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Chapter 128 The Killed Basilisk and Whether Lockhart Was the Murderer

Under the chamber on the other side.As Harry and Hermione slid slowly down the tube, they discovered that it was a dark, sticky place with rock walls.

After climbing out of the slide, the two of them could see many pipes, open in all directions, but none as thick as this one. spread down.

Harry knew they had slipped deep, deep under the school, even deeper than the dungeon.He could hear Hermione's footsteps following behind, and the breathing of the two of them.

"We must be several feet below the school, it looks dark..." Hermione said a little frightened, then took out her wand and shouted, "Lumos!"

Harry also took out his own wand and whispered, "Lumos!"

The two people's footsteps stepped on the wet ground, making a loud sound.They passed a bend and could still hear the sound of water dripping from the rock face.

"Something just flew over..." Harry pointed his wand towards the open space over there, and a black shadow flashed quickly.He felt that the thing flying in the dark sky looked like a swallow, but how could there be swallows in such a deep place like the school?He thinks it should be a bat.

"What is it?" Hermione followed closely, not pointing her wand at the empty space.But he didn't see anything, so he could only comfort Harry: "There may be bats in such a deep place..."

They went on, but the tunnel was as silent as a grave.As they walked, they heard an unexpected sound.

Click!

Harry found himself stepping on a mouse's bone, and lowering his wand, he saw corpses strewn all around in the crevices of the rocks.Most of them are mice.This place doesn't look like a place where people live at all. Could the murderer really be hiding in it?

Harry couldn't believe it. If someone really lived in it, they should be able to see signs of life.Apparently Hermione also guessed this question, she pulled Harry's robe nervously.

"Harry, I think something is wrong. If the murderer is really hiding under this, he can't eat and drink forever? Look here, except for the bones of rats, there is no sign of human life at all... People also need to eat..."

Harry suddenly covered Hermione's mouth, and whispered, "There seems to be something, don't talk, listen..."

Harry heard a hiss.Hermione's body trembled.This sound sounds particularly like the sound of a snake, accompanied by the sound of vines slicing across the ground.

The two of them stopped moving immediately, their eyes were fixed on the dark place, and their wands were held tightly in their hands, for fear that the dangerous thing hiding in the dark would suddenly attack them both.Dudley had taught Harry before that if the enemy was in the shadows, they should never be taken lightly.

Finally determining the direction of the sound, Harry quickly walked in that direction.The light on the wand is also very big, when the two of them arrive.I only saw a large area of ​​vines, blocking the passage, and these vines rubbed against each other and crowded, and there were signs of rapid expansion.

Harry picked up a stone from the ground and threw it at the vine. When the stone was about to touch the vine, it was whipped away by a vine whip.

Hermione exclaimed: "He can sense danger from this vine..."

Harry, on the other hand, was observing this very large and powerful vine, and whispered to Hermione, "Do you think he is the same as the devil's net we encountered last year?"

Hermione quickly shook her head: "It's completely different. The devil's net will not actively attack people, and even if you are trapped by him, you can escape as long as you relax your body. And the one in front of us...we haven't touched him yet, He has already attacked first..."

Hermione looked very frustrated. She thought that after studying the books at Hogwarts for so long, there should be nothing she didn't know.But when she faced the vines that she had never seen before, she realized that she didn't have a single bit of knowledge in her head.

She looked at Harry apologetically: "I don't seem to be able to help..."

"It's okay..." Harry's eyes were fixed on this kind of vine. For some reason, he always felt that he and this kind of vine had a feeling of deja vu.It seems that I have been touched by this kind of vine before.

He squinted, watching the blocked passage.

But I heard a slight movement in my ear, something quickly slid across the ground, and suddenly hit the vine, but the vine was too strong, and was bounced back.

"My God! What's in there... Did that thing hit the vine wall just now..." Hermione backed away in fear, but still held her wand tightly to her chest.

"I don't know either...but." Harry hadn't finished speaking when he heard a very cold voice coming from inside.

It's snake language!

Immediately, he heard the roar of a snake.

"You despicable human! You actually want to kill me, my master will never let you go..."

However, after the angry voice finished the last sentence resentfully, it was too weak to refute anymore.

Harry leaned closer to hear what was happening on the other side of the passage blocked by the vines?He had just heard the voice of a snake, and because Hermione couldn't understand it, he believed that there must be a snake on the other side.And that snake seemed to be killed by someone, otherwise why would he growl so angrily?

The two of them lingered for a long time at the entrance of the passage blocked by vines, when they were about to give up and go back.The vines disappeared sparsely, some of them got into the ground, and some disappeared from the cracks.Anyway, it disappeared very quickly.

Harry and Hermione were surprised when a swallow flew quickly between them.

"Is that a swallow?" Hermione said uncertainly, the thing was flying so fast that she didn't see it clearly at all.

"Let's go in and have a look first..." Harry tightly gripped the wand in his hand, and headed into the darkness.

Not long after they had gone, the light from the wand fell on a huge snakeskin.That snake is green and bright, and it looks like a poisonous snake.It's a pity that this poisonous snake has lost its life. The position of the heart on the huge snake's body has become a bloody hole, and there is a horrible mark on the snake's back.

His back bone was pumped.

Such a scene was so terrifying that Harry and Hermione couldn't believe how such a huge poisonous snake died?

"Oh my God, Harry!" Hermione flicked her tongue in horror, "His teeth have been pulled out..."

Harry took advantage of the situation to look over, and sure enough, he saw that there were no fangs in the mouth of the boa constrictor.A thick stream of black blood flowed from part of the wound where the tooth had been pulled out.

The two of them squatted beside the snake, and when they observed it carefully, they suddenly heard the sound of footsteps coming from the dark hole.The two of them turned around in surprise.

It was Gilderoy Lockhart.

They didn't know when Lockhart appeared there, anyway, he had already collapsed beside a stone with his legs limp, panting with a pale face.

Both Harry and Hermione thought he had killed the viper.Hermione ran over curiously and asked, "Professor Lockhart! Why did you kill this python? Also, why are you here?"

"Why am I here..." Lockhart raised his forehead in a daze, after confirming that the python was really dead.His frightened and pale face was relieved, and his eyes began to become strange.

He really didn't know how he appeared here, but he remembered that he seemed to be going to talk to Professor Chen about something in the morning.As a result, the memory of going to the office is too vague.But he didn't think it was a big deal, and the boa constrictor lying at their feet was a very valuable medicine.If he took the credit for himself, his mouth would curl up.

"Why did you come here?" Lockhart hurriedly drove the two children out, and hurried out by himself.He didn't want to stay in this gloomy place, the snake just waited for Snape to deal with it, anyway, that guy was a good potion maker.

He said as he walked, "That snake is a very good potion material. Donating it to Hogwarts may be of great help to your potion classes."

"Professor Lockhart, are you here to find materials?" Harry looked at him suspiciously.Dobby revealed to him that the murderer was hiding below, and after he and Hermione came here, they didn't find anyone at all.The only possibility is that the murderer is Lockhart.

But that's just Harry's guess, based on his observations.Professor Lockhart's magic power couldn't produce such a large petrochemical effect at all, he sighed and felt that his mind was in a mess.