Chapter 8: The Cliff by the Sea
The group walked to the edge of the rock, stepping on a set of potholed stone nests as a foothold and descending until they reached the half-submerged reef, which was closer to the cliff. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoIt's a dangerous steep slope, and everyone has to move slowly. The lower reefs are getting more and more slippery by the water. Sirius could feel the salty, cold splash of water splashing on his face, but Xingzhe was wearing a mask, so he wasn't affected.
"Fluorescent flickering," Xingzhe reached the reef closest to the cliff. A few feet below where he was squatting was the water, and thousands of golden points of light were reflected on the surface of the sea; The black rock walls next to it were also illuminated.
"See?" Seongzhe said calmly, raising his wand a little higher. Sirius saw a crack in the cliff, and the black water was rolling into it. "Looks like our bodies might be wet."
"Let's jump." Sirius said.
Xingzhe slid down the reef with agility and leaped into the water, muttering words in mid-air, the wand radiating an immensely powerful light, followed by Sirius and Kreacher.
The water is cold; But Xingzhe didn't care at all, he swam towards the faint light.
The crack soon turned into a black tunnel, and it was clear that it would be completely swallowed by the sea at high tide. The sticky walls on either side were only three feet apart, glistening like wet asphalt in the light of their wands. The passage bends to the left not far ahead, and it stretches all the way to the depths of the cliff.
Xingzhe and the others came out of the water, their silver hair and black robes shining with a faint light. Once they reached the place, they found a set of steps leading to a large cavern. He climbed the steps, exposed to the silent, freezing air, water dripping from their soaked clothes, Sirius shuddering involuntarily.
Kreacher stood beside them unharmed.
"I said, why don't we let this guy bring us in?" Sirius pulled out his suit and removed the dampness from his body.
"I'm not sure what magic is confined to this cave... So, we'd better use the most primitive method...."
Seongzhe stood in the middle of the cavern, his wand held aloft and slowly spun in place, inspecting the walls and ceiling.
"Kreacher, is this it?" Xingzhe asked.
"That's right, this is it," Kreacher County was very uneasy, his mind was all on Regulus.
"How did you know about that entrance?" Sirius was also a little confused.
"Perceiv, perceiving the traces and traces of magic." Xingzhe explained.
Xingzhe began to look at the room again, and under the mask, he closed his eyes and sealed his hands.
"Open your eyes!"
In an instant, everything in this cave, Xingzhe was completely insightful.
"It's just the front of the chamber, it's a foyer," Xingzhe said. "We need to go inside...... Now it's Voldemort's obstacles that stand in the way, not just the natural barriers......"
Seung-cheol approached the wall of the cave and stopped somewhere, pressing his palms flat against the wall.
"Here," he said. "We walked through here and on. The entrance is hidden. ”
Sirius didn't ask how Xingzhe knew. He only believed more and more in his heart why Dumbledore wanted him to be the title of Oro, and he had never seen a wizard who could solve problems just by observing; But everyone knows that it's usually incompetent wizards who make loud noises and smoke.
Seung-cheol stepped back from the wall and pointed his wand at the rock. A moment later, the place revealed an arc-shaped silhouette, emitting a white glow, as if a bright light was shining behind the gap.
The outline was gone, and the rock was as hard and thick as before, and there was nothing on it.
"Kreacher." Seong-cheol turned his head and asked him, "What's going on with this wall?" How did Regulus pass at that time? ”
"It's blood, sir." Kreacher shuddered, "That's what Master Regulus did, he cut his arm open and ......"
"I see...," Xingzhe said.
"What do you mean?" Sirius didn't seem to get it.
"This defense set up by the Dark Lord requires blood to unravel, and your brother cut his own arm at that time." Xingzhe smiled and said, "Voldemort probably thinks that this will make his opponent weaker before entering here." ”
"And now... What are we going to do? Sirius said, suddenly holding his arm, "Then use my blood!" ”
"Don't be impulsive, Sirius." "Voldemort always thinks how clever his setup is, but his little tricks in front of me are ridiculous. ”
Xingzhe was still in a state of opening his eyes at this time, and he could naturally see some more and richer things.
He raised his wand and pointed it at a stone wall.
"Too white without a blade!"
Something was cut off.
"Stop!"
A series of incantations rang out, and this time, the outline of the dazzling white arch appeared on the cave wall again, and this time it did not disappear. The rock in the arch suddenly vanished, revealing a doorway that seemed to be endless darkness inside.
"Let's go." Xingzhe walked through the doorway as Sirius and Kreacher followed him, Sirius lighting his wand.
They were greeted by a very strange sight. They stood on the shore of a large black lake, so wide that they could not see the opposite shore in the distance. The cave they were in was so high that they couldn't see the roof of it when they looked up. In the distance, as if in the middle of the lake, a hazy, green light flickered, reflecting in the dead water below. Except for the green light and the light from the two wands, there was a darkness that could not be dissolved, and the penetration of these lights was not as strong as Harry expected, and the darkness here seemed denser and thicker than the normal ones.
"Let's move on," said Xingzhe, "be careful not to step into the water." In case there's some dark magic in there..."
They walked around the shore of the lake, their feet on the narrow rocks by the lake, and their feet made a crackling echo. They kept going, but the scene around them did not change in the slightest: the rough walls of the cave on one side, and the boundless, mirror-smooth black lake on the other, with a mysterious green light shining in the center of the lake. The place, and this silence, is oppressive and unsettling.
"Kreacher!" Sirius said suddenly, his voice sounding strange, with a hint of irrepressible sadness in his voice, "Tell me, where is his body?" ”
"There's an island in the middle of the lake, young master!" Tears flowed uncontrollably from Kreacher's big eyes, and he choked as he wiped his tears, "Kreacher was there at the time, and he saw Young Master Regulus being dragged into the lake by the hands of those dead men. ”
(To be continued.) )