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Chapter 245 Puzzle Solving
Hearing the three messages she read out, Sherlock looked a little confused.

"What does it mean?"

Silke cleaned up the playing cards on the table, leaving an eight of diamonds alone.

"A location in the castle, as I said yesterday, its original intention is for us to find it, it has no interest in these students in Hogwarts, and it has no other ideas, it just wants to find you. "

"But if it's just revenge, it shouldn't be so eager." She said softly, with a little puzzlement in her voice.

Sherlock has no idea to explore the straw man's attempt and purpose. The most important thing now is to solve the problem before the matter expands and the news spreads.

This year is not like the year when the Chamber of Secrets was opened. If the trouble finally got to the point of closing the school, the consequences would undoubtedly be more serious.

"Number eight" Sherlock picked up the poker card left by Silk, squeezed his chin and asked carefully, "What might this refer to? Time? Number eight or eight o'clock? Or location? The eighth classroom? The eighth floor? Or the eighth tower?"

In solving puzzles, Silke has much more experience than Sherlock.

"The possibility of time is very small. If it indicates the eighth or eight o'clock, it will not be connected to the clues behind. White and a hidden room indicate a more likely location."

With Silk pointing out the general direction, they will have a goal when they investigate next.

In the morning, Sherlock originally had two sixth-grade classes. In order to save time, he had to ask Moody to help take the class. Since the arithmetic and divination taught by Silk is only a third-grade class, she His workload is much easier than that of Sherlock, and even if there is a class today, he can temporarily transfer it to another time.

They came to the first floor of the castle and started looking for it from the eighth classroom. After entering the castle, they followed the eighth classroom along the corridor and found a small empty classroom.

But this room was very ordinary, without even a seat and a bench. It looked like a potion class classroom that was only used occasionally. The two of them checked every corner here, but found nothing.

"The eighth classroom is wrong, maybe it's the eighth floor? But isn't this range too big? There are many classrooms and offices on the whole floor. I remember that Filch found two rooms there. As a utility room."

Sherlock and Silk said with a headache while walking up the stairs to the eighth floor.

Silke didn't have such a tangled expression on his face, and she was not too worried about this puzzle for her who was already used to answering prophecies.

"It is very likely to represent the eighth floor, because there are three hints, and the number eight is only the first hint. The wider the range it represents, the more likely it is the answer, because the latter two hints can play a simplified role. All predictions The results are never useless, and ignoring any of them can make a world of difference."

"There are still students in class, do we want to find them from classroom to classroom?"

Silk turned his head and looked at Sherlock with eyes covered by black ribbons.

"You're not good at solving puzzles?"

Sherlock touched his forehead.

"Well, I admit that I lack some patience, because I can't predict what will happen if the student's nightmare continues. After all, it used to kill without scruple."

"You don't have to search from classroom to classroom. Pay attention to the two messages at the back, white and a hidden room."

Silk could see that Sherlock was a little concerned and confused now. He has been teaching in this castle for the third year now, and he has long had feelings for Hogwarts.

That's why she needs to be more calm.

She looked at the decorations around the castle. As a castle that had been built in the tenth century, even after many renovations and repairs, the walls in Hogwarts were still not painted or sprayed with paint. It is the original color of the stone.

It is dusty, even if the sun shines in, it will give people a unique sense of depression when staying in a castle.

Most of the decorative paintings hanging on the walls are oil paintings and portraits with rich colors. There are short knights on horses who keep shouting, noble ladies smiling with cats in their arms, and monks holding crosses in compassion scholar.

Not only the walls but also those decorative paintings, it is difficult to find information related to white.

So the second hint "white" should be the most important.

According to Silk's previous experience in deciphering prophecies, the number eight defines a large range, and the white color obviously intends to determine a clear direction within this range, and the last hint directly expresses the answer itself.

"You've been at Hogwarts longer than I have. Do you know of any paintings or walls on the eighth floor where the main color is white?"

With such a clear reminder, Sherlock thought of a painting after thinking for a moment.

"There is a tapestry in which a troll beats Barnabas! Barnabas is wearing a white tutu, and the theme of the tapestry is white."

"where are we going!"

Soon, they came to the tapestry.

This is a very witty tapestry painting. Barnabas in a tutu seems to want to teach the troll to dance, but the troll raises the wooden stick in his hand and prepares to hit him on the head.

The Barnabas in the painting looked very embarrassed. When Sherlock and Silk came here, the giant monster holding the wooden club turned his eyes to them, staring and puffing out his nostrils.

Of course, Sherlock was not in the mood to pay attention to the giant monster in the portrait. He looked around the tapestry. He might not notice anything if he didn't pay attention at ordinary times, but now that he came here specially, he would find something wrong.

On the opposite side of the tapestry, there is a wall that looks a little abrupt. This wall is very ordinary, no different from other walls in the castle, but its position is a bit wrong.

This is neither the end of the corridor, nor the corner of the stairs, leaving such a place seems redundant.

Although there are many redundant places like this in Hogwarts Castle, those walls will simply be decorated with a few moving paintings, or simply put a statue directly.

This wall is blank, and there is nothing on it, as if such a space was deliberately set aside.

Sherlock frowned and looked at the wall opposite the tapestry, muttering one last reminder.

"A house hidden by a house hidden"

(End of this chapter)