Huang Ting

The edge of the secret door disguised as a wall flashed with arcs of spiritual light like a short circuit in a wire. There were faint runes on the wall, but they quickly dimmed.

The door that originally led to the third floor was forced to open a one-foot-wide crack through Hu Xiuwu's powerful physical opening method.

As soon as the door opened, Moody quickly got in with a dexterity that was not suited to his stature. It can only be said that the retired Auror's sword is still young.

Hermione snuck in after him like a kitten.

After Hu Xiuwu noticed the two gusts of breeze blowing, he let go and floated inside. After he let go, the stone door closed quietly, as if nothing happened.

However, if you look closely, you will find that the stone door seems to be intact, but in fact, the runes on the door have been covered with fine cracks, such as the aging paint surface has cracked, and the internal mechanisms have also been damaged, and now it is just an empty frame.

The three of them have entered the stairs leading to the third floor. Unlike the stairs between the first and second floors, the second and third floors are connected by a spiral staircase, but they are not as narrow as the stairs in ordinary castles. Hu Xiuwu and the three of them can easily walk side by side.

Standing on the first flight of stairs.

A pair of lamps with tassels hung on the walls on both sides five steps away. The stairs were brightly lit and not dim at all.

Under the illumination of bright lights, Moody's figure suddenly emerged from the air, and the Disillusionment Charm on Hermione also lost its effectiveness.

Professor Moody and Hu Xiuwu suddenly reappeared in front of her. Not only did Hermione not feel relieved, but she became even more nervous.

The disappearance of the Illusion Curse on the three people only proves that there is an unknown mechanism here, which is not a good thing.

Moody looked at the oil lamp hanging on the wall next to him: "It seems that there is not only a looking glass hanging on it, but the oil lamp itself is a magic weapon that can break concealment."

"Looking glass?"

Hu Xiuwu didn't know much about the West or magical weapons. The matter of Zhang Lingyu and the Deathly Hallows occupied most of his time these days.

Fortunately, he had Miss Gryffindor's top student beside him, and Hermione simply explained to him the function of the looking glass:

"The looking glass is a kind of black magic detector. When there is a suspicious person around it, it will light up and rotate."

Moody added: "But it is also easy to deal with. A powerful confusion spell can render it useless."

It was through the magic eye that he discovered the looking glass hanging on the oil lamp, which made Moody rush in so anxiously. He wanted to deal with the looking glass first.

I just didn't expect that this oil lamp, which was exactly the same as the other oil lamps hanging in the stairs, turned out to be a magic weapon.

Hu Xiuwu said: "The Illusion Body Curse has been broken, Professor, do we still want to go in?"

"Keep walking, no one will find us again," Moody looked at the runes behind the secret door, with some speculation in his mind, "Originally, I thought there would be a trap behind this door, and I was already prepared and wanted to help you.

Block it."

"But after you forced the door open, there was no movement. We just walked in calmly."

Hu Xiuwu followed Moody's line of sight and looked over. The runes behind the door were dim but intact, and he thought thoughtfully:

"It was Karkaroff who turned off the trap behind the door. That's right. Behemoth lives with them. Those people are not wizards. If they accidentally hit the trap and died on the ship, Karkaroff

But I can’t argue with you.”

"Not only that," Moody bent down, stretched out his fingers and touched the corner between the wall and the stairs, and there was a little dust on his fingers.

"The hygiene here is not as clean as downstairs. If the house elves cleaned it every day, this situation would not happen. Obviously, either the house elves on the third floor are not allowed to come up at all, or they are cleaned regularly."

Hermione glanced around and discovered the small details on the third floor: "Indeed, there are not even portraits in the corridor."

This is unthinkable at Hogwarts,

In Hogwarts, portraits are the eyes of the principal, and they can help Dumbledore take care of every inch of Hogwarts.

Every time someone wants to cause trouble, they must first find a way to avoid the ubiquitous portraits.

Even Sirius Black once failed in front of the portrait in the Gryffindor common room.

Moody said solemnly: "Karkaroff removed the portrait and banned the house elves from coming up. There must be a secret that he tried hard to hide."

Is it Karkaroff's secret or Behemoth's secret?

Due to Karkaroff's status as a former Death Eater and the warning in the auditorium, Moody was deeply prejudiced against him, but Hu Xiuwu looked at it with the mentality of a bystander.

It may also be Behemoth who wants to hide the secret. After all, this is Durmstrang's territory in the end, and both portraits and house elves must take orders from Ingor Karkaroff.

Logically speaking, there was no need for him to go to such great lengths to hide a secret.

On the contrary, only Behemoth, as a guest, would find these portraits and house elves an eyesore, and would ask Karkaroff to remove the portraits because his secrets and whereabouts might be discovered.

But Moody's and Hu Xiuwu's ideas are just speculation. Moreover, it is possible that both parties have secrets that they want to hide. Seeing is believing.

The third floor of the cabin is much smaller than the second floor. In addition to a common rest area, there are five rooms. The end of the stairs is not the third floor. It still spirals upward. Moody's analysis should be the bridge above.

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Moody randomly found the nearest room and tried to open the door:

"Open the Alajo Cave!"

The wand shot out a gleam of light, but a barrier was raised from the lock core of the door, which bounced the gleam away without opening the door.

Although it failed, Moody still expected that the protective spells in these rooms were on the same level as the protective spells on the secret door just now.

Moody gave way and Hu Xiuwu stepped forward skillfully.

Then, with great force, a miracle happens.

An ordinary, powerful and heavy kick hit the lock cylinder easily, easily separating the lock cylinder from the wall and causing him to fall to the ground, causing a weak wave of wind.

There is no ordinary furniture in the room, only various but neatly arranged, various instruments that seem to be similar to electronic products in the secular world.

It doesn't look like a cabin on a ship or a guest room in a castle, but more like a top laboratory in a university.

"What are these things?"

The well-informed Moody didn't even recognize the things in this room. He had never seen those strange crystal plates, lenses, and square iron boxes in the room.

But Hu Xiuwu and Hermione, who had grown up in a normal society, made a rough guess. Hermione frowned and said uncertainly: "These should be electronic devices from the Muggle world."

Moody said: "I remember that things made by Muggles cannot be used in Hogwarts?"

Could it be that he has been away from school for too long and Dumbledore updated the Hogwarts barrier? He also wants to have a WLAN signal?

Hermione explained: "It seems that Behemoth's things are half-alchemical and half-electronic products, so they are not affected by the Hogwarts enchantment. Behemoth also gave Lingyu and the Celestial Master a universal translator.

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Hu Xiuwu nodded in agreement, proving that it was indeed true.

Moody used his short stick to strike at the instruments on the tripod that were still working with the lights on: "What are these things for?"

Hermione shook her head in confusion. She entered Hogwarts when she was eleven years old. To be honest, she only had an elementary school education. She had stayed in Hogwarts all year round and could still recognize a simple computer and mobile phone.

But she had never seen the rest of the professional equipment.

Bypassing the instruments that she didn't understand well, Hermione saw the opened golden eggs placed in a transparent container.

Although the shell of the golden egg cracked like petals, it did not make the same harsh sound as the golden egg in Harry's hand. Hermione guessed the secret of the golden egg and thought happily:

It turns out that the secret of the golden egg can only be revealed when it is placed in water! Great, tell Harry when you go back, and you will know the content of the second challenge of the Goblet of Fire.

Hu Xiuwu also saw the golden egg, and he also understood how to obtain the secret of the golden egg, but his mind was not entirely on this. Hermione did not recognize the instruments in the room, but it did not mean that Hu Xiuwu did not recognize them.

Although Hu Xiuwu had never seen some of the instruments, he could make a rough guess from the units and data displayed on the instrument screen.

Gyrotheodolite, magnetometer, scanner, ultrasonic sensor...

A complete set of surveying and mapping instruments!