in the rock wall.
He struggled to memorize the route, but found it impossible to do so.
The route of the track is so complicated that the cracks in the rock wall all look exactly the same.
Even if someone were able to break into here and find the treasure from the depths of the earth, it would be impossible to get out of here if they didn't remember the way.
Aven was sure that if he accidentally entered the wrong rock crevice, it would not be as simple as taking the wrong path for the intruder.
The track winds downward, and as everyone approaches the deepest part of the earth, the wind blowing up from below gets hotter and hotter, and soon turns into a boiling heat wave.
The whistling sound grew stronger and stronger, as if countless fire dragons were spewing fire upwards below.
Evan poked his head out again, and he saw a round, red, glowing object directly below them, like a gateway to the depths of hell.
He blinked, and it took several seconds before he realized what it was
It is magma deep in the earth's crust!!
Below them, the endless underground magma gurgled outward, gurgling outward, and the magma below filled the sky with red light.
The magma is so staggering that even the surrounding rocks are roasted red.
A few seconds later, the cart slowly came to a halt on an irregular island in the center of the red-black magma.
Everyone walked down, everyone was covered in sweat, and their faces were shining red. They never imagined that they would feel such temperatures in the cold winter.
In fact, no one would have imagined that the deepest part of Gringotts' underground would be such a scene, which contrasted with the bustle above Diagon Alley.
Sirius was right, these goblins were crazy, they had dug all the way down to the depths of the earth's crust, and if something happened here that caused a lava to erupt, not only Diagon Alley, but all of London would be engulfed in flames.
There are dozens of stone carvings on the island, all of which come in a variety of shapes, as if they were the entrance to the vault.
Evan felt a little strange because the shapes of the statues looked familiar, and he must have seen them somewhere before.
He looked closely at it for a while, and a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, only to realize that these carvings were actually all the family crests of various ancient pure-blood wizard families. Many of them were prominent wizarding families in the history of magic a thousand years ago, but most of them are now extinct and only in books.
"This is the earliest vault built at the time of Gringotts' founding, and there are a hundred of them, all of which belong to the most powerful wizards or pure-blood wizard families of the time. "Because it's so old, many wizarding families have disappeared into history, and I haven't been here for years. ”
The island, with its carved emblems, looks like the burial ground of a pure-blood wizard family.
These meaningful statues not only prove the past glory of these pure-blood wizard families, but also tell countless loneliness in a wordless way. No matter how powerful and illustrious they once were, they are no longer there, and the treasures kept in Gringotts will remain here forever.
If nothing else, judging by the insignia of these ancient wizarding families, this is definitely a sacred place for historians of magic and lovers of heraldry.
Evan watched carefully, comparing it with the wizard's emblem that he had in his mind.
After looking at it for a while, he found that it was exactly the same as what Ra Ring said, and these statues all had big numerical numbers on them, all of which were within a hundred. Underneath the statue are gates of various shapes, which are supposed to be the vaults of these pure-blood wizard families.
Not far away, on the magma, there are several such irregularly shaped islands.
As here, there are small islands with statues of various sizes. Among them, Evan saw the Slytherin family crest at a glance, because it was too conspicuous. The huge statue inlaid with emeralds is glowing softly green, forming a capital S.
It is located alone on a small island in the center of the lava, and is unusually abrupt.
Evan saw that the number above the letter S was the number one, which meant that it was Gringotts' first vault.
Underneath the statue is a black gate with an intricate pattern, made of unknown metal, and it looks very complicated.
Because it was too far away, Evan couldn't really see it.
The patterns on the door seemed to be the same as the incomprehensible patterns on the Slytherin locket in his arms, they seemed to be a whole
Evan shook his head, he didn't know what this meant, could it be that this was a special text left behind by the Slytherins?!
He's going to go back and check the books, and if he can't, ask the vampire girl named Elaine.
Next to the Slytherin vault, Evan also saw the sky-blue coat of arms of the Ravenclaw family, similar to the logo of Ravenclaw House, but a little different, not a giant eagle flying its wings in the sky, but a carving in the shape of an eagle standing with an unknown plant in its mouth, and a crown symbolizing wisdom on its head.
In the center of the crown, a brilliant diamond sparkles, echoed by a thick nebula at the top of the statue.
No one knows how many gems were used in this seemingly ordinary stone statue.
The huge diamond at the center of the crown alone is absolutely valuable, and the family treasures hidden in it can be imagined how precious they are.
Unfortunately, the Ravenclaw family has no descendants, and no matter what is inside, those things will essentially belong to the goblins forever.
Evan was interested, and searched carefully.
For some reason, he didn't see the Gryffindor or Hufflepuff signs, they didn't seem to have a vault here. (To be continued.) )