Online Games: Harry Potter: The Age of Magic

Chapter 11 Grice in Slytherin
"Uh..." Seeing that the other party didn't seem to want to talk to him, Rossi gave up the plan to communicate with the other party.

"Forget it, don't talk to her anymore. Anyway, I won't be able to go out tonight. Before my energy bar drops to the lowest and I need to sleep, I'd better find the information I want to check."

Thinking of this, Rossi no longer tried to communicate with the other party, and turned straight to another bookshelf, where he picked out books related to magical or dangerous creatures from the titles on the spine.

After a long time like this, when Rossi was about to pick up a book with a sleeping three-headed dog on the cover, Grace's slightly hoarse voice suddenly sounded from behind:

"What are you looking for?"

The unsuspecting Rossi was taken aback, turned his head and glared at the other party, and said with some displeasure: "Find a book about basilisks or explaining basilisks."

While speaking, Rossi complained in her heart: "Is she taking revenge on me for scaring her just now?! Absolutely!"

"You have such a strong revenge mentality at such a young age, it's really enough for Slytherin!" After complaining about the ethos of Slytherin House, Rosie suddenly realized that the other party didn't make any reaction after hearing her answer. , but stared blankly in his direction.

"Why is she so dazed?" Rosie couldn't help thinking, "This daze is not like Slytherin's usual insidious style, it feels like an honest Hufflepuff."

"AI crashed?" Rossi, who waited for a while but still didn't see any other actions from the other party, couldn't help complaining again, and then prepared to bypass the other party and continue searching.

"The book you're looking for is over there." Grace said suddenly.

While speaking, her arm pointed to a row of bookshelves in the front left: "The fourth row, the third column, the seventh book, "Detailed Explanation of Fantastic Beasts", pages 1 and 60, and the fifth row and sixth column in the general book area, The third, "Scary Monsters of the Wizarding World", No. [-], eight pages."

"Ah?" After she finished speaking, it took a few seconds before Rosie suddenly realized, "Thank you!"

As he said that, he quickly followed the other party's instructions and found the magic book called "Detailed Explanation of Fantastic Beasts".

While flipping through it quickly, I thought to myself: "It turns out that she was down for a long time because she was remembering where this book is stored!"

"This memory is indeed an AI!" While praising the other party in his heart, Rossi finally found what he wanted to read.

"In this world, there are many terrible beasts and monsters roaming, and the strangest and most lethal one is the basilisk.

Basilisks are huge in size and can live for hundreds or even thousands of years.

It hatched from the egg laid by the toad's body. It not only has sharp fangs, but also has an extremely dangerous gaze. Anyone who comes into contact with its eyes will be killed immediately.

Even using a toad's blood to weaken the power of its eyes, or indirectly meeting its eyes through other means, is enough to turn a person into petrification.

The basilisk is the natural enemy of the spider, so wherever there is a basilisk, the spider will flee.

And the crowing of the rooster is fatal to it, so it runs away when it hears the crowing..."

"No, it's not right here." Hearing Rosie read this, Grice, who was following behind her, corrected in a low voice, "The person who wrote this book made a mistake. Basilisks are not afraid of cock crowing."

"Uh, maybe you're right!" Rossi, who hadn't planned to use the rooster to deal with the basilisk, didn't care about this, especially after hearing the sound of the system prompt, she became more cheerful. He didn't take what the other person said to heart.

"Acquire Mission [-]: An important clue to investigate the truth behind the attack."

Rossi immediately opened the task panel, only to see that the prompt information on it had changed.

"Mission Two: Investigate the truth behind the attack (in progress).

Important clue [-], about the basilisk, reasoning (the clue is incomplete and cannot be carried out), conclusion (lack of preconditions)"

I casually clicked on the yellow word about the basilisk, and its detailed information immediately jumped out.

"Judging by various details, the monster that came out of the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets can basically be determined to be the legendary basilisk."

Seeing this, Rossi couldn't help laughing dumbly, and complained in his heart: "I'm stuck with a BUG?"

"The basilisk is huge...it is extremely dangerous, but fortunately, the creatures attacked in Hogwarts may not have faced it face to face, so they were lucky to be petrified.

According to gossip, it is not afraid of cock crowing, which seems to be different from the records in the book..."

After reading the system prompt, Rossi found another book that Grice said had recorded basilisks. After looking through it, he found that the descriptions of basilisks in the two books were almost the same. Scary Beasts lacks a lot of information compared to the other book.

Rossi, who didn't get any more useful hints, put the book back to its original place, and said to Grice, who had been following her since just now, "Thank you for letting me find some important information."

Grice shook his head, the overly white skin on his face showed a bit of red and tender blood under the dim light of the magic torch.

"No, you're welcome." After finishing speaking, she asked in a somewhat weird tone, "Why are you looking for books about basilisks?"

Rossi thought for a while and said, "I'm an agent from the Ministry of Magic, and I came to Hogwarts to investigate the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets. I think there is a basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets, which is the culprit for Mrs. Norris' petrification. "

Hearing this, Grace seemed to take a half step back in surprise and panic, and even her breathing became a little heavier.

After hesitating for a moment, Grice, who seemed to have figured out some key points, nodded slowly, affirming Rossi's words: "Yes, you are right."

Since Grice can point me to the exact page number about the basilisk in the magic book, I must have read the records about the basilisk.In this way, it is not surprising that the murderer who attacked Norris was determined to be a basilisk.

While thinking this way, Rossi made a suggestion to the other party: "By the way, when you are in Hogwarts in the future, you'd better take a mirror with you, and when you want to turn a corner, you'd better use the mirror to look at it first. "

"Well, I have to do the same in the future." Rossi said to herself at the same time.

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Seeing that Grice didn't respond, Rossi added: "In this way, even if you are unlucky and encounter a basilisk, at most you will be petrified and have a chance to be cured."

"Well, the resurrection potion prepared with the mandrake can indeed remove the petrification ability of the basilisk." Grice nodded and responded, "However, I don't need to use a mirror."

"You actually know the name of that potion?" Rossi looked at the other party in surprise. Although he knew from the movie that there was a kind of herbal medicine that could cure people who were petrified by the basilisk, he had no impression of the name of the potion at all. Thinking of Grice saying it casually, "You really deserve to be a Slytherin!"

In Rosie's mind, even though Grice is an NPC, as a student, her knowledge on potions should only be explained by her birth in the same college as Potions professor Snape.

Hearing that the other party claimed that there is no need for a mirror, Rossi was about to persuade him, but when he saw the ribbon on the other party's eyes, he said, "Do you think it is enough to wear a blindfold and not look at the basilisk? But if you Wouldn't it be even more unfortunate not to be petrified if it was really unfortunate to encounter a basilisk?"

(End of this chapter)