Chapter 37 The End of the Secret Chamber

On May 29, Professor Sprout announced over breakfast that the mandrakes were finally ready to be harvested and that all petrified victims would be cured that evening.

Sherrin, who was sitting in the corner of the dining table, silently observed the long Gryffindor table, and noticed that Ginny was approaching Harry who was hesitant to speak. When he was about to muster up the courage to tell the truth, he was interrupted by Percy Weasley. , Ginny ran away in a hurry, and Xie Lin followed quietly without alerting anyone.

With the last tracking experience, Xie Lin skillfully cast the invisible phantom spell on himself, followed Ginny to the girls' bathroom at the end of the third floor, and saw that Ginny still opened the diary after hesitating for a long time. A burst of smoke rose from the book and slowly transformed into a human form.

Although the appearance looked vague, Schelling was still sure that it was the remnant of the young Tom Riddle.

Ginny cried miserably and accused Tom of summoning the basilisk to hurt people, and tried to cast a completely ineffective spell on Tom's remnant soul. Then Tom sneered and forcibly attached himself to the struggling Ginny. When Tom was about to control Ginny to leave a message on the stone wall outside according to the original plot, he suddenly felt an inexplicable alarm in his heart. He looked in the direction of Sherrin, raised his wand and shouted: "Who is there!"

Obviously Tom didn't see through Schelling's invisibility magic, but his keen intuition could still detect something amiss.

The opponent was Voldemort in his youth, and Xie Lin did not dare to underestimate him in the slightest. Xie Lin took advantage of his invisibility and took the lead, using his silent spellcasting technique combined with the two-shot technique in an instant, and continuously issued a disarming curse and a repelling curse. The curses were shot at Tom rapidly, one after the other.

What a good Tom, he was able to control Ginny's body to avoid the disarming curse at such a close distance. When he was trying to dodge the repelling curse, he was accidentally hit by the repelling curse in an abrupt turn. Tom could The fall was serious, so in desperation, he opened the entrance to the secret room in snake language, and hurriedly escaped in, not even having time to close the entrance.

Xie Lin took out the Evening Star Cloak from his pocket and put it on, holding the wand in his hand, he also rushed into the entrance of the secret room.

Xie Lin followed the twists and turns of the water pipe, making seven or eight twists and turns. The slope was very steep all the way down. When he reached the exit of the water pipe, which was faintly bright, Xie Lin cast a shock-absorbing spell on himself, jumped up, and stood upright in the wet. on the ground.

In front of him was a dark stone tunnel, big enough for a man to stand in it, and Tom was nowhere to be found.

Xie Lin cast a fluorescent spell and pursued him along the tunnel. At the end of the tunnel is a long, dimly lit room. There are many thick stone pillars, carved with various entangled snakes, towering to support the ceiling that melts into the darkness above, filled with mystery. The room cast long eerie shadows.

Schelling half-raised his wand and silently advanced slowly between the stone pillars where the giant snake was coiled.

When he reached his position between the last pair of stone pillars, a huge statue as tall as the room itself loomed before him, clinging to the dark wall behind. The slightly green stone gave it an eerie atmosphere.

He raised his neck to see the face of the statue clearly - it was an old, monkey-like face, with a sparse long beard that almost reached the hem of the stone wizard's robe, and two big feet that were stable. Standing firmly on the smooth floor of the room. Between the statue's feet lay face down the small figure of Ginny Weasley.

Tom's blurry remnant soul leaned against the nearest stone pillar, and his eyes met with the oncoming Xuelin, looking at each other warily, "I thought everything I did to control this silly girl was very secretive, no. Thinking of being discovered already, who are you? Did Dumbledore send you?"

Xie Lin sneered, "I know who you are, Tom. Dumbledore is not the only one who can deal with you!"

Tom showed a curious expression, "Do you really know who I am?"

Schelling said contemptuously: "Aren't you the remnant soul left by Voldemort when he was young and killed people to create Horcruxes?"

What? Voldemort? kill? Horcrux?

Tom had read information about Schelling in Ginny's memory - he ranked first in academic performance, had published articles in major academic magazines, was regarded as the favorite student by two professors...it was nothing compared to him back then. Not inferior, but he was only a second-year student after all. Tom never thought that his biggest secret would be seen through by the little wizard in front of him, and showed an expression of disbelief and surprise. Sherlin did not talk nonsense to the enemy. Bad habit, all the words I just said were just for this moment when Tom was distracted!

Schelling knew that the magic spells he knew were ineffective against Tom who was in a state of remnant soul. At this moment, he summoned the diary into his hand with the summoning spell at lightning speed. At the same time, the sterling silver dagger hidden in the secret pocket of his sleeve slipped into the other side. In his hand, in that thousandth of a second, Xie Lin decisively injected magic power into the dagger, and pierced the diary in one go!

Tom let out a terrible, long-lasting, eardrum-piercing scream, twisted and struggled, waving his arms constantly, glaring with hatred at Schelling, letting out a final hissing serpentine, and then dissolved. As the smoke dissipates.

Sherrin did not relax his vigilance. Tom's last snippet of snake language was most likely a spell to summon the basilisk.

Sure enough, Slytherin's huge stone face moved, its mouth opened, and it became bigger and bigger, finally forming a huge black hole. The basilisk slowly slid out of the statue. It was green all over, with the unique bright light of a venomous snake. Its body was as thick as the trunk of an oak tree, and its upper body stretched high into the air.

Since the first day of school, Xie Lin has been thinking about tactics and spells to deal with the basilisk. At this moment, although he was nervous, he was not very scared. Just when the basilisk just slid out of the statue, Xie Lin had seized this fleeting opportunity to release the Flash Curse he had prepared for a long time!

The Flash Curse was inspired by the flash bomb in the Muggle world, and it took him a lot of effort to research it.

The basilisk was blinded by the strong light, and Xie Lin seized this opportunity to use the next combo in his tactics - the Eye Spell! Schelling cast two spells in a flash. His shooting accuracy, which he had trained since he was 4 years old, did not disappoint him. Even though the basilisk kept swinging its huge body left and right, the two eye-disease spells accurately hit the basilisk's eyes, blinding it and successfully removing its most threatening weapon.

The blinded basilisk did not lose its target. Its tongue had a very keen sense of smell, and there were two heat pits between its eyes and nostrils that could sense infrared heat. Without the ability to kill with its eyes, it kept rampaging, sweeping its tail left and right in a large area, intending to crush Schelling with its huge physical advantage. However, Schelling, who had planned everything, would not be unprepared for the situation in front of him.

Schelling released another spell he created - the sonic boom spell. Like the previous flash spell, the inspiration for this sonic boom spell was also imitated from the sonic boom bomb in the Muggle world.

When he read the original book in his previous life, Schelling had already discovered that the attack methods of modern wizards were too simple and monotonous. Most wizards only competed with the destructive power of spells and their own dodge rate during the fight, without any tactical application and strategic layout. Only a few masters like Dumbledore and Voldemort would use various transformation spells to attack.

Schelling, who had an understanding of the Muggle world, imitated the combat methods of special forces and designed a series of tactical spells.

He first used the fluorescent spell as a basis, and improved the fluorescent spell used for lighting into the flash spell that blinded the opponent by enhancing the instantaneous brightness. Then he used the sound amplification spell as a basis, and improved the sound amplification spell used for sound amplification into the sonic boom spell that produced a loud noise and stunned the opponent by raising the volume and audio to the limit.

Schelling believed that the use of various tactical combination spells and the flexibility to deal with various complex situations were the real wizards' combat. The battle of wizards who could only shoot spells and dodge spells was too childish.

As the sonic boom spell exploded in the air with a high-frequency loud noise, the basilisk was shocked into a dizzy state and could not move.

Xielin used the Transfiguration to transform the pure silver dagger in his hand into a silver-shining sword, and shouted "Flying Sword Wadiwasi" angrily, and threw the flying sword out in the posture of a javelin. Under the amplification of the "Wadiwasi" spell, the flying sword drew a residual image in the air as fast as a meteor, and accurately shot through the snake brain between the two snake eyes. The basilisk twisted in pain, rolled on the ground beside it for a few times, and then stopped.

After so much hard work and risking life to fight, it was finally time to harvest the spoils.

Xielin snapped his fingers and summoned Dobby, and then one man and one elf cut the basilisk's body into eight pieces. Snake skin, snake eyes, snake gall, snake blood, snake venom, snake horns, snake teeth, all of which are precious materials, needless to say, even the dozens of kilograms of snake meat Xielin did not let go.

The raw materials are stored in Newt's suitcase space. Most of the raw materials can be stored directly in the laboratory, and a small number of raw materials that need to be refrigerated are stored in a specially opened snow cave.

(Note: Basilisks have horns. "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" deliberately omitted this detail. The core of Slytherin's wand is the horn of the basilisk. Only people who can speak snake language can control that wand)

(Note: The principle of the eye disease spell is to force the eyelids to close, so the snake's eyes have not been damaged in any way)

[Basilisk corpse materials obtained! ]

Before leaving, Sherin did not forget to pick up Tom Riddle's diary from the ground, soak it in snake venom for a while, and take it away in a special container.

Sherin asked Dobby to take himself and Ginny out of the secret room and returned to the bathroom on the third floor.

At this time, the entrance to the secret room had been closed. From the outside, there was no problem at all. It seemed that the entrance to the secret room would automatically close after a period of time after it was opened.

Shaylin waved his hand, and with a bang, Dobby left the two behind and Apparated first.

Just as Shaylin stepped out of the bathroom door holding Ginny, he unexpectedly met Harry and Ron who had just arrived. The two looked at Shaylin holding Ginny, each of them drew their wands, and confronted Shaylin quietly with a vigilant look.

Although the two did not know that there was a basilisk hidden in the Chamber of Secrets, Harry still successfully inferred that the student who died in the Chamber of Secrets fifty years ago was Myrtle, and the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets was probably in this bathroom, and at this moment Shaylin was standing here holding the unconscious Ginny...

Looking at the expressions on their faces, Shaylin knew what these two little brats were thinking, and they must have regarded him as the heir of Slytherin.

Facing Shaylin who crushed him twice, Harry mustered up his courage and asked with difficulty: "What's going on? Why are you and Ginny here?"

Before Shaylin could answer, Ron, who was worried about Ginny's safety and irritable, suddenly realized that Shaylin was holding Ginny in his hands - he didn't have a wand in his hands!

The scenes of humiliation that Shaylin had brought to Ron in the past two years flashed through his mind. He roared and cast the Slug Vomiting Curse at Shaylin! However, Ron seemed to have forgotten that there was something wrong with his wand. As a result, Ron's wand not only failed to cast the spell, but also suddenly exploded after making a series of strange crackling sounds!

The explosion was serious. Ron was blown against the wall of the bathroom and fell into a coma; Harry was also blown to the ground by the aftermath of the explosion, in a mess; Ginny was lucky. Under the protection of the Shield Charm that Shaylin quickly cast, Shaylin and Ginny were both unharmed.

At this time, a soft moan sounded faintly - Ginny had woken up. She looked around blankly, then looked at Sherin who had been holding her. Sherin put Ginny down gently without any embarrassment, but Ginny seemed to misunderstand that she was the culprit of the "tragic situation" in front of her, and burst into tears in panic.

The sound of the explosion also attracted Professor McGonagall and Professor Snape. The two professors said nothing. Professor Snape took the unconscious Ron to the school hospital on his own initiative, and Professor McGonagall took them back to her office. Not long after Sherin entered the secret room, Ginny's roommate informed the professors of Ginny's disappearance.

After searching every corner of the castle and still finding nothing, the professors could only helplessly inform the school board and Ginny's parents, and then Dumbledore came back. Professor McGonagall obviously thought that since Dumbledore had returned, it was obviously more appropriate for him to deal with it.

As they left, a dull roar of collapse was faintly heard in the secret room, and the entire ground shook slightly.