Chapter 41: The Haze
96049 The pouring rain blurred the distance between heaven and earth, and the rain hit the window eaves one after another, and then fell to the ground like pearls, making a "whoosh" sound that covered the sky.
Daphne stood by the door of Shafiq's old house, frowning, and quietly watched the rain that had been the heaviest she had seen since the beginning of summer.
Caridora died, killed by a curse in a notebook left behind by Voldemort, and Daphne had never heard of such a vicious curse, sealing the killing curse in the book, killing the first person to open it.
On that day, after Calidora fell, Baron William hurried downstairs and witnessed what had happened, but they didn't have time to pay attention to him, and let him shout something like "Voldemort - common enemy - kill him".
They hurried back to Shafiq's old house with Calydora in their arms, and Sarah, who had heard the bad news, attacked them in a frenzy. was knocked unconscious by Ning An with magic.
They waited and called in all their ways, but all in vain, as expected, Calydora died, and from the moment she fell, her life was gone.
"Whew-"
Daphne let out a heavy breath, but her chest was still oppressively uncomfortable. She wanted to come out and breathe, but for some reason she felt even heavier when she looked at the uncontrollable rainstorm.
The two held a small funeral in the backyard of the Shafiq family, attended only by Sarah and Friga, and to Daphne's upset, at the funeral Friga let out a desolate, mournful chirp, and Sarah cried in the dark, slamming her head against the wall and punishing herself.
Only Ning An, not a single tear flowed, he just opened the coffin and closed the coffin, and Daphne only caught a glimpse of a smile when Ning An caressed Kalidora's cheek.
Since that day, Ning An has completely changed as a person. He began to become silent and gloomy, and sometimes Daphne could feel the chill emanating from him as she sat next to him.
He rarely showed his face, and his expression began to become blank and gloomy, and he was often secretly busy with something. This was overwhelming and painful for Daphne, who felt as if she had lost two best friends, two best friends, all at once.
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Ning An sat quietly on a chair in the study alone. Gently flipping through the book in front of him. After the funeral, Sarah never cleaned her room again, but sometimes appeared in the hallway distracted, muttering
"The Shafiq family is gone, Salad hasn't taken care of the little master, and there is no more Shafiq......" or something like that.
But instead of driving Ning An and Daphne away, he ignored them even more.
Ning An felt that his heart was extremely calm at this time, and even the irritating rainstorm outside the window made an incessant "crackling" sound, and he couldn't stir it in the slightest.
All the emotions of sadness, anger, self-blame, numbness, pain, etc., used up all his energy every day in the past days.
Because of his pursuit, because of his pursuit of black magic, he cost his best friend's life.
Ning An was a little interested, even if he put the most powerful, terrifying, and terrifying magic in the world in front of Ning An now, if it couldn't resurrect Calidora, he would feel unhappy.
Recalling his past pursuit, the strongest magician, the deepest magic, Ning An suddenly felt like a joke.
What exactly does the thing he pursues bring him for the sake of these lost best friends?
As for Voldemort and the vicious curses he made, the insidious lies, the calculations and deceptions, that was another matter, Ning An hated Voldemort, but he hated himself even more.
During this time, he lost his way, lost his pursuit, and even lost himself, wishing that he was the one who died, but he didn't have to endure such half-dead pain.
Life suddenly has no purpose, and Ning An doesn't know if learning magic still makes sense to him, because he knows that it can't make up for the sadness of losing his best friend.
However, it wasn't until he remembered something that Ning An seemed to come back to life.
"Resurrection Stone!"
He remembered the deathly holy artifact by chance in the midst of great sorrow. If there is one thing in this world that can make him pick up his life again, it must be the resurrection of Calidora.
And the greatest, and almost the only hope, of the resurrection of Caridora must be pinned on the resurrection stone.
Of course, Ning An knows that the resurrection stone can't really resurrect the dead, even if she is resurrected, she is not the person you originally wanted, she may not be happy at all, because she is no longer a person who does not belong to this world.
But Nimman had no choice but to resurrect Calidora, his only wish now, and it began to become the meaning of his life again.
So Ning An began to search for all the news about the Resurrection Stone, although he knew that the Resurrection Stone was embedded in Voldemort's grandfather, Marvolo? Gaunt's ring, but he knew that the ring alone could not truly resurrect Calidora.
He needed information, he needed to gather all the information he could about the Resurrection Stone. He searched the Shafiq family's collection of books, but found nothing.
Just as he was thinking about whether to go back to the forbidden section of Hogwarts and look up the Resurrection Stone. Ning An thought of another place, which also had an innumerable collection of booksβthe basement of Ralph's old house.
Ning An returned there, but this time William? Ralph? Baron Lesembra personally opened the door for him.
"I guessed you'd come backβ" he said in an expected tone.
"Well, are you going to accept my suggestion and form an alliance with me?"
"Go away."
However, Ning An only moved his lips slightly, and spit out two words without doubt, and at the same time gently pulled out his wand and began to condense his magic power, and it seemed that the next moment, he could start killing without care.
Baron William was shocked by his coldness, the baron had no doubt that if he said more nonsense at this time, a powerful curse would come, and he felt the determination in the heart of the wizard on the other side so clearly that he involuntarily flashed to the side.
Ning An walked into the house, which seemed to have been cleaned up a little, and was no longer as dirty as the last time he came. He walked straight to a row of bookshelves, to the shelves with the small golden bat statues, the secret passage to the basement had not yet been locked.
Ning An walked down without hesitation.
The sound of footsteps echoed across the stone steps, echoing through the narrow passages. Ning An seemed to be brought to that day again, and Calidora's gentle body fell in the green light.
But all this could not shake Ning An's mind at all, just a few days ago, Ning An's brain occlusion technique was practiced, as if he had suddenly practiced it after he had exhausted his energy, used up all his feelings, and suffered the most terrifying pain and cannibalization of his soul.
Maybe in the past, this was an achievement worthy of Ning An's excitement, but ironically, now his heart is not excited at all, which may be in line with the principle of brain closure, but it also makes people feel embarrassed, Ning An first found what he once longed for, and sometimes after getting his hands, it would be so worthless.
These illusions in the secret room could not be invaded at all, they quickly dissipated like flying smoke, and Ning An walked up the stairs, and the secret room was still the same secret room.
Lighting up his wand, he began to search for books on the shelves, and each time he picked up a book, he would carefully cast an identification magic, but Ning An knew that generally cursed things would first tempt people, and what he did was just insurance.
Just when Ning An thought he was going to look for a long time, an inconspicuous title attracted him, it was inserted in an inconspicuous corner of the shelf, it seemed that the owner of the book did not think it was a useful book, and the title displayed on the side of the book also seemed to be full of children's book meaning.
"The Story of the Poet Pidou" Ning An's eyes lit up, and he stretched out his hand to pull it down, he remembered that it was the story of three brothers in this book, which recorded the origin of the Deathly Hallows.
But is this a manuscript or an original? Ning An thought, looking at the clean and smooth appearance of this cover, it didn't look like a book that was very old.
In any case, after he cast the magic, he flipped through it casually, and as he imagined, the content was indeed the story written by the poet Bedou, "The Wizard and the Jumping Pot", "The Fountain of Good Luck", "The Witch's Hairy Heart", and "Babbitty and the Stump" These four are all very allegorical stories.
Ning An swept it slightly, and directly overturned the fifth story "The Legend of the Three Brothers", this story was no different from what he knew, the Grim Reaper gave the three brothers respectively, the old wand, the resurrection stone, and the invisibility cloak. The three brothers also embarked on different destinies.
Ning An was a little disappointed, he already knew these stories, so it didn't seem to help him much. However, just as he was about to close the book, he was surprised to find that there were still a few pages left after the end of the fifth story.
"Huh?" Surprised, he gently turned the page again, only to see that it was also full of words, and the title was
- The sixth story, a door
"What do you mean? How can there be an extra story? β
Ning An felt strange and at the same time, his heart was slightly rippling, what news could this collection of stories that was different from his impression bring him.
He read it patiently, only to see that the story called "A Door" reads
In a small mountain village where wild flowers bloom, there lives a pair of lovers who love each other so much that they are willing to give their lives for each other.
One day, the Grim Reaper passed by this village, and he heard that there lived a couple of lovers who were willing to give their lives for each other, which made him very disdainful, so he found the girl among his lovers and said to her: Your lover is about to die, and I have come to take him, but if you are willing to go with me instead of him, then I can let him go first this time.
The Grim Reaper was confidently ready to appreciate the girl's betrayal, but the girl firmly said to him, "Please take me, but please keep your promise and don't hurt him." β
When the Grim Reaper saw that the girl could give her life for her lover, he was angry and took the girl's life, but because of his promise that he could not take the boy away, he could only leave with the girl's soul.
When the boy returns home, he finds his lover dead and grief-stricken. So he went to the oak tree by the side of the road, ready to commit suicide.
At this moment, an old man with silver hair walked up, and the old man told the boy that he was an angel and was moved by the boy's sincere love, so he decided to help the boy.
Then the old man gave him a stone and told him that it was an resurrection stone, and that as long as he carried the resurrection stone, he could pass through the gate of life and death, and he could bring the soul of the dead back to the present world and raise the dead.
So the boy took the resurrection stone and found the door of life and death through many hardships, and he stepped over it firmly.
Since then, no one has heard from them, neither the boy nor the girl, some say that the boy did not pass through the door of life and death, and some say that the boy was left in another world.
Of course, there are also people who say that the boy saved the girl, and they returned to the world together and lived incognito ever since.