Chapter 40 The Chamber of Secrets and the Basilisk Chapter 41 The Secret of the Slytherin Chamber
Seeing that the only possible witness had left, Tom changed into the form of a bird and snake and wandered around the sink. Finally, on the side of a copper faucet, Tom saw a delicate little snake.
"Open!" Tom said naturally, but what came out of his mouth was no longer a human voice, but a hissing sound unique to a snake.
"Hesha-Hassah!"
Suddenly, there was a sound of a machine starting up from behind the sink, and the platform with the mirror behind the sink gradually floated up, revealing a dark hole. Then, the sink spread out in all directions. They watched the sink slowly move from
The sight disappeared, revealing a bottomless water pipe. The water pipe was thick enough for a person to get in.
Tom took the cocks with him and slid them in through the pipe.
The water pipe twisted and twisted, all the way down at a very steep slope, and slid down for a while. Tom judged that he was now very deep in the school, deeper than the underground classrooms and the rooms where the magic stone was hidden.
No one knows what is hidden beneath Hogwarts. Generations of outstanding wizards over thousands of years have left countless secrets here.
Soon, the angle of the water pipe became horizontal, and Tom slipped out of the pipe and landed on the ground.
Outside the tube was a very spacious tunnel. Tom pulled the car and took two steps. There was a creaking sound under his feet: the ground was full of bones of small animals. However, there is a high probability that these small rodents are either this or not.
Basilisk's rations.
The basilisk can grow up to fifty feet long. As a behemoth that is more than ten meters long, even if something like a mouse is eaten, it will be digested together with the bones, and no bones will be left behind. Snakes have extremely strong digestive abilities.
, often the prey can be digested from scales to bones within a few days. The only thing that may be left is things like hair and feathers.
However, it is not a strange thing to find the carcasses of small animals in the sewer.
"Lumos flash!"
Tom could clearly see the surrounding environment. Judging from the traces left behind, this tunnel was also carefully built in the past, but it was in disrepair for many years. Coupled with the fact that it was underground and extremely humid, it already looked very dilapidated.
Tom passed through several round arches, and after turning a corner, a huge thing appeared in Tom's eyes.
It was a snake slough, coiled on the ground, shriveled and decayed, and it looked like it had been shed for several years.
Looking at this snakeskin full of bug eyes, Tom felt a little queasy.
The snake's skin was green, even if it had dried up, the bright color of the year could still be seen. Based on the length of the snake's skin, Tom roughly estimated the length of the basilisk. This basilisk was at least thirty feet long, and he didn't know how big it was.
The snake has grown up on whatever it has eaten over the years.
Tom bypassed the snake skin and continued to move forward, turning one corner after another. Finally, Tom saw a wall at the end of the tunnel. On the wall were carved two intertwined snakes with four eyes.
Huge emerald.
It can be seen that Slytherin was very careful when building the Chamber of Secrets and invested a lot of resources.
Tom opened the door in Parseltongue.
The entangled snake separated, and at the same time the wall behind the snake separated, and a huge room appeared in front of Tom's eyes.
There are many snake statues in the room, arranged in two rows on both sides of the room. The light in the room is extremely dim, and the only light source is the eyes of the snake statues in the room, which are emitting green fluorescence. The ceiling is high and boundless, Tom
Looking up, I couldn't see the roof.
The room was filled with a green and mysterious mist, and various statues and stone pillars cast strange shadows into the room.
"Lumos flash!"
A ray of light shot out from the tip of Tom's wand, dispersing the darkness a few steps in front of him, making the atmosphere less gloomy.
Tom used the light of the wand to walk little by little to the end of the room. There stood a statue as high as the room. The statue was integrated with the wall behind it, or the statue itself was carved out of the wall behind it.
The statue has an old, monkey-like face with a long sparse beard that almost reaches the hem of the statue's robes - this is the appearance of Salazar Slytherin.
The founder of Hogwarts has an ugly appearance. Tom thinks that he may have become like this because of the abuse of black magic. Black magic can distort people's hearts and souls, eventually causing the face to become distorted and disfigured.
Tom looked back at the secret room. It was quite grand and magnificent. Although the lighting was poor now, Tom believed that there must be some mechanism inside that could make the place brighter.
The original purpose of building the Chamber of Secrets was to have a place that could teach its students to learn magic that the other three founders did not agree with. Slytherin and the other three founders actually had differences for a long time. The other three giants were unwilling to teach their students black magic.
, but Slytherin was very keen on it.
This is the original function of the secret room: a place to turn on a small stove.
But this was a big project, and it had to be hidden from other partners, so it took a long time. It was so long that Slytherin's own mentality also changed. After the construction of the Chamber of Secrets was completed, he had more ambitions, and he and the other three
The differences are even greater.
This statue is a reflection of his mentality: none of the other founders built huge statues of themselves in schools. As for this statue, everyone who wants to see his face must look up, otherwise they can only see the insteps of his feet.
Tom came to the statue, turned into a bird and snake, then looked up at the face of the Slytherin stone sculpture hidden in the darkness, opened his mouth, and made a hissing sound.
"Speak to me, Slytherin - the greatest of the Hogwarts Four."
Tom decided to summon the basilisk here and then kill it. Riddle wanted to open the secret room, right? I'll just leave a secret room without the basilisk for you to open.
Moreover, Tom also plans to look for opportunities in the library to see if there is any unique spell that will be triggered as soon as someone steps into the room. If such a spell is placed in the secret room, he can wait and see: Riddle will be obedient.
Send yourself to your door.
Slytherin's stone face moved, and its mouth slowly opened, forming a black hole.
Tom took the opportunity to release the roosters from the cage.
At this time, a rustling sound came from the stone sculpture's mouth, and Tom changed his form into a phoenix. Tom remembered clearly that seeing the eyes of the basilisk would bring death.
But this kind of seeing must be done directly. If it is looked at indirectly, it can only be petrified. Wearing glasses does not solve the problem - Myrtle was wearing glasses when she died, but the lenses did not keep her alive. Think about it.
The key to survival is to see it through another medium: water, mirror, camera lens... The lethality of the basilisk's gaze transmitted through the medium will be reduced by one layer, from instant death to permanent petrification.
Of course, if you are a ghost, the basilisk's gaze will only turn you to stone. After all, the basilisk cannot kill a dead creature.
But magical animals like the phoenix are immune to the basilisk's deadly gaze.
So Tom decided to use Fawkes's form to fight Slytherin's basilisk first.
A dark green giant snake emerged from the mouth of the statue, and Tom saw its yellow eyes like small lanterns. The moment it emerged from the statue, Tom loosened the shackles of the roosters, but an accident happened.
, the roosters were attracted by the sound coming from the statue, and they all looked in that direction. As a result, the moment the basilisk came out, they died because they looked directly at the basilisk before they could make a sound.
"Should have blindfolded the rooster!" There was a loophole in Tom's plan. This was an accident, but fortunately he had a backup plan: Phoenix form.
He quickly flew towards the basilisk. He saw that the basilisk was all green and it looked like a highly venomous snake. Its body was as thick as an oak tree trunk and more than ten meters long. It had completely crawled out of the statue.
Come out and coil your body in a circle on the ground
Seeing Tom flying towards it, the basilisk raised its upper body, and its huge head swung rapidly as Tom flew. The size difference between Tom and the basilisk is like the difference between a man and a crow - but the basilisk
Without human hands that were flexible, facing Tom's attack, he could only show his dagger-like fangs in protest, and at the same time make a terrifying hissing sound, trying to intimidate the phoenix and make it retreat.
But in Tom's eyes, this is completely lustful. Although the basilisk is a kind of snake, it does not have the amazing reflexes of its kind. On the contrary, its reaction speed is slow among snakes. When Tom transforms into a phoenix
From the perspective of the basilisk, every movement of the basilisk seems to be in slow motion.
"Bang!" The basilisk's upper and lower fangs collided fiercely. The force was such that even the heavy armor of European medieval knights would be penetrated, but the fierce bite only bit the air.
Tom dodged the basilisk's attack. At this time, the basilisk's upper body had already stretched out, but it involuntarily stiffened after the attack. Tom saw the right opportunity and swooped down. Tom's long golden beak stabbed the snake.
On the monster's eyes. Although the basilisk instinctively closed its eyes, the phoenix's beak still penetrated its eyelid, blinding one of the basilisk's eyes.
A stream of black blood shot out and splashed on the ground. For a moment, it felt like rain in the secret room.
The basilisk fell into madness. Its tail swung crazily and beat the ground hard, leaving cracks on the marble slab. At the same time, its head swung more rapidly, but it only brought more
After a few seconds, its second eye was also pecked out.
The black blood of the basilisk sprayed onto the ground, exuding a fishy smell. The previously bright yellow eyes had disappeared, leaving only two dark blood holes.