: Died at the age of 1 minute and 8 seconds

Chapter 94 Died at the age of one minute and eighteen seconds

"I'll be the first one here."

After Harry finished speaking, he braced himself on the floor with both hands and slid backwards into the hole.

As he slid down to his armpits, completely submerged in darkness, he instructed Ron, "We have no idea what's down there. If I jump down and don't send you a safety signal, don't follow me. Go directly to Hedwig and have her fly to London to deliver a message to the headmaster."

"Harry, don't say such discouraging things."

"Ron, I'm not kidding."

Seeing Harry's unusually serious expression, Ron pursed his lips and said, "Okay, I promise you."

Harry took a deep breath, raised both arms straight up, and in less than a second, his figure disappeared completely into the darkness.

Ron and Hermione lay at the cave entrance, anxiously looking down.

A moment later, a thud was heard from inside the cave, followed by Harry's excited shout, "It's safe! There's a net underneath, it's a soft landing!"

The two immediately went from worry to joy.

"I'll jump second."

After Ron finished speaking, he quickly jumped down.

"No problem, you two come down quickly."

Ron's shouts floated up from the bottom of the cave, and Hermione was eager to be the third to jump down.

"Robin, come a little closer. After you put down your harp, jump down immediately. Don't give Lu Wei a chance to go berserk and bite people."

"good!"

After Hermione disappeared, Robin deliberately waited for more than ten seconds before walking to the living plank. He threw away his harp and jumped into the dark cave.

Huhu~

He felt the cold, damp, musty air whistling and brushing against the tip of his nose.

Thump~

He landed on a soft, elastic net, and the cool touch beneath him made him want to rotate his wrists and touch the living devil's net.

The Devil's Web has a smooth surface, a cool touch, and a rather hard texture. It makes a thumping sound when tapped, and the vines vary in thickness, with the thickest being comparable to a bucket and the thinnest being comparable to a cotton thread.

After touching him, Robin got up and moved towards the wall step by step. Suddenly, a thick, vegetal-like tuft of hair wrapped around his ankle and pulled him backward, trying to knock him down and drag him away.

The prey didn't budge when the whiskers were tugged once; it didn't move when tugged twice; it still didn't move when tugged a third time. Boom! It was burned to ashes by the flames.

Age at death: 1 minute and 18 seconds.

Robin, brushing the dust off his body: ㄟ(▔，▔)ㄏ, you don't even understand the principle of "once, twice, but not a third time," you deserve to be burned to ashes by me.

"Robin, why did you suddenly use fire?! Snake! A snake is wrapped around my neck! Robin, Harry, Hermione, help me! Oh my god, my ankles and wrists are wrapped too! Are we going to fall into a snake pit?"

"Fool, it's vines that are binding you, not snakes. The more you move, the tighter they'll wrap around you. What's it called again? I remember Professor Sprout talking about this plant in his herbalism class."

Hermione's back was pressed tightly against the wall, her face was deathly pale, and there were some circular marks on her ankles, clearly indicating that she had been attacked by Curly.

"What was her name again? I remember it very clearly back then, but... now, I can't remember it at all."

"It's called Devil's Web. It likes dark, damp places and likes to disguise itself as other plants, such as Christmas cactus. Its weaknesses are that it is afraid of light and fire."

After Robin finished speaking, he waved his wand again, shooting out umbrella-shaped, dandelion-like flames.

The moment the flames drifted down to Harry and Ron, the vines and tendrils binding them twisted and twitched rapidly, pulling them backward.

"Phew, that was close, I was almost strangled to death."

Ron lay on the devil's web, panting heavily.

"Ron, get up! We need to get to the wall quickly, or those damn vines will entangle us again."

"Okay."

The two helped each other back to the wall.

"What's the next step?" Ron asked.

Robin flicked his wrist, casting a glowing spell, then held up his glowing wand and surveyed his surroundings.

Ahead was a square area covered with devil's vines;

Behind it was a solid stone wall;

To the left, there's a clear path leading nowhere;

To the right, there is a stone corridor that slopes downwards and whose end is unknown;

"There's no other choice but to go to the right."

Then, the four of them moved to the right, hugging the wall.

There seemed to be a water source above the corridor, with some water dripping down the walls and onto the stones.

Robin glanced at the stones against the wall; they were covered with dents of varying depths, some even worn through by dripping water. Clearly, the space beneath the living plank was not a temporary structure built to protect the magic stone.

After walking down the slope for seven or eight minutes, the four of them suddenly heard a faint rustling sound and a crisp tinkling sound from ahead.

"Did you hear that?" Harry asked, tilting his ear.

"Could it be a stalker like Peeves?" Hermione wondered.

"I'm not quite sure, but it sounds like a dragonfly flapping its wings, and also a bit like pieces of metal colliding."

"Could it be a bunch of magical armored figures brandishing fencing swords, waiting for us to walk right into their trap?" Ron wondered.

"Stop guessing. Let's go and see what's ahead, then we'll find out."

After Luo Bin finished speaking, he pushed the group forward. As they walked, a light appeared ahead, and two minutes later, they entered a brightly lit room.

The room is about three meters wide, ten meters long, and fifteen meters high. The space from the floor to the ceiling is filled with countless unique, reflective, fluttering birds.

At the other end of the room was a heavy wooden door; it had to be opened to continue.

"It's not too far from here to the other side, but when we cross the room, will those birds attack us? One bird won't cause too much damage, but if hundreds or thousands attack at once, we'll be pecked until we're just skeletons," Hermione said worriedly, looking at the high arched ceiling.

"Let's try it with a live creature."

After saying that, Robin waved his wand and cast a Transfiguration spell on a small stone on the ground.

Bang!

The stone turned into a little gray mouse, squeaking and scurrying around the room, but the birds didn't fly over to peck or grab it.

After confirming there was no danger, the four of them crossed the room together and arrived at the heavy wooden door.

"Open the Arahu Cave! Open the Arahu Cave! Open the Arahu Cave!"

Hermione cast the unlocking charm three times, but the wooden door lock didn't respond. When she tried to cast it a fourth time, Harry and Ron managed to push her out of the unlocking group.

Harry pulled hard, but it didn't work; Ron pushed hard, but it didn't work either. The two of them used their elbows together and slammed the wooden door, but it remained unmoved.

As the two, panting heavily, rested against the wooden door, they were surprised to find their two friends standing with their backs to the door, their heads tilted back to look at the birds in the sky.

"Is there something wrong with those birds?" Harry asked.

"They couldn't just be for decorating this room. They're too small and fly too fast for me to see them clearly," Hermione thought to herself.

"Perhaps we can look at it through other objects."

After Luo Bin finished speaking, he took out a monocular telescope and was able to see the scene in the sky through the layers of lenses.

(End of this chapter)