Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

"Let's go on." Moon took two more steps forward and led two people around the snake skin.

The long tunnel continued to extend forward with one turn after another. The further they walked forward, the more they felt a strong sense of oppression.And at the back, the tunnel gradually became wider. After walking a certain distance, even the light from the powerful lighting spell was no longer enough to cover the entire tunnel. Harry and Ron had to take out their wands and use lighting The spells work together to drive away the darkness.

Ron's throat seemed a little uncomfortable, and he kept spitting. Even in the empty tunnel with only the sound of footsteps, that small voice was clearly heard by Moon and Harry.

Harry also became more and more uneasy. He obviously had a lot of questions, but he just didn't know how to ask Moon. To be precise, he didn't know whether he should ask or not.Here, he always felt that he would appear too abrupt when he spoke.

Feeling the growing discomfort between the two of them, Moon thought for a moment and opened his buckle bag again.He had temporarily placed the box containing the giant sword under his bed in the dormitory, so there was no problem in accessing it now.

He signaled the two of them to stop temporarily, then took out three cans of Coke from the small bag, and took out the hollow metal ball to use as a temporary light source, and then handed the two cans of Coke to Harry and Ron respectively.

"Let's stop for a moment and drink something. I think Ron is going to be dehydrated." Moon looked at Ron jokingly, opened the Coke and took a sip, and then let out a particularly loud burp out of anger.

This hiccup was more or less intentional, and coupled with Moon's deliberately funny expression, Harry and Ron, who were still a little nervous at first, couldn't help but laugh out loud.They looked at Moon and also opened their own cans of Coke - and then, Ron followed suit and let out a loud burp, but Harry's imitation ended in failure and he could only open it weakly. With his mouth closed, he looked like a fish that had landed on the beach.

The three of them looked at me, and I looked at you, and then they laughed together.Although it cannot be said that all the depression in my heart has been dispelled, it is indeed much lighter than before.

"So, Moon, how did you find this place?" Harry took another sip of Coke and didn't bother to ask Moon why he carried this Muggle drink with him. Instead, he first asked what he had done since he came down. The question that has been on my mind since then.

"Well... I found a very old book from 50 years ago, and there are some records about this place in it." Moon explained to the two of them, "I searched carefully in that book, and finally It is speculated that it is likely that you need to rely on Parseltongue to open it. Harry, you told me before that you could talk to snakes before you came to Hogwarts, which made me think that you are likely to have snake skills. The idea of ​​being gifted with a local accent—that’s about it.”

Harry nodded thoughtfully, and then asked Moon curiously: "Is there any difference between a basilisk and an ordinary snake?"

"The basilisk is not an ordinary snake." Moon thought about how to explain this thing to the two teenagers. "The basilisk is a strange magical animal. It is very dangerous. It not only has deadly venom, but also has strong magic." With such strength, anyone who looks directly into the Basilisk's face will die immediately. Coupled with its huge, powerful and hard body, the entire body of the Basilisk can be said to be powerful weapons. Compared to ordinary snakes, both The dangers are completely incommensurable.”

Ron took another swig of Coke, barely controlling his voice and trying to keep it as steady as possible, "So, Moon, can you really get rid of that thing?"

"Don't worry, I've made all the preparations." Moon drank the Coke, flattened the Coke can, and threw it aside. "I think there shouldn't be any problem with throwing garbage here, right? Anyway, everywhere is dirtier. Small animal bones.”

Harry and Ron followed suit and drank the coke and threw out their own cans.Then, Harry asked his last question: "So, why did Salazar Slytherin leave this Chamber of Secrets and this... basilisk in the school?"

I don't know whether it was Moon's words that had a stronger comforting effect, or whether the sweet and bubbly Coca-Cola made people feel more at ease. In short, Ron finally got rid of the previous suppressed silence and said, "It's okay." Why, to deal with the Muggle students in the school, I heard that the reason why Salazar Slytherin turned against the other three founders of the school was because he firmly opposed Muggle students entering the school."

"It is indeed possible." Moon whispered: "But Salazar Slytherin is no longer here, so no one can say for sure what he was thinking. Regarding his true intention of leaving behind the Chamber of Secrets and the Basilisk , I’m afraid no one can give a real answer except himself.”

They walked forward for a while, and finally, a wide wall appeared in front of the three of them, completely blocking their way forward.There are also two snakes entwined tightly engraved on the wall, and the pupils are inlaid with huge, shining emeralds, just like real eyes, which is slightly creepy.

Before Moon could speak, Ron took the lead and whispered: "Harry, it seems you -"

"Parseltongue, I know it." Harry nodded, took a deep breath, and immediately took a step forward, arriving directly opposite the two stone snake sculptures.

"Open--"

A low, hoarse hissing snake voice sounded. Under the gazes of Moon and Ron, the two snake eagles that were originally entangled suddenly seemed to come to life. They swam completely apart and ran to both ends of the wall. .

Then, a gap opened in the middle of the stone wall, slowly sliding to both sides, and an empty hall appeared in front of the three of them.

The place is dotted with stone pillars carved with coiled serpents, rising upwards until they disappear into the deep, invisible darkness - where the ceiling is so high that it is almost completely invisible.The mysterious green light makes it possible for people to see clearly the scene in the center of the hall, but no light source can be found.Moreover, the dim light itself was not powerful at all. Except for the ground, they could not see any end of the room, no matter which direction it was.

Silence completely enveloped the three of them at this moment. They looked at the scene in the hall, and no one spoke for a while.

It wasn't until more than ten seconds later that Moon finally spoke softly, "Harry, Ron, it's time for you to leave. Wait for me in the tunnel where we first descended - do you have a watch?"

Harry nodded, he had a designer Muggle watch given to him by Sirius.

"This passage is longer than I thought, so the time needs to be rescheduled." Moon glanced at his pocket watch and calculated the time it took for them to walk through. "Four 10 minutes, if after four 10 minutes If I haven't gone over to find you, you can use the rope I left at the entrance to crawl away quickly, find Professor McGonagall, and tell him what happened to us tonight."

Ron looked at Moon worriedly, "Hey... Moon, I thought you were absolutely sure you could deal with the basilisk."

Harry clenched his wand tightly. Although he felt that if he stayed, he would die, but to be honest, after Ron said this, he suddenly didn't want to leave, even if he could fight together and help Munn distract the basilisk. good.And he felt that Ron must have thought so too.

Moon looked at the two people with some emotion, smiled and shook his head, "Don't worry, I am absolutely sure that I can deal with the basilisk. It is just a beast after all. Don't forget, I have actually fought against the dark wizard. People, I’m telling you this just to avoid accidents with very low probability. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have come here.”

"Really?" Harry confirmed, still a little worried.

"Really, go ahead. You will have to fight one day, but not now." Moon patted the shoulders of the two of them, then untied the hollow metal ball and handed it to the two of them. "Take this, It’s more stable than the light from a wand.”

The two 12-year-old boys nodded in agreement. Seeing what Munn said was true, they stopped talking, but they still had the feeling of looking back three times.

After the two people disappeared into the darkness, the hollow metal ball and the faint light from the wand could no longer be seen. Moon took out two pieces of dried rat meat and handed it to Debbie's mouth, and then gently tapped Debbie. "Then it's up to you, Debbie, go and hide first, then come out when I call you. Remember, don't look too far down, and don't avoid the eyes of anything." Also, if I tell you to close your eyes, you must close your eyes without any hesitation."

In the past few days, Moon had stressed these things to it countless times, so Debbie agreed quickly and got into the mood quickly.

Although the training efficiency is a bit poor, Debbie has always done a good job in obedience.

The owl flapped its wings and flew into the surrounding darkness. Looking at the still empty hall, Moon took out the last thing he prepared - the "bat" potion that he had just brewed yesterday.

To be honest...the taste of this thing is ridiculously bad, a bit like bacon that has been steamed and then left to become moldy.After forcing himself to swallow the entire tube of gray potion mixed with light red, he inevitably retched again, just like when he first came down.

But this time, he had just retched when he was directly interrupted by the drastic changes brought about by the potion.Fine gray fuzz began to emerge from his neck and face, and his nails began to change into sharp and curved shapes like bat claws. In addition to pain, what he could feel was more of a strange feeling. An exaggerated itching sensation.

What Munn couldn't see, his ears were actually undergoing changes - from human ears to ears that looked more and more like bats.

After about ten seconds, the painful and itchy feeling finally disappeared. Moon took a few breaths and raised his hand to touch his chin.

It's like a ring of beard has grown there, but it's not as hard and poking as the beard, but has a plush feeling.

Although he was a little curious about what he looked like now, it was obviously not the time to admire his strange appearance. He took out the wand again and held it tightly in his hand, closed his eyes, and deliberately stepped very heavily, stepping on the water on the ground. Step by step, he walked into the hall.

The basilisk is still hiding in an unknown place and has not yet appeared.As Munn slowly advanced, even though he couldn't see anything, the echoing voice still outlined the shape of the interior of the hall for him, even including the statue of Salazar Slytherin in front of him: a picture He has an old, thin but majestic face, a sparse beard that almost touches the ground, a wide wizard robe and bare feet.

Unlike the sculpture in the movie, which only has a big face, this sculpture is a full-length figure, and its height is almost the same as the entire room.

He knew that the basilisk was hidden behind this statue.

Although he can't use Parseltongue to summon the basilisk like Tom Riddle in the original book, Moon has some other methods that he can use.

He bowed slowly towards the statue of Salazar Slytherin and muttered "offended" under his breath.

The next moment, strange fierce fire swept out from Munn's wand and suddenly rushed towards the majestic colossus standing quietly in the room.

Chapter 42 Basilisk

Since it was unclear whether there were other pipes connected behind the statue, Moon only carefully controlled the fire to cover the surface of the Salazar Slytherin statue.Even so, under the terrifying burning of the fire, a frightening sense of heat gradually filled the entire space. If anyone could see it, they would find that at this moment, the Salazar Tower Leitlin's giant stone statue has even begun to feel twisted and deformed.

Just a moment later, a violent impact suddenly came, followed by the sound of a huge rock cracking. Although nothing could be seen, Munn had already distinguished it based on the information conveyed by the loud noise. The source of this sound.

Forced by the dry and almost suffocating hot air, the unbearable basilisk broke through the obstruction of the statue and rushed out.

The hoarse roar of the basilisk kept coming to his ears, and huge, hot rocks fell from the sky like flaming meteors, falling one after another. Munn pulled away and retreated, while using the defiance of gravity technique to help himself slow down. It was really difficult to avoid. The boulder, while controlling all the fierce fire in this space, rolled back towards the basilisk charging straight towards him.

However, only a second passed, and he realized that he had seriously underestimated the speed of the basilisk.

This guy's body seems huge, but his swimming speed is not slow at all, like an arrow leaving a string.

If he could control Li Huo as proficiently as Uncle Golov, Li Huo could be able to keep up with the sprinting basilisk; but unfortunately, compared to soaking in Li Fire spells and various Uncle Golov, who has been cursed by black magic for many years, can only say that his mastery of Lihuo is still very immature.

Feeling the basilisk's weird speed, Moon couldn't help but start to wonder if the big brother in the original book was letting off steam, so he didn't swallow the 12-year-old Harry in one gulp - Harry's running speed Munn had seen it before. To be honest, there was almost no comparison with the behemoth in front of him, which had the potential to push the gold mountain and knock down the jade pillar.

Or is it true that the eyes that were pecked out by Fox can significantly reduce its traveling speed?

Now is obviously not a good time to think deeply about this issue, but it does serve as a reminder to Moon.He released the Defying Gravity Technique on himself, controlled himself to fly away, and at the same time dispersed the fierce fire, chanted the spell in a low voice, and released the Ra God Flash Technique.

The extremely bright light, which could directly hurt or even blind the eyes, had enveloped the entire secret room in just an instant. The basilisk was already suffering from severe pain due to the intense fire it was exposed to. There was a hint of pain in the neighing sound.Now that his eyes were directly touched by this extremely strong flash of light, its voice suddenly became even more shrill.

However, according to Moon's perception, not only did the Basilisk's charging speed not slow down at all due to the damage to its eyes, but it suddenly fell completely out of control and rushed towards him at a faster speed.

Originally it was just speed, but this time, inertia was added.

"Fuck!"

Even though Moon had always had a good attitude, he couldn't help but utter a curse word at this time - and it was a national curse.

But the matter has come to this, even if he scolds the eighteenth generation of Basilisk's ancestors, including Salazar Slytherin and Voldemort, it will be useless.

It is difficult for the defiance of gravity spell to be effective at this time, just like the boulder falling from the sky with huge inertia that can only be slowed down. For these objects with too large inertia, the defiance of gravity spell must go through a process, using The gravitational forces in different directions can only work after the inertia they carry is completely offset.

Judging from the distance between the basilisk and him, I am afraid that before the basilisk is deflected by gravity, he will have to suffer a death collision first.

Fortunately, the strong light from the Ra God's Flash Technique has faded away. Except for a few points of fierce fire that are still burning on the scales of the basilisk, all other strong fires have been restrained. At this moment, the light in the secret room has been restored again. It reached that dark look, and this just gave him the opportunity to use Shadow Step.

At the last moment when the basilisk was about to hit Munn, Moon's figure suddenly and strangely melted into the shadows, and then re-condensed in another shadow in the secret room.

After the half-active and half-passive impact completely failed, the basilisk, which was still enduring severe pain and unable to fully control its body, hit the stone wall with its head.With Moon's overly sensitive hearing at the moment, he even seemed to hear the sound of cracks inside the stone wall - of course, there was also the sound of the basilisk's hard scales scraping against the wall, and the basilisk's own bones being squeezed with great force. Then there was a squeaking sound caused by rubbing against each other.

At this moment, Moon had no doubt that if he had been hit just now, he would have lost half his life. Even if he temporarily turned into a giant bear, it would be difficult to get anything good.

After all... although the remains that he, Harry, and Ron had just seen outside were only 20 feet [that is, more than 6 meters] long, in fact, the actual length of the living basilisk in front of him was——

At least 50 feet [more than 15 meters] long. [Note 1]

And it's more than one circle thick.

The devil knows exactly when the broken corpse in the passage outside was left.

Taking advantage of the opportunity when the basilisk's eyes were injured and it hit the wall, Moon quickly called Debbie's name in his heart.Debbie, who had been waiting outside, received the signal and immediately flapped her wings and flew in, chirping loudly in response to Moon and hovering over the secret room.

"Help me pay attention to this monster's movements, and remember not to look into its eyes!"

"Ooo~ I know Moon~ I know Moon~ Moon! Come on Moon! The monster is shaking! Moon!"

Hearing this nonsense, Moon breathed a sigh of relief - with the hearing brought by the bat potion, he could feel the basilisk shaking its head violently, as if trying to wake himself up in this way. Similar.And this shaking of the head is reflected in the body, that is, the body is driven to shake slightly.

In other words, Debbie's feedback proved that it had indeed firmly remembered Moon's words and did not try to observe the basilisk's head, but immediately avoided it.

Probably because the Ra God's Flash Technique just now worked, the basilisk had trouble distinguishing its direction for a while. Debbie, who was constantly hovering in the sky, kept making the sound of flapping its wings, interfering with the basilisk's ability to analyze its surroundings.And its wandering undoubtedly proved to Moon, who was standing motionless, that this guy's eyesight was now much worse.

But he didn't know how long this lack of sense of direction and purpose would bother the basilisk - although in the movie, the basilisk only showed two main senses: vision and hearing [Note 2], and could not resemble ordinary snakes. It can also pursue its goals through other senses, such as a well-developed sense of smell; but in the original work, it is never mentioned that the basilisk cannot do this.

So Moon did not rush to take action. Instead, he waited for a moment and stood there quietly, hiding himself in the shadows.

About ten seconds later, the basilisk suddenly froze, stopped shaking its head, and gently spat out a bright red snake letter.

Then, the next moment, it suddenly turned its head away and quickly pointed its head in the direction of Moon. [Note 3]

Munn, who understood everything with the help of Debbie's flapping wings, immediately understood - it seems that although the basilisk's vision and hearing are very good, its other senses are not bad, at least they can reach the level of ordinary snakes. level.

After confirming this, Munn immediately stopped holding back, and since he had determined that the speed of his Fire Spell could not keep up with the basilisk's sprint, he simply gave up this method, although it could continue to cause damage to the basilisk (at least for now) Several holes seemed to have been burnt out of the basilisk's body), but it was difficult to hit, so he tried to use other spells.

The moment the basilisk turned its head towards him, Moon, who was well prepared, suddenly raised his hand, and a series of ice blades exuding cold air quickly blocked the path of the basilisk's straight sprint.At the same time, he smashed down with his right hand holding the wand, and a bright beam of pyrotechnic light went straight to the basilisk's body.

This is equivalent to clearly bullying the basilisk's big body. Unless it can roll directly to the side, it will inevitably accept this gift of ice and fire. The range of the flame attack is not narrow. , for a basilisk that is too large, it is far from an attack that it can avoid with just a swing of its body.

The basilisk did not disappoint Munn in the end - perhaps it was because the burning pain from the previous fire was still fresh in its memory, or perhaps it was because of the natural preference of ordinary snakes for wetness and coolness and aversion to dry heat. In short, in Shattered Among the ice strike and flame strike techniques, the basilisk finally chose to move forward bravely.

In fact, Moon thought it was more likely that it just wanted to bite him to death immediately.

The specially selected powerful spell did not disappoint Munn. The basilisk paid a huge price for its charge, although Munn could not accurately see how the sharp ice blade cut the basilisk's scales and flesh. What it looks like, but judging from the angry roar of the basilisk again, it is obvious that the basilisk will definitely not have a good time after being hit this time.

"So much blood! Moon! Moon! Oooh~~! So much blood! It's rushing towards you!"

Debbie gave timely feedback. The pain did not seem to hinder the basilisk's pace too much, and the impact of the ice-breaking attack was probably not strong enough for the basilisk.

Facing another round of charges from the Basilisk, Munn finally chose to use Shadow Step to quickly shift his position.

Although the Basilisk's speed has dropped a lot compared to before it was hit one after another, it seems that Moon can barely perform a "Spanish Matador" trick if the distance is enough.But the problem is that even if the basilisk rushes forward, it will not be able to turn easily due to inertia, but it only needs to swing its body to sweep a few meters around it with its tail.

Moon just wanted to deal with the basilisk and make some tests as the situation allowed, so that he would not have a suitable reference system if he encountered such an exaggerated giant monster again in the future.

But he had no intention of testing his physical strength.

Even if you want to test it, you can't use the basilisk test.

The several holes at the end of the basilisk's body were still being burned by the fierce fire, and the wounds cut by the ice blades were also bleeding out, and cold air was constantly escaping outwards. Pain struck again and again, crazy. It aroused the basilisk's nerves - not to mention that this was based on the fact that its two consecutive attacks failed.

For the Basilisk, which is not known for its high intelligence, all of this is driving it to become more manic, thus falling into a fatal cycle.

The more manic it becomes, the less able it is to let its predatory nature come into play, producing stronger combat power and a more flexible fighting style.The more reckless the attack, the more it will have to withstand different attacks again and again and accept Munn's test.

The next ones used by Moon were two spells learned from Professor Snape.

"Gelatusanguis (frozen blood and ice)!" [Note 4]

In Munn's perception, the speed of the basilisk that endured this freezing blood curse was almost immediately slowed down a bit. Originally, it was just a basilisk with cold air escaping from the wounds on its body. Those basilisks were difficult to detect. Dots of white frost marks began to spread under the scales.What frightened the basilisk even more was that it suddenly felt that not only had its speed slowed down, but its body had also begun to become heavier, and its already blurry eyes that could hardly see anything had almost completely lost sight of light and shadow. capture ability.

"Moon! Moon! The monster's speed has slowed down!"

"I know." Moon responded softly in his heart. At the same time, he clenched the wand, closed his eyes, and waved it violently in the direction and general location of the basilisk in front of him - the short wand seemed to have turned into a A shocking sword, and he was just like the characters in the martial arts novels he had read in his previous life, hoping to cross a not-so-close distance and use his sword energy to give his opponent a critical blow.

He had no real energy, and the sword he held in his hand was not a real sword.

Fortunately, he still has magic.

"Sectumsempra (Shenfeng Wuying)!"

The invisible blade easily cut through the basilisk's tough scales, and another long, narrow, bone-visible scar was left on the side of the basilisk's body, but this time, it was unknown whether it was due to the influence of the freezing blood curse, or Perhaps the basilisk had suffered too many injuries, and it could no longer let out that hoarse roar. Instead, it slid forward for a short distance against the ground, and finally hung powerlessly in front of Munn for less than 20 seconds. meters of place.

"Ooo~! The monster has fallen! The monster has fallen! Moon Stick~"

Debbie flapped her wings and circled up and down twice, and was about to land directly on Moon's shoulder when she heard Moon, whose eyes were still closed, say to her in her heart: "Don't come over, it's not over yet."

Debbie's little melon didn't know if it was as big as a walnut, but it was definitely not as big as six walnuts. It was a little bit unresponsive for a while, but it really understood Moon's instructions to stay away, so the little melon, which was originally happy, The guy had no choice but to follow the momentum of the dive and make another circle, flying back into the sky again, shouting meaninglessly with a bulging air.

But the battle is indeed not over yet - it may be that it is too close, or it may be that the basilisk's heart is really pumping blood with all its strength, hoping to restart the blood flow that has slowed down a lot in the body. In short, Moon could vaguely hear the sound of the Basilisk's heart beating wildly.

"Plop! Plop! Plop! Plop!"