HPMRS CH 108: into the drago.... Chamber of Secrets

At the end of the Christmas dinner, Ryan had to admit that although his mother's cooking was delicious, the house-elves were better than humans in craftsmanship, after all, practice makes perfect. At least the food for this important banquet is better than when I went to a Michelin-starred restaurant with my parents once.

After leaving the hall, Ryan quickly went back to his dormitory to read a book for half an hour and then went to bed and set the alarm clock for two in the morning. Fortunately, the roommate has gone home for the holidays, and the alarm clock will not disturb others.

After going to bed, Ryan couldn't fall asleep because of excitement.

Fortunately, he habitually runs the Maoshan Meditation Method before going to bed. After running 7 cycles, he finally entered deep sleep.

At two o'clock in the morning, the alarm clock went off on time. Ryan got up from the bed and put on the assassin's equipment. After checking that everything was there, he put on his school uniform and left the bedroom.

After leaving the common room, Ryan found that Hogwarts at Christmas was exceptionally quiet.

It may be that most of the students are not in school, and the students who stay in school are tired of playing throughout the day. There was no one in the corridor.

After successfully arriving at Myrtle's bathroom, Ryan found that Myrtle was not there. Maybe it was because she went to some other place to play on Christmas. From the Nick Halloween party, he knew that the ghosts also had their own entertainment.

Ryan walked to the sink and confirmed that there was indeed a faucet that wasn't working, and there was a snake-embossed on the side.

This is it. In my previous life, I read from some websites, that the people from the Gaunt family participated in the restoration works of Hogwarts castle and were aware of the secret chamber as they were the descendants of the Slytherin. So they most likely changed the location of the entrance to its current location and used the sink as a cover.

It now appears that this should be true, after all, flush toilets and faucets can not just be randomly built in the schools, they are where they are, and Slytherin, irrespective of how much of a dark wizard he was, with his high pride, would he stoop so low to set up a secret room entrance in the ladies bathroom. This has to be modified by later generations.

Fortunately, in the world of "Mr. Vampire", he obtained the heritage of Parseltongue, and Ryan opened the sink with Parseltongue. The faucet glowed with a dazzling white light and began to spin fast. Then, it started to move.

Finally, the thick water pipe was revealed, big enough for an adult to get in.

After putting a shock absorption charm on himself, Ryan got into the pipe. The shock absorption spell is one of Ryan's newly learnt spells that he is proficient in. After all, he can make a leap of faith, if he can use it well.

After the jump into the pipeline, Ryan felt like he's rushing into a dark and evil place. He could see many pipes diverging in all directions, but none of them were as thick as the one where he was now. The pipe twists and turns, winding all the way down with a steep slope.

These twists and turns also made Ryan bump into the corner from time to time, and he felt that he might have gone far underground. While going through this Ryan was thinking, if I dig deep inside the chamber of secrets will I find water or lava?

Finally, the pipeline became horizontal again, and Ryan stood securely at the pipeline's outlet with the help of the shock absorption spell. The land is covered in silt and there is a large stone tunnel here. He sensed the humid environment around him and assumed he was now beneath the black lake. So no lava.

There was silence in the tunnel, and Ryan took out a Lantern Cherry to light his way. There are no other sounds in this place, only the clicking sound from the occasional stepping on something he walked on. Ryan brought the Lantern Cherry close to the ground and found that the ground was full of small animal bones. But this shouldn't be leftover by the basilisk.

After all, think about the size of the basilisk. The energy gained from eating this small animal is not as great as the energy consumed when hunting these small animals and as a Magical snake shouldn't basilisk be able to digest bones too, like most of the snake kind.

After taking a turn, Ryan found a six or seven-meter-long strip on the ground, which was there motionless. After slowly getting closer, he found that it was a green snakeskin that was very bright. At first glance, you can tell that this should be a poisonous snake.

The snakeskin was coiled on the ground, and it looked like the snake had peeled it off in one go. There is a thin layer of ash on the snakeskin. Naturally, such a good thing can't be abandoned. Ryan opened the space door to Myriad Realms General Store and loaded the snakeskin in it. Fortunately, this thing is not heavy.

After collecting the snakeskin, Ryan continued to move forward. The road ahead was filled with twists and turns, and he could only turn one turn after another along the road. I have to say that the designer of this tunnel is a master of psychology because the tortuous tunnel in this dark environment will make people walking here always worry about monsters waiting for you when you turn the corner.

After turning another curve, the black tunnel in front was no longer the same. At the end of the tunnel, there was a wall with two snakes entwined in each other etched on it. Their eyes were made of huge, shiny emeralds.

Ryan took a closer look at the wall and finally found that these emeralds were part of the magical institution in this place. So he had no choice but to abandon his attempt to extract these gems.

"Open," Ryan said it again in Parseltongue. The two snakes split off, and a large hole appeared in the wall, which grew larger and larger. The wall eventually slid to all sides and vanished. Ryan re-tidied his garments, stuffed the robes that were impeding his mobility inside the space bag and cautiously moved in. Ryan discovered that the secret room was quite large when he entered it. Ryan unlocked the space door of the Myriad Realms General Store and pulled out the rooster that was housed thereafter performing a magic detection to determine that the basilisk hadn't come out.

After getting ready, Ryan began to look at the room. The ceiling of the room was very high, supported by many stone pillars carved with entangled snakes, casting shadows on the ground. This location isn't as black as he expected, but it does have a slight green glow. The roof of the secret room is inlaid with many transparent crystals, and the bottom of the Black Lake may be seen through Crystal if you look along with the light source. Through the crystal, several submerged fluorescent plants at the lake's bottom provided light to the secret compartment.

It is a good thing that there is a light source in the secret room. After all, the basilisk can judge the opponent's position by smell, sound, and maybe even thermal vision, but it is difficult for Ryan to fight utilizing detection other than vision.

After walking to the end of the room, Ryan saw a statue as high as the room itself standing close to the wall in front of him.

Looking up, you can see that the statue has an old face and a sparse beard hanging from the chin to the feet.

Ryan saw Slytherin's old age and exhaustion from this sculpture. It seems that it is true that Slytherin was at odds with the other three founders and ran away after many quarrels. At least from this statue, it can be seen that Slytherin was indeed in a bad state in his later years.

But, Slytherin's little pets are indeed beginning to threaten the students in the school. Even killed a student fifty years ago.

As we all know, magical creatures are an indispensable part of the magical world and have an important position in the magical world. Indiscriminate hunting and killing of magical creatures is bad behavior. But the artificially cultivated creatures have crossed the bottom line by killing people. This is the main reason why Ryan came here to hunt the basilisk, and definitely not for offset points to hasten the speed of increasing his strength in case Dumbledore is the real dark lord.