Chapter 9: Harry the Ghost Hunter

The world after death is called differently in different parts of the world, nations, countries, and even denominations.

It can be the underworld, the underworld, the hidden capital, the Yellow Spring Hirasaka, or the Corpse Soul Realm and the Pure Land.

But no matter what people call it, the only thing that can be confirmed is that it must not exist in the real world in which living people live.

You simply can't find a land like this in the real world, and you can't see two moons at the same time overhead.

One blood-red, the other pale, hung high in the gray sky of the underworld, as if they were in different spaces and even universes, each unrelated.

Even though he had seen it before, and seeing such a magical sight again, Harry couldn't help but be amazed by it.

However, he also knew that he had not come to the underworld this time to enjoy the mountains and rivers.

So after calming down a little bit of the confusion caused by the change of time and space, he immediately began to act.

Compared to the last time, Harry had come closer to the edge of the castle ruins, as could be seen from the fact that the ruins around him were even lower.

Harry cautiously walked towards the outskirts of the ruins, not to mention the insects and birds, not even the sound of footsteps on the ground, as if the whole world was enveloped in a magical array called "Silence".

Of course, if you think that the whole underworld is dead and silent like this, you are very wrong.

Harry walked out of the "Black Book of the Dead" less than a few dozen meters away, and a lower temperature suddenly hit him.

Then, a strange, eerie-looking thing slowly approached him from a short distance.

From afar, the creatures were wriggling and crawling on the ground like a huge, bloated shapeshifter.

When I got closer, I saw that this thing was made up of more than a dozen different individuals, like pinching plasticine, pinched together.

Some of these individuals were dressed in medieval attire, carrying a long sword in their hands, wearing a leather armor, and not even trousers.

Some are dressed in modern times, holding muskets broken in two and wearing traditional kilts.

Of course, more of them don't even have a piece of clothing, only a shriveled one, with bones as the main body, attached parts? Air-dry muscles of the body.

And the guys themselves weren't intact, some of them had their hands and feet broken, and some of them had a big hole in their chests, as if they had been blown through the front by a solid cannonball.

Harry even saw that one of the guys was almost identical to Hogwarts "Nick the Headless", with only a little bit of flesh connecting its head to its body.

That's right, these guys are a group of lonely ghosts roaming the underworld, just by looking at their clothes, you know that they must have been dead for a long time.

However, unlike the ghosts in Hogwarts, these ghosts of the underworld do not seem to have any sense, they can neither speak nor have fun on their own, but only wander and wander in this dead space.

When Harry saw these guys, he was also taken aback, and he was so frightened that he didn't dare to breathe.

The last time he descended to the Underworld was in the central area of the castle ruins, where he encountered an army of ghosts that were even more elite than these stragglers.

As soon as he showed up, no, he hadn't shown up at all, and the ghosts rushed towards him like cats that smelled fish.

There were even some ghosts, before they could get closer, they shot their bows and arrows at him, so frightened that Harry didn't even have a minute to stay before he fled back to the Yang World in disarray.

It was only later that he learned from Clarke's mouth that in front of those lonely ghosts, a soul projection like Harry, which still had the breath of a living person, could be said to be extremely attractive.

After all, Yang Qi is very rare in the underworld, and only the occasional living soul that strays into the underworld can be attached.

However, this time, the lonely ghosts behaved very strangely, facing Harry, who was carrying yang energy, they turned a blind eye and floated away from him.

Looking at the ghosts that were gradually disappearing, Harry breathed a sigh of relief, you know, the wand can't be brought to the underworld, and at this time, he only has a heavy copy of the Black Book of the Dead.

This thing is not bad as a shield, but as a weapon, it is only enough to choke.

But why didn't the ghosts attack him?

Harry was very puzzled, and suddenly, he realized that his experiment this time seemed to be a little different from the previous ones.

He looked down and saw that he was wearing a pure black robe that seemed to absorb all the light.

It's strange that the first few times he came, he was naked!

Harry curiously touched the robe and found that the fabric of the robe was silky and soft, as if he were caressing a puddle of water.

Could it be that this thing caused those lonely ghosts to ignore him?

At this time, in the real world, relying on the Psychic Warlock's [Psychic Link] ability, Clark also managed to get in touch with Harry.

Faced with Harry's question, he explained directly, "It's—your—the Cloak of Invisibility. ”

"What—invisibility—clothing?"

Perhaps because of the distance, there is still a delay in communication between the two.

But after listening to Clark's words, Harry immediately understood.

He remembered that Clark had told him the story of the three Reaper brothers, and that the invisibility cloak inherited from their Potter family was a corner cut from the Reaper's robes.

Since it is the leftovers of the Grim Reaper's clothes, it can naturally be brought to the underworld and play a role.

With the baby protection, Harry is naturally much more relieved.

At Clark's instructions, he began to look around the perimeter of the castle ruins.

I just walked around several times, and in addition to encountering a few waves of ghosts on the way, all I saw was the dark masonry wreckage.

Not only that, but because there was no sound in the underworld, and the colors and scenery around him were very monotonous, a sense of loneliness began to hit Harry's heart.

In less than half an hour, Harry was already looking around restlessly, and he even felt that it would be very good for even some goblins to chase him at this time.

Fortunately, Clark soon sensed this, and a warm, soothing power was transmitted to Harry's heart along with his staccato words.

"It's OK, ready-to-do-next!"

Harry picked himself up after receiving the order, and he turned his steps to find the least number of lonely ghosts he had just encountered, and hung far behind.

After following for a while, he found that the wandering rules of these ghosts were very simple, and could even be said to be monotonous to boring.

They are like a group of machines, they will only follow a fixed route repeatedly, neither thirsty, nor tired, nor deserted.

"That's not going to work." Harry muttered quietly.

His mission for this experiment was to try to bring a ghost back from the underworld.

Only when this step is successful, he will be able to find his parents and bring them back to the world in the same way.

Harry only pondered for a moment before coming up with a plan.

He pulled it open for a while, and then stealthily took off one of the sleeves of the invisibility cloak he was wearing.

The arms full of the breath of a living person were exposed to the air of the underworld, and among the wandering wild ghosts not far ahead, four or five ghosts soon broke away from the group and stopped.

They shook their horrified heads and began to look behind them.

As soon as Harry saw that he had lured too many enemies, he quickly used the invisibility cloak to cover his arm again.

When the ghosts found that the alluring aura was gone, they looked back in great disappointment, but they were already in a state of being left behind.

Not long after they walked out, Harry continued to do the same trick again.

This time, the last of the five ghosts was once again attracted by the yang energy in Harry's body.

In this way, Harry finally found a lonely ghost, but how to catch it and bring it back?

"- pass, use - invisibility cloak!" Clarke's hint came.

Harry stepped forward with the courage to find that as long as he was cloaked in invisibility, even if he was standing in front of these ghosts, they would not be able to see him.

Then Harry let go of his hands and feet, and he looked at the ugly monster closely, and found that it had only one paw, and as for the other, it was bare with only one calf bone, no wonder it fell at the back of the line.

"Hurry up—you—can't—stay too long!" Clark's urging came intermittently.

Harry didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly walked around the ghost's back, first looked around, and after making sure that there were no other ghosts, he quickly took off his invisibility cloak and slammed it over the ghost's body.

Originally, the ghost in front of him had become agitated when Harry took off the invisibility cloak, but when Harry put the invisibility cloak over it, the ghost regained its composure.

"Come back soon!" Clark let out another urge.

Harry didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly opened the Black Book of the Dead and sang the sacred hymn of return.

It's just that when he left, he didn't forget to hold the ghost tightly in his arms.

As a hymn of praise was sung about Osiris, a strange force began to coalesce at Harry's feet.

At the climax of the hymn, a thick yin aura burst through the ground beneath Harry's feet like a fountain, sending him and the ghost into the air.

Harry had experienced this a few times before, and he didn't show the slightest panic, but tried to keep his body steady in the air.

Finally, after a rollercoaster-like thrilling experience, Harry's eyes were back in color.

The bright light shone on him again, and even the sound of ordinary breathing sounded so pleasant to Harry.

But before he could continue to enjoy this feeling, a strong force suddenly pulled him out of the center of the magic array.

On the other side, after dragging Harry out of the magic circle, Clark immediately touched the magic circle's mechanism.

A multicolored magic shield soon trapped the invisibility cloaks in the circle and the ghosts under the invisibility cloaks.

Harry, who had come back to his senses at this point, looked nervously at the center of the circle and asked Clark, "How is it, have we succeeded?" ”

"I don't know," Clark shook his head, "I'd better take a look first." ”

As he spoke, he once again triggered several other effects of the magic array, injecting sufficient feminine magic into the array, and at the same time increasing the restraint of the magic array.

After all the preparations were completed, Clark waved his hand and used the magic circle to control a whirlwind and lift the invisibility cloak in the center of the circle.

As if he had pulled something he wanted when he opened the blind box, Harry jumped to his feet as soon as he saw the ghost exposed to the light after the invisibility cloak was lifted.

"Great!" He shouted excitedly, even happier than having taken the first place in the exam.

But before he could continue to rejoice, the ghost, who had removed the protection of the invisibility cloak, suddenly struggled violently, opened its mouth and let out a silent but heart-piercing wail.

Then, in front of Clark and Harry, as if they had been soaked in sulfuric acid, they quickly weathered, disintegrated, and finally turned into a wisp of green smoke that dissipated into the air.

"What's going on?" The smile on Harry's face turned to astonishment before it could fade.

Clark rubbed his chin and looked at the various materials and notes on the desk, and said his own guess.

"Maybe it's because ghosts can't survive in the Yang World, looking at it like this, it's obviously not adapted to the surrounding environment."

"But there are so many ghosts in Hogwarts, and there are many legends of ghosts in the wizarding world, too?" Harry was still a little unwilling, and quickly retorted.

"You said it, it's all legends."

Clark explained very calmly: "Pure souls are actually very rare in the wizarding world, and if you want to exist, you need the right time, place, people, and people."

"There are more things in the wizarding world like banshees, vampires, ghouls, and so on.

As for the ghosts of Hogwarts, although they look like spirits, they are actually a completely different kind of being.

The core essence is more similar to that of Hogwarts Resident Spirits, and the existence of those ghosts is completely dependent on the special environment of Hogwarts and the power provided to them by the castle behind them.

"So what are we going to do??" Harry asked, a little worried.

Clark looked through the information again.

"Maybe we can try to do this at night next time, and the yin energy in this magic circle can be strengthened a little more.

Of course, the best thing to do is to find an alchemy item that is specifically designed to protect the soul. ???"

As he spoke, he closed the book with a "snap".

"Alright, that's all for today's experiment, pack up, and we'll go to your godfather's house in a moment."

Although he was still very reluctant in his heart, Harry could only honestly leave the basement with Clarke.

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