Thinking of Catherine's black dagger, Snape thought of K's white dagger, and although he kicked it under the cabinet, it was still found by the house-elf who was cleaning up the office, and then he casually threw it into the slug's material jar, which seemed to be more than two months now, and if he continued to ignore it, the smell of slugs would not dissipate for a century.

"Voldemort!" The stinging pain in his left hand pulled Snape back from his distraction, and he was just about to turn back to question the way Catherine had awakened him, when he heard her say in a very serious tone:

"When I put my right hand close to your Dark Mark mark, I could clearly sense that it was trying to send me some information, but its magic fluctuations were so weak that I couldn't decipher it."

"Don't worry." Snape sneered, "He is absolutely not willing to lose his strength and live like an ant, and then he ......"

[Help! Snape's exclamation was interrupted by Douglas's sudden exclamation, "Catherine! Tell your octopus to let go of me! I'm not really going to attack you! 】

The two passengers glanced blankly at Douglas, who was twisting his head, and then turned his head to look at the lookout window at the same time, and then they saw that the eight tentacles of the big octopus were tightly wrapped around the body of the thousand-year-old basilisk, and the invulnerable scales on the basilisk had been strangled by the big octopus with fine cracks.

[Stop!] Let it go! As soon as Catherine thought about it, the big octopus let go of its eight tentacles, but they were still intertwined with each other, assuming a defensive posture.

[This basilisk is not an enemy, but a friend.] Catherine thought again, and the big octopus disarmed and turned around and went on, while Douglas followed dejectedly.

"Douglas, what just happened? Why are you attacking us?" Snape saw the big octopus resume his actions before he turned back and questioned his pet, "And my wand?" ”

[I just wanted to give this octopus a try.] See if it's as magical as Salazar said. Douglas tilted his head on his stomach, moving weakly, obviously annoyed that he had lost to an octopus, but he still used the tip of his tail to send Snape's wand to the big octopus's lookout.

After Catherine asked the big octopus to send Snape's wand into the mobile tent with his tentacles, she gently persuaded the black-haired professor's pet:

You're just a thousand-year-old basilisk, Douglas! Even if she is quite powerful, Salazar only used you as an assistant at most, and this octopus is the mobile military tent of the mermaid queen, since she can lead the mermaid to become the overlord of the water tribe, how can she not put a lot of effort into this octopus that protects herself! To know. At that time, it was more than enough for the people who wanted to assassinate her to circle the earth. 】

Douglas responded with a nasal snort, apparently still sulking.

Snape rolled his eyes unusually dryly, looking down to check his wand, Catherine smiled and shook her head, turning her head to observe the situation outside, after all, meeting Douglas meant that they had returned to Hogwarts.

It's just that the underground is still a strange world for humans most of the time.

[Douglas, take us to Salazar first.] I have something to ask him for help. When she realized that she had no sense of direction at all, Catherine immediately sought the help of the "landlord".

But Douglas didn't respond, just swam along the top of the tunnel, in front of the big octopus. Seeing this, Catherine immediately gave the order to the big octopus to follow.

"Although Atlantis created the foundation for the mermaid to become the overlord of the Aquarium, without Lady Ruona's determination to find her sister, the mermaid will have to become the overlord of the Aquarium, and I am afraid that it will have to be postponed for a long time. As for this mobile military tent that integrates all the aquarium technologies, it is really hard to say whether it will be able to appear. "When the big octopus emerges from the pool. Salazar, who had been waiting at his statue, couldn't help but sigh again and again.

[Why didn't you tell me earlier, this big octopus is the crystallization of the collective wisdom of the aquarium!] Salazar! Douglas immediately raised his head and complained, "In that case, I won't be stupid to fight it!" It flicked its tail and slammed it next to one of the tentacles of the big octopus, apparently taking the opportunity to vent its frustration.

"I remember when I visited the High Priest of the Merfolk in Atlantis and asked him about the history of the Merfolk, you were there! It's just that you halfway through it and go to sleep. If this was the case at the beginning, why blame me now! Salazar's words immediately sent Douglas's head back to the floor, and he muttered "Catherine has something to do with you" and went back into the pool to hide.

Seeing this, Catherine, who had left the mobile tent, immediately described the situation in her soul world to Salazar, but Salazar immediately activated the magic circle under her statue, and then the two came to Catherine's spirit world.

"Let's stop the attack first." After observing the battle of rattan and black smoke through the silver film for a while, Salazar built a yì road.

Catherine did so, and all the rattans retracted back onto the rattan balls, and the black smoke that filled the world suddenly became dazed, and they drifted around for a long time, until Salazar unleashed his magic fluctuations, and they quickly gathered together to reveal Riddle's figure.

【Salazar. Slytherin! Riddle angrily threw himself in front of the rattan ball and roared, and his pupils, which had lost their color, suddenly turned red again strangely, [Why did you choose her, but you never saw me!] Am I not your only descendant? 】

[You can sue me!] Slytherin admonishes, how many do you follow? Salazar replied calmly, and the hiss of the serpent was unusually soft.

Riddle was stunned, and only after a while did he quibble: [Didn't you say that as long as your strength is enough, you don't have to obey the world's ordinary orders? 】

[Of course ordinary people can, but Slytherin descendants can't.] Salazar's tone suddenly became extremely strict, [because they are family rules, and those who violate them can only be expelled from the family. 】

Riddle's momentum was like a balloon bursting, suddenly losing all support, and the newly filled blood in his pupils quickly faded.

[It turns out that I am really a failure.] Riddle said weakly.

He remembered the night he had joined Slytherin, and when he heard from the others that there was a chief challenge that night, he immediately ran to watch it in a frenzy, completely ignoring his classmates who couldn't get out.

He has never had the idea of "unity", and he has never thought of "helping" those classmates who are weaker than himself.

Although he later joined the Hunting Society as the head of the year, he found that he could not fit into the true core of the Hunting Society, and if he could not have read the serpent version of the Slytherin Teachings left by Salazar, he was afraid that the rejection of him by those people would become more and more obvious.

He never understood why, he had always thought it was just a bunch of nonsense, but it was only to this day that he realized that the whole of Slytherin had been revolving around these precepts, and that everyone who did not follow them would be abandoned.

Even if he later tried his best to climb to the top of the hunting club, he was never able to communicate with the other core members, because they had already recognized his true nature and knew that he was just a substandard product.

[It turns out that the key I spent so many years looking for was discarded the first time I first embarked on my journey. Riddle fell to his knees in a decadent manner, a wisp of black smoke constantly coming out of his body, apparently having lost the idea of survival.

[What's the last Slytherin admonition—" Salazar suddenly shouted loudly.

[Even if the whole world denies your existence, you have to live your own life!] Riddle answered without hesitation, for it was the only admonition he kept.

The black smoke coming out of his body suddenly stopped, and then the spray became more and more ferocious, and in an instant, it filled all around, blocking everyone's view.

Salazar stretched out his hand, and the black qi automatically converged into his palm, and after a while, Catherine's vision returned to normal, and then she was surprised to find that the black robe on Riddle's body was completely white, and even glowed with dazzling light, his spirit was completely changed, and there was no sense of depression at all, if he was seen by someone who didn't know, he would definitely think that he was a sincere priest, and the only thing that made people feel strange was his eyes, which became like Thestrals, so white that it made people worry.

[Figured it out!] Salazar asked, and Riddle stood up and nodded slightly.

[I've made enough mistakes, it's time to make amends.] Riddle said, suddenly bowing slightly to Catherine, "I will do my best to cooperate with you." 】

[Thank you! Catherine was stunned for a moment before she hurried to respond, Riddle was very uncomfortable with her, but she felt very kind.

[Kind!] I would have thought Voldemort was kind! Catherine shook her head very hard and threw the ridiculous idea out of the foreigner.

[You must know that wizards' instincts are rarely wrong. Salazar spoke to Catherine suddenly, then took her left hand and placed the bead of black smoke in the palm of her hand.

As soon as Catherine wanted to say something, she felt a numbness in her body, and then the bead turned into ten thousand black smokes, which directly drilled into her body, dyeing her pale green body with a trace of black gas, but the sudden feeling of fullness made her comfortably just want to shout.

"What the hell is this—this?" Catherine gasped and asked in fits and starts.

"Didn't Anubis tell you anything when you went to the underworld?" Salazar looked at Catherine as if she were talking about the weather, but it was Riddle, looking at the red-haired girl's white eyes with intense curiosity.

"He said I had no future, and I didn't—" Catherine didn't continue, but Salazar took over as if he knew. (To be continued......)