Chapter 24 Keeping a Secret

Lu Yunkai threw the notebook with unknown origin into the Room of Requirement, and then returned directly to the dormitory.

He threw his head back on the bed and covered his head with the quilt.

He didn't feel lucky for his alertness.

Although he soon realized that he was bewitched by the magic in the notebook, so he wrote down the questions about Chris in the notebook in a daze. But at a certain moment, he really doubted whether he had made a mistake in letting Chris follow him.

It has too many secrets that it keeps to itself. It's dangerous.

Although, only for a moment.

At that moment, the notebook keenly grasped the changes in his mentality, and then very covertly tried to drive a wedge between him and Chris.

Although it later realized that its alienating behavior had exposed it and tried to save it, which made Lu Yunkai realize that something was wrong with it, it still made Lu Yunkai feel ashamed.

Chris has done so much for herself, yet she has done nothing for it, yet she still doubts it? Why!

And just when Lu Yunkai fell into deep self-examination...

Chris squatted on Lu Yunkai's bedside and muttered.

"The crown just thrown into Knockturn Alley could be sold for hundreds of thousands of gold Galleons! Meow! Otherwise, when you can leave Hogwarts during the long vacation, go and pick up the notebook and the crown together. Come out, and then go to Knockturn Alley and sell everything..."

"That crown cannot be sold."

Finally unable to bear Chris's thoughts, Lu Yunkai popped his head out from under the quilt.

"Meow, are you finally willing to speak?" Kris stretched out her paw and patted Lu Yunkai's head.

"you……"

"Meow, I don't blame you. I have hidden many things from you. It's normal for you to doubt me. Don't feel sorry for me."

"How do you know what I'm thinking?"

"You look like that, and everything that's on your mind is written on your face." Chris looked at Lu Yunkai's shocked look and nodded with satisfaction, "That's what black magic is like, it can take advantage of a moment's shake of people's hearts to turn them into something. Pulling in the direction of darkness, do you still have the confidence to face similar temptations in the future? "

"...Okay! I'm getting arrogant." Lu Yunkai sighed.

Thinking about it this way, feeling sorry for yourself just now in bed doesn't seem to be a positive way to solve the problem!

Why didn't I think of apologizing to Chris? This kind of issue involving trust, as long as both parties are not honest, something will happen sooner or later! Didn’t you end up falling into the hole that the notebook dug for yourself?

"Meow, you don't have to be too afraid. If black magic is so unsolvable, the mysterious man will not die." Chris smiled and gave Lu Yunkai another boost, "Okay, cheer up and continue. Let’s practice potion making!”

"I want to take a day off today." Lu Yunkai shook his head, "I'm a little uncomfortable being plotted by a notebook like this."

"You'd better cheer up!" Chris was a little dissatisfied with Lu Yunkai's performance. "It's normal to be plotted by black magic without warning. If you really can't swallow this, just go Learn Occlumency!”

"Occlumency? What is that?"

"A spell that can block other people's exploration and influence on your mind. Jesse learned it specifically to avoid Legilimency from the mysterious man and his men."

"Legilimency? What is that?"

"A kind of magic... Meow, you understand it as what Muggles call mind-reading." Chris shook her head, "Anyway, no matter what it is, you move it, don't lie here and feel sorry for yourself!"

"Mind reading? I'm a little interested in this." Lu Yunkai cheered up, "Let's go! Go to the library, let's look for relevant books!"

"Meow! That's right! The most useful weapon to deal with the negative emotions caused by black magic is to cheer up!" Chrissy nodded and jumped on Lu Yunkai's shoulder, "Let's go! Let's go!"

"Eh? You were out shopping all night last night, didn't you want to sleep?"

"Meow, it won't hurt if you miss a little sleep, let's go!"

"……good."

Lu Yunkai nodded.

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"Lu...Lu Yunkai?"

"...Ah! Professor Quirrell! Why are you here?" Lu Yunkai looked up and saw Quirrell standing behind him, and was startled.

He looked through almost all the books on Charms in the library, but could not find any books on Legilimency. In the end, he had no choice but to ask the librarian, Mrs. Pince.

Then she was warned by Mrs. Pingsi.

"Just...just now...Mrs. Pingsi told me that you...are you looking for banned books?"

"Ah!! I'm sorry, Professor Quirrell! I didn't know Legilimency was a spell in the forbidden book! I just heard about this spell and was a little curious."

"No...it doesn't matter." Quirrell waved his hands repeatedly, "Although...although this magic is...controlled magic, it is not a forbidden...forbidden skill. It's just that in...Hogwarts it's not... teach."

"Is this so?" Lu Yunkai's eyelids twitched, "Professor, can you teach me?"

"You...are too young to...can't learn this." Quirrell shook his head.

"That's it! I understand."

"But if you...if you want to learn...Occlumency, I...I can teach you." Quirrell glanced at the book open in front of Lu Yunkai.

What is written above is Occlumency.

"Excuse me. I'll read the book first! If I have any questions, I'll ask you." Lu Yunkai smiled a little embarrassed.

"Okay." Qi Luo nodded and left.

Lu Yunkai lowered his head and continued to read.

Only Chris, who was sleeping on his knees, noticed that Lu Yunkai's body was shaking slightly.

"Meow? What's wrong?"

"Nothing." Lu Yunkai shook his head, "You continue to sleep."

"Meow?" Although Chris was a little doubtful, she continued to close her eyes and sleep.

Lu Yunkai looked at the book in front of him about brain occlusion, but his mood could not calm down for a long time.

Just now he was practicing brain occlusion according to what the book said.

According to the book, this brain occlusion is divided into two steps. The first step is to completely close your brain and completely clear your emotions and thoughts.

It is not difficult for ordinary people to have no thoughts and no desires, so Lu Yunkai did it quickly.

Then he quickly entered the second step of the exercise: after closing the real emotions and memories in his brain, he released another part that he wanted to show.

Very difficult.

This is not just about making up a lie: it also requires that you believe in the lie from the bottom of your heart, and you can't even let people find out that you forced yourself to believe this lie...

This is simply an infinite nesting doll!

So, Lu Yunkai decided to reduce the difficulty a little bit.

Appropriately release some scattered and chaotic "memories", and then slowly practice to "deepen" this part of the memory.

Anyway, he has two memories, each of which is a real "self".

He was just trying to supplement, expand, and rationalize the memory of the former Lu Yunkai: For example, the child who was abandoned and abused since childhood began to learn magic. He should feel a lack of love, right? Will he become paranoid? Will he have a "blind worship" of power?

Anyway, it is an existence that is completely opposite to himself.

But just when he was immersed in making up stories, Professor Quirrell suddenly came, which scared him.

However, this is not the reason why he was shaking just now.

Perhaps because of the practice of brain occlumency, Lu Yunkai has become more sensitive to his own consciousness and emotions. Just when he looked at Professor Quirrell just now, he keenly felt that Quirrell seemed to want to explore his thoughts.

Instinctively, Lu Yunkai knew that it must be Legilimency.

But he still tried to suppress that instinctive guess: this is the same logic as the nesting doll.

He didn't know whether Quirrell believed that he realized that Quirrell wanted to know what he was thinking, because he didn't dare to think about it at all.

Quirrell left, and left a word that he was willing to teach Lu Yunkai brain occlumency.

But Lu Yunkai didn't even have time to rejoice before he immediately thought of a more terrible question: Has Quirrell used Legilimency on him before? If so, does he know the existence of the system?

So, he asked himself if there was a magic stone here? Did he just want to confirm that he could really interact with the system?

But he just used Legilimency on Lu Yunkai again, what did he see? Was it the personality and memory of the beer hall child worker that Lu Yunkai wanted him to see, or Lu Yunkai's true thoughts?

What would he think?

The more he thought about it, the more Lu Yunkai couldn't stop his body from shaking.

"Chris..."

"What's wrong? Are you cold? Then wear two more clothes when you go back!" Chris looked up again in a daze and looked at Lu Yunkai.

"Um... When you have time, can you help me secretly keep an eye on Quirrell!"

"Meow?"

"I suspect he has learned the secret of my system."

"Okay, meow!" Chris responded very straightforwardly, "But he should not have time to bother you recently."

"Because Snape is bothering him?"

"Meow, not only that. The things in the Forbidden Forest also want to deal with him."

"Forbidden Forest?"

"Don't you want to get involved in this? Are you sure you want to know?" Chris tilted her head and looked at Lu Yunkai.

"You talk, I'm listening."

"Go back to the dormitory at night! There are too many people here." Chris continued to bury her head and sleep.

Lu Yunkai nodded and took a deep breath.

No matter how much Quirrell knew about him, one thing was certain.

This brain occlumency technique was really, really, really useful, and he had to learn it as soon as possible.

Because he really had too many secrets!