Chapter 108: Entering the Secret Room
Towards the end of the Christmas feast, Ryan had to admit that although his mother's cooking was delicious, the house-elves were better than humans in their craft. At least the food at such an important banquet is better than going to a Michelin-starred restaurant with your parents.
After leaving the foyer, Ryan quickly returned to his dorm room to read for half an hour before going to bed, setting the alarm clock until two o'clock in the morning. Fortunately, the roommates have gone home for the holidays, and the alarm clock will not disturb others.
After going to bed, Ryan couldn't sleep a little because of the excitement, but fortunately, he is now accustomed to running the Maoshan Shangxin Method before going to bed. After running for a week, he finally fell into a deep sleep.
At two o'clock in the morning, the alarm clock went off on time. Ryan got up from his bed, put the assassin gear on, and after checking that everything was there, left the bedroom in his school uniform.
After leaving the common room, Ryan noticed that Hogwarts was exceptionally quiet for Christmas. It may be that most of the students are not in school, and the students who stay in school are very tired. The hallway was silent, and there was no one.
After arriving at Myrtle's bathroom, Ryan discovers that Myrtle is not here, probably because she was going to play somewhere for Christmas. At Nick's last Halloween party, he knew that the ghosts had their own entertainment, too.
Ryan walked over to the sink and confirmed that there was indeed a faucet that wouldn't come out of the water, with a snake embossed on the side.
This is it, in my previous life, I read the official website that the Victorian Hogwarts renovation had the participation of the Gaunt family, and he changed the entrance to the secret room to its current location, using the sink as a cover. Now it seems that this should be true, after all, the flush toilets and faucets could not have been there when the school was first established, and Slytherin, even if he was a dark wizard, would not be perverted enough to set up a secret room entrance and exit in the women's bathroom. This can only be modified by later generations.
Fortunately, in the world of "Mr. Zombie", he has obtained the snake language inheritance, and Ryan opened the sink in snake language. The faucet glowed with a dazzling white light and began to spin rapidly. Then the pool moved.
Eventually, the pool disappeared from view, revealing a thick pipe large enough for an adult to burrow into.
After putting a shock-absorbing spell on himself, Ryan got into the tube. The Shock Absorbing Charm is one of Ryan's most proficient spells, after all, it can be used to perform a leap of faith.
After jumping off the pipe, Ryan felt as if he had rushed into a dirty, pitch-black pipe. He could see that there were many pipes branching out in all directions, but none as thick as the one he was on. The pipe twists and turns, winding around and down, with a steep slope all the way down.
And these twists and turns also caused Ryan to crash around the corner from time to time, and he felt that he might well have gone far underground.
Eventually, the pipe was level again, and with the help of the Shock Absorbing Charm, Ryan stood firmly at the exit of the pipe. Here is a huge stone tunnel with a ground covered in silt. He felt the humidity around him, and felt that he was most likely under the Black Lagoon right now.
There was silence in the tunnel, and Ryan pulled out a lantern to make his way. There was no other sound in the place, except for the occasional click of stepping on something while walking.
Ryan brings the lantern plant close to the ground and finds that the ground is littered with the bones of small animals. But this shouldn't be the basilisk to eat leftovers. After all, considering the size of the basilisk, the energy obtained from eating this small animal is not as great as the energy consumed when hunting.
After turning a corner, Ryan spotted a long strip of six or seven meters on the ground, which stopped motionless. As he got closer, he noticed that it was a very bright green snakeskin. At first glance, you knew that it was supposed to be a poisonous snake.
The snake's skin coiled around the ground, and it looked like the snake had been peeling off its skin for some time. In this humid environment, where the air does not flow, there is a thin layer of ash on the snakeskin.
This kind of good thing naturally can't be let go, and Ryan opened the door of the Wanjie grocery store and put the snakeskin inside. Luckily, this thing isn't heavy.
After putting away the snakeskin, Ryan continued on his way. The road ahead was crooked, and he could only follow the road after turn. I have to say that the designer of this tunnel is a psychological master, because the twists and turns of the tunnel in this dark environment will make people walking here always worry that there will be monsters waiting for you when you turn the corner.
After turning another corner, the front is finally no longer the same black tunnel. A wall stood at the end of the tunnel, carved with two intertwined snakes. Their eyes are made of huge, sparkling emeralds.
Ryan walked over to the wall to take a closer look, and was disappointed to find that the emeralds were part of the magic mechanism of the place. So he had no choice but to give up the plan to pry the gems.
"Open. Ryan said again in snake language. The two snakes parted, and the wall cracked a large opening, which grew larger and wider. Eventually, the wall slowly slid to both sides and vanished. Ryan straightened his clothes again, tossed the robes that were a little in the way of movement into the space bag, and then cautiously walked inside.
Upon entering the chamber, Ryan discovers that it is a long room. After casting a magic detection to make sure the basilisk hadn't come out yet, Ryan opened the door of the Myriad Grocery Store and retrieved the cage of roosters that had been kept there.
It was only after getting ready that Ryan began to look into the room. The ceiling of the room was high, and it was supported by many stone pillars carved with coiled and entwined serpents, casting shadows on the ground.
The house was not completely dark as expected, but glowed with a faint green light. Following the light source, the top of the chamber was inlaid with many transparent crystals, and through the crystal Lane, you could see the bottom of the Black Lake. Some of the fluorescent plants at the bottom of the lake shine through the crystals, bringing light to the chamber.
It's a good thing to have a light source in the vault, after all, the basilisk can tell the opponent's location by smell and sound, but Ryan is now having a hard time fighting with detection methods other than sight.
Upon reaching the end of the room, Ryan saw a statue as tall as the room itself standing against the wall.
Looking up, the statue has an old face, and a sparse beard hangs from the chin to the feet.
Ryan sees the old Slytherin in this sculpture, and it seems that it is true that Slytherin had fallen out with the other three founders and ran away angrily after many arguments. At least from this statue, it can be seen that Slytherin was not in good shape in his later years.
But sympathy is sympathy, and Slytherin's little pets are indeed starting to threaten the school's students. Even killed a student fifty years ago.
As we all know, magical creatures are an indispensable part of the wizarding world and have an important place in the wizarding world. Indiscriminate hunting and killing of magical creatures is terrible. But the killing of artificially bred creatures crosses that line, which is the main reason why Ryan came here to hunt the basilisk