harry potter book of crimes

"Buli's Frost Cave" - ​​This is a huge and deep ice and snow cave in the center of Vatnajökull in Iceland. According to some documents, many years ago, this was one of the few inhabited by frost giants in the world.

The place.

The name "Buli" is said to belong to the leader of the Frost Giant tribe who led his people to move here.

Of course, the so-called "Frost Giants" are actually not much different from other giants. It's just because they live in different areas that they have an extra word in their title.

However, only a few people know that there was actually a group of wizards and giants living here in peace and harmony.

At this moment, Xiao Ens is holding a blazing torch and walking slowly in this surprisingly spacious snow cave. Except for the place where the fire light reaches, there is only endless darkness in his field of vision. If not

He also knew that if he should go along the rock wall on the side of the cave, he might not even be able to figure out the direction now.

"It turns out... if the cave is too dark and too big, it will be no different from walking in the wilderness!" Enns couldn't help but sigh while suppressing the uneasiness in his heart, "If you can see the stars and the moon, then...

More like..."

As he thought, he walked forward cautiously. He could hear the sound of wind coming from unknown directions, whimpering like a wounded beast, which made people feel even more chilled.

Because there was almost no reference, no matter "how long" or "how far" we walked, the concepts of time and distance gradually became more and more blurred in Enns's mind. And then they became blurred together.

, and the fear in his heart.

An unchanging environment always creates a sense of paralysis in people, and sometimes even makes people forget to be afraid.

"At least, nothing has happened so far." In the darkness, Xiao Ens held a torch and muttered to himself softly, his voice echoing far away from him in the snow cave.

go.

I don't know how much time passed, but when Enns felt that his steps were getting heavier and heavier, so heavy that he could hardly move, he suddenly stopped moving forward.

"What...is there in front?"

The range that the torch can illuminate is quite limited. Since he can already detect the obstacle in front of him, it means that he is very close to that obstacle.

Sure enough, when he took a few steps forward, a rock wall with a hint of blue suddenly appeared directly in front of him. Look at the nearly vertical rock wall, with smooth masonry blocks.

The traces are obvious, this is undoubtedly a high rock wall with traces of artificial accumulation...

No, this may be an extremely huge building!

After Xiao Ens moved laterally along the wall for a certain distance, he suddenly saw an astonishingly thick rock pillar. The surface of the nearly ice-blue rock pillar was only decorated with simple and rough vertical stripes. Although even

No matter how high he raised the torch, he could only see this part underneath, but the size of this part alone was enough to make people think.

"What is this place? Is it a house? Is this really where my mother's ancestors lived?"

Enns continued to walk along the wall in confusion, passing by similar rock pillars one after another, and the undulating frozen soil under his feet turned into a flat stone floor... Finally, unknowingly,

, unexpected changes also appeared on the wall.

On the vertical wall made of large rock bricks, I don’t know when some scratches began to appear. Each stroke is as messy and clumsy as a child’s painting. It may be some kind of mural, but because the format is very

It's so big that just peeking at a corner of it has no meaning at all.

But after Xiao Ens walked for a while, he finally discovered something was wrong.

"Is the wall... tilted?"

In fact, with no reference objects before and after, it was impossible for him to detect the change in the angle of the wall in the middle. But now there were increasingly larger scratches at the root of the wall, which clearly gave him a message——

The wall had been moved inward at an angle!

And when he walked a certain distance further, when a vertical gap two people wide suddenly appeared in front of him, he realized that this section of "wall" might simply be a terrifyingly large stone door.

In fact, there has been no shortage of explorers in this world since ancient times. Naturally, people have visited places like this for a long time. And when the magical world gradually became peaceful with the development of history, there were official

The highly effective expedition team has never stopped exploring and discovering many ancient mysterious areas.

Of course, the ancient ruins of the Frost Giant tribe have been explored many times by groups of wizards from various countries.

However, the so-called magic means that there are opportunities hidden in the wonders. From ancient times to the present, many legendary stories have proved this point.

Just as Enns probed for the torch and gently stepped one of his feet into the darkness behind the gap, two icy blue flames in mid-air were suddenly awakened by some force.

Immediately afterwards, it took about two or three seconds! More blue flames lit up one after another, arranging left and right in the sky, extending deeper and deeper.

In the blink of an eye, the space behind the crack suddenly became bright.

It was only then that Xiao Ens discovered that this was actually a huge palace that only appeared in some fairy tale books. In this palace, stone bricks larger than his own were laid out according to specific rules.

On the solid ground, the large number of vertical rock pillars that we had seen before stood neatly on both sides, and the blue flames that suddenly lit up before were actually large fire basins hanging on those rock pillars.

And in the deepest part of the palace, three thrones, one large and two small, built like knives and axes, stood quietly, exuding a barbaric and cold ancient atmosphere.

No, if you look carefully, you can find that there are not only three thrones in that row!

On both sides of the largest stone seat in the center, there are two stone chairs with high backrests, one on the left and one on the right. Just because they are as big as the other three stone seats that are as big as houses.

The disparity was so great that Ens didn't even notice it when he first looked at it.

As he continued to walk deeper into the hall, the five thrones with huge differences in size were getting closer and closer to him. Only then was he able to confirm that the two smaller stone chairs should be the size for human beings to sit on.

"What the hell is this place?"

After walking in this inexplicably spacious palace for a long time, he couldn't help but mutter. Perhaps it was because the contrast between the vast spaces made him unintentionally awe-inspiring, so his muttering was unexpected.

He had to keep his voice low, as if he was worried that his voice would attract something terrible.

To be honest, such a tall and huge seat has long been beyond the scope of Ens's cognition. Even the giant that he saw in an old picture album at home when he was a child is probably not comparable to the throne in front of him.

Not to mention the creatures that can sit on it.

After all, are there really big people in the world who can use these chairs?

After a long time, when the shock and awe in Enns's heart slowly receded, his innate curiosity took over again. He subconsciously guessed whether the two smaller stone chairs were related to

At the same time as his mother's ancestors were related, he once again took a stagnant step, dragging his rather tired little body and walked towards the one on the left.

If I have to say it, it is actually because there is really nothing to see in this rough rock palace.

Although the huge difference in size can give people a shock at first, after looking at it for a long time, you will find that this palace has neither exquisite decoration nor many specific traces left behind. In addition to its grandeur and monotony, it is basically

There are no other words to describe it.

What is worth seeing is actually the two small stone pedestals with relatively fine carvings.

If you get closer, you can see that the stone chair on the left is engraved with a large number of strange symbols. From the stone seat under the chair to the front and back of the backrest of the chair, the surface is densely covered with symbols.

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Naturally, Ens couldn't understand the boring symbols alone. He soon lost interest in this stone chair. But he didn't know that this stone chair once had quite a lot of academic significance in the magical world.

Discussion, because all of them are different ancient runes.

After the ancient magicians at that time conducted a detailed chronological discussion, they also jointly published a paper on the origin of ancient runes. Of course, that paper was eventually dismissed due to insufficient evidence.

Land forgotten.

Xiao Ens ignored the stone seat that would easily lead to trypophobia after seeing it too much. After bypassing the giant throne in the middle, he came to the side of another stone chair.

Compared with the stone seat just now, this one will obviously attract children's attention more easily.

The base of this stone chair is clearly two wolves of different shapes. They are leaning on each other and crawling under the stone chair. One is lying with its head on the ground, the other is raising its head to the sky and howling, and carrying a wolf on its back.

The stone base on it.

On the armrests on both sides of the stone seat, there are carvings of winged Pegasus, majestic palaces, and various lightning bolts with distinct branches.

As for the towering chair back with the largest surface area, it is surprisingly simple, with only two birds flapping their wings.

Xiao Ens looked around at these reliefs with many delicate and vivid patterns, looking at them very carefully. While looking at them, he wondered whether these strange and fascinating creatures really existed in the world.

Until he walked around the stone seat and came to the back, he discovered that there was a strange eye engraved on the back of the chair, which looked somewhat frightening.

However, just when he wanted to go back to the front of the stone base, his eye suddenly flashed.