Chapter 54 The Secret Room in the Castle

Irving and Harry held Ron tightly, as if they were on a roller coaster zipping through an underground tube, rising, falling, turning, dashing down a dark, sticky , Endless slides.

Because the width of the pipe was too narrow, Ivan had to stick tightly to the basilisk.

Even so, when he was around the corner, he was in pain all over his body and his eyes were shining with stars.

He hadn't known before that the Hogwarts pipes were designed like this, like a complicated labyrinth, and they didn't go all the way down to the Chamber of Secrets.

In an apparently very old pipeline, they went straight up, and Aiwen calculated the height estimate and came to the Ravenclaw Tower, which is the highest place in the school.

At the highest point of the pipe, the basilisk took them to a strange oval room. There were light blue curtains everywhere. The side of the room was full of books. From the thick dust accumulated on it, it was known that no one had been there for a long time. Been here.

Ron, who was controlled by Tom Riddle, showed an obvious surprised expression on his face. He didn't know this place before. This was another secret room hidden in the school.

"Damn it!" Tom Riddle hissed.

He wanted the basilisk to stop, but apparently the rooster's crowing made it frightened, the basilisk didn't listen to Tom Riddle's control at all, and it panicked and ran as fast as it could.

The room with the blue curtain disappeared instantly, and when they passed the most central table, Ai Wen reached out and caught something, it was a round object with a long chain on it.

He held the thing tightly in his hand, and before he had time to look down, the basilisk led them down quickly. A minute later, with a loud bang, the basilisk smashed the pipe directly, and they cried from the third floor. Myrtle flushed out of the bathroom.

It led them towards the faucet with a small snake carved in the center, and Ron hissed rapidly.

Immediately, the faucet emitted a dazzling white light and began to spin rapidly.

The pool slowly disappeared from sight, and Aiwen just had time to see a very thick water pipe, and the basilisk drilled into it.

This water pipe is much thicker than the ones just now. It seems to be specially prepared for the basilisk. Ai Wen can see that there are many pipes that branch out in all directions, but they are not as thick as this pipe.

The pipe twists and turns, winding seven times and eight times, and the slope is very steep all the way down.

Ai Wen knew that they had slipped deep into the ground of the school, even deeper than those underground classrooms. Just as he got used to the fast gliding, they finally landed on the wet ground.

The water pipe became horizontal, they emerged from the nozzle, and fell heavily on the ground. A strong collision made Ivan and Harry let go at the same time. The Basilisk took Ron and slid into the distance, and soon disappear.

It was a dark stone tunnel, big enough to stand in.

"Where is this place?" Harry rubbed his ass and stood up.

"We were taken several miles below the school."

Ai Wen's voice echoed in the dark tunnel, "If I guess correctly, this is probably under the lake."

He narrowed his eyes and surveyed the dark, sticky walls around him.

Immediately afterwards, he remembered what he had just caught at the top of the castle, in the room full of blue curtains.

"Fluorescent flashes!" His wand glowed faintly.

With the faint light, Ai Wen saw the round object in his hand, which was like a pocket watch, but there was no scale on it, only a strange pointer.

"What's this?" Harry also leaned over.

"I don't know, I accidentally caught it in the room where the basilisk passed by. It seems to be a magic item." Ivan hesitated to move the pointer.

"Evan, let's go back and study this thing. Let's go, we must hurry, Ron was taken away by him." Harry said eagerly.

"Yeah, that's right!" Ivan stuffed this strange item into his pocket. They really had to hurry up. Tom Riddle was absorbing Ron's vitality. The longer the time, the more detrimental they were.

Along the tunnel, the two walked forward quickly, stomping on the wet ground, making a loud noise.

It was so dark around them that they could only see a small area in front of them.

The two men's wands glowed faintly, casting their shadows on the wet wall, looking like monsters.

"Harry, Tom Riddle uses Ron's broken wand. Like wandless magic, it requires extremely powerful control. In a short period of time, he can't cast a powerful spell." Ivan walked quickly while walking. He ordered, "I will attract the attention of the basilisk in a while, and you go to the diary."

"Diary?!" Harry froze for a moment.

"It's the black-covered diary we found at Christmas, that's the source of Tom Riddle's power." Ivan whispered, "Remember, find a way to destroy it, Riddle doesn't know we know this. , this is our only chance."

"I remember!" Harry nodded and suddenly grabbed Ivan's shoulder, "Look, there's something there, isn't it..."

Ai Wen stretched out his wand, and through the faint fluorescence, he saw the outline of a coiled behemoth, lying on the other side of the tunnel, motionless.

"This is the skin of the basilisk. Maybe someone wants to collect this thing."

In front of the two men, on a huge snakeskin, green and very bright, coiled and lay on the ground of the tunnel, which was empty and was twenty feet long. Obviously, it was the basilisk that fell off just now.

They went forward again, carefully turning another curve, and at last they found a solid wall in front of them, carved with two intertwined snakes, with large, gleaming eyes in their eyes. Bright emeralds.

"Harry, speak to them in Parseltongue," Evan whispered.

Harry stepped closer, feeling his throat dry.

He tried so hard to make the two stone snakes come true, but he didn't need them, their eyes looked exactly like life.

"Open!" Harry said in a low, hoarse hiss.

The two snakes parted, the stone wall cracked in the middle, and slowly slipped to the sides and disappeared.

Ai Wen hurriedly walked in, and in front of them was a long, dimly lit room. Many stone pillars carved with entangled serpents, towering and supporting the ceiling that melted in the darkness of the high place, cast long and eerie shadows on the whole room filled with green and mysterious mystery.

"It's Slytherin's secret room!" Ivan whispered.

There was a dead silence in the secret room, and the two men held their wands and slowly advanced between the stone pillars coiled by the giant snake.

With every cautious step they took, a hollow, loud echo echoed through the walls of the ghostly shadows.

When they walked parallel to the last pair of stone pillars, a statue as tall as the room itself appeared in front of them, clinging to the dark wall behind. Ai Wen raised his head and saw the huge face above: it was an old-fashioned, monkey-like face, a sparse long beard, almost all the way to the hem of the stone-carved wizard's robe, two gray Huge feet stand on the smooth floor of the room.

Between those feet, Ron was lying face down like a dead man.

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