Chapter 4: Hatching the Basilisk
Rove would love to change cars now.
In the opposite carriage, he is a strange uncle with a high vigilance, and he also has a strange daughter;
In the carriage on the left, there is a witch who walks around in pajamas and likes to watch other people's carriages.
In the room on the right, there is a tall, fierce middle-aged wizard who snores loudly.
Rove found that the neighbors he met on this trip seemed to be strange, and he was the only normal person.
To be on the safe side, he placed a lot of protective magic on the door before he got into the black leather box.
Standing in front of a cave, Rove heard a muffled curse coming from inside the cave.
"Cruel...... Blinded our eyes...... Slytherin will kill you...... Kill you...... Eat you...... Curse you......"
Rove hissed and ordered, "Come out." ”
The curse died down immediately, and the basilisk emerged from the cave, its head raised and its mouth open, revealing two ivory fangs.
Rove sat on a stone and asked, "Who were you cursing just now?" ”
"We didn't say anything...... Wizard, you heard me wrong...... Hiss...... Don't wronged us......" The basilisk lowered its head and began to sob.
"If you don't love it, please don't hurt! We've been blinded by you, and you're not going to hurt us anymore, are you...... Little wizard? ”
"Why do you always like to talk about us?" Rove frowned.
"That's us...... Sizzle. The basilisk said, "We have two souls in us...... It kept whispering to me...... Encourage me not to be afraid...... Talk to me when you're lonely......"
"Can the basilisk also be schizophrenic?" Rove had only heard of human schizophrenia and had many personalities, but it was the first time he had seen a basilisk with this symptom.
But after more than 900 years of being locked up in a secret room, schizophrenia doesn't seem so difficult to understand.
"You don't understand, little wizard...... Sizzle. The basilisk raised its head, and pointed its blinded eye socket at the boy, and a human sneer came from the corner of its mouth:
"You don't understand anything......"
"I can understand some of the discussions." Rove looked directly at the basilisk: "I want you to answer some of my questions, you know?" ”
"Okay." The basilisk hovered over and said, "As long as we know, we will tell you." ”
Rove pondered for a moment and asked, "When were you born?" ”
"Many years ago...... There was no Hogwarts at that time, so I followed Slytherin, and every time a wizard duel, he would take me with him......"
"So, the other three of the Big Four know about you?" Rove was stunned.
"Of course." The basilisk hissed in his throat, "Slytherin is a parseltongue, and he used his talents to the fullest, which was most normal in those chaotic times. ”
"When was the Chamber of Secrets established?" Rove raised an eyebrow.
"When Hogwarts was founded, Slytherin built a room beneath the Black Lagoon, a room where no one could disturb his research on magic...... It's the Chamber of Secrets. ”
"Does the other know about this room?" Rove asked curiously.
"Yes, but not the exact location." The basilisk snorted in his throat and said, "Wizards study magic, and they are very taboo to be disturbed by others, and they also have their own secret magic houses, which are not known to outsiders. ”
"But one night, Slytherin suddenly told me that he was leaving Hogwarts and might never return...... Let me wait in the secret room for his successor......"
"How do you determine the heirs of Slytherin?" Rove was curious: "Whoever finds the secret room counts?" ”
"Of course not, a wizard with Slytherin blood and a Parseltongue, or a wizard with his wand......" Basilisk scoffed, "like you aren't." ”
Rove asked, "Slytherin's wand?" ”
"Use our horn as the core of the wand, and the wood is the wand of snake wood." The basilisk hissed, "But we've never seen a wizard come to us with that wand in hand. ”
Loving silently wrote it down in his mind, and he continued to ask, "Did Slytherin leave any other orders?" For example, after the heirs open the secret room, let you purify the school and get rid of Muggle-born students? ”
"Nope!" The basilisk snorted, "It only takes a few students to close the school immediately, how could Slytherin give such a stupid order?" ”
Rove narrowed his eyes, who had spread the long-standing rumor about the secret room monsters clearing Muggles at Hogwarts?
"What is the Slytherin mission for you?"
"Teach the dark arts of Slytherin." The basilisk hissed, "Teach those incomparably powerful magic to his descendants." ”
"What wizards have you taught?"
"Corvinus Gaunt and Tom Riddle, they've both become powerful wizards." The basilisk said in a demagogic voice:
"Child, Slytherin magic is something you can't imagine...... You're going to be powerful...... More powerful than any wizard...... We can tell you how to live forever...... If you make a Horcrux......"
Rov was a little wary, he stared at the basilisk and said:
"That's how you tricked Tom Riddle, right? He was only sixteen years old, and you taught him a lot of black magic and made Horcruxes? ”
"It's not a deception...... He was born a bad seed...... But he did get stronger, you can't deny that......" said the basilisk in a hoarse voice:
"Kid, don't you want to be strong?"
"Didn't you say I wasn't a descendant of Slytherin?" Rove leaned back and said, "Why are you so keen on teaching me magic?" ”
The basilisk lifted its head that had been poked in the blind eye, and said in a somewhat humble tone, "We just want to...... Live. ”
"But alas, I have my own powerful methods." Rove shook his head: "Not interested in Horcruxes and Slytherin's dark arts. ”
The basilisk was a little disappointed.
It was disappointing!
"But...... I'm interested in the creation of basilisks. Rove took out an egg and frowned:
"According to the records, the birth of the basilisk is to put an egg under the body of a toad to hatch, I have tried before, but all failed, what's going on?"
Ever since he got the Parseltongue, Rove has been trying to make his own basilisk, a creature that has many weaknesses but is also very powerful.
Unfortunately, none of them succeeded, and he had to turn to the basilisk for help.
"Kid, it's so easy to make a basilisk, but we can teach you ......" Basilisk laughed.
As long as you are willing to learn from it, black magic will gradually corrupt people's hearts and gradually degenerate.
There is a first, and this teenager will soon have a second time, and then slowly indulge in it.
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The Orient Express came to a sudden halt.
In the distance, a group of masked wizards, apparitions, appeared in front of the tracks and stopped the train.
The sorcerer at the head stammered and shouted:
"Hit ...... Robbery ......"
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(Thanks to the two bigwigs of "A Salted Fish and Sheep" and "Banyan Forest" for their tips.) )