I have to say that Myrtle's spiral ascension really surprised Brandi and them.

In fact, aside from the last time Nick was scorched by the basilisk, this was the first time they had seen magic that could repel the ghosts of the world. Brandi curiously circled around the circular pool and recited a few well-honed incantations, and a weakened splitting spell was thrown onto the pool.

'Bang~' The spell exploded in the air and disappeared before it barely approached the pool.

"Looks like this should be it." Brandi said, "But I haven't seen the mechanism on the pool yet - Harry, I think it's up to you - if the Slytherin heir can open it, maybe you can." ”

Harry's head was exposed in the air, disgruntled. "Why me? I don't have much to do with the heir of the slytherin. ”

"Because you're a parseltongue. I remember you also talked to the big python in Brazil? Ron's voice came from his side. There must be a reason why this place has not been noticed for so many years, and maybe only the Parseltongue can control it. Of course, if you're not happy, Salf probably can—if you're willing to run to the Ravenclaw common room and kidnap her out. ”

“…… Shh "Harry isn't Parvati, he doesn't have any relatives in Ravenclaw. So there was only one option left, Harry thought about it, he took off the cloak of invisibility and stepped forward.

"Yikes!" The myrtle, who was floating nearby, let out an exclamation. "Is he dead? I just saw him suddenly come out of thin air! He's also become a ghost? ”

"It's just an invisible prop, Myrtle, Harry's alive and well—" Brandi replied angrily, as he lowered his head to study a tile. "Of course, it's much more convenient for ghosts than if we need to use props to become invisible. Harry, what do you see? ”

If it weren't for the spell, the pool looked so ordinary, so ordinary that they examined it inside and out, up and down, and couldn't find anything out of it. There were no spells, no buttons to touch, and if nothing out of the ordinary, it was probably a small snake carved into the side of one of the faucets.

However, whether it was Ahora opening or tapping on it with a wand, the faucet did not respond.

"Maybe you'll try Parseltongue?" Ron was behind him with advice. "Can you tell?"

"Hmm...... I feel hanging. Harry frowned in embarrassment, racking his brains to imagine that the dragon's head was a real snake on it. But he had only spoken to the snake once last year before he went to school...... It's really hard to grasp that feeling-

"Open." He said.

"No, Harry, you're talking about people." Ron shook his head. "Maybe you can imagine yourself as a snake too? The kind that spits on the letter? ”

"Don't think of yourself as a human being, maybe you can say it." Brandi said.

Harry rolled his eyes and turned his head away, not knowing what he was thinking, this time when Brandi saw him shaking his head slightly. Then he stuck his tongue out.

"Am I speaking human language now?" He muttered inarticulately.

………… Several people present were covered with black lines.

"Hey, why do you have to look at that snake?" At this time, Brandi suddenly had a flash of inspiration. He pulled out his wand and pointed to the clearing next to him. "Oolong out of the hole!"

Brandy's wand let out a dull explosion, and a large black phantom shot out of his wand, which rolled and twisted in mid-air, and when it fell to the ground, it had turned into a giant python more than twenty feet long. It looked up and stared in Harry's direction......

"Hey, the guy you summoned is too far behind Malfoy!" Harry's face turned pale with fright, and he hurried.

Who would have thought that the three people and a ghost next to him would ignore him, as if they hadn't heard what he just said.

Harry was stunned for a moment, and then he reacted, I don't know if he was scared out of this big python, he was actually making a strange hissing sound now. So he quickly woke up and forced himself to look into the fierce eyes of the giant python.

"Open."

Suddenly, the dragon's head emitted a dazzling white light and began to rotate rapidly. They squinted their eyes nervously as the pool in front of them sank and disappeared from their sight.

What was revealed was a very thick pipe, large enough for even a person to get into.

"It's finished." Ron behind him gasped and said slowly. "Sure enough, what Dad said is right, people are forced out."

Brandi waved his wand away the magical python, and he approached the hose step by step, cautiously peering inside the edge. There was a black rumbling, and a fluorescent spell was fired into the pipe, but it was slowly lost in sight all the way down.

"Hmm...... It's deep, maybe even deeper than last year's trapdoor. Brandi withdrew his wand and said solemnly. What are you going to do? ”

Harry turned his head and looked at Ron. They noticed each other's eyes, which were obviously timid but unwilling to flinch.

A moment of silence.

"Let's go down together." Ron said, "You can't use my wand to card me this time, I can use Lockhart's wand." He stretched out his hand and shook the ornate wand in his hand triumphantly. In the past two months, I feel that my magic has grown a little, and I can help a little bit. ”

"It's going to help me a lot," Brandi grinned, "I do have some things to set up, and I can't do it alone." However, if you are along, then Professor Lockhart ......"

His words hesitated, and the three of them looked at each other in unison.

Lockhart's face was terrified. At this time, his face looked even more ghost-like than Myrtle's.

"As you said before," he said in a panic, "I just need to help you get here, and you don't have to go into the secret room!" And...... I don't have a wand, so what's the use? ”

"Don't get excited, Professor. I didn't say you were going to go into the secret room. To be reasonable, even if you slide down the pipe now, you probably won't just slide straight into the secret room. Brandi pouted impatiently, "But with your own publicity, the whole school probably knows about you running into the secret room and fighting the basilisk - what do you think if you go out of the bathroom at this time, or if some professor walks in and finds that the hero who is supposed to be fighting to the death is actually here bored and chatting with myrtle?" ”

"You're threatening me!" Lockhart said angrily.

"But it's your own doing!"

Lockhart was stunned by the roar.

"Who boasted that he knew the secret room when he met someone, and who said that he could successfully solve this basilisk injury incident? You have gained the respect and respect of the whole school, but what is the result? Brandi's tone was aggressive, "It's all an outright lie!" You have betrayed everyone's trust in you. That's the price you're about to pay...... Discredited, Professor. ”

As if all the strength of his body had been drained, Lockhart leaned limply against the wall, lost in despair.

"Don't do that, Barton." He said weakly, staring at the three students who were staring at him with disdain. "I just want to be famous, I want my books to sell well...... I want to be an admired hero. This is a wish I have had since I was a student. ”

"But the hero is the professor who pays the price! You've stolen so many heroic stories from others that you don't understand a little bit of the consciousness that they sacrificed when they made up their minds to put their lives at risk? For some reason, the first thing that came to Brandi's mind was Neville who had been captured in the secret room.

The 'coward' who has been holding back his patience and fear in order not to hurt others, huddled alone in a dark hospital room.

Brandi's mood suddenly fell, time was running out, and he wasn't going to say anything more. "Do you want to be a coward for the rest of your life, or do you want to be a hero with us, even if it's only for a few minutes! Think about it yourself......"

With that, he flicked his wand and mercilessly dropped the big spider at the doorway down the pipe. Then, he nodded to Harry and Ron, and the three of them divided the props that Randy had brought, held them in their arms, and jumped down one by one.

So in the room, only Myrtle and Lockhart were left in a daze.

"Hey, you. Ever think Brandi is just so handsome? ”

Lockhart came back to his senses in bewilderment, and he looked blankly at Myrtle, noticing the reflection of light behind the lenses of her glasses, which were as thick as the bottom of a bottle.

……………………

If the pipes were to be compared to slides, then Brandi and the others were probably sliding down a slide covered in dirt and mud. They fell almost straight down for a few seconds before they jerked and began to descend down a slope - Brandi cast a night vision spell, and he was surprised to find that the pipe seemed to be connected to the entire castle's sewer system. Countless similar pipes were connected to the one they were on, branching out in all directions, but none of them were as thick as this one. It looks like it was built specifically for the basilisk to move around the castle......

I really don't know where those branches will go.

He thought so, and then suddenly noticed that the slope of the pipe seemed to start to gradually flatten out, and he understood that it seemed to be about to reach its destination. Harry and Ron were shouting loudly behind him, apparently noticing this.

He suddenly landed on the wet ground, and then quickly rolled on a lazy donkey, moving Ron and Harry out of the driver's seat - the two of them fell to the ground one after the other, and Harry pressed on top of Ron.

"It's disgusting." Brandi scrambled to his feet, looking at his sticky robe in disgust. "When this incident is over, I will definitely buy a new one from Madame Morkin."

"You should be glad this pipe is not a sewer pipe." Ron grinned at Harry's feet, "Otherwise, you're probably going to throw yourself away for your cleanliness fetish—Harry!" How long are you going to press me, you must have gained weight! ”