Hermione pulled Lin and walked at the back, looked at him doubtfully and asked: "Have you been here?"
Lin En nodded, "I've been here before! I came here not long after school started last year, and I'm an old acquaintance with these spiders!"
…
Ron followed Harry closely and followed the spider all the way through a tree hole until they reached a clearing surrounded by giant trees. Aragog, a giant spider the size of a house, appeared.
Harry told it that Hagrid had been taken away because of the opening of the Chamber of Secrets. Aragog said angrily: "Hagrid did not open the Chamber of Secrets!"
"Then you're not that monster anymore?"
"Of course not. The monster in the secret room was born in this castle, but I was brought here by a traveler."
"If you weren't the monster, what killed that girl fifty years ago?" Harry asked,
"We never mention that thing. It is an ancient creature that we spiders are most afraid of!"
"Harry!" Ron's shout stopped Harry from asking, and he turned his head angrily,
Seeing Ron crying and pointing to the top of their heads,
Harry's scalp was numb when he saw it. It turned out that they were surrounded by dense spiders from all directions. They were all huge, and some were even bigger than the round table!
Gudong, Harry swallowed, "It's okay, let's go first!"
"Hahaha" the giant spider Aragog laughed wildly, "You want to leave? Where are you going? Damn humans, except Hagrid, all deserve to die, especially the thief! Kill them!"
The giant spiders cheerfully waved their giant turtles and rushed forward!
"It's time to pay rent!"
With a loud shout, these spiders froze as if they were under a immobilization spell!
Then,
"Run!"
"The rent collectors are here!" The giant spiders hid faster than when they came. In the blink of an eye, the surroundings of Harry and Ron became empty again.
Ron blinked and watched as Lynn pulled Hermione and caught up from behind.
He tremblingly approached Lin En and asked, "What kind of magic is this? Have you invented a new magic?" There was excitement in his tone. If he could learn this, wouldn't it mean that he no longer had to be afraid of spiders?
Lin En ruthlessly broke his illusion, "It's not a magic spell."
Then he walked up to Aragog and asked: "Aragog, where is the rent this month?"
Aragog's expressionless face actually squeezed out a smile, and pointed to a tree hole at the root of the tree with its long legs.
Lin En walked over and found the bottle containing the venom.
It can be seen that these spiders are afraid of the bottle falling over, and they even found a hole for it to save.
He put away the bottle filled with venom and put the empty bottle in again. He walked back with satisfaction and said, "Continuing with the topic just now, what is the monster in the Chamber of Secrets in Hogwoods?"
"It's a basilisk!"
Aragog said it without hesitation!
"Didn't you just say you wouldn't mention it?" Harry looked at the giant spider in shock!
Aragog glanced at him sideways with one of his eight eyes and said,
"That depends on who asks!"
Harry sank!
Lin En nodded and said: "That's right! I think you can definitely live for a few more years!"
…
Several people were walking on the way back,
"Lynn, why do those spiders give you venom?"
Hermione couldn't help but asked curiously,
"Because they are afraid of death!" Lin En smiled, "I promise not to kill them, but the condition is that I fill the bottle with venom every month."
"But that bottle can hold two pints! One pint of Acromantula's venom is one hundred gold galleons, which means these spiders will give you two hundred gold galleons every month!"
Hermione looked at Linn in disbelief,
Ron stammered: "Two hundred gold galleons. I, my father, only get forty galleons for every month I work!"
…
Early the next morning, Hermione found an introduction to the basilisk in the library. She gathered a few people together and introduced them to the situation.
Harry asked after listening:
"The basilisk is very huge and can live for hundreds of years, but Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets has existed for at least a thousand years! Can the basilisk still survive after so many years? What does it eat?"
Hermione thought for a while, "Maybe it has been sleeping? After all, snakes can hibernate and only need to eat occasionally."
Ron asked again: "In addition to its fangs, the way the basilisk kills is with its gaze, which means that as long as you see its eyes, you will die. So why didn't anyone die in the previous attack?"
Hermione frowned, "None of them saw the basilisk directly. Mrs. Norris might have seen it through the reflection of the water on the ground, Colin might have seen it through the camera, and Justin might have seen it through the headless Nick's body! Moreover, this might be why spiders are afraid of the basilisk.
The reason is that they have eight eyes and they can't close them."
Lynn asked three questions: "Headless Nick is a ghost. How can he drink the Mandrake potion?"
…
Harry and Ron looked at Hermione...
Hermione said frantically, "Shut up, how would I know!"
Lin En thought for a while and said tentatively:
"Perhaps through fumigation..."
Hermione's eyes were cold, "Would you like to air-dry it?"
…
While several people were discussing how the basilisk behaved in the castle, the announcement from Hogwoods came on,
"All students please return to their respective college common rooms immediately!"
"Please all professors gather in the corridor on the second floor!"
The broadcast lasted several times, and all the students acted quickly. In this tense moment where accidents often occur, no one dares to ignore the danger.
The little ones looked at each other,
"Something must have happened. I think we need to tell a few professors what we know!"
Lin En nodded happily. He had finally grown up a bit and was not so arrogant that he thought he could deal with this extremely deadly thousand-year-old monster!
A few people were in the library on the second floor. After going out, they carefully hid behind the door.
Listening to several professors coming in a hurry,
Professor McGonagall said in a desperate voice, "The heir of Slytherin left a message again. A student was captured and taken into the secret room!"
"Students must be sent home immediately. Hogwoods may have to be closed forever!"
A few of the little ones held their mouths in shock. Hogwoods is going to close?
What should they do? Especially Harry and Hermione! Without Hogwoods, would they have to return to Muggle society and never learn magic again?
Just when everyone was anxious, a frivolous voice sounded,
"Sorry! I overslept! Did you miss anything?" Professor Lockhart came belatedly.
Snape said in a cold, calm voice, "A student was captured by a monster. Your chance to show off has finally come!"
"Me?" Lockhart was shocked,
"Didn't you say last night that you always knew the entrance to the secret room?"
Professor McGonagall said coldly, "Very well, then please go and deal with that monster, Lockhart, let us see what you are capable of!"
"No problem!" Professor Lockhart agreed with a relaxed expression, as if he was sure of victory.
"I'm going back to my office now to get ready," he said and turned away!
Madam Pomfrey asked sadly, "Professor, who was captured!"
