The news brought by Dumbledore temporarily silenced the entire cave.
Merlin’s beard, hundreds of Inferi… what does that mean?
The Inferi, a kind of dead corpse that has been transformed by black magic, has no life, no thoughts, and no soul. It will only obey the orders of its master and is afraid of fire and light…the above is not the point. It only shows that the Inferi is a kind of comparison. It is easy to deal with, a product between dark creatures and black magic items; the focus is on their raw materials – corpses.
The production of a body means someone has been killed.
And hundreds of corpses…
Hopefully Voldemort just dug a cemetery.
Avada sighed silently – this incident also reminded him that the enemy that should be eliminated the most has not been completely eliminated yet.
‘Confess to Dumbledore about the Horcruxes as soon as possible, and borrow the few he has in his hand to study. At the worst, let him play with the Resurrection Stone for a few days. There is no curse on it anyway…’
‘And the most troublesome thing is the fragment in Harry’s body… Even the technology to peel off the soul fragments without harming the carrier is only beginning to take shape at this stage. I don’t know how long it will take to deal with that fragment. ’
‘After the diary was captured, my attitude towards Horcruxes became a little relaxed. I have to put more energy into it…”
“Okay, let’s go to bed as soon as possible, everyone.”
Dumbledore’s mood seemed to be a little lower, but after a while, the smile returned to his face: “But I can also tell you good news, that is, those lakes are more difficult to deal with than the previous one.” The stone wall is much simpler – according to my estimation, you can complete those tasks in three days at most, and since you have exceeded my expectations once… maybe this time will become shorter?”
“After you solve the problem of the lake water, I will first summon people from all walks of life to visit and deal with the inferi. It will take about a week to complete, and then our experiment will officially start – so in During that time, you have to stay at Hogwarts.”
“What happens next, Professor?”
Luofu raised his hand and asked: “After the experiment starts, will we live here directly like we have these days?”
“Haha, that won’t happen.”
Dumbledore seemed amused by this question: “Even the craziest scholars don’t spend time in the laboratory every day without any other life… You probably only need to spare two to three days a week to come here Just be an assistant – of course, Fox and I are still responsible for picking up and dropping off.”
“Only two or three days?”
Everyone couldn’t help but feel a little depressed after hearing the words, but they were also sensible enough not to aim too high – they still had self-awareness.
Although they are already the top students in Hogwarts, even the achievements they may achieve in the future are probably not as good as those top giants. What’s more, they haven’t even graduated yet? It is estimated that more than 90% of the content of the entire experiment was incomprehensible to them. To say that they were assistants was just flattering…
“Well, since the news has been brought, I won’t disturb your rest.”
Dumbledore raised his hand and Fawkes jumped on his shoulders: “If anyone wants to see that lake, there is no problem in going now, just remember not to disturb the Inferi. But I think You probably don’t have the energy to do this anymore…”
“Well, good night in advance, everyone.”
After saying these words, Dumbledore’s figure disappeared in a blaze of fire.
…
In this way, the members of the breakout team slept until noon the next day. When they walked out of the tent in high spirits one by one, Fox had already placed today’s food in the middle of the cave, and he left without knowing when.
“Phew, good morning…well, maybe it’s noon now, everyone.”
Percy scratched his head a little unnaturally – he had never gotten up so late since entering Hogwarts.
“Then if there are no other questions, let’s go in and start the second level?”
“Um.”
Everyone nodded in agreement. Over the past few days, they had become accustomed to Percy giving orders inadvertently, as if it had been engraved in his mind and became a part of his subconscious.
So, after a journey that was extremely narrow at first and then dozens of steps later, they finally came to the huge cave where the Horcrux was placed…
“oh–“
The six people except Avada almost let out a long exclamation at the same time, and Avada had to echo a few times in embarrassment.
“Merlin, I bet Professor Dumbledore has arranged these a long time ago…”
Looking at the neatly decorated and brightly lit cave, which looked like a large workshop, several people couldn’t help but feel a little outrageous – is this the so-called “Voldemort’s biggest secret”?
Obviously there is no atmosphere that a dark wizard should have.
“Don’t be careless.”
The vigilance cultivated by the twins for many years made Percy react first, even though he thought of the difficulties at hand: “Don’t forget that there are hundreds of Inferi hiding in the lake in front of you – take precautions.” Don’t touch the water before taking measures. Although the Inferi on the shore are not difficult to deal with, after all, Professor Dumbledore has ordered you to try not to destroy them…”
“Wait, everyone,”
Avada suddenly started spoiling things again: “Come and take a look, there seems to be a very secret trace of magic here!”
“where?”
“Here…well, indeed!”
“It’s hidden so deep, thank you for being able to find it, Ken!”
“It doesn’t seem difficult to crack. Let me see…Penello, could you please go and light some fire nearby? I’m worried about accidentally disturbing the Inferi…”
“Here…and here…found it!”
One student seemed to grab something invisible in the air with his hands: “Come on, lend a hand and pull up together!”
“So fast?”
“Coming! Hold on!”
Under the joint drag of several people, a thick green copper chain suddenly emerged from the depths of the lake, jumped towards their fists, and then began to slip through their fingers like a snake, coiling on the ground. The pile hit the rock wall with a tinkling sound, making a loud metal collision.
And as the chain automatically dragged, something seemed to be pulled up from the dark bottom of the lake – they watched in amazement as the bow of a small boat suddenly emerged from the lake like a ghost, glowing green like a chain, heading towards the lake. The shore of the lake floated over, leaving barely a ripple.
“This is probably the method of crossing the river that God…Voldemort left for himself?”
Someone knocked on the boat’s eaves with a suspicious look on his face: “Isn’t it a little too crude?”
“No, there are mysteries inside this ship.”
Before Avada started to spoil the story, Percy was the first to keenly notice the anomaly, while several others quickly reacted after being stunned for a moment: “Oh, yes, this magic… this ship It seems like it can only carry a certain amount of mental power?”
