Chapter 284 How to safely borrow the power of the basilisk
Sean did not go to the Slytherin common room, but bypassed the noisy and lively playground and walked from the other side of the castle towards the Black Lake.
It was too troublesome to keep going in and out from there. The last time he went there, he ran into Goyle who was still eating and drinking in front of the bonfire in the early morning.
The small secret room there has a passage to the Black Lake. The Basilisk is quite familiar with the bottom of the lake, so Sean changed the meeting place to the Black Lake.
Following the path along the lake all the way north, and then using the levitating spell to cross the cliff with Dave, Sean went around to the other side of the Black Lake, which is probably the farthest place within Hogwarts, across the lake from the castle.
Facing each other, the border with the Forbidden Forest is also blocked by mountains.
After finding a relatively empty rocky place by the lake, Sean took out a huge scale, which was a scale on the neck of the basilisk. As long as he tapped it with a specific rhythm, the basilisk could hear his call.
Dip half of the scale into the lake water, Sean tapped the upper part quickly, and then retreated behind the rock.
After a while, the lake water stirred, countless foams surged up, and a huge basilisk head emerged from the black lake.
However, it would be a bit weird if an outsider watched this scene.
Beside the black lake, a person and a snake faced each other with their backs to each other, and a huge curled-winged demon was flapping its wings in mid-air.
"It has its head on its back." Dave thought, and Sean turned around.
It's not that I don't trust the basilisk. The guy in front of me is completely different from its legendary tribe. It has a high IQ and is very simple. Several encounters have proven that it has no intention of harming Sean.
But the basilisk itself is synonymous with fatality. In order not to disappear for seven days again, Sean had to be careful.
A hoarse and huge hissing sound came out of the basilisk's mouth, and its big head was still shaking leisurely with its back to Sean.
"Are you here?" Sean, whose proficiency in Parseltongue has been upgraded, easily understood the Basilisk's words and could even feel a hint of its joy.
Sean also hissed: "Well, I promised to come see you after a while, but it took a little long this time. I'm sorry."
"How long?" The basilisk looked a little confused.
Sean was dumbfounded, and yes, a magical creature with a long lifespan, such as the Basilisk, had a different concept of time than he did.
Last time he arrived in a hurry and left too quickly. This time, Sean, who had time to have a good chat, found a place to sit down and asked curiously: "Are you usually active at the bottom of the Black Lake?"
"No." The basilisk seemed to understand that shaking its head meant negation in human language. It shook its head, and then stopped - it had promised the person behind it not to turn its head.
"I rarely enter the Black Lake except for hunting. On the one hand, it is not necessary, and on the other hand, there are dangers in the Black Lake."
"Danger?" Sean frowned.
He has heard a lot of legends about the Black Lake, but the endings of the stories are nothing more than two. One is that there is some kind of terrible magical creature hidden in the deepest part of the Black Lake, and the other is Godric Gryffindor.
He never left, hiding in the black lake.
The Basilisk hissed with some solemnity: "From my instinctive premonition, there is a crack to the north in the center of the Black Lake. Every time I get close, I feel the danger."
"Is it some magical creature or dark magic?"
"I can't tell. I don't feel this way about other creatures under the Black Lake, and those ugly half-human, half-fish creatures never get close to it."
Sean nodded thoughtfully. He still remembered the message left by Slytherin himself. The four founders of Hogwarts were attracted here by the message in the dream. The land of Hogwarts itself
It's very mysterious.
The crack in the Black Lake probably really hides some secret that no one knows about.
However, just listen to it as a story. Even the basilisk thinks it is dangerous. If he ventures there, he will die.
Sean changed the subject, and the true purpose of his trip became apparent.
"Aren't you bored after staying here for so long?"
The basilisk seemed a little confused, but it finally nodded: "There is one thing that I didn't understand when I was a child, but as time goes by, using your human thinking, my wisdom has improved, and my emotions are better than those in Black Lake."
I ordered a lot more big fish - they just hunt and reproduce, and my instinct is to hunt. But as time goes by, I occasionally feel that my head is empty, and the whole snake loses interest, and even wants to go out to the mermaid's lair.
Make a big fuss."
"Emotional needs are manifested by highly intelligent animals. You have been left alone as a snake for too long."
"it seems to be like this."
Sean remembered another thing: "There is another one of your kind in the castle, did you know?"
"I know." The basilisk rubbed its scales on the protrusion of the rock, "But to be precise, it is different from me. Apart from the fact that it looks similar, it cannot communicate at all."
"What's the meaning?"
"Wisdom? Its intelligence is lower than that of an ugly mermaid. Every time it is really hungry, it swims out of the pipe to catch food. When it is full, it hurries back. I have tried to communicate with it, but it only wants to eat.
Got me."
Sean held his chin and nodded. It was the same as what Slytherin's notes said. Ordinary basilisks have extremely low IQs and only have predatory and killing instincts.
After chatting with the basilisk about its daily life in the Black Lake, Sean hissed: "The secret room you guard is empty. It seems you don't need to stay there, right?"
The basilisk hesitated: "But, the master's order is that I stay there all the time...kill the snake whisperer..."
"But, before me, no snake whisperer has been there for a long time, right?"
"Yes, yes... I have thought about this problem. In terms of human thinking, I think the descendants of the Snake Whisperers have gained experience - just like there are few big fish at the bottom of the lakes I often go to.
They are getting further and further away from me. If a snake whisperer comes to the secret room and does not return, then his descendants can gain experience... Humans are much smarter than those big fish, right?"
Sean clapped his hands: "That's the truth! So there's no point in you staying there."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "But, but..." The basilisk seemed to be organizing its words.
"Are you afraid that your master won't be able to find you when he comes back?" Sean asked.
"No...the master didn't leave any order for me to wait for him, and I also understand that humans like you will die much earlier than me, right?"
The corners of Sean's eyes twitched. What you're asking...your emotional intelligence is low, brother.
The basilisk continued: "So, the master may have disappeared from this world for a long time. I have thought about it, if the master dies, then I still have to stay there almost? I am very confused, but I have always been a snake, there is no other
Creatures that can communicate with me give me advice."
There's something going on! Sean's eyes lit up and he said seductively: "Didn't you meet me? You and I can chat. You don't hate me, right?"
"I don't hate it, you smell very good, much more fragrant than those big fish." As he said that, the basilisk quickly hissed again, as if to explain, "I don't mean to eat you."
"I understand," Sean smiled, "You want to be friends with me, right?"
With the magic of Parseltongue and the high intelligence of Basilisk, it understood words very quickly. After a while, it nodded heavily: "Yes, I want to be friends with you."
"Isn't that just right? Although you almost glared at me, it was an accident after all, and I have always been generous and friendly. I have decided to forgive you now."
"Ah, thank you." The basilisk said gratefully.
"So are we friends now?"
"Yes, yes, friend." The basilisk flicked its tail happily, accidentally cracking a rock.
Sean silently moved away from the stone and continued: "Since we are friends and your master is no longer in this world, I think, why don't you just come with me?"
"Walk?"
"Yes, change the environment, change the lifestyle, and change the taste - don't you get tired of eating fish every day?"
"It's not greasy, and I eat it once a month." The basilisk corrected seriously.
"Well, this is just a way of expression. You are still young and don't understand it yet."
"Oh fine."
Sean looked up at the basilisk, its metallic emerald green head shining brightly in the sun.
"Then do you want to come with me?" Sean unconsciously said with a hint of confusion.
The basilisk nodded quickly: "Okay, then I'll go with you."
Huh? So fast?
The surprise came so quickly that Sean was even stunned for a moment. He didn't expect the Basilisk to be so cheerful - he originally thought he would have to chat with him several times in his poor Parseltongue.
He was overjoyed and stood up neatly and patted the dust on his butt: "Then it's settled."
But the basilisk still had doubts: "I'm too, too fat. I can't shrink like your green-haired moth, and my eyes are terrible. I can't guarantee to close my eyes all the time - this
It might hurt you."
Green-haired moth? Sean was stunned for a moment before he realized that the other person was talking about Dave... He shook his head funnyly: "That's not a green-haired moth, it's my friend, it's a curled-winged demon, named Dave."
, and it doesn’t matter if you are big, I can fit you in."
"Dave, I remember...but where are my eyes?"
Sean licked his slightly dry lips and hissed sharply due to excitement: "Do you usually need your eyes to function normally?"
"No, I can smell the surrounding creatures, and, and..." The basilisk struggled not to know how to describe it.
"You can feel nearby vibrations to analyze your surroundings, and then you can feel the heat of living things, right?" Sean asked.
"Yes, that's what it means. How do you know? You are so smart..."
All snakes are like this...
Sean continued to ask: "That means it doesn't matter even if you don't have vision, right?"
"Yes." The basilisk nodded.
Same as my guess...
"Then let me ask, can your gaze not only kill living things, but also destroy inanimate matter?"
"Yes, if I want, but it's not very powerful."
"Be specific."
"Well... if I desperately want to kill a creature, then my gaze will be more deadly. At this time, the object I see will be damaged, and my gaze will increase the heat of the object..."
Sure enough, Sean had a vivid memory of a plot in the original novel. The kid in grade one who liked to take pictures (of course, he now knew his name was Colin Creevey) was petrified, and he saw the basilisk through the camera.
His eyes were petrified, and the camera film was burned to the ground, but the camera itself did not suffer serious damage.
This proves that the basilisk's gaze has limited damage to objects.
Sean walked up to the basilisk and patted its hard and cold scales: "I have an idea."
"Really?" the basilisk hissed sounding happy.
"That's right, but I have to get ready quickly. I'll be on vacation the day after tomorrow. I hope I can make it in time."
"Okay, what do you need me to do?"
"Hmm... Lie down..." Sean stretched out his hands and gestured for the basilisk's head, then took out a tape measure and measured the size of the basilisk's head.
After finishing the work, he said: "Just go back and wait for news from me. See you in two days."
"Okay, friend, goodbye."
The basilisk did not turn its head from beginning to end, and closed its eyes tightly. It lowered its head and dived into the water. After causing a huge splash, the lake surface gradually calmed down.
Sean cast a levitating spell on himself, then grabbed Dave's tail tentacle, and flew towards the path he came from.
Feeling the breeze blowing across the lake on his face, Sean raised his eyebrows.
"It's time to feel the power of a wave of technology and money."
Sean, who returned to Hogwarts safely, quickly wrote a letter.
"Dear Dad:"
"How are you, Mom and Ella doing? I will be leaving for home the day after tomorrow. Of course, I have informed you of this in my previous letter. I am writing now to ask for help from the respected Mr. Wallop.
Just a favor..."
"...You can just think of it as a pair of glasses for snakes. Of course, the size must be enlarged proportionally. I will list the specific data below..."
“…The overall weight of the glasses should be light, and the strap on the back of the head should be adjustable in size. The frame should be made of strong and tough material, with two layers of lenses. The inner layer should be transparent and resistant to high temperatures, and the outer layer should be able to completely isolate the inner layer.
Sight. If possible, can you design a mechanical switch so that I can use a controller to quickly open one or two layers of lenses..."
"...This is my request. I need this very urgently. Please dad."
"Love you Sean."
After writing the letter, Sean sealed the parchment into the envelope and quickly went to the owl hut. After handing the letter to Gugu, he put coins into the legs of all the remaining public owls. If there was time, that thing should
It's quite big, but thirty or so owls should be enough... He bought a mannequin weighing several dozen kilograms, and one owl was delivered to him.
After watching the spectacular flock of owls and hawks headed by Gu Gu go away, Sean walked out of the owl loft with satisfaction.
This thing is not afraid of being inspected, and no one can guess what it is used for... If he can make it in time, he can take the basilisk away first, and then ask his father to hire someone to design it when he gets home.