The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

The basilisk was writhing on the ground in pain, and the phoenix transformed by Tom attacked its head again and again, leaving wounds. However, the size difference between the two was too big, just like stabbing someone with a toothpick. Maybe a toothpick can stab someone blind, but no one will be stabbed to death by a toothpick.

The basilisk suffered repeated pains and was blind, and it had lost its mind.

It wandered blindly in the secret room, spreading blood everywhere.

Tom hovered above it and changed its form into a three-headed dog.

"boom!"

The huge three-headed dog fell from the sky and hit the basilisk hard on the head, making a muffled sound. Tom felt that the head under his paw made a popping sound, a bit like breaking a cucumber. .

Usually the basilisk is the natural enemy of animals with many eyes like the three-headed dog, but now the basilisk's eyes are blind. In the eyes of the three-headed dog, it is just a big spicy stick that is more than ten meters tall.

The snake and the dog hit the ground heavily. Tom, adhering to the spirit of taking advantage of his illness to kill him, patched his claws a few more times until the claws were covered with white paste.

The basilisk stopped struggling, and its life force was rapidly passing away.

Standing on the almost smashed head, Tom changed back to his human form, quickly put his hand on the top of the basilisk's head, and then recorded the form of the basilisk. Then, without any hesitation, he turned into a phoenix and flew into the sky, keeping a considerable distance away from the basilisk.

Tom knew the cockroach-like vitality of snakes. Every year several people who are bitten by venomous snakes that decapitate their heads make the news. The alias of the Basilisk is the King of Snakes, so he must be cautious. So Tom stopped on Slytherin's shoulder and watched as the basilisk below stopped making any noise, and finally only the snake's tail was left twitching occasionally.

But Tom didn't go down. He carefully observed the secret room, trying to find if there was a light switch - there should be. After all, the original purpose of the secret room was a classroom. With the current lighting environment, it would be too outrageous to use it as a classroom. .

After turning into a phoenix, Tom's vision became much stronger, and he saw that the snake-shaped sculptures on the pillars seemed to have a layer of black dirt on them. He had a vague idea, and then combined with the style of this secret room, Tom turned into a bird and snake and said: "Turn on the lights!"

When there was no response, Tom changed the word.

"bright!"

This time Salazar Slytherin's sculpture reacted, and a green flame appeared on his index finger. The flame floated down from the index finger and landed on a snake head embossed on a pillar.

Immediately, a flame rose from the snake's open mouth, and the flames quickly climbed up the snake's body. Soon, the snake coiled on the pillar turned into a fire snake - before, the snake scales on the pillar should have been soaked in grease. The serpentine reliefs on each pillar were connected to the ceiling, so the flames spread rapidly. In less than two minutes, all the pillars in the room were ignited with flames, lighting up the entire secret room.

As if feeling the light and warmth, the basilisk on the ground suddenly started to twist again. It raised its upper body unwillingly, looked at the ceiling with its hammered head, and opened its mouth wide. This action was maintained for a few seconds, and then It hit the floor hard, and blood and flesh flew everywhere.

This top magical animal, if it weren't for Tom's calculations and unintentional calculations, would be the dominant figure in the magic world and have almost no natural enemies. But due to poor information, Tom calculated him from the beginning until his death. It would be even easier if Tom did it again.

But the danger involved is hard to estimate. Tom would not have come alone if he had not recorded the complete form of Fox.

The basilisk should be completely dead.

Tom looked around the secret room. The flames were burning brightly, and the grease prepared by Slytherin must be of high quality, because there was no smell of oil smoke at all during the burning process, but instead it gave off a delicate fragrance. And with the appearance of the flames, the temperature in the room is also rising rapidly, and the gloomy and damp feeling has been completely eliminated - Slytherin thinks he is the greatest founder, how could he destroy his secret room? To become the villain's base camp, he must pursue the ultimate luxury and grandeur.

The bright environment in front of us is proof of this. Tom estimated that this lighting would burn at least hundreds of kilograms of essential oil. Smelling the delicious aroma, Tom felt that it was not the smell of oil at all, but the smell of gold galleons.

"The next step is to check if Slytherin has left anything here."

In fact, it was already obvious that all the pillars were burning, except for one that had no flames on it.

Tom landed in front of the pillar and stood for a few seconds. The floor tiles on the ground lit up. The floor tiles slowly rose up, lifting Tom into the air. Now he could see the ceiling clearly.

About fifty meters above the ground, the wall of the secret room is recessed here, forming a passage about two meters wide with the wall below. The edge of the passage is decorated with ornate railings - but after thousands of years, most of the The railings are in decay, and only some of the gold and silver carvings remain intact.

Tom landed gently on the aisle. He walked along the aisle to the left of the Slytherin statue and found a silver door here.

He glanced outside and found that the entire secret room had a panoramic view. He imagined that after the Slytherin finished handling things in the house, he walked out of the house and stood here, overlooking the scenery below the secret room like a god.

"Ant." This was the word that came to his mind. Standing so high above others, it is easy to have the illusion that everyone in the world is just an ant.

Tom turned to look at the silver door. It was smooth and seamless, with no such thing as a door handle.

He did not dare to break in rashly. He remembered that there was a magic in Gringotts that could only allow certain people to enter. Anyone else who did so would be sucked in by the door and would be trapped inside the door and unable to get out.

If Tom was sucked in now, it would be conservatively estimated that it would take several months for someone to release him. Then he would probably have no other way to deal with it except transforming into a basilisk and choosing to hibernate.

Thinking of this, Tom raised his hand and glanced at his ring. The fire dragon on it had disappeared, replaced by a snake.

In doing so, Tom also made serious considerations. Although the ring has six sides, there are only five empty spaces. He is about to transform into five magical creatures and inherit some of his abilities.

He has already recorded the bird snake, phoenix, fire dragon, unicorn and three-headed dog. If the basilisk wants to record it, it must take the place of one of them. Birds and snakes may be used in the next exploration of the secret room. Unicorns have a strong purifying effect on the soul. Tom needs spiritual defense methods. Three-headed dogs have too strong advantages in close combat and cannot be replaced. , so only the phoenix and the fire dragon are left.

The phoenix can achieve nirvana! Even if Tom washes out the others, he won't replace this one - God knows if the Phoenix recorded again has the ability to achieve nirvana. According to the characteristics of the system, there is a high probability that it does not. What is the difference between a phoenix without nirvana and a flying turkey? In other words, it can be used as a wet nurse.

On the other hand, the fire dragon's flying ability is heavier than that of the phoenix, its magic and physical resistance is about the same as that of a three-headed dog, and its fire-breathing ability is useless because Noble was still a child when it was recorded... After thinking about it comprehensively, Tom changed it to the fire dragon. Basilisk.

This is also the problem he encountered: as he grows up, he encounters more and more powerful magical animals, and he always has to learn to make choices.

Just like a game team, the four positions are generally a main C, a nanny or shield, an auxiliary and a tool man. No one will use a four-main C lineup, so coordination issues must be considered.

Tom moved a little further away from the silver door. He circled in the other direction and came to the other side of the Slytherin stone sculpture, and found that there was also a silver door here.

The adventure in the secret room reaches a dead end.

No, there was another spot where Tom looked at the black hole in the stone sculpture's mouth.

Tom has always had a question: What has the basilisk been eating for more than a thousand years?

Although the basilisk, a magical animal, has a long life and can hibernate, it has not cultivated immortality and cannot sit in seclusion for a thousand years. During its thousands of years of slumber, it has to wake up several times and shed its skin, right? What does it eat after waking up?

A giant snake more than ten meters long would not be full even if it eats a mouse! It can't be that Slytherin left rations for the Basilisk for a thousand years.

So Tom planned to enter the statue's mouth to find out.

The mouth of the statue has also been carefully repaired. The ground is paved with neat bluestones, and there is a lot of mucus from the basilisk on the stone slabs. The surrounding walls are inlaid with many fluorescent pebbles, which can provide a weak light source.

Tom walked along the stone road, walked dozens of steps, and came to a slightly wider hall. There were some snake skin relics scattered here and there, but most of them had been broken into pieces.

It can be seen that this is where the basilisk lived before.

The hall has one entrance and two exits. One exit appears to lead above ground, the other to underground.

Tom went into the upward exit.

This time the road is slightly sloped. The tunnel slowly goes upwards, and there is a door inside the tunnel that requires Parseltongue to open. After passing through the door, Tom walked for ten minutes without seeing the end of the tunnel. So he simply turned into a phoenix and flew forward rapidly. After flying for a few minutes, he could faintly see the light of the exit. Finally, he flew out of the tunnel and found himself in a dense forest. Tom got his bearings a little bit and felt like he was in the mountains surrounding Hogwarts.

Tom seems to know what the basilisk's food is.

When it wakes up from hunger, it will climb out of the tunnel and come outside to hunt. When it is full, it will follow the orders left by Slytherin and return to the secret room to wait for the Slytherin heir to wake up - the probability of the basilisk leaving is Another tunnel going down.

As for the downward tunnel, Tom made a bold guess: that tunnel most likely leads to the Black Lake.