Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Beginning of the Battle!
Harry handed the flute over. In the seconds when the music paused, the big dog roared again and began to writhe, but as soon as Hermione blew the flute, it fell back to sleep. Harry crawled over the big dog and looked down through the hole. There's no bottom down there.
He slowly slid down the hole, finally holding on to the edge of the hole with only ten fingers. He looked up at Ron and said, "If something happens to me, don't come down with me." Go straight to the closet where the owl lives and send Hedwig to deliver a letter to Dumbledore, okay? ”
"Okay." Ron said.
"I'll see you later, I hope ......," Hermione said.
"Believe in yourself, you have no problem." Liu Jiecao said calmly.
Harry let go of his hand, cold, damp air whirring in his ears. He fell down, fell, fell, and then pounced. With a strange, dull thud, Harry landed on top of something soft. He sat up and groped around. His eyes weren't used to the dim light of the place. He felt as if he was sitting on top of some kind of plant.
"No problem!" He shouted at the hole, which now looked like a speck of light the size of a postage stamp. "It's a soft landing, you can jump!"
Ron jumped off the fence right after. He landed on all fours beside Harry.
"What kind of thing is this?" He asked as soon as he opened his mouth.
"I don't know, it seems to be a plant. Probably laid here to mitigate collisions in the event of a fall. Come on, Liu Jiecao and Hermione! ”
The distant flute stopped. The big dog barked loudly again, but Hermione had already jumped off. She landed on Harry's other side.
At the same time, Liu Jiecao also arrived at the same time as Hermione, and he also had a test tube in his hand with blood in it.
There is no doubt that it was obtained by Liu Jiecao from the sleeping three-headed dog just now.
Then, he casually threw the test tube in his pocket.
"We must be far, far away from the school." Hermione said.
"Honestly, I'm glad there are these plants here." Ron said.
"Thankfully!" Hermione screamed. "Look at you two!"
She jumped to her feet, struggling to move towards a damp wall. She struggled because as soon as she fell, the plant stretched out snake-like tendrils and wrapped around her ankles. Harry and Ron, on the other hand, had unknowingly been wrapped around their legs by long vines.
Hermione managed to break free before the vines could hold her firmly. She watched in horror as the two boys tried desperately to tear off the vines, but the more they broke free, the faster and tighter the vines became entangled.
"Don't move!" Hermione shouted at them, "I know what this is - it's the Devil's Web!" ”
"Oh. I'm so glad we finally know what it's called, and that helps us a lot. Ron huffed, dodging backwards to keep the vines from wrapping around his neck.
"Shut up, I'm thinking about how to kill it!" Hermione said.
"Please think about it quickly, I can't breathe!" Harry gasped, desperately tugging at the vine that was going to wrap around his chest.
"Devil's Net, Devil's Net...... What did Professor Sprout say? Said it likes to be dark and damp—"
"Then set it on fire!" Harry was almost suffocating.
"Yes—of course—but there's no firewood here!" Hermione exclaimed. Twisting his hands anxiously.
"Are you crazy? Ron yelled, "Are you a witch or not?" ”
"Oh, yes!" Hermione said. One drew his wand, waved it, muttered the words in his mouth, and did the same time as he had done with Snape. Shoot a blue bellflower-like flame from the wand's head.
In just a few seconds, two boys, as well as another tomboy. I felt the vines flinching away from the light and warmth, loosening the entanglement that had been held on them. The plants twisted and twitched, automatically releasing the tendrils that were wrapping around them, and Harry and Ron finally broke free.
As for Liu Jiecao, there were no plants wrapped around him from the beginning. The powerful aura he vaguely revealed made the plant instinctively fear him, but no one noticed it at all.
"I'm glad you listened so carefully in the herb class, Hermione." Harry said as he retreated to the wall as Hermione, wiping the sweat from his face.
"yes." Ron said, "It's a good thing Harry didn't panic like you did at the critical moment - 'But there's no firewood here', look at what you said!" ”
"This way." Harry said, pointing to a stone hallway. This is the only way to go.
They heard, in addition to their own footsteps, the sound of droplets of water dripping slowly down the walls. The corridor descended downhill, reminding Harry of Gringotts. His heart throbbed, and he remembered the dragons who were said to be guarding the vaults of the Wizard's Bank. If they run into a dragon, a full-grown dragon - Noble is hard enough to deal with......
"Can you hear anything?" Ron asked in a whisper.
Harry listened. There seemed to be a soft rustle and clanging sound ahead.
"Could it be a ghost?"
"I don't know...... It seems to be the sound of wings flapping. ”
"There's a light ahead—I see something moving."
They came to the end of the hallway, and in front of them was a brightly lit room with a high vaulted ceiling. Countless small birds that were as brilliant as jewels flapped their wings and flew around the room. There is a heavy wooden door opposite the room.
"Do you think they're going to attack us if we go through the room?" Ron asked.
"Possibly." Harry said, "They don't seem to be vicious, but if they all rush at once, I'm afraid ...... Whatever, there's no other way to do it anyway...... I ran over. ”
He took a deep breath, shielded his face with his arm, and sped to the other end of the room. He thought that at any moment there would be a sharp mouth and claws to tear him apart, but he was safe. Unscathed, he came to the door and pulled the handle, which was locked.
Liu Jiecao walked at the end and saw Ron and Hermione follow. They pulled and pushed together, but the wooden door didn't move, and Hermione tried her Alaho Cave Spell again, to no avail.
"What should I do?" Ron asked.
"These birds...... They can't just be used for decoration. Hermione said.
The four of them watched as the birds flew overhead. Twinkle - shiny shiny?
"They're not birds at all!" Harry suddenly said, "They're keys!" The key with wings - look closely. Obviously that means ......"
Harry looked around the room, while Ron and Hermione stared up at the flying swarm of keys.
Liu Jiecao decided to make soy sauce to the end, unless there was an accident.
Don't think that there won't be accidents here, Liu Jiecao never underestimated Dumbledore's calculations, and that old guy probably counted him together.
"There you have, you see! Broomsticks! We must go up and grab the key to that door! ”
"But there are hundreds of keys on there!"
Ron carefully examined the lock on the door.
"We're looking for a big, antique key—maybe silver, shaped like a doorknob."
Each of them grabbed a broom, kicked it with both feet, and rose into the air. Rush into that dense array of keys. They tried to catch and fish, but the enchanted keys dodged too quickly to be caught.
Liu Jiecao shook his head, the performance of this rotten broom is too poor, even he is not sure that he can snatch the key by manipulating this broom, and he is not the top in terms of talent for using a flying broom.
Still, broomstick, will he still use this kind of thing in the future?
There is no need for Liu Jiecao's efforts here. Because here is Harry. Potter, this was originally a level for Harry.
Harry, as the youngest Quidditch Seeker in a century, wasn't in vain. He has a knack for searching for flying targets. After a minute of weaving through the swirls of small, colorful wings, he noticed the wings of a large silver key hanging down. It's as if it had been grabbed and crudely stuffed into a keyhole.
"That's it!" He shouted to Willow, Ron, and Hermione, "The big key—there—no, not here, it's there—the one with the azure wings—the feathers all fell to the side. ”
Ron sped in the direction Harry was pointing. As a result, he hit his head on the ceiling and almost fell off his broomstick.
"We've got to surround it!" Harry shouted, keeping his eyes fixed on the key with the broken wing. "Ron. You block it from above—Hermione, you guard down there, don't let it fly down, Liu Jiecao, you block it behind—I'll catch it head-on. Well, here we go! ”
Ron dived down, Hermione leaped upward, the key dodging to avoid their up and down, Harry following closely behind.
Liu Jiecao flew over easily and blocked the last way.
The key flew swiftly towards the wall, and Harry lunged forward, slamming it against the stone wall with one hand with a piercing creak. Ron and Hermione's cheers echoed through the high room.
Liu Jiecao smiled indifferently, because with one more him, Harry was easier than in the original plot, and it was normal to succeed in snatching.
They landed quickly, and Harry ran towards the door, the key still struggling in his hand. He shoved it into the keyhole and twisted it hard—yes, it was.
With a click, the door lock flicked open, and the key flew away again. It was caught twice in a row, and looked emaciated.
"Are you ready?" Harry grabbed the doorknob in his hand and asked Liu Jiecao, Ron, and Hermione. They all nodded.
Harry pushed the door open.
Second room......
Liu Jiecao's eyes narrowed, revealing a terrible smile.
Sure enough, Dumbledore still calculated, this second room was not at all what it was in the original plot, it was not a chessboard.
Perhaps, in the third room, there will be a chessboard.
So, is this room in front of you prepared for him Liu Jiecao?
It seems to be getting more and more interesting. (To be continued......)