Chapter 299 297. The old man in the portrait
The Death Eaters were confused, and Jon was as confused as everyone else at this time.
He staggered and almost fell to the ground. He walked forward for several steps before barely standing still.
And when he stood still, the bronze door already behind him slammed shut!
The dull sound of the glottis being closed woke up Jon who was still in a daze.
Gabriel also felt the movement, and poked her head out of Nick's frightened face with a confused expression.
"We... have entered the door?"
Jon didn't answer her, because at this moment, he himself was observing the surrounding environment.
This place is different from the cold environment outside the door. It is surrounded by solid walls instead of the permafrost layer that will not melt for thousands of years.
The space behind the door is not too small, but it is not too wide, but it is obviously more like a hall. There is a winding path directly in front of Jon, leading to the deepest part.
Jon looked around and found two ancient candlesticks inlaid on the walls on both sides of the gate.
The candlestick is designed in the shape of a snake, the tail of the snake is embedded in the wall, and the snake letters spit out of the mouth are lit with faint blue lights.
The flame seemed to be eternal, and it had been burning before Jon entered the door.
Just by looking at the appearance of the flames, Jon could recognize what the fire was.
Gublai Immortal Fire, an open flame that can burn forever, needs very high magic to make.
But no matter how precious the flame itself is, Jon would not be so attracted to it. He fixed his eyes on the candlestick on the right side of the bronze door, with a thoughtful expression on his face as if he was recalling something, and looked at it with some uncertainty. asked Gabriel.
"Do you still remember that when we were outside the door, we found that the place where the gem was standing seemed to be where the candlestick was?"
Hearing Jon's words, Gabriel recalled for a moment with an expression of uncertainty, and then the little girl nodded firmly.
"Yes! As I remember, that gem is very beautiful. It was on our left hand side facing the door. Now that we have entered, it is on our right side!"
Gabrielle's affirmative words gave Jon even more confidence. He eagerly walked to the candlestick on the right, and then tried to see if he could pull it out of the wall.
After the attempt failed, Jon raised his wand again, and cast a division spell on the spot where the candlestick was embedded.
The wall behind the door is not as indestructible as the door itself. Under a division spell, the stone wall embedded with candlesticks revealed dense cracks like spider webs.
After that, Jon hugged the snake-shaped candlestick tightly with both hands, and with a sudden force, he pulled out the candlestick, which was enough to become a relic in the magic world, from the stone wall!
The faint blue Gublai fairy fire on the snake letter jumped violently a few times, and then stabilized in Jon's hands again.
And Jon's eyes, already excited enough to be called scorching, did not look at the candlestick that could sell for thousands of Galleons in any magic area outside, but aimed at the tail of the serpentine candlestick!
There is an unattractive blue diamond-shaped gemstone, reflecting the faint blue firelight!
Gems, taken out by Jon!
Now he finally understood why outside the door, no one could take out this stone that seemed to be embedded in the ice.
That is simply an illusion!
The raw material of the ring gem made by Adrian is part of the candlestick. Somehow he discovered the snake tail of the candlestick on the ice outside the door. He finished the gemstone on the spot, but there was no way to get it from Get it outside.
Because this gemstone belongs to the door, only after entering the bronze door, is it eligible to hold it!
Jon looked at the serpentine candlestick with excitement on his face, and soon, his eyes turned to the same candlestick on the left side of the copper door.
It’s hard to say what will happen after that, but he can’t come here in vain. If the snake tail of this candlestick can be made into a ring gem by Adrian, then the other candlestick must be extraordinary.
He continued to do the same with the candlestick on the left, and successfully took this lamp off the wall.
Sure enough, Jon did not guess wrong. At the end of the candlestick was a dusty round bead like a glass bead, which should have been discovered and made by Adrian in this labyrinth under the ice. The raw material of the ring gems, but this one was not buried as deep as the one on the right, and was not discovered by Adrian who came here before.
Jon, who had gained a lot as soon as he entered the door, was in a very happy mood, but soon when he tried to put his hand on the bronze door again and tried to open it from the inside, the whole door remained motionless, as if suddenly Opening and letting him in was just an illusion of Jon.
This made him a little worried about Fox's safety. There are so many Death Eaters outside, even if the Phoenix is immortal, as long as the Death Curse is used on it at the beginning of its constant rebirth, it can still be killed in this alternative way. stay.
But Jon lay on the spot where he took out the candlestick with the gemstone ring, trying to find a small hole to see the scene outside the door, but after he couldn't find it, he could only let go of this part of his worries for the time being.
This stone wall seems to have the function of self-healing. Before the candlestick was embedded in it, it could connect the inside and outside of the door. Now that the candlestick was taken by Jon, the part that was hollowed out has been slowly restored. , and soon he couldn't even see the small pit that he shattered with the Splitting Curse just now.
There was no way back for the time being, so Jon had to take off the ancient flames on the two snake-shaped candlesticks first, and then tried to put the candlesticks into the pocket that had been cast with the No Trace Stretch Curse. It was still enough, but the opening of the bag was too small for Jon to slip it in.
He could only hold the candlestick in his arms first, and set his sights on the winding path in front of them.
"Come on, let's go in and have a look."
Jon whispered to Gabriel, and then he took out the invisibility cloak again and put it on his body.
Gabriel also shrank obediently beside Jon, listening to Jon's command without saying a word.
Behind the door is an unknown space, except for Voldemort himself who has been to this place, no one knows what is there.
It didn't take long to walk forward. Jon's movements were very careful, and the pace of his steps was not very large, but after only four or five minutes of walking, they came to a suddenly enlightened space.
This is a room like a bedroom. After Jon and Gabriel, who were wearing invisibility cloaks, walked into the room through the passage, a cluster of orange flames suddenly ignited on the ceiling, illuminating everything in the room. all.
The sudden flames startled Jon, and also made Gabriel, who had been holding Jon's arm, tremble nervously.
The space here is not large, that is, it is a little more spacious than the area that could barely be called the foyer when they first entered the door, and it is not as good as the area outside the door where the Death Eaters are stationed.
However, not only does it not feel cold here, but it also feels like being in a warm room with a fire burning.
There is a big bed on the left side of the whole room. That bed should be made of stone. Even though it seems that the quilt that was originally laid on it has been worn away by time and turned into a gray thing, the bed itself There is no slightest change.
And directly below the bright flames on the ceiling, there is a table also made of stone. On the stone table there are teapot-like utensils. There should be some sheepskin-like things on it, but at this time It has been broken into pieces and scattered on the table.
In addition, there is a whole row of bookshelves leaning against the wall facing the alley. These things are obviously made of wood. Some can be supported standing on the ground.
Jon glanced over the collapsed wooden bookshelves, shifted to the leftmost position of the bookshelves, and then met a pair of eyes.
This is not a real person, but a portrait.
It was an old man with a skinny appearance and a monkey-like face.
He had a bushy goatee hanging from his chin in front of him, and those cloudy eyes just looked at Jon without blinking.
When meeting those eyes, Jon's whole body froze.
He looked at the portrait through the cloak without moving, and was quite sure that the old man in the portrait could see him through the cloak.
Jon took a deep breath and tried to say hello.
"Hello, sir?"
Hearing Jon's voice, Gabriel was surprised to notice the portrait of the old man at this moment. Her eyes were wide open, and she lay on Jon's body like a koala aware of danger.
The eyes of the old man in that portrait were calm, as if he didn't intend to answer Jon's greeting, but the cloudy eyeballs moved down, looking at the two snake-shaped candlesticks that Jon held in his arms.
Jon obviously noticed the direction he was looking at, and immediately, like a thief who stole something late at night and was caught by the owner on the spot, he hurriedly pulled Gabriel off of him with an embarrassing expression, and put The two candlesticks were stuffed into her hands, so that she could hide behind her so that the atmosphere would not look so weird.
The old man didn't seem to want to delve into the meaning of young people stealing candlesticks, but shifted his eyes to Jon's face again.
"Hiss hiss."
There was an unpleasant, piercing sound that Jon couldn't understand at all, and the snake-like language spit out from the old man's mouth.
Seeing Jon just staring at him with big eyes and small eyes, the old man was not only not disappointed, but seemed to have some doubts.
"Aren't you my blood?"
Jon had already taken off the invisibility cloak from his body at this time, and he had some astonishing guesses in his mind, but he still looked a little unclear on the surface, so he blinked.
"What's your name?"
The old man raised his hand and introduced himself with his eyes narrowed.
"Salazar Slytherin."
Although he had expected this name for a long time, after he actually heard the name, he still couldn't help showing a shocked look.
He looked at the old man on the magic portrait, trying hard to retrieve the knowledge about the history of magic in his mind.
After the four founders of Hogwarts founded the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the four people who were originally close had a sharp disagreement on the conditions for recruiting students.
Even if Gryffindor contributes his own hat in the end and can select the students they need according to each founder's own needs, Slytherin, who has extraordinary requirements for bloodlines, is still not satisfied with this result.
Even for this reason, he turned against his best friend Gryffindor, and had conflicts with the two witches Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw, and finally chose to build a secret room in Hogwarts Castle , and hid a basilisk in it. When his heir finds this place, he can release the basilisk to kill those students who study in the castle but cannot meet his own requirements.
After completing these arrangements quietly, he himself left the Hogwarts that he founded together with others, and has since disappeared.
So, then he came here at some point?
Including this labyrinth under the ice, he built it?
And that basilisk was also raised by him before?
Many questions arose in Jon's mind, but his eyes on Slytherin's old face did not shift in any way.
While he was watching Slytherin, Slytherin continued to look at him.
"Are you not a pureblood either?"
"Not my blood, nor pure blood, but can enter here"
He looked at it, and then suddenly let out a sneer.
"According to that idiot Godric, it means that you fully meet the qualities of a student I require, and have been approved by me. You are a proud, cautious and ambitious person?"
Just as he finished speaking, a crisp "bang" sound suddenly sounded in this bedroom.
The weight of the two candlesticks was really heavy, and it was not easy for Gabriel to hold them up. When Jon was talking with Slytherin, she accidentally dropped one of them to the ground.
Both Jon and Slytherin were drawn to the candlestick that shouldn't be here, and combined with what Slytherin had just said, the atmosphere once again fell into a strange silence.
Gabriel obviously knew that her carelessness was too inappropriate. She looked like she was about to cry, and hurriedly dragged and dragged the candlestick that fell to the ground to hide behind Jon.
It seems like this, they stole the candlestick from the master's house, but it didn't happen.
Damn it, I want to make an update on this climax!
Tomorrow there will be at least two chapters with 4,000 words, and another 8,000 words. When will you finish writing and when will you go to bed!
(end of this chapter)