Chapter 117 Basilisk
Hermione dragged Harry and Maple to the library, where it would be much easier to find the monsters if they were limited to snakes.
Hermione's performance in the library made Harry and Maple smack, and although Hermione didn't have the ability to look through the entire library's collection, she could see the catalog of most of the books in the library at a glance.
While rummaging through Nicolame's clues, Hermione knew where the book was located in the library, even though she hadn't read the contents of the book. Another example is the book Powerful Potion for Compound Decoction, Hermione has not read the contents of the book, but she knows that there is another book in the forbidden book area, and can quickly find it out of the forbidden book area.
"Here, look at thisβ" Hermione took a very old library book, flipped to a page and read to Maple and them, "In our country, there are many terrible beasts and monsters, the most bizarre and deadly of which is the basilisk Basrisk. The snake can become very large, usually living for hundreds of years, and it hatches from a male egg from a toad. In addition to its deadly fangs, the basilisk's glare can also cause death, and anyone who catches its gaze will die instantly. The spider will run away when it sees the basilisk because the basilisk is the spider's sinister enemy, and the basilisk will only run for its life if it hears the rooster's crow, because the rooster's crow is also fatal to it. β
"The basilisk is probably the real monster in the chamber, so Harry was able to hear the monster on the day the basilisk appeared, but Ron and I couldn't because Harry is a parseltongue. And in the place where the monsters in the secret room are infested, the spiders escaped in a hurry, which is also in line with it. Hermione said.
"Yes, and Slytherin himself is a parseltongue, and the symbol of Slytherin House is also a snake. Since the Chamber of Secrets was left behind by Slytherin, then Basriskk is more likely to be a monster in the Chamber of Secrets. Maple agreed.
"And we can confirm it further. Since the basilisk is most afraid of the rooster's crow, the Slytherin heir will definitely take action to get rid of all the roosters in the school in order to make the basilisk more comfortable to move. Just check if the rooster in the school has mysteriously died, and you can confirm whether the monster in the secret room is a basilisk or not. Maple added.
"Whoever the basilisk's eyes look at will die, but why didn't Lady Loris die, but was only petrified?" Harry asked, having a question in mind.
"Water," Hermione's mind spun the fastest, and she thought of the result without prompting Maple: "Lady Loris is not dead, probably because it didn't use direct contact with the basilisk's eyes, it should have only seen the reflection in the water." β
"But Ron only saw the spider's eyesβ" Harry hesitated again.
"That's because the person who released the basilisk is a dark wizard who is proficient in the art of curses, and she seems to have a way of transferring the basilisk's lethal pupils remotely." Maple then recounted to them in detail how he had been injured.
"Curse, so to speak..." Hermione suddenly realized.
"She should be the same person who sent you the curse!" Maple said.
"I smell the prey, let me kill, let me eat them!"
Harry's face suddenly turned pale, and he yelled at Hermione and Maple, "Oh no, it's coming." β
As Harry warned Maple and Hermione, he heard another voice that seemed a little angry: "Shut up! β
Maple immediately took out the map of the living spot he carried with him, and quickly said, "I solemnly swear that I will not do good deeds."
"What is this?" Hermione looked curiously at the map that Maple had suddenly taken out.
"Ahh Hermione quickly saw the various markers of the school on the map through the logo of the map, and then saw that there were three small dots of Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and Maple Arribas in the location of the library, and Hermione couldn't help but open her mouth wide in surprise when she saw such a magical magic.
Maple quickly frowned, as he didn't see any small dots around the library on the map that were closing in on their location.
In other words, Miss Pandora hadn't seen the map with her own eyes, but she had roughly guessed the function of the map through feedback from the Scarlet Doll. They had the ability to erase their names from the map of the living spots, much to Maple's dismay.
However, it is imperative to find a way to deal with the basilisk Basilisk as soon as possible.
By the way, it occurred to Maple that in addition to the three of them, there was also Mrs. Pince, the librarian.
"Faint!" Maple unceremoniously knocked Mrs. Pins unconscious, then cast a phantasmagion spell on her and vanished.
Wait, the basilisk can still catch up with the scent, is there any magic spell to quench the smell?
Maple looked down and immediately noticed his watch.
Maple quickly used her watch to connect with Mary, and was connected almost instantly.
"Mary, help me contact Mr. Nicolame, I'm in a hurry!" As if afraid of Mary's delay, Maple added: "I am in danger, a life-and-death crisis, and I must ask Mr. Nicol Lamay for help." β
"Okay, I'll go right away." When Mary heard Maple's hurried tone, she immediately realized the seriousness of the matter and hurriedly went to find Nicolame.
"Mr. Nicolamay, do you know the spell that can dispel the smell of your body?" After contacting Nicolame, Maple didn't bother to greet him, and said hurriedly.
"The spell is gone!" Nicola also knew that Maple was in trouble immediately, and quickly told Maple the spell, and demonstrated it to Maple with a stereoscopic projection of light and shadow.
"Yes, thank you, sir!" At the moment of crisis, Maple didn't care about wasting or not wasting it, so he directly used Li Xiaoyao's card and learned the anti-trace spell in one go.
"Wipe it out!" "Wipe it out!" "Wipe it out!" "Wipe it out!"
Maple directly used the Trace Removal Charm four times to remove the scent of Mrs. Pince and the three of them, and then cast the Illusion Charm on the three of them three times as well. Maple then cast another silence spell so that their voices would not be noticed.
Harry and Hermione were left in a corner of the library, but Maple came to the library door to stand guard.
But how could Hermione be willing to let Maple risk it alone, she followed, and Harry was going to follow him.
Isn't that adding to the chaos!
"All petrochemicals!" Maple casts a petrification spell, but only hits Harry.
Just as he was about to take a look at Hermione, he suddenly heard something mopping the floor, and it seemed that the basilisk was coming over immediately. Maple had no choice but to stop any movement and give up on his plans.
Having guessed the true face of the basilisk in advance, the three of Maple just looked down at the ground, for fear of accidentally making eye contact with the basilisk.
The sound of the basilisk roaming the ground grew louder and louder, and soon, they saw the basilisk for what it really was.
A huge viper, green all over, glowing with the brilliant light peculiar to a viper, with a body as thick as the trunk of an oak tree, although they could only see part of the basilisk through a small line of sight, they could still roughly guess that the length of the basilisk's body would not be less than twenty feet.
Even with the Silence Charm, Maple and the others had to carefully control their breathing, so as not to make too much of a fluctuation in the air and be sensed by the basilisk.
Maple and Hermione struggled to keep their fears under control, being careful not to make a sound for fear of alarming the basilisk.
Suddenly, Maple's face turned ugly again.
Damn it! How to ignore the way the snake senses heat!
Thinking of this, Maple immediately clenched his wand and guarded it carefully.
However, the basilisk did not immediately discover their location, as Maple had feared, and Maple was relieved. Generally, only those snakes that often come out at night to hunt prey will have the ability to sense heat, such as rattlesnakes, pit vipers, desert vipers, bamboo leaf greens, etc., and strictly speaking, although Basrisk has the appearance of a snake and has the title of basilisk and snake king, it is not a real snake itself.
The basilisk, which mainly relies on a pair of large eyes and a sense of smell to spot its prey, has its large head bobbing back and forth in the air in confusion after not perceiving the scent of a living person or seeing any shadow of its prey. But in the end, after finding nothing, the basilisk angrily knocked down several bookshelves, and finally reluctantly retreated from the library.
Maple and the others were lucky enough to be smashed by the bookshelves knocked down by the basilisk. Just as they thought the basilisk was gone, the basilisk quickly swam up again. And in front of it, there was a cursed doll floating in the air, and the doll quickly floated in front of Hermione and stopped.
Damn, that Pandora still has Hermione's hair on her!
At the moment, Maple didn't care about hiding, and rushed out directly to cast magic on the basilisk.
"Shapeshift!" Instead of using attack magic directly, Maple cast a Transfiguration Charm to conjure a rooster that crowed at the basilisk.
Hermione also came to help, and soon a large pile of crowing roosters appeared in front of the basilisk.
To the disappointment of Maple and the others, the magic roosters and the crowing of the roosters did not cause fatal damage to the basilisk. But the shadow of the basilisk's fear of roosters was still there, and when he saw a large number of roosters appear in front of him, the basilisk immediately shrank back a long distance in fright.
But after the mana of the body was not harmed by the crowing of the rooster, the basilisk also reacted quickly and found that the roosters were fake.
However, in a fit of rage, the basilisk, who didn't use much intelligence, did not attack Maple and them directly, but vented his anger on these fake roosters first.
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