When the whistle blew, Ryan grabbed Harry, who was about to undress, shook his head slightly, and then looked at the others. The contestants from the other schools seemed to be ready for a long time, and each of them wore a swimsuit under their wizard robes. Now they all took off their coats in the cold wind and moved their hands and feet, ready to go into the water.

Within minutes, people from other schools were already in the water. Only Ryan and Harry were left standing by the lake in their coats.

"Harry, why don't they take off their clothes now?" "Maybe they'll be at the bottom of the lake in a split second—" "By the way, I heard that Harry is in good shape, who have you ever seen it?" The last sentence was suddenly embarrassed when Ryan heard it, because he heard that the person who asked the question was a man.

"Alright, now it's our turn. Ryan waved his wand a few times, and soon a small boat made of blue ice condensed floated up from the water.

"The players at Hogwarts have chosen an unprecedented method to try to get through this match, and we don't know how it will turn out, so let's wait and see. Bagman's excited voice came from the referee's table.

After climbing aboard the boat, Ryan tapped the side of the boat with his wand. The boat rushed towards the center of the lake like an arrow off the string.

"You take this and listen carefully to the movement in the water, and tell me if there is any abnormal sound. Once Ryan got into bed, he pulled a long, flesh-colored string out of his waist bag and shoved one end into Harry's ear, then put the other end in the water.

"What is this?" asked Harry as he listened to Ryan's instructions as he listened to the movement in the water.

"Telescopic ears, a new product that my Weasley brothers and I have invented, will soon be added to their mail-order sales list. Ryan explained.

"It's cool, wait, I think I hear singing. They were already some distance from the shore by this time, and Harry suddenly heard singing coming from underwater.

"It's supposed to be a merfolk, I think we've found a place. Show me in which direction?" Ryan asked Harry with his wand pointing at the stern of the boat, who quickly pointed out that the voice was in the direction of the north near the center of the lake.

Ryan waved his wand to adjust the direction of the ship, and Harry asked, "How can you be sure that the merfolk are singing where we are looking?" ”

"The Black Lagoon is so big, so they'll be sure to put our stuff in a prominent place. As far as I know, the most conspicuous place under the Black Lake is the mermaid village, and it just so happens that their singing can be navigated by everyone. You must know that the bottom of the Black Lake is full of mud and aquatic plants, and the road signs placed are not easy for people to see. And for wizards, the mermaid's singing leads to a more magical atmosphere. ”

Soon, the iceboat was getting closer and closer to the place where the song was heard, and the lyrics began to become clear.

"To find what we took, you need to keep moving forward - yes, this is the place. Harry said happily to Ryan, for the mermaid's song had now clearly pointed to the destination. At this time, it was only about ten minutes after they left the starting point.

Soon the iceboat came to the top of the song, and it was only then that Ryan and the two of them took off their coats and took a potion containing a sky blue liquid from their belt and drank it down.

No sooner had the potion entered his stomach than Ryan felt his mouth and nose begin to breathe, and gills grew under his ears. He endured the discomfort and said to Harry on the other side, "I have adjusted this underwater breathing potion, and it only has an effective time of 20 minutes. I went down and took my things, and then I came up immediately. Harry made an OK gesture, and the two of them plunged straight into the water.

Probably because of the potion, they didn't feel that the water was as cold and bitter as when they touched it just now. The lake was dark, and visibility was so low that Ryan could only see anything three or four meters away.

"Follow me. Ryan used his wand to draw a few points of light into the water, and swam towards where the song had come from. After five or six minutes, they saw a lot of rough stone dwellings at the bottom of the lake beneath them, and they were stained with algae. There were some faces in those dark windows...... Some faces that are completely different from the legends......

The legend of the mermaid is very much in line with the aesthetics of human beings, but unfortunately this legend is only half correct, only the mermaid in the Mediterranean region is more beautiful, and because the civilization in ancient Europe first originated around the Mediterranean coast, so the legend of the mermaid spread to all places.

And now those guys at the bottom of the lake belong to a branch of Atlantic merfolk, their skin is iron-gray, and their dark green hair is long, unkempt. Their eyes are yellow, their mutilated teeth are yellow, and they wear pebbles strung with thick ropes around their necks. Looks more like a fish-man.

The place where the singing was made was directly below Ryan, and it looked like a small square. The square is surrounded by mermaid dwellings, and in the square there is a huge, rough statue of a mermaid. A group of merfolk gathered beneath the statue and sang the song they had just heard.

Well, they're still not the same as the fish-people, at least the song is as wonderful as the legend says. However, the fish people had no idea that someone would rush straight down the water above them, and after seeing Ryan and them, the fish people's singing even stopped slightly: the singing fish people looked curiously above their heads.

When he reached the square, Ryan found that there were six bags made of aquatic weeds on the stone platform below the statue, which were tied to the stone platform by the water weed rope. Inside each cage was a palm-sized rectangular gold medal, each of which had their signature on the golden egg at the time.

It was quicker to get out of the water by boat than to swim, and after counting the bags on the stone platform, Ryan came to a conclusion. Ryan and Harry quickly found their gold medal, then pulled out the dagger on their thighs and cut through the bag to remove it. There is a groove on the top of the gold medal, and when Ryan inserts the crystal pillar into the groove, the surface of the gold medal immediately emits a white light, and then the crystal and the gold medal become one. Seeing this, Harry did the same, and made up for his gold medal.

Once the gold medal was in hand, Ryan gestured upwards to Harry, and within a few minutes they were back on the water. At this time, I found that there were still five or six minutes before the end of the drug, and the two of them still needed to soak in water for the time being.

In order not to lose time, Ryan made a few handles from the bottom of the iceboat, and then the two of them grabbed the handles and asked the iceboat to lead them in the direction of the Forbidden Forest near the Black Lake.

Halfway through the boat, the time for breathing the medicine was approaching. Ryan and Harry hurriedly jumped onto the boat with both hands, and then the two of them drank an orange potion from their waists as soon as they were under Ryan's command. Within a few minutes, a trace of water vapor came out of the bodies of the two people, and the chill in their bones was swept away.

"It was great so that you didn't have to change your clothes in a cramped boat. Harry gave Ryan a thumbs up as he felt the warmth on his body. "How did you come up with the idea of preparing this potion?"

Ryan looked at Harry with a stupid look, "It's said that this game is in the lake, so going into the water is a high probability event, and finding something to warm up after such a cold water temperature comes up from the water in mid-February." I don't think there are so many players, I don't think you can think of that. ”

"Uh-" Harry smirked and touched his head. "You know I was just brought into the game by accident, and I must not have been as prepared as you are. ”

After hearing this, Ryan could only shake his head helplessly.