Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 280 Basilisk - Big Crisis!
"All petrochemical!"

Snape yelled.

He knocked down the corpses in front with his wand, but more skeletons covered in flesh and blood kept pouring in from the tunnel ahead.

Above, below, left and right intersections... densely packed like ants coming out of their nests.

Penetrating people, making people's hairs stand on end.

"There are many obstacles! Imprisonment quickly!" The Weasleys also cast a spell.

The corpses in front staggered and fell, one or two of them were tied up with ropes, and some were tripped and fell into a ball, but more blood corpses stepped on their fallen corpses and forced towards them.

They protected Ron and Hermione who had just found them and backed away again and again.

Several people continued to wave their wands vigorously, and shouted loudly: "Shenfeng Wuying!" "Torn apart!"

There were deep gashes on the torn clothes of the corpses and on the sticky and skinless flesh, and some even had their arms and shoulders torn apart... But even so, those severed hands and feet still slowly crawled towards them.

Unconsciously, these blood corpses rushed over like a tide, and stretched out pairs of bloody and sticky hands towards them.

The few of them retreated while blocking, but there was movement behind them.

Although Hagrid's body had been shrunk to the size of an ordinary person, his strength and tonnage remained unchanged. He protected the crowd, and hammered away the approaching corpses with an unusually thick wooden stick (summoned by a spell) like hitting a baseball.

Some even got headshots.

The mucus and the fragments of the corpses flew all over, making it very disgusting.

Mr. Weasley hurriedly summoned a flame to block the approach of these things.

"Burning flames!"

Golden yellow, bright flames gushed from the wand.

"This is not a ghost, it doesn't work!"

cried Snape sullenly.

In the end, the grumpy Mrs. Weasley directly used the [Explosion Curse] in the underground tunnel.

Although the power is much smaller after being controlled, but using this spell in such a confined space, especially in an underground tunnel...

(Even the young wizards in their lounges above could feel the castle shaking.)
Not to mention the few people in these tunnels, the whole tunnel shook and shook, and it took a while to calm down. At that time, they thought the whole place was going to collapse...

"Molly, don't do this next time!" Mr. Weasley was not frightened by those bloody corpses, but was terrified by his wife's actions.

And those skinless blood corpses were shattered into pieces after the trembling, yellow light shock wave, and the torn corpses were everywhere.

These blood corpses didn't bleed much blood and body fluids, and they looked sticky, like plastic dolls stuck together with glue.

Snape, the Weasleys, Hagrid and the others dragged the two young wizards they had just found and left here. (Mrs. Weasley covered the eyes of the two little wizards with a spell... This kind of bloody and cruel scene is still not suitable for these little wizards to see)

(There are still scattered in the dark tunnel... fragmented blood corpses are constantly looking for them, but they are no longer dangerous.)
After finding a slightly calm and dark tunnel, several people were finally able to rest and take a breath.

Snape turned around and asked the two little wizards (Ron and Hermione) he had just found, "What's going on here? Where are Harry Potter and that McGuffin?"

His tone was very bad.

In fact, they are also the two little wizards they just met.

The four of them have actually been in the tunnel for a long time. From the original four people being shrunk... to this relatively spacious tunnel, only Hagrid has been shrunk.

It's a pity that the few spiders in the glass bottle jumped to the left after they came here, and then jumped to the left, and finally they were frightened to death.

They can only rely on the corpses of small animals that occasionally appear in the tunnel to judge and guess the trajectory of the basilisk.

Because they were afraid of meeting the basilisk unexpectedly at every corner, they had no choice but to move forward slowly to find Harry and the others.

Later, a loud noise was heard, as if something was colliding.

The sound echoed constantly through the walls of the tunnel.

They followed the sound and fumbled forward, which led them to find Ron and Hermione who were being chased by those corpses!
Because of dealing with these horrible creations of black witchcraft, the few of them didn't have time to ask Harry where they went?
Until now Snape asked.

Ron was in a daze, he was a little taken aback by what just happened.

It was Hermione who took a few quick breaths and explained to them what had happened.

"..."

"What, Mysterious Man?"

"Rafflesia?"

"basilisk?"

"McGuffin and Harry still there?"

Mrs. Weasley screamed and Mr. Weasley tried to calm her down.

"Are you saying that Gilderoy Lockhart and the Mysterious Man are behind the scenes? This traitor first took the McGuffin away, and then the McGuffin suddenly appeared at your place... Relying on a notebook and threatening the Dark Lord to let you go?"

"This is simply a fantasy!"

The story is like a wizard's fairy tale... absurd and full of holes.

Snape wondered if the little witch had been frightened out of her wits, or else she had been hit by the Imperius Curse or the Confusion Curse.

"That's not true! The Dark Lord is not that young...it must be a wizard pretending to be!" Mr. Weasley denied this speculation.

"Granger, can you repeat that young wizard's name?" Snape asked as if remembering something.

"Tom Riddle!"

"Tom?" Hagrid suddenly seemed to yell, and the voice kept echoing in the tunnel.

"Impossible!" he exclaimed. "What's his middle name...is it Marvolo?"

"Looks like..." Hermione whispered.

After being confirmed, Hagrid trembled all over, with a look of mad anger and fear, as if he understood something.

The expression on his face was gritted, and his eyes were full of hatred.

Hermione was very surprised, she had never seen Hagrid behave like this.

"We... have to find Harry Potter quickly, and someone has to inform Professor Dumbledore that I'm afraid the Dark Lord has really returned!"

After Snape heard the name, he immediately reacted, and he said firmly.

No matter what, now he must protect Lily's son.

Even if you sacrifice yourself.

Snape thought.

To the very strange Weasleys, he didn't explain.

Instead, he turned around and left, heading towards the direction Ron and the others had just arrived.

"Granger... where is the place you mentioned? How to get there!" Hagrid asked again.

He also followed behind Snape with a firm face, turned around and left.

(He gave the two cocks to Mrs. Weasley and the others in case they encountered the basilisk along the way.)
After taking a look, Mr. Weasley turned to Mrs. Weasley and said, "Molly, take care of these two children... Hurry back to school and inform Professor Dumbledore, I'm afraid things are serious!"

Hermione and Ron wanted to follow them to find Harry... but were stopped by Mrs. Weasley, who was going to force them to leave here.

She looked at the figure of Mr. Weasley and the others leaving, with a worried expression.

Although Mrs. Weasley didn't know what happened, she also felt the seriousness of the matter. Depending on the situation... what Hermione said may be true.

Even if it wasn't true, the dark wizard here now is behind this series of terrorist attacks.

"Ron, Hermione, this is not something you little wizards can interfere with! We must quickly find Professor Dumbledore and them..."

……

"This is?"

Snape and the three of them had arrived at the Scarlet Cave, where the tunnels converged.

But there is nothing here.

Basilisks, rafflesias, vines, skinless bloody corpses, notebooks...including Tom Riddle!

Everything Hermione described was completely gone.

There was only a layer of sticky solution sticking to the walls and the ground, and some dry yellowed and blackened vines were thrown on the ground, ... and the fragments of the carriage proved that Hermione's words were true.

There was a slight burnt smell in the air.

(This stench was... very familiar to Hagrid and Snape, and they looked at Mr. Weasley with the same kind of strange eyes. The memory of the notorious disaster at Hogwarts was still fresh in both of them)
Except for those smells, it feels more like staying on those summer islands near the equator, which is hot and humid, like a steamer... It's not at all like the cold and damp underground tunnels hundreds of meters deep in Hogwarts Castle.

In addition, the mucus under their feet was soft and sticky, and every step they took seemed to be stuck in the mud.

Pulling up the shoes with great effort,...the soles of the shoes were sticky with slime.

In some places there was also a layer of black-gray ash.

Like falling from the sky.

Scattered, speckled.

—There was a big fire here.

This is the joint judgment of Snape and Mr. Weasley,

And it's not an ordinary flame, it's a magic fire, and... the caster's magic attainments are so superb that he didn't even burn any place, and even the slime on the ground didn't dry up.

After checking again, they vaguely noticed an astonishingly large thing from the traces of mucus on the ground...

It's the basilisk, and it's creeping up here and into one of the tunnels.

Snape cast a [Backtracking Curse], trying to see what happened here.

A golden scene lit up on the ground.Like one of those old black and white projectors.

The three of them could only see an indistinct dark-colored figure in wizard robes fighting a shape-shifting monster floating in the air, and finally a black flame spewed out from the figure's wand, completely burning the floating monster into ashes.

Then the vague figure disappeared deep into the tunnel with the huge basilisk.

Snape finished reading this with a stiff and ugly face, and then walked to the black-gray 'spot' layer.

Waving the wand, some shards of glass, stones, and broken wood below floated up one after another.

Within a few seconds, a half-missing glass vial appeared in mid-air, and an old wand that was broken in two, with the unicorn tail hair exposed at the tip... Another thing floated up 'in its entirety'.

--This is?
Snape quickly recognized that the glass vial contained the mutated Rafflesia seeds that he had lost not long ago... that is, the alienated magic polymer that Ron Weasley made last time.

Mr. Weasley, on the other hand, could tell at a glance that the broken wand was the one used by his youngest son Ron.

Now he was somewhat convinced that Gilderoy Lockhart was behind it.

Because as far as he knew, half of the wand was taken away by this professor, and now it appeared here...

The two looked at each other, and each skipped over the matter.

"Go, hurry up! Let's go find Harry and the others!"

Hagrid looked at the two suddenly anxious.

But he didn't think too much, he was already very anxious and wanted to go to Harry and the others.

……

"--what!"

--boom!

- Boom!

After two consecutive bangs, Harry and McGuffin were thrown out and smashed into the air.

The cold wind whizzed straight up.

Bone scraping.

McGuffin shuddered.

Immediately realized the eerie familiarity.

— Floating in mid-air?
The McGuffin came to his senses and immediately began waving his wand.

Harry turned his head to look around—it was empty.

Under their feet, in front of and behind them, the dazzling galaxy and colorful mist swirled and flowed.

Before Harry could react and appreciate the fantastic scenery around him, he was cast a spell by McGuffin and dragged him into the sky.

Still floating upwards.

Rise fast like a rocket.

"McGuffin you!"

"Shhhhhhhh!" he shushed, hoping Harry would keep quiet.

It's best not to make a sound at all.

McGuffin had a look of life rather than death, with an expression of extreme despair.

Gan!
If I knew it earlier, it would be better not to stimulate the seeds of the world tree?

What are you trying to figure out, what are you trying to figure out!

They got lost in the tunnel earlier—err!When looking for a way,
It was discovered that the basilisk had found them, and the rustling sound followed them like a shadow, just like the BGM in a horror movie.

Harry and McGuffin could only run subconsciously.

Somehow, they came to the entrance of a strange tunnel, where there were two giant dragons in the shape of stone carvings.

Originally, the two stone doors were closed, but they opened slowly when the two approached.

Without thinking too much, the two rushed into the tunnel.

Although McGuffin felt bad at the time, bad, very wrong.

But I didn't expect to go around in a circle, and the fuck took Harry... back again!
Shir!
- Boom!

There was another sound, very heavy, even if they were floating above it, they could hear it clearly.

Harry and McGuffin knew without thinking that it was the basilisk chasing them.

A few seconds later, Voldemort also landed here.

He sighed in admiration, a little curious, "I didn't expect that there are places in Hogwarts that I don't know!"

Then, using the Parseltongue, he gave the Basilisk an order to kill McGuffin and the others.

But before he could finish his order, a rumbling voice came from a distance and kept approaching.

The sound was like a bulldozer...or a group of giants rushing towards it, it was unstoppable.

The two (Tom Riddle and Harry) who didn't know the situation were at a loss.

McGuffin heard it and felt it, and his heart began beating fast again. (—The effect of the oath spell of that golden scale again.).

He knew that the monster Les Finley had transformed had arrived.

— Ansipi!

In his heart, there are ten thousand alpacas running wildly back and forth.

Voldemort took out his wand to guard against this unknown thing that was approaching, and then signaled the basilisk next to him to take a look...

The basilisk snaked its body and entered the mist.

But that huge body has not completely disappeared...

- Whoosh!

In an instant, the huge monster that could crush the car, like a mouse jumping through a hole, was directly drawn into the mist and disappeared before Voldemort's eyes.

"what!"

"I tell you, you are now facing the great Dark Lord..."

Tom Riddle's announcement was not over yet.

--boom!

--boom!

A figure jumped out of the mist with an incomparable momentum, and fell heavily.

(End of this chapter)