"Harry, aren't you too sleepy, think we've been looking for books in the library for a long time......" Hermione said worriedly, watching Harry's unusual behavior as he desperately searched around the empty hallway.

"No," Harry said frantically, "that voice! That, that voice said...... Didn't you all hear? ”

Ron and Hermione froze, staring at him.

“…… Hungry...... It's been a long time......" The voice is getting weaker and weaker. Harry was sure it was moving, but it was so fast that he couldn't tell which direction it was moving, and the sound was no longer audible.

In the end, he had to leave the corridor on the second floor quickly, full of doubts and strange eyes from the two of them. Even he wondered if he was really tired and didn't eat, so he hallucinated?

……

……

“…… I smell blood...... I smell blood! …… Homicide...... It's time......"

"What?!" Pei Chen was yawning and sorting out the manuscript, hoping to make another skill book, but he hadn't closed his eyes for several days, sleepiness was surging, and his brain was not so bright. After hearing such a sentence in a daze, he ****ed it smoothly and continued to do his own thing.

After another two or three seconds, he suddenly stiffened all over his body, and screamed: "! What was that? ”

Pei Chen, who realized it later, realized that the words he heard turned out to be the hissing sound of snakes, but because he also knew snake language, he understood it at once, and he didn't notice anything wrong for a while.

Of course, it is also possible that he has been confused by the manuscripts he has put together.

Pei Chen stood up suddenly, and his movements were so large that he knocked over the chair behind him, but he didn't pay attention to it at all, but closed his eyes. In an instant, the mental force field spread out to the maximum extent, but because of the suppression of the castle itself, it only barely spread to a radius of more than a hundred meters and less than two hundred meters.

However, Rao is movement is so fast, but after all, he missed the lead before, and as a result, nothing was captured, everything was normal.

"Tsk! Is it possible to run so fast? Pei Chenqiang cheered up, he didn't believe that he had hallucinated just now. Not to mention the rest, just now in his gravitational field perception, there was indeed a long strip of very massive thing that 'sliding' past, which is absolutely not wrong, after all, no matter how powerful the illusion is, it is impossible to be so wrong.

He pressed everything on the table with his weight, closed the window, closed the curtains, and then opened the door and walked out.

Thinking back to the approximate direction of the massive object just now when it passed by his gravitational field, Pei Chen thought about it for a while, turned left as soon as he went out, and began to scan the surroundings with full mental power. He had reason to suspect that a terrible serpent had just passed around here, and it immediately piqued his interest.

But he can't eat anything with interest, he is already very tired, and his mental power is at a low point, and now he has opened the radar to search for a wide range, and it is not a standardized use of skills, and the consumption of mental power is like flowing water that has opened the floodgates, and it can't support it for too long.

Coupled with the fact that Hogwarts Castle itself is very big, and it often undergoes some changes and alterations on its own, there is really little hope of finding the big snake that came out of nowhere!

However, Pei Chen was not disappointed, he didn't think that a big snake that suddenly appeared and was much larger than his current demon body would really walk through the entire castle silently, leaving no traces. If nothing else, as long as one person sees it, he can find clues.

Just when he felt that his mental strength had fallen to a critical point, and was hesitating whether he needed to go back and rest for a while, when he came back later, there were footsteps behind him, and the Gryffindor trio appeared in the corner of the corridor behind him, and then saw him.

"Professor Lyle!"

Pei Chen turned his head and couldn't help but yawn again: "Ah, it's you!" Why is it so late? What are you going to do? ”

"We're going to the library......," replied Hermione, looking annoyed, "a few copies of Hogwarts, a school history have been borrowed, and the person who registered to borrow them hasn't said when they'll be returned, and when I went to ask Lady Pince, she wouldn't say ......"

"Professor Lyle, what are you looking for?"

Harry couldn't help but ask when he saw that Pei Chen seemed to be looking around and listening intently, not knowing what he was looking for.

"Oh-this!" Pei Chen didn't care either, and answered the question casually, "When I was in the office just now, I suddenly heard a strange sound, so I chased it out." But it's strange that I can't find it everywhere now...... Uh, why are your expressions so weird? Did something happen? ”

The three of them looked at each other, and Harry said in ecstasy, "Professor Lyle, did you hear that too?" The voice, the voice said—"

"'Also'?!" Pei Chen repeated the pronunciation of the word strangely, and suddenly remembered something that he had forgotten, that is, Harry knew snake language like Salazar Slytherin a thousand years ago, and if it was him, it was not difficult to understand that he could hear that low hissing sound and automatically understand it as normal.

"Does that voice really exist? Wasn't it Harry's hallucination? Ron opened his mouth and said something that annoyed Harry, could he still have a good time?

"Oh, probably not." Pei Chen chuckled and explained to Harry, receiving the boy's grateful gaze, but the next moment, the two people who could hear the snake's language pricked up their ears at the same time, and the expressions on their faces froze.

"It's going to kill!" Harry yelled, then ignored the confused expressions on Ron and Hermione's faces and ascended the stairs in two steps.

Before the other two could react, they felt a blue shadow flash in front of them, and even Professor Lyle disappeared in an instant, and they turned their heads to look, only to see the dark blue coat floating right past the corner of the staircase that Harry had just rushed to.

So fast! Their hearts sank, and they immediately chased after them.

Harry raced around the third floor, while Professor Lyle floated more like a ghost, Ron and Hermione followed breathlessly, and the four of them scurried around before finally turning a corner into the last empty hallway.

"Harry, what the hell is going on?" Ron said, wiping the beads of sweat from his face. "I can't hear anything......"

"Oh my God! The ......" Hermione suddenly gasped and held out a white, pink finger to point ahead, "Look, Professor Lockhart...... What's going on?! ”

The corridor in front of them was empty, but at the end of the place, a figure stood silently, motionless. Although the light of the torch on the wall was a little dim and faint, both Hermione and Pei Chen could see the figure of that person clearly at a glance and quickly matched the number in the database in their minds.

Gilderoy Lockhart, the school's new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor.

"Is it really him? Hermione, you wouldn't admit it, would you? Even though Harry was wearing glasses, he still felt that the view in the distance was a little blurry, so he said in confusion.

"You can't be wrong, he just gave us our first lesson this morning! Have you forgotten? Hermione said sharply.

Pei Chen ignored their argument and slowly approached, squinting his eyes to carefully identify them in the darkness. At last, he saw that it was indeed Mr. Gilderoy Lockhart, but he remained smiling at a pair of clean armor and playing with his hair, his body stiff as a plank, and his eyes wide open and staring.

Up and down, there is no anger at all, it's like a realistic wax figure, or a stone carving.

Behind Pei Chen, the three Gryffindors cautiously approached, and Harry almost slipped, but Ron and Hermione grabbed him. When they saw what it was, the three of them stood motionless for a few seconds, and then Ron said, "Let's get out of here." ”

This drew an angry glare from Hermione.

"Shouldn't we try to save it? Professor Lyell. Harry wasn't very fluent.

"Listen to me," Ron said, still holding on to his thoughts, "we don't want to be found here, and it's Lockhart anyway...... Uh, I'm not going to talk about it, Hermione, don't stare at me! ”

Pei Chen thought quietly, and the three of them had to stand quietly aside, and they didn't dare to breathe. About a minute or so later, Pei Chen suddenly said a clueless sentence: "There are words on the wall!" ”

On the wall in front of them, something was shining, but because the stone statue of Lockhart was so eye-catching at first, they didn't even notice it in the first place. The three of them slowly approached, squinting to make out in the darkness. Between the two windows, on the wall a foot above the ground, there was some handwriting, which shimmered in the light of the burning torches.

"The chamber was opened.

Those who are enemies of the heirs, be wary. ”

“……”

There was an eerie silence among the crowd, and finally Ron said in a trembling voice, "The Chamber of Secrets? Is that...... What is it? ”

"I don't know," Pei Chen shook his head, stretched out his hand and touched Gilderoy Lockhart, but the touch was cold and stiff, really like a stone, "Hmm, it's indeed petrified, I don't know if it's a high-level petrification spell or something, I can't get rid of this negative state...... But there may be salvation. ”

The demonic power easily invaded the body of the stone statue, and quickly flowed through the various veins of the petrified Defence Against the Dark Arts professor's body, Pei Chen came to such a conclusion. He looked around, then said, "Well, this is Professor Guidero's office nearby, let's find a way to move him back first, so that the other students don't find out...... Uh, it's too late. ”

A low noise of students and frolicking, like thunder in the distance, made the faces of the three of them turn pale in an instant. From one end of the hallway they were, the sound of several feet climbing the stairs was heard, and several schoolgirls, apparently Gryffindor, rushed into the hallway from the end of the hallway.

When they saw the unsightly stone statue of the stiff Professor Gilderoy Lockhart, all the buzzing and chattering suddenly disappeared. There seemed to be some kind of terrifying deterrence in the air, and it was terrifyingly quiet!

Pei Chen sighed in his heart, and then Shi Shiran raised his hands to block his ears.

The next moment, the unison of several sopranos appeared gorgeously -

"Ahh ――”