It's Bernie Selwyn.

He staggered, his expression panicked, his face was scratched with a few bloody marks, his left arm sleeve was empty, and his clothes and trousers were full of mud and water.

"Sister!" He was blinded by the glare from Joel's wand and shouted, "Go, get out of here!" ”

Helis was anxious when she saw her brother looking so embarrassed.

"Did Lockhart hurt you like this?"

Before her question could be answered, Lockhart appeared behind Bernie.

"Stop, Selwyn!" Lockhart gasped, his blond hair was messy and no longer glamorous, and he pointed his wand at Bernie's back, "You don't want to die here, do you?" ”

"How dare you attack your classmates!" Ron had long since looked at Lockhart unpleasantly, "You scum like you who murdered your colleagues and students don't deserve to teach at Hogwarts!" ”

"Listen to me......" Lockhart hunched over his legs, gasping for air.

"Lockhart, you can take it with your hands tied! The professors are on their way here, and you don't want to leave Hogwarts today! Harry yelled, giving himself a boost as he and Ron drew their wands and confronted Lockhart.

On the other side, Helis hurriedly pulled Bernie to her side, Joel frowned slightly, what about the basilisk? Where did you go?

As if to confirm what he had in mind, a foul wind came from the other end of the tunnel, followed by a rustling sound like a snake sliding on the ground.

"Basilisk!" Lockhart shouted, "It's too late to explain, you guys come with me!" ”

He hurried towards Joel and the others, and then kept running off into the distance.

Joel was stunned for a moment, now that he had no choice—the sound of the basilisk crawling was getting closer.

"Keep up with him!" Joel said to his partner, "Don't look back, or you'll be in the company of Myrtle!" ”

Several people hurried to follow Lockhart's footsteps, and in the tunnel where they couldn't see their fingers, the light from the wand was bumping up and down, and the people were panicking, and the basilisk behind them was chasing so fast that they could hear the sound of several stones being crushed into powder.

"Come with me over here!" Lockhart took the lead, taking advantage of his long legs to the fullest, and he had already run to the thick water pipe where he had fallen, and dodged and jumped.

"Thunderbolt Explosion!" He shouted, and his wand in his hand burst into a purple glow.

The other five flashed to Lockhart's side, and the spell hit the rock above the tunnel, and the effect of the explosion spell was so powerful that it crumbled large pieces of rubble off the tunnel ceiling.

Joel understood Lockhart's plan, and at the same time used his magic to pile up the stones scattered on the ground, forming a thick stone wall.

"Will this stop the snake?" As he acted, Ron asked from the side.

"How is that possible?" Lockhart gasped and said, "This stone wall can only help delay for a while, we need to take advantage of the opportunity to shake him off!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he turned his head and continued to move towards the darkness, and several others followed.

"Bernie!" Helis saw that her brother was still stunned and looked at the stone wall, and reached out to pull him, "Get out of here quickly, it's too dangerous!" ”

Bernie Selwyn turned her head, her eyes were scarlet, and Haylis looked dazed, and at this moment, she seemed to see a beautiful and handsome brunette boy in Bernie.

It was this stunned effort that the wand in Bernie's hand was pressed against Helis's soft abdomen, and under the blessing of the spell, it was like a sharp knife, piercing through the school robe and stabbing into the flesh.

The sound of a sharp weapon echoing through the tunnel, and Joel turned to see Hayris's emaciated body sinking to the ground, revealing Bernie Selwyn's face, his hideous face, staring at the crowd as if he were looking at a pile of prey.

"Haylis!" Joel hurriedly stepped forward to support Helis's body.

Everyone froze in place, including Lockhart.

There was a loud bang, and the stone wall was knocked out of a dent.

"Let's go! Come on! Lockhart drank.

Joel didn't think much of it, and a barrier spell hit Bernie's body, and then he carried Helis and left behind the group.

Bernie stood still, it was Joel's obstacle spell that worked, "Run, run, I'm going to see how far you can run......"

He looked behind him, and the basilisk behind the stone wall seemed to feel his gaze, and the impact became more and more violent, mixed with a hoarse voice, and the beast that had lived alone for thousands of years used all its strength.

The group headed for the darker place, the dark tunnel was not exactly straight, sometimes with a slight arc, making Joel feel like he was running around the university playground.

"What's going on?" Ron's face turned pale, "What's the matter with that Selwyn?" ”

"I was careless," Lockhart's tone was not as unhurried as before, as calm and serious as Joel had when he first met him, "it was Selwyn who released the basilisk from the chamber. ”

"What?!" Harry was surprised, he had always thought it was Lockhart's troublemaker, and if it weren't for the basilisk chasing after him, he would have attacked Lockhart early in the morning.

"I thought Selwyn just knew how to open the Chamber of Secrets," Lockhart gasped heavily, "I didn't think he had other secrets hidden in him!" ”

"It's a long story, we'll talk about it when we find a hidden location!" Lockhart led them to a fork in the road, with two passages ahead, one continuing to curve forward and the other extending upward.

"Go this way!" Lockhart gritted his teeth and ran forward with them, casting an explosive spell that knocked down the rocks above the tunnel and sealed the entrance to the passage above.

Joel hugged Helis in her arms, she was extremely weak, her thin body curled up in Joel's arms, her palms tightly covering the wound in her abdomen, there was a knife wound about a few inches deep, blood kept flowing outward, and the tyrannical magic almost pierced her body.

Joel cast a levitation charm on Hayris's body, trying to keep up with the crowd in front of him as little stress as possible.

Lockhart led them all the way forward, and when Joel felt like his lungs were about to explode, Lockhart finally stopped.

In front of them was a smooth stone wall with two intertwined silver snakes carved in the center, their two pairs of eye sockets inlaid with emerald green gems.

"You should need a parseltongue here," Lockhart looked at Harry, "Mr. Potter, it's up to you." ”

Harry's mouth was dry, and he looked at the pair of silver snakes in front of him, he didn't need Joel to use Transfiguration to urge him this time, so he said in a low, dark voice, "Open." ”

The two snakes separated, and the stone wall cracked in the middle and slowly slid to both sides and disappeared.

The crowd stepped in, and they were now standing on the side of a long, dimly lit hall, in front of a statue standing above the sky (with the ceiling above their heads and feet on the ground), clinging to the dark wall behind them.

The five looked up and saw the statue's face, an old dragon clock, like a monkey, with a sparse beard that dragged almost all the way to the hem of the wizard's robe carved out of stone, and two large gray feet stood on the smooth floor of the room.

Salazar Slytherin, whose portrait is in the castle, is instantly recognizable.

There are many stone pillars carved with coiled and entangled serpents in the hall, towering to support the ceiling that melts into the darkness of the heights, casting a long and strange black shadow on the entire hall filled with green and mystery.

"It's safe for now, I've sealed the exit of another passage, Selwin and the basilisk should be focusing on that passage," Lockhart let out a cloudy breath and sat on the ground in embarrassment, he had been running for a long time, his legs and feet were weak and weak, his throat and eyes seemed to be on fire, "Let's rest here for a while." ”

"This is the Chamber of Secrets?" Harry and Ron were curious about this, and the two of them looked at the serpent on the stone pillar, and felt that the atmosphere in the whole hall was eerie.

"The answer is obvious, the tunnel is built next to the Black Lake, in an irregular oval, and we have come full circle to the secret room," Lockhart saw Helis dying in Joel's arms, and took out a bottle of white fresh from his pocket, "Yes, apply it to the wound to stop the bleeding." ”

"Thank you." Joel took the white fresh, unscrewed the cap and splashed it on Helis's wound.

She let out a muffled grunt, her fingers gripping Joel's arm hard, obviously in pain.

"Don't be afraid, I'm ......" Joel reached out and hooked the black hair from the corner of Helis's forehead behind his ear, and in a slimy cold sweat, he soothed her with his gentlest voice.

Hylis' brow furrowed slightly, and she pursed her pale lips as she watched quietly as Joel drugged her.

The wound finally stopped, and Joel put Haylis's body in a comfortable position and leaned against his knee.

"Can you tell us about the cause and effect of this?" Joel asked, and Ron and Harry, who were watching the Pillar Serpent on the other side, rushed back.

Lockhart sighed. "I found out the truth on the day Hermione Granger was injured."

"I lied, and I left my room shortly after Granger left my office, and when I went downstairs, I saw Granger lying motionless on the stairs with petrified and Bernie Selwyn holding a black journal and disappearing into the hallway with a thick snake's tail."

"I checked the relevant information, combined with the relevant clues I had, and determined that the monster in the secret room was a basilisk." Lockhart spoke unhurriedly.

"Then why didn't you inform Dumbledore?" Harry asked, "As long as Dumbledore makes a move, we can solve this problem!" ”

Lockhart was silent for a long time, but did not answer.

"You're trying to catch the basilisk alone, right?" Joel stroked Haylis' ponytail gently, "You want to take this credit for yourself?" Would you like to go back and publish a book to promote your exploits? ”

"That's right," Lockhart smiled wryly, "I didn't expect Selwyn to escape from me, I cut off one of his arms, and he was able to hide in the Chamber of Secrets and summon the basilisk." ”

"I guess he's mastered some sort of dark magic mystery," Lockhart continued, "I've been chasing him for a long time, sometimes he's in a conscious state, and sometimes he's very vulnerable, and sometimes he's hideous, like a demon out of his cage. ”

"It's that journal," Joel sighed, "that diary is a dark magic artifact. ”

The crowd looked at them with doubt.

"I ...... during the summer vacation," Joel said short, telling everyone about his summer vacation being implicated by Lucius, "I didn't expect the Wizengamot to acquit Lucius Malfoy and let him leave the Ministry with his notebook." ”

"Did Malfoy give the diary to my brother?" Haylis said in a weak tone, "What a restless and kind old golden retriever. ”

She didn't care about pure-blood family etiquette anymore, and insulted Lucius with the dirtiest words she could think of.

"That journal can answer the questions you write on it, you can learn a lot, but after a long time you will feel that the diary is affecting your mind......" Joel lied a little bit, he didn't dare to write on it when he saw it, for fear of arousing Tom Riddle's suspicions.

"I see." Helis understood, she lightly touched her wound, her aching body curled up, and Joel quickly rubbed her shoulder.

"Can Bernie's arm still be attached?" Haylis asked.

Lockhart was stunned for a second and quickly replied, "Of course, the spell I use is not ruthless, as long as I send it to St. Mungo for a week, the bone spirit can reconnect his severed arm." ”

Harry and Ron were in mixed moods, the two of them didn't expect Lockhart to be the real murderer who opened the secret room, and after thinking for a while, they got up and left, and walked around the hall to satisfy their curiosity.

Joel stared at Helis in her lap, smoothing her messy black hair, while Lockhart looked at Helis's wounds.

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"I seem to have overlooked a question," he yelled at himself, "Damn! ”

"What's wrong?" Joel frowned, and he followed Lockhart's gaze to Hayris's injured abdomen, where the blood was no longer flowing and the wound was slowly healing.

He also realized what the problem was, there must have been a lot of blood flowing from Hailis's wounds to the tunnel floor along the way, and the running process was very tense that he didn't have time to deal with it, and Lockhart's attempt to fool the basilisk was in vain.

There was a sound of rustling and footsteps, clearly from the basilisk and Bernie.

"Let's go! I'm trying to find a way to stop them. Lockhart stepped forward with his wand in his hand, protecting the students behind him, his strength not yet fully recovered, and it was impossible to run long distances.

Joel picked up the weakened Helis and ran to the back of the hall, where Ron and Harry were standing in front of the last pair of stone pillars, at the end of which was also a stone wall with two small snakes carved into it.

Harry didn't hesitate and ordered the snake to open the stone wall in a parseltongue.

They heard Bernie Selwyn's frantic voice behind them: "Stay here today!" This is my revenge on you! ”

Bernie Selwyn had gone into complete madness.