When the three of them, who were finally able to go back to rest after a busy morning, returned to the common room, the atmosphere in the activity room was unexpectedly solemn, and as soon as the three of them walked in, they received the attention of almost everyone in the college.

"What's wrong?" Barry asked cautiously.

"Oh, you're back." Kane just said that, and after glancing at them, he ignored them, and instead gathered with a few other seniors to discuss something.

Bruce nudged Barry and motioned for him to join the conversation, but Barry felt a little hesitant, and Bruce rolled his eyes helplessly.

After a while, Kane knocked on the table, gathering everyone together, and he cleared his throat.

"I must stress to you once again that you are absolutely not allowed to go to the end of the corridor on the fourth floor of the main castle, and if you violate other school rules, you may only be punished by labor or the like, but if you violate this rule, you will bear the consequences!"

After everyone had dispersed, Barry leaned over to the door, and Kane leaned against the door of his dormitory, shook his head helplessly, and said, "I heard that someone from Zatara College strayed into that corridor and was injured, and now he has been taken to the hospital." ”

"You also know that the academy has the most people, and it is not easy to manage, it may be that someone forgot the repeated warnings of the professor and the prefect, and accidentally triggered some counter-magic, and the prefects of all their grades have been punished, I don't want to be punished, so, Barry, please take care of the students of your grade, don't really get yourself to the hospital!"

Kane said as he raised his eyes to look at Bruce not far away, and Barry glanced back at him before sighing deeply.

At ten o'clock that night, Barry stopped little Bruce on the steps of the floating spire.

"I knew you were going to go on a night trip." Barry sighed and said, "Don't tell me your destination is still the corridor on the fourth floor, people have been injured, don't you know?" ”

But little Bruce smiled sarcastically and said, "That's why I'm going, either follow me or go back to sleep." ”

"No way, I won't let you go!" Barry stopped in front of Bruce Jr., he was about the same age as Bruce Jr., but probably because Bruce Jr. was better nourished, so he was a little taller than Barry and a little stronger than him,

Still, Barry was uncompromising, and no matter how much Bruce Jr. pushed him, he wouldn't get out of the way, but at this time another voice sounded behind them.

"Barry, I think we should go and have a look, at least we should know what hurt that student."

Looking at the white-blond haired girl who gradually came out of the darkness, Barry sighed deeply and said, "Hallie, are you going to be stupid with him?" ”

"You've always been stupid, it's you." Bruce Jr. took the opportunity to push Barry away and walked forward quickly, without looking back, "If you want to stay here until dawn with you, I'm going to go now." ”

Barry could only grit his teeth and stomp his heel behind Bruce, although he knew that this was exactly what Bruce did, but he had no choice, whether it was his responsibility as a prefect or his conscience, it was impossible for him to watch Bruce die, even if Bruce Jr. was very annoying.

The floating spire was a certain distance from the main castle, and they had to walk through half of the garden, through the corridors, and across the courtyard in the middle of the manor to reach the main castle.

And as they walked through the corridor into the courtyard, Bruce looked up and squinted at the window on the fourth floor of the castle.

Gothic windows tend to be high and narrow, but the sides are symmetrical, and the moon is behind the castle, and the moonlight shines through the windows into the corridor, allowing the other side of the window to faintly see the scene in the corridor.

"What then?" Barry's eyes widened and he said in horror that he had just seen a large shadow flash through a window on the fourth floor.

Little Bruce didn't seem to be surprised, and as he walked briskly forward, he said, "It's not hard to guess, if that room really has something very important in store, then it can't be without guards. ”

"The professors reminded all the students not to go to the corridor on the fourth floor, perhaps because the guard was so cruel that the students couldn't handle it at all, and they weren't worried about the students stealing treasures, but because they were worried that the guards would hurt the students."

"Their fears are justified." Barry caught up with him and raised his voice and said, "The guards have wounded the students." ”

"That's not the point at all." Bruce looked up at the window again, quickened his pace and said, "If not to prevent students from stealing treasures, then to prevent whom?" ”

"Haven't you ever wondered why they put this kind of guard in the school that is far beyond the students' ability to cope, instead of setting up a few random tricks to hide from the students?"

Barry wasn't stupid either, he could hear what Bruce Jr. was saying, so he tentatively said, "Could this be a trap?" ”

"It's definitely a trap."

Little Bruce sighed softly and said, "And if I'm not mistaken, the monster guarding there is Sergei the Dryad. ”

Barry and Harley gasped together, they had seen Pamela's dryad companion during the day, the tree was not a towering tree, but it was at least four or five meters tall and leafy, and the arm called Pato was much thicker than their thighs, if this dryad named Sergei looked the same as his brother, it was indeed not something that the students could handle.

As they spoke, the three of them had already entered the castle, and the castle, which had long been empty, was now empty with only a few night lights, and the candles and shadows flickered, reflecting all the familiar things during the day into terrifying shadows.

Barry felt a little frightened, and Harley was even more startled, but Bruce kept his head down, and the three of them soon went up three floors to the staircase on the fourth floor.

The three little heads lined up neatly on the corner wall and looked at the huge shadow dangling at the end of the corridor on the fourth floor, it was a huge dryad that was almost exactly the same as the Pato they had seen this morning, but he looked even more terrifying in the dark corridor, those two green glowing eyes were like ghost fire, and the sharp claws seemed to tear apart all incoming enemies at any moment.

"It's really a dryad." Barry covered his mouth and squeezed out a breath from between his fingers, and Harley blinked and said, "Do you remember?" Professor Pamela said this morning that someone had borrowed the dryad, possibly to guard the room. ”

"Earth Magic Defense Network ......" Bruce spat out the word, and his tone was rarely mixed with mockery, but said very seriously, "The guys who followed me during the day today told me this word, and they said that this thing is very important to the wizarding world. ”

"In that room is the power core of the Magical Defense Network." Hallie's tone also became serious, as she said herself, she had only heard many things before, and had not seen them with her own eyes, so her cognition was also biased.

She knew that the green light energy existed, but she didn't know where these energies came from or how they existed, so it made sense to follow this line of thought that there would be a core to store this energy.

Barry was still a little confused, but Harry's tone gradually sank, and she said, "I was the first to enter the school, so I learned a little bit about the wizarding world, which has just experienced a catastrophe, do you know why?" ”

Harley told them as quickly and precisely as she could, and Barry clenched his fists.

"So it's all to blame on those human betrayers, how can they compromise with those angels and demons so spinelessly? If they hadn't backed down, how could the wizarding world be like this? Barry said angrily.

"I've heard Master Andrew say that sometimes I can't blame them entirely." Harley lowered her tone and said, "Angels and demons are too much more than humans, and humans will fall in love with their ways if they are not careful, and many magicians think they have a clear will, but in fact, they have long been controlled by demons. ”

Bruce narrowed his eyes, and he said, "Could it be that the dean and professors know that there may be controlled humans who have mixed into the academy and want to interfere with or even destroy the construction of the magical defense network, so they set this trap?" ”

"Quite possibly." Barry raised his voice and said, "Because if this magical defense network is built, then they really won't have a good life, and if it can't be built, they will be the ones who will benefit the most." ”

"Shhh......hh ”

"How do you think he's credible?" Bruce turned to stare at Hallie and said, "Take 10,000 steps back, if he has another solution, why do you want to make this trap?" ”

Hallie paused, but she wasn't convinced by Bruce Jr., she knew Schiller better than the other two, so she figured that if the Energy Core was really in danger, Schiller wouldn't have put it here so hastily.

Since it is here, and there are traps, it means that Schiller may have some plans, and in that case, it is better to wait and see what happens.

But at this moment, Barry narrowed his eyes and whispered, "Look, there seems to be someone over there!" ”

The other two immediately followed his gaze, only to see a dark shadow appear behind the side of the dryad, he was wearing a black robe, so he couldn't see his face clearly, and he couldn't see his body clearly, but he just rushed past behind the dryad.

The hearts of the three people immediately hung in the air, because behind the dryad was the door of the room, but the black shadow rushed to the door only to find that the door was locked, and the dryad's reaction was also very fast, and with a wave of the arm full of branches, it directly pumped towards the black shadow.

The shadow was too close, so he instinctively stretched out his arm to resist, and after a low cry of pain, the shadow grabbed his arm, and blood dripped from it.

Seizing the moment when the dryad's movements paused, the dark shadow slipped under his armpit, then jumped out of the window, and the three of them rushed down the stairs to the courtyard of the castle, but there was no one anymore.

The next morning, little Bruce, who had gone to the auditorium for breakfast, fixed his eyes on Schiller.

At this point, Schiller picks up the bread with a fork in one hand, while the other hand hangs down under the table and is hidden in his sleeve.

Victor, who had come over to work part-time, sat down next to Schiller, and Bruce pricked up his ears to listen to their conversation.

"What's wrong? Schiller, did you hurt your hand? ”

"It's just a small injury."

"It's really strange, you still get hurt, how did you get it?"

Schiller was silent, while Anna on the other side leaned over to Victor with a grin.

"He's playing with a shredder!"

Mediocrity: What is it? Touch it! Ahh

(End of chapter)