Hogwarts Crawler

"Pah——"

"Uh——?!"

The man woke up in pain. After opening his eyes, he felt that his vision seemed to be affected to a certain extent.

Why was there only a slit in the world he saw?

And... his eyes hurt so much...

"Are you awake?"

The man looked over with some difficulty. In his sight, there was an old man who looked a little kind sitting in front of him. The other person's pure white clothes were reflected by the crystals around him... Crystal?

Crystal!!!

That's right! They should have been caught by those weird crystal worms in the underground ruins, and then... then...

"Ah! You! What are you!"

The man was horrified, thinking that the other person was an aboriginal here.

The snow-white clothes matched the dazzling crystals around him inexplicably, and even the skin was very white, looking like someone who lived in a place without sunlight.

"Calm down, kid, I'm a scholar, you can call me Gandalf..."

"...Scholar?"

"Yes, I found this place and found you trapped inside the crystal... Can you tell me what you encountered?"

"We..."

As if he thought of something extremely terrible, the man's body shook, and then began to talk about their experiences intermittently.

From being forcibly recruited by the Ministry of Magic at the beginning, to being attacked by the Kraken when entering the ruins and the team being scattered, to them mistakenly entering the underground space and being attacked because their vision was affected, his last memory before he fainted was the crystal bugs crawling towards him...

"Hmm..."

Adam nodded and said to the man with a smile:

"Do you feel uncomfortable now?"

"Hmm... except for the lack of strength in my body, it seems that there is nothing uncomfortable."

"Okay."

Adam nodded and stood up from the crystal:

"Basically the same as you said last time, I'll ask another one."

Man: "???"

Let the man fall into a baby-like sleep, Adam turned around and raised his sword, breaking the crystal that sealed the young woman.

"Pah——"

"Hmm...?"

The woman opened her eyes in pain and found puzzled that her cheeks seemed to feel a burst of pain.

"Are you awake?"

...

After some questioning, the two people's oral statements were basically consistent, with only one difference - the middle-aged man said that the person sent by the Ministry of Magic to monitor them was a young woman, while the young woman said that the person sent by the Ministry of Magic to monitor them was a middle-aged man.

Oh, Rashomon.

Fortunately, Adam didn't care who was an employee of the Ministry of Magic. He only tested to confirm whether getting people out of the crystal would cause any problems with their physical or mental health.

Seeing that the two still had the mind to intrigue, it should be fine.

Adam swung the sword to rescue Eugene's parents, put them aside and waited for them to wake up, and then began to study the crystal and glowing ball next to them.

The middle-aged man with swollen eyes and the young woman with purple cheeks: #%￥...

"What is this?"

Adam cut off the top of a crystal column and shook it gently, and the liquid inside rippled. Relying on the protection of the shield, Adam even stretched out his finger to dip a little. The liquid was colorless and transparent, and it felt a little thicker than water. It was a bit like... milk tea?

It seemed that all the crystals in this space were the same, with only a hard shell on the outside, and the inside was full of that strange liquid. Even the bugs were the same, with no internal organs but such liquid inside.

The internal structure of the crystals and bugs was the same, so does that mean that these bugs and crystals are essentially the same? Are the crystals alive too?

"Hmm..."

Adam turned his head and saw Eugene's father waking up.

"Hello, is this Mr. Jackson Klauer?"

"Uh?"

When he saw Adam, Jackson was still confused. He did not answer Adam's words, but subconsciously looked around and found his wife Melinda who was still in a coma.

The unconscious wife, the crystals around him... Jackson remembered what had happened before and looked at Adam:

"You are...?"

After seeing that Adam was a child, the vigilance in Jackson's words and eyes gradually turned into hesitation and dullness, and even a little doubt -

doubting life, doubting his cognition, memory... and vision.

"My name is Adam, and I'm Eugene's classmate."

"Eugene's... classmate?"

"Eugene wrote to his grandmother because you wrote that you would visit him at Christmas, but his grandmother said that you were dead... A lot of things happened in the meantime, anyway, I found this place and now I'm here to save you."

Speaking of this, Adam couldn't help but frowned,Whether Eugene's parents were in trouble or not, the outside world would not receive any news. Then who were those who went to Eugene's grandmother to deliver the body and wrote to Eugene?

"Come... to save us?"

Jackson repeated it a little dully, and Adam was even a little worried about his mental state.

But this really can't be blamed on Jackson, but what Adam said was a little too outrageous... Because the parents of his classmates were in danger, he ran to the dangerous ruins to rescue them. Let alone how Adam did it, isn't this friendship a little too indestructible?

Even if they were Hufflepuffs, it wouldn't be so outrageous, right? You know, the couple used to be Hufflepuffs... Oh, by the way, the son should also be Hufflepuff, right?

Jackson felt a little guilty.

For a moment, Jackson couldn't even think about Adam being a liar, because a liar wouldn't make up such an outrageous reason to win people's trust, but he still had to confirm it in the end.

"Um... do you have any way to prove your identity?"

After saying this, Jackson saw that Adam looked at him with a complicated look, which seemed to carry a little condemnation?

"Good question. When I asked Eugene this question before, he was silent for a long time, and then told me that he didn't have any tokens to prove his identity. He had never even seen you... at least not in his memory."

Jackson wanted to say that he and Melinda went home once when Eugene was two years old, but swallowed his words after hearing Adam's supplement.

Melinda, who had just woken up next to him, couldn't help but blame herself.

"This photo should barely prove my identity? Fortunately, you don't look much different from the photo."

Adam took out the photo and thought about it:

"Oh, by the way, there are also the birthday gifts Eugene gave me over the years and the Christmas gifts in the first year. It is said that they are things you brought back. You should be able to recognize them?"

With an inexplicable mentality, Eugene gave gifts with the main point that he didn't feel bad for selling his father's land for a son, and all four brothers in the dormitory had a share.

Regardless of Eugene's mood when he gave these gifts, Jackson's heart couldn't help but twitch when he saw these things, especially when he saw the bottle of good luck fountain water.

Even Melinda couldn't help but sit up.

——That's probably the real good luck fountain water!

"I think this thing should be a fake."

Then Adam's words stabbed the two people's hearts directly, with outstanding effect, and directly silenced the two people:

"After all, if this is true, then you should have bathed in the good luck fountain, and you wouldn't be forcibly recruited by the Ministry of Magic and locked up here... The luck of ordinary people is not so unlucky."

After saying that, Adam put the bottle of "good luck fountain water" away again. After all, in Adam's eyes, no matter what kind of fountain it is, the friendship attached to it is the most precious value of this bottle of fountain water.