Chapter 21 Mind Your Own Business

"Meow! Lu Yunkai! This way!!"

After coming out of the bathroom, Lu Yunkai separated from Harry, Ron, and Hermione who repeatedly thanked and apologized to him, and then walked towards the Slytherin lounge in the basement.

But just after going down one floor, he heard Chris's cry from the side.

"...Why are you here? Aren't you afraid that the mountain monster will step on you to death?"

"Meow? Mountain monster? That kind of thing, I let it use two claws and it can't catch up with me." Chris snorted, "Let's not talk about this, I just discovered a big secret."

"Let's talk about it in the dormitory." Lu Yunkai looked at the empty corridor and was a little worried.

"Meow! You can't get out if you go back! Hurry up! Follow me!"

Chris didn't waste time talking to Lu Yunkai, and she ran to another staircase first.

"Chris! Slow down!" Lu Yunkai was a little embarrassed and could only chase after him.

He ran up two floors in one breath along the stairs, and then ran nearly half a floor forward along the corridor leading to the Room of Requirement, and came to the end of the corridor.

Chris had already squatted in front of a small wooden door.

"Meow! Are you too slow?"

"You have four legs, I only have two!" Lu Yunkai glared at Chris, "Here? What is it?"

"Just now I was wandering around on the third floor, and suddenly heard a noise downstairs. When I was curious, I saw Quirrell sneaking upstairs, so I secretly followed him." Chris pointed to the wooden door, "Then he went in, and Snape arrived not long after."

"Oh. Then what?"

"Then both of them came out."

"... That's it??" Lu Yunkai was a little speechless about the development of this story.

"Meow. Do you know what's inside? There's a three-headed dog!"

"Three-headed dog? A dog with three heads?"

"Yeah!" Chris nodded, "This kind of thing is super rare. I just went in and took a peek. It seemed to be sitting on a wooden door, guarding something."

"Do you think Quirrell or Snape came to confirm whether the things it was guarding were safe?" Lu Yunkai understood what Chris meant.

"Interestingly, Snape seemed to have been bitten on the leg by a dog."

"...Okay, I'm not interested in these. I'll go back to the dormitory. Slytherin has lost points because of me today." Lu Yunkai shook his head.

Quirrell is fine, but Snape is injured. It means that the dog recognizes Quirrell but not Snape.

If it is really guarding something, it must be following Quirrell's orders to guard against Snape...

As a first-year student, it's better not to interfere in such matters!

And if he was right, Snape, who had hit a snag here, might have returned to the Slytherin lounge. If he didn't go back, he might be in trouble.

Lu Yunkai ignored Chris's suggestion that he go in and see the three-headed dog to gain experience, and ran back to the Slytherin lounge directly, but was still stopped by Snape standing at the door of the lounge.

"Where have you been?" Snape was stunned when he saw Lu Yunkai coming in dirty.

"I just saw Harry and Ron sneaking to the second floor, so I followed them. I didn't expect to meet a mountain monster there, and then killed it." Lu Yunkai explained a little embarrassedly.

He glanced at Snape's leg unconsciously.

There was a wound.

"You killed the mountain monster? How did you kill it?"

"Explosive Corrosive Potion."

"... Did you make it?" Snape was stunned.

"Yeah." Lu Yunkai gritted his teeth and nodded stubbornly.

"Well done." Snape nodded, and left without saying anything more.

"Yunkai, are you okay?" Blaise was the first to come over, looking at Lu Yunkai who looked very miserable.

"Fortunately, I didn't get hurt... But I caused Slytherin to lose points."

"I heard you just say that you saved Harry Potter's life?" Malfoy, who was standing next to him, also came over.

"...Yeah."

"Why did you save him!!" Malfoy looked unhappy.

"Without me, I guess he and Ron could kill that mountain monster. That thing is too stupid." Lu Yunkai said half-truthfully, "Besides, this can be regarded as doing a favor for Gryffindor!"

"That's right. Harry is Gryffindor's baby!" Malfoy smiled and nodded.

"I'll go back to the dormitory to take a shower first. I just sweated a lot."

Lu Yunkai smiled at Malfoy a little tiredly, and then ran back to the dormitory under the attention of everyone.

As soon as he entered the room, Lu Yunkai took off his shirt immediately, raised his arms and looked at the place where he had put up to block the wooden stick. There were two bright red marks, which were shocking.

Lu Yunkai touched it lightly, and he gasped in pain. He quickly used a gold galleon to buy an external plaster from the system and applied it to the wound.

Then he lay on the bed, dazed.

Recalling the scene on the second floor just now, Lu Yunkai was still a little scared.

If he had not been able to make the wooden stick disappear in the first time, he would not be lying on the bed in the dormitory now, but in the cemetery!

In fact, Harry and Ron did not ask him to go to find Hermione together! He volunteered to participate, but almost lost his life. If he was given another chance, would he still help Harry and Ron?

Lu Yunkai shook his head.

You can't think like that! That's your friend! How can you not help your friend when he's in trouble?

"Yunkai, what's the injury on your arm? Is it so serious?"

Just when Lu Yunkai was surprised that he would regret helping Harry and Ron, Blaise returned to the dormitory.

He was shocked by the red mark on Lu Yunkai's arm.

"I'm lucky that I didn't die at the hands of that thing."

"I just saw you talking and laughing, and I thought you were fine! You're really strong!" Blaise sighed, "How about I accompany you to the infirmary to get some medicine from Madam Pomfrey?"

"Forget it, I was the one who insisted on going. Now I'm going to the infirmary again, which is embarrassing." Lu Yunkai smiled.

In fact, embarrassing is secondary. He told Harry and the others that he was not beaten to death by the stick because of the protection of the amulet, and the lie of going to the infirmary for treatment was exposed.

"I don't know why you want to help those people in Gryffindor." Blaise sat on his own bed, looking at Lu Yunkai with a puzzled look, "We Slytherin students have always been excluded by them. They may not appreciate your help. Why bother?"

"Just ask for a clear conscience!" Lu Yunkai smiled, "If I wake up tomorrow and find out that Harry and Ron were killed by mountain trolls, I think I will regret it for the rest of my life."

"You are really too kind." Blaise sighed softly, "Maybe because of this, you can meet all kinds of friends?"

"Maybe! Isn't this how you and I became friends!"

"By the way, Yunkai, don't you really want to come to my house with me tomorrow? My mother really wants to invite you to celebrate Halloween together!"

Blaise saw that Lu Yunkai was unwilling to go and didn't persuade him, and talked about other things.

"When Senior Sister Farley compiled the list of people going home, didn't she say that we could only go back to our own homes?"

"My mother said she had written to the dean to explain."

"But Professor Snape didn't say I could go!" Lu Yunkai shook his head, "Forget it! It's just a weekend of rest, there's no need to make such a fuss. Besides, there's nothing good about Halloween. Please tell your mother for me, I'm very grateful for her invitation."

"Okay." Blaise sighed a little regretfully.