How is this possible?

Tom Riddle was shocked and confused, and in his opinion, the snake language was an innate talent given to him by the bloodline, and no one else could grasp it.

"Hiss~" Ivan was still trying to adjust his pitch to match Tom's previous voice, and soon became more and more similar.

"How? Tom, is my pronunciation fairly standard? After learning it a few times, Ivan turned to look at Tom and asked out loud.

Tom was still stunned, and only came back to his senses after half a sound, and looked at Ivan with a complicated look in his eyes, he nodded and said reluctantly.

"You're not bad..."

"That's good! It seems that snake language is not as difficult to learn as you say..."Ivan breathed a sigh of relief, he had always been worried about whether there was a special way for snake language, and now that Tom, the snake language master, confirmed that he was a little relieved.

Immediately, Ivan turned to ask again. "Tom, what do you mean by the snake language you just taught me?"

"That's death!" Tom Riddle explained aloud, and after thinking about it, he couldn't help but speak again. "Hals, have you ever been exposed to snake language before? Who are your parents? Has he ever tried to talk to snakes? ”

Tom Riddle couldn't believe Ivan could master snake language, and he learned it too quickly, right?

He's just demonstrated it a few times...

Ivan shook his head, saying that there was nothing special about his birth, but he was simply more capable of learning.

Immediately afterward, Ivan hurriedly urged Tom Riddle to quickly teach him the next word...

Tom Riddle relentlessly taught a few more words, and finally confirmed that Ivan did indeed have a talent for learning snake language.

This discovery made Tom Riddle regret it more and more, and the reason why he revealed so much important information to Ivan was to let the other party take him to the secret room.

After devouring the flesh and soul of a spider, Tom was barely able to manifest in the real world, and once back in the vault, he was able to manipulate the basilisk and kill Ivan.

After so many days, Tom's patience had long since run out, and he had no hope of controlling the little wizard in front of him to serve him.

Instead, he wants to get out of the other party's control and look for the next target that is easy to fool.

That's why he took the initiative to throw out the concept of bloodline fusion, and explained that he could greatly improve his strength and talent after completion.

Tom knew very well that a young wizard like Ivan, who was keen on studying magic and improving his strength, would definitely not be able to resist this temptation.

However, he calculated everything, but he didn't expect Ivan to easily master the most crucial snake language.

This means that the little wizard in front of him has the ability to leave himself behind and go alone to find clues to the secret room.

So, after teaching a few simple words, Tom stopped with an ugly face.

"What's wrong?" Ivan was quickly filling up his snake vocabulary when he saw that Tom suddenly stopped pronouncing it, and suddenly felt a little strange.

"That's it for today, my strength is still very weak, and there is no way to maintain this state all the time." Tom said with a sigh, recovering all the black fog and getting ready to go back to the diary, he needed some time to be quiet...

Ivan was confused, but fortunately he came back to it, and he let Tom's calculation fail, and of course the other party could no longer teach himself with all his might.

"Then we'll learn again tomorrow..."Ivan nodded, not forcing Tom Riddle, just casually mentioning it.

"By the way, you haven't told me where the entrance to the secret room is? Are there traps and traps there? Are there any other dangers, or I'll take you with me when I learn snake language and enter the secret room. ”

Tom Riddle, who was about to return to the Horcrux, stopped his movements and looked at Ivan in a daze, only then did he remember that he had a card to play in addition to the snake language, and that was where the entrance to the secret room was...

Thinking of this, Tom Riddle once again had hope.

However, Tom vaguely sensed that something was wrong, but he couldn't figure it out, but he just felt that the timing of the little wizard in front of him seemed to be a little too coincidental...

"Okay, then I'll teach you tomorrow!" Tom nodded with a strange expression, agreed, and turned into a black mist and burrowed into the Horcrux.

Seeing Tom nodding, Ivan's heart that had been hanging was relieved, and he finally fooled the past.

But thinking of the black smudge that appeared at the door of the Responsive House, Ivan frowned again, and put the diary in the pocket of the wizard's robe and carried it closely, it seems that he has to pay attention to it these days...

......

Over the next few days, while Ivan was learning snake language with Tom Riddle, he didn't forget to check in on the room from time to time.

I hope to find someone who sneaked into the Room of Request while I was away.

However, after a few days, Ivan didn't find anything, the bait that was deliberately placed in the room was not lost, and there was no sign of the thing being turned over, as if the previous stain was just his illusion...

This made Ivan more and more puzzled, could it be really an accident?

Ivan was depressed for a while, but fortunately, after learning snake language for a few days, he finally cracked the characters given by the system.

As Luna guessed, it was just a sentence,

Hail to the great forerunner – Salazar Slytherin!

Ivan thought back to the meaning of the characters in his mind, and his face was very strange, and he remembered what Tom said when he opened the basilisk in the original plane,

It seems that this password is also used to open something, and the content of the password is completely in line with Salazar Slytherin's usual narcissistic style...

When Ivan checked the progress of the Bloodline Mystery quest again, he found that after cracking the character, the current quest progress had reached 45%.

What is missing is to find the place where this password needs to be opened, and Ivan guesses that the place is likely to be the place where Salazar Slytherin conducted experiments, most likely somewhere in the Chamber of Secrets...

[Hals, what you want to learn, I've already taught you, we can go to the secret room, right? 】

The diary placed on the table flipped on its own, black ink appearing on it.

Ivan looked at the Horcrux journal silently and did not reply.

In the past few days, Ivan has prevaricated Tom Riddle's several requests for various reasons, and the relationship between the two sides has fallen to a freezing point, and it is not far from a complete breakdown...

So much so that Tom Riddle no longer answers any of his questions, only asks him over and over again like a repeater when he can take himself to the secret room.

In view of this, Ivan is not pretending, and he has not used the Horcrux for the time being just because the other party still has the last bit of information...