The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

Seeing that the only possible witness had left, Tom changed into the form of a bird and snake and wandered around the sink. Finally, on the side of a copper faucet, Tom saw a delicate little snake.

"Open!" Tom said naturally, but what came out of his mouth was no longer a human voice, but a hissing sound unique to a snake.

"Hesha-Hassah!"

Suddenly, there was a sound of a mechanism starting up behind the sink, and the table with the mirror behind the sink gradually floated up, revealing a dark hole. Immediately afterwards, the sinks spread out in all directions. They watched as the pool slowly disappeared from sight, revealing a bottomless water pipe that was thick enough for a person to get in.

Tom took the cocks and slid them through the pipe.

The water pipe twisted and twisted, all the way down at a very steep slope, and slid down for a while. Tom judged that he was already very deep in the school, deeper than the underground classroom and the rooms where the magic stone was hidden.

No one knows what lies beneath Hogwarts. Generations of outstanding wizards for thousands of years have left countless secrets here.

Soon, the angle of the water pipe became horizontal, and Tom slipped out of the pipe and landed on the ground.

Outside the tube was a very spacious tunnel. Tom pulled the cart and took two steps. There was a creaking sound under his feet: the ground was full of bones of small animals. However, these small rodents are most likely not the basilisk's rations over the years.

The basilisk can grow up to fifty feet long. As a behemoth that is more than ten meters long, even if something like a mouse is eaten, it will be digested together with the bones. There is no possibility of leaving any bones. Snakes have extremely strong digestive abilities and can often digest their prey from scales to bones within a few days. The only things that may be left are hairs and feathers.

However, it is not strange to find the carcasses of small animals in the sewer.

"Lumos!"

Tom took in his surroundings. Judging from the traces left behind, this tunnel was also carefully built in the past, but it has been in disrepair for a long time. Coupled with the fact that it is underground and extremely humid, it has become very dilapidated.

Tom passed through several circular arches, and after turning a corner, a huge thing appeared in Tom's eyes.

It was a snake slough, coiled on the ground. It was shriveled and decayed. It looked like it had been shed for several years.

Looking at this snakeskin full of bug eyes, Tom felt a little queasy.

The snake's skin was green, and even though it had dried up, the bright color of the year could still be seen. Based on the length of the snake's skin, Tom roughly estimated the length of the basilisk. This basilisk was at least thirty feet long, and he didn't know it was that big. The snake has grown up on whatever it has eaten over the years.

Tom walked around the snake skin and continued to move forward, turning one corner after another. Finally, Tom saw a wall at the end of the tunnel. On the wall were carved two intertwined snakes with four eyes. Huge emerald.

It can be seen that Slytherin was very careful when building the Chamber of Secrets and invested a lot of resources.

Tom opened the door in Parseltongue.

The entangled snake separated, and at the same time the wall behind the snake separated, and a huge room appeared in front of Tom's eyes.

There are many snake statues in the house, arranged in two rows on both sides of the house. The light in the room is extremely dim, and the only light source is the eyes of the snake-shaped statues in the room, which are glowing with green fluorescence. The ceiling was so high that when Tom looked up, he couldn't even see the roof.

The room was filled with a green and mysterious mist, and various statues and stone pillars cast strange shadows into the room.

"Lumos!"

A ray of light shot out from the tip of Tom's wand, dispersing the darkness a few steps in front of him, making the atmosphere less gloomy.

Tom used the light of the wand to walk little by little to the end of the room, where there stood a statue as high as the room. The statue was integrated with the wall behind it, or the statue itself was carved out of the wall behind it.

The statue has an old, monkey-like face with a long sparse beard that almost reaches the hem of the statue's robes - this is the appearance of Salazar Slytherin.

The founder of Hogwarts is ugly in appearance. Tom felt that becoming like this was probably due to the misuse of black magic. Black magic can distort people's hearts and souls, eventually causing the face to become distorted and disfigured.

Tom looked back at the secret room. It was quite grand and magnificent. Although the lighting was poor now, Tom believed that there must be some mechanism inside that could make the place brighter.

The original purpose of building the Chamber of Secrets was to have a place where students could learn magic that the other three founders did not agree with. Slytherin and the other three founders actually had differences for a long time. The other three giants were unwilling to teach dark magic to their students, but Slytherin was very enthusiastic about it.

This is the original function of the secret room: a place to turn on a small stove.

But this was a big project, and it had to be hidden from other partners, so it took a long time. It was so long that Slytherin's own mentality also changed. After the construction of the Chamber of Secrets was completed, he had more ambitions, and he and the other three The differences are even greater.

This statue is a reflection of his mentality: none of the other founders had huge statues of themselves in schools. As for this statue, everyone who wants to see his face must look up, otherwise they can only see the insteps of his feet.

Tom came to the statue, turned into a bird snake, then looked up at the face of the Slytherin stone sculpture hidden in the darkness, opened his mouth, and made a hissing sound.

"Speak to me, Slytherin - the greatest of the Hogwarts Four."

Tom decided to summon the basilisk here and kill it. Riddle wants to open the secret room, right? I'll just leave a secret room without a basilisk for you to open.

Moreover, Tom also plans to find an opportunity to look for any unique spells in the library, the kind that will be triggered as soon as someone steps into the room. If such a spell is placed in the secret room, he can wait and see: Riddle will be obedient. Get yourself delivered to your door.

Slytherin's stone face moved, and its mouth slowly opened, forming a black hole.

Tom took the opportunity to release the roosters from the cage.

At this time, a rustling sound came from the stone sculpture's mouth, and Tom changed his form into a phoenix. Tom remembered clearly that seeing the basilisk's eyes would bring death.

But this kind of seeing must be done directly. If it is looked at indirectly, it will only be petrified. Wearing glasses doesn't solve the problem - Myrtle died wearing glasses, but the lenses didn't keep her alive. The key to surviving is to see it through another medium: water, mirror, camera lens... The lethality of the basilisk's gaze transmitted through the medium will drop one level, from instant death to permanent petrification.

Of course, if you are a ghost, the basilisk's gaze will only turn you to stone. After all, the basilisk cannot kill a dead creature.

But magical creatures like the phoenix are immune to the basilisk's deadly gaze.

So Tom decided to use Fawkes's form to fight Slytherin's basilisk first.

A dark green giant snake emerged from the statue's mouth, and Tom saw its yellow eyes like small lanterns. The moment it came out of the statue, Tom loosened the restraints on the roosters, but an accident happened. The roosters were attracted by the sound coming from the statue, and they were all looking in that direction. As a result, the basilisk came out. , before they had time to make a sound, they died because they looked directly at the basilisk.

"Should have blindfolded the rooster!" There was a loophole in Tom's plan. This was an accident, but fortunately he had a backup plan: Phoenix form.

He quickly flew towards the basilisk. He saw that the basilisk was all green and it looked like a highly venomous snake. Its body was as thick as an oak tree trunk and more than ten meters long. It had completely crawled out of the statue. Come out and coil your body in a circle on the ground

Seeing Tom flying towards it, the basilisk raised its upper body, its huge head swinging rapidly as Tom flew. The size difference between Tom and the basilisk is like the difference between a man and a crow - but the basilisk does not have the flexible hands of a human. Faced with Tom's attack, it can only show its dagger-like fangs in protest, and at the same time make terrifying noises. Hissing, trying to intimidate the phoenix into retreating.

But in Tom's eyes, this is completely lustful. Although the basilisk is a kind of snake, it does not have the amazing reflexes of its kind. On the contrary, its reaction speed is considered slow among snakes. From the perspective of Tom transforming into a phoenix, every movement of the basilisk is like slow motion.

"Bang!" The basilisk's upper and lower fangs collided fiercely. The force was such that even the heavy armor of European medieval knights would be penetrated, but the fierce bite only bit the air.

Tom dodged the basilisk's attack. At this time, the basilisk's upper body had already stretched out, but it involuntarily stiffened after the attack. Tom saw the right opportunity and swooped down. Tom's long golden beak stabbed the snake. Strange eyes. Although the basilisk instinctively closed its eyes, the phoenix's beak still penetrated its eyelid, blinding one of the basilisk's eyes.

A stream of black blood shot out and splashed on the ground. For a moment, it felt like rain in the secret room.

The basilisk went crazy, its tail swung wildly and hit the ground hard, leaving cracks on the marble slab. At the same time, its head swung more rapidly, but it only brought more flaws. So ten seconds later, its second eye was also pecked out.

The black blood of the basilisk sprayed onto the ground, exuding a fishy smell. The previously bright yellow eyes had disappeared, leaving only two dark blood holes.