Chapter 65: You can't play well with the basilisk without blinding it
The basilisk is the product of incubating a male egg under the body of a toad.
Toads, chickens, and snakes have in common in biology that they belong to the same phylum Chordates, belonging to the class Amphibians, Birds, and Reptiles, and the common ancestor of the evolutionary tree is estimated to date back to before the Triassic. This makes the birth of the basilisk very unscientific, but very magical.
In contrast, the mother duck gives birth to swan eggs and hatches ugly ducklings, and ducks and swans are considered to be birds, geeseformes, and ducks, so it is not surprising that the swan surnamed Wang next door to the duck family led to the birth of ugly ducklings.
It can only be said that the world of magic is really magical.
In the face of such magical magic, male eggs or anything is trivial.
The basilisk blood that Zhang Xu sent back last time, after DNA testing and other scientific research, found that the DNA of the basilisk was highly similar to the DNA of snakes, and it was also found that the characteristics of basilisk's blood were similar to cold-blooded animals.
After learning this information, when making a plan to deal with the basilisk, it was formulated with reference to the method of dealing with the snake.
Don't think about it like realgar, although this is useful for Bai Suzhen, it has no effect on the basilisk. The quicklime powder that Peeves had just taken to paste the basilisk's face was added with realgar, but now it doesn't seem to work.
Tom Riddle immediately destroyed the loudspeakers in the foyer that he thought was the most threatening, and as a result, the stunned bombs thrown by the daredevils he ignored exploded.
Unconscious spells and spells are basically aimed at the soul, and Tom Riddle, who is a soul, naturally fell for it.
The daredevil, who usually went to the lake to catch fish with the Flying Charm, tried to summon Gilderoy Lockhart's body to the ground with the Flying Charm, and it was a success.
Zhang Xu, who had just left the gate of the cafeteria, saw Gilderoy Lockhart who was dragged upside down with his legs, and hurriedly took out a bright yellow rope and threw it at Lockhart, so that the rope automatically tied Lockhart upside down.
This rope is a rope with a similar function made from the gold rope in "Journey to the West", which is specially used to tie people with mana.
Zhang Xu is not afraid that Tom Riddle or Lockhart will be able to untie the rope, because this rope needs to be untied by reciting the right release spell and secret language, and the secret language of this rope is set to Sichuan dialect. If Tom Riddle or Lockhart could speak Sichuanese, Zhang Xu would have to throw in the towel.
Let the bundled Lockhart be moved into the cafeteria, and then let the "all petrified" be made up every once in a while.
After two waves of attacks by Peeves and the daredevils, he was able to shoot the blind basilisk in one eye and capture Gilderoy Lockhart alive, as well as proving that the goggles worked.
Next, all you need to do is shoot the other eye of the blind basilisk, and after removing the biggest source of danger, you can collectively dispatch to slowly grind the basilisk to death.
"Harry, it's our turn." Zhang Xu patted Harry Potter beside him on the shoulder.
Harry, who was wearing goggles, nodded, and followed Zhang Xu towards the foyer.
In order to help Harry Potter brush up on his achievements and reputation, Zhang Xu also tried all kinds of ways.
Naturally, Harry Potter can't be let do it, and it doesn't work if he does it without danger, so he can only find a way to find someone who is not much dangerous for him to show off.
For example, now, there was no one around the basilisk, the two daredevils had taken refuge in the room on the other side of the foyer, and the other students were all in the cafeteria, and only the basilisk was lying on the floor gasping for breath in the foyer.
"Hiss...... Hiss...... Hiss...... Hiss...... Hiss...... Hiss...... Hiss...... Hiss...... Hiss...... Hiss...... Hiss...... Hiss...... Hiss...... ...... hiss" Harry Potter, standing at the corner of the hallway from the foyer to the cafeteria, closed his eyes and imagined himself talking to a snake in his mind.
Zhang Xu guarded Harry Potter beside him, and at the same time, he used a spell to block out the sound and prevent the scene from reaching the cafeteria.
A few months ago, in a chat between Zhang Xu and Harry Potter, Zhang Xu deliberately led the topic and asked Harry to talk about the conversation with a python who wanted to go back to Brazil to find his roots, and helped the python escape.
After the two talked about the python that was presumably feeding fish in the Atlantic Ocean for a long time, Zhang Xu told Harry Potter all the information about the Parseltongue and what it represented, which scared Harry Potter a lot at that time. Later, Zhang Xu asked Harry Potter to keep the matter a secret, and Harry immediately nodded in agreement.
During this operation, Harry approached Zhang Xu, hoping that his Parseltongue could play a role, so Zhang Xu formulated this plan.
Harry kept communicating with the basilisk in a parseltongue voice, leaving the basilisk on its stomach and closing its eyes.
Zhang Xu and Harry are gambling on whether the basilisk will listen to Harry without Tom Riddle on the side.
At this time, Zhang Xu was still in the mood to complain, the basilisk was generally like a snake, but some local details were different from snakes. For example, ordinary snakes have no eyelids and cannot close their eyes, while basilisks have eyelids and can close their eyes.
The attempt failed.
A ghost invited by Zhang Xu to help with the investigation entered the foyer and found the basilisk lying on the floor of the foyer, his head facing the direction of the gate, the basilisk's blind left eye was facing the direction of the cafeteria corridor, and the intact right eye should be staring at the place where the few daredevils disappeared just now on the other side. After reporting the situation to Zhang Xu, the ghost flew towards the opposite side of the hallway, and as soon as he flew through the middle, he turned into a black smoke cloud.
Now the scene is deadlocked.
The basilisk that had just been tossed by the crowing of the rooster was lying in the foyer to regain blood.
And without blinding the basilisk's other eye, no one dared to venture out and attack the basilisk. Although a life can be saved with goggles, being petrified in a frontal battle and losing combat effectiveness is almost like losing a life.
The longer it drags on, the worse it is for the students.
Zhang Xu told Harry to go back to the cafeteria to find a house-elf to come over, while he himself continued to stay in the cafeteria hallway to spy on the basilisk.
Soon, a house-elf appeared next to Zhang Xu, and Zhang Xu wrote a note to the house-elf, asking him to take the note to the school doctor's office to find Madam Pomfrey.
Soon, the house-elf brought with him the same two-way mirror that Madam Pomfrey had used in her office to observe the ward.
Zhang Xu used his wand to control one of the double-way mirrors to float to the corner of the hallway, and then saw the basilisk lying in the hallway through another double-way mirror.
In the two-way mirror, the eyeball in the left eyeframe of the basilisk is gone, and black blood is leaking out.
After complaining that the Pudong semi-suite was gone, Zhang Xu determined the location of the basilisk's head, then took out the last grenade left after the last bombing of the spider from the treasure bag, rushed out of the corridor, and threw it at the other side of the basilisk's head.
Zhang Xu, who threw it away and ran away, hurriedly ran back to the cafeteria.
After the explosion, Zhang Xu took the double-way mirror and saw that the basilisk whose face was injured was rolling in the foyer, and half of the Pudong house on the right side of his face was also blown up.
Then the cafeteria doors reopened, and the "Hogwarts Defenders" chanted "Glory for the Hogwarts!" Rushed to the foyer.