Calling the gods to protect you! Ivan waved his wand.

Wisps of white mist poured out from the tip of the wand, turning into an illusory white unicorn, happily walking around with its hooves and then plunging headlong into the deep pipes...

Patronus is often the best choice for pathfinding, and can also be used as a light in dark places...

Controlling the unicorn to take the first step, Ivan jumped down without hesitation.

The surrounding pools slowly merged together and returned to their original state...

Boom~

Ivan felt like he had fallen into a slimy chute, falling all the way down the slope of the pipe, and the two "owls" on his shoulders shrank into Ivan's arms in horror.

It was pitch black and there was no light to be seen, except for the glowing shadow of a unicorn not far away, barely illuminating the way ahead.

After some time, Ivan felt that he was about to faint from the twists and turns of the pipe, when he suddenly noticed that the slope in front of him began to gradually become gentle.

Ivan suddenly knew he was coming...

Sure enough, the nozzle in front of him grew bigger and bigger, and Ivan soon slipped out of it and fell to the ground...

Ivan grinned and got up from the ground, patted his slimy and dusty clothes, and the two "owls" fell from his arms to the ground in a daze.

"Clean up!"

Ivan simply cleaned up with a dusting charm and looked around.

It was a straight forward tunnel, which looked very wide, and the ground was wet, and the sound of running water could be faintly heard in the distance.

Ivan walked briskly forward, through the darkness and the Patronus' glow, straight through the tunnel, and to his surprise he didn't see the basilisk molting.

But if you think about it, the basilisk hasn't been released yet, where did the molting come from...

Instead, Ivan saw the bones of many creatures on the ground, many of them the size of rats, which shattered when stepped on, and seemed to have been piled up here for a long time.

At the end of the tunnel was a sturdy wall carved with two intertwined snakes, their eyes glowing eerily green in the dim glow of fluorescent.

"Hiss~ (Open!) Ivan spoke again, and the two snake shadows on the door squirmed rapidly as if they were alive, and the stone wall cracked in the middle, opening a path.

Ivan entered, and inside was a huge space, with many towering stone pillars, inscribed with coiled and entangled serpents, arching on either side like guards.

Directly in front of it is a wide platform with a statue at the end that reaches to the ceiling.

It was the statue of Salazar Slytherin, and Ivan had to look up to see the huge face of the statue, where the basilisk slept.

Ivan didn't intend to disturb the other party, and searched for it in the secret room by himself, tentatively reciting the words softly in front of each stone pillar inscribed with a great snake.

Hail to the great forerunner – Salazar Slytherin!

The strange snake whisper kept echoing in the secret room, but all the great snake stone pillars did not respond, and Ivan tried to find other clues in the secret room.

It took a few hours to finally find the Slytherin text somewhere, a string of strange characters, translated as this sentence.

Come to my statue and speak to me with your highest respect! (Remember, close your eyes!) ）】

At the same time, next to the strange character, there is a strange picture.

It was a figure standing in the middle of the platform, mouth open as if muttering something, and a large snake was emerging from the statue's mouth in front of it.

Ivan frowned, if he hadn't known that this was a Slytherin vault, he would have thought that some evil wizard had made a sacrifice ritual when he saw this.

He wasn't here to summon a basilisk, and he didn't want to provoke the serpent that could kill people with just his eyes, if he didn't have to.

However, for an entire afternoon, Ivan did not find the location of the Slytherin laboratory.

Thinking of Tom Riddle's previous words, Ivan became anxious.

Perhaps, he should call the basilisk out for questioning?

This terrifying thought crossed Ivan's mind, and it was undoubtedly the next step, he couldn't be sure how powerful the basilisk was, and if something went wrong, he would be able to defeat the other party.

However, in contrast, Ivan was even more reluctant to go back and continue to talk to Tom, it was simply endless.

Even if Tom Riddle had laid something behind in the secret room, Ivan didn't dare to bring the other party in, but restrained it with the Isolation Magic Script, and left it in the suitcase of the dormitory.

In the case that the responsive house may be discovered, only the bedroom is relatively safe...

Ivan hesitated, but he was still ruthless, determined to fight, and walked in the center of the platform, imitating Tom Riddle's movements in the original plane, and a snake language came out of his mouth.

"Hiss~ (Speak to me, Slytherin - the greatest of the Hogwarts Four.) ）”

Above Ivan's gaze, Slytherin's huge stone-carved face moved, and its mouth opened wider and wider, revealing a large round hole that could easily walk into a person.

Ivan quickly closed his eyes, so as not to make direct contact with the basilisk that came out.

Fortunately, with his eyes closed, Ivan was able to see everything in front of him through the shadow of the unicorn, but he didn't know if the scene he saw through magic would affect his body.

If he remembered correctly, the direct death effect of the basilisk's eyes was not effective against everything, and the phoenix, which was also a top-level magical creature, could be directly immune, and the effect of direct death would also be weakened through mirror and water reflection, and the opposite person would be petrified.

When I was thinking about it,

Faintly, Ivan felt a rustling sound coming from above, as if something was slipping out of the statue's mouth.

The two "owls" that Ivan had taken by his side lay on the ground shivering, and their mouths cooed.

Ivan was vigilant, ready to turn the two cocks back into their original form if he failed to communicate with each other in snake language.

"Hiss~ (Hungry~ so hungry... ）”

A clear snake voice came from the statue's mouth,

The next moment, a huge serpent emerged from there, and its heavy body landed on the stone slab with a muffled sound.

Step by step, it approached Ivan, who clenched his wand, the light of the enhanced magic text was already lit up, and the Blade Shadowless Charm was ready to be unleashed.

Through the Patronus's gaze, Ivan clearly saw the appearance of the basilisk in front of him, with green scales like old tree bark growing on its body, and a flat head with hideous granular protrusions.

What frightened Ivan the most was the sharp saber-like fangs, and the faint, eerily fluorescent eyes...