Harry Potter and the Secret Treasure

Pull-hook waved his fingers from time to time, and after each shake, the speed of the trolley increased.

For what Sirius had just said, he was taking revenge on them all.

In addition to being greedy enough, goblins are definitely the smallest creatures in the world, and they must take revenge.

If you accidentally offend a goblin, he may remember it for a lifetime.

Although he knew that the other party was playing tricks, but disturbing Griphook now was definitely courting death.

Aiwen gritted his teeth and insisted, about 10 minutes later, the four of them had rushed to a deeper place underground.

They passed an underground lake covered with huge stalactites and stalagmites hanging down to the ground.

"I've never been this deep before!" cried Harry. "I just looked through those rocks and saw something breathing fire..."

His shouting stopped suddenly, they quickly turned a sharp corner, and the cart came to a slow stop.

"Please get out of the car, everyone! We have to change the car, and we need to use the small trolley that goes deeper to the Black family's vault." Griphook jumped down first, "Please go this way, we need to walk for a while."

But apart from him, no one moved, and everyone stared forward with dumbstruck eyes.

In front of them, Ivan saw what Harry had just seen, a huge fire dragon tied to the ground not far away, preventing people from approaching the deeper vault.

The dragon's scales have become pale and loose due to being confinement underground for so long, its eyes are cloudy pink, and its hind legs are heavily shackled with thick chains that drive deep into the stone. giant pile of ground.

Its huge spiked wings are gathered on both sides of its body, and if it is unfolded, it will fill the entire basement.Sensing someone approaching, the dragon turned its ugly head towards them and let out a roar that made stones tremble.

Chapter 236 Ukrainian Iron Belly

Under the threat of the dragon and the fire, everyone flinched back.

"It's unbelievable, those rumors from the outside world are true, there is actually a dragon in Gringotts!" Harry shouted in surprise, his eyes mixed with curiosity and panic.

"Ukrainian iron belly, the largest dragon in the world, is very dangerous." Sirius said cautiously, "These goblins should have a way to subdue it, it seems that they tortured it enough, but we'd better be careful Aiwen, don't get so close!"

Ivan stood next to Griphook, looking curiously at the giant dragon at the corner.

Although he had seen descriptions of dragons in many magic books, this was the first time he had seen a living dragon.

As the largest known dragon in the magic world, Ukrainian Iron Belly can weigh up to six tons.Its body is round, and the scales on its belly are extremely hard. Compared with other Vipertooths or Longhorns, its flying speed is slower, but it is more dangerous.

It has the habit of landing from a high altitude, crushing everything below into powder.

Normally, its scales are shiny gray, its eyes are dark red, and its claws are unusually long and vicious.

They have been the subject of surveillance by wizarding authorities in Ukraine and Romania since 1799, when an iron belly swept a shipping vessel out of the Black Sea.

Dragon's blood and scales are extremely precious magic materials. Heart cords and nerves are used to make the core of wands. In ancient times, only a few powerful wizards could obtain these things, because only they had the ability to slay dragons.

Although there are already places dedicated to raising giant dragons for profit, the prices of dragon blood and scales are still higher than the equivalent weight of gold.

Different types of giant dragons have different dragon blood, scales, nerve function, and value.

Among giant dragons, the magic power of Ukrainian Iron Belly is relatively weak. Its dragon blood is not the best potion material, and few wand cores will choose Iron Dragon, but the hard ones on its belly Scales have extra magic power and are an essential material for many magic props.

However, Ivan doubts how valuable the scales of the Ukrainian iron belly in front of him will be, and whether anyone will need them, because it looks extremely haggard and unhealthy.

"Its eyes are failing!" Griphook panted beside Aiwen, "It was locked here when it was a young dragon, and it has been more than 200 years now. Its strength is declining, but its temper is stronger Those fire dragons outside are also much more brutal. But we have a way to control it, and it has formed a conditioned reflex to jingle movies."

Pull-hook took out some small metal utensils from the trolley, and when they were shaken, they made a loud and crisp jingling sound, like a small hammer hitting an anvil.

He distributed them to everyone and demonstrated how to use them.

"Okay, you know what to do." Griphook continued, "As soon as it heard this sound, it would think of pain and retreat, so we took this opportunity to run past him and into the small room at the end. "

"That's why I hate coming here!" muttered Sirius. "Crazy dragons, and equally crazy goblins..."

They lined up, with Griphook standing at the front, followed by Ivan, Hermione, Harry, and Sirius, each holding a metal utensil in their hands.

Ivan held Hermione tightly with his left hand, and her palm was full of sweat.

They followed Griphook, shaking the jingle piece and turned the corner again. The noise echoed between the stone walls and was amplified many times, making Ivan's brain seem to vibrate.

The dragon let out another hoarse roar and backed away.

Aiwen could see it trembling, and when he got closer, he saw the white scales on its body and the terrible scars on its face. Afraid of the scars left when the fiery sword strikes.

Because it was close enough, Ivan could feel the amazing heat coming from it.

A few seconds later, when everyone passed through the fire dragon and entered the small room at the end, everyone turned pale, wiped off their sweat, and breathed a sigh of relief.

Getting up close and personal with a dragon is definitely something to brag about.

Everyone returned the metal utensils to the pull ring one by one. In front of them, there was a circular staircase going down, which looked very old. The blue rocks on the ground gave off faint fluorescence, exuding a mysterious atmosphere.

All the way down, the roar of the fire dragon gradually faded away.

The surroundings became quiet again. On both sides of the stairs were large and small vaults.

In addition to the numbers used to identify the rocks, Ivan could only see various strangely shaped gates.

Not surprisingly, the vault of the Death Eater Bellacritus is in it, which contains another Horcrux that Voldemort entrusted to her for safekeeping, Hufflepuff's golden cup.

Aiwen didn't know which one it was, but fortunately there weren't too many vaults here. He tried to remember the terrain nearby, leaned in front of a suspicious-looking gate and observed it carefully, thinking about how to get the soul out of it. device destroys...

"If you don't want to die, you'd better stay away from that door." Griphook suddenly turned around and said, "The doors of the vault have been cast with extremely strong defensive magic and curses, only goblins can open it in the right way, otherwise ..."

"I just took a look!" Aiwen explained that he really just planned to take a look, remember the surrounding terrain, and prepare for breaking in to find the Horcrux in the future.

"I know, but I have to remind you that greed will never end well." Griphook grinned maliciously, "Remember, if you want to take something that doesn't belong to you from Gringotts, the only thing waiting for you is Death, the various magics arranged here are completely beyond your imagination."

"Ivan is just curious, no one will be interested in these scraps of iron." Sirius said impatiently, "Come on, we'd better go faster, I don't want to spend the whole day in the cave. "

The circular stairs meandered downwards, seemingly without end. They walked forward for about ten minutes, and when they came to the edge of the stairs, Griphook suddenly stopped.

Ai Wen also hurriedly stopped, the surroundings were pitch black, and there was no light at all.

A few of them pulled out their wands. Under the light of the wand's faint fluorescence, Ivan found that it was different from the above. There should be a naturally formed cave nearby.

There are cracks everywhere on the rock wall, and the sound of whirring comes out of the cracks.

Hoo, hoo, hoo! ! !

The sharp and ear-piercing voice didn't stop, it was extremely strange, like the roar of countless banshees.

The atmosphere is getting tense, they just saw the giant dragon, no one can tell what else, do these crazy goblins use banshees to guard the deep underground vault? !

Ivan felt Hermione leaning towards him, holding him tightly with her little hands.

"What are these noises, and what's down there?" Harry asked in a low voice.

"It's the wind!" Sirius' voice also contained a trace of depression, "As for the following things, you will know immediately, it is definitely an unpleasant scene that you can't imagine. I was brought here by my father 16 years ago. Once you’ve been here, you’ll never want to come here again…”

Chapter 237 Vault No. [-]

Ivan didn't know what the unpleasant scene Sirius was talking about would be, but the wind blowing from the tiny cracks in the surrounding rocks seemed a little strange.

This is a depth of tens of thousands of feet underground, and it stands to reason that there should be no wind.Moreover, these winds are not the gusts of gloomy wind that would blow from the depths of the cave as imagined, but with a little warmth, like the warm wind at noon.

In a place where the wind should not appear, there is a strong wind with a high temperature. Could there be a legendary magic item below? !But won't this scale be too big...

At the edge of the stairs, Griphook clapped his hands, and a small cart rattled out from a dark, hidden gap in the rock wall, and he motioned for everyone to sit on it.

Everyone climbed up one by one, huddled together, and looked ahead nervously, not knowing what was waiting for them.

The pull ring clicked loudly, and the cart restarted.This time, the speed of the cart was not as fast as before.

When it slowly turned the corner and rushed out of the cave, Ivan felt a stronger warm wind blowing up from below.

He hurriedly looked out, and in the endless darkness, he noticed that he was floating in mid-air.

In front of them, all the rocks disappeared, and a huge bottomless pit suddenly appeared in front of them, and gusts of wind whizzed upwards from below.

This pit is bottomless and goes straight down, as if extending all the way to the interior of the earth.

Everyone held on tightly to the edge of the trolley and looked out cautiously.

If you accidentally fall from here, you will definitely be smashed to pieces, and even the corpse will not be found.

Below the trolley, a narrow track ran forward at an odd angle.

The old wooden supports raised up on the surrounding rough rock walls are their only support.The rusty track routes are intricate, densely extending from the cracks in the rock wall, with no end in sight, sometimes intertwined with each other, and then quickly separated.

Aiwen turned his head and saw that the place where they had just come out turned into a small crack in a blink of an eye, no different from the cracks everywhere on the rock wall.

He tried to remember the route, but found it impossible.

The route of the track is so complicated that all these cracks in the rock face look exactly the same.

Even if someone could break into this place and find the treasure deep underground, if he didn't remember the way, he might not be able to get out from here.

Aiwen can be sure that if he accidentally enters the wrong rock crevice, what awaits the intruder is definitely not as simple as going the wrong way.

The track meanders downward, and as everyone approaches the deepest part of the ground, the temperature of the wind blowing up from below becomes higher and higher, and soon becomes a billowing heat wave.

The howling sound became stronger and stronger, as if there were countless fire dragons blowing fire upwards below.

Ivan poked his head out again, and he saw a round, red glowing object directly below them, as if it was a gate leading to the depths of hell.

He blinked, and it took several seconds before he realized what it was...

It's magma deep in the earth's crust! ! !

Below them, the endless underground magma was gurgling and emitting white gas, making slight noises, and the magma below filled the sky with red light all around.

The astonishing temperature of the magma even roasted the surrounding rocks into a scorching red.

A few seconds later, the trolley slowly stopped on an irregular island in the center of the red-black magma.

Everyone walked down, everyone was covered in sweat, and their faces were glowing red.They never thought that they would feel such a temperature in the cold winter.

In fact, no one has ever imagined that the deepest part of Gringotts underground would actually be such a scene, which forms a strong contrast with the prosperity above Diagon Alley.

Sirius is right, these goblins are simply too crazy, they have been digging down to the depths of the earth's crust, if something happens here and the lava erupts, not only Diagon Alley, but even the whole of London will be destroyed engulfed in flames.

There are dozens of stone carvings on the island, in various shapes, as if they were the entrance to the vault.

Ivan felt a little strange, because the shapes of these statues looked very familiar, and he must have seen them somewhere before.

He observed carefully for a while, and a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, only to realize that these carvings were all the family crests of various ancient pure-blood wizard families.Among them, there are many wizard families that were prominent in the history of magic thousands of years ago, but most of them are now extinct, and they have only become history in books.

"This is the earliest vault built when Gringotts was founded. There were a hundred of them, and they all belonged to the most powerful wizard or the most powerful pure-blood wizard family at that time." Griphook explained, "Because It's too old, many wizard families have disappeared into the long river of history, and I haven't been here for many years."

This small island with engraved emblems looks like the cemetery of a family of pure-blood wizards.

These extraordinary statues not only testify to the past glory of these pure-blood wizard families, but also tell countless loneliness in silence.No matter how powerful and prominent they were once, they no longer exist, and the treasures preserved in Gringotts will remain here forever.

Regardless of other things, just judging from the emblems of these ancient wizard families, this place is definitely a holy place in the eyes of magic historians and heraldry lovers.

Aiwen observed carefully and compared it with the wizard's emblem that he had in his mind.

After looking at it for a while, he found that it was exactly the same as what Griphook said. There were big numbers on these statues, all of which were within one hundred.Below the statue are gates of various shapes, which should be where the treasuries of these pure-blood wizard families are located.

On the magma not far away, there are several such irregularly shaped islands.

Like here, some small islands also have statues of different sizes, large and small.Among them, Ivan saw the family crest of the Slytherin family at a glance, because it was too conspicuous.The huge statue inlaid with many emeralds is emitting a soft green light, forming a capital S letter.

It is located alone on a small island in the center of the lava, which is unusually abrupt.

Aiwen saw that the number above the letter S was the number one, which meant that it was the first vault in Gringotts.

Below the statue is a black gate with exquisite patterns. I don't know what kind of metal it is made of, and it looks very complicated.

Because it was too far away, Ivan couldn't see it clearly.

The patterns on the gate seem to be the same as the incomprehensible patterns on the Slytherin locket in my arms, they seem to be a whole...

Ivan shook his head, not knowing what it meant. Could it be that this is a special text left by the Slytherin family? !

He was going to go back and check the relevant books carefully. If it didn't work out, he could ask that vampire girl named Elaine.

Next to the Slytherin vault, Ivan also saw the azure coat of arms of the Ravenclaw family, which was very similar to the logo of Ravenclaw College, but it was a little different. Instead, it is a carving in the shape of an eagle standing with an unknown plant in its mouth, with a crown symbolizing wisdom on its head.

In the center of the crown, a brilliant diamond shines, and correspondingly, there is a thick nebula at the top of the statue.

No one knows how many precious stones were used on this seemingly ordinary stone statue.

The huge diamond in the center of the crown alone is absolutely priceless, and the family treasures hidden in it can be imagined how precious.

Unfortunately, there are no descendants of the Ravenclaw family, and no matter what is contained in it, those things will essentially belong to the goblin forever.

Aiwen became interested and searched carefully again.

For some reason, he didn't see the signs of the Gryffindor and Hufflepuff families. They didn't seem to have a vault here.