Chapter 269
Snake Slough
Chapter 269 Snake Slough
In the white light, the faucet was rotating and the pool was slowly rising, revealing a huge water pipe entrance.
Cold and damp air escaped from inside, carrying with it a strange fishy smell.
Harry couldn't help swallowing. "Where is this place?"
"Obviously, a Chamber of Secrets - why would it be surprising to find such a place at Hogwarts?"
Vader turned to look at Phoenix:
"Please, Fox."
The phoenix cried softly, and turned into a streak of golden fire, disappearing from the cave entrance in an instant.
"Fawkes?" said Harry.
"The basilisk's gaze cannot kill it, so we need it to peck out its eyes first," Dumbledore said calmly.
At this time, Harry had not experienced the process of his classmates being petrified and himself being wrongly accused. He hesitated for a moment and asked:
"That basilisk...hiding in Hogwarts...what is it for?"
What he actually wanted to ask was - is this also a conspiracy of the mysterious man?
Dumbledore and Wade looked at each other, and then Wade said:
"There is a legend... Before leaving school, Salazar Slytherin built a secret chamber under the castle and placed a special creature in it. This creature will purify the school and eliminate all Muggle-born students when necessary."
"That creature... is the Basilisk?" Harry whispered.
"It looks like it is."
Wade tapped the ancient pipe next to him with his wand and said, "The basilisk has lived in the Chamber of Secrets for more than a thousand years. Until fifty years ago, the heir of Slytherin entered this school, awakened the basilisk, and killed a person."
"He killed someone?" Harry asked in surprise. "Who did he kill?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he realized what a stupid question he had asked!
If the basilisk came out of this pipe, the first people to see it, besides the person who woke it up, would be the students who came here to use the toilet.
That is...
Harry couldn't help but look back, but saw Myrtle still observing them from behind, with a look of watching the fun on her face. She didn't realize that the dead person they were discussing might be her.
Harry looked at Wade with a questioning look, and saw him nod affirmatively.
Suddenly, the boy felt a strong sense of sympathy and pity. He opened his mouth, but found that he could not speak.
——Will revealing the cause of her death cause her a second injury?
He thought about it again and again, then asked: "Who is the Slytherin heir?"
"That is Voldemort," said Dumbledore, "that is, Tom Riddle, a former student at Hogwarts like you."
Harry was stunned for a moment, then found that he was not surprised at all.
It's just a kind of pain that I can empathize with.
The man who...had killed his parents, and also killed Myrtle...when he was just a student...
How terrible!
Even when Harry was being beaten like a punching bag by Dudley, or locked in a cupboard and starving, he just hoped he could escape from there and never thought of letting the Dursleys die.
Not to mention killing people with your own hands.
While Harry was in a daze, a faint humming sound came from the pipe.
"It looks like it's time for us to go down."
Wade pulled out his wand, rolled up his sleeves, took a deep breath, looked at the dark pipes and said, "I hate this environment."
Dumbledore seemed very interested and said, "One must always visit different places." He tucked his long beard into his collar lovingly and pulled up the hood of his robe to cover his neatly groomed silver hair. Wade waited patiently for him to finish.
Harry was puzzled: "...What are you doing?"
"We have to ensure everyone's safety, don't we?" Wade said, "Let's explore a route first, and you wait for the other challengers to gather and then we can set off together."
"But……"
Harry wanted to say something else, but Dumbledore waved at him and said, "See you later, Harry."
The principal crawled into the pipe and disappeared with a "whoosh".
Then it was Wade, who turned back and said before going in:
"Don't worry if you can't see us after you come down... If you are not in mortal danger, the principal will not take action... Of course, neither will I."
As soon as he finished speaking, Wade let go of his hand and let his body slide down under the pull of gravity.
Not only was the pipe very dark and sticky, it also had many thinner pipes extending in all directions.
One of them might be the one that Professor Kettleburn had entered.
He held his breath and counted the time silently in his heart. After a long time, he felt the slope becoming gentler and a faint white light came out of the cave entrance in front of him.
Vader closed his eyes and felt his body suddenly slide out and stop.
He adjusted to the sudden change in brightness before opening his eyes and standing up.
Dumbledore stood in front of him, holding up his wand, the tip of which emitted a white light, illuminating the surroundings brightly.
This is a very spacious stone tunnel, nearly three meters high, and very damp and cold.
There were some animal bones scattered on the ground, and they seemed to be almost blending into the soil.
In the distance, there were faint sounds of terrible roars and collisions, which sounded like both the screams of a monster and miserable cries.
After Wade was ready, Dumbledore said, "Let's go. It looks like we're not far away."
The sound echoed in the tunnel.
They walked forward along the tunnel, and soon a huge monster suddenly appeared in front of them.
In the darkness, the winding black shadows seemed to be staring at them. Even though Wade was prepared, he was still startled when he suddenly saw it.
The light from Dumbledore's wand suddenly expanded several times, illuminating the shadow in the darkness.
It was the slough of a giant snake.
The green scales appear very bright under the light, and seem to be able to move.
"Oh, it's a good twenty feet!" said Dumbledore happily. "Severus will be very happy!"
Vader had no intention of claiming it as his own.
He already had more than enough Galleons of his own. And with so many potion materials, Professor Snape couldn't use them all himself, so he would definitely share some with the students.
Of course, students with poor skills like Neville can forget about it. Given the rarity of the Millennium Basilisk, only students in advanced classes or students who are very talented in potions will have the opportunity to practice with it.
Vader is still very confident about this.
The two men put the snake skin aside to give a surprise to the students coming up behind them, and then continued walking forward.
Suddenly, a red light shot out.
With a huge roar ahead, Fawkes returned to Dumbledore's shoulder.
(End of this chapter)