The air is damp and cold. The cold moisture seeped through his clothes and stuck firmly to Luke's body. There was no bright light around, but a bright spot in the distance could be faintly seen. What came to my ears was the sound of water drops falling into the pool, and every time I fell, there would be an echo here.
This place is like an ancient underground cave, mysterious and dangerous.
"Buzz——"
A ball of light suddenly lit up, illuminating the wand in Luke's hand, his face, and everything around him.
Luke lowered his head and glanced at the stone road under his feet. The stone slab was engraved with gorgeous and exquisite patterns. He squatted down and snapped his fingers with his left hand. All the dust on the stone slab under his feet was blown away.
He looked carefully and saw an exquisite snake engraved on it. The snake's eyes even feel a little vivid under the light of the light ball.
"It is indeed Slytherin's work."
Luke looked at the familiar-looking snake and nodded seriously. Although it is clearly stated in both the original book and the current family records that this secret room was built by Slytherin. However, Luke always believes in seeing things.
A lot of people can make a fortune, and three people can become tigers. The truth is always the most fragile. In the long period of time, it can only be painted over and whitewashed by others.
Stand up straight and walk along this stone road. Luke saw the pools on either side. A drop of water fell from above and hit the water, causing a circle of ripples.
Luke raised the ball of light and looked up, but he did not see the stalactite-like stalagmites he had imagined. Instead, he saw a stone snake statue hanging upside down from the ceiling.
The snake looked in the direction of the stone slab. It had a long mouth and a ferocious look on its face. It looked like it was choosing people to devour, which was intimidating.
Luke suppressed the slightest movement in his heart. He knew very well that the snake in front of him must be fake. But it still gave him a sense of danger, so maybe the snake was part of a defensive measure.
And as he moved his eyes around, he discovered that the things in front of him were not that simple. This road is quite long, and it looks like there are snakes like this on both sides.
He squatted down again and fumbled for a pebble. He waved his fingers in the air, and the pebble turned into a little mouse.
The little mouse is lively and lively, and the transformation technique is still close to reality. Luke's transformation technique has obviously reached a very high level. It moved near Luke's feet, and it seemed to be quite intimate with Luke. But what greeted it was indeed a kick from Luke.
Along with the pain and weightlessness, the little mouse finally heard a 'plop' and felt that it was surrounded by water. The survival instinct made it swim easily into the water, then cursed and swam towards Luke's location.
After landing, it bit Luke's shoes with red eyes. However, he was controlled by Luke with a levitation spell.
Luke looked at the mouse in front of him, carefully checked that there was nothing wrong with it, and then nodded reassuringly. Snapped his fingers again. The mouse turned back into the pebble.
The pebbles fell on the stone slabs, making a crisp sound. And with this crisp sound, something in the distance seemed to be awakened.
There was a rumbling sound in his ears. Luke followed the sound and looked over, and found that there were dots of candlelight lighting up there, and they were spreading towards this direction.
Luke took a deep breath and then walked towards the light.
But after taking a few steps, Luke's free right hand suddenly waved. Luke's figure appeared in the same position just now.
Apparition was not prohibited, much to Luke's relief. After looking around and seeing nothing else out of the ordinary, I continued walking forward this time.
After walking a long way, we finally reached the end of the stone road. When Luke turned around, he was surprised to find that the stone road was not as long as he thought, or even as long as he felt just now.
People's senses can deceive, Luke knows this very well, but he has many tricks of his own that can deceive people's senses, and these don't even require magic. Naturally, this means that even if the magic to dispel the phantom spell is used, it will still have no effect.
Luke guessed that his perception must be deceived here, but he couldn't figure out the specific method for a while.
So he turned around again and looked at the locked door in front of him. Although there is a little light here, the light is only a weak candle flame, which is not enough to illuminate this huge door.
Confusion flashed across his eyes. Logically speaking, this shouldn't be the case. Whether it's in the movie or the original story told by friends, isn't there a basilisk in the secret room and a tall statue of Slytherin?
Why is the scene in front of Luke completely different from what he remembers?
The gate in front of me is very similar to the gate of the Gunter family treasure house. Such a door might be equipped with bloodline detection magic. The gate is simple in design, and the carvings on it are still gorgeous and exquisite. The contents engraved on it are mostly Slytherin legends.
Luke also saw a scene on it that looked like the four giants gathered together.
Slytherin, who wears a pointed hat and a long beard, has a locket suspended in front of him. The locket shone with a strange light.
Gryffindor, who has messy hair and a smile on his face, has a long sword suspended in front of him, which also shines with a strange light.
Ravenclaw, who has an eagle emblem on his wizard robes, has a crown in front of him. In front of Hufflepuff, who has curly hair, is a golden cup.
This image caught Luke's attention. Luke continued to read down, only to find that the remaining pictures turned into normal adventure stories again.
But when he turned his gaze back, the original content had changed.
Luke frowned, he really didn't think he was hallucinating. All I can say is that this secret room seems to be very simple indeed. Luke, who was originally wary of the secret room, became even more wary now.
For now, although it was said to be a secret room in his memory, in fact he could not see any strange Slytherin secret room at all. It was almost qualitatively different from the secret room he encountered in reality.
In reality, or rather, the secret room he encountered seemed mysterious and dangerous. Even now, Luke still has the feeling that something is staring at him from behind. This feeling is not comfortable...
He looked at the pictures on the door again, but never found the pictures of the Big Four, which made Luke feel a little confused. And just when he was confused, the two ouroboros on the stone door suddenly began to rotate.
Luke subconsciously took a step back, raising the wand in his hand high to let the ball of light illuminate a wider area, while the other hand stretched out his index finger slightly awkwardly, pointing to the door ahead. It seemed like the ball of light couldn't leave the wand.
The sound of thick stones rubbing against each other sounded here for a while. Finally, a snake head stretched out from the top of the door and cast its gaze at Luke.
Luke looked alert, ready to escape at any moment. Just kidding, in this case, it is certainly unwise to be aggressive. It doesn't matter if you avoid the edge for the time being and wait until you are more prepared to enter again.
Fortunately, things did not develop in the worst direction. Just a green light shot down from the snake's eyes and absorbed Luke into it. Luke felt the warmth around his body, and naturally understood the function of the beam.
It was no different from when he first entered the treasure house. This thing was also used to confirm bloodline. And such things seem to be only found in places related to Slytherin, or Gunter.
This also verifies some records in the family. In other words, Slytherin can be called a know-it-all about magic, but his best research field is the field of blood.
This green beam that can identify blood is obviously one of the by-products of Slytherin's research.
"This thing... can Tom pass?"
Luke is really a little doubtful. If Tom can pass such a blood test, then it can only be said that the requirements are not too high.
The green beam of light shone for a while, seeming to confirm that there was no problem with Luke's identity, and then it calmed down. The snake head above also returned to the stone wall.
The two ouroboros on the gate began to turn again. But this time, as they turned, the door was slowly opened.
Luke looked at everything in front of him and couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
"Ancestor Slytherin seems to have quite a bit of knowledge about Muggle institutions..."
Although the stone door in front of me is rotating. But very little magic seems to be used. There are more stone mechanisms that are linked together.
Luke took a deep breath and strode through the door.
Walking into the door, there is finally light here.
Although the magic lamps cannot illuminate the interior very brightly, they are enough for people to see the contents clearly.
Luke did not disperse the light ball at the top of the wand, but he also reduced the diameter of the light ball and weakened the intensity of the light.
At this time, what Luke could see was that there was a statue in front of him, but the statue here had no head, only a body.
You can see that the huge statue has its arms spread out in a hug. He was wearing a gorgeous wizard robe, but it looked a little dirty. Even if it is a statue, you can still see how unkempt this person is at this moment.
Luke finally knew what was wrong here. Although the secret room in front of me is also a secret room, it seems to be underneath the statue with only a head in the movie. That statue does not only have a head, but only the head is on top and the body is here.
This surprised Luke but also made him feel a sense of normalcy. If the Chamber of Secrets was really that simple, how could it possibly be a place where Slytherin's legacy would be preserved?
Although in normal legends, this secret room was built by Salazar Slytherin before he left the school, and was sealed after he left the school. Only he and his heirs can open it. There lives a terrifying monster that can only be controlled by the heirs of Slytherin. When it is put into the school, it can "purify the school" and eliminate all those who Slytherin deems unworthy of learning magic.
But in fact, there are also legends that this thing is actually a place used for lectures. Although I don't know what Salazar's thoughts were in the end, he turned the secret room he built into a monster's lair that only he or his descendants could control, and only Snake Laoqiang could enter it. Slytherin knew that this would keep the three founders and all other faculty members out of the chamber.
According to the records of the Gaunt family, what is hidden in the secret room is the real secret of Slytherin. His research, his achievements, his... innate magic.
You know, the talent of the Gaunt family is said to be the same as that of Slytherin. But later members of the Gaunt family thought about turning Snake Laoqiang into a special talent magic, but no one was able to succeed.
Snake accent seems to be just a language that can be used to communicate with snakes. And such language is not particularly useful. However, the plan to use Snake's voice to control artificial magical animals with certain intellectual deficiencies - Basilisk - did not circulate in the Gaunt family for a while. It's just that the basilisk is wild and hard to find, has low intelligence and is difficult to control. In addition, it is extremely dangerous. Even several members of the Gunter family died under the eyes of the snake. The plan was eventually halted.
Compared to those powerful forces, in fact, their bloodline members are more important.
It doesn't matter whether you are strong or not. They themselves don't need to be too powerful. Not everyone in the Gaunt family wants to unify the entire wizarding world.
But the Gunter family must have blood that can be passed down to the world. This is the true responsibility left by our ancestors.
But now it seems that the ancestor who proposed this initiative coincides with Slytherin.
They all chose the basilisk, a powerful snake-like magical creature.
But Luke is really not very interested in basilisks. He prefers rune snakes that are intelligent and also have powerful magical abilities.
Ancient runes themselves are magical writing. The rune snake also has many mysteries that need to be explored.
Unfortunately, now is obviously not the time to think about whether what you like is the same as what your ancestors liked.
Luke glanced around and found that the structure here was closer to a laboratory.
Everything inside was intact. Luke approached a test bench and found that the test tubes, crucibles and other things on it were still intact.
He glanced at the pile of parchment lying on the table.
"About the idea of merging the blood of magical animals with the blood of wizards"
The title alone made Luke take a breath. So out of curiosity, he wanted to see the contents of this thing.
However, a voice sounded, which frightened him so much that the hairs on his body stood up instantly.
"I advise you not to look at that thing..."
