Chapter Twenty-Eight: Face to Face with the Dark Lord
Hagrid led them to the edge of the Forbidden Forest, held the lamp aloft in the air, and pointed to a path that was fading into the depths of the black forest. They looked into the Forbidden Forest, a breeze blowing in their hair.
"Look over there," said Hagrid, "see that glittering thing on the ground? Silvery? That's the blood of a unicorn." One of the unicorns in the Forbidden Forest was injured by something, and it was badly injured. This is the second time in a week. Last Wednesday I found one dead. We're going to try to find that poor unicorn and free it from its misery. ”
Zhang Feng stared at the blood of the unicorn on the ground and used his own identification technique to identify it.
Name: Unicorn Blood
Effect: It has a strong light energy, has a strong restraint effect on negative energy, and can temporarily prolong the life of the user.
No wonder it is said that people who use the blood of unicorns will be cursed for eternity, these people are people with negative energy, and the negative energy in their bodies is restrained by the light energy in the blood of the unicorn, and at the same time, they will not die because of the effect of the blood of the unicorn, it is simply better to live than to die!
"What if the thing that hurt the unicorn finds us first?" Malfoy asked, his voice filled with unquenchable fear. "As long as you're with me or Toothtooth, no creature in the Forbidden Forest will hurt you. "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. ”
"I want teeth," Malfoy said busily, looking at his long teeth.
"Well, but let me warn you, it's a coward. "Well, me, Harry, Zhangfeng, and Ron will go one way, and Malfoy, Neville, and Tooth will go the other." If anyone finds a unicorn, shoot a green spark, you know? Get your wands out and practice - yes - if anyone gets in trouble, shoot a red spark and we'll all come to you - okay, be careful, everybody - let's go. ”
The Forbidden Forest was dark and silent. They walked a little further inside and came to a fork in the road, Harry, Ron, Zhang Feng, and Hagrid on the left, and Malfoy, Neville, and Tooth on the right.
They walked silently, their eyes fixed on the ground. Every now and then, a ray of moonlight spilled down from between the branches above, illuminating a silvery-blue trail of blood on the fallen leaves.
"Could it be that the werewolf killed the unicorn?" Harry asked.
"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. ”
They walked past a mossy tree stump. Harry could hear the murmuring of water, and it was clear that there was a stream somewhere nearby. On the winding path, there are still speckled unicorn blood stains. They continued to weave their way through the dense, pitch-black woods. Harry always looked nervously. He had a very uncomfortable feeling, as if someone was watching them. He was glad to have Hagrid and his stone bow with them. However, just after turning a bend in the path, Ron suddenly grabbed Hagrid's arm.
"Hagrid! look! Red Sparks, the others are in trouble!" You three are waiting here!" Hagrid shouted, "Stay on the path and don't move. I'll come when I go. They heard him crackling through the low bushes. Gradually, Hagrid walked away, and all they could hear was the rustling of leaves in the wind.
"You say, they won't get hurt, huh?" Ron asked quietly.
"I don't care if Malfoy gets hurt, but if something happens to Neville, we're going to drag him down and get him here to be punished. "Time passed slowly. Their ears seem to be much sharper than usual.
With a loud crunch, they knew it was Hagrid back, and Malfoy, Neville, and Toothtooth were with him. Hagrid was furious. Here's what it seems: Malfoy did a prank. He sneaked up behind Neville and hugged him. Neville was horrified and fired red sparks.
"You two have made such a big fuss, and now it's all up to luck for us to catch that thing. All right. We're changing the team - Neville, you're with Ron and me. Harry, you, Zhang Feng and Yaya, and this idiot group. I'm sorry," Hagrid whispered to Harry again, "but it's not that easy for him to scare you, so we'd better get it done." ”
So, Harry walked with Malfoy, Zhang Feng, and Yaya towards the center of the Forbidden Forest. They walked for nearly half an hour, deeper and deeper into the forest, until the trees became so dense that the path was almost impassable. Harry felt the blood on the ground grow denser. There was a lot of blood splattered on the roots of a tree, and it seemed that the poor animal had writhed and struggled in pain nearby. Harry could see a clearing in front of him through the tangled branches of an ancient oak tree.
"Look—" he whispered, holding up his arms to stop Malfoy and Zhang Feng.
A white thing glittered on the ground. Little by little, they moved closer to it.
That's right, that's the unicorn, it's dead. Harry had never seen such a beautiful and miserable scene. Its slender legs remained in the position it had fallen into, unnaturally straight, and its mane lay like pearls on the dark leaves.
Suddenly, the sound of a sliding motion stopped him and he stood still. A bush at the edge of the clearing trembled, and then a hooded figure flashed out of the shadows, crawling slowly on the ground like a approaching beast. Harry, Malfoy, and Toothtooth all stood there dumbfounded, Zhang Feng took a step forward, and his wand appeared in his hand.
The cloaked figure approached the unicorn, lowered his head, aimed at the wound on the side of the corpse, and began to drink its blood. It seems that the vigilance is a bit poor!
"Ahhh——!hhh Malfoy let out a terrible scream and ran away—and Tooth fled with his life.
The hooded figure looked up and saw Harry, the unicorn's blood dripping down its chest. It stood up and sped towards Harry—who was too frightened to move.
Zhang Feng took a step forward, blocking between the black shadow and Harry, and a holy light flashed from his body, forming a hemispherical holy light barrier with a radius of 2 meters around him.
The black shadow didn't have time to stop, and it slammed into it, and the Holy Light Enchantment trembled, almost breaking it. The shadow wailed, turned his head and fled into the distance.
Then the Holy Light Barrier trembled and shattered. With the shattering of the Holy Light Enchantment, Zhang Feng's body softened, his eyes turned black, and he fell. Beside him was Harry, who had fallen before the shadow rushed over.
Zhang Feng heard the sound of horses' hooves running from far to near, and then he completely lost consciousness.