From Kamal Taj to Hogwarts

Following the guidance of the tracking spell, Sivan and Newt arrived deep in the forest.

There is a clear lake lying quietly among the surrounding towering trees.

Xiwen frowned, and the inexplicable familiarity in this forest became stronger and stronger.

"There is a hilly area in front of the lake, which is probably where the vipers live." Newt's words interrupted Sivan's thoughts.

He looked up at the hilly location in front of the lake, and the feeling of familiarity faded away.

‘Is it an illusion?’ Xiwen wondered secretly.

After arriving at this place, Aurelius' expression became more and more nervous. He kept taking deep breaths along the way, trying to calm down his nervous mood.

"Don't worry, Nagini will be fine." Aberforth patted his shoulder and comforted him.

Under the leadership of Newt, everyone climbed up a hill in front of them. There was a huge hole on the side of the hill. Through the dim light shining into the hole, you could occasionally see many dark brown chain-shaped oval markings inside.

The viper crawled through the cave, and the "rustling" sound of its body rubbing against the ground made people shudder.

"Be careful, vipers are highly venomous, don't get bitten." Newt turned his head and cautiously warned everyone present.

"Let me go in and explore the way first." After hearing Newt's warning, Sivan took the lead and floated to the front of the team and said. "At least I won't be bitten by a snake."

Newt thought for a moment, then nodded slowly.

"Okay, then we will wait for you at the entrance of the cave." He said.

So Xiwen relied on the advantage of his soul body to float into the cave entrance first.

At this time, Aurelius finally couldn't restrain his nervousness, and a layer of black mist suddenly wrapped around his body, driving him to float to Xiwen's side.

"I won't be hurt by poisonous snakes, we can be together." Aurelius said.

"Okay." Xiwen nodded.

After the two of them drifted into the cave together, they discovered that there was insufficient light in the cave and it was difficult to see.

Xiven silently stretched out his hand, and a weakened version of the Light of Nirvalon lit up in his palm.

Then, a bright white light illuminated the entire cave in an instant.

After illuminating the dim cave, Xiwen looked down at the ground and suddenly discovered hundreds of vipers of different sizes! They were densely intertwined, and their forked tongues made "hissing" friction sounds from time to time.

It makes people shudder.

When Xiwen saw this scene, he shuddered hard and felt bad...

As for Aurelius, although his face was a little pale, his obsession with finding Nagini prevailed after all.

As a result, the black smoke of Obscurus carried Aurelius back and forth in the crowded cave, looking for a viper similar in shape to Nagini's Meredigos.

Because snakes have no phototaxis, they cannot even feel light, and naturally have no reaction to the light in the cave.

In addition, although their eyes can clearly see the heat radiation, Aurelius in the obscurus state and Xivin in the soul body state do not have any temperature on their bodies. Therefore, when Aurelius was looking around, the snakes did not

Make some kind of attack action.

Of course, even if they were attacked, they would not be harmed.

"Can you recognize Nagini's viper form?" Sivan floated to Aurelius and asked curiously.

Aurelius nodded, then shook his head in confusion.

"I don't know." He said softly. "I've searched here many times, but I haven't found her here at all."

"I don't know if her shape has changed in the past ten years, or if I can't remember her appearance at all..."

"If you think about it, maybe Nagini's blood curse didn't break out completely?" Xiwen comforted. "If the blood curse didn't break out, maybe she wasn't here at all?"

"I know, I know." Aurelius shook his head and sighed. "It's just that the gap is too big. I really thought I was going to find her this time."

The two returned in vain, leaving the cave filled with vipers and returning to the entrance of the cave, where Newt and the others were still waiting.

"How's it going? Have you found Nagini?" As soon as the two of them floated out, Aberforth stepped forward and asked eagerly.

Aurelius gathered the black mist of Obscurus back into his body and gently fell to the ground.

Then, he shook his head at Aberforth in silence.

Aberforth opened his mouth, and the blessing he wanted to blurt out turned into a deep consolation.

"It's okay. What can you do without setbacks?" he said to everyone. "This is just your first search. Don't be discouraged. Cheer up!"

Aurelius forced a smile, but the disappointment in his eyes was already clear.

When everyone gradually lost hope, Newt looked at the darkened cave again and said softly: "It would be great if we could communicate with these snakes. Maybe they would know something."

Dumbledore was originally comforting Aurelius. But after hearing Newt's words, he suddenly froze in place.

"Wait, Newt. What did you just say?" Dumbledore looked at Newt seriously and asked him.

"Um...what might these snakes know?" Newt looked at the serious Dumbledore and said at a loss.

"No, it's not that sentence." Dumbledore frowned, as if some clue was about to emerge, but he still couldn't remember it. "What was the other sentence you just said?"

"Another sentence..." Newt thought for a moment, then said. "It would be great if I could communicate with these snakes."

"That's right, that's it!" Dumbledore's brows suddenly widened and he laughed. "How could I forget about him?"

As his relieved words fell, his expression became much more relaxed.

"Albus, what nonsense are you talking about?" Aberforth looked at Dumbledore dissatisfied, accusing him of still being out of shape at this time.

Not only Aberforth was puzzled, but Sivan and others present also didn't understand who the "he" Dumbledore mentioned was.

But Dumbledore did not immediately answer everyone's doubts.

He just chuckled, turned to look at Xiven and said, "Mr. Strange, can you open a portal to Hogwarts and help me find Xiven?"

'What's the use of looking for me...?' Hearing Dumbledore's words, Xiwen was even more puzzled. He didn't know what role he could play by looking for him.

But out of trust in Dumbledore, Sivan still opened the door to the dimension and sent the young wizard Sivan to the Albanian forest.

"Professor, do you have anything to do with me?" The little wizard Xiwen pretended not to know what happened just now and asked with a confused look on his face.

"Sivan, how is your relationship with Tom now?" Dumbledore suddenly asked.

"Ah? Riddle?" Xiwen was stunned and said blankly. "It should be... not bad."

Sivan couldn't understand what Dumbledore was thinking at all, and how his mind could jump to such an extent... And weren't they talking about Nagini? Why were they talking about Riddle?

"As long as we have a good relationship," Dumbledore said inscrutably. "Newt's words reminded me of something. Maybe we can really communicate with those snakes!"

"When I went to the orphanage to pick up Tom, he told me that he could speak like a snake!"

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