Chapter XVIII Night Visit to the Room of Requirement
Tom shook his head like a rattle.
"Don't worry about this matter. I'm going to find out what's going on tonight."
"Your behavior is simply like a Gryffindor!" Hermione slapped the table. She was like a pufferfish, her cheeks bulging with anger, but in the end she chose to give in like a deflated ball. Because she
She realized that she couldn't seem to stop this guy at all. The only way to stop him was probably to go to the men's dormitory and wake up the prefect, but she didn't want to do that.
If she really does such a thing, Tom will be severely punished, and their friendship may also come to an end.
So, after some ideological struggle, Hermione made a compromise: You can go, but you must take me with you, and I will supervise you to prevent you from making more mistakes!
After saying that, he kept a straight face and looked very majestic.
Although she kept a straight face, the atmosphere between the two relaxed. Tom agreed to Hermione's request. However, he stood there motionless.
"Why don't you leave again?"
"Are you just going to wander around the castle with me in slippers?" Tom helplessly pointed to Hermione's shoes under the stool, "Why don't you change to a pair of shoes?"
Hermione glanced at him, jumped off the stool, and ran back to the dormitory. It wasn't that she didn't expect this, but she was worried that Tom would sneak away while she was changing her shoes. She replied
When I got to the dormitory, I hurriedly put on a pair of brown snow boots and ran out. I didn't even change out of my nightgown, but just put on a wizard's robe.
Fortunately, Tom stayed in the lounge obediently.
"I thought you would just run away."
"If you want, you can go back and change your clothes again, and I promise to run away alone."
The two people opened the door to the lounge and ran out quietly.
Fortunately, the Ravenclaws live in a tower of the castle, not far from the eighth floor. Tom and Hermione only found the way to the eighth floor after searching for the stairs for a while. If they lived in the dungeon and basement
Slytherin and Hufflepuff, I'm afraid they won't be able to find their way to the eighth floor tonight.
The two wandered around the eighth floor for a while before finding their destination tonight: the Room of Requirement.
Tom knew that this room was located on the eighth floor of the castle, opposite a tapestry of a troll beating Barnabas. But even if there were clear clues, it took him nearly half an hour to find it. He stood there in an empty room.
In front of the wall, I concentrated on thinking: I need to solve the puzzle. At the same time, I walked back and forth in front of that wall three times. When I passed by the wall for the third time, a very smooth door appeared on the wall.
"Hermione, I'm going in." Tom informed Hermione and opened the door to the Room of Requirement. The moment he entered the door, the mission of the third stage of wandering in the world was also completed.
What appeared in front of Tom at this time was an empty house that was more than a hundred meters long and wide. There were five pillars standing in the center of the room. Each pillar was more than ten meters high. There were several scratches on each pillar. In front of the pillars were five stones.
, consistent with the column arrangement.
Hermione walked to the pillars curiously and looked at them.
"What is this?" she asked Tom.
"I don't know either." Tom shook his head and stepped on a stone. The stone slowly sank and made a crisp sound. Hermione shouted excitedly: "I understand!"
At this time, she had been completely attracted by the puzzle, forgetting things like school rules. She pulled Tom to the pillar, pointed to the scratches on it and said, "Look, these scratches are different.
Corresponding to one to five, I think this is the order, and these stones and pillars have a one-to-one correspondence, which means that as long as you step on the corresponding stones in the order of the numbers on the scratches, you can solve the puzzle!"
With that said, Hermione excitedly went to solve the puzzle. She stepped on all the corresponding stones No. 1 to No. 5 in the order specified on the stone pillar. Each stone made a crisp sound when she stepped on it. But when she finished it,
I stepped on all five stones, but nothing happened. The stone pillars and stones still stood there stupidly.
Hermione thought about it and felt that she might have stepped on a stone when she came in, which caused the result to be inaccurate, so she repeated it again, but there was still no reaction.
Tom stood on the side, quietly watching Hermione solve the puzzle again and again. Finally, Hermione gave up, and she had to admit that there was something wrong with her thinking.
She stood in front of the stone pillar, frowning, saying nothing, and scratching her toes on the ground. Tom silently walked to the edge of the room and walked slowly around the wall. Tom's behavior attracted Hermione's attention.
She shouted: "Did you find anything?"
"Not yet - wait a minute, Hermione, come here!" Tom found something interesting in the corner and hurriedly called Hermione over.
"Look!" He pointed to five shallow bulges for Hermione, "I think this is the key to breaking the situation."
He pressed his hand on the bulge, and the floor in front of him actually sunk in. With a roar, a pit appeared on the ground. The four walls of the pit were made of rocks. There were three scale lines on it, and there was a handle at the bottom. I don't know.
What is it for? There are two rough faucets on the wall above the pit.
"This should correspond to the fifth pillar!" Hermione discovered the clue. She ran quickly along the wall and soon discovered four other stone pits at the other four corners and the midpoint of one wall.
She tried turning the faucet again, and found that one of the two faucets could release water, and the other could absorb water. I don’t know how many years had passed since this device was installed, but the water released was still crystal clear.
But Hermione was still stuck. She found all the stone pits, but she didn't know the relationship between these stone pits and the stone pillars.
Tom turned on a faucet and let it continue to fill the pit with water. When it reached the first mark, a slightly low sound suddenly came from the pit.
"I understand!" Tom suddenly realized, "So that's it!"
"What kind?" Hermione felt that she had a vague answer in her mind, but she had no clue for a while.
"Before, when you stepped on stones, the stones would make sounds. I remember that the sound made by one stone was very similar to the sound in the puddle just now."
"You step on the first stone again, and I'll go to puddle No. 1." Tom assigned Hermione a task.
Sure enough, the sound of the first stone was consistent with the sound made when the water level in Puddle No. 1 reached the second mark. The puzzle was easily solved.
Next, the two of them followed the same pattern and poured appropriate amounts of water into the remaining four puddles.
"Still no response, did we hear something wrong?" Hermione was a little nervous at this time.
Tom shook his head and turned his attention to the five stone pillars. He stepped on another stone in order. After stepping on it this time, a burst of music suddenly sounded in the whole room. The music was ancient but sweet, making people feel like they were in a ruins.
When the music ended, the ground between the stone pillars cracked, and a treasure chest appeared in front of Tom and Hermione.