Chapter 008: The First Challenge
"No, you don't! Thank you very much! Catherine smiled, and Snape put away the box, got up and helped the red-haired girl to the door, K followed with his head in his hands, Harry quickly stood up and nodded to the hotel owner, before running a few steps to keep up with the others.
The barkeeper didn't put away his smile until they left the door, straightened up, and then turned around and grabbed the waiter's ear, and carried him to the back of the store.
As for the glass of guarana juice, no one remembers it anymore.
Back at the hotel, K yawned and went straight to the bathroom, Snape took Catherine to her bedside and went straight to his bedroom, and Harry had to follow back to his first challenge.
When K came out of the shower, Catherine had already taken off the silk scarf that tied her eyes, changed her clothes and lay down on the bed.
"Are you still dizzy?" K shoved his left hand under Catherine's neck.
"Much better." Catherine didn't pay attention to her movements, but opened her eyes and looked at K's purple hair curiously, "When was it dyed?" ”
"Before you go to Barcelona." K reached out and grabbed a bunch, smiled and asked, "Is it pretty?" ”
"Don't you think that's too dazzling?" Catherine's tone was a little worried.
"I'm in the right place to get noticed." K raised his hand to throw away the bundle of hair, but reached out and pulled Catherine's left hand out of the bed, "Why don't you tell me about the origin of these two rings?" ”
"One is the Potter family's heirs, and the other doesn't look familiar?" Catherine asked rhetorically with a chuckle.
K squinted and observed for a moment before shouting in shock, "This can't be your black dagger, right?" After seeing Catherine nod, the expression on her face couldn't help but become a little complicated, and she asked with some hesitation for a long time, "It's so small, can that positioning device still exist?" ”
"I can't be sure of this, after all, Hogwarts is shielded from electromagnetism, and you weren't in England last year, so I haven't verified it yet." Catherine said in a somewhat complaining tone, touching the ring on her middle finger, and a dull black dagger suddenly appeared and stuck it on the mattress between them.
"Huh! Have you changed the medicine above? K immediately noticed the strangeness of the dagger.
"After all, it's still not good to use that kind of dangerous object in school, so Professor Snape replaced me with 'Life and Death Water', which is a very powerful sleeping pill." Catherine said as she turned the handle of the dagger, and soon a red light shot out from the end of the handle and landed on top of the quilt.
Catherine glanced at the purple-haired girl in surprise, lifted her leg and rubbed it, and felt a dagger tied to K's outer thigh.
"How did you change places?" Catherine asked, puzzled, and put the mechanism on the handle back to its original state.
"I can't leave England in long sleeves all the time!" K grumbled with a pout.
"That's right!" Catherine reached out and grasped the handle of the dagger, and the black dagger quickly shrank back into the ornament on the ring.
"It's so convenient." K's eyes flashed quickly, "Help me make one if you have time." ”
"I didn't do it." Catherine said, adjusting the direction of the ring.
"Yay!" K's voice was as surprised as the discovery of a new continent, "Someone else did it for you, and you still wear it on the middle finger of your left hand?" ”
"I put it on myself, just for my convenience." Catherine said angrily, turning around and lying flat with her eyes closed, looking ready for bed.
"Do you know what it means to give a ring to someone you're not dating with?" K suddenly stood up with his arm excitedly, leaned in front of Catherine and dragged a long voice and asked, "What does it mean to accept the other party's ring and take the initiative to wear it on your hand?" ”
"You're so bored!" Catherine grumbled, and turned her back to K again.
"Since you don't know, then I'll be kind enough to tell you!" K very simply leaned on Catherine's body, bowed his head and said in a very evil voice in her ear, "The former means that he wants you to be his lover, and the latter means that you agree to be his lover." ”
"I was 11 years old!" Catherine glanced at the purple-haired girl who was still pressed against her in anger, "I'm going to sleep, if you don't get out of the way, just wait to be beaten." The red-haired girl closed her eyes again, but K found a strange glint in her eyes.
"No! I absolutely do not agree to give up the princess I have been waiting for for many years to that poisonous and ugly old bat! So—" K Wei raised his body and said with a righteous and awe-inspiring face, "I want to cook the raw rice first!" Hehehehehe! She smirked and threw herself at the "little lamb" beneath her, but then showed a pained expression.
"You knight with a funny head! Let's go back to your own bed and sleep! Catherine punched K in the abdomen to stop her attempt, then threw her back to the other bed with her hands and feet, "Remember to remove your contact lenses. With that, he threw the pillow over as well.
"Guy with no conscience!" K rubbed his abdomen dissatisfied, complained but didn't continue to mess with Catherine, but honestly took off the pair of turquoise contact lenses, pulled up the quilt and wrapped himself into a ball of rice dumplings.
Tired or otherwise, Catherine slept until the sun rose the next morning, when everyone else was already up, so when she finished freshening up and opened the door, the first thing she heard was "Twenty-seven failures." ”
Catherine looked at the clock, then at Harry and Snape, who were so confrontational that they couldn't even greet her, before finally taking breakfast and sitting down next to K.
"I have to say that Harry really doesn't have much talent for calm, especially when facing this Professor Snape, he is like a big oil drum, as long as there is a little spark, it will explode with a 'boom', and he doesn't seem to remember the lesson at all." K curled up on the sofa far from the dining table with his hands and knees to watch the play.
"If he could really remember the lesson, it wouldn't be Gryffindor." Catherine swallowed the bread in her mouth, sarcastically slowly.
"What's the difference between Gryffindor and Slytherin?" K asked curiously.
"Although Slytherin has a lot of rules and regulations, and most of them are always aristocratic on the surface, they are in their bones the supremacy of strength, and absolutely ignore the rules. And Gryffindor, although basically arrogant and destroying, as if he wants to poke a hole in the sky, but when it comes to real things, he always pays great attention to worldly views. Catherine took a sip of the milk from her glass before continuing, "So Gryffindor is not used to Slytherin's hypocrisy, and Slytherin is not used to Gryffindor's hubris. ”
"In other words, your two academies are actually different from each other." K turned to look at Catherine.
"You can say the same thing." Catherine wiped her mouth slowly with a napkin.
"What about the other two colleges?" K asked curiously.
"Ravenclaw is crazy and doesn't know what to do with them; Hufflepuff was meekly pitiful, and bullied them with no sense of accomplishment. ”
"So Gryffindor and Slytherin are the kings looking at mung beans, just right in the eye." K's face was full of surprise.
"You're a dog who can't spit ivory!" Catherine put down her napkin in displeasure.
"Can the dogs of the wizarding world spit out ivory?" K has an inquisitive expression on his face.
Catherine twitched the corners of her mouth a little awkwardly, then got up very neatly and walked back to the table, "Harry, go pack your things, we'll leave in half an hour." ”
"Okay!" Harry hurriedly jumped up and rushed to the bedroom.
"Furry like a monkey, things are a garbage heap no matter how well they are put away." Snape said with a cheerful sarcasm on his face, and he was met with an angry slam on the door.
"Forty-two failures."
Half an hour later, Inca ruins of Machu Picchu, Peru.
Ernie Frank said he stumbled upon the marker while exploring the origins of the Amazon River with water creatures. Although the source of the Amazon River is a stream in the Andes Mountains, Naivado Mismi's peak, he speculated that the location of the photograph should be in the Uruba River, the main tributary of the Ucayali River, the source of the Amazon River. ”
"This river is known locally as the Sacred River, and the place along the river where there are traces of human life is this sacred valley, which is the remains of the Incas, which means that we have to search all the rivers within a mile radius." K took the map and explained, and while gesturing the distance with a ruler, he finally raised his hand and pointed to the west and said, "From this direction, the closest to the holy river, should we walk there?" Or do you want to look for a means of transportation first? ”
"Let's go on foot!" Catherine looked at her right hand and said, "I feel like something is calling out to me, but the signal is so weak that I'm afraid I'll miss it if I'm driving." ”
"Let's go!"
Except for Harry, no one else was surprised by Catherine's statement, and he had to put away his surprise when he saw this, but no one was ready to let him go.
"I really don't know what you grew up eating? If you don't have the consciousness of a wizard at all, don't you know that wizards are born with an unusually sharp intuition about the natural world? Even if you don't even understand this bit of common sense, you must have heard of the sixth sense in Muggles! No matter how bad it is, we should know that human beings have the instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages! In other words, your ignorance has reached the point of anger and resentment, and you only deserve to be treated as waste, and you have no value for recycling. ”