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The cave was deeper than he had imagined.

The light of the torch was dim and flickering, and the light given to them in the darkness was really thin. One meter away, there was darkness that could not be seen, as if there were unknown beasts waiting for an opportunity to ambush there.But as they walked farther, they didn't encounter any danger, so he still thought too much.

When the vision is shrouded in darkness, the brain will be occupied by fear, and fantasy will play an unprecedented role at this time, making people neurotic.Harry turned his head to look at the silent Snape, the firelight illuminated his profile, and his half-long hair silhouetted his face, making his facial features stand out even more in this ambiguous warm light For three-dimensional.

His shadow was elongated behind him, like a towering mountain.And Snape was actually quite reliable.

Suddenly he felt the wind, which made him feel the coolness on his body.Only then did Harry realize that he was sweating so much that his back was drenched.

Now recalling the dense gray-black bats I saw earlier, I couldn't help but tremble with horror.He actually had the courage to rush in front of Snape, even though he couldn't even cast a spell, but he still wanted to get rid of those bats.

Say something!He couldn't think about it anymore, the silence plus the darkness was like the devil in the cave ready to lure him anytime and anywhere. "Professor, did you hear anything?" Harry said, he did feel the wind just now.

"Can't you see with your eyes—ah, of course, you're blind, I haven't forgotten that." Snape gave Harry a mocking glance, and he stopped.

Harry wrinkled his face when he was told, he raised the torch forward, "There's nothing here!"

Then he saw the light reflected in the darkness - it was water!

"There's a lake here." Harry muttered, and he took another step, shining a torch around, and after searching around, he found a bare canoe, which could barely accommodate two people.

"You go rowing," Snape said.

Harry didn't retort, he boarded the boat, tied the torch to the oar, and the shadow cast not long after he sat down enveloped him, and he saw Snape's tall figure when he looked up.

Snape wasn't looking down at him, he was looking around.

Harry's lips moved, and he forgot what he wanted to say, so he just picked up the sculls and began to paddle awkwardly.

The sound of rushing water being stirred echoed in the cave.

In an empty and quiet place, no matter how small the sound is, it will be amplified as if a terrifying monster is howling.But now the sound of rowing was particularly abrupt, more eye-catching than the little torch Harry tied around his hand.

Not long after, Harry found that the wooden paddle in his hand seemed to encounter resistance under the water. He turned his arm with difficulty. When he was concentrating on this, something pale seemed to be shaking under the water surface. Blinking his eyes, it was still extremely dark under the surface of the water, only reflecting the light of the torch.

"There's something underwater," Harry said affirmatively.

Snape frowned slightly, he took out a piece of parchment and turned it into an oil lamp, held it up and looked around.

They are surrounded!

The dense bluish-white corpses were sinking and floating in the water, and they were converging towards the only moving boat on the lake.

Countless hands raised from under the water surface, and icy drops of water splashed out, some of which landed on Harry's face, with a rotten breath in the cold.

Harry was so startled by the weird and horrifying scene in front of him that he forgot to move, his pupils shrank suddenly, and the muscles of his limbs tensed, like a spring compressed to the extreme.

"Go on." Snape spit out two words, his voice was hotter than the heat of the torch, making Harry's stiff limbs go soft, he took a deep breath, grasped the wooden paddle and swung the water quickly, throwing them Push towards the opposite bank.

But the underwater corpse was still faster than them, and Harry soon felt the pulp being pulled.They were hitting the canoe, from below and from the sides.Suddenly a wet hand climbed up, and the rolled up water wet Harry's trousers.

"Hey!" A drenched blue face faced Harry, pale bones were exposed in the broken skin, and the blue-white eyes seemed to fall out of their sockets.

Reflexively, Harry raised the heavy wooden paddle with both hands and slapped the head that popped out of nowhere, knocking its head sideways.

The next moment Harry grabbed the torch next to him, which was much more effective than wooden paddles—he panted heavily, and swung the torch back and forth in a circle, smashing the head protruding from the water and the arms that looked like hooks. Forced back into the black lake.

But the heat and brightness of the torch were not enough. A corpse jumped out of the lake, its hands were like withered branches with cold water stains, and struck Harry from behind.

Snape stretched out his hand and pulled Harry onto him, causing the Inferi to rush to nothing, but knocked the torch from Harry's hand into the lake, and the flames went out.The anger hidden deep in those black eyes was burning fiercely at this moment.

Now the only light left was Snape's flickering oil lamp on the bow, and with this as a point of reference, countless Inferi were rushing towards them.

The boat was wobbly and it couldn't carry any more people.The corpse, already on board, turned its head, his head was almost turned away by him, and the skeleton made a rattling sound, but its blue-white eyes kept looking at Harry and Snape.

For a moment, Harry was so frightened that he couldn't find his voice, it was as if he had forgotten to breathe.

Snape calmly raised his wand, first knocked away the Inferi on the boat, and then used Fiendfire on the lake.In an instant, bright yellow flames ignited the surface of the lake, and all the corpses exposed to the water were ignited and sank.

The black water of the lake was illuminated so brightly that one could see layers of corpses underwater at a glance. The corpses that were repelled by the flames collided with the corpses that kept trying to come up, and Fierce Fire passed through the lit corpses The icy-cold lake water continued to burn, and the surface of the lake suddenly lit up, like amber, while all demons danced wildly under the turbid water surface.

Snape pushed Harry's shoulder urgently, which brought Harry back to his breath and his chaotic heartbeat.

Harry crawled back to his original position, picked up the oars and rowed quickly, and soon they were on the opposite bank.

"Professor, have those Infernal corpses been dealt with?" Harry gasped as he was pulled ashore by Snape.

"You think this bit of flame will kill it once and for all?" Snape retorted.

Harry looked back at the lake, which had faded from the light and then returned to darkness.The scene just now was still imprinted in his mind. Countless blue-gray hands emerged from the water—just imagining it made him tremble, which was more terrifying than the vampire bats at the entrance of the cave.

"It seems that you still want to get in touch with them, so you can't wait to become one of them?" Snape sneered, and he walked towards the shore with an oil lamp.

"So the Inferi will come up again - can't we kill them all?" Harry trotted after them.

"The endless army of Inferi that will never fall, they are the loyal servants of the Dark Lord." Snape said, "You expect too much of me for what Dumbledore can't do--I Not your responsive house-elf." He glanced at the little bastard beside him.

"Then Fiendfire can dispel them." Harry bit his finger, it was a pity he couldn't use his wand now.

There is only a stone platform on the shore, and a copper basin is placed on it. Although it has been used for many years, this copper basin has not rusted, and it is filled with green liquid.

There is also an empty cup on the table.

"Where are the dark lord's soul fragments?" Harry looked around and found that there were really only these, and he was extremely confused.

Snape frowned, he carefully looked at the liquid in the basin, and then at the cup. "It contains a potion that can destroy a person's sanity."

"Isn't that just poison?" Harry exclaimed.

"There is a magic in this basin, you need to voluntarily drink the potion in the basin to remove the contents." Snape said.

"I'll do it." Harry took a deep breath.

Snape glared at the little bastard who never took his own life seriously.

"Tsk, it seems that the savior is really willing to sacrifice." Snape sneered, he ignored Harry, strode back to the lake, raised his wand and shot a spell at the lake water, and then attracted an Inferi ashore.

He returned to Harry with the obedient, stiff corpse.

"Drink it." He ordered the ghost.

So this slow-moving infernal corpse stiffly raised its arms, grabbed the cup, scooped up the green potion in the basin, and drank it cup by cup.

"You can control the Inferi!" Harry was pleasantly surprised.

"A little trick." Snape said modestly.

After the Infernal drank the potion, Snape waved his wand to make it go back to lie in the lake.

Harry picked up the contents of the basin - a locket and a note.

"Professor, I think our trip was wasted." Harry glanced at the contents of the note and handed it to Snape.

Snape looked down at the note and sneered, "You really deserve to be a Black."

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