"You guys don't look very good. Didn't you wake up? ”

Ten minutes later, the four of them hurried to the study after lunch, and found that Newt had been waiting in the painting for a long time. He couldn't help but wonder when he saw the haggard, low faces of Harry, Ron, and Hermione. Frank stood impatiently behind his back, his paws scraping into the ground with a rattling sound.

"Well, it's probably because I'm going to hear a wonderful adventure story right away, so I'm a little too excited." Harry said against his will, and the others nodded behind him.

"Well, but what I'm going to say next is probably going to disappoint you, because it's not a wonderful adventure, but more of a weak escape and retreat. Of course, if you do see that guy wake up from his slumber, I hope you can do the same. There is no shame in sparing lives. "Before I begin the story, I need to remind you that although Kailash is indeed a sacred mountain in Hinduism, it is not in India – it is in Tibet, China. So if you want to get there, you'd better set off today. ”

"Tibet, China?" As a mysterious oriental country, everything about China is a bit vague to them, in fact, of all the books that several people have come into contact with so far, only Lockhart's "A Year with the Tibetan Yeti" mentions a little bit of knowledge about China. But Lockhart wasn't the wizard who actually went to Tibet, and he didn't tell much about the local customs.

"That's right, it's the roof of the world, the highest plateau in the world — and it's home to a lot of amazing creatures I've never seen before." Newt looked reminiscing, "In fact, the fact that Kailash is outside the country has made many Indian folk shamans very unhappy, because if they want to go to worship, they have to submit a very cumbersome application to the Chinese Ministry of Magic. However, the Indian Ministry of Magic has never protested because of this. It was only later that I figured out why. ”

He cleared his throat and began his story.

"That was probably when I was working for the Ministry of Magic, and the Bureau of Fire Dragon Research and Restriction was part of the Beast Office, I don't know if you've heard of it." He saw Ron nodding his head and smiled kindly. "The job paid a small amount, but it had many opportunities to travel around the world, which made it a great convenience for my work – Tibet was where I came to study the Chinese fireball."

"Actually, at that time, like you, I didn't know much about China. As a result, I went straight to the wrong place. He habitually avoided the gaze of Brandi and the others, tilted his head and said awkwardly.

"I didn't even think that Tibet was a large area, not just a place name, and you know, if you don't have a very precise target when you cast the Portkey Transmission Spell, it will carry you around. I was taken by a roll of toilet paper to the mountains of Gangdis - it was a rare experience, and I landed in a snowstorm and I was blown up like a kite by the wind, and if York hadn't come out of the box and tangled in a large protruding bluestone, I would have rolled down the mountain with an avalanche. Oh, by the way, York is a winged demon. ”

No one knew what a winged demon was, but it didn't matter, and everyone was waiting for Newt's business.

"And then, Newt, how did you get to Kailash?" Brandi said.

"That's because you've never seen anything like that, and even now, I can't put into words how much Kailash shook me—if I had to say anything, it was the mountain of gods that suddenly appeared in the sky after a snowstorm. It is like a domed pyramid magnified by a thousand times, and the mountain walls are symmetrical on all sides, while surrounded by peaks and valleys, it looks like a blooming snow lotus. ”

"In fact, if it was just a simple beauty, it might not be able to impress me, but what made me care a lot at that time was the celestial phenomena at that time." Newt said, "The sky was blue and clean like a sapphire just after the blizzard, but the only thing was that peak, which was covered by ethereal clouds and mist, like a canopy. ”

"I didn't know much about divination, but I was carrying my suitcase, and there happened to be a couple of tree monkey frogs in it that were more sensitive to breath. You know, they're very sensitive to danger, and if there's something around them that threatens them, the pustules on top of the tree monkey frog's head will glow red – and when I tried to go inside the box and take out my coat, I found that the holly tree inside was covered in red light bulbs, just like it was for Christmas. ”

"Flutter~" Harry chuckled softly behind Brandy. "But Newt, what does that cloud have to do with the danger perceived by the tree monkey frog?"

"Well, yes, you might think it's unlikely......" he rubbed his palms, "I can actually have some simple conversations with fantastic beasts, well, yes - it's not just snakes." Newt said, "I'm not a snake, and when it comes to communication, we can only understand a general meaning with each other." Huh? What are your expressions? ”

Brandi wondered why Newt would say that, because he had a relationship with his own sister, and he wasn't surprised at all. He turned his head curiously, only to notice that Harry's expression seemed to be a little too shocked.

"What's wrong with that?" Brandi said to them. "Could it be like a snake old tongue, another ability that only dark wizards can master?"

Hermione and the three of them looked at each other strangely, then shook their heads in unison. "No, Brandy, we're envious of—ahem! Just envy! ”

"By the way, Newt, there's a personal question-" Hermione looked cautiously at a confused Brandy, "Do you have any distant Muggle relatives?" Live near Yorkshire? ”

Newt looked just as overwhelmed as Brandy. He frowned and pondered for a long time before he could barely give a general answer. "I really can't pack a ticket, after all, from my family's family tree, the Scamander family has been passed down for more than ten generations, and I'm not sure if there will be any distant relatives of mine in Yorkshire or something—besides, why are you asking this?"

"Ah, nothing, nothing, just curious." Hermione was stared at by Brandi and Newt together, and hurriedly waved her arms in a panic, "Compared to this, Newt, you go on, we are still waiting to hear the story." ”

He looked at her suspiciously for a long time before Newt looked back. "That's right, under normal circumstances, the creatures in the box can't see the creatures in the outside world, and they are usually not inexplicably alert. But at that time, the tree monkey frog in the box was aroused to take a vigilant posture, so I grabbed one and looked outside the box - it showed me that the source of the danger was the cloud on the top of Mount Kailash, and it said that it was an extremely powerful magical animal breathing. ”

Breath produces clouds!

This astonishing answer made no one realize that it was a cloud that covered the entire mountain, so how big that magical beast must be!

"Newt, did you see it?" Brandy's chest heaved violently, and he asked a little nervously. "What kind of magical beast is that, and what does it look like?"

"How so...... I didn't see it in its entirety. Newt recalled, "I learned that there were magical animals on the top of the mountain, so I didn't miss the opportunity to see them up close. So it took me about two days to get there on foot - there were a lot of restrictions imposed by the Chinese wizards around Mount Kailash, including the portkey, and all teleportation magic was not available. ”

"Then halfway through, I ran into a Chinese wizard. After showing me the certificate issued to me by the Ministry of Magic to dispel my suspicions, I asked him about the mountain. As a result, he said, legend has it that it was a place where their ancestors used to seal off ferocious monsters in ancient times, and that no one was allowed to approach the sacred mountain. He told me some information, and it Chinese name is not easy to remember, so I specially have a transliteration in the notes, and I will look for it......"

Newt said, taking a notebook from his pocket and flipping through it. He continued to talk as he looked it up.

"He told me that there was nothing wrong with the seal at first, but around the 12th or 3rd century, two magically powerful wizards misplaced the duel at Kailash. They sneaked up to the top of the mountain during the night, and the powerful ancient magic of the battle damaged the seal there - part of the monster's shell broke free from the center of Kailash, causing considerable damage to its surroundings. Later, it seems that a foreigner came there, and made an agreement with the Chinese shamanic organization at the time, and used some magical magic weapon to repair the gap in the seal. The trade-off is that Chinese shamans cannot prevent any believers who believe in sacred mountains from visiting and worshipping the sacred mountain, including shamans. ”

"What the hell is this protocol?" Brandi said in amazement, "That outsider just wanted to be able to go to Kailash to pay homage?" Was he a devout Hindu? ”

"I don't know about this, the Chinese wizard himself knows a little bit about it." Newt said, "Later, of course, I went to the foot of Mount Kailash under the guise of the Sacred Mountain believers, where there were many believers and seemed very hostile to those who tried to offend Kailash. So after a few days there, I finally found an opportunity to get up in the dark – probably the most risky move I've ever made in my life. It's heart-pounding to think about it now. ”

"The walls were steep and full of magic, and I couldn't climb them with my bare hands. So I asked for a glaling in the box, which is a type of Pegasus, and it's fast. ”

"In the beginning, we went well. But halfway up the mountain, Graling began to fly reluctantly upward, and I tempted it a little more with food to make it fly upwards, and when I could already see the top of the mountain, it got into its box and refused to go away. At that time, the terrain of the mountain wall was no longer smooth, and I felt that I could climb against the wall...... As soon as my head poked out of the cliff, I saw—"

His body shuddered, and a look of fear appeared on his face.

"There were at least two pairs of basketball-sized gray pupils staring at me in the fog! Merlin was on top, its head alone was the size of a Muggle heavy truck, and there was more than one of them—it attacked as soon as it saw me. It was a bit like a dragon's breath, but compared to it, the dragon's size was exactly the same as that of a child. I let go and fell off the cliff, and released the Glarin from the box, which carried me desperately into the distance...... The flame flew under our feet, at least two or three miles away—I saw a mountain in the distance blast a gap—and then another, but it was not a flame, but a fountain of water, which spread out in the air, and soon became an ice pick—my glaring wings were pierced by an ice pick, and my blood was splashed—but it carried me to a deep ravine a dozen miles away, and if it hadn't been in time to burrow into the box to stop the bleeding and heal, it would have died, and even so, It ended up losing its wing, and even now I think about it, I feel guilty. ”

He said hoarsely, the note in his hand resting on one of the pages.

"Okay, I've found its name." Newt took a deep breath and said slowly. "It was an ancient beast that trampled on the earth thousands of years ago, and was once included in a magic book called the Classic of Mountains and Seas by ancient Chinese wizards, with nine heads, spitting water and fire, and its voice was like a baby's cry, so it was named——"

"Nine Babies."