Chapter Fifty-Seven: Poisonous Potion, Wizards Exchange Blood
By the time Rorschach got the news and hurried in, it was all over.
As he passed by the corridor, he couldn't help but stop and realize that in the corridor outside the door of the infirmary, the black-haired and scarred boy was sitting in a row with his friend Ron in frustration.
Rorschach glanced at it, faintly feeling that something was wrong, and then pushed open the ward, glanced at it, and his eyes suddenly froze.
As soon as he entered, he was told the sad news.
Xiong Shaodong, a young man among the newcomers, is already dying.
Rorschach's eyes were on the hospital bed, just a glance, he determined the injury of this young man, the source of the serious injury was only one blow, under the destruction of external forces, seven or eight sternums had been broken inward, and the heart on the chest was dripping with blood, constantly overflowing wisps of bright red color, under the effect of the potion, the two broken bones embedded in the heart had been restored as before, but Rorschach obviously felt that the life breath of this young man had weakened sharply.
He immediately changed to the black and white vision of the undead, and immediately realized that something was wrong.
And in the eyes of Rorschach's "Heavenly Dancing Treasure Wheel", the figure lying on the hospital bed, like a cloth bag full of holes, is constantly losing the bright red stream representing the vitality outward, and the potion drunk turns into wisps of black liquid that is slowly filling from the outside, but the black and red liquid ripples and erodes each other in the human body, but the black water can not replace the integration into the vitality, but continues to erode itself, in the case of drinking to quench thirst, the infusion of wisps of potion can only curb the speed of the hole cracking, barely holding on to the last shred of life.
In this way, in another ten minutes, the black power of the potion will completely assimilate and replace the stream of life in his body, and the young man will naturally return to the sky in his sleep.
"It's ......" Rorschach turned his head, his gaze immediately unkind.
However, the school doctor smiled bitterly, and under the next explanation, Rorschach understood what the other party meant.
In the case that there are only two options, "death on the spot" and "death with a ten-minute reprieve", they can only choose the latter.
The root of the problem is that this is the Hogwarts medicine room, and the patients targeted for thousands of years have different identities and ages, but at least they are wizards, and Xiong Shaodong is a Muggle.
And the wizard's potion, no matter how effective it is, will only turn into a deadly poison for ordinary people without magical abilities.
Because the potions science of this world is not like traditional Chinese medicine, which uses the different medicinal surnames of the herbs themselves to stimulate the recovery of the human body, but essentially uses drugs as a medium to carry out magic with additional state surnames, and drinking potions is actually a "way to release magic" instead of spells and wands.
In other words, even though this kind of potion can exert the power that the medicinal materials themselves do not have, it can only be effective for wizards with their own magical physique, because after taking the potion, the potion with complex magic will activate the brewing changes of the magic in the wizard's body, which is equivalent to casting a spell in the body, so as to achieve the effect of transformation and healing; When the subject is an ordinary person, because there is no magic in itself, the power in the potion will continue to stimulate the human body itself like cancer cells in order to play a role, forcing the vitality to temporarily transform into magic, so that although it can also exert a magical effect, it has actually become a poison that erodes the vitality in order to play a role.
In the same way, unless you want to kill someone intentionally, other healing spells in this world can't be used on ordinary people. Therefore, even the legendary mage Merlin in the legendary wizarding world, even though there are countless magic potions in the sky, can only watch the King Arthur he follows accumulate dark injuries in battles again and again, and finally die of serious injuries, leaving behind a tragic legend of history.
As she spoke, the chubby middle-aged woman wiped her tears and sighed uncomfortably: "What a good boy, he was injured to save that first-grader, but I can't do anything but use the zombie potion with the least amount of magic to keep him in the best condition temporarily...... Make him feel a little more comfortable when he leaves us. ”
After comforting the kind lady, Rorschach turned around and walked to the bedside, where Ji Qing, a female college student among the newcomers, was already sitting.
Rorschach frowned and asked, "What the hell is going on...... I've only been away for half an hour, how did this happen? ”
The female newcomer with slightly red eyes shook her head, choked up and said: "I don't know what's going on, in the middle of the party, Connor and I suddenly received a task, and then I asked Connor to follow Harry Potter to the basement to save people, I went to call for help, and when I arrived, things were already like this." ”
As she spoke, she opened the Book of Reincarnation and revealed the task marked "Completed."
"Trigger Side Quests:
Name: Fight off trolls
Contents: Enter the basement level of Hogwarts and stop the trolls from harming Hermione Granger.
Defeat Condition: Hermione Granger dies.
Rewards: 1,200 survival points, a black iron card.
Mission completed, reward distributed"
Rorschach just glanced at it, and immediately frowned and rebuked: "This is just nonsense, has life at Hogwarts made you forget even the sense of crisis these days?" This is a world with a bronze difficulty! A strong man under the bronze rank can fight against a heavily armed special forces, and he is a historical hero who is a 10,000-strong enemy on the ancient battlefield. And this kind of key plot turning point mission, success and failure are related to the outcome of the later stage of the plot, whether Hermione dies or does not establish a friendship with the other two, Harry Potter may not be able to break through the last level, and if Voldemort gets the Philosopher's Stone, I can still rely on the previous rewards to survive, I am afraid that none of you newcomers will survive! ”
After complaining, he saw that the female newcomer was crying bitterly, and he couldn't say anything more, so he sighed, changed the topic and asked, "Where is Connor?" ”
Ji Qing immediately replied: "She's fine, according to Madam Pomfrey, she's just overexerting herself and being a little tired, just get some sleep." She then looked over hopefully: "Captain, is Xiong Shaodong really hopeless?" ”
Rorschach snorted coldly and said coldly: "I don't know how to heal, and I haven't obtained medical tools that are enough to treat such a serious injury. ”
Although he said this, he still turned his head to look at the figure of the young man who was sleeping peacefully, and sighed slightly in his heart.
…… I was going to test the newcomer's heart and character through these three months before making a decision, but I didn't expect this kind of thing to happen, no matter what, this kid can protect a girl desperately to death, and he shouldn't be the kind of ungrateful bastard, saving people is important, so it's a matter of urgency......
Rorschach didn't lie, he really didn't know the means of healing, the only bottle of invincibility potion in the last world was also used by him at the last moment, although there were still some bandages left from Azeroth, and it was only to deal with the minor injuries of broken bones and bleeding, and it was naturally impossible to work if it was placed here, but it was ......
He opened the Book of Reincarnation, pulled out a bronze-colored card from it, and with a flash of fluorescence, it slapped directly on the unconscious teenager.
Then Rorschach turned his head, looked at the newcomer's female surname with a blank face, and said lightly: "Call Madam Pomfrey, this time, she should be able to help." ”
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A week later.
Rorschach stood bored in the streets......
His current location is no longer in Hogwarts, but strolling through a cobbled commercial street.
This street, unlike the prosperity of the modern city, maintains the quaint style of the nineteenth century, with old mahogany buildings standing one after another, narrow alleys full of hooded and robed walkers, and rows of shops on the street are also hung with "crucibles", "flying brooms", "magic wands" and other cabinets that cannot be seen in the real world, as for the exhibition goods, they are also ever-changing, from living birds and beasts to dragon liver, from binoculars to all kinds of colorful potions, magic and reality are reversed each other. It gives people a sense of reality and illusion.
This is the place of the "magic trade" in the story, the world's famous and prosperous trading center of the British wizarding world - "Diagon Alley".
But it didn't mean anything to Rorschach. Although the magic items in this world are extraordinary, they can only be used by wizards, so whether it is a miscellaneous potion or a variety of props, it is no different from waste paper for him, and the things in the mission world, in addition to the things that can be turned into cards and the power integrated into the body, must pay a considerable number of survival points for cards when they are brought out, and if it is not necessary, he will naturally not waste money.
He came with a bear kid to procure.
Standing in a shop called "Ollivander" for half an hour, a rookie boy came out with a magic wand, saw Rorschach, and said happily: "Captain, I am a wand made of purple shirt, it is a ......."
"Alright," Rorschach interrupted him, took out a long slip, glanced at it, and said impatiently, "I'll help you pay for any more nonsense, hmm...... Next, there are the robes, designated - 'Lady Morkin's robes shop'? ”
This bear child, of course, is the newcomer Xiong Shaodong, who was seriously injured and killed.
He was able to giggle here, of course, because he wasn't dead. In fact, after Rorschach consumed a bronze median ability card called "Harry Potter Series Wizard Bloodline", the rookie boy with a magical physique was no longer subject to the negative corrosive effects of potions, and when the power of black potions was transformed into nourishing life force, it was only the night that passed, he woke up.
However, what happened next was once again beyond Rorschach's expectations.
The whole of Hogwarts, or rather, the whole wizarding world that knew about it, was in a stir.
In the wee hours of the morning, Rorschach was summoned to the old man for questioning, and after finally prevaricating, he immediately received another contact from Fudge, and then a flood of requests for a meeting with wizards followed.
Only then did he know that even the descendants of pure-blood families are not necessarily able to give birth to descendants of wizard talents, and many ancient families with thin blood are dying because wizards cut off heirs from generation to generation, so in the original story, Neville, after the death of both parents, was almost drowned by his uncle because he did not stimulate his talent for a long time. In other words, a drug or ability that can inspire ordinary people to become wizards is tantamount to the last straw for some dying wizarding families.
However, they are doomed to be disappointed, the adventurer's cards with various enhancements come from the Book of Reincarnation, and unless they are converted into physical potions or props, the card enhancements on their abilities cannot be used on the characters in the story. Therefore, after repeatedly using magic to confirm that Rorschach's answer was true, coupled with the full suppression of the Hogwarts school, this uproar that caused a sensation in the wizarding world could only be helplessly eliminated.
It's just that in exchange, the only successful experiment, the newcomer Xiong Shaodong who has woken up, somehow became a first-year student at Hogwarts, and Rorschach, for safety reasons, also had to accompany him to make necessary purchases.
"But in this way, this kid can be regarded as having a talisman, as long as his head is normal and wants to get the mysterious power out of his body, he will not let him be harmed......" Rorschach sighed, and was looking at the scenery boredly, when his eyes suddenly froze.
"Hey, that's not ......"
When Rorschach raised his head, he suddenly noticed a slightly familiar rickety old man, holding a thin cat, and disappearing into the deep alley around the corner with dull steps. And when he was in a daze, Xiong Shaodong had already chosen his clothes and walked out with Mrs. Mokin, the owner of the cloth shop.
"Captain, what's wrong?" Xiong Shaodong said strangely.
Rorschach came back to his senses, shook his head, and said hesitantly, "It's nothing, Madame Morkin, what is that corner alley selling?" ”
The lady's face changed, and then she showed a look of disgust, before she reluctantly replied, "That's Tumbledown Alley, where dirty dark wizards trade, selling smuggled or blood-stained garbage, and if it weren't for some traditional wizarding families, it would have been banned by the Ministry of Magic." ”
Rorschach nodded, his face revealing a ray of gloom, but he didn't delve into it anymore, but returned directly to the school with a dazed newcomer.
Over the next two months, the story seems to be back to normal. Hermione, as the heroine throughout the story, has some kind of extraordinary potential, and quickly recovers from the encounter in the basement. Even because of the relationship of saving people, Xiong Shaodong among the newcomers was able to cut into the trio, and under the deliberate friendship, coupled with the fact that Asian teenagers are generally more tender than those in the West, the relationship between them has risen steadily.
Many things are also going smoothly, such as Harry with the protagonist's aura joining, Gryffindor breaking the monopoly of the Slytherin Quidditch Crown for seven years, and Harry Potter discovering the existence of the Philosopher's Stone, although there is no Quirrell's intervention, but there is still a misunderstanding of Snape, and under the deliberate promotion of the adventure team, the inquiry into the identity of "Nicolmeler" is also in full swing.
Until one day, Xiong Shaodong, who was mixed with the protagonist, reported a message to Rorschach.
"Hagrid, who manages the Forbidden Forest, has been given a dragon egg."
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(ps:
After thinking about it again, I found that Connor's identity was actually very unreasonable, and the plot seemed to be incomprehensible, so I directly re-deleted it and redid a chapter.
As for the background identity of this girl, let's treat it as black history, and the author does not guarantee that the next story will proceed according to the original setting.
That's it. );