Chapter Eighty-Nine: Accidental Collision
Ning An and Pani pushed open the glittering golden door.
"This can't be the legendary Philosopher's Stone, right?"
Pani said, pointing to a palm-sized stone that shimmered red on the wall.
It was a secret room not much different from the outside, except that on the front wall, a picture of the stars holding the moon was painted in color, and a ruby was set in the position of the "moon".
"No way, the Philosopher's Stone has been destroyed before-"
Ning An slowly stepped forward, the Philosopher's Stone was destroyed by Dumbledore when he was in his first year, so this one would never be a Philosopher's Stone.
"Shall we ...... What should I do? Pani tilted his head with a confused expression, "I mean...... Should we cut it off? ”
Ning An walked around the room, it was empty and there was nothing except the front wall, he finally came to the wall, stared at the gem and said slowly:
"Looks like we really need to take it down-"
The gem was a bit tall, and Ning An and Pani alone couldn't reach it.
"Come, you hold me a little-" Ning An beckoned Pani to come under the wall together, and Pani squatted down without hesitation, put Ning An on his shoulder, and then slowly got up.
"Can you get there?"
"A little higher—" Ning An stretched out his hand, and the tips of his fingers could almost touch the stone.
Parney's bent knees straightened slightly, and Ning An raised a few centimeters more, his fingers touching a cold, cold stone.
"I've got it."
Before Ning An finished speaking, he only felt as if he was hooked by a hook behind his navel, and then the hook was pulled violently - Ning An left his feet on the ground and flew up.
He felt Parney fly as well, and both of them were defenseless, and their shoulders bumped together in a painful cry of "oh".
The stone seemed to have a magnetic force, firmly grasping the tips of Ning An's fingers, and flew forward with him and Pani like a gust of wind, strange to say, they were obviously in the secret room, where did they come from for them to fly?
Ning An couldn't see the surrounding scene clearly, as if everything was going crazy backwards, and finally-
His feet slammed into something solid, hard, and it took him a few seconds before he realized that he was standing on the ground, and Pani didn't stand firm, and he fell, next to Ning An.
There was a crisp "pop", and the red stone fell to the ground, rolled in the grass a few times, and stopped.
Ning An began to look around.
It was a jungle full of birds and flowers, with grass at their feet, and the sun overhead was shaded by towering trees, and Ning An thought that they might have moved away from Paris, because when they first entered the catacombs, the weather was not as sunny as it is now.
It didn't look like the rain was going to end at all.
"Is that a portkey?"
Parney shook his head and got up from the ground, this time the fall was quite heavy, he rubbed his waist, as if he had accidentally twisted it, while holding his wand in one hand, looking around warily.
"Hmm-" Ning An nodded, there was no doubt that it was a portkey, a Yunick? The portkey made by Lemay took them somewhere.
He checked the things on his body, the bag containing Sephant, and the box around his waist were still there, Ning An felt more and more inconvenient about this handbag, and he was considering changing places for the snake to live.
"Look, there's a house there—"
Pani suddenly pointed forward, and Ning An looked over, only to see that behind the shade of a green tree, there seemed to be a small house, which was faintly visible in the shade of bushes.
"Let's take a look, be careful."
Ning An cast a disillusionment spell on himself and Pani, and cautiously leaned towards the small house, which was too strange to them, Nick? Whether Lemay is friend or foe is not yet known, but it is always right to be careful.
The two men walked all the way through the shade of the trees scattered by the sunlight, and the green grass was trampled and bent by them, and finally came to an old log cabin.
The windows of the wooden house are still made of butter paper, it is really a few years, Ning An beckoned Pani to step forward slightly, and listened attentively, the room was very quiet, not like someone was there.
"I'll go in, you're hiding behind-"
Ning An whispered to Pani, and without waiting for the latter to object, he lifted the illusion spell and quietly came to the main entrance of the wooden house.
Pressed his wand against the door, with a slight force, "squeak", the door was pushed open, and there was no dust as Ning An expected, it seemed that there were people living here not long ago.
The room was neat and clean, with tables and chairs made of cypress in an orderly manner, sunlight streaming in through the paper windows, dyeing everything golden yellow, and an unknown fragrance in the air.
Ning An slowly came to the wooden table in the center of the room, which seemed to be a desk, with some strange bottles and cans on it, as well as many books and documents stacked on top of each other, as if the owner of this place had left too hurriedly to sort it out, and it seemed that it had just been left on purpose.
Ning An skipped the utensils he didn't understand, picked up a book spread out on the table, and read it carefully.
"Dumbledore has sent us a letter telling us that the Philosopher's Stone has been destroyed. Perenal and I didn't feel bad, life went on as usual, in fact, after so many years of living, we have long understood that the meaning of life is precisely that when you should lose, you have to lose. ”
The pale blue ink had long since dried, it was a diary, and judging by the above account, its owner seemed to be the mysterious alchemist, Nick? Lemay.
Ning An took the diary and walked around the house for another week, and after making sure that there was no one around, he beckoned Pani out.
"This is Nick? Lemay's house? ”
After hearing Ning An say that he was holding Nicola May's diary, Pani immediately asked, and Ning An felt that his guess was not far from ten.
"It should be, you might as well find out if there is anything similar to the elixir of life."
Ning An said and sat down in a chair and turned another page of his diary, where he planned to find out if there were any clues.
Each page of the diary has seven or eight lines, and as few as three or two lines, and each of them recounts the life of Nicolame, the master alchemist.
Aside from the many references in the diary that he and "Perenal" quarreled over trivial matters, such as who didn't water the flowers, or who forgot to clean up the slugs under the bed, there was basically nothing special.
Ning An simply turned to the last page, only to see that it was written:
"Perenal used astrology again, and he said that we would die tonight, and although there was still the elixir left, since she had predicted the end of our lives, it was not impossible to follow the dictates of fate.
Even though she is not a professional in caring for Mibu Mibao, she is still a prophet I trust. ”
Ning An was both strange and puzzled when he saw this, this is the last page of the diary, I don't know if it was written recently, could it be that the Nick Lemay couple are dead?
The lady who is called "Perenal" in her diary must be Nick's wife, and although the diary says that she predicted the death of the two, were they really dead?
Just when Ning An was puzzled, Pani suddenly shouted
"Oh my God, Ning An, come and see-"
Ning An put down the diary, followed the sound to the innermost room, the door was open, Pani was squatting in the corner, he heard the footsteps he turned around, raised a glass bottle in his hand and shook it, the purple liquid in it swayed back and forth, but it did not disperse, Pani said happily and loudly:
"See what I found?"
"What is this?"
Ning An stepped forward, took the bottle in Pani's hand, and then looked in front of him, in a large wooden box, there were several identical glass bottles.
"I think it's probably what we're looking for." Pani said mysteriously, "My instincts tell me yes. ”
Ning An took the glass bottle, gently lifted the cork at the mouth of the bottle, put his nose up and smelled it, and a fresh breath came to his nose, like the fragrance of flowers in the morning.
"How's your potion level?" Ning An looked at Pani and asked softly.
"The potions and herbalists in the . are all O-" Pani shrugged his shoulders and continued: ".. I haven't had time to take the exam yet—"
Ning An nodded, O stands for excellent, it is the best result, it seems that Pani's results are very good.
"Then if it's poison at this time, I think you should be able to make an antidote."
"Ahh
Before Pani could finish speaking, Ning An had already tilted his neck and took a sip of the purple liquid in the bottle.
"But as far as I can tell, it's unlikely to be poison."
Ning An chirped, licked his tongue and said, he just asked casually, the possibility that this bottle of potion is poison is really not very large.
In less than half a minute, Ning An felt a fiery touch spread all over his body, as if magma was swimming in every vein in his body, his brain became extremely clear, and the majestic vitality was about to gush out of his stomach, penetrating his limbs and hundreds of remains.
"I think you guessed it."
He turned his head and smiled at the sad face of Pani, and then, despite Pani's bitter words, he untied the small box around his waist that contained Calidora's ice coffin, which he had expanded with the Traceless Stretching Charm, and the space inside was the size of a room.
Ning An put the bottle back into the wooden box, closed the lid, moved the whole wooden box to the box, and put it in a dark corner, then he thought about it, turned around and came outside the house, and put the bag containing the sleeping Sephant and the stone statue into the box as well.
Then he closed the box and hung it on his waist.
"Let's go—"
It didn't make much sense to stay here after getting the elixir, he had other things to do.
Pani patted the dust off his body, stood up and followed him out of the door, looked around at the dense forest, and asked in a daze:
"Where do we go next?"
"Let's get out of here first, we're not even sure which country we're in right now."
Who would have thought that this trip would be two days and two nights, Ning An hated them for not bringing the flying broom into the tomb, if it weren't for the fact that the surrounding tree species really didn't look like a tropical rainforest, Ning An would even suspect that they were teleported to the Amazon by the portkey.
Fortunately, the tree fruits in the forest were growing well, and they could pick some fruit along the way to quench their thirst, but this thing was really not enough to fill their stomachs, and just as Ning An began to consider risking splitting and forcibly using apparition at an unknown distance, they saw the figure of the town appearing outside the woods.
By this time, two full days and nights had passed.
Fortunately, this is a Muggle village, and after filling his stomach in the town through the confusion charm, Ning An was a little dumbfounded, and the fat English aunt told the two in a native English that Ning An couldn't quite understand: "This is Devon." ”
Affection Nick Lemay really lived in seclusion in Devon in his later years, and they ran away for two days and two nights, and they were actually in England for half a day.
"On the bright side, at least we weren't really transported to Amazon—"
Walking the streets of the town at night, Pani tries to comfort Ning An
"Besides, we saved a lot of effort, and it was much easier to get back from Paris to London."
Ning An nodded sullenly, he wasn't really angry about it, it's just that he really suffered a lot in the past two days.
"How much money do you have on you, Pani?"
He asked, rummaging through his pockets, after killing Martin and Allen before, they had scavenged both Garon and Sico.
"What? Pound sterling? Or—"
"Garon, thank you—"
"Oh, I'll count—" Parney took out his money and counted it, "Sixteen, and I have sixteen Galleons here." ”
Ning An glanced at the gold and silver flashes on his palm, and there seemed to be some Xike, and muttered, "Enough"
With his backhand, he clasped a mask behind his head and put it on, then pulled out his wand and held it high above his head, a faint glow from the wand at the same time.
"I'm tired and don't want to walk."
Ning An muttered, and after a while, there was a deafening "boom" sound in the air.
The dizzying glare hit Ning An and Pani's eyes, and at the same time, a violent braking sound sounded, and when the two of them recovered from the light, a purple three-story bus was already parked in front of them.
On the windows of the car there are gold letters that make up the words: Knight Bus.
Pani smiled bitterly, no wonder Ning An asked how much money he still had, it turned out that he wanted to take the bus.
The car door opened, and a boy of no more than eighteen or nineteen years old jumped out of the car and shouted enthusiastically:
"Welcome to the Knight Bus, this is an emergency passenger for witches and witches in distress, I'm the conductor tonight, my name is Stan? Sampark. ”
Stan clasped his hands together, his big ears behind his head, and looked at Ning An and Pani with a smile, as if he was interested in Ning An's mask, but Ning An spoke before he could speak.
"How much does it cost to go to Tumbledown Alley."
"Uh—that's a little far from here, five silver sicols for a galleon, and if you pay three more you'll get chocolate, and if you pay four more you'll get a thermos and a toothbrush, you name it."
Ning An looked at him for a while and gritted his teeth
"I want hot water and chocolates, it's done—" After saying that, he flashed and got into the car.
Stan looks at Pani with scrutinizing eyes, but Pani's appearance has changed a lot over the years, and he is not easily recognizable when he takes off his glasses.
He smiled and said softly, "Then I'll choose the latter one too, and leave me a brown toothbrush." As he spoke, he also followed Ning An and got into the car, and when he came out of the jungle, he was also tired.
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