Darren guessed correctly, whether it was the use of magic to convert heat to act on the fireworks in his hands, or the flames that ejected when the fireworks were ignited, it was very painful! Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although Darren threw it out as soon as the fireworks were lit, he could still see the scorched black on his hands with the light released by the fireworks, and now he could only hope that Madam Pomfrey's level was good enough, otherwise with his experience, it would definitely leave a scar......

After squinting his eyes to adjust to the light suddenly released by the fireworks, Darren got a rough picture of his surroundings and realized that he was not in the pipe he was in before, but in another, slightly smaller pipe connected to the pipe.

At the hole in the pipe, in the direction of the grinding sound, Darren saw a large patch of rough, scaly skin moving, it was the basilisk's stout body!

Following the direction of the basilisk, Darren saw a huge gap on the side of the cave entrance, apparently caused by the impact of a huge force, presumably the basilisk's masterpiece just now, the rubble that fell from the stone wall was scattered on the ground in all directions, and it must have been these sharp stones that had just cut through his hand.

Darren looked at the basilisk's body again, and could see that although the basilisk's movement speed was not slow, it was not fast, but it was about the same as his running speed, no wonder he had been hearing the voice of the basilisk following behind, if he hadn't stopped, he would probably still be racing with it.

Despite knowing that the basilisk was chasing him, Darren was still curious about this terrifying magical creature when he was able to observe the basilisk up close, after all, the book account was too brief, only saying that the basilisk was "despicable Helbo", a Greek dark wizard with a Parseltongue cavity hatched with a male egg under the body of a toad after many experiments, why did this combination produce a snake instead of a toad or a variant of a rooster?

To be honest, it is easier to understand putting eggs in the snake's nest, but putting male eggs under the body of the toad to incubate, what kind of logic is this, how to see the rooster and the toad together, it has nothing to do with the snake, how did this "despicable Helbo" find out about this?

In addition, why the basilisk releases a deadly gaze, how its murderous gaze works, and what kind of changes will appear to the victims killed by this gaze, these are all mysteries, and it has to be said that although wizards seem to have some scientific concepts in some aspects, on the whole, they still extremely lack a rigorous scientific way of thinking.

Even if these aside, it is a great thing that the basilisk can still move when it grows so big, after all, the body of the basilisk is too huge, and in terms of its size, it is simply not able to snake like ordinary snakes to twist their bodies and move forward, and similar situations also occur in large snakes, such as pythons, so pythons take a different way of crawling than small and medium-sized snakes twisting their bodies, crawling in a straight line.

Of course, in addition, the snake can also move forward by telescopic movement, lift the front of the snake body, stretch forward as much as possible, and when it touches the supporting object, the back of the snake will retract forward, and then lift the front of the body to stretch forward to get the support, and the back will retract forward, so that the snake can continue to crawl forward.

But snakes have these locomotions because they have at least 100 million years of evolutionary history, and they appeared when dinosaurs were still roaming the ground, giving them plenty of time to adapt their body structures.

Compared with other vertebrates, snakes have extremely long vertebrates, and at both ends of each vertebrae, in addition to the same anterior and posterior joints as other vertebrates, there are also particularly long paraarthrites, which can increase their flexure and flexibility, so snakes can bend their bodies so flexibly, and replace them with other vertebrates, which have long been dislocated, of course, except for cat owners.

At the same time, snakes also have slender and curved ribs on the vertebrae, unlike other animals, the ribs of snakes are connected by movable joints, so all ribs can rely on muscles and move back and forth, and at the end of the ribs, there are extremely developed subcutaneous muscles connected with the abdominal scales, while the ribs move forward and backward, the abdominal scales can be pulled to do front and back activities, when the abdominal scales move forward, because the scales are arranged in a shingle-like shape, it does not affect the physical activity, but when the abdominal scales move backwards, due to the directionality of the scales, it has a reaction force with the ground to produce friction and a reaction force to push the body forward, when the snake adopts this mode of movement, the typical characteristic is that it can move forward in a straight line.

Therefore, behind the fact that they can move freely without legs, snakes have developed a whole set of body structures to support, but the basilisk is a new species, how can it have such an exquisite structure, or use male eggs and toads to make it together, in contrast, the scientists in Jurassic Park resurrected dinosaurs, and they actually had to use dinosaur DNA to do it, which is simply weak.

I have to say, the wizarding world is amazing!

In addition, although people have the impression that snakes seem to crawl very fast, so there is a saying that "centipedes are 100 feet and are not as good as snakes", but in fact, most species of snakes can only crawl about 8 miles per hour, which is about the same speed as a human walk.

Of course, there are also fast-crawling, slender flower snakes, which can crawl 10~15 kilometers per hour, close to the speed of human running, and the fastest crawling is a poisonous snake called Mamba in Africa, which can crawl 15~24 kilometers per hour, which is faster than the vast majority of people!

However, because the circulatory system of snakes is relatively primitive and cannot continue to provide fresh blood for strenuous body exercise, snakes can only crawl so fast in a short period of time, and cannot crawl at high speed for a long time. Therefore, generally speaking, even if you encounter a poisonous snake that will chase people, as long as it is not encountered at a very close distance, people have time to avoid it, and the reason why people have the impression that snakes run fast is because the snake's short-term sprint speed is indeed relatively fast, especially when the snake is frightened and escapes.

However, the body is too heavy, and the movement speed of large snakes, such as forest snakes and anacondas on the ground, is very slow, only in the water, relying on the buoyancy of the water can move relatively quickly and freely, but why has Darren run away, and such a big basilisk can still chase him all the time?!

I can only say it again, the wizarding world is amazing......