Chapter 223 Our Plastic Friendship Broke Down Today!

How can this be?

Tom Riddle fell into shock and confusion. From his point of view, Snake Talk was an innate talent given to him by his blood, and it could not be mastered by others.

"Hiss~" Ivan was still trying to adjust his tone to fit Tom's previous voice, which soon became more and more similar.

"How is it? Tom, is my pronunciation still standard?" After Ivan learned it a few times, he turned to look at Tom and asked aloud.

Tom was still in a daze, and it took him a while to come back to his senses. He looked at Ivan with a complicated look in his eyes. He nodded and said reluctantly.

"What you said is pretty good."

"That's good! It seems that snake language is not as difficult to learn as you said." Ivan breathed a sigh of relief. He had always been worried about whether there was a special way to learn snake language. Now that Tom, a master of snake language, has confirmed it, he is relieved. Some.

Immediately, Ivan turned to ask again. "Tom, what does the snake language you just taught me mean?"

"That refers to death!" Tom Riddle explained aloud. After thinking about it, he couldn't help but said it again. "Hals, have you ever been exposed to snake language before? Who are your parents? Has he ever tried to talk to snakes?"

Tom Riddle really couldn't believe that Ivan could master the snake language, and he learned it too fast, right?

He only demonstrated it a few times.

Ivan shook his head and said that there was nothing special about his birth, he just had a strong learning ability.

Immediately afterwards, Ivan hurriedly urged Tom Riddle to teach him the next word.

Tom Riddle taught him a few more words without giving up, and finally confirmed that Ivan did have the talent to learn snake language.

This discovery made Tom Riddle regret even more. The reason why he revealed so much important information to Ivan was to let him take him to the secret room.

After devouring the flesh and soul of a spider, Tom can barely manifest himself in the real world. Once he returns to the secret room, he can control the basilisk and kill Ivan.

After so many days, Tom's patience has been exhausted, and he has given up any hope of controlling the little wizard in front of him to serve him.

On the contrary, he wanted to escape from the other party's control and find the next target that could easily be deceived.

That's why he took the initiative to throw out the concept of bloodline fusion, and explained that after completion, his strength and talent can be greatly improved.

Tom knew very well that a young wizard like Ivan, who was keen on studying magic and improving his strength, would never be able to resist this temptation.

However, he had calculated everything, but he did not expect that Ivan could easily master the most critical snake language.

This means that the little wizard in front of him has the ability to leave himself behind and search for clues to the secret room alone.

So, after teaching a few simple words, Tom stopped with an ugly expression.

"What's wrong?" Ivan was rapidly enriching his vocabulary of snake language. When he saw that Tom suddenly stopped pronouncing words, he was suddenly a little surprised.

"That's it for today. My strength is still very weak and there is no way to maintain this state forever." Tom sighed and said, withdrew all the black mist and prepared to return to the diary. He needed some time to calm down. A quiet moment

Ivan was confused, but fortunately he realized that he had failed Tom's plan. Of course, the other party would no longer be able to teach him as hard as he could.

"Then we will learn it tomorrow." Ivan nodded, not forcing Tom Riddle, but just mentioned it casually.

"By the way, you haven't told me where the entrance to the secret room is? Are there traps and mechanisms there? Are there any other dangers? Otherwise, wait until I learn snake language and take you with me when I enter the secret room."

Tom Riddle, who was about to return to the Horcrux, stopped and looked at Ivan blankly. Then he remembered that besides the snake language, he had another card to play, which was the entrance to the secret room.

Thinking of this, Tom Riddle once again had hope.

However, Tom was vaguely aware that something was wrong, but he couldn't figure it out. He just felt that the timing of the words of the little wizard in front of him seemed a little too coincidental.

"Okay, then I'll teach you tomorrow!" Tom nodded with a strange expression, agreed, and turned into black mist and got into the Horcrux.

Seeing Tom nod, Ivan's heart was relieved and he was finally fooled.

But thinking about the black stain that appeared at the door of the Room of Requirement, Ivan frowned again and put the diary in the pocket of the wizard's robe to carry it with him. It seemed that he had to pay more attention these days.

In the next few days, while Ivan was learning snake language with Tom Riddle, he also did not forget to check the situation in the Room of Requirement from time to time.

Hoping to find the person who sneaked into the Room of Requirement while he was away.

However, after several days, Ivan found nothing, and none of the baits deliberately placed in the Room of Requirement were lost, and there was no sign that the things had been disturbed at all, as if the previous stains were just his illusion.

This made Ivan even more puzzled. Could it really be an accident?

Ivan was depressed for a while. Fortunately, after learning the snake language for a few days, he finally deciphered the characters given by the system.

Just as Luna guessed, it was just a sentence,

Pay tribute to the great forerunner-Salazar Slytherin!

Ivan recalled the meaning of the characters in his mind, and his expression was very strange. He recalled what Tom said when he released the basilisk in the original time and space,

It seems that this password is also used to open somewhere, and the content of the password is completely in line with Salazar Slytherin's always narcissistic style.

When Ivan checked the mission progress of Mystery of Bloodline again, he found that after cracking the characters, the current mission progress had reached 45%.

What is missing is to find the place that requires this password to open. Ivan guesses that the place is probably the place where Salazar Slytherin conducts experiments, and it is most likely somewhere in the secret room.

[Hals, I have taught you everything you want to learn. Can we go to the secret room? 】

The diary placed on the table turned over on its own, and black ink stains appeared on it.

Ivan looked at the Horcrux diary quietly without replying.

In the past few days, Ivan has used various reasons to fend off Tom Riddle's several requests. The relationship between the two parties has dropped to a freezing point and is not far from a complete breakdown.

So much so that Tom Riddle stopped answering any of his questions and would only ask him over and over again like the repeater when he could take him to the secret room.

In view of this, Ivan is no longer pretending. He has not taken action against the Horcrux just because the other party still has the last bit of information.

Thanks to the book friend Shan Tutu who eats toffee for the 600 starting coins.