Chapter 26 Prolonging Life

Since accepting Chris as his magic pet, Lu Yunkai slept with his pet cat for the first time.

That night, Lu Yunkai did not sleep well. He had a strange dream. He dreamed that he was standing in a vast sea of ​​sand, ragged, and looked like he was about to die of thirst. Then, he jumped into a bottomless black hole in front of him. It was dark all around, and then it suddenly became bright again, and he fell into the desert again...

Just like a nesting doll, repeating again and again.

So when he got up the next day, he was not energetic at all.

"Meow, I thought about it all night, you should not tell Snape what happened last night."

The first words that Lu Yunkai heard from Chris after waking up made him feel very relieved.

In fact, Lu Yunkai did not go directly to Snape last night, not because he was worried about how to explain what he knew happened in the Forbidden Forest, but because he was worried that it would be useless.

You know, wizards have a tradition of using unicorn hair and horns to make wands. No matter how sacred and pure an animal is, it is still just an animal. Especially for a potion professor like Snape, Lu Yunkai doesn't believe that he will completely fall out with Quirrell for the welfare of animals.

Knowing this, if Lu Yunkai goes to complain, it will be a joke with his own life and property.

But the night before, when he saw Chris, who was angry and helpless after the unicorn was killed, Lu Yunkai knew that it was useless to reason with it, and it would even make it feel that "humans are not good things"...

Now that it has calmed down, Lu Yunkai is of course happy.

But he also felt more guilty, so he promised Chris that he must find out what Quirrell is doing.

After breakfast, he plunged into the library and looked up information.

First of all, he had to find out what the unicorn blood is used for. Chris actually didn't know this.

And this search took a whole day. Although unicorns are famous magical creatures and have been mentioned in many places, they only talk about the use of their hair and horns in making wands. As for their blood, at most it is mentioned that it is silver, and there is no way to find out what it is used for.

Finally, Hermione, who returned to school after Halloween and came to the library to return a book, saw Lu Yunkai and spent five minutes to help him find the answer in a book she "had read for fun before."

It was a wizard's memoir, and because there were too many fictional contents in it, it was classified as a novel...

"Many things in this book are not credible, just read it. But why do you suddenly care about the function of unicorn blood?"

Hermione spoke with a little incomprehension, but she didn't ask more questions. She returned the book, borrowed two new books, and left.

Before leaving, she didn't forget to remind Lu Yunkai that there was a banquet in the evening and he shouldn't read too much.

But Lu Yunkai's attention had long been attracted to the book.

"Fresh unicorn blood can extend a person's lifespan, but the drinker will also be cursed with a life worse than death. When the unicorn dies, the effect of the blood will quickly disappear, leaving only beautiful silver..."

This line of words in the book seems like nonsense to many people, but it is shocking to Lu Yunkai.

"Extending lifespan... What's wrong with Quirrell? Why is he so obsessed with things that extend lifespan? He doesn't look very old! Why is he so afraid of death?"

Closing the book, Lu Yunkai muttered to himself.

He remembered that Quirrell wanted to find the magic stone he bought, which can also be used to make a potion that extends lifespan.

Lu Yunkai was 100% sure that this was related to the face behind his head.

What exactly is that face?

With such questions, Lu Yunkai left the library and returned to the common room absent-mindedly.

Then his thinking was interrupted.

The young wizard apprentices who returned from home filled the Slytherin common room. Everyone was chatting and laughing excitedly, talking about what they had encountered, what delicious food they had eaten, and what interesting things they had played during the short vacation that had just ended.

Lu Yunkai was also pulled into the party.

Blaise gave Lu Yunkai a cake baked by his mother, saying that this was what his mother asked him to pass on to Lu Yunkai no matter what.

Malfoy told Lu Yunkai that his father heard that Lu Yunkai could get the Nimbus 2000 and hoped to order a batch from him to donate to the Slytherin Quidditch team.

For such a large order that fell from the sky, if it was before the Halloween holiday, he would definitely be overjoyed to take it all, but after these few days, especially after seeing Quirrell's ghost appearance the night before, Lu Yunkai became much more cautious.

He did not agree rashly, but said that Professor Snape hoped that he would contact less friends outside the school. If he did this again, he was afraid that Snape would cause trouble for him.

Malfoy had seen Lu Yunkai locked in the common room making potions after class for the past two months. After hearing what he said, he could only say that he could give up for the time being and wait for a chance to talk about it later...

Just like that, after the reunion in the common room, all the students changed into formal clothes and went to the auditorium to attend the dinner together.

It was a dinner to welcome students back to school. In fact, it was a make-up for the Halloween dinner that was ruined by the mountain monster before.

This time, there was no mountain monster to make trouble, and all the students who had just finished their vacation were very happy.

However, this did not include Lu Yunkai, who was worried.

In the hall, he made eye contact with Snape twice and with Quirrell once.

And during these three eye contacts, Lu Yunkai clearly felt that the two were exploring his thoughts...

So Lu Yunkai had to keep his brain closed all night, and he didn't relax until he returned to the dormitory after the banquet.

Then he found that he was used to it and didn't seem so tired.

...

Just like that, the vacation was over, and Lu Yunkai returned to the life of a first-year student at Hogwarts.

Every day, he went to class to study, brewed potions, chatted with students from the same and other colleges, and then practiced brain closing unremittingly.

After all, he didn't tell Snape about Quirrell, and he wouldn't be stupid enough to go directly to Dumbledore, who seemed to dislike him.

That was a secret between him and Chris, which he suppressed.

Well, maybe the centaur named Firenze also knows?

Anyway, Lu Yunkai will not mention it to anyone again.

It's just that Lu Yunkai has become a good student, but he can't stop some restless people from making trouble. For example, his first friend...

Harry has become a celebrity in the school again.

It's not because he has always performed very well in Quidditch: although Gryffindor has been losing recently, Harry's performance as a seeker has always been remarkable.

He was criticized by the whole school for violating school rules.

For this group of wizard apprentices, violating school rules is commonplace. In the words of Ron's two twin brothers, students who have not been deducted points for violating school rules in Hogwarts are not normal people.

The problem is that the reasons why Harry and Ron violated school rules are too cool!

Sneak out in the middle of the night to watch Hagrid hatch dragon eggs.

Dragon eggs! This kind of thing is a legendary thing for every Hogwarts student, and curiosity is simply overflowing!

Of course, there is another reason. They sneaked out of the dormitory in the middle of the night. They were not caught by the administrator Mr. Filch, but reported by someone. The reporter was punished with the two of them for the same reason.

Typical of harming others without benefiting oneself! !

The punishment of the three people later also caused a lot of discussion among the students: the school punished the three of them to follow Hagrid to patrol the forbidden forest at night.

When Lu Yunkai saw the reporter Malfoy complaining about the spider group he encountered during the punishment, he didn't know what to say to him. He could only smile helplessly and shook his head...

Of course, another thing Malfoy said inadvertently attracted Lu Yunkai's attention: he and Harry saw a pool of silver blood on the ground in the woods during the patrol. It was said to be the blood of a unicorn.

Malfoy originally said this with a bit of toughness to save the scene, but when it fell into Lu Yunkai's ears, it had a completely different meaning: the things Quirrell did should soon be revealed.

This made Lu Yunkai feel an inexplicable sense of urgency and uneasiness: If Quirrell could not continue to use the unicorn's blood to prolong his life, would he be forced to find a way to get him the Philosopher's Stone?

This sense of urgency forced Lu Yunkai to spend more of his extracurricular time on practicing brain occlusion.

In any case, he must form a completely false, yet extremely real personality and memory as soon as possible!

Time also moved forward rapidly in such a school life, from autumn to winter.

The pine trees were pressed with thick snow.

Then, they were hung with ribbons and bells.

The Christmas holiday is coming.