Chapter 51: The Chamber of Secrets II
Passing through the circular iron door and climbing down a rusty escalator, the entire chamber was clearly visible to Harry and Mu Yan as their feet stepped on the white tiled floor.
The long walkway leads to the end of the chamber, flanked by canals that have risen to the same height as the walkway, and the only thing that seems to do so is to separate the row of hideous snake heads on the wall from the hallway.
At the end of the chamber, which seemed to be the site of a secret meeting, the rock wall had been carved into the size of Slytherin's face, and beneath it, the tiles that had long since ceased to be white were neatly paved along the walls to form a small square.
The torches hanging from the walls illuminated the chamber from the inside out, and the only figure in the space that was out of place in the space was clearly displayed in front of Harry.
Ginny's body lay quietly in the small white tiled square, her face pitifully sickly pale, and her insolent red hair spread out on the ground like a burning flame.
The moisture in the air gradually soaked the heavy black wizard robes, wrapping her delicate body layer by layer like a shroud, and from a distance, it looked like a simple funeral was held for her.
"Ginny!" Harry let out a yelling and rushed over.
Mu Yan also hurriedly followed.
The ground had already been invaded by moss, wet and slippery, and Harry managed to run to Ginny's side, so excited that he threw his wand directly in his hand, and then knelt beside Ginny with a puff, nervously checking her injuries.
Seeing Harry casually throw his wand aside, Mu Yan's eyebrows furrowed, and then he threw the wand in his hand and knelt beside Ginny with a pop.
This kneeling happened to be on Harry's wand!
Sizzle-
As if poked in the calf, Mu Yan gasped, bared his teeth and pulled out Harry's wand from under the calf, returning it to Harry.
Harry took his wand and said eagerly to Mu Yan.
"Mu Yan, look at what happened to Jinny, she has so much ice on her!"
Mu Yan nodded, leaned over, opened Jinnie's eyelids with his hand, and carefully examined it with the fluorescent spell in his hand.
They didn't pay attention, and while they were concentrating on checking Ginny's physical condition, an unfamiliar figure appeared behind them silently!
The figure didn't disturb their observations, but gently walked behind the two of them, bent down, and picked up the wand that Mu Yan had dropped on the ground before.
"Are you waiting for her to wake up?" A soft voice came from behind Harry and Mu Yan.
Harry and Mu Yan turned sharply to find a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy standing behind them.
The boy wore the Slytherin badge, tall and thin, his hair and clothes neatly tied, but his face was slightly pale, and he looked like a weak boy next door.
At this time, he was holding a purple-black wand in his hand and examining it carefully.
Harry recognized it at a glance, it was Mu Yan's wand!
"She's not going to wake up." The boy said calmly, as if stating a fact.
"Tom? Tom Riddle! Seeing the boy's face, Harry immediately realized who it was, "Why do you say she won't wake up?" She hasn't ...... yet."
Harry pointed at Ginny, who was feeding her a black, stone-like thing.
"She's still alive, but she's only breathing." Riddle interrupted Harry directly, and he looked directly into Harry's eyes, his gaze as calm as his tone.
Harry could feel the unparalleled confidence that emanated from him, as if he said it would happen, it would happen, and no one could change that fact!
At this point, Harry finally realized that something was wrong.
"Why are you here? Are you a ghost? β
"I'm a memory from a dusty notebook fifty years ago, and you can think of me as a part of that man's soul."
"Okay...... I think we can talk about your story later, but for now we should get Ginny out first, you say, Mu Yan! Harry stared at Riddle and deliberately increased his voice as he uttered his last words, apparently reminding Mu Yan of something, or warning Riddle of something.
Although he was very reluctant to admit in his heart that this soul who had had in-depth communication with him at the beginning, and even opened his memories to him, felt malicious towards them, but his intuition told him that there must be something wrong with this Riddle!
Riddle looked at Harry with interest, as if he didn't understand what he meant.
Harry didn't wait for Mu Yan's assist, only a helpless sigh came from behind him.
Harry felt a pair of hands fall on his shoulders, he knew it was Mu Yan, he was quite familiar with the shape and strength of this hand.
Mu Yan patted Harry on the shoulder and slowly stood up as he supported him.
"I want to too!" Harry didn't look back, but he could still hear the helplessness in Mu Yan's words, "But now it seems that Mr. Riddle won't let us go so easily!" β
A smile crossed Riddle's face.
"Mu Yan! Mu Yan! Mu Yan! He read Mu Yan's name three times in a row, and said in an exclamatory tone, "The most outstanding student in this class!" β
"Ginny often tells me your stories......" Riddle's tone tinged with a hint of weirdness, "it seems like a lot of people think...... You're a lot like me! β
"yes!" Mu Yan also sighed, "You have to go through three applications to enter a forbidden book area, and learning an extracurricular spell will attract the attention of the professors, and if you want to get a reward, you have to be specially tested by the principal...... They really think I'm like you! β
Harry was confused, he didn't understand what they meant.
"Hehehe...... Hahaha......" Riddle let out a low chuckle as he covered his face, and when he put down his hand, his face was gloomy.
"No, you're not like me, not like me at all!"
"How could your inferior talent and filthy bloodline be like me!!" He said angrily, and at the end he roared directly, as if saying that Mu Yan had made him extremely insulted by his appearance.
With his roar, the water surface on the right side fluctuated violently, and the huge basilisk covered in dark black scale armor burst out of the water, setting off a splash of five or six meters high, and the huge golden eyes loomed in the white foam.
However, just as Riddle looked at Harry and Mu Yan, ready to take a closer look at the desperate expressions on their faces, a pair of large hands had already taken over his field of vision!
ββAt the same time that the basilisk came out of the water, Mu Yan, who had been waiting for a long time, suddenly burst out!
In Harry's stunned and Riddle's shocked expression, Mu Yan pressed Riddle's face and rushed towards the exit with a tragic momentum like dragging a broken sack!
Huhuhuhu-
It was the sound of the wide wizard's robes rubbing against the air.
Riddle knew that it was a voice coming from Mu Yan's body, which meant that Mu Yan was now running at a very fast speed.
As a soul body, Riddle's body was almost weightless, and even the flow of air could directly pass through his body, and his existence could not bring any obstacles to his speed!
"How...... What...... Can...... Yes! "The shock was followed by an uncontrollable outrage! Four words popped out of Riddle's clenched teeth one by one.
His hands grabbed Mu Yan's palms, but everything was in vain, the weak strength of his soul body was not enough for him to pull away Mu Yan's hand that was dead on his face!
"How is that possible!" He roared again, no matter what, he couldn't figure it out, Mu Yan could actually touch him with his hands!
He was able to touch the soul body with his physical body!
You know, in the state of the soul body, he is an existence that can almost ignore any physical attack like a ghost!
How could it be so easy to catch it?
It wasn't that he hadn't thought of using spells, but every time he mobilized his spiritual power, there would be a violent fluctuation in Mu Yan's hand, directly disturbing the mental power model that he had not yet constructed.
This power Riddle knows, and is extremely familiar with, it is a spiritual power that no wizard can live without!
It was this power that allowed Mu Yan to touch him, an existence that was already a soul body!
But in this way, Riddle was even more puzzled, Mu Yan had the information that was far beyond ordinary people's spiritual power, and he was not surprised that he could already guess a thing or two through the deeds told by Ginny.
However, why would Mu Yan use such a high-end spiritual power technique?
You know, this kind of technique that can touch ghosts is not something that can be done by simply gathering spiritual power into your hands!
This kind of technique can be regarded as an extremely high-end private skill even in the entire wizarding world! It is impossible to do this without ten or eight years on the road of studying ghosts.
But now, a hairy boy who has only been enrolled for two years has done this so easily!
I don't know how many wizards who study ghosts will be angry when this is said!
Unbeknownst to Riddle, Muyan was able to learn these tricks thanks to the large amount of brain domain research memories provided to him by Lockhart and the petrified ghost body of Sir Nick that the basilisk provided him!
Without the help of the two of them, Mu Yan might not have been able to master this skill by now.
But it doesn't matter anymore, where does Riddle still have the heart to think about these things now, he is already furious to the extreme!
The next moment, a decisive fire burned in his eyes, and a low snake voice roared out of his mouth, like the neighing of thousands of small snakes in unison.
The basilisk who was moving closely with Mu Yan on the side was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and Mu Yan who was running was also stunned for a moment.
Then before the basilisk could make a move, Mu Yan turned around without hesitation, stepped and twisted his waist, made a shot put action, and threw Riddle in his hand at the basilisk hard!
The surrounding scenery quickly receded, and Riddle's body shot at the basilisk in a straight line.
At this time, looking at the big mouth that opened up and got closer and closer to him, no one could understand the feeling of a dog in Riddle's heart.
"You can understand snake language?!"