at twenty.

This was also because she didn't want to have anything to do with him in front of people, and it was inconvenient for him to act under the eyes of many prying eyes.

For the first time, he felt too much attention and not so convenient.

But Riddle is not in a hurry. Anyway, as long as the favorability does not return to zero, it will not affect him. He can just observe Fiona's usual behavior habits and preferences while doing his own business.

With this observation, he found something slightly wrong.

She and Tiffany seem to have gotten too close.

The two of them share the same dormitory, they are at the same table in class, and they are almost inseparable after class, eating, going to the library, basically whenever you see Fiona, there must be Tiffany next to her.

Riddle finally understood why he hadn't been impressed with Fiona before, because she found a perfect light source, and she hid in the backlight.

When she appeared, everyone's attention would subconsciously focus on the noisy and annoying Tiffany, and naturally ignore her silent follower.At the same time, because Tiffany is the father of the Minister of Magic, and because of her unreasonable personality, everyone is somewhat shy of her, and no one even provokes her with her servant Fiona.

The question is, how did she manage to keep Tiffany from embarrassing her at all?

Others may not have noticed, but in Riddle's eyes, Fiona is equivalent to having Veela blood. Even if he mixes with hundreds of people, he can find her at a glance, and pay attention to her situation with two distractions at all times.

He found that although the two of them were inseparable, they had almost no communication. Tiffany seemed to really regard Fiona as his own shadow, and neither ordered her bossy, nor chatted and joked with her like a best friend.

It seems that Tiffany is a tool person tailor-made for her. She only needs to create jokes and provide farce for her, without causing her any unhappiness and trouble.

It's an unreasonable thing that's completely against Tiffany's character.

Fiona had threatened her?But Riddle didn't see Tiffany's fear of Fiona.

So, what could be the reason?

Reminiscing about his sudden death last time, Riddle had a vague guess.

11. Raiders No.11 step accident, here again

There is a guess, but how to prove it is a difficult task - anyway, he doesn't want to experience it again.

Riddle also asked the system for confirmation, but was knocked back as expected.

"I'm not your error-correcting quill. Mr. Riddle, have you paid me yet?"

Talking as if the system would take what he could give.

Riddle has now become proficient in the habit of automatically cleaning up the system's trash talk.

After deliberating for a while, he decided to stand still—of course it wasn't because he was cowardly, but the current situation was developing steadily, and for the sake of caution, there was no need to create events that would cause unpredictable consequences.

After making such a decision, Riddle put Fiona aside for the time being. Recently, his gaze became less intense. He planned to find an opportunity to enter the secret room and contact the basilisk.

When he was a teenager before rebirth, he was accidentally broken by Myrtle not long after he discovered the basilisk. Her death prevented him from entering the secret room at will under Dumbledore's supervision, and the basilisk was also injured due to the long-term sleep. Not quite sober with hunger, so he didn't get to communicate much with the basilisk.

This time, he planned to inquire about the deeds of Salazar Slytherin with the basilisk. As Salazar's pet, and possessed a certain degree of intelligence, it should be able to say a lot of valuable things.

Since Horcruxes were not the right choice for immortality, maybe Salazar had other clues that could help him.

In order not to have Myrtle's accident again, Riddle made adequate preparations.

He bought an invisibility cloak, and spent several nights hunting rabbits, pheasants, foxes and other living creatures in the outer layer of the Forbidden Forest, and put them in batches in the Room of Requirement to raise them in captivity.I also made tricks on the drainpipe of the women's bathroom on the second floor, so that it always sprayed water from time to time, and instigated Peeves to often go there to play pranks, so that the girls were reluctant to go to the bathroom on that floor again .

In fact, he also arranged some means to make the bathroom abandoned last time, otherwise he wouldn't have called out the basilisk without doing any inspection when he went in.

It's just that he didn't consider, and it's impossible to consider, that girls will hide in the bathroom to vent their inexplicable psychology when they are unhappy.

Afterwards, he waited quietly for a while to confirm that no one had noticed the anomaly there—after emphatically confirming that Fiona hadn't noticed, Riddle wore the invisibility cloak and went to the bathroom late at night.

After entering, he recited the Ignoring Mantra to the door, and then checked the compartments one by one. Then he walked to the sink facing the last compartment, staring at the tiny snake-shaped carving on the side of the copper faucet and hissing.

"Open."

In an instant, the faucet was shrouded in a brilliant white light and began to rotate. Immediately afterwards, the sink also began to move and sink, revealing a pipe that was as wide as a person.

Riddle grabbed the two stunned living creatures in his hands, and slid in through the opening of the pipe.

The process was the same as he had experienced before. It took him a while to enter the stone room smoothly and found the sleeping basilisk.

Walking slowly to the huge snake head coiled around the snake's body, Riddle looked at the orange snake eyes that were open even when he was asleep, and was not afraid of being petrified by it.The blood from Salazar Slytherin flowing in his body makes him inherently immune to the gaze of the basilisk.

Riddle couldn't help thinking of Nagini.

He has given up splitting the soul now, and naturally doesn't need Nagini to be his Horcrux, but he still wants to get it back—including other special items that he once made into Horcruxes.

In his opinion, those things are already his property, and they have special meaning and value in themselves, and he cannot tolerate them falling into the hands of others.

Take it easy.He made arrangements one by one on the schedule in his mind.

The basilisk smelled the breath of a stranger, and began to move its body slowly, regaining consciousness.

The thin pupils in the vertical pupils swayed, met Riddle, and the eyes full of brutality and wildness released cold murderous intent, but the next moment, it felt a familiar breath after spitting out the snake letter.

"The smell of Salazar..." it whispered, "You are...the descendant of Salazar..."

As it spoke, it poked its head in front of Riddle, the bright red snake letter almost swept across the tip of his nose, and a stench of rot came over his face.

Riddle's face remained unchanged, looking into its eyes - he enjoyed this kind of calmness that only he could do.

He said softly: "Yes, and at the same time, also your new master."

The basilisk raised its head, "My master...only Salazar..."

"He's dead." Riddle said indifferently.

With a loud "snap", the basilisk flicked its tail on the nearby stone pillar, causing a slight vibration, and the dust fell rustlingly. It swam around Riddle twice anxiously.

"Dead...yes...I slept too long...human life...too short..."

Riddle raised his eyebrows, "Maybe it's because they never thought of challenging death."

"I don't know……"

"You don't need to understand," Riddle said casually, throwing the living creature in front of the basilisk, "you just need to know that Salazar is dead, and I'm the only blood left in him. To me—or are you planning to betray Salazar?"

Even if the basilisk has lived for thousands of years, it is still just a snake. It has no complex thinking ability and can only make some simple judgments and choices.So after going around two more times, it lowered its head and rubbed against Riddle's palm—it still remembered that this was the way it interacted intimately with Salazar.

"Master...I obey...your orders."

Riddle touched its icy scales with satisfaction - revealing the petrified Lilith on her wrist.

That's when I remembered it existed.

The basilisk's head immediately stood up and hissed in dissatisfaction, while Lilith continued to pretend that she was a dead snake under the strong pressure.

"Master, it's too weak, let me eat it." The basilisk is very territorial.

Riddle didn't care about a snake's life or death, but this snake was famous with Fiona and brought him a lot of favorability points. If Fiona hadn't refused, he would have planned to give her as a gift, obviously not. Probably casually tossed at the basilisk for a snack.

Speaking of which, a small snake can add so much favorability to her, what if she sees a basilisk?Will it directly increase by twenty or thirty points?

Riddle couldn't help feeling a little moved.

But thinking that if she accidentally met the basilisk and died - this might also make him very excited. Unfortunately, he could only be moved and could not act. He didn't want to waste an opportunity just to vent his anger.

Plugged the basilisk's mouth with several other living creatures, and Riddle ordered it to wait for his call near the pipe of the pool, and then return along the way it came.

This was much more troublesome than sliding all the way down. By the time he tidied up in the bathroom and returned to the dormitory, the sky was already dim.

There was no sunlight in the dormitory, so it didn't matter whether it was dawn or not, but when it was almost time to wake up, Yardley fell asleep a little, and when he heard Riddle's return, he opened his eyes in a daze.

"Where have you been?"

"Can't sleep, went to the lounge to read a book." Riddle didn't bother to think of a reason.

Yardley let out an "oh" and just wanted to go back to sleep again, then sat up suddenly, staring at him with wide eyes.

"You're not going on a date with Fiona, are you?" he asked suspiciously.

Riddle: "...are you talking in your sleep?"

He does.

Yardley looked at him carefully, but found nothing unusual, and immediately

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