Aaron ultimately failed to capture the basilisk.
Even though he had broken through the wall as quickly as possible, he only saw an empty pipe, and the basilisk had disappeared.
It escaped.
The inside of the pipe was covered with mucus left by the basilisk. There was a trace of blood in the mucus. It seemed that the basilisk was injured by Aaron.
He used a throwing bottle filled with blinding water to destroy the basilisk's eyes, and then wounded its head with a thunderous blow. Unfortunately, he failed to complete the task and failed to keep it.
Aaron stood in the pipe and was silent for a long time.
He turned around and saw the poor little wizard - he had also been accidentally injured by Aaron's blinding water, and now his eyes were covered in white and he could not see anything.
It was Justin Finch-Fletchley, a Hufflepuff student, and because he broke the rules and went out for a night out, Aaron lost a chance to deal with the basilisk.
But he didn't blame anything, he just took out the eye-clearing water (the antidote to the blinding water) and gave it to Justin to drink.
"Ka...Professor Custer?"
After regaining his sight, Justin saw Aaron standing aside with an unhappy expression, and was obviously shocked.
"what's going on?"
Professor McGonagall hurried over after hearing the noise. She had not been sleeping very well these days and was worried about the dangers hidden in Hogwarts.
As soon as she turned the corridor, she first saw a big hole in the wall - Mag was obviously startled, and then she saw Aaron and Justin in the corridor.
A look of concern first appeared on her face: "Cast, what's going on..."
"Professor McGonagall."
However, Aaron interrupted her: "I have something very important to go to the principal now. Can you please take Mr. Finch-Fletchley back?"
Mag saw the urgency of the situation, so she nodded and motioned for Aaron to go quickly.
"By the way, Professor McGonagall, I hope you can do me a favor and ask Mr. Finch-Fletchley why he violated the ban and wandered around the castle so late at night."
Before leaving, Aaron left these words - he could clearly see that Mag's face tightened immediately.
God bless you, Justin.
A smile appeared on Aaron's lips.
…
Arriving at the principal's office, Aaron quickly explained the situation to Dumbledore.
"Basilisk?"
"Yes, now I am 100% sure that the monster in the secret room is the basilisk."
Dumbledore's expression suddenly became serious. His fingers touched each other and were placed in front of his chin. Aaron understood that this was a sign that he was thinking.
After a while.
"In this case……"
Dumbledore murmured, his eyes shining with excitement.
"We can roughly guess where the entrance to the secret room is, right?"
Aaron smiled.
"Yes, a basilisk... moving through the pipes... the first victim died in the bathroom..."
Dumbledore stood up quickly. He patted Aaron on the shoulder, his eyes full of appreciation:
"Recruiting you to this school may be the best decision I've made in years, Aaron."
Aaron shrugged and said nothing.
"Come on, let's go see Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets together."
…
The two men arrived at Myrtle's bathroom one after the other.
"I've been looking for it for so long, I never thought it would be here."
Dumbledore twisted the brass handle and walked in first.
"It's not your fault, principal. The girls' bathroom - it's really easy to become a blind spot in your mind."
Aaron joked with a smile.
"Thank you for understanding." Dumbledore responded with a smile.
The bathroom was dark and damp, and there was a strange smell in the air. In the innermost compartment, there was a slight gurgling sound.
Dumbledore glanced inside: "Our students seem to be making some amazing things here..."
"It's just some Polyjuice Potion." Aaron said indifferently: "There are many more dangerous things in this school than this... The students need to exercise, I don't think we need to care, Principal."
"If it were Minerva, she would definitely not listen to your words." Dumbledore smiled like an old naughty boy: "But fortunately, I have always been more open-minded."
While chatting, they did not forget to search the bathroom. Dumbledore took out his wand and tapped the sinks one by one. Soon, he found something.
"Come here, Aaron, a snake, I think we found-"
Aaron leaned over and saw a snake engraved on a copper faucet - undoubtedly, this was the symbol of Slytherin.
Aaron nodded and took out the snake language translator from his arms.
He said to the mouth of the bottle:
"Open."
The gas in the bottle swirled and turned into a small snake, which hissed and spat at the faucet.
After hearing this, Dumbledore commented:
"It's not perfect. There are a few grammatical errors. No wonder the basilisk doesn't trust you..."
Aaron was ashamed, was this his problem? This is Harry's problem!
However - even such an imperfect Parseltongue was more than enough to deceive dead creatures. The faucet and pool slowly disappeared from their sight. Soon, a dark, thick water pipe entrance appeared. It was revealed.
"What a wonderful creation, Aaron. Your talent is always so shocking."
Dumbledore praised: "Perhaps we can add an alchemy course and you will teach it."
Aaron pretended to be humble and said: "No, I still lack a lot in this area..."
He secretly cursed: This old guy is used to fooling people, isn't he trying to use my labor force without even paying overtime pay? There is no door!
With this thought in mind, he jumped into the pipe first.
As for the danger? Just kidding, the most powerful white wizard in the world is standing behind him, and the only danger is the other side.
As Aaron slid down the water pipe and walked through a long tunnel, he saw a snake skin that was at least twenty feet long.
At the end of the tunnel is a wall with two intertwined snakes engraved on it. The emerald eyes of the snakes are glowing with faint light.
Dumbledore walked behind him, and Aaron still said:
"Open."
The two snakes separated, the stone wall cracked on both sides, and finally disappeared.
Aaron walked in, and when he raised his eyes, this ancient secret room hidden in the shadow of history appeared in front of him.
This is a long room, surrounded by stone pillars carved with reliefs of serpents. At the end of the room, a tall and towering statue of Slytherin stands there.
It was a wizard who looked like a monkey - George and Fred guessed it correctly - he had thin hair and a long sparse beard that hung down to the hem of the wizard's robe.
Dumbledore walked to Aaron's side and sighed softly. His heart was full of complicated emotions for this wizard who created Hogwarts a thousand years ago and almost destroyed it a thousand years later.
"Pure blood and mixed blood, wizards and Muggles, the debate has lasted for thousands of years..."
Dumbledore leaned down and tapped the ground lightly with his old fingers.
At that moment - Aaron could feel an extremely powerful magic being released. The entire secret room had been 'transformed' by Dumbledore, and his magic enveloped every corner here.
"Aha, found it."
Dumbledore smiled.
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the Slytherin statue slowly opening its mouth, and a dark hole was quickly revealed.
Aaron quickly stepped forward, jumped on the statue several times, and soon walked into the cave.
However, the cave was empty, with nothing but the slime left by the basilisk.
Apparently, the basilisk had been moved to another place by its owner.
There was only a 'bang' sound, and Dumbledore's figure suddenly appeared behind Aaron.
"Why can you apparate?" Aaron asked in shock.
"If you become the principal, you can do it too." Dumbledore blinked: "This is a little convenience I left for myself."
He twisted up some mucus with his hand, sniffed it on his nose, shook his head and said, "The basilisk has left."
"Sorry, it was me who alerted the enemy." Aaron said apologetically.
"No, you did a great job, Aaron. You saved a student's life. There is nothing more important than that. On behalf of Hogwarts, thank you."
Dumbledore thanked Aaron very solemnly.
"So what do we do now?"
"Now..." Dumbledore stood up, a smile quickly appearing on his face:
"Can I ask you to do me one more favor? Aaron."
"What help?"
"Help me go out and buy some chickens." Dumbledore said with a smile:
"Remember, ask for a cock."
