Chapter 162: Traces
"Could it be that the werewolf killed the unicorn?" Harry asked, and he could see that Hagrid looked anxious.
"It's not going to be so fast," said Hagrid, "it's not easy to catch a unicorn, they're animals with great magic. I've never heard of unicorns being hurt before. ”
Pei Chen, who was on the side, pursed his lips and did not express too many opinions.
Soon, the crowd came to a fork in the road, where they needed to be grouped. There is no doubt that Hermione was in a group with Pei Chen, while Ron and Harry were in a group with Hagrid.
It's already a trouble to take care of a little Lori.,Don't say what's going on.,But there's something to take care of.。 Add a dog, and it's even more troublesome.
"What if the thing that hurt the unicorn finds us first?" Finding that he was really about to enter the depths of the jungle, Ron still couldn't help his fear and asked.
"As long as you're with me or Toothtooth, no creature in the Forbidden Forest will hurt you." Hagrid said, "Don't leave the path. Alright, now we're going to split up and follow the bloodstains in two separate ways. There was blood everywhere, and apparently it had been stumbling around since at least last night. ”
"But what about Hermione?" Harry interjected.
"......" Hagrid was visibly silent for a few moments before he could barely squeeze out the words to answer.
"I just hope that Professor Lyle will take into account the child's thoughts when he is in a group with Hermione, and not hurt the creatures in the Forbidden Forest......"
Harry: "...... "Why is Professor Nirmalaire so domineering?"
"Now, then, let's get ready to go. If one of them finds a unicorn, they will fire a green spark and the other will quickly rush to it. Of course, if you are in trouble, you can fire a red spark and the other party will rush over quickly...... No problem, right? Then we're off to go! ”
The Forbidden Forest was dark and silent.
Pei Chen walked quietly, neither fast nor slow. Although he didn't care about the creatures of the Forbidden Forest and other potential dangers, perhaps because of his style or the influence of the bloodline factor, he always consciously or unconsciously kept himself walking through the darkness, precisely avoiding the soft moonlight projected through the cracks in the woods, and his footsteps did not make the slightest sound when he stepped on the thick fallen leaves.
In this mountain forest, in this darkness, I am the lurker, I am the predator!
Subconsciously, he had such thoughts.
Hermione was in a happy mood, and if it wasn't for the wrong occasion, maybe she would have started singing. She was surprised to find that she did not have the slightest disgust and rejection of such extracurricular labor punishment, but had a faint joy. Anyone has a natural desire and impulse to be adventurous and exciting, but they are blocked by invisible threats and dangers.
And Hermione was crazy with joy when she found out that she was able to explore the Forbidden Forest in great safety, and in her opinion, this was not punishment at all, but the best reward.
"I should have brought a textbook on herbology, and it should be 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,'" the girl lamented, looking around, her little head spinning, "I should have brought a notebook and a quill, and then I could make a note-......"
Pei Chen couldn't help but laugh, and reached out to rub Hermione's hair around: "Hey, hey, I said, did you make a mistake?" We're not here to investigate on the spot, but we have serious things to do, right? ”
“…… All right. Hermione came back to her senses and agreed a little reluctantly, but her eyes still couldn't help wandering around.
The winding path was still littered with specks of unicorn blood, the unicorn's blood was very strange, bright silver, and even after the blood had lost its cell viability after a long time from the living body, it would still turn silver-gray at best, and it would be difficult to coagulate.
The power of magic permeates the creature's bloodline, giving their blood a wonderful power, which can be used not only to prepare high-grade potions, but also to be used in a variety of other ways. In terms of the pure preciousness of the bloodline and the mystery of the power it contains, Pei Chen's snake bloodline, which has only reached 10%, really has a certain gap with the pure-blooded magical creature of unicorns.
At least now, if he wants to extract a little snake blood from himself, he has to consume ten times the amount of his own blood. And unicorns are pure-blooded, and any bloodletting is authentic and pure unicorn blood.
"It seems that it is unlikely that we will run into that injured unicorn......" Squatting down and dipping his fingers in a little silver-gray blood, after careful examination, Pei Chen came to such a conclusion.
"The further we go, the weaker the activity of the cells remaining in the bloodstains becomes, which indicates that we are going in the opposite direction of the goal...... Well, maybe it's time for us to change course and see if we can turn back and join Hagrid. ”
Dada...... As he spoke, a crisp sound of horses' hooves sounded deep in the forest.
Suddenly, Hermione immediately looked at Pei Chen with a look of disbelief, wanting to see how he could explain the sound of horses' hooves.
Pei Chen's face remained unchanged, and he said indifferently: "Why do you think of me like this?" Unicorns are very much like horses, but only 'like'. They usually walk very gracefully and silently, and when they run at a high speed, they are usually avoiding some danger...... If you listen to the sound of hooves, if you don't hurry or slow, it's obviously not dangerous...... And do you think a badly injured unicorn can run? ”
"And what do you say?" Hermione said unconvinced.
"Centaurs!" Pei Chen said with great certainty.
"Centaurs?"
Pei Chen listened to the distant movement of the horse's hooves, and nodded affirmatively: "It should be a horse man, his weight is obviously heavier than that of a unicorn, and his cry is also loud." And Hagrid and I have been in the woods twice, and we've seen him deal with a centaur named Ronan...... Uh, what are you looking at? ”
"Lyle! Look behind you! It's a red spark! Hermione didn't pay attention to what he was saying, just pointed to the sky in a hurry.
Pei Chen looked up behind him, frowned instantly, and didn't say anything.
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"Hagrid! Look! Red sparks, others are in trouble! ”
"You two are waiting here!" Hagrid shouted, "Stay on the path and don't move. I'll come when I go. With that, he crackled through the low bushes, leaving Harry and Ron standing there looking at each other affectionately, terrified.
Oh, and a tooth.
It was barely a consolation, and Harry clung to the rope, holding his teeth to keep it from running away. However, this is not easy, because the rope was prepared by Hagrid, and to make someone of Hagrid's size feel that the rope fits in hand only shows that the rope is very unfriendly to people of normal size, because it is too thick. Not to mention an eleven-year-old like Harry, who could barely hold on to his two little hands together.
Time passed slowly, minute by minute, and their ears seemed much sharper than usual. Or maybe the Forbidden Forest was so quiet in the dark that they could only hear the rustling of leaves in the wind.
I don't know how long it has been, and Hagrid hasn't returned. As the two of them were getting more and more worried, something strange suddenly appeared in the jungle on their side.
It was a strange sound, as if something heavy was sliding through the dead leaves and trees, approaching them at a rapid pace. For a moment, the two of them felt their hairs stand on end, and before Harry could react to hear something, he felt a strong force in his hand drag him out!
Tooth and Tooth didn't blow up his hair, but wanted to run away in horror, as if he had encountered some natural enemy that could never be resisted, and rushed into the dense forest on the other side in a panic, breaking away from the path that Hagrid usually walked and cleaned often! But Harry was still holding on to its rope, so it ran and dragged Harry, who was thin and weak, and was still in a daze.
And because of the suddenness of the incident, Harry didn't even turn his mind around, and he didn't say a word, so naturally he didn't notify Ron-
Ron was frightened, his head stiffened, and he turned his head with the same difficulty as those rusty robots. When he wanted to see what Harry had to say about the sound, all he saw was a lot of bush branches swaying back and forth, and a long series of jumbled sounds that were rapidly moving away.
Lying groove mud Male Gobi ...... Ron didn't expect that in the extremely short time he had turned his head, maybe less than two seconds, Harry and Tooth had already run away, and reacted so quickly that Ron was a little distracted for a moment.
Listening to the sound of the rapid weakening from the beginning of the violent, now almost faint, the man and the dog seemed to run in the depths of the dense forest without gaps almost faster than a normal person in the track and field field.
Ron stammered, standing still, both angry at his good friend's unrighteous behavior and terrified of the voices that were getting closer and closer behind him, his limbs now cold and stiff.
But the desire to survive finally overrode fear, and at the moment when his hearing keenly caught the sound as if it was about to rush out of the dense forest to his side, he roared and rushed out. At the moment when his body was controlled again, the eyelids and lips on his face were trembling, and his eyes were full of joy for the rest of his life.
Going deep into the interior of the forest, there was a dense jungle everywhere, and it was almost impossible to find the existence of many gaps.
Harry felt that the palm of his grip on the rope might be bleeding, and a hot pain tugged at his nerves. He couldn't remember how many times he had been whipped by the dense and tough branches, and one of the lenses on his glasses was shattered and cracked. He felt that under the drag of Yaya's crazy road-grabbing frenzy, the wizard's robe on his body must have been shattered into strips of cloth, and he probably bought a new one.
It's also strange that he can still think of so many messy things in such a dangerous situation, which can be regarded as a talent, maybe there is a precursor to schizophrenia.
Finally, when the teeth and teeth also stopped desperately gasping for breath, he had a chance to struggle to get up, feeling that the more than two hundred bones in his body might have fallen apart, and the slightest movement was a sore and tired pain, plus a hot pain tormenting his nerves.
But Harry gritted his teeth and didn't make a sound, for the first thing he noticed was the densely mottled blood around him, the bright silver blood that was full of activity, indicating that it had only been a short time to get out of his body.
Harry could see through the tangled branches of an ancient oak tree that there was a clearing in front of him, and the scene in the clearing confirmed his suspicions, where the poor animal writhed and struggled in pain, and blood splattered on the roots of a nearby tree.