Chapter 44: The Secret Base
"By the way, this is for you." Hope pulled out a black, hard, needle-like thing from his pocket and handed it to Matteo.
Matteo took it and looked at it, as if he remembered a bad memory, and said, "Could this be a ......?"
"That's right, this is the leg hair of the eight-eyed spider, and when I ran away before, I grabbed one with my hand, and you can see if it can be used as a staff core." Hope said with a thumbs up.
Caleb on the side frowned and said, "Are we going to the Forbidden Forest to find a unicorn?" ”
Hearing this, Matteo waved his hand again and again.
"What about the rod core?" Caleb asked, confused.
Matteo took out the box where the cow's hair had been stored, and took out a new box to put the spider's leg hair away.
"That's enough, so let's not use the unicorn's tail hair this time."
That's enough, it's a waste to go to a unicorn, that's right, it's definitely not because he's afraid.
"Why don't we buy a few, I'm actually quite rich." Hope suggested again, to be honest, all his pocket money was moldy in the vault, and he couldn't find a place to spend it, and he could borrow some from his grandfather, presumably his grandfather would agree, but Hope was a little embarrassed to think that he had wasted so many materials during the holidays, and it was worth a lot.
Matteo waved his hand and refused: "Then how can it be done, rest assured that the materials we took the risk of coming are enough, and it makes sense to find them yourself." ”
Hearing this, the corners of Hope's mouth twitched, and he felt that it was better to break a little wealth than to lose his life.
Matteo said, "I'm going to make a rod core, is there a piece to go to the secret base?" ”
The abandoned classroom they found earlier had become a hidden place like a secret passage under the blessing of Hope's multiple protection charms and camouflage charms, and it was also used by several of them as a secret base, and Matteo left most of his belongings there, only carrying some of the more important ones with him.
Caleb nodded in acknowledgment.
Hope nodded, his homework was still there, it had become a place for him to read his writing homework, and now the classroom space was still a little small, he was going to learn the Traceless Stretching Spell and expand the classroom a little more.
Although in order to perfect their secret base, Hope learned a lot of nonsense spells, but most of them are some protection and camouflage, and he also wants to learn more offensive spells, especially for a large area, weather spells are a good choice, and next time he is chased by the eight-eyed spider, he directly summons thunder and lightning to kill them.
However, most of the records of the Weather Spell in the library are about watering the flowers and the like, maybe the powerful Weather Spell is in the forbidden book area, and it seems that he is about to start sleepwalking again.
All the way to the entrance of the secret base, the door to the original classroom was gone, replaced by a stone statue and a red blanket draped over the wall.
This stone statue was actually moved by Hope from somewhere else, anyway, there are so many stone statues in the castle, and no one found out if there was one less, originally Hope wanted to design the stone statue as the kind of guard who opened the door, but he found that the stone statue contained a lot of magic, as if someone had imposed a transformation spell, and his magic power could not be shaken. I simply put it here as a decoration.
Coming to the stone statue, Hope said: "Study hard, go up every day!" ”
The blanket behind the statue became soft, and around the statue, the three of them lifted the blanket and walked in.
Matteo was a little embarrassed and said, "Hope, can we change the password." Although the meaning of this sentence is very good, he feels inexplicably ashamed to shout it.
Hope righteously refused, "What a positive word, say it a few more times and you will get used to it." ”
Inside, the base has changed dramatically, and is now divided into three parts, one of which is Matteo's wand laboratory.
The other part was for studying, and there was a bookshelf with a lot of books and stuff that Hope had bought, as well as a few desks for studying.
There is also a part of the exercise area that Caleb strongly requests, where there are now a lot of dumbbells and barbell sandbags and other exercise equipment, Caleb feels that the body is really strong, so he works out there whenever he has nothing to do, and sometimes takes a few of them to practice together. Don't say that sometimes it's really comfortable to sweat, Caleb's body is getting stronger and stronger, emm... It's getting less and less like a first-grader.
Later, after he learned the Traceless Stretching Spell, he still wanted to tidy up a rest area, alchemy area and something like that.
At this time, there were already people in the base, and Yulin was quietly writing her homework, not noticing the arrival of the three of them
Hope looked at Yulene as she wrote her homework, and felt that the handwriting of the homework under her hand was a little familiar.
It wasn't until he got close to Hope that he saw it clearly, wasn't that his homework?
"What are you doing?"
Yulin, who was startled by the sudden voice, did not feel guilty at all after seeing the person who came, and said angrily: "Why are you scaring me." ”
Hope watched Yulin copy his homework word for word, and said speechlessly, "It's good to copy your homework." ”
"Who copied your homework, I finished my homework a long time ago! I see that you have a good job of applying and modifying the levitation charm in your Charms class assignment, so take it and take a look. Yulin said.
Hope suddenly realized that this was the question he had thought of when he was thinking about the flying spell before, and it happened that he had learned the levitation spell in the previous class, so this time he wrote some conjectures about the levitation spell acting on the human body to achieve flight, and saw if Professor Flitwick had any good suggestions.
"These are just some of my thoughts, and I'll have to sort them out when Professor Flitwick reads them." Hope said.
When the words fell, Yu Lin also finished copying and said, "Don't forget to give me a copy when the time comes." ”
Hoppe gestured with an ok gesture and said, "When the time comes, I'll put it on the bookshelf when I'm done, just look at it." ”
At this time, Matteo came to his laboratory and took out the hair of the Ryem cow and the eight-eyed spider that he had obtained in the Forbidden Forest, and prepared to make the core of the staff.
The core of the wand is not simply stuffed into a wand, but needs to be processed and made into something similar to silk thread before it can be used.
Yu Lin looked at the golden hair and the black needle-like thing, and wondered, "Didn't you go to the Forbidden Forest to look for a unicorn, did you find it?" I remember that the unicorn was silvery, so the color wasn't right. ”
Thinking of the experience in the Forbidden Forest again, Hope couldn't help but sigh and said: "Don't mention it, I almost can't come back, the unicorn hasn't been found, but we found other materials, the hair of the Ryam cow and the leg hair of the eight-eyed spider, forget about the unicorn, don't look for it." ”