Chapter XVIII Suspicion 2

"Professor, what the hell are you talking about?" Ning Yuan couldn't keep up with the thinking of the two of them, and asked suspiciously.

It was Dumbledore who solved Ning Yuan's confusion, only to see him looking at the lake and saying meaningfully: "Maybe this cave had a lot of Yin corpses before Voldemort appeared, and Voldemort just borrowed some Yin corpses to protect the Horcrux for himself!" ”

Ning Yuan shook his head and refuted Dumbledore's words, "Professor, it's impossible, if there are Yin corpses here all the time, then how could Voldemort get in and out of here safely before he went to school, and still bring those children who were intimidated by him." ”

Snape spoke, "That's where we wonder, but it's irrefutable that many of these Yin Corpses are from a long time ago. It also occurred to me that there seemed to be a lot of Yin corpses wearing wizard robes that were not like the current style, a bit like hundreds of years ago. However, the wizard's robes have always been the same, so I didn't notice it at first.

Ning Yuan was stunned, the yin corpse that had been stored for hundreds of years? This is unlikely, Yin corpses are similar to zombies, they are not perpetual motion machines, even with the support of magic power, it is impossible not to decay for hundreds of years! Ning Yuan put forward his own opinion.

"So, it's very likely that these Yin Corpses were originally magically preserved somewhere in the cave, and they didn't see the light of day until they were revealed by Voldemort, or maybe there was something wrong with the lake! More than ten years have passed, and ordinary Yin corpses will decay a little even if they are supported by magic power, but we all saw just now, and little Blake is like just dying! Dumbledore spoke his mind.

Snape nodded, "Perhaps!" As he spoke, he took out a few bottles, floated around with his wand and went to the lake to fill a few bottles of water, and then went to the remnants of the Yin corpse just now to find some human tissue that was lucky not to be burned, "I'll check it out when I go back, so are we going to continue, Dumbledore?" ”

"Anyway, it's still Voldemort's matter that matters most, let's go and see where Voldemort has a collection of Horcruxes first, and we'll talk about the Yin corpse later." Dumbledore said after a moment's thought.

Although Ning Yuan was a little apprehensive because of the unfolding of the plot, it was not easy for him to leave alone, so he and Dumbledore could only find the boat leading to the island in the middle of the lake.

The boat was small, and the three of them were almost crammed together. Immediately after getting aboard, the boat went out, and there was silence all around, except for the soft rustle of the bow piercing through the water. The boat was moving autonomously, and without their hands, there seemed to be an invisible rope pulling it towards the green light in the middle of the lake. Soon, the rock walls of the cave were out of sight, and they felt as if they were on the sea, only there were no waves around.

As the boat moved, the light of the wand was reflected on the black water, flashing with golden light. The boat cut deep ripples into the glass-smooth surface of the lake, like a groove in a black mirror......

After a few minutes, the only green light in the cave seemed to finally get bigger and brighter, and the boat gently crashed into something and came to rest on a smooth rocky island.

The island was small, almost the same as Dumbledore's office, covered with large flat black stone slabs that were empty except for the green light source.

It was a stone basin attached to a base, half a man high, just above the waist of the three people, and the stone basin was full of a basin of emerald green liquid, which shimmered with phosphorescence.

"This atmosphere is so suitable for making horror movies!" Rubbing his arms full of goosebumps, Ning Yuan complained.

Dumbledore and Snape were drawn to the potting load.

One is because of the importance of Voldemort, and the other is because it is his favorite potion, after seeing the two of them get together to check the pot of things, Ning Yuan has nothing to do for a while, and can only wander around this small island aimlessly.

No matter how the two of them discussed those potions or other things, Ning Yuan walked around the island when suddenly something special caught his attention.

It was a withered branch, inconspicuous stuck in the gap between two black stone slabs, and it wasn't well lit, so it didn't show up at first.

The branches looked ordinary, the branches with a few leaves were already yellow, and they looked the same as those common branches outside, but the first time Ning Yuan saw the branches, an inexplicable impulse surged in his heart.

When he came back to his senses, he realized that he had picked up the branch.

Ning Yuan was so frightened that he almost threw this thing out, who knows what curse there is on it, didn't Dumbledore fall under the curse when he took the resurrection stone ring in the novel, and in the end he could only barely survive on Snape's potion for a year. If there's a curse on this thing, he's miserable.

It's just that this thought is just a momentary stress reaction, and when he calms down, there is a feeling in his heart that it seems that he shouldn't throw this thing away, and it won't hurt himself.

But no matter what, just because he could influence himself, Ning Yuan felt very uncomfortable, and the two contradictory feelings in his heart conflicted with each other, and in the end, Ning Yuan could only force down the complicated thoughts in his heart, and put the branch directly into his personal space, planning to check it with the heart of truth when he returned.

"What's wrong, Ning?" Dumbledore, who was checking the potion with Snape, raised his head to look at Ning Yuan, who was stunned in place, frowning and contemplative.

"Nothing!" Ning Yuan was stunned for a moment, and wanted to talk about the branch just now, but when the words came to his mouth, he couldn't say anything, so he could only fool around casually, walked up to the two of them and asked, "How is this thing inspected?" ”

"It's not a potion, I'm sure." Snape concluded.

Although Ning Yuan was a little strange, the other party was a potions master, so what he said was still credible.

"If you can, take the stone basin away, I need to study it well." Finally, Snape looked at the two of them and spoke, his tone very fanatical, quite a bit like Frankenstein encountering the best real material.

Dumbledore took his wand and examined it for a moment, "There is defensive magic, and like these things, the stone basin and stone platform are forbidden to be transformed, nor can they be transferred, and it looks like it takes a lot of work!" ”

"I'll give it a try!" Ning Yuan said as he took out a huge chainsaw from his personal space, and as soon as he pressed the switch, the chainsaw with hideous iron teeth began to turn, and a piercing buzz sounded in the dead silence of the cave.

With the contact between the iron teeth and the stone platform, the chainsaw, which could cut even the stone lightly, rubbed countless sparks with Ning Yuan's force, but no matter how hard he tried afterwards, he could only leave a shallow trace.

Until the entire chainsaw was scrapped, he could only leave an inconspicuous scratch on the stone platform.

In the end, Ning Yuan and Snape, who really had no choice, could only wait for Dumbledore to find a way to solve the magical defense above.

"It looks like Voldemort also spent a lot of energy to set such a trap in the first place!" Thinking back to the content of the novel, Ning Yuan somewhat understood why Dumbledore didn't take the stone basin away directly like in the fanfiction, but drank it like a brain-dead.

In addition to the fact that he himself has been cursed and his life is almost at the end of a year, which is just used for layout, he may also have a lot of effort to unlock the magic, and he is worried that Voldemort will detect it if it drags on for a long time.

Sure enough, even Dumbledore's magical skills took almost several hours to solve the problem completely.

By the time the three of them returned to the shore with the broken stone basin, it was already the middle of the night, because of the reason that they contacted the house-elves every once in a while, so Lupin was not in too much of a hurry, and now a fire had been lit, and he was sitting in front of the fire with Sirius, who was still stunned.

After a busy day, several people hurriedly packed up their things and left here directly.

Back in Hogsmeade, Dumbledore and Snape returned to Hogwarts with the stone basin, where Lupin and Sirius asked for two rooms at the Hoghead's Bar.

Ning Yuan took his house-elf Sasha home, took a comfortable hot bath, and then lay down on the soft big bed, and began to think about today's strange experience, the extra antique yin corpses that Dumbledore Snape said, and the strange branches that appeared on his own.

At the same time, on the dark shore, the sound of the waves was endless, and in the dark cave that had completely lost its light source, a pair of golden eyes suddenly opened, and on the platform where the stone basin was taken away and only the stone pillars were left, wisps of golden streamer were sprinkled, flickering like summer fireflies......

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