Chapter 40: Shock

Listening to Baron William's request, Ning An readily agreed, and he briefly recounted what Voldemort had done, his achievements in magic, and the terrifying horrors he had created.

"So, Mr. William, Voldemort is not so easy to die, and he is always waiting for the opportunity to come back, I advise you to continue to live incognito."

Ning An looked at the baron who seemed to be a few years older suddenly, and he was also a little sad, how many tragedies Voldemort had caused.

"Living incognito?" Baron William leaned limply on the sofa, his eyes glazed off, and muttered:

"Ten more years to live? And then died in obscurity in this room? ”

Seeing that he suddenly lost his anger and became extremely depressed, and the three of them didn't know what to say, Daphne squeezed Ning An, as if to say, "Leave him alone for now, we're here to find notes." ”

Ning An understood what she meant, so he coughed and asked, "Hmm... Excuse me, Mr. Baron, about the notes..."

"Of course I don't know where he hid his notebook." The old baron said listlessly:

"However, if you can't find the whole house, then I think you can go to the basement."

"But I didn't find a basement on the first floor!" Daphne said puzzled.

"It's a secret room, you'll need to turn around the golden bat on the bookshelf."

Hearing this, the eyes of the three of them lit up, and as soon as they discussed with each other, they decided to go and find the notes first.

"Thank you for your help... Baron, we—" Ning An stood up

"Don't worry, it's just a deal of information - powerful magic is useless to an old man with only ten years to live, go ahead..."William was still in a depressed mood.

The three of them didn't say much, and after bowing slightly, they stepped over the ghoul who had passed out on the ground and went all the way to the first floor.

Daphne led them soon to a row of tall wooden bookshelves.

"I can't believe it, it's like a library." Caridora exclaimed.

"It's really convenient to use such a large bookshelf to hide a door." Ning An also understood why there was such a row of tall bookshelves here.

Just then, Daphne's shouts were heard from ahead

"Come! I found it! ”

The two of them hurriedly ran forward, following the fluorescent light on the wand, and saw Daphne standing not far in front of them, on the penultimate row of small bookshelves, caressing a very delicate golden little bat statue.

"Looks like that's it?"

Ning An said and motioned for Daphne to turn the statue, who nodded. As Daphne slowly turned, the row of small bookshelves to their left made a heavy grinding sound, and then moved backwards as if pulled by a huge force, revealing a dark entrance.

"I didn't expect vampires to use these little Muggle traps."

"Maybe it's because the house was Muggle-made." Ning An said casually: "I'll go ahead, follow me one by one, let's be careful." ”

With that, he dived into the darkness, looking impatient for the magic notes that were about to arrive.

Daphne and Calidora glanced at each other with some concern, and followed into the dark underground chamber.

It is a dark chamber that leads down the staircase to the chamber through a narrow stone staircase with strange symbols and patterns engraved on both sides of the walls.

After Daphne and Carly walked up the stairs, they saw Ning An standing in the middle of the secret room.

The interior of the chamber was surprisingly spacious, and unlike the outside room, it was almost spotless, as if someone had cast a permanent cleaning spell here.

Leaning against the wall stood a row of large bookshelves that were longer and taller than the ones outside, densely packed with all kinds of books.

Under the bookshelf was a long table, and Daphne and Caridora stepped forward, and in the light of the light they saw brass candlesticks, quill pens everywhere, and scattered papers and books all over the table.

"Looks like we've got it? - You two be careful—"

Ning An frowned and admonished, for some reason, when he stepped into this room, he had an inexplicable chill and a bad premonition.

And this premonition, just when he entered this secret room just now, was even more serious, his back was already soaked in cold sweat, and now what Ning An wanted to do was to quickly find the damn note, and then leave here.

The three of them split up and began to look for Voldemort's notes on the long table, but the long table was too long, and the notes on the table were simply innumerable, but most of them were about inconsequential things, and many were written by Muggles at all. Voldemort's manuscripts are pitifully scarce.

"It seems that Voldemort was deliberately obscuring the situation here."

Ning An thought silently, for some reason, the longer the time had passed since just now, the stronger the bad premonition in his heart became, until now, it had shrouded his heart like a shadow.

"Look again... Look again... Voldemort's Notes - Probably some powerful magic. This premonition seemed to urge him to leave, but Ning An forced down his uneasiness, and the desire for magic overwhelmingly occupied the upper part of his mind.

While he was anxiously searching, Calidora made a discovery, and she saw on the table a book that was completely different from the other books and notes.

It was a pure black notebook, with a terrifying skull drawn on the cover, and a long python sticking out of its mouth like a skull's head.

"Dark mark?"

Caridora muttered to herself, "It seems that Voldemort had the idea of the Dark Mark back then, could it be that this was his earliest application of the Dark Mark mark?" ”

Thinking like this, she slowly picked up the notebook, and the black mark on it suddenly lit up as if she sensed that she had been touched.

Calydora gently rubbed the cover of the notebook, she didn't know what was wrong, she felt that she was a little strange today, at this time she suddenly wanted to open the notebook and read the magic on it, as if there was a voice in her heart tempting

"Open it, open it, there's the most powerful magic in it—it will allow you to surpass anyone else—accomplish all your heart's desires—"

Enchanted in her heart, Calydora moved her index finger lightly, and her slender white fingers slowly touched the edge of the book, picked a page, and turned it like this.

"Bang-" A green light lit up in the chamber without warning, and in an instant, the entire chamber was illuminated. No one had time to react, and the dazzling green light shone directly into her chest in the notebook that Caridora was holding.

"No ——!" Ning An raised his head the moment the green light flashed, and what he witnessed was the scene where Carly was hit, he only felt that his heart had stopped, and he could only shout this sentence loudly and weakly after draining all his strength

"N-Carly!"

The notebook fell to the floor, and the pages closed as if they had never been opened. There was also a girl in a pleated dress who fell to the ground together, she fell heavily on the cold ground like a yellow leaf flying with the wind and finally falling to the ground, and the beautiful silver earrings on her earlobes made a crisp sound under the impact of the ground.

"No, no, don't—Carly!" Ning An used the fastest speed he could to pounce in front of Calidora, he picked up the girl, put her in his arms, and called softly

"Carly, wake up, Carly—wake up! Calidora—oh my God—wake up—"

Daphne also ran over, and she fell to her knees, her eyes lost and she watched it all in disbelief

"Carly—Carly?"

Stretched his hand under the girl's small Qiong nose, and could no longer feel the slightest breath, the disappeared breath, and the heart that no longer beating, seemed to be telling Ning An something, as if there were ten thousand little goblins laughing and singing in his ear

"She's dead - she's dead - you killed her - murderer - killed a good friend!"

"It's alright, it's alright, it's just a normal curse... Or a curse or something - it will heal you soon - soon. Ning An took out his wand

"Recover!"

"Recover!"

"Stop!" In vain the spell is cast.

Daphne's face was already full of tears, she couldn't accept such a sudden fact, she cried and hugged Ning An, who seemed to be in a state of madness

"No, don't, Ning'an—that's the curse of death—you know—don't do that—"

Daphne cried bitterly, and Ning An seemed to have lost his hearing, and he muttered again

"It's okay, I'm good at potions, Carly, I'll make potions, and the little wounds will make it go away quickly - wait, wait for me, I'll find some materials." His eyes were blank, and as he spoke, he was about to get up and look for ingredients to make potions.

But she was pulled by Daphne, the girl had already cried into tears, she pulled Ning An with tears on her face, and said with a choked voice:

"Don't do that—I beg you, Ning'an—Daphne is dead, she's not a vampire, she can't be reborn—she's dead, Ning'an!"

"Callidora—dead?" Ning An collapsed to the ground in a daze, her pupils losing all their color

"Calidora—dead? To help me find those damn dark magic - dead? He muttered over and over again, as if he had fallen into a stupor.

"Are your parents wizards?" The girl asked haughtily.

"Humph!" The girl in the hallway walked away disdainfully, but it was a lonely back.

"You-you are-nosy." The girl blushed and ran away with tears in her eyes.

As the image in his mind played like a slideshow, Ning An felt that his life was beginning to turn backwards, he had been alone in his life as an orphan, and he met his best friends at Hogwarts, Caridora and Daphne.

"Good morning, Ning'an," Calidora's usual familiar greeting sounded.

"You can come to my house if you need to."

"The Shafiq family is about to disappear..."

"Thank you, Ning An—"

Ning An felt that he had lost all the strength in his body, including thinking, and the oxygen he inhaled burned his internal organs like a burning knife, and every second of time passed so clearly and painfully.

His consciousness seemed to be blurring, resisting the reality he could not accept

"Callidora—dead?"