The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

People's pursuit of gold is instinctive and subconscious, just like the pursuit of water, air, grease, salty taste, and sweet taste.

In the face of such a huge amount of wealth, it is difficult for someone to control their desires. For example, Sara, she jumped directly into the gold mountain, tumbling around in it while picking up handfuls of gold and throwing it into the sky, and then He emptied everything out of his backpack and stuffed all kinds of rare treasures into it.

Soon, her backpack was full, but more precious and rare treasures kept emerging. Sara took the more ordinary ones out of the bag, and then put the new jewelry she liked into it. She was like a child looking for the biggest ears of wheat in the field, picking through various jewelry. Whenever she thought it was over, something more precious would appear in front of her eyes, a black gem the size of a fingernail was hidden behind. It was replaced by a black gem the size of a pigeon egg. When I wanted to leave, I found another one the size of an egg...

This kind of thing happens again and again.

But Tom didn't dare to act rashly like her and jump in and go crazy. He grabbed Hermione to prevent her from joining the carnival. He was afraid that there was some strange poison on these gold and silver jewelry. Of course, after five thousand years of volatilization, most biological poisons are probably decomposed into nothing, but the mysterious side of the curse is hard to say.

Dr. Hunter and the old man from Yushad also remained calm and stood there silently watching Sara's zero-dollar purchase. After a while, Sara came back to her senses and felt something was wrong in the atmosphere.

"You...you can take it too...you're welcome." She said coquettishly.

"More than half of the people in the team died along the way. Are you still so careless in the end? Don't you guys have any brains?" Tom was speechless for this guy who wanted to die. "You are not afraid that the gold is poisonous or cursed. ?"

Only then did Sara realize the problem and hurriedly climbed up from the Golden Mountain. She knocked over a lot of gold objects and dropped them everywhere. After coming down from the Golden Mountain, she accidentally rolled one of them at her feet. The hollow gold cup was crushed. Looking at the gold cup that was directly scrapped, and then at the black gem ejected from the gold cup, Dr. Hunter felt his blood pressure rising.

Sara also realized that she had done something wrong and quickly stood aside with her head lowered. Tom looked at her and sighed.

At least she proved with her own actions that gold is not poisonous and does not have an immediate death curse.

"Doctor, let's find a way out first. Once we find it, it won't be too late to come back and get the treasure." Tom said to Dr. Hunter. He did not use a discussion tone, but an order.

Perhaps Dr. Hunter and the others had achieved their purpose of this trip, but Tom's had not. Apart from checking in at a few locations along the way, he had no satisfactory results. So he still wants to explore further here. Of course, if we find a way out, it would also be great to send Dr. Hunter and the others out. What was left was really more than these three Muggles could handle - in fact, Tom already regretted bringing this group of people into the city.

But at that time, the expedition had too many sunk costs and could not stop at the ruins outside. Alyosha lost his comrades in the ruins, Dr. Hunter lost his student, and Tom couldn't stop them.

Tom's assertiveness worked. Dr. Hunter agreed to find the exit first. They first took a look at the most suspicious pool in the house, but found nothing unusual. There was only a clear water and a few small golden fish.

The surrounding golden mountains shone like the sun in the light.

Behind the pond is a path that is exactly the same as when you entered the house, and a dark golden door with the same shape as the entrance. They walked out along the path. The moment they stepped out of the door, everyone turned back subconsciously and reluctantly took a look at the treasure room filled with gold, silver and jewelry.

"Let's go, it's important to do business." Tom urged them, and by the way, he explained to the three Muggles what he had just figured out.

"What happens next is not what those of you who have never been exposed to magic should face." He seriously advised them to leave here, and at the same time made up his mind to let them remember the "real" nature of this adventure when they left. Condition.

"Okay." Dr. Hunter agreed through gritted teeth.

A few people just walked in the dark passage. Except for Tom and Dr. Hunter who expressed their thoughts at the beginning, no one said anything. The only sounds along the way were the footsteps of the five people and Sarah's heavy breathing. Her backpack contained dozens of kilograms of treasures and was extremely heavy.

After everyone walked for a while, something faintly moved in front of them. Tom raised his wand and looked closer. It was a piece of sand. The sand inside was as fine and beautiful as the sand he had encountered before. After Dr. Hunter and the others approached, the cold fireworks in their hands illuminated the entire sand. Tom couldn't help but be startled: there was already a large series of messy footprints on the sand.

Tom was stunned, and a strange idea came to his mind.

Others also saw it, "Why are there footprints here?" Sara asked. She looked shocked: How could anyone else come in to a place like this? ! They got in here only because of bad luck. Ordinary people can't even solve the outermost puzzle!

Tom shook his head, "Don't think so much, just move on. You'll know why soon."

He took a deep look at the set of footprints in the sand, and he was pretty sure they were left by them - because there were the soles of Hermione's boots in them.

Because of this series of strange footprints, the nerves of several people were tense, and the atmosphere along the way was even more intense. Soon, another dark golden door appeared at the end of the passage. The moment he saw the door, Tom's heart felt as if someone had pinched him: this door was exactly the same as the door they entered before! Even the black cat at the door is the same style.

"It's getting interesting." Tom smiled, "Go in and have a look."

He stood in front of the gate and said to the four people who were already in a down state.

At this time the door opened and the light inside came out.

Several people breathed a sigh of relief at first - the room just now was dark without a trace of light, but this room was very bright. Then they suffered a cardiac arrest. They remembered that they did not turn off the lights before leaving!

After the door opened, they filed in. The room behind the door was exactly the same as the treasure room just now: pillars, ponds, glowing coral lamps, paths, golden mountains...

When Dr. Hunter picked up a crushed gold cup from the ground, everyone was finally sure that they were back in the previous room.