30, cave

"Merlin's beard .....," Chloe groaned, unable to speak.

Anker, as always, didn't care about anyone, and ran away.

The other three followed, and none of them dared to joke with their lives. At this moment the streets have been swallowed up by the fog, and almost nothing can be seen. The man who had turned into a centipede writhed in an extremely strange posture and chased after Hoffa.

"Where are we going!?" Chloe asked anxiously.

"How do I know where to go?" said Hoffa, who was going mad, pointing at Aldo in his frenzy: "Ask him! These are the projections of his subconscious!"

"Hey, cheer up!" Chloe cheered Aldo.

Aldo was breathing heavily, trying to look behind him.

Chloe held his head firmly and didn't let him look back: "Quick, hurry up and think, where is the safest place for you!?"

Chloe's words seemed to have a strong calming effect, and Aldo's mood stabilized a little more, and the thick fog dissipated a lot in an instant.

This time, a hilly mountain bag forty or fifty meters high appeared in the mist, and there was an old abandoned pit in the middle of the mountain bag, and the pit was paved with railroad tracks, probably the mine road that once produced coal pits.

Without much warning, the four rushed into the pit.

As soon as he entered, the huge half-human, half-insect monster behind him slammed into the hole. The whole mountain swayed, and the rubble fell straight down.

There were a lot of timber and stones piled up in the cave, and Hoffa didn't dare to hesitate and directly pulled off the wooden beams used as support at the entrance of the cave. Without support, more rubble fell under the violent impact, until the narrow hole was completely sealed, and it was difficult to regain stability.

There was not the slightest light in the cave, and he panted backwards, not knowing whose leg he stepped on, and he fell to the ground with a thud. I was so tired that I couldn't move, and I couldn't get up at all.

"Shhhhh

The monsters outside the cave let out a terrifying insect chirp, and countless gastropods pierced in from all corners of the stone wall, like extremely sharp metal javelins.

A nightmare in no compromise.

"Shhh.....h It's all over, it's all in the past, it's all gone. ”

Chloe pressed Aldo's shoulders and spoke in Aldo's ear at great speed. Finally, as his mood stabilized, the sound of the monster outside the cave subsided, and the gastropods slowly disappeared.

Chloe stopped soothing the other man, she leaned against the wall, tired and unable to utter a word, and the other three were no better. Anker gasped, he had just counted the fastest he had run, Aldo was still a little breathless due to excessive startles, and Hofa seized all the time to meditate, trying to recover his magic as much as possible.

I don't know how long later, a glimmer of fire lit up in the dark cave.

It was Anker who lit a fire fold.

Hoffa found himself leaning against Aldo's lap and moved away in disgust.

There were a lot of old and decaying wooden boxes in the cave, and Anker fumbled to collect some, and a fire was lit in the middle of the four of them.

The firelight illuminated the cave, and there was still a huge shadow entrenched in the cave, and several people were chuckling in their hearts when they saw the shadow.

However, the shadow remained motionless, and upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a rusty steam locomotive, more than ten meters long, presumably part of Aldor's childhood memories.

A false alarm.

Several people wiped the cold sweat from their foreheads almost at the same time.

Hofa: "Aldo, is this cave safe, if the monster breaks in again, the hole is so narrow, we won't have a place to hide." ”

"It is absolutely safe here. Aldo's voice was as thin as a mosquito, "All the treasures of my childhood would be hidden in this cave, and I was ... When I'm in a bad mood, I often come to this cave to sit for a while. ”

"Cut," Anker snorted disdainfully, "don't say you don't have any of these. Seeing that you are also highly valued by the top management in the association, I didn't expect the real you to be so unbearable, and you can't even withstand the destruction of this little demon. ”

Aldo did not refute, and sat in the corner without speaking.

"When I go back this time, don't blame me for reporting this matter in writing, your state is too unstable, I really don't know how you passed the assessment in the first place. ”

Anker kept counting, and Hoffa stopped him.

"Okay, don't talk about it, besides, if he's emotionally unstable, the monster will get stronger again. ”

Anker had an opinion, but he was also quite afraid of the monster in the nightmare, so he chose to shut up.

The four of them stopped talking, and they sat in a circle around the fire, and a certain pessimism began to spread among them.

With the blessing of darkness, the brain seems to have the wings of fantasy, and it begins to unstoppably outline what may appear in the darkness.

Hoffa thumped his head, and he couldn't help but think of the others, of playing cowboy and Indian games on the Hogwarts grass with two friends when he was in his first year. Two of his friends would hide, sneak out and then sneak to another tree and hide again.

At this point, Hoffa could see their skirts or robes swaying in the dappled light and shadow of the forest, and then he would "fire" at them with his wand. But even if it hits them. They also don't want to get their clothes dirty, and always refuse to lie on the grass and pretend to be dead.

As for Hoffa, he would die both brutally and realistically every time. In his opinion, the purpose of this game is that his two friends want to see him die in various ways, and then watch him roll on the ground and get dirty.

Reminiscing about the past, Hoffa couldn't help but think that he hadn't sent a single letter to his friends or mentors since he had come here from England. All his actions are secret to them.

So, he didn't receive any letters or postcards from Miranda, Dumbledore, or Osivia. It was nothing like Harry's future expedition fifty years later. Perhaps when he was on an adventure, his owl would travel all over the world with a letter, keeping him in constant contact with the outside world.

If he writes a text message asking for help saying he wants to eat chocolate cake, he should receive it in a few weeks.

Hoffa thought to himself that if he died in this darkness, probably no one would know. Maybe for those friends, he was dead by the time he decided to lose contact. Perhaps Chloe was right, double death had already befallen him, he had decayed, he had fallen.

"Hofa, how the hell are we going to get out of here?"

Chloe's questioning interrupted his illusions, and he looked up to see that the two German wizards were also looking at him with blazing eyes.

No one wants to stay in this terrible place, they want to be able to give some more important information.

Hoffa sighed, shook his head, and said, "There is too little information that can be observed, and it is completely insufficient to solve the essence of this nightmare. ”

After a moment of silence, Anker stood up, "Enough, this black rumbling place is really annoying, just sit down and wait for death, I think it's better to take the initiative." ”

"Without magic, what are you going to do with it?"

Hoffa scoffed, "That monster out there wouldn't be able to beat it even if it had magic. ”

"What if Aldo loses consciousness?"

Anker said, and Aldo was startled, looking at his companion with a cold expression with a pale face.

Then, Anker suddenly pulled out a wooden stick from behind his ass and slammed it on Aldo's head.

Boom!!

There was a textured muffled sound, and Aldo fell to the ground.

The head swelled up in a large bag at a rate visible to the naked eye.

Chloe gasped and shrank back, and Hoffa immediately stood up, grabbed a torch from the fire, and stood in front of Chloe.

Anker threw away the wooden stick in his hand, spread his hand, and smiled. With his hands behind his back, he circled the fire.

"I noticed just when the nun was singing that the more stable Aldo's emotions are, the weaker the monster becomes, is that understandable, if Aldo loses his emotions, the monster will disappear. ”

Hoffa couldn't say a word, he felt that it was a possibility. But because of this conjecture, he knocked his companion unconscious to death with a stick, and this guy was inevitably too ruthless.

"Make a deal, Bach. ”

"What deal?"

"I'll gather observations, and you can figure out a way to get us out of here. In return, I can let you and Mademoiselle Lemay go when you are out. How?"

"You're not afraid that the people above you will blame you?"

"I'll be honest with you, I don't care. MΓΌller Mance was nothing more than a Muggle who could only paint cakes, and my work under him was only arranged by the Imperial Wizarding Guild. Even if I can't complete his task, he can't do anything to me. ”

Hoffa looked at Aldo, who was lying unconscious on the ground, and said slowly: "But I still have to do the deal that I want to be betrayed, then I am too stupid." ”

"Don't be so hasty to draw conclusions, my dear Mr. Bach. It's just part of the observation, and if the monster out there disappears, the nightmare is over. You don't lose money, if you don't have ......"

"If not. ”

Hoffa interrupted him.

"If not, we'll just keep experimenting. Anker smiled, "Until you find a way out of the dream." ”

Chloe whispered, "Don't promise him, Hoffa. She walked up to Aldo and pressed his neck artery, "He's just trying to take advantage of you." ”

"It's just a matter of using each other. Anker said confidently: "It seems that Miss Lemay does not know anything about the world of men. ”

"You have a point, and I can't find a reason to refuse. ”

Hoffa nodded, walked over to the plugged hole, and put his ear to it. Anker glanced at an angry Chloe with a sarcastic and mocking smile.

After listening for a moment, Hoffa turned his head: "There is no sound, what you are doing seems to have some effect." ”

"Great, is the nightmare over?" Anker excitedly picked up the torch and walked to the entrance of the cave, and put his ear on it.

There wasn't a sound outside, it was as quiet as a cosmic vacuum.

"It works. ”

Anker said: But it's useless to just listen, we have to look at it to determine if the monster is really gone. ”

"You're right, you're right. ”

Hoffa said nonchalantly, and he stepped out of the way: "Then you come and make a way for us." ”

"You're so funny. Anker grumbled with a light smile and reached out to remove the rubble that had been knocked down by the monster earlier.

However, as soon as he reached out and touched it, his face changed. Because at some point, the obstacle made of falling rubble disappeared. In its place is a smooth and intact stone wall.

He couldn't believe it, and touched it carefully.

There can be no doubt that this stone wall is so complete that there is not a single crack in even the finest instruments, as if it had been so complete since the beginning of heaven and earth.

"What's going on?" Anker looked confused and horrified in the light of the torches.

Hoffa looked at him with a smirk: "As you can see, we are already completely trapped in the cave. ”