Hogwarts Survival Sim

"The smell of werewolves?" Lockhart asked doubtfully, "Are you saying that werewolves smell like this?"

Hermione explained to him briefly, while Ethan quickly cleaned up the smell.

Although they don't know why traces of werewolves appeared in the church basement, they finally found clues related to werewolves. Perhaps the traces of the humanoid restoration spell are also close at hand.

After Hermione finished teaching Lockhart, no, magic magic, they lit their wands again and walked into the dark basement in front of them.

Walking down the long stairs, the scene inside soon unfolded in front of the three of them.Unlike the bloody scene they had imagined before, there didn't seem to be much fighting happening here.On the contrary, some strange instruments were preserved intact.

"This should be a laboratory." Looking at the scene in front of him, Lockhart blurted out.

Indeed, compared to the basement, this room isolated by a heavy iron door is more like a secret laboratory used to conduct some ulterior experiments.

Perhaps some people in the church are studying werewolves, and there is a high probability that this matter is tacitly acknowledged by the senior staff of the Holy See.After all, with such a huge basement and so many experimental instruments, it is impossible to hide the whereabouts of funds or construction projects from above.

While thinking, Ethan walked towards the test bench where the instruments were placed.Most of these instruments are made of silver and should be used to weaken werewolves and facilitate their control.There were several huge silver cages on one side of the room, which were stained with a lot of blood. They were presumably used to imprison these werewolves.

In addition, there is a conspicuous cabinet in another corner of the laboratory. However, it is full of scorch marks and was obviously destroyed by fire.

Ethan walked to the only place in the basement that had signs of damage, opened the cabinet door and looked inside.

The inside of the cabinet was also dark and badly burned by the fire.There were also some black fibrous substances scattered around, probably left over from some burned paper.

It seems that this should be the place where the experimental files are stored. Ethan sighed helplessly. It would be great if these records were still there. This would definitely be of great help to them in solving lycanthropy.

"I have a question, Ethan." Hermione was looking through the experimental equipment on another table. She called him to her side and asked softly, "Do you think these church people can do magic?"

"Can they do magic?" Ethan raised his eyebrows, "Of course they don't..."

Halfway through his words, he stopped himself.

"You realize it, right? If these people really don't know how to use magic, how do they subdue werewolves? Do they only rely on silver weapons? And what is their purpose of studying werewolves?"

After thinking for a long time, Ethan still shook his head, and then said:

"Don't underestimate Muggles. Even if they can't use magic, they can still catch a few werewolves if they want to work together."

"As for why we study them, it's just for the ambition of some powerful people. Having the strength and body of a wolf without turning into a wolf form and losing their mind is probably what they want to achieve."

"Okay, what you said makes sense. But if that's the case, then you don't need to care about these burned experimental records. I don't think they can do any research."

"maybe……"

While Ethan and Hermione were discussing church personnel, Lockhart on the other side made a new discovery.

"Ethan, Hermione, come here and take a look!"

The two of them turned around and found Lockhart crouching next to the cabinet he had checked before, gesticulating constantly.

Looking at his movements, Ethan seemed to realize something, and quickly pulled Hermione closer.

"There is a big difference in thickness between the outside of this cabinet and the inside," Lockhart explained to the two of them. "I suspect there is a mezzanine here, but I can't find it."

As he spoke, he knocked with his hand, but there was no hollow sound.

"And this board has not been burned and is still so strong. There must be something fishy about it."

Ethan and Hermione looked at each other, and then they used their wands to carefully use the splitting spell on both ends of the cabinet. Soon, pieces of broken wood fell off, and what finally appeared in front of them was A silver vertical cabinet that is half narrower than the original cabinet.

"That's great, Professor Lockhart! You have made another great contribution!" Ethan said in surprise. It was obvious that the contents of this secret cabinet were still very well preserved.

"Hehe, I saw you find the mechanism on the table before, so I thought there might be something similar here." Lockhart smiled sheepishly, and he didn't expect that he would actually find something.

"But since we can find this cabinet, it means that the owner of the castle has also found it." Hermione's words poured cold water on them, "otherwise it would not appear in this memory world. And before the owner of the castle found it, Everything, without exception, was taken away by him.”

As soon as she finished speaking, Ethan had already hurriedly forced open the cabinet. As Hermione said, there was indeed nothing inside.

"Damn it," Lockhart punched the wall beside him in frustration, "We are obviously so close to the answer, but in the end it's all in vain?"

Ethan seemed very calm. Although he didn't get the information, it was not all without gain this time.

"Hermione, Professor Lockhart, come here and take a look. There are still a few lines of words engraved here."

Upon hearing this, the two people immediately came over and saw some strange symbols carved on the bottom of the cabinet.

"Ancient runes!" Hermione exclaimed in surprise, "But I don't recognize many of them. They should be versions before the runes evolved."

"The evolution of the magic text?" Ethan blinked and repeated blankly.

"All words are constantly evolving." Hermione asked Ethan to take out his luggage, and then began to look for the magic book she brought. "The ancient magic words were not what we learned at the beginning. There were many other variations before it matured and became accepted by most wizards."

"It's something like a dialect," Ethan quickly understood, "So is this what you learned from the book the teacher gave you?"

"That's right." After a lot of effort, she finally found the thick book.

"You also said you didn't study secretly behind my back..."

At this moment, a subtle voice came from my ear.Hermione looked back and saw Ethan with his head only a few centimeters away from her, looking at her resentfully.

"Ahem, how can you say you're stealing when it comes to studying?" Hermione's face suddenly turned as red as the sunset, and she continued humming in a voice as loud as a mosquito, "Now let's find out what's written in it. .”