HP's Foreign Land

After the initial excitement passed, the monotonous scenery repeatedly stimulated Heimdall's drowsiness, and he chose to surrender.After sleeping in a daze for a while, the carriage sank suddenly. Although the wizard's carriage could defy gravity, the shallow sleeper Heimdall was still sensitive to the change.He opened his eyes quickly.The carriage breaks through the clouds and mist, and the blue sea is endless, and the sky is shrouded in thin clouds of smoke, which adds a bit of depth and mystery to this sea area.

This is not the first time that Heimdall has seen the sea in a horse-drawn carriage, but the scenery in front of him has an indescribable charm.The sea water here is not clear, and there is a layer of shallow waves rolling on the gradual indigo blue. They play up and down on the sea level, seemingly at will, and like the knots on the straw covered with crops in late autumn. Hoarfrost.

The sea was far from the inviting warm seascape of Crete, and it didn't look friendly, and perhaps not welcoming to barefoot or naked wizards.

Just when Heimdall was thinking wildly, the carriage lowered the flying height again, and it descended again before Heimdall got tired of the same scene.

Seeing the approaching sea level through the car window, Heimdall panicked for a moment. Could it be that this pegasus finally got tired of the same way of landing, and planned to jump into the sea instead of taking the usual way? !Until the sudden change on the sea surface broke his unfounded worries, a group of islands composed of several small islands of different sizes suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, just like the patterns depicted on the blue scroll, they floated on the sea, hidden in the thin after the fog.

The carriage fell so fast that Heimdall only had time to catch a few glimpses of the faint outlines of buildings on the island when there was a rattling sound outside the car window, which was the friction sound of the wheels landing.

The scene that stunned Heimdall happened, the carriage galloped on the sparkling sea, the sea water rattled under the thunderous trampling of the horseshoes, and the Pegasus was walking on the flat ground all the way.

Has the current carriage developed to the level of sea cruising? !

Before Heimdall's astonishment was over, significant changes began to occur under the wheels. Accompanied by the dull rumbling sound and the crashing sound of surging water spray, after the splashing white waves disappeared, a wide black-gray stone bridge rose from the sea.It turned out that it was not the horse-drawn carriage that broadened the business capabilities, but that it was driving on the bridge.The black-gray stone bridge is lurking in the deep water, which is difficult to catch with the naked eye.

The carriage galloped on the bridge that completely broke through the water. Heimdall, who had been paying attention to the scenery outside the window, found that there were statues of mermaids standing on the handrails on both sides of the stone bridge at intervals.They have a variety of postures, are vivid, and maintain a smooth underwater posture. The only thing in common is that none of them can see their faces clearly.

Half a minute later, the carriage stopped. Heimdall took a look around, opened the door, and dragged his luggage out of the car.

He squinted his eyes in the bright sunlight, behind him was a stone bridge rumbling like thunder, and in front of him was a huge stone arch.The words "Heideggerach" are engraved on the top of the arch, and the surroundings of the words are densely covered with uneven and simple carvings.On both sides of the arch stood a three-meter-high sculpture of a sea monster, with a ferocious face, bared fangs, and lifelike fine scales, undulating slightly like a living thing.The sea monster holds a huge sharp steel fork in its hand, the dark gray color is suffused with the indestructibility of steel, its two webbed feet are bigger than a washbasin, and the hooked toenails on the toes make people shudder.

Heimdall was not the first child to arrive, there were already some people gathered in twos and threes in front of the stone arch.They wore school uniforms representing their respective schools, and everyone's identity was clear at a glance.

Taking the island where they stood as the base point, other islands are scattered around. Some islands have clear outlines and seem to be very close to here, while some are shrouded in mist and indistinct.

Heimdall looked around, seeing unfamiliar faces, so he stopped thinking about getting close to others.Perhaps it was to wait for all the exchange students to go in together. During the waiting period, two more carriages came one after another. A middle-aged man with the appearance of a teacher temporarily got rid of several chattering exchange students and took out his pocket watch to take a look.He raised his head and spread his eyes around. When he glanced at Heimdall, who was staring at the mermaid sculpture on the handrail of the stone bridge, he paused for a moment, and then quickly moved on to the next target.

"Hello."

Hearing the greeting, Heimdall turned around, and what imprinted in his eyes was a fairly familiar school uniform, and a beautiful girl with thick eyebrows and big eyes was wearing this figure-defining robe.Heimdall found some familiarity in the outline of her facial features.

"Hello." Heimdall wondered if they had met somewhere.

The girl smiled slightly, her pretty face made people unable to turn their eyes away, Heimdall thought to himself that fortunately we like males, otherwise we would have straight eyes just like the heterosexual males around us.Beautiful girls will become the focus of attention no matter where they go. As a famous magic school in France and even in Europe, there is never a shortage of beauties there, from Furong before to this one now.

The girl blinked. Although she didn't speak, Heimdall felt that she was implying something.

"Have we met somewhere?" Heimdall asked hesitantly.

The girl laughed out loud, even though this smile was far from graceful, the males around were still fascinated.

"My name is Jeanne." The beauty's English had a strong French accent, and Heimdall was no stranger to such an accent.

"Nice to meet you, Jeanne."

"My name is Orville, Jeanne Orville."

Heimdall's eyebrows stretched instantly, "Duncan Orville is yours..."

"Duncan is my brother, he is my uncle's child."

That is, cousins.

Heimdall nodded, no wonder she looked kind.

"I am Heimdall Strulusson." Heimdall stretched out his right hand and shook hands with Jeanna.

"I've heard Duncan talk about you, and I've seen your photos. It's great to meet you here." Nami's eyebrows were beaming. "I don't know any of the exchange students here. Fortunately, you are here. I will follow you from now on. You can't abandon me."

This girl is very familiar, and within a minute of meeting, Heimdall was classified as one of her own.Jeanne's cheerfulness and easygoing subvert Heimdall's long-standing notion of how arrogant a beautiful woman is, and Beauxbaton has reinforced this definition more than once.

Heimdall looked at Jeanne's beautiful facial features, and thought that it seemed true that there were no ugly people in the Orville family.

After making sure that Heimdall didn't show any displeasure, Jeanna dragged her luggage and stood beside him, looking like one of her own. Heimdall was secretly amused by her childish actions.

Carefully observing the coils on the cloak cord buckle, it is preliminarily certain that Jeanna is currently in the sixth grade, which means she is the same age as herself. If she really wants to advance and retreat with him in the future, it will be more convenient for her to be in the same grade.

Against the envious eyes of the males around him, Heimdall tried to chat with Jeanne to pass the time.

"How is Duncan? He's a busy man, and it takes a long time to reply to the letters he sends."

"He recently lost his relationship and he was in a bad mood." Although it was not exciting news, there was no trace of sympathy on Jeanna's face.

"...Is that the female lawyer?"

"Well, Ms. Moreau is a very assertive woman. She loves work more than anything else. Duncan is another choice that makes girls feel very insecure. We were not optimistic about his pursuit from the beginning." Jeanne said. "She got engaged last month, of course, not to Duncan."

"I'm sorry," Heimdall said. "How's his Mr. Magic selection going? I go to France to vote regularly." Heimdall is not a French wizard and has no right to vote. He can only vote for it through French magazines sold abroad. It is said that support channels can affect The final number of votes.

"It's a good start. Duncan attaches great importance to this selection. Even at home, he doesn't forget to dress neatly to prevent other magazines from taking indecent photos and slandering his image." Jeanna seemed to think of something and said happily. "I really want to send photos of him in pajamas with a bird's nest head to the magazines that support the other candidates. It is said that those magazines will give back a lot of Galleons, but I finally gave up. If it does, Duncan They will definitely hunt me down."

Heimdall nodded in agreement. Duncan actually paid great attention to the external image, and his detailed roster of various categories can explain the problem very well.

Time slipped by as they joked about Mr. Orville. The last carriage arrived at the school gate. The middle-aged man who looked like a teacher put his pocket watch back in his pocket and called everyone to gather in front of him.

To Heimdall's relief, the professor, who didn't know which course he was teaching, spoke fairly standard English.

"I am honored to welcome you on behalf of the Heideggergach School of Witchcraft and Magic. I am Henrik Nansen, a professor of astronomy at the Heideggerlock School of Witchcraft and Magic. I will give everyone a hard time in the next school year."

The exchanging students who were still in high spirits couldn't help but look at each other in blank dismay.

Heimdall comforted himself that Professor Nansen had made a slip of the tongue. Maybe his English skills were limited, and his wording was inevitably weird.But little black Rig with a pair of horns warned him not to be naive, that the professor of astronomy was one of the scariest creatures in the world.

"I believe everyone has seen that Heideggrak is a magic school built on an island. The various buildings of the school are distributed on different islands. The island we are on now is Gray Shell Island in the center of the Heideggrak Islands. , is also where the dormitory building is located. Please follow me, and I will take you to the dormitory building to put your luggage.”

The children followed Professor Nansen through the huge stone doorway. Behind the doorway was an open space covered with hexagonal bricks. Outside the open space were planted tall and short plants, a bit like a city square.There are stone pillars erected around the open land. Every day when the sun sinks into the sea level, the shells on the top of the pillars will open and release light, illuminating the square and the stone steps connected to the square.

The stone steps are located on the slope directly opposite the door opening. Walking up the slope, you will see a tall minaret.The body of the pagoda is white, shining crystal in the sun, but if you look closely, you will find that the surface is very rough, it feels a little rough to the touch, and the tender skin can rub bloodshot.It is unknown what other people think, but Heimdall feels that there is a bit of solidity in the simplicity.

"This building is a dormitory for boys." Professor Nansen stopped at the steps in front of the dormitory building, pointed to the road behind everyone and said, "When we came up just now, there was a fork in the road. Along that fork, you can see the same building as this building." The other building, which is the girls' dormitory."

The terrain of Gray Shell Island is not flat. Except for the square at the entrance, other places are full of uneven hills. The dormitory building is set up on a steep slope, surrounded by dense vegetation, and gray-white stone steps are densely scattered all over the hills. No matter which path you take, it will always bring you back to the dormitory building.

Under Professor Nansen's command, the boys put their luggage in the front hall, and the house elves will deliver everyone's luggage to their dormitories later.

Then they went to the girls' dormitory building, and after the girls packed their luggage, Professor Nansen did not take them away, but entered the main hall of the girls' dormitory building.There's a fireplace, a sofa, a magazine rack, a bulletin board, and stuff that the males don't understand, so it's a girls' common room.The layout of the dormitory building in Heidegerak is similar to that in Durmstrang, the biggest difference is that this school has a dormitory for girls.

Professor Nansen pointed to another wooden staircase leading to a door between the first and second floors.Everyone looked at the door in confusion, wondering where it led to and what it was used for.

"Behind that door is a botanical garden. When you get tired of staying in the dormitory building, you can go to the botanical garden to relax. The plants in the garden are very gentle. As long as they don't deliberately destroy them, they are almost not interested in humans." Speaking of this, Professor Nansen's tone changed. "One thing to remind everyone is that the dormitory building and the botanical garden are connected by a wooden rope bridge. This bridge will occasionally lose its temper. Of course, it is normal in most cases, but when you walk on it, you will find It suddenly shakes violently, don't panic, even if it changes its position and appears somewhere else, it doesn't matter, its temper comes and goes quickly, and it will always return to the original place. Our school has There are many bridges, the rope bridge in the botanical garden is the most tempered one in the school, you will know when you get familiar with Heideggerach."

A few children didn't know what they thought of, and their faces changed.

Later, after Heimdall's research, it was found that there was a botanical garden with a steeple in the middle of the two identical dormitory buildings. The pattern formed by the three buildings resembled the steel fork in the hand of a sea monster.

After leaving the girls' dormitory building, everyone followed Professor Nansen to walk on the gray and white stone steps. Along the way, you can see the signs of mermaid sculptures. These mermaids hold signs pointing in different directions in their hands. The main text on them is English, with Norwegian annotations .

Through these street signs, everyone gradually understood that the destination of their trip was Gray Shell Harbor.

"Each island has a port, where students can take boats leading to other islands, or go to a specific island through the gray shell bridge." Professor Nansen introduced.

Everyone walked down the last step and came to Gray Shell Harbor.

It is not so much a port, but a dock for docking ships.More than a dozen small boats parked quietly on the pier, with lanterns and a small blue and gold flag representing Heideggerach hung on the bow.The color of each boat is different, sprayed with multicolored numbers, very bright, and the competing patterns make people dazzled.

There is a ship sailing sign on the pier, with the ship number and corresponding destination clearly written on it.At this time, the sign shows all the ships, which means that it is not the peak period of ship use, and every ship is idle.

The exchange students studied the ship and the signs, but they never saw the gray shell bridge that Professor Nansen mentioned. Could it be that the bridge is not here?

"Here we come." Professor Nansen just finished speaking.

The rumbling sound like thunder came again, and then, the gray shell bridge slowly rose from the sea, and the sea water swelled and poured down from both sides of the bridge.

When the sea water calmed down and the gray shell bridge was connected, the exchange students stared in awe at the bridge covered in seaweed and jumping with small fish and shrimps. They hesitated, and no one tried to walk up it first.

Heimdall also quite sympathized. Just looking at it like this, I feel that if I go up, I will never come down again, no, I will never go up again.The bridge reminded him of the ever-changing staircases in Hogwarts Castle.

Everyone has such a thought in their minds: What if it is flooded halfway through?

Professor Nansen didn't seem to see the sad little faces of the children, and patted the cold and wet handrail of the gray shell bridge.

"The sea stone bridge in Heideggerak will stay on the sea for an hour. After an hour, it will sink into the sea again and float up every half hour. At night, after the teaching building on Golden Shell Island closes at ten o'clock in the evening, this The bridge stayed in the sea until six o'clock the next day." Professor Nansen said. "After you get familiar with the environment of Heideggerach, you will naturally grasp its laws. If you are worried, you can take a boat. In addition, the bridge did not sink to the bottom of the sea. If the bridge does not have time to go ashore during the sinking process, don't worry about it. Being dragged to the bottom of the sea, the bridge just sank below the surface of the sea, and tall students can still breathe while standing on the bridge."

Most of the students' expressions look much better than before, but everyone doesn't want to have the opportunity to experience it for themselves.

Professor Nansen smiled, "As I said before, the bridges of Heideggerach have a little temper, and the Gray Shell Bridge is no exception. I hope that in the next school year, you will not encounter it when it is in a bad mood. .”

The children were sad again.

The Gray Shell Bridge leads to the largest island in the Heideggerak Archipelago. This island is named Golden Shell, and it is also the location of the main teaching building, where students take theoretical classes and some major practical operations and eat.

"I think I'm in love with this place!" Jeanna walked against the handrail on the left side of the bridge, looking around excitedly.

The boat carrying other students is slowly paddling forward beside the bridge.

Both Heimdall and Jeanne chose to take the bridge, and not many children chose to take the gray shell bridge. Most of the exchange students chose the safer option, which is to take a boat.

Professor Nansen, who was walking in front of them, slowed down, walked up to Heimdall, and gave him a friendly smile.

"how do you feel?"

Heimdall didn't expect that he would suddenly talk to himself, he froze for a moment, and said, "Very good, so far we can get one that exceeds expectations (E)."

"Why not excellent (O)?"

"The scoring has only just begun."

Nansen smiled, then his face changed, and his eyes fell on the boat outside the bridge.A small boat was breaking away from the main force and heading in another direction, and it was obvious that they had chosen the wrong boat.The children on board noticed the abnormality and kept trying to stand up and do something, which caused the boat to sway from left to right, and they screamed on board.

"Don't panic, that boat is heading for Blue Shell Island, which is connected by a pontoon bridge to Golden Shell Island," Nansen took out his pocket watch and glanced at it. "After this time, just in time for the pontoon to rise, you can come over the pontoon, or come back by boat. Sit on the boat and don't move around!"

After hearing this, the two children didn't dare to move any more. They froze, weeping, and waved goodbye to the large army. The rainbow-colored boat took them to another direction.

"It's a good thing we didn't take a boat." Jeanna couldn't help but grabbed Heimdall's sleeve, her pretty face was tense with fear.

Heimdall didn't know whether to laugh or cry, this girl seemed a bit single-celled.