HP's Foreign Land

When the small boat that Heimdall was riding in went to a slightly deeper place, it suddenly stopped still. These boats have been enchanted, and they can drive to their destination without manpower or the power of the water flow. , Eight or nine out of ten are encountered external obstacles.

Heimdall was not in a hurry to take measures, but Toffee was a little taken aback—he was born with nothing to do with water. Considering that this lake is the territory of mermaids, even if the water monsters are rampant, they do not have the physiological conditions to make waves in the middle of the night, and the boat It just stopped, and there was no bumping and shaking, which showed that the other party did not have any malice towards him.

Heimdall patted Toffee's stiff back peacefully, waiting quietly.

Accompanied by the sound of water splashing from the broken water, Heimdall looked at the appearance of the comer clearly through the glass lamp hanging on the tilted bow, and waved his hand, "Good evening, Sambu. "

In fact, Comrade Sambu had been waiting for a long time, and the mermaids knew all kinds of fluctuations on the lake. They knew that Heimdall left the three-masted ship for the Forbidden Forest after dinner.

Heimdall didn't bother him too much, and told it directly that the task entrusted to him by the leader of Cocos had failed.

Sambu remained silent, the two round and protruding blister eyes did not show any dissatisfaction, and the big fish face with thick lips and sharp mouth that was contrary to human aesthetics could not see the slightest anger. Heimdall did not feel any anger in his heart Therefore, he was relieved, and the lack of movement for a long time was a real emotional reflection. Heimdall thought that disappointment is certain, and there will be no disappointment if there is no expectation.

So he quickly threw out the following sentence, "It's a pity that we didn't negotiate with the centaur, but the leader of the eight-eyed spider asked me to convey his greetings to the leader of Cocos."

Sangbu was stunned for a moment, and soon came back to his senses, "Eight-eyed spider?"

Heimdall nodded, "I want to talk to the leader of Cocos face to face about this..." Then he waved his hands when Sambu greeted him eagerly, and said with a wry smile, "Look, isn't it too late today? Want to go back to sleep."

Sambu was quite understanding, nodded immediately to express his understanding, and then declined Heimdall's move to return the mermaid bag.

"I'll pick you up tomorrow morning." Sangbu nodded to him, turned over and dived into the water. Layers of waves and ripples appeared on the lake surface, and it returned to silence after a while.

What a quickie.

Heimdall rubbed his chin, the boat shook, and continued the unfinished voyage.

***

Sure enough, Victor hadn't rested yet, so he moved a stool and sat on the deck. After noticing the movement on the water surface, he immediately went up to meet him. The pod that had been squatting at his feet also chased him cleverly, and raised his head. , eyes wide open, without blinking.

Heimdall stepped firmly on the deck and said with a bright smile, "I'm back."

After finishing speaking, he naturally held Victor's extended hand, and the other hand caught the pods that rushed up.

He didn't say much about his boyfriend's behavior of waiting for him so late. In Heimdall's view, if they switched places, he would do the same.

After returning to the room, he took a hot shower. Even in the shower, Heimdall was still talking to Victor about the adventure just now. When he talked about the excitement, he couldn't help dancing, and his boyfriend was splashed all over. Water - I didn't close the shower curtain because I helped to brush my back.

After taking a shower, Heimdall ran to the messenger shack on the three-masted ship, which was actually a large room with no windows closed, and a few simple bird racks were placed inside.

Because it was still on vacation, there were three or two couriers parked in the simple shed desertedly, and Olar was one of them.

Maybe he didn't rest well during the day, and Olar, who was squatting on the bird shelf by the window, shrank his neck, closed his eyes, and remained motionless.Heimdall approached quietly and saw its body slowly and indiscernibly swaying along with its long breath, so he couldn't help smiling, and left the room lightly.

After returning to the bedroom, Heimdall climbed directly onto the bed, laying on the fluffy pillows and covering himself with a soft quilt, and moaned comfortably.

A feeling of drowsiness swept over him.

Pod jumped up and asked questions curiously. Heimdall rubbed his eyes while answering.

Pod was quickly kicked out of bed by Victor.

"Look for toffee if you have a problem."

Doudou looked at Heimdall whose eyelids were almost closed, wagged his tail, and ran to chat with Toffee.

"Are you sleepy?" Victor tucked up the quilt for him, and stroked his fingers along his temples.

Heimdall let out a "huh" and muttered, "My physical strength needs to be improved. I just ran around in the woods and felt exhausted without much effort." He added, "I'm going to find the leader of Cocos tomorrow morning .”

"Go to sleep." Victor turned off the light on the bedside table.

The light in the room suddenly dimmed, and the light source from the other side of the desk sprinkled on Victor, making him feel like he was in an orange light film. In an instant, all the colors in the room and the light film merged together , turned into orange, warm orange, reassuring orange, and Heimdall's vision began to become hazy.

Finding that Heimdall fell asleep not long after he closed his eyes, Victor carefully brushed away the broken hair on his cheeks. From the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the dark red lump at the ear. When he took a closer look, he found that it was a scar. The edge of the wound The skin and flesh of his body were cracked, and it was not shallow.

Victor couldn't help stretching out his hand, and retracted it before touching it. Instead, he supported the bed, leaned over and lowered his head, and licked it with his tongue.

Heimdall grunted in his sleep. Victor thought he had disturbed him, so he jerked his head up, but saw that he was still closing his eyes, sniffing his nose unconsciously like a small animal. Maybe the smell reassured him. The smell, the head arched on the pillow, and became quiet again.

Victor's eyes became very soft, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help turning up. After a while, he raised his eyes to look at the lit desk, and then looked down at this sleepy face that he couldn't get enough of. He thought, forget it, Just turn off the lights and go to sleep.

***

The next day, at dawn, Heimdall boarded the boat at the suggestion of Sambu, but the boat was not taken to a certain water area as Heimdall thought, the mermaid leader Cocos put down his airs and came up in person Meeting him, Heimdall understood Cocos' eagerness.

The conversation was not long. Heimdall explained the situation last night in a concise and concise manner, and conveyed the transaction request that Aragog asked him to convey on his behalf.

Cocos did not say a word for a long time after listening.

The pupils of the freshwater mermaid are very large. Even if you are not paying attention to you, you will still feel that you are being watched intently. Heimdall is a little uncomfortable being "stared" by it.

"Maybe you can go back and think about it."

"We don't have time." Heimdall's suggestion just filtered out Cocos's remaining hesitation.

Cocos had indeed pinned his hopes on the centaurs. Although Heimdall said it simply, it still understood the implication that the way of the centaurs was no longer feasible.

In fact, after agreeing to provide the venue for the Triwizard Tournament and agreeing to Dumbledore to protect the safety of the venue, Cocos has already had some awareness. It can imagine that the centaur would make use of the problem, but it did not expect that the centaur would actually So merciless.

After receiving the glass lamp that Heimdall handed back, Cocos felt a sense of guilt. The road left by his ancestors was broken in his hands today.

However, as the leader, it has no time to cherish the memory of the past and feel sentimental about the future. What it has to do is to make prompt decisions.

"if it is possible……"

After an unknown amount of time, when Heimdall couldn't hold back his drooping eyelids and wanted to doze off on the boat, Cocos' response finally came.

"I want to talk to the leader of the eight-eyed spider."

Two hours later, Heimdall took Cocos' answer to the eight-eyed spider lair in the Forbidden Forest.

That night, under Heimdall's recommendation, Cocos surfaced and met Aragog's representative, the spider guide.

At first Cocos was dissatisfied because of Aragog's "avoiding to see", but after Heimdall's patient explanation, he learned about the dark habits of the eight-eyed spider, as well as Aragog's age, eyes and other problems, and gradually eliminated the horizontal The unhappiness in my heart.

Because of this incident, Heimdall had the opportunity to learn the secret of the Eight-Eyes community-the spider guide is the next Eight-Eyes leader appointed by Aragok.

As the middleman of the matchmaker, Heimdall took the initiative to avoid their conversation scenes, and there is still a sense of when to avoid suspicion of him.

No matter how friendly he is, he's one human being that makes Fantastic Beasts worry.

When the boat that Heimdall boarded appeared on the river bank again, the spider guide disappeared, and the leader of Cocos also disappeared. Only the mermaid patrolman Sambu was waiting for him in that water area.

"The leader asked me to tell you that it will prepare a new bag. Please enter the Forbidden Forest again tomorrow on behalf of the mermaid." Sang Bu conveyed the leader's words in a serious manner.

Heimdall laughed, and it seemed that the matter was settled.

***

He entered the Forbidden Forest again at noon that day, and this time he took no one with him.

The eight-eyed spider successfully connected at the edge of the Forbidden Forest, and was still picked up by the spider guide who had established a revolutionary friendship with Heimdall after the trouble last night.Sitting on the back of the future Eight-Eyed Chief, Heimdall was indescribably high-spirited. Even the forest that froze the passing wind didn't seem so breathless, even though it was still too dark to find. less than north.

He decided to keep this matter in his mind for the rest of his life, not to mention whether he would have a chance to come to Hogwarts again, just the pioneering act of riding an eight-eyed spider without any injuries was enough for him to recall for a lifetime, not to mention that this spider was not just for nothing.

After arriving at the Eight-Eyes lair, Heimdall took out the mermaid bag that Cocos specially prepared for Aragog, to show the respect of the Mermaid leader to the Eight-Eyes.

Heimdall was filled with emotion. Cocos's prudent move was reasonable for humans, but for a mermaid who has lived in the lake for generations, his understanding of the world is enough to make most of the people in the society Adults are ashamed.

Heimdall wasn't sure what level of experience Aragog had in the world, but the Eight-Eyed Chief held up the pair of pincers, and the rustling noise of waving the pincers open and closed was enough to explain everything.

Aragog was very happy, in other words, he decided to accept the olive branch offered by the mermaid.

After calming down, Aragog stopped repeatedly opening and closing the pliers, and said to Heimdall who was waiting beside him, "Open the bag."

"Shall I drive?" Heimdall was taken aback.

"If you tell me to drive, you can drive it, what are you talking about." Aragog's voice was so low that it buzzed in his ears.

The eight-eyed spider has no hands...

After thinking this through, Heimdall smiled in relief, we are just errand runners who come and go as soon as they are called.

Considering that Aragog couldn't see it, Heimdall said uncertainly after untying the mermaid bag, "There's an easter egg inside."

Indeed, it contains an easter egg the size of an ostrich egg. The surface of the egg is painted with five-color oil paint to depict a magnificent picture of the underwater world. The colorful aquatic plants, fish and shrimp are vivid in the picture, and occasionally one or two mermaids emerge from the center of the picture. Swimming past leisurely.

The eight-eyed spider needs something that mermaids can’t fulfill at present. Animals that rely on the sky to eat are generally more pragmatic. Aragog is not so interested in this easter egg. After knowing what was in the bag, he quickly put it Heimdall ignored it.

The spider guide came over very interested, and said to Heimdall, "Can you open it?"

Heimdall felt that the top of his head sank, and the little eight-eyed man climbed up to squat, and then he was surrounded by spiders that rushed over one after another.

Heimdall couldn't help thinking amusedly, it turns out that spiders also gossip.

Heimdall groped on the egg for a while, and found that the egg wall was round and smooth, and he couldn't find a single crack. Just as he was about to announce the answer, his index finger suddenly felt a bump. When he wanted to touch it carefully After a while, the bump disappeared.

Heimdall raised the egg, approached the fluorescent light source, and tracked it with his eyes for a long time. Finally, he found the flickering bump. It was an inconspicuous gray-spotted fish. The small fish shuttled among the lush aquatic plants. Free, looks alive, contented.

After it was officially exposed, it stopped hiding.

Heimdall pressed it with his fingers curiously, and the egg cracked from the center with a click, turning into four petals...

A terrifying scream suddenly broke out.

Heimdall was stunned by the sound, and a voice in his heart hurriedly came out to remind him that this scene seemed very familiar (familiar).

The spiders all around fled away, leaving him and the spider guide staring at the egg dumbfounded.

"Why are you standing still! Close it now!!!" Aragog's angry shout came, waking up one person and one spider. Heimdall hurriedly threw himself on the egg and squeezed it tightly. Called an abrupt end.

"What do you mean by mermaid?" The spiders gradually returned to their cages began to complain.

Aragog waved a large pincer and pointed at the spider guide, "Take him and this egg to the waterhole."

Heimdall, who didn't know why, followed the spider guide and came to a lifeless pool in the eight-eyed territory. Heimdall touched the water. Although it didn't freeze, the touch was absolutely comparable to ice.

"The leader said that just put the eggs in the water and open them."

Heimdall did so hesitantly, and reached into the icy water with both hands, and opened the egg before his fingers were frozen. Sure enough, the horrible hoarse sound did not reappear, on the contrary, faintly heard from under the water surface. Beautiful singing voice.

Heimdall gritted his teeth and stuck his head into the water. Instead of being blocked by the water, the beautiful music became more melodious and melodious. Heimdall couldn't stop listening to it.

By the time he finished listening to the entire song, his head had frozen into an eggplant.

This song is divided into two sections, and the lyrics are all very practical and common sayings. Mermaids use singing to express their willingness to establish diplomatic relations, which is much more creative than the stereotyped ways of humans.The first part is sung in mermaid dialect, and the latter part is sung in English, perhaps to take care of the eight-eyed spider who doesn't understand mermaid dialect.

Interestingly, English is now gradually becoming the common language of the animal kingdom.

Heimdall held his head, trembling and chatting with Aragog, making him agree to light a fire in the eight-eyed territory. The idle spiders found some wood for it, piled it on the ground, and it was puffed by Heimdall's magic. With a sound of ignition, the spiders retreated hastily into the darkness further away at the moment the light source burst out.

While shaking the fire, Heimdall sniffed and giggled, "God, the old man is sometimes generous, closing a door, but this time he opened a French window."

"What do you mean?" Xiao Bayan asked softly above his head.

Heimdall just smiled.

"In that case, let's hurry up." Aragog didn't like to be procrastinating when doing things.

"You already have a plan?" Heimdall asked curiously.

What the mermaid wants is also expressed in the song. There are many things that Heimdall has never heard of, so he is very curious. If possible, he really wants to experience what the mermaid is talking about.

"Cocos has a lot of appetite, and he asks for a lot of things." Aragog said this without any sarcasm, simply discussing the facts. "We are not horse people. Horse people have the habit of picking and storing various raw materials in different seasons. Now it is the middle of winter, so it is difficult..."

Heimdall didn't dare to disturb it to think about the problem, and quietly gathered by the fire to keep warm.

"I can only ask my old friends first." Aragog finally made a decision, and let the spider leader figure out the specific matters. In fact, in recent years, Aragog has gradually retreated to the second line and became the pampered emperor. .

The affairs of the eight-eyed spider group are basically handled by the future leader.

old friend?Heimdalton, who was already holding back his energy, regained his energy and introduced himself to Prince Spider, "Can I act together with you?"

"Are you sure?" the spider guide asked him.

Heimdall misunderstood its meaning and said, "I will protect myself in case of emergencies, and I will never hold you back."

In fact, after the skirmish last night, the spider prince is still very confident in his ability, not to mention that his magic works on them. No. animals also have extraordinary effects.

"The friends of our eight-eyed spider are not those cute and harmless little animals." The spider guide said meaningfully. "It's none of my business to regret it at that time." A posture eager to get rid of it.

The more it does this, the more itchy Heimdall feels.

The spider leader led six companions from the nest this time, the one above Heimdall was only the eighth, and Heimdall himself was the ninth member.

When he could no longer see the Eight-Eyed Nest, Heimdall, who had already practiced on the spider's back to shake the ground and move his buttocks, couldn't help but asked curiously: "Which friend are you going to visit first? "

The spider leader answered calmly: "Gudick."

After hearing the name, Heimdall still didn't know who Comrade Goodick was, or what species he was.

"May I ask who this Goodick is?"

"A river troll," said the spider guide. "Even if you're afraid, it's too late. I won't turn around and send you back."

He didn't say anything!Heimdall thought amusedly, being teased by a spider.