Hogwarts is guarded on all sides by Dementors, and if Peter Pettigrew tries to escape, he is unlikely to do so.

The secret passages leading to the outside of the school naturally became the highest priority.

Not to mention those secret passages that may not have been discovered yet, there are as many as 5 of them alone.

And Rosie and Blake are only two people, and they are obviously understaffed.

"Looks like we're going to have to get outside help."

Rosie, who was hiding in a hidden corner on the third floor of the castle, looked at Black.

"Looking for foreign help? Who? ”

Blake lowered his voice, "You have to be able to make sure that the foreign aid you find won't betray me. ”

Just then, a thickly furred cat quickly jumped down from the upper floor.

"Crook Hill?"

Rosie, who had seen the cat for a short time, immediately recognized it as Hermione's pet.

"Meow!"

Crook Hill yelled at Rossi, then stopped in Blake's footsteps.

No, it looks like it's just coming for Blake.

"This cat is very smart, I communicated with it for a long time, and finally made it understand my thoughts."

Blake glanced down at Crookshank, then said to Rosie proudly, "It's helping me find Peter." ”

After a pause, he said with a dry smile: "It just looks a little naughty." ”

"I know it's smart......" Rossi's gaze was fixed on the interaction between the two of them.

Crookhill tugged at Blake's trouser leg with his mouth, and the four little short legs desperately backed back, while Blake only pushed it aside with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

But you don't seem to be very smart, Blake!

Rolling his eyes, Rossi complained speechlessly.

Squatting down, gently stroking its soft fur, he asked gently:

"Crookshan, did you find something? Want to take us there? ”

"Meow~"

Crookshank immediately gave up on fighting Blake, and instead rubbed Rossi's hand a few times with his flat face.

Then, it circled around Rossi twice and walked briskly upstairs.

Apparently trying to take them to find something.

"Uh...... Does it mean let's keep up with it? ”

Seeing this scene, Blake's tone was clearly mixed with chagrin.

Seeing that the fool seemed to look back at him, Rosie sighed and did not speak.

God knows how many times he missed it......

Avoiding waves of students hurrying downstairs, Rossi and the others followed Crook Hill all the way up to the seventh floor.

After turning a corner and passing a lavatory and a classroom office, Crookhill stopped at the end of the hallway.

There is a painting of a rural landscape in rich ink.

In the foreground is a small river, and on the edge of the river is a house with a closed gate, and next to the house, a dog of mixed colors is standing looking into the river.

Crookshank Hill spun around in circles there, meowing back and meowing from time to time.

"Do you know what mechanism is hidden here?"

After a quick look through the documents he had saved about the Hogwarts Secret Tunnels, Rosie turned his gaze to Black.

"I don't know."

Blake stared at the painting on the wall with burning eyes, "I can probably guess it, though." ”

As he spoke, he paced to the wall and rubbed lightly on the puppy's back.

"When I was in school, there wasn't a painting here. If there is some kind of mechanism for it, it must have been made by some later student.

Well...... It's just a little trick for us predators. ”

During their time at the school, the four of Blake claimed to be Marauders, so the Living Point Map is sometimes referred to as the Marauder Map.

At the same time as he said this, the puppy in the painting suddenly came to life.

It seemed to circle around the house a few times, and then arched the door and entered.

After a few seconds, it poked its head out of the dark door, stared at Rossi and the two blinked, then turned and ran out with a rope in its mouth.

As it got closer and closer, a rope ladder was pulled out of the room intact.

As it ran to the river, it leaped into the air. This jump is actually jumping directly out of the canvas and pulling the long rope ladder into reality.

How can this be? Curious special mechanism!

Seeing this scene, Rossi sighed heartily.

"This rope won't last long, keep up!"

Blake, who had climbed the rope ladder first, looked back and reminded.

"Okay!"

Rosie answered, and climbed the rope ladder after him.

However, as soon as she stepped on the ladder, the rope ladder floating outside the canvas suddenly retracted into the painting at a very fast speed.

In an instant, it disappeared into the room with Blake and Rosie.

After a dizziness, Rossi felt like she had entered an empty and cold place.

The system's map was pitch black, and everything around her was obscured by darkness, even if she was wearing equipment that increased her night vision, the field of vision was still no more than 5 meters.

What is this place?

As the voice of doubt sounded in Rossi's heart, her right hand had already drawn her wand and lit it silently.

The glowing spell illuminates a slightly stronger area than the vision provided by the equipment, but not more than ten meters.

"Ultimate Flash!"

Rosie tried to cast the advanced spell of the Light Charm, but it didn't seem to have much effect, instead shaking herself out of her eyes.

"What the hell is this! What about Blake? ”

With a frustrated grumble, she changed the spell on her wand to [fluorescent flicker] again.

She was on a circular platform suspended in mid-air, surrounded by endless darkness.

On each of the four directions of the platform, there is a floating staircase carved with different animal portraits leading to the dark depths.

"Blake! Are you there! ”

With his hands in his mouth, Rossi called out a few words, but never received any response.

Is he here? Or is my voice muffled by the darkness?

Not...... The Green Serpent, the Red Lion, the Blue Eagle, and the Yellow Badger, so these four directions represent the four houses of Hogwarts?

Thinking of this, she walked down the staircase engraved with the red lion regiment.

After about ten seconds of walking, a circular floating platform that looked like it was just before her eyes reappeared.

On the last step leading to this platform, there is still a red lion carved into it.

The red lion, the green snake, the yellow badger, and the blue eagle are exactly the same as just now! Is this a labyrinth? If you make a mistake, you will return to square one?

Thinking in her heart, she casually took out her umbrella from the inventory and drew a cross on the ground.

Then, she walked briskly towards the staircase carved with the green snake motif.

Thirty seconds later, she reappeared on the floating circular platform.

"I got the cross?!! Looks like I'm right, it's a labyrinth! ”

Holding his chin lightly with his right hand, Rosie muttered silently, "But which path is the right one?" ”

After a pause, she turned her gaze in the direction where the yellow badger was engraved.

Forget it, there are only two roads left anyway, and it won't take much time to walk them all over again......

(End of chapter)