Chapter 061 Cleaning (II)

[I really didn't expect you to have such a wolf bèi time! Riddle floated above Douglas's head, looking down at its writhing body and sneering.

[Still not helping? Douglas glared at him angrily, "Or don't you want to find Catherine anymore?" 】

[Do I have to sue you her name?] Riddle's words Douglas was stunned, and for a moment he forgot about jì and struggled, but Aragog did not forget jì, and he took the opportunity to wrap around the basilisk a few more times.

[What do you want?] Douglas looked at Riddle in a very calm tone.

[Hand over your blood contract!] Riddle said contemptuously, "Otherwise, wait to be food for this spider!" 】

[Then I'll wait for death!] Douglas's tone suddenly became decadent, "Because my blood pact has been handed over!" 】

【What! Riddle roared, and then felt his body stabbed by a transparent giant sword, "Who? He looked in the direction where the transparent greatsword had stabbed in, and a black figure appeared silently.

"I'm sorry!" Snape looked coldly at Riddle, who had a gaping hole in his abdomen, "It's already my pet." ”

"That is—" Riddle straightened up, looking proudly at Snape, "it's a trap, isn't it?" "The wound on his abdomen magically disappeared.

Snape and Douglas looked at him in amazement, and then looked down at Aragog, who had unfortunately been stabbed, and had broken in two, only the right abdominal wall was still connected, and the bright red entrails and green bodily fluids fell out of its body, partly sticking to its silk, partly attracted by gravity, slowly passing through the overlapping spider silk, and falling "tick-tock" to the floor.

"I'm disappointed!" Riddle chuckled, "Tried your best to lure me out, only to find that you couldn't deal with me!" His slender fingers gracefully swirled Lockhart's wand.

Snape didn't speak, he just waved his wand and threw a very powerful freezing spell, the originally somewhat damp room was instantly covered with white ice flowers, Douglas shook his body, and the spider silk wrapped around it was collectively shattered, and Aragog fell into the pile of red and green juice with a "snap".

"Why......" Aragog struggled to raise his head, eight blindfolded eyes looking at Snape together, and cried out weakly, "why -- to kill us -- ......"

No one answered it, Snape and Douglas were attacking Riddle with magic and physics, respectively, but neither of them worked, Riddle only acted when Lockhart's wand was affected, and the rest of the time he was lazy.

"Hagrid!" Aragog shouted into the air, waving its mutilated claws as if trying to grasp something, but finally hung limply and slammed to the floor, leaving only one last sound—a "click."

"Give it up!" Riddle raised his head and looked down at Snape and Douglas arrogantly, "My body cannot be destroyed by any means!" He closed his eyes and waved his arms as if he were conducting a symphony concert.

"What about me?" An old voice suddenly rang out behind Riddle, who jerked back and stared angrily at the visitor, his red eyes as if he were spewing fire.

"Albus Dumbledore!" Riddle's handsome face began to distort, and the green gemstone flowers on the white robe also turned into dark red poppies, "I've been waiting for you for a long time!" ”

"You're late!" Snape interjected coldly.

"Sorry, I accidentally got lost just now!" Dumbledore nodded apologetically at Snape, then asked Riddle with a smile, "I'm curious, how did you get back, Tom?" ”

"Come back? No! I've been at Hogwarts since the last time I saw you—" Riddle smiled seductively, "but you didn't notice me." ”

"I wouldn't have dreamed I knew all the secrets of Hogwarts, Tom!" Dumbledore said kindly, "Once, for example, I took a wrong turn in the toilet and found myself in a very beautifully furnished room that I had never seen before, with all sorts of delicate and luxurious potty pots. But when I went back to investigate, I found that the room was gone. He blinked vigorously.

The corners of Riddle's mouth twitched sharply, Snape rolled his eyes helplessly, and Douglas opened his mouth even more in surprise, apparently the Slytherins disagreed with the often misplaced Gryffindor Headmaster.

"What the hell are you trying to say?" Riddle clenched his wand warily.

"I just want to talk about how I feel, it's been more than twenty years since I last saw you, and it's been almost fifty years since you graduated," Dumbledore sighed affectionately, "I think you were a handsome young man, and I looked quite strong, but now I'm an old man with gray hair, and you're even more unrecognizable, and you don't even have a body!" ”

"No!" Riddle shouted frantically, "It won't be long!" I will be restored to my best form! "His body was no longer in the light mist state it had when it first appeared, but had become very clear, solid, and heavy.

"It looks like you're taking someone's power and—" Dumbledore's royal blue eyes suddenly shot a stern glare from above the half-moon glasses, "Life!" ”

Snape and Douglas immediately looked at the ditch, but the figure that had been lying on the edge of the ditch was gone.

"It's too late!" Riddle laughed maniacally, "Even if you find that fool now, you won't be able to change his fate." ”

"Really?" Dumbledore raised his left hand and pointed his index finger at Riddle's body, and it flickered as quickly as a television screen that had not received it.

"What's going on?" Riddle closed his eyes and smiled, "It's another fool." ”

Douglas was stunned for a moment, and swam quickly to the pillar where Demeter was hiding, but he was no longer there.

"Quick!" Snape landed on the pet's head and directed it to the ditch where Lockhart had disappeared.

"Wow!" As soon as Douglas swam to the edge of the ditch, three figures sprang out of the ditch, and he hurriedly closed his eyes.

Snape leaned over to see that Lockhart and Demeter were the missing Lockhart and Demeter on the left and right, and behind them was the same little mermaid who had attacked Catherine every day for the previous school year.

"Catherine!" The little mermaid yelled, followed by a series of rapid screams.

It turned out that after Catherine let Douglas out, she activated the disillusionment charm on her school robe and quietly jumped off the top of the statue, but before she could land, Riddle was lured out, and Lockhart seemed to lose consciousness and slid back into the ditch.

In order not to attract Riddle's attention, Catherine did not dare to act quickly, and could only move her position slightly, slowly falling into the big ditch, but she still did not dare to make a big move, for fear of falling short, so by the time she found Lockhart, someone was already searching him.

Unbeknownst to others, Lockhart used the fact that Lockhart had been injured by Catherine that morning to shirk his much-requested mission of confinement for Harry, citing the fact that he had been injured by a fall that morning. But Douglas's later three actions still allowed people to lock in the scope of suspects.

Demeter was one of them, so when he saw Lockhart's unusual behavior, he immediately jumped down to see what was going on, and Douglas's appearance proved his suspicions, so after avoiding the eyes of the others, he immediately slipped into the ditch behind the pillar.

Demeter quickly found Lockhart who had fallen back into the water, and when he was sure that he was truly unconscious, he immediately searched his body, and soon found a crown above Lockhart's head, an old faded crown, with a small line engraved on it: "Extraordinary ingenuity is the greatest treasure of mankind".

When Demeter was looking at the crown, he suddenly caught a glimpse of another figure next to him, it was Catherine, he did not hesitate to pull the crown, but it stayed on top of Lockhart's head for too long, he couldn't pull it out for a while, but was scratched by the sharp edge of his hand.

Demeter didn't care about the small wound at first, he just wanted to get the crown out of here before Catherine swam over, but soon he realized that his strength was getting smaller, and then he noticed that the crown was sucking his own blood from the small wound.

Demeter was frightened, he hurriedly threw away the crown and tried to run away, but Lockhart suddenly reached out and hugged him hard, his strength was already being lost, and he could still break free.

"Idiot!" Catherine swam over, scolded Demeter, raised her left hand and directly removed all the joints of Lockhart's hands, and Demeter immediately swam to the surface of the water, he was almost suffocated.

Catherine did not leave, but conjured the dagger on the ring and cut off Lockhart's entangled hair in the crown, which immediately sank to the bottom.

"Catherine?" A thin voice suddenly sounded behind the girl, but it did not surprise her.

"Help me get the two of them up, okay? Tina. Catherine turned to the man and smiled, looking at her untreated right shoulder, which was oozing blood.

"Are you hurt?" The little gray-white hand reached out to Catherine's wound, and suddenly stopped halfway, as if afraid to hurt the girl, "I'll call someone!" With a flick of her dark green hair and a swing of her silver tail, the little mermaid named "Tina" pounced on Lockhart, and then pulled Demeter, who had not swam far away, unconscious, and led them straight to the surface.

The blood that remained in the water of Lockhart and Demeter, and the bloodshot that oozed from Catherine's right shoulder, both involuntarily floated towards the crown and quickly melted into the old cracks.

Catherine fell to the bottom of the water, leaned over and picked up the crown with her left hand, and immediately felt a magic fluctuation that was both familiar and unfamiliar, familiar because she had sensed it many times during the summer vacation, and strange because this one was much more active than she had found before.

"You are the root of a qiē!" Catherine whispered, placing the crown in the palm of her right hand, a powerful suction, as if about to suck her magic away, but then this suction completely reversed direction, and a rough magic instantly poured into her right hand.