Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 575

Chapter 577 [Human Face Sphinx]

Harry kept walking on the stone stairs in the [Endless Labyrinth],
All kinds of forks in it crisscrossed back and forth. Apart from keeping himself going upwards, he really didn't know where he had come.

Harry realized now that they had been lucky to find the [Crystal Pyramid] navigator last time.

Every branch in the maze, every jump to another stone step, was a difficult choice for Harry.

There are hidden golden egg levels... and encounters with other warriors are not as many as imagined.

Except for meeting the Chinese wizard Chen Xiaolong once, Harry has never met other warriors.

The Chinese wizard is also jumping back and forth between the various steps.

After seeing Harry, he waved his hand, and then lazily jumped towards the black and white stone stairs in other directions.

This guy seems to be on some kind of adventure trip here, and he is not as eager to win the game as he is a warrior.

After that, the road became empty, and until Harry could see the border of this [Endless Labyrinth Pyramid], he still didn't encounter any obstacles.

what happened?

Harry knew from his last experience that this was already approaching the top of the maze... almost to the exit.

He didn't know why it happened like this, so unimpeded made him a little panicked.

'What should I encounter now? '

According to his experience with Albert, if nothing happens all the time, he has to be careful, because generally speaking, bad luck will come after a while.

……

When Harry was at a loss, the old classroom was full of hissing, and the doubts and dissatisfaction erupted among the Slytherin students began to spread to other students.

Not only the representatives of wizards from the other nine magic schools, but even the students of Hufflepuff were full of anger. They whispered... Some even ran over to ask Professor McGonagall what was going on?

——Why only Harry didn't encounter any difficulties along the way.

At this moment, many warriors have more or less come into contact with those magic levels... fire dragons, snails, some extremely strange and rare magic spells... animated gargoyle statues, iron armor soldier statues, boggarts, three-headed dogs, huge eight-eyed spiders, and even some extremely ugly eight-clawed monsters living in a large pool... They all show their faces one by one, hindering the progress of the warriors, or holding golden eggs.

In these levels, monsters made most of the warriors very embarrassed.

Up to now, only Harry has been moving forward in this maze calmly, as if he was on an outing.

And the adventures of other warriors in the maze are fundamentally different from those of Harry——

For example, Krum suffered some burns, and he was lucky to get a golden egg; like Cedric Diggory, he didn’t have that luck. When he encountered a checkpoint—he was facing a three-headed dog, and the golden egg was firmly hung on the neck of the three-headed monster like a small golden whistle.

Apparently Cedric Diggory didn't know the specifics of the first-year MacGuffin Harry's adventurous feat, and he didn't know that a three-headed dog could be put to sleep just by humming a ditty.

After trying [Stunning Curse], [Obstacle Curse], [Petrification Curse] and other spells that didn't work, Digory actually acted recklessly. When he directly used the transformation, he conjured up a wriggling vine on the ground at the edge of the platform and swung it back and forth in an attempt to attract the attention of the three-headed dog.

It's a pity that he forgot that the thing had three heads, and the golden egg was firmly tied under the neck of the three-headed dog...

If the referee hadn't noticed something wrong and sent out the dragon trainer and the patrolling staff of the magic staff to keep the warriors safe, Diggory's end would have been very bad.

But even so, McGuffin and the others saw from the screen that Digory's thigh was bitten by a three-headed dog, and blood was flowing, and the injury was very serious.

"He needs Baixian to be treated! The three-headed dog's teeth are poisonous..." Hermione concluded with absolute certainty.

As for Chen Xiaolong, Narnia Makhu, Muhammad Nasser, Mobutu Ahmed Bersek, and that Morita Chiko...they all cast extremely unique magic one by one,

Even though they were separated by two spaces, even if MacGuffin and the others saw it from a flickering flame, most of the students could perceive the power and mystery of those magics.

This convinced many students, so even though Chen Xiaolong was equally relaxed along the way, it did not arouse the anger of other students.

These warriors, some of them successfully took the golden egg the first time, defeated the snail, or the fire dragon... and other monsters, even if they didn't... After gaining the previous experience, they got the golden egg the second time.

Even Fleur, Camilla Paula, and Donald Donfork who did not get the golden egg (the three of them met together due to an accident) were in a tragic situation because they encountered the biggest boss in this competition level—the Ukrainian Iron Belly.

(That Donald guy stupidly pissed off the dragon, apparently in the eyes of the megalomaniac:
The indescribable humiliation he suffered that night... 70.00% of it can be said to be almost the fault of McGuffin, and the other 20.00% of the reason can be attributed to this super giant fire dragon,

So when this guy saw this super giant fire dragon, he was very annoyed,
The three of them had just taken advantage of the super giant fire dragon to take a nap and didn't pay attention, so they just went around.

But when this guy insisted on leaving, he stabbed his fart with a magic spell (yan)
——This is fucking suicidal (shit).

Of course, the result is... They were hunted down by the crazy Ukrainian iron belly, and the two witches involved had to escape quickly with Donald, so they missed many levels along the way and had no time to hunt for other golden eggs.

And obviously Ukrainian Iron Belly has a very special position in this maze, not to mention the dragon trainer who has been stationed on its back (even the dragon tamer obviously cannot appease the anger of Ukrainian Iron Belly in this situation)... This fire dragon can even escape from the huge platform at the bottom of the original [Maze], chasing and killing several people along the way.

Because of this...the three of them have always been disheartened, almost as if they were fleeing for refuge, which cannot be compared with Harry's current situation.

With such a comparison, even Seamus and Dean were murmuring, feeling incredible about it.

If not all Gryffindor students know that Professor McGonagall is a ruthless person, they will inevitably doubt——

Harry cheated!
Indeed, compared to other warriors who trekked all the way, Harry seemed to drink a lucky potion, and he was about to reach the exit of the [Endless Labyrinth] smoothly all the way.

"Potter stinky shit, Potter stinky shit... cheating guy..."

The atmosphere became restless, and wizard representatives from other magic schools also clamored loudly along with the Slytherin students.

"Did Harry drink the potion of luck?" even Jordan muttered, asking Ludo Bagman.

"It's impossible. If Harry drinks this extremely precious potion... so many referees present can see it."

"Then how to explain all this...Mr. Bagman, there are many students in the auditorium who are very dissatisfied." Jordan asked anxiously.

There was a loud squabble over the speakers, and it looked like the referees who were judging the Warriors' points were divided, or not sure what was going on.

After a while, Bagman seemed to hiss a voice through his teeth, and said, "This... let's put it this way, this should be pure luck..."

When he said this, it immediately sparked even greater controversy among the students.

At this time, Crouch coughed twice, his cold and unwavering voice came from the brass horn——

"Well, we will adjust (tiao) the stone ladder under Harry's feet... and redistribute the stone steps in the [Endless Labyrinth] in a small area. After all, Harry Potter passed the first level like this. Not only will it cause great controversy, it will also be very unfair to us, the youngest warrior."

"Well, that's right..." Ludo Bagman took Barty Crouch's words and continued,

"After all, the golden egg is an important clue to the next level... Well, let's see what Harry Potter will choose. When he encounters a level, will he avoid it again, or face it and seize the last chance..."

As soon as the voice fell, McGuffin and the audience saw the picture in the flame stream curtain, which was instantly magnified.

The complete structure of the original [Endless Labyrinth]—the pyramid space structure model, and the endless black and white stone stairs inside...they are all densely packed, and they are placed in front of everyone.

The next moment, the stone ladders inside the pyramid turned quickly like a Rubik's Cube being twisted.

Just like the rotating magic staircase in Hogwarts Castle, the activities rotate, they move freely in mid-air, and build each other.

Although the section of the stone ladder where the warriors were on remained in place, all checkpoints (whether they were passed by the warriors or not)... all began to move.

Many of them moved from below to the upper part of the pyramid, which is in front of Harry's stone steps.

It's just that he doesn't know it yet.

……

Just when Harry thought the maze was deluding him with a false sense of security, which would lead to bad luck for him.

Suddenly, the world spun, and all the stone stairs in the maze began to vibrate, as if the place was about to collapse.

Harry quickly cast a spell similar to the [Levitation Curse] on himself, then squatted down halfway, lowered his center of gravity... and observed the changes in everything around him.

Everything is reorganizing, everything is being rebuilt.

When everything around him calmed down again, he suddenly found that although he was still in the upper half of this [pyramid-shaped maze], all the black and white stone stairs around him had changed.

Originally, Harry was standing upside down, with his head upside down... on a stone staircase.

But after that violent shock, the stone ladder under his feet was twisted into a spiral like a twist, leading to a platform.

A very huge platform.

Harry had a feeling that it must be a level with a golden egg hidden in it.

He hastily raised his wand, cautious in his heart, and slowly moved towards the front of the stone ladder.

At this moment, there was movement behind him, Harry turned his head to look, and Chen Xiaolong took out the flying sword-shaped magic prop from nowhere, flying in a hurry, along the waterfall... straight up.

His face was panicked and livid, and his eyes were absent-minded.

Harry greeted him, but he didn't respond, just straight up.

Then, after that, McGuffin saw Charlie Weasley, Ron's elder brother of the dragon trainer, riding a long-necked fire dragon with blue scales, following behind him. In the claws of the fire dragon, he was still holding two unconscious adult wizards in black robes. His life and death were unknown.

He brushed past Harry in the same way, and charged straight up.

This made Harry a little flustered, he didn't know what happened next.

But whatever happened, it was certainly not a good thing.

So Harry seized the time and quickly ran to the platform above.

Once inside, he saw...a small desert in front of him.

In the middle of the desert, there is actually a miniature pyramid (the size of a one-storey flat house), the glittering gold on it makes people's eyes hurt.

The road in front of the pyramid is full of yellow sand, and some black and bright half-length human sculptures are guarding, standing on both sides, holding hands on a desert road.

They were big, huge, muscular, though only half of them were sticking out of the sand, and every one of them was as strong and tall as Hagrid.

Holding a golden spear in his hand, the statue stood upright in the sea of ​​sand, looking up at the top of the maze.

And because they were neatly arranged in two rows, it seemed like a vast desert road was formed between them.

Surprisingly, it's not just this...

In front of the pyramid, there is also an extremely strange monster.

Harry had only seen pictures of it and heard of its existence in "The Monster Book of Monsters" and Hagrid and Hermione.

It's the Sphinx.

Its body is like an astonishingly large lion: huge and broad claws...the claws on it are sharp and cold, and the long yellow tail (with a bunch of hair at the tip) sweeps the yellow sand back and forth on its body.

And its head is a woman...

Yes, it had the face of a normal young woman.

Harry once thought this magical creature was a lie?
Even when McGuffin and Ron went on a magical trip to Egypt last time, they both said that they only saw a magical specimen of the Sphinx, and they didn't really see this magical creature that was said to be extremely intelligent.

This Sphinx, with its eyes tightly closed, is lying prone on the yellow sand, as if taking a nap.

And on the spire of the small pyramid behind it, golden light shines... It is an oval golden egg with some complicated patterns all over it, and it is still slowly rotating and making a friction sound.

Just as Harry was about to approach carefully, bypass this dangerous monster, and search for the golden egg behind it.

She, the sphinx, opened her long, narrow almond eyes and looked at Harry.

Then she stood up, shook the sand off her body, and rushed over in an instant.

Before Harry could react, she landed extremely lightly on the yellow sandy ground in front of him, like a feather falling, without making the slightest sound.

However, the Sphinx did not attack with sharp claws. Instead, it walked over slowly with an elegant and aristocratic footsteps and voice, standing in front of Harry and communicating with him.

"I know what you want...the quickest way is to walk by me..."

"Young wizard, you are faced with a choice...either you can raise your wand and subdue me by force; or you can use your shining wisdom to guess my riddle...subdue me..."

"Of course, if you don't answer... just like the eternal yellow sand, we will abide by the promise of the Sphinx oath... I will also let you leave here and not hurt you."

"It's just that if you want to get what you want, you must meet my challenge."

The words of the Sphinx floated slowly over the narrow sea of ​​sand.

(End of this chapter)