The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

Chapter 164 Slate and Cat Statue

Fly over...

These three words fell into everyone's ears and exploded like cannonballs.

Yes, the width of the sand is only three kilometers with the stone slab in the middle, which is 1,500 meters. If you can fly, this distance is nothing. But people can't fly.

But wizards do.

Tom turned into a phoenix in the eyes of everyone and raised his tail. Hermione walked over and motioned for the others to grab Tom's tail feathers as well.

"What the hell?" Allen couldn't hold it back and exclaimed. Just now, Tom transformed from a human into a big golden-red bird in front of his eyes. This was really magical!

"Is this a phoenix?" Dr. Hunter looked shocked. He didn't expect to see this legendary creature with his own eyes in his lifetime. Suddenly I realized that since Tom could turn into a phoenix, could he also turn into that giant dog? It turns out that the giant dog that saved him in the sandstorm was Tom himself?

"Stop making such a fuss, Tom can change into many things." Hermione shook her head, tied her hair back, and put one hand on Tom's tail feathers. The others followed suit and put their hands on Tom's. on the tail.

But after three people were hung on the tail, Tom shook off the remaining people who wanted to "get on the bus". He glared at them: Do you think I am a transport plane? How can I hold on when everyone is hanging up? Even a phoenix has its limits!

Tom left Alyosha, Sarah, and Yusha where they were, and took the remaining three people to fly directly into the sky. After two back and forths, Tom brought everyone to the stone slab in the middle of the sand.

Sure enough, just as they had guessed at the beginning, there was only a shallow layer of sand around the stone slab, and underneath the sand was solid ground. This layer of sand is less than a foot thick, more like dust that has accumulated over time.

Tom changed back to his original shape after putting down the man on his tail.

Dozens of floor tiles protruding from the ground were painted on the slate. Tom counted, there were seven horizontal rows and seven vertical columns, a total of 49. Each floor tile was a one-meter square with a cat carved on it. There was a groove in the middle of the stone slab, as if something was missing. thing.

"This cat..." Hermione exclaimed as soon as she saw the graphic: she had seen this cat before, and it was exactly the cat drawn on the four clues they found!

Everyone looked at the grid on the ground, thoughtfully. Tom stretched out his foot and stepped lightly on the lattice in front of him. With a harsh friction sound, the floor tile sank in.

"Dr. Hunter, let's take out the four clues we collected." Looking at the cat image in the grid that was exactly the same as the clues, and combined with the fact that the grid would sink, Tom had a guess.

The doctor understood the idea, drew a 7×7 block sketch on the ground, and copied the contents of the clue onto it.

There are four pieces of clues, each piece has twelve grids, and when combined, they form a forty-nine grid with one grid missing. The splicing method is naturally based on the direction of the eyes of the cat image on the clues: clues with eyes facing lower left are placed on the lower left, and clues with eyes facing upper right are placed on the upper right.

After assembling the clues, Dr. Hunter compared them and found that the position of the groove on the stone slab exactly corresponded to the missing grid on the clues he had put together.

"That's it!" He was overjoyed. It turned out that these four clues were used here! But he fell into thinking again: In these grids, should the grid corresponding to the white cat on the black background be stepped on, or should the location corresponding to the black cat on the white background be stepped on?

He looked at the floor tile that Tom stepped on, and saw that the floor tile was shorter than the surrounding bricks and was shrouded in shadows, making it appear darker. In addition, it happened to be a grid corresponding to a white cat on a black background, so Heng Dr. Te boldly speculated: All black-bottomed grids on the clues must be stepped on.

Now that you have an idea, put it into action.

He and Tom followed the records on the clues and stepped on them one by one. When they stood in front of the extra square, the last black square in the clue had also been stepped on. But the stone slab didn't change at all.

"Did I guess wrong?" Dr. Hunter was shocked. He was already thinking about how to restore the stone slab.

"I can't draw a conclusion yet," Tom looked at the groove on the ground. "I think there should be something here, such as a statue or something." Dr. Hunter lowered his head and took a look. The appearance of the floor tile was indeed a bit weird. Others There was an image of a cat all over the floor tiles, and here it was a groove that was just screaming at them to put something in the groove.

"What could it be..." Dr. Hunter was immediately worried. He thought it might be the three-dimensional statue of the cat on the floor tiles. He looked at the shape of the groove - it did look like a cat squatting on the ground, but Where could he find such a statue?

He is also trying his luck in the ancient city. Dr. Hunter thought this way. He has decided that if he can find the cat statue, he will continue this adventure. If he can't find it, he can only collect camels and leave the Sahara Desert.

When Tom saw the groove, he screamed inwardly: Damn it? ! He only has one thought now: No way? Isn't this groove the place where the statue is placed? !

He immediately signaled Hermione to open his backpack and rummaged through it to find the ancestral cat statue that the Nubian uncle had "lent" to him. This statue cost Hermione a full one hundred thousand Egyptian pounds!

When the statue was taken out, everyone's eyes were opened: this statue looked exactly like the cat carved on the brick!

When Hermione was about to send the statue to Tom, Alyosha stopped her.

"Is it really okay to put this statue in hastily? How are you sure that there are good things like treasures under this stone slab? I think it may be an ancient curse or some sealed monster." Alyosha scratched He scratched his cheek and said, "The greedy adventurer released an ancient curse... That's how it's done in the movies, isn't it?"

Hermione thought for a while, "The information that Uncle Hunter found before said that the clue is the key to entering the city. I think that after the pattern on the stone slab is deciphered, we can find the legendary ancient city. As for what is in the ancient city , I don’t dare to vouch for it…but I guess the stone slab will not bring any danger.”

Tom nodded, but his idea was much simpler: he intuitively thought it would be okay. What's more, he got this statue from the Nubian night market, and it matches the ancient poem.

Alyosha thought for a moment and got out of the way.

Hermione handed the cat statue to Tom, who placed it into the groove. After thousands of years, the statue and the groove can still fit together perfectly, without any trace of splicing, as if such a statue was originally carved on the floor tiles.

After the statue was put in, the stone slab reacted.