Chapter Eighty-Four: The Ravenclaw Puzzle
A minute later, Rossi walked from the path engraved with the blue eagle motif to a brand new floating platform.
Although it looked the same as the platform she had just owned, there was no cross mark on the platform that she had drawn with her umbrella.
After drawing a circle on the second platform, Rossi habitually walked towards the staircase carved with the yellow badger on the opposite right.
Luckily, this time the blind audition was also correct, and she successfully arrived on a new platform.
After drawing a triangular marker, she walked briskly to the path on the right with the carved green snake pattern.
This time, however, the cross mark reappeared on the platform at the end of the stairs.
Well, it can't all be left to chance......
But if you don't repeat it, there's no suspense about the third way!
Thinking of this, she walked briskly back to the third platform, and then passed the path engraved with the red lion to a new platform.
What luck!
After drawing a square on the ground, Rosie walked with easy steps up the staircase engraved with the image of the green snake.
Not surprisingly, the path was the right choice.
But at the end of it, it's still an almost identical new platform, except for a change in the order of the patterns on the four roads.
Hey? Is there any? Continue to exclude with the group method?
As soon as this thought turned around in her heart, she knocked her head on the back and complained to herself:
"Rosie, Rosie, you have to use your brain, you can't go on like this just by luck! Otherwise, it won't be long before you're a true Gryffindor! “
After a pause, he silently laughed at himself again: "You are not as diligent and talented as Hermione!" ”
After a brief observation, Rosie crouched down and sketched on the ground:
There are four different paths, and the simplest way is to walk each one in turn and reach the end. But now it is obvious that there is more than that, so it is necessary to find out the law and then follow this law.
The known correct choices are: Blue Eagle, Yellow Badger, Red Lion, Green Snake, if four choices are one round, how many rounds will this maze go through?
The largest is probably four, whether it's four colleges, four colors, or four animals, it's four in number.
"Uh...... It is not ruled out that there will be multiples of four, but there shouldn't be any need to make a secret passage so complicated, right? ”
Rossi whispered wistfully.
The first round of the initial platform, the pattern in the four directions is the green snake, the red lion, the blue eagle and the yellow badger, if this platform is regarded as the beginning of a new round, then the red lion, the blue eagle, the green snake, the yellow badger, does this order also mean anything?
After shaking her head slightly to make her thinking clearer, she wrote the green snake, the red lion, the blue eagle, the yellow badger and the blue eagle, the yellow badger, the red lion, and the green snake on the ground one by one.
"Let's not mention how to go later, what is the principle of the first round of passing?
Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, Gryffindor, Slytherin, well, it's not in alphabetical order.
Or is the graphics just a façade and the key is the color? Blue, yellow, red, and blue, and there doesn't seem to be any chromatogram arrangement in such an order. ”
Rosie rubbed her forehead in distress and muttered quietly, "And these colors are the representative colors of the four Hogwarts houses!" ”
Wait, what did I just mention? Representative?
A flash of inspiration struck Rossi's mind, and he finally caught inspiration.
The representative colors and animals of the four major colleges have appeared, so what is missing?
It is the element that represents the four faculties!
Gryffindor represents fire, Ravenclaw represents wind, Hufflepuff represents earth, and Slytherin represents water, and according to the order of the four elements, earth, fire, water, and wind, it is the Blue Eagle, the Yellow Badger, the Red Lion, and the Green Snake!
If this is the case, then the first round is wind, earth, fire and water, and the second round must be earth, fire, water, and fire!
Reasoning at this point, Rosie immediately got up and walked towards the path where the yellow badger was drawn.
The facts proved that her reasoning was correct, and she reached the point of the maze very smoothly.
It is also a floating circular platform, but in the middle of the platform, there is a closed bronze door, which is the exit of the labyrinth.
"I kind of figured it out, the person who made this secret passage must be from Ravenclaw!"
Rosie complained in his heart, "Not only are the puzzle hints so obscure, but they also specifically use the Blue Eagle representing Ravenclaw as the first step to start!" ”
As she approached the bronze door, Rossi realized that it was not completely closed, but that it had a finger's width gap. Behind the gap, there is a mirror-like blue.
After trying to close and open, she couldn't help frowning:
There is obviously nothing wrong with this door, but there is a gap left that is not closed, could it be that the rat escaped from here? And what about Blake? He came in with me one after the other, but why didn't he show up?
Could it be that there is another way through this secret passage? Or everyone who comes in has to be decrypted independently before leaving?
Forget it, I don't know what his situation is, I'll go outside and take a look first.
Thinking of this, Rosie tried to poke the umbrella out of the mirror-like blue and then retract it.
The surface of the umbrella was wet with rain in an instant.
Looks like it shouldn't be fine.
Rosie opened her umbrella and walked outside.
The next second, she appeared at the foot of a small low slope east of Hogsmeade.
The wind and rain were howling, and the sky was dark.
Rosie pulled the umbrella hard to keep it from being swept away by the strong winds that blew in one after another.
Extinguishing the light on her wand, she immediately gave herself a spell to ward off the cold. It wasn't until she felt her body warm up that she looked at the place where she had just come out—a tall rock covered in moss.
Eyes of the sea looked around, and Rossi immediately locked his gaze to a dilapidated and detached abandoned house not far away.
According to the map, it is called the House of Pediru.
Hooking the corners of his mouth, Rossi cautiously dived there.
It wasn't until Rosie got closer that she realized that the house was not only dilapidated, but also very dirty, and even in the rainstorm, it was difficult to hide the bad smell inside.
Rosie choked and retched, and quickly took out a handkerchief from his backpack, drenched it with rainwater, folded it, and attached it to his mouth and nose.
Hiding her form, she cautiously walked through the filth around the house, and finally came to the window of her room.
The room was surprisingly much cleaner, and a short, thin-haired man was sitting curled up on the floor with his back to the window, rubbing his arms as if trying to keep himself warm.
Peter Pettigrew?
Rossi almost decided who he was.
After a few more moments, she silently walked to the door of the room.
After estimating where Peter was sitting and the distance, Rosie put away the handkerchief in his palm. Then, she drew her wand and kicked the door open, pointing her wand at the same time:
"Ultimate Flash!!"