In the process of gliding down the pipe, Xiwen was not used to the slippery and greasy pipe, so he transformed into the morphed form of his own Melediths and Animagus, and turned into a small blue-purple snake with plain white wings and flew down the pipe.

In front of the little snake, Riddle was still sliding in front of him, his movements were very calm and skillful, and he looked like he had done this many times.

I don't know how long it took to slide, but Riddle suddenly fell to the plane, and the water pipe became horizontal, and further on was the outlet of the water pipe.

He sat down on the wet ground with a "poof", and although he quickly stood up skillfully, his robe was still stained with some sticky dirt.

Immediately after Riddle, the small blue-purple snake of Greek culture emerged from the mouth of the pipe, and easily turned into a human form and landed on the ground. Not only that, but he also applied a fire and water invulnerability spell on his shoes in advance, so that his whole body was not stained with a trace of dirty mud, which was in stark contrast to Riddle's slightly embarrassed figure.

Seeing Riddle pull out his wand and prepare to clean his clothes, Xiwen also took out his wand, and began to look at the secret chamber that was miles deep under Hogwarts Castle by the light of the wand lighting spell.

It was a dark stone tunnel, large enough to stand tall and straight.

The surrounding walls are dark and slimy, making the tunnel look particularly eerie. There was no light source other than the wand illumination spell in Xiwen's hand, and he could only see a small area in front of him, and he couldn't see the overall layout of the tunnel.

At this point, Riddle also cleaned his robe with a cleansing charm.

He straightened the folds of his clothes slightly, looked at Shivan and said, "Is there an idea to visit the Chamber of the Great Salazar Slytherin, Senior Rozier?" ”

The last "senior" he shouted very hard, as if he was venting his anger against Xiwen for preaching to him.

Shivin glanced at Riddle in the dim surroundings and nodded slightly.

"Why not?" He said.

Riddle then led the way to the front of the tunnel, leading Shivin into the depths of the chamber.

The two of them walked on the road, neither of them spoke, only the footsteps clattered on the wet ground, and the sound echoed very loudly in the empty tunnel.

Their current state did not look like opponents who were about to have a life-and-death duel, but rather like a pair of ordinary seniors and juniors, walking in the corridors of the castle one after the other, relaxed and brisk......

Unlike the torch-strewn corridors of the castle, the tunnels were so dark that there was no light source other than the wand lighting spell in Shivan's hand, which reflected the shadows of Shivin and Riddle on the wet walls, looking like two strange monsters.

Riddle was already so familiar with the area that he was able to get to his destination from memory, even when there was no light.

But Xiwen couldn't stand this dark and oppressive environment anymore, and he silently raised his wand and silently used an enhanced version of the wand lighting spell, conjuring a ball of light to follow him, and at the same time illuminate the space around him.

In the suddenly brightened environment, the tunnel was still as silent as a tomb, but the gloomy atmosphere dispelled a lot.

At this moment, an unexpected "click" sounded at Xiwen's feet.

Shivin looked down at the ground and found himself stepping on the skull of a small animal.

Surprised, he took a closer look back and forth of the ground, and found that not only his feet, but also the bones of some small animals were everywhere in the tunnel, which seemed to be the food that the basilisk had found underground when he woke up from hibernation.

Xiwen was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously imagined the size of the basilisk and the size of these small animals, and after making a comparison, he couldn't figure out how the basilisk could rely on these small things to survive for nine hundred years deep underground.

After all, I don't know if it was because the previous descendants of the Gaunt family didn't discover Salazar Slytherin's secret room, or if they did, but they didn't have the courage to release the basilisk. In short, in the past few hundred years and nearly a thousand years of history, there have been very few incidents of basilisks hurting people, and the very few such incidents have occurred extremely far away from Hogwarts, and they are definitely not the ones you just saw.

In this way, the basilisk must have mastered an innate ability to sleep deeply, and can reduce its metabolism to the point where it is almost no longer functioning, so as to survive the long 900 years.

As for the reason for the formation of the carcasses of those small animals, I am afraid that either its energy is about to run out and has to be replenished; Otherwise, a descendant of the Gaunt family did use the Parseltongue to find this place and awaken the basilisk in a deep dormant state, so that it had to eat some small animals to have enough energy to continue dormancy.

Thinking of this, Xiwen suddenly found that this basilisk could easily drill out of the Slytherin chamber from the depths of the tunnel at any time, and could also freely shuttle through the pipes scattered throughout the castle, and could catch a lone little wizard at any time to catch and eat it, and he would not only find some small animals to stuff his teeth.

But it never did!

Except for being petrified by Tom Riddle, the heir of the Gaunt family, with a Parseltongue to petrify a little wizard and a ghost, it has never taken the initiative to do anything bad to harm humans!

Xiwen couldn't help but have some doubts about the significance of the basilisk's existence.

If it is a Slytherin remnant, in order to eliminate Muggle-born wizards and prevent their bloodlines from being defiled, then the basilisk can come out of the vault at any time and eat any hemp wizard.

The way it comes and goes through the pipes without a trace is not easy to attract the attention of others, and even cannibalism is not necessarily noticed by the Headmaster and Professors of Hogwarts.

So why don't you do it?

Could it be that Salazar Slytherin left the basilisk as a decoration? Naturally, this is not something that a great wizard like Slytherin could have done a thousand years ago.

So the truth is more likely to be an aspect that is difficult for everyone to think of, and Salazar Slytherin left this basilisk not so that it could rid it of the hemp wizard, but more likely to make it a secret weapon to protect Hogwarts!

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