His steps were staggering, his expression was panicked, his face was scratched with a few bloody marks, his left arm sleeve was empty, and his clothes and pants were covered with mud.
"Sister!" He was stabbed in the eye by the strong light from Joel's wand and shouted, "Go, get out of here!"
Hailis felt anxious when she saw her brother in such a mess.
"Did Lockhart hurt you like this?"
Before her question could be answered, Lockhart appeared behind Bernie.
"Stop what you are doing, Selwyn!" Lockhart gasped, his blond hair was messy and no longer as bright as before. He pointed his wand at Bernie's back, "You don't want to die here, do you?
"
"How dare you attack your classmates!" Ron had already disliked Lockhart. "You are a scumbag who murders colleagues and kills students. You are not worthy of teaching at Hogwarts!"
"Listen to my explanation..." Lockhart bent down and stretched his legs, breathing heavily.
"Lockhart, just let it go! The professors are on their way here now. You can't even think of leaving Hogwarts today!" Harry yelled to build up momentum for himself. He and Ron pulled out their wands and spoke to Lockhart.
Confrontation.
On the other side, Haylis quickly pulled Bernie to her side. Joel frowned slightly, where was the basilisk? Where did it go?
As if to confirm what he was thinking, a smelly wind came from the other end of the tunnel, and with it came a rustling sound, like a snake slithering on the ground.
"Basilisk!" Lockhart shouted loudly, "It's too late to explain, you guys come with me!"
He hurriedly rushed towards Joel and the other five, and then ran away into the distance without stopping.
Joel was stunned for a moment, but now he had no choice - the sound of the crawling basilisk was getting closer and closer.
"Follow him!" Joel said to his companions, "Don't look back, or you can go and keep Myrtle company!"
Several people hurriedly followed Lockhart's footsteps. In the invisible tunnel, the light emitted by the wand bounced up and down, making the people panic. The basilisk behind them chased them very fast. They could hear several stones being crushed.
The sound of turning into powder.
"Follow me here!" Lockhart took the lead, taking full advantage of his long legs. He had already run to the thick water pipe when he fell, and jumped out of the way.
"Thunderbolt explosion!" he yelled, and a bright purple light burst out from the wand in his hand.
The remaining five people ducked to Lockhart's side, and the spell hit the rocks above the tunnel. The effect of the explosion spell was so powerful that large pieces of rubble collapsed from the tunnel ceiling.
Joel understood Lockhart's plan, and at the same time used magic power to pile up the stones scattered on the ground, forming a thick stone wall.
"Can this stop the snake?" Ron asked from the side while taking action.
"How is that possible?" Lockhart gasped, "This stone wall can only help delay it for a while, we have to take the opportunity to get rid of him!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he turned around and continued to move towards the darkness, and several others followed him.
"Bernie!" Seeing that her brother was still staring at the stone wall, Haylis reached out and pulled him, "Get out of here quickly, it's too dangerous!"
Bernie Selwyn turned his head, his eyes were scarlet, and Haylis was in a daze. At this moment, she seemed to see a beautiful and handsome black-haired boy in Bernie.
It was during this moment of confusion that the wand in Bernie's hand was pressed against Haylis's soft abdomen. Under the blessing of the spell, it was like a sharp knife, penetrating the school robe and piercing the flesh hard.
The sound of a sharp weapon entering flesh echoed in the tunnel. Joel turned around and saw Haylis's thin body sinking to the ground, revealing the face of Bernie Selwyn. His face was ferocious, staring at everyone as if
Look at a bunch of captured prey.
"Hailes!" Joel quickly stepped forward to support Hailes' body.
Everyone was stunned, including Lockhart.
There was a loud bang, and a depression was created in the stone wall.
"Go! Go!" Lockhart shouted.
Joel didn't think much, and hit Bernie's body with a barrier spell, then he hugged Haylis and followed everyone away from here.
Bernie stood there without moving, it was Joel's obstacle spell that took effect, "Run, run, I want to see how far you can run..."
He looked behind him, and the basilisk behind the stone wall seemed to feel his gaze, and it struck harder and harder, accompanied by screams. This beast that had lived alone for thousands of years used all its strength.
Everyone headed towards a darker place. This dark tunnel was not completely straight, and sometimes had a slight curvature, which made Joel feel like he was running around the university playground.
"What's going on?" Ron's face turned pale, "What's going on with Selwyn?"
"I was careless," Lockhart's tone was not as out-of-the-box as before, but as calm and serious as when Joel and him first met. "It was Selwyn who released the basilisk from the chamber."
"What?!" Harry was very surprised. He always thought it was Lockhart who was responsible. If the basilisk hadn't been chasing him, he would have taken action against Lockhart a long time ago.
"I thought Selwyn just knew how to open the Chamber of Secrets," Lockhart breathed heavily, "I didn't expect that he had other secrets hidden in him!"
"It's a long story, let's talk about it in detail when we find a hiding place!" Lockhart led them to a fork in the road. There were two passages ahead, one continued to curve forward, and the other extended upward.
"Go this way!" Lockhart gritted his teeth and ran forward with them. He also cast an explosive spell to knock down the rocks above the tunnel and seal the entrance to the upper passage ahead.
Joel held Hailes tightly in his arms. She was extremely weak from the injury. Her thin body curled up in Joel's arms, and her palms tightly covered the wound on her abdomen. There was a cut several inches deep, and the blood kept flowing to it.
The violent magic power flowed outside and almost pierced her body.
Joel cast a floating spell on Haylis' body, trying to reduce the pressure on himself and trying to keep up with the pace of the people in front.
Lockhart led them all the way forward. When Joel felt that his lungs were about to explode, Lockhart finally stopped.
In front of them was a smooth stone wall. In the center of the wall were carved two intertwined silver snakes. Their two pairs of eye sockets were inlaid with emerald green gems.
"Parseltongue should be needed here," Lockhart looked at Harry, "Mr. Potter, it's up to you."
Harry's mouth was dry and he looked at the pair of silver snakes in front of him. He didn't need Joel to use the Transfiguration spell this time, so he said in a low and hoarse voice: "Open."
The two snakes separated, and the stone wall cracked in the middle, slowly sliding to both sides and disappearing.
Everyone stepped in, and they were now standing on the side of a long, dimly lit hall. In front of them was a statue standing high on the sky (with its head on the ceiling and its feet on the ground), clinging to the dark wall behind.
The five people looked up and saw clearly the face of the statue. It was old and looked like a monkey. It had a long sparse beard that almost reached the hem of the wizard's robe carved out of stone. There were two big gray beards.
Standing on the smooth floor of the room.
Salazar Slytherin, there is a portrait of him in the castle, and everyone can identify him at a glance.
There are many stone pillars engraved with entangled snakes in the hall, towering up to support the ceiling that melts into the darkness at high places, casting long and strange black shadows on the entire hall that is filled with green and mysterious mist.
"It's safe for now. I specially blocked the exit of the other passage. Selwyn and the Basilisk should focus on that passage." Lockhart exhaled a breath and sat on the ground in embarrassment. For a moment, he
After running non-stop for a long time, my legs and feet were weak and my whole body was weak. My throat felt like it was on fire. "Let's rest here for a while."
"Is this the secret room?" Harry and Ron were curious about this. They looked at the big snake on the stone pillar and felt that the atmosphere in the entire hall was eerie and terrifying.
"The answer is obvious. The tunnel was built next to the Black Lake and formed an irregular oval. We went around in a circle and came to the secret room." Lockhart saw the dying Haylis in Joel's arms and pulled out of his pocket.
He took out a bottle of white fresh food and said, "Here, apply it on the wound to stop the bleeding."
"Thank you." Joel took the fresh food, unscrewed the bottle cap and poured it on Haylis's wound.
She let out a muffled groan and tightened her fingers on Joel's arm, obviously in great pain.
"Don't be afraid, I'm here..." Joel reached out and hooked the black hair on Haylis's forehead behind her ears, and there was a sticky cold sweat in his hands. He comforted her with his gentlest voice.
Hailis' brows relaxed slightly, she pursed her white lips and watched quietly as Joel applied the medicine to her.
The wound finally stopped, and Joel placed Haylis's body in a comfortable position, leaning on his knees.
"Can you tell me the cause and effect of this matter now?" Joel asked, and Ron and Harry, who were observing the big snake on the stone pillar on the other side, also rushed back.
Lockhart sighed. "I discovered the truth the day Hermione Granger was injured."
"I lied. Not long after Granger left my office, I also left the room. When I went downstairs, I saw Granger petrified and lying motionless on the stairs, while Bernie Selwyn was holding a black diary.
Ben, followed a thick and long snake tail and disappeared at the end of the corridor."
"I checked the relevant information and combined with the relevant clues I had, I determined that the monster in the secret room is a basilisk." Lockhart spoke slowly and slowly.
"Then why didn't you inform Dumbledore?" Harry asked, "As long as Dumbledore takes action, we can successfully solve this problem!"
Lockhart was silent for a while and did not answer.
"You want to catch the basilisk alone, right?" Joel gently stroked Haylis's ponytail, "You want to take the credit for yourself? Then you can publish a book later to promote your achievements?
"
"That's right," Lockhart smiled bitterly, "I didn't expect that Selwyn could actually escape from my hands. I cut off one of his arms, and he could actually hide in the secret room and summon the basilisk out."
"I guess he must have mastered some kind of dark magic secret," Lockhart continued to reason. "I chased him for a long time. Sometimes his mental state was sober. During that time, he was very fragile, and
Sometimes he looks ferocious, like a devil that has escaped from its cage."
"It's that diary," Joel sighed. "That diary is a dark magic artifact."
Everyone cast doubtful eyes on him.
"During my summer vacation..." Joel kept the story short, telling everyone about Lucius's conspiracy during his summer vacation, "I didn't expect that the Wizengamot actually acquitted Lucius Malfoy and asked him to lead
I left the Ministry of Magic with my notebook."
"It was Malfoy who gave the diary to my brother?" Haylis said in a weak tone, "What a restless and kind-hearted old golden retriever dog."
She no longer cared about pure-blood family etiquette and insulted Lucius with the most filthy words she could think of.
"That diary can answer the questions you write in it. You can learn a lot of knowledge, but after getting along for a long time, you will feel that the diary is affecting your mind..." Joel told a little lie. He saw the diary.
I didn't dare to write anything on it, for fear of arousing Tom Riddle's suspicion.
"That's it." Haylis understood. She touched her wound lightly, and her body curled up in pain. Joel quickly rubbed her shoulders.
"Can Bernie's arm still be reattached?" Haylis asked.
Lockhart was stunned for a second and quickly replied, "Of course, the spell I used is not sinister. As long as he is sent to St. Mungo's for a week, the bone spirit will be able to reconnect his broken arm."
Harry and Ron had mixed emotions. They didn't expect that Lockhart was not the real culprit who opened the Chamber of Secrets. After thinking for a while, they got up and left, walking around the hall to satisfy their curiosity.
Joel stared at Haylis beside his knees and smoothed her messy black hair, while Lockhart looked at Hayley's wounds.
"I seem to have overlooked a problem," he scolded himself, "Damn it!"
"What's wrong?" Joel frowned. He followed Lockhart's gaze and stared at Haylis' injured abdomen. The blood there was no longer flowing and the wound was slowly healing.
He also realized the problem. There must have been a lot of blood flowing from Helene's wounds to the tunnel floor along the way. The running process was so tense that he didn't have time to deal with it. Lockhart's idea of deceiving the basilisk fell through.
There was a rustle and footsteps, obviously the sounds made by the Basilisk and Bernie.
"Let's go! I'll find a way to stop them." Lockhart took a step forward with his wand in hand, protecting the students behind him. His physical strength has not yet fully recovered, and it is impossible for him to run long distances again.
Joel picked up the weak Haylis and ran towards the back of the hall. Ron and Harry were standing in front of the last pair of stone pillars. At the end of the hall was a stone wall with two small snakes carved on it.
Without much hesitation, Harry directly commanded the little snake to open the stone wall in Parseltongue.
This is when they heard Bernie Selwyn’s crazy voice behind them: “Stay here today! This is my revenge on you!”