"How could it be! Why is there a secret passage in the school that is not recorded in "A History of Hogwarts"! And I have read many books about Hogwarts, but there is no record of a secret passage in the school!" Elaine Na said unconvinced.
"Don't stop studying~ There are definitely more secrets in the school than you think. Not to mention others, Tom knows at least three secret passages leading outside the school, right!"
Qin Weijie looked at Tom as he spoke, and Tom nodded noncommittally: "Yeah, the secret passages I know were all told to me by the seniors of the Ghoul Club. Almost every secret society knows several different secret passages. , but I don’t know about this one either.”
Qin Weijie pretended to have a profound smile: "Of course you don't know that the inside of this secret passage has actually collapsed a long time ago, and it is considered an abandoned secret passage. After they told me in Minsk last year, I let Ergou do his best. With his digging talent, I dug this secret passage again. In other words, the only people who know this secret passage now are the three of us and one dog."
"What on earth are you going to do? You have too many secrets!" Elena looked at Qin Weijie unkindly, feeling a little nervous.
Qin Weijie didn't say much, just smiled and walked forward.
Tom and Elena looked confused. They both had the idea of retreating, but at this time they had already entered. Their curiosity about unknown secrets finally drove them to follow Qin Weijie.
The three of them walked in the secret passage for ten minutes and came to a collapsed ruins. The road ahead was blocked.
Tom and Elena looked at Qin Weijie, who skillfully moved around to the side of the collapsed stone and moved away a boulder that seemed to weigh at least several hundred kilograms.
Seeing Qin Weijie easily lifting hundreds of kilograms of boulders, Tom and Elena looked at Qin Weijie as if they were looking at monsters, and Qin Weijie explained at this time.
"Transformation magic, this is actually a piece of wood that is not that heavy. It weighs less than 5 pounds. It is just a deception I arranged."
After listening to Qin Weijie's explanation, the two nodded in understanding, and then looked under the "big rock". There was a not too big hole under the "big stone". The hole was just big enough for a child of twelve or thirteen years old to get through. The claw marks to the entrance of the hole are obviously the work of Ergou, a standard dog hole.
After getting through the dog hole, the three of them walked in the dark secret passage for almost twenty minutes and finally saw the exit.
The exit of this secret passage is a naturally formed cave on the edge of the Forbidden Forest. The cave is relatively large and can be as large as half a school auditorium.
In the center of the cave, a platform similar to an altar was built. On the altar was placed a half-height black walnut table. On the table were placed a jade Ruyi and a wooden sword. , many yellow paper charms, and a tripod incense burner is placed in the middle of the table. On top of the incense burner are inserted five notes of fragrance and a beautiful short knife.
Flags of blue, red, yellow, white, and black were erected around the altar. There were a bunch of strange incantations written on them that Tom and Elena could not understand. They looked like ancient Chinese characters. The altar was covered with various incantations. There was not much grain, and Tom counted it carefully. There were at least four or five types of grains, some of which he couldn't even name.
"What...what is this? Did you do it?" Tom looked at Qin Weijie in shock.
It is impossible to complete such a project in a short time, so it definitely took a lot of careful preparation.
"I designed it. Ergou and Jingying will come and help me build it if they have nothing to do." Qin Weijie replied: "Jingying is my mirror image in the mirror space. He insists on giving himself such a middle-class name, and I don't either. The solution is to just call it a day."
Elena was also so surprised that she couldn't close her mouth, but she still suppressed her surprise and asked: "How long have you been doing this?"
"It's been since last school year, almost since Christmas, so it's been almost ten months."
As he spoke, Qin Weijie walked up to the platform and picked up the strange magic weapon on the platform, straightened the position of the flag and the incense burner, and then looked towards the entrance of the cave.
Tom and Elena also followed Qin Weijie's gaze towards the entrance of the cave.
I saw a big black dog, about half a man tall, walking into the cave with steps that he didn't recognize.
Seeing someone in the cave, the big black dog looked fierce at first, but when he saw clearly who was coming, his face suddenly changed. He wandered up to Qin Weijie in a silly manner and rubbed against Qin Weijie's leg.
Qin Weijie reached out and touched the dog's head and said softly: "Go ahead and lure one over."
"Woof!" Ergou barked, turned around and ran out of the cave.
Watching Ergou leave, Qin Weijie waved to Tom and Elena to come closer, and then handed the jade Ruyi and the wooden sword on the table to them respectively.
"It's our turn, just hold the magic weapon and stand in the circle marked by the grains on the ground. No matter what happens later, don't leave the circle marked by the grains!"
Tom and Elena took the magic weapon in confusion and looked at the circles surrounded by countless grains on both sides in front of the altar.
"What do you mean?" Tom asked
"Don't ask any more questions. Time is running out. Just stand up! Remember not to leave the grain circle."
"You have to tell us what you are going to do!"
"Nothing, just setting up a trap to catch a dementor and study it."
Elena: "What!"
Tom: "You're crazy!"
"Okay, stop talking! If you waste any more time, the two dogs will attract the dementors. If you don't stand in the grain circle, we will all have our souls sucked by the dementors! We haven't mastered the guardianship yet. There’s a divine curse!”
You still know that you have not mastered the Patronus Charm!
At this time, both Tom and Elena felt regretful, and raised a flag in their hearts again. In the future, unless the grandson explains the situation, he will never follow him out to seek death!
Although they were unwilling in their hearts, the two of them still obeyed Qin Weijie's instructions and stood at the designated position.
Not long after, there was a barking from outside the cave. Qin Weijie immediately stopped his idle behavior, pulled out an old blue-gray Taoist robe from under the table and put it on himself, and began to chant some words in his mouth.
In an instant, bursts of mysterious light lit up on the entire platform, and the grain circles under Tom and Elena's feet also gradually lit up with a warm halo.
The three people formed horns to separate the three talents of heaven, earth and man. The short knife "Xuanfu Dao" in the incense burner on the table shone brightly. At the same time, the magic weapons in the hands of Tom and Irina also caused bursts of brilliant light.
After all the preparations were done, Qin Weijie also looked towards the entrance of the cave ready, waiting for the two dogs to lead the dementors in.
