Chapter 17: Breaking through the Trapdoor
"Why did you get back?" *2
Much sooner than Xana had expected, the two groups soon met in the Gryffindor lounge.
"We were chased back by Professor McGonagall, who said that if they saw us making trouble again, we would be deducted 50 points."
Harry and Ron hung their heads.
"We weren't lucky, and it didn't take long for Snape to be back in the cellar. It's a snake's nest over there, and there's no way to keep an eye on it. β
"Well, that seems to be the only way to go, right?"
"What are you going to do?"
Xana felt that Harry was going to make a stupid decision.
"I'm sneaking out of here tonight, and I'm going to try to get my hands on the Philosopher's Stone first."
Harry's face was pale, and his eyes were shining.
"You're crazy! I'm going to be expelled! β
Ron said.
"So what?" Harry exclaimed, "Don't you understand? If Snape gets his hands on the Philosopher's Stone, Voldemort will return! Haven't you heard that when he wanted to dominate the world, what was it like here? If he succeeds, Hogwarts won't be expelled or not! He will raze the school to the ground or turn it into a school dedicated to teaching black magic! Can't you see that it doesn't matter if you lose points or not! Do you think that as long as Gryffindor wins the House Cup, he will let you and your family go? If I am caught before I can get my hands on the Philosopher's Stone, then I will have to go back to the Dursley house and wait for Voldemort to come and find me. That's just a little later than now, because I'm never going to join the underworld! I've got to go through that trapdoor tonight, and you can't stop me with anything! Voldemort killed my parents, remember? β
Harry was excited, Harry was so gushing that even Ron's shouting of the man's name couldn't stop him untilβ
"Eh!"
The long-lost wooden knife was chopped down, and it was finally quiet.
"Calm down! I don't want to attend your funeral before I attend the final dinner. Whether you're facing a prisoner stealing a Philosopher's Stone or a teacher's anti-theft system, you'll be dead in minutes. If I want to go, I'll go, and as a fire-mist warrior, whether it's Snape or Voldemort, I have a way to protect myself. β
It's a pity that Harry is determined to break through, even if Xana repeatedly persuades and beats him to no avail, he refuses to stay in the dormitory by himself, leaving Xana alone. Not only was he going, but Ron and Hermione were going with him, no matter how he could.
"Okay. I'm going to get some props ready. I may not be able to take care of you at night, so be careful not to die. β
Sighing, Xana covered her forehead and went back to the dormitory to prepare some simple protective equipment for everyone. Of course, the reason for agreeing is also because although Xia Na said it very strictly, in fact, she only cares about her friends and doesn't want them to have accidents, and she doesn't think that this operation is "bleak and cold" in her heart, and there will be nothing that will never be returned.
Even if the criminal is really Voldemort, it is not too difficult to break the castle and clean him up. This so-called Dark Lord is not the Demon King in the show, and it is far worse than the Heroic Spirit in the Holy Grail War, Xana, I have followed my sister to conquer countless worlds, and I have killed several world-destroying bosses, which is not enough.
After dinner, avoiding her classmates, Xana divided the props she prepared in the corner of the common room with a few people, thankfully Hongzi slipped away to the Forbidden Forest for a night tour, otherwise there would be more than one little tail at night.
"Remembered. Sapphire is a defensive prop, as long as you wear it on your body, if you find that the gem has a crack, it is about to be scrapped, you have to run quickly. Ruby is therapeutic, and when held, it can heal a variety of traumatic injuries. As long as you don't die on the spot, how can this thing make you last for a while. β
couldn't make anything too good temporarily, so Xana simply used projection magic combined with alchemy to make some small props made by her sister when she started the main god space and distributed them to everyone.
"Such a big gem, it's too valuable."
Ron felt carefully for the gem, seemingly preferring to trade it for money.
"It's not precious at all, the gems are projected fakes, and the silvery-white metal is not Mithril but tin. This kind of temporary work will be made up until tomorrow morning. β
"Oh."
It turned out to be all fakes, and the fakes disappointed Ron.
For the rest of the day, several people deliberately pretended to be nothing, Harry and Ron pretended to play chess, Hermione flipped through her notes, and Xana had also looked for a book to read. As the time passed, the students went to bed one by one, and the number of people in the common room gradually decreased, and finally the owl twins and Lee Jordan went back to sleep overnight.
"It's time to go get the Cloak of Invisibility." Ron said, looking around, there was no one in the common room.
Unfortunately, when Xana was about to activate the optical camouflage, and the other three began to put the invisibility cloak on their bodies, an accident happened.
"What are you doing?"
A man's voice rang out in one corner of the room. Neville flashed out from behind an armchair, clutching his toad, Levy, in his hand. It seems that Levif has been fighting for freedom again.
"Why are you here?"
Even Xana was startled by Neville's appearance, although he didn't turn on the radar, but with Neville's ability to fall on his head when he walked flat, he was not discovered by a few people in the lounge for so long, which was really unscientific.
"You're going out again?"
Neville saw the Cloak of Invisibility that Harry was trying to shog behind his back.
"Nope! No! Hermione said, "We don't want to go out." Neville, why don't you go to sleep? β
There are so many flaws that even Neville can't fool him.
"You can't go out." Neville said, "You're going to get caught." In that case, Gryffindor would be even more unlucky. β
It was too close to the end of the period, and even if Xana and Hermione tried to make up for the points after being caught, they couldn't fully make up for Gryffindor's deductions (Snape was crazy about deducting points and giving Slydrin extra points), and Gryffindor is currently second to last. Neville blocked for a reason, and if he was caught again, then the penultimate would be Gryffindor.
"You don't understand." "It's a very important thing. β
But Neville seemed to be determined to stop them this time.
"I won't let you do that." He said, rushing over to get in front of the portrait hole, "I'm going to... I'm going to take you up against you! β
"Come on, come and hit me!" Neville raised two fists.
"I'm ready! on..."
"As you wish."
Neville's voice snapped to a halt, and Xana appeared behind Neville at a speed that no one could have reacted to, slashing at the back of his neck with a knife in hand, Neville rolling his eyes and falling straight to the ground. Harry and Ron saw Xana's fierce and decisive moves, took a deep breath and felt the back of their necks feel cold, and sure enough, she was the first violent woman in Gryffindor.
"I'm sorry."
The two dragged Neville onto the couch at Xana's repeated urgings, and Ron bowed to the unconscious Neville before putting on his invisibility cloak and setting off.
Although Neville had an accident at the beginning, it was smooth along the way, with Shana coaxing Lady Loris, who was patrolling the corridor, and Harry pretending to scare away the mischievous Peeves who stood in the way, and arrived at the outside of the target hallway, but it seemed to be too late, and the originally locked door of the hallway opened a crack.
Gently pushing the door open, Harry trying to look inside, taking advantage of the dim light in the hallway.
"Come in. Snape had already gotten to Luwe, and the dog was gone. β
The door was empty, and a harp stood on the ground, but the dog did not know where it was.
"If I were you, you wouldn't walk in so unwarily."
Xiana could smell the thick dog smell in the dark of the corridor in front of her without even using radar, but she didn't expect this dog to ambush.
"Wang !!"
Seeing that several people had already entered the corridor, the three-headed dog, who had been played by the harp and was holding back his breath, decisively launched an ambush on the little wizards, opened three bloody mouths and bit down.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione were already stupid. They never thought that Lu Wei, who usually only knew how to keep yelling and pounced on people, actually let go of the chain and played in an ambush, now don't talk about singing hypnosis, it's too late to quit, they can only hope that the props given by Xana are stronger than the dog's teeth.
"Wang... Woo... Woo..."
Faster than Lu Wei's bite was a knife light. Shana, who had been prepared, aimed at the big nose of the head in the middle at the moment when the three-headed dog pounced, and slashed down, and then there was a fat beating.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
"Woo... Woo..."
Lu Wei was lucky, for Hagrid's sake (it depends on the owner to beat the dog), Shana's knife did not see blood, but only used the scabbard to teach the stinky dog who was biting people badly, and did not directly slice the dog meat. Although Lu Wei tried to fight back, he was stabbed in the nose and stabbed so hard that the stupid dog with tears in pain didn't have time to figure out the situation, and was knocked to the ground by Xia Na's stormy slash, and soon he could only whimper and shrink in the corner of the wall, holding his head and pretending to be an ostrich begging for mercy.
"Uh... That, Xana, and Lou Wei are just loyal to their duties, so don't fight for Hagrid's sake. β
The three-headed dog begged for mercy with a pitiful look that even Harry couldn't stand and persuaded Xana to stop bullying the dog. Xana is really not wrong, this dog is just a kind of thing, listening to a concert and sleeping, and begging for mercy when he beats it (I didn't expect this to be compared to anyone at all, Xana is completely foul on this occasion).
"For Hagrid's sake, forget it this time. Get lost! β
"Woooooo
Lu Wei ran into the depths of the corridor with his head bored, and after falling several times in a row, he didn't know where he had fled.
"Lu Wei is solved, let's move on."
Ron walked over to the trapdoor and pulled the ring hard, causing it to open open.
"Hermione, would you like to be the first to go down?"
"It's not for ladies here, so let's go down first! Work obediently out of the way! β
Ron's bad joke brought misfortune to himself, and when he heard that this guy was going to let the girl go ahead, Xana decisively asked him to go and see it first, and kicked Ron down.
"Oh! Ron, are you okay? β
Harry leaned down on the trapdoor and looked down to make sure that Ron was safe, but he secretly told himself that he must not tell a bad joke in front of Xana. is what happened to Ron, a young wizard certainly wouldn't fall to his death from a height (Neville just broke his arm and leg), but no one knows what dangers lie below.
"No problem!" Ron's shouts could be heard below, and it didn't seem to be in danger.
"It's a soft landing, you can jump!"
Strike!
It was a very soft and dull sound, Harry and Hermione both jumped down, and finally Xana, who used her qi to slowly control her own descent by herself, also fell to the bottom, stepping on it with her feet, it was very soft, as if it was some kind of plant, if I remember correctly, this thing was ......
"Xana, can you not do this next time? Honestly, it's a good thing to have this bunch of plants spread here. β
Seeing Xana come down, Ron began to complain.
"Okay, next time you don't talk and kick directly."
Ron wanted to say something, but he didn't dare.
"Don't talk about that! Look at the footsteps! β
Hermione screamed as she jumped to her feet, struggling to move towards a damp wall. The reason why she struggled was because as soon as she fell, the plant stretched out snake-like tendrils and wrapped around her ankles, but because the plant was so dark that it didn't make any sound, and it wasn't until Hermione was about to get caught that something was wrong, and Harry and Ron, who were completely unnoticed, had their legs entangled. As for Xana, she had long recognized this thing as a strange tentacle, and as a magical girl, she stayed away from it at the first time.
"Xana! Hermione! Hurry up and think of a way! β
The Devil's Web is a kind of tentacle monster, and it may even be a base, and it soon entangles Ron and Harry into a knot, although they struggle desperately, but the more they earn, the faster and tighter the vines become entangled. Although the defensive enchantment emitted by the sapphire saved them from suffocation, sooner or later they ran out of energy and were strangled to death.
"This is the devil's web, the devil's net... What did Professor Sprout say? Said it likes dark and damp ......"
Hermione also recognized the plant and spoke of its weaknesses: it was very winding but afraid of light and fire.
"Then set it on fire!"
"yes...... Of course...... But there's no firewood here! β
Hermione said aloud, wringing her hands anxiously. Is it really the right idea for Xana to cover her face and take them there?
"Are you crazy! Are you a witch or not? β
Even Ron vomited in a hurry.
Finally, Hermione, who broke free from the tip of the horn, set fire to the two in time to free them.
"Xana, why don't you help? Look at what Hermione said, 'But there's no firewood here!' ββ
Ron came out with palpitations and continued to vomit.
"Isn't it good to get through guΓ² in the end? If you can't even deal with this small obstacle, you might as well go back to bed early. Really, Dumbledore has laid out some rags, dogs that are strong on the outside, vines that are afraid of fire, and I hope that the defenses behind can be a little more powerful. Hurry up, if the defense behind us is only at this level, we won't even be able to see the corners of the criminal's robes. β
Xana, on the contrary, felt that the current defenses were too poor, and if the first-year freshmen could pass guΓ², then it was very debatable whether they could stop the thieves.
What I didn't expect was that it didn't take long for it to become a prophecy.
After the devil's net, there was a straight hallway, at the end of which was an empty room, and a sturdy door was locked at the other end of the room. Hermione tried to set the fire again, but although the gate looked like it was made of wood, the fire resistance was the highest level, and it didn't turn black after burning for a long time.
If the level is a solid gate, it doesn't have any features, but at least it looks safe and normal.
"I should have known a long time ago, and if I count on the wizard to be reliable, it is better to let Kuroko give up the night attack on my sister. Hey? Why did I think of this, forget about this later, let's take care of the present. This is not an RPG puzzle game. Why did you take the initiative to leave clearance items!! Are you afraid that the prisoners will not be able to get by! β
The thing that makes people vomit is not the featureless gate, but the key to open the door is flying in the sky. Although there are many fake keys that protect the original product like a flock of birds, wouldn't it be safer to put it in Dumbledore's pocket? Not to mention that the side also kindly provided a batch of broomsticks that look very old, but still work (enough to play Quidditch), this is anti-theft or selection players!
The wizards are challenging the limits of Shana's sanity, and this is a vault for valuables, and it's a treasure hunt! It's still third-rate, and even the pass props are so obviously ready to help.
Xana is about to turn black, but Harry is glad to meet the place where he can show his talents, from the moment he comes in, Xana is in charge, and now he finally has a place to play. Just as Harry was happily directing everyone to round up the key to open the door, Xana erupted.
"Urusse! Urusse! Urusse! The mentally handicapped will play Quidditch as required! β
"Firestorm"
The angry Xana didn't plan to play the game according to the designer's requirements, and the raging fire energy shrouded the "flock of birds" in the sky, and the key fell down like a kite with a broken string, and it all "crashed" in an instant.
"Hah! It's so easy, it's all down. β
"But it doesn't work."
Harry found the key he needed from the wreckage, but it was too burned to open the door.
"What should I do?"
Ron and Hermione were also stupid.
"Okay, get out of the way."
Xana walked to the door and stood still, her right hand lightly resting on the hilt of the sword.
"Divine Roaring Stream Mysteries - Rock Chopping Sword!"
Harry, Ron, and Hermione seemed to have a flash of light in front of their eyes, but when they blinked and saw nothing, Xana was still standing in front of the door, not even moving her hand.
"Gone."
"But the lock ......"
The lock didn't matter anymore, and with a gentle push from Xana, the originally sturdy gate was shattered into a pile of wood, which was not even worth firewood. It turned out that the light just now was not an illusion, and the gate had been cut down by Xana.
"Hurry up!"
Xana beckoned to the three who had not yet come to their senses, and walked in first.