Vodai Ecstasy

15

"Hello! Riddle?"

Slughorn, who came later, didn't understand what was causing the chaos in front of him. He just felt that the current situation of draining the lake was too strange, and the top student he was optimistic about was running away without hesitation. After leaving, he could only wipe the fine sweat off his brow, then turned to Dumbledore with a dignified expression and asked, "What's going on here?"

Dumbledore waved his wand, but did not answer his colleagues' questions.The water wall began to recede to both sides, and the mermaids hammered the hard water surface angrily, making sharp roars. Following his gaze, the lonely figure of the boy in the night strode on the exposed lake bed, completely ignoring caught the eye of the crowd.

Riddle really didn't care about these, his eyes were firmly locked on the end of the river bed, where the lake water was slowly receding, revealing the mermaid's lair, the simple houses were connected with the reef at the bottom of the lake, and the aquatic plants that had lost their water source were limp. Lying down on the stones, there is a round platform made of stones behind the crooked house, but the water plants scattered around have been cleaned up, leaving only the eye-catching plants scattered on the sand and gravel. White clothes.

The boy's running pace finally slowed down, the mermaid seemed to realize something, roared and rushed towards the sleeping girl.Riddle held the wand, but someone's magic was a step faster than him, and the mermaid backed away like an electric shock.

Riddle only glanced back. The light from his wand made it impossible for him to discern the expressions of the professors on the water. He didn't pause, and he didn't express his gratitude to his mentors.

The wall of water was still enveloping his girl, and Riddle stretched out his hand. It seemed that the hard water surface was about to collapse under the boy's pale fingertips. He successfully penetrated the wall of water.The boy stepped straight into the water curtain, bent down and picked up the girl.

The lake water around him receded rapidly, but the surface of the water carrying the professors' boats rushed in like an army. The strong light forced the young man who was still standing at the bottom of the lake to squint his eyes slightly, and he just stood there silently, with his arms around him. The girl from the East, soaked all over, was as stubborn as a smelly and hard rock at the bottom of the water.

"Riddle? This...what the hell is going on?"

Slughorn once again sent a question to his lover, and everyone's eyes once again focused on the girl in the boy's arms.The boy turned his body slightly to block everyone's eyes, then took off his robe and put it on the girl, then raised his head and said tentatively: "Sir, in fact, a lot of things happened tonight, I don't know what you mean which one?"

After a short pause, Riddle quickly added: "However, as you can see, I think the top priority now is to send Miss Lin to the infirmary. She is in a very bad condition now."

Slughorn didn't really come up with an idea, he turned his head and looked at the professors around him, wondering, "Where's Mrs. Gray?"

Dumbledore tilted his head to look at the girl's drenched skirt under the black robe, and seemed to be very interested in the girl who suddenly appeared at the bottom of the lake. He waved and cast a drying spell on both of them, saying: " Let them go to the infirmary first."

Riddle glanced at the always hated professor, and quickly lowered his eyes: "Thank you, professor."

Dumbledore tilted his head, and said disapprovingly, "It's okay, my child." The red-bearded professor turned around and stopped other professors who wanted to go forward, leaving a way for the boy and his female companion, and then called A flying carpet, watching Riddle carefully put Daiyu on it.

"Have you nothing to say, child?"

Just as the boy was about to leave, Dumbledore suddenly asked.

The action of the boy's subordinates paused for a moment, and he said in a low voice: "Sorry, professor, please wait a moment... please wait a moment, I will tell you everything I know."

Dumbledore didn't speak, and after watching the two leave, the tall professor turned his head to look at the mermaids who were still screaming, his face was calm, and there was no joy or anger in his blue pupils.

The infirmary was surprisingly quiet, and Mrs. Gray, who was always rambling, also remained silent. Only the sound of her footsteps back and forth could be heard between the white curtains of the bed, and the slight knocking of the utensils when dispensing the medicine.

Riddle didn't intend to break the silence, he took the girl's hand and looked at the sleeping girl seriously.She is so beautiful.Had Mrs. Gray not been there, he would have bent down and kissed her really well.The sleeping girl was so cute, her eyelashes were long and trembled with her breathing.Now that she is lying here, she is breathing, her heart is beating, and she has the cool body temperature curled up in his palm... The young man lightly lifted the girl's quilt up again. This is simply the most wonderful thing, he almost Get carried away.

It's just that the untimely sound of chaotic footsteps quickly broke the boy's joyful imagination, the boy's drooping eyelashes dimmed slightly, and he calmly let go of the catkin he had been holding on to.The curtain behind him moved slightly, and he heard the most disgusting voice behind him: "Riddle?"

Riddle couldn't control his frown, but in an instant he stabilized the rising boredom, and turned back meekly: "Professor Dumbledore?"

Dumbledore glanced at the sleeping girl and said, "Have you been here all this time?"

Riddle didn't seem to realize that his first question was actually this. The top student paused for a while before answering speciously: "What's the matter? Professor."

Dumbledore pursed his lips and said in another direction: "I remember you getting along well with Miss Selwyn?"

"My fellow Slytherins are very friendly to me," the top student replied again, and then he realized the problem: "What's wrong with her?"

"You don't know?" Slughorn on the side wondered, "Aren't you watching the night with her?"

"Yes," Riddle quietly looked at the expressions of the professors: "But a lot of things happened tonight..."

"Oh, indeed, it is indeed too much." Slughorn nodded in agreement, then remembered Dumbledore's request just now, and coughed lightly: "So we need you to tell us the truth about what happened, child .It's important."

"As you can see, I found Ms. Lin." The young man turned his face away, not meeting Dumbledore's gaze, and said softly, "Tonight, we encountered an unexpected attack... Everything was really sudden, Until now, I don't understand what happened, it was so sudden..."

"Witnessing the petrification of a companion is indeed a very frightening thing..." Slughorn sympathized: "So we really need to know the details of what happened at that time. I know this is very difficult for you, but we need you It’s really important for schools to think about it.”

Dumbledore glanced at Slughorn, as if his hint just now hadn't left half a cloud in the carefree professor's heart.The young man in front of them lowered his head, and he was not alarmed when he heard the word "petrified", but he was silent for a while before saying, "I'm sorry...Professor, in fact, I didn't see Rosie being killed." petrochemical process."

"What?" Slughorn yelled suspiciously, and then received a sharp eye knife from Mrs. Grey.The fat professor coughed dryly in embarrassment, and then heard Dumbledore say: "Then where are you tonight, Riddle?"

"She and I are indeed watching the night..." The young man took a gamble, seeing that Slughorn didn't seem to be overly surprised, he tentatively dragged out his tone and continued: "But we heard a strange sound... ..."

"Strange sound?"

Slughorn frowned. "Is it footsteps?"

"No, professor." Riddle frowned, as if he was thinking seriously: "There were indeed footsteps at that time, and we noticed that the professors on duty at night seemed to be rushing to the third floor of the castle."

"Why didn't you go?" Slughorn wondered, "Your inspection area should be closest to the bathroom on the third floor."

"We want to go there, Professor." The young man said patiently, "But we heard a strange sound, not footsteps, it seemed to come from the bottom of our feet, like some huge creature moving under our feet."

"Have you seen it?"

"No, professor." The top student blamed himself and shook his head: "At least not at the time, we heard the sound, but we didn't know what it was, and then we thought about the recent rumors...you know, about..."

Slughorn raised his hand to stop the words that Riddle was about to blurt out, and the other party also changed the subject very kindly: "We suspect it is the monster, I told Rosie to inform the professors, and I followed the voice all the way. Arrived at the sluice."

"Why didn't you use magic to send a message to the professor? That would be faster." Dumbledore said sharply.

"I'm sorry, Professor." The boy's self-blame became more obvious: "I wasn't sure it was the monster at the time, besides, there seemed to be trouble in the bathroom on the third floor. I thought it might be better for Rosie to go directly to the third floor." Just to be on the safe side, I didn't expect that monster to be so cunning... Is Rosie okay?"

"Fortunately, it's just petrification." Slughorn patted the honor student's shoulder comfortingly, and continued, "Did you catch up to it?"

The boy continued to shake his head: "Actually, I only heard the sound, but didn't really see it until I got into the water..."

Dumbledore nodded noncommittally, but Dippet, who had been silent all this time, frowned and said, "Do you know that it is very dangerous to rush into the water with a student's magic level? How can you, as a prefect, ignore the school rules like this? Why? Haven't you notified the professor yet?"

"I'm sorry, sir." Riddle lowered his head: "When I chased to the gate of the sluice, the sound of the water was very loud. I thought that everything I heard before was just my auditory hallucination. I wanted to go back, but at that time I vaguely I saw a black shadow dragging Miss Lin into the water."

"Young people have good eyesight," Dumbledore interrupted abruptly.

"Miss Lin's white clothes are very obvious in the dark night." The young man explained softly, "I jumped into the water before I had time to think about it. What I didn't expect was..." He flinched suddenly, as if recalling something terrible : "The huge water monster... the mermaid... the mermaid also started attacking me, I don't know what happened..."

"So you used fire?"

"I have no choice, sir."

Riddle argued: "I'm terrified, you don't know how terrifying that monster is, I can only use all the spells that come to my mind, otherwise..."

Slughorn patted the boy on the shoulder again, and turned his helpless gaze to Dumbledore with a dignified face.Dippet gave a dry cough in dissatisfaction, as if complaining about his thin sense of existence, he waved his hand, indicating that this matter can be ended here.

At this moment, Mrs. Gray brought a newly prepared prescription, and the young man got up to make way for her: "If I bother you, ma'am, how is Selwyn?"

Mrs. Gray gave the top student a sideways look, and said, "She's fine, the medicine to undo the petrification will be ready in two days."

Riddle breathed a sigh of relief calmly, but heard Mrs. Gray's sharp voice questioning Dippet: "But what's the matter with this lady, the vital signs are all normal, why is the soul so weak that it seems to be dying at any time?" Like dissipating?"

The boy's heart that had just settled down was lifted up again in an instant.