Feeling the cold ground, Brandi's nerves, which had been burned by the adventure, finally calmed down a little, and the ability to think seemed to be gradually returning to his empty mind. The scene that had just happened on the second floor always felt so familiar, and Brandi always felt that there was a vague idea in his head, but he couldn't grasp it.

"Hermione, do you think something is wrong?"

"What do you say? Professor Quirrell? The voice of Suo was heard beside her, and Hermione turned to face him, her watery eyes glistening in the moonlight. Thinking about it now, it did seem a little wrong, when Professor Quirrell spoke just now, it didn't feel like he was stammering at all, and it looked particularly vicious. ”

"I'm not talking about this...... Of course, what you said is indeed right, his behavior just now is really like two people. Brandi was stunned for a moment, "But what I'm thinking about now has nothing to do with Professor Quirrell, I'm thinking about those messages." ”

"What, you have an idea?"

"I can't say what I wanted, but now that I think about it, I think Oliver's behavior is particularly inconsistent." He sat against the wall, slowly organizing the language. "You think, if a Ravenclaw freshman borrowed her Transfiguration notes and found that unnatural message, that's fine, under normal circumstances, anyone would be curious when they see the phrase 'Little wizard, please give up' - how old is to be qualified? They'll think that this message was written specifically for first-year students, and in this case Hermione your reasoning is not wrong, and they will be eager to find Oliver's notes throughout the seven years, and eventually find these seven strange messages. ”

Brandi thought with a frown. It seems that it is quite difficult to turn your thoughts into words.

"But what if it wasn't like that in the first place?"

"What do you mean isn't that......" Hermione grabbed Brandi's outstretched hand angrily and sat up from the ground. I don't even understand what you're trying to say. ”

“…… I mean. He rubbed his forehead vigorously, "I just suddenly have a feeling now, could we have mistaken Oliver's original intention, you think, although this situation seems very normal from the eyes of freshmen, but for the seniors it must be very discordant, Oliver decided to leave a clue before graduation, why didn't she put all the information in the seventh grade notes?" There should be more people who can borrow her notes to see it that way, and wouldn't it be more preventable from the little wizards from seeing it? She could have saved even the first message. But she didn't, maybe because—"

"Because she had to split the message into a seventh-grade note!" Hermione, who had been listening carefully to Brandi's words just now, suddenly interrupted him, her expression was unusually excited, "I understand! Because if she didn't, her juniors wouldn't be able to find the door even if they found out about her message! This act is a clue in itself! ”

She jumped up excitedly and paced back and forth in the classroom. "Why didn't I think of it in the first place? She put the message 'Little Wizard Exempted' at the top, because she had to put it first to give a warning due to the constraints of having to choose this way of leaving the message. No wonder I've been thinking about it for so long and can't figure out what this upward journey means, it turns out that this is missing! ”

"Seven grades... Transfiguration textbook... She must be trying to refer to something, and there are seven ...... in the trait."

Hermione's figure dangled around in front of Brandi like a butterfly in flowers, making him dizzy, and he couldn't help but open his mouth. "It's so complicated, maybe it's the floor."

"Floors? Won't? Hogwarts has eight floors! And that's not including the towers, you don't even remember the floors of the Gryffindor lounge? Hermione gave him a casual remark, and then continued back and forth...... Back and forth...... Immediately after, she stopped. The look in Brandi's eyes was full of oddity.

"Hey, what are you doing?"

Brandi was furious by that kind of gaze.

"Floor......" Hermione repeated as she looked at him strangely. There are things from the first floor to the seventh floor, but not on the eighth floor...... You may be able to discover ...... on your upward journey Astronomy Tower...... Quirrell. ”

"What are you talking about?"

"Padma may be right," Hermione pulled out the parchment from her bosom with an eerie glow in her eyes. "Parvati has actually told us the answer."

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Three hours is not too long for Hermione and Brandy, just a spell book or a novel spell can make those three hours go by quickly. But now, they can only sit quietly on the chairs in the classroom, waiting for the second by second. Neither man took a break.

They can't wait to prove their idea.

Finally, the hands of the pocket watch pointed to three o'clock, and they couldn't wait to open the classroom door and rush out. There was already silence in the castle, and even Filch was probably back in his office at this point.

"Go to the first floor first! The message says that you want to go up, and you must come in order! ”

The two of them slipped down the stairs quietly and came to the staircase on the first floor.

Due to the fact that the first floor is related to the auditorium, the staircase there is probably the longest. They stood at the bottom of the stairs, all nervous and uneasy on their faces. "Don't count Brandi wrong. I'll watch ...... below."

"I'm not even counting wrong! But are you telling the truth? That thing will appear behind you? Brandi eagerly stepped up the first staircase.

"It's definitely right, although I don't know where it is, but there must be, otherwise why would the mysterious man and Wright look for this gate, maybe it's because one person can't see it at all!"

"Okay, then I'm on!" Brandi took a breath and began to climb the stairs. “1… 2… 3……”

With each step he took, he silently wrote down the numbers, and Hermione stood directly below the stairs, staring closely at his movements.

Will it really be as Hermione says it is?

“42…… 43！ His right foot shook slightly, and then stepped down without hesitation.

He felt his center of gravity flicker suddenly, and he had stepped on the stairs, but he didn't feel it at all.

He stumbled, his right foot sinking straight in, and he held his breath.

"Hermione!"

"I didn't see anything...... However, it may not be very conspicuous on its own, so you should stay there for now. Behind hermione came the voice chanting a spell, "Fluorescent flickering!" ”

She walked slowly towards Brandi, then stopped a step or two behind him. He heard Hermione bend down, searching for something up the stairs. After a while, a scream of surprise came from behind him.

"Oh! Wait a minute! It's here! I see it! ”

“Yes！” Brandi shook his fist excitedly.

———— two hours ago————

"Parvati has actually told us the answer!" Hermione said with a strange expression, "Do you remember the day in astronomy class when she somehow threw you down in the hallway?" ”

"Remember...... I had a headache all night and swollen a big bag, and Parvati later said she had just tripped over her robe. Hey? Why do you ask this? ”

"Do you remember where Professor Quirrell tripped over the prank steps as he walked up?"

"Of course, if you don't remember this, you won't be able to stay at Hogwarts, isn't it just three levels away from the staircase on the previous floor! I can do it with my eyes closed – wait! The vague thought in his mind became clearer and clearer, and he suddenly shook his whole body. Are you saying ......?"

"That's right." Hermione walked over to the wall, turned on the unquenchable fire in the candlestick, and showed him the contents of the parchment once more. "Look at the second-grade message, the number of pages it has! Think about it again...... How many steps are there on the second floor of the stairs we just walked through! ”

There was a thud in Brandy's head, and he suddenly understood why Oliver had put the message in the seventh-grade notebook - she was referring to the staircase in each floor where the number of pages of the note would suddenly disappear!

"No wonder there are only seven notebooks...... Hermione explained lightly, "because there are no steps that will disappear from the eighth floor up. ”

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Hermione finally found it on the side of the staircase where Brandy was treading at his feet, the clue was painted with silver-gray paint, because the light on the stairs was very dim, and it was backlit, so it almost matched the color of the stairs themselves, and it would not have been found if it had not been deliberately searched carefully.

"Oh my God, this man who left a clue thousands of years ago is sick in the head! If you don't have the exact location information, you won't be able to find out that there are still words in this place! ”

"So in the past thousand years, only Wright has discovered the treasure trove! The handwriting was on the side of the steps at his feet, and he couldn't see it even if he looked back, unless someone was standing a level or two behind him with a fluorescent spell and looking at the steps. Tsk, what a smart person. Hermione praised the thousand-year-old figure.

"Alright~ Hermione! Tell me what is written! ”

"Hmm...... It's Old English, let me see—" Hermione crouched down and read out word by word. "The beginning of all beginnings...... Well, that's only one in seven, and it's certainly not over yet! Let's go upstairs, Brandi~"

They ran from the second floor to the fifth floor as they had just done, and there was more than one staircase on each floor, so they simply walked through each one until the hidden information on this floor was discovered. Now, they are standing in the hallway on the sixth floor.

"The beginning of all beginnings, the end of all endings. Where the four colors are intertwined, it leads to heaven or hell, and you don't ...... if it's indecent," Hermione retold the message from the first five floors. "This riddle seems pretty simple, I think I've thought about it, but it's two paragraphs away, Brandy. This layer is in- Fourth Order! ”