Chapter 116: Jumping and Fighting (Part II)
Luo Cheng knew what Dumbledore meant, and if he had been able to discover the Chamber of Secrets 50 years ago, then maybe there would have been a lot less regret.
"It turns out that the Gaunt family changed the entrance here."
Dumbledore's eyes were deep, and his words invisibly revealed a lot of information, which made Luo Cheng also a little interested.
"Headmaster, why do you say that?"
"Rumors of the Chamber of Secrets actually spread among Hogwarts students after Salazar Slytherin's death. The direct descendants of Slytherin have always been high-profile, and the secrets of the Chamber of Secrets have been passed on by word of mouth. In the early days of Hogwarts, many Headmasters actually entered the Chamber of Secrets, and in the beginning, people only had to pass through a hidden trapdoor and a series of enchanted passages to enter the Chamber of Secrets, and this information was kept in the Headmaster's Room, and only the Headmaster had permission to know. ”
Dumbledore paused, then continued, "But by the 18th century, Hogwarts' plumbing system had become more and more complex, and the Gaunts, the direct descendants of Slytherin, had weakened. As a result of their marriage, they become more and more neurotic and suspicious, and they begin to tend to hide the Chamber of Secrets again as a secret known only to their own family. It is said that the last of the Gaunt family, Corvinus Gaunt, hid the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets while he was a student, and the Chamber has since become a true legend. I also just found out that he changed the entrance to the girls' bathroom, no wonder everyone can't find it. ”
"And this entrance is not very easy to open, I have used some spell solving techniques before, and it is useless. If it weren't for the Slytherin logo, I wouldn't have felt like this faucet was hiding a secret. ”
Luo Cheng added that he couldn't speak snake language, because the ability of the Parseltongue was also valuable in the system mall, and he was reluctant to exchange it. That's why he chose to pull Dumbledore for this quest, because Dumbledore was fluent in many languages, such as mermaids, goblins, and snakes.
"I think we need to use snake language, the Gaunt family are all Parseltongue, and they are all proud of Parseltongue."
Dumbledore really deserved to be the greatest white wizard, and he didn't need Luo Chengduo to say anything to get to the point, and he let out a strange hissing sound from his mouth.
The dragon's head emitted a dazzling white light and began to spin rapidly. Then the pool moved. They watched as the pool slowly faded from view, revealing a very thick pipe that could fit a person in.
"Very well done, Professor Luo Cheng, don't mind going down and having a look together."
Dumbledore drew his wand.
"Of course I don't mind." Luo Cheng said with a smile, he knew that this wizard leader still wanted to confirm something, and why didn't he dare to follow the full-level tuba dungeon?
Dumbledore got into the pipe first, then Luo Cheng followed, and as soon as he let go, he allowed himself to slide down.
It felt like speeding down a dark, slimy, endless slide. Luo Cheng could see that there were still many pipes branching out in all directions, but none of them were as thick as this pipe. Their pipe twists and turns, and the slope is steep all the way down.
"I haven't been on the roller coaster for that long."
Just as Luo Cheng sighed, he suddenly fell to the ground. The water pipe became horizontal, and he came out of the mouth of the pipe, and fell to the damp ground with a pop. It was a dark stone tunnel, big enough for a person to stand in.
Dumbledore stood in front of him, as if observing something.
"We should be a mile deep below the bottom of the lake right now." Dumbledore said. "It's hard to imagine that Salazar Slytherin had built such a secret chamber by himself under the noses of the other three founders."
"Clean up!"
Luo Cheng stood up from the damp ground and cast a spell to clean his robes.
"Let's go, let's see the secrets here." Dumbledore said.
The tunnels were as silent as graves, but there were occasional exceptions - there were bones of small animals everywhere in the tunnels. As soon as you step on the bone, it makes a crisp sound.
"Look, there's something there." Dumbledore pointed ahead, and Luo Cheng saw the outline of a coiled behemoth, lying motionless on the other side of the tunnel.
Dumbledore raised his wand, and no incantation was uttered, and a bright flash of light flashed across it, illuminating the dimly lit tunnel.
The light shone on a huge snakeskin, green and bright, and at first glance it looked like the skin of a poisonous snake, coiled around the floor of the tunnel, and the inside was empty. Apparently, the animal that had just shed this layer of skin was at least twenty feet long.
"Looks like you're right, Professor Luo Cheng. There is indeed a monster hidden in the secret room, a basilisk that has lived for a thousand years......"