[HP]Aluet

"It's like this in general." Ranbusi marked the route on the map with a quill. "I asked some people to sneak in and explore in advance, and it took about six months to barely deduce such a route. This jungle is Like a maze, about ten miles into the interior is the territory of the centaur, so I didn't let them go any further, and came to ask your opinion, Lord Dark Lord."

"Well done, Ranbusi."

Ranbusi smiled smugly.Ever since he became a Death Eater, he has been very attentive. Avery, who was often sent by Riddle to do some important things, has now been made into an ordinary little character by him, and he is still not satisfied. Find ways to express yourself in the task.Facts have proved that he has a lot of ideas, and what he does is indeed in place, and he has successfully been reused by Riddle.

Riddle didn't know where—maybe some herbal medicine book. He learned about a plant called blood cage flower. This kind of flower doesn't like light and grows in cold and humid places. It often appears in poisonous barriers, swamps and other places. Wetlands The jungle is the best place for them to grow.They are usually only recorded in forbidden books. They are extremely poisonous, and the juice of the petals is comparable to strong acid, but it is said that when combined with wormwood root, it can make a potion that has the effect of regenerating bone and blood.

I know that Riddle has been doing a lot of potion experiments-to put it bluntly, he seems to be self-harming, and he can use his own body as an experimental object for anyone who is not life-threatening.I watched everything he did with cold eyes, and felt sorry for the student who was once said to be the smartest student by the professors.What the hell is he doing?I don't understand, and I have no interest in understanding.He obviously longed for immortality, yet he chose to do this kind of thing, which is clearly contradictory.

I don't think I really understood him at all—from beginning to end, I never did.I suddenly felt a tinge of sadness, or... sympathy, but these emotions passed away quickly, because I couldn't understand their reasons.

We followed the route drawn by Ranbusi and arrived at the finish line smoothly - we stopped at a slightly open area, considering the next direction, but before we had time to think about it, there was a chaotic sound of horseshoes in the bushes And noisy voices, and then five centaurs surrounded us.

"Human wizards. What are you doing here?" one of the centaurs asked loudly.

"We don't intend to offend, we are just looking for a blood cage flower, hoping to get help." Riddle took off his hat, and bowed to them gentlemanly, and the others behind him did the same. He did so without exception.

"Haha!" A centaur laughed loudly, "Duffry, do you know what kind of flower that is?"

The centaur named Duffry also laughed: "There is no such thing! You go back, human wizard—you are not welcome here."

"We won't disturb you, we will leave naturally after we get what we need." Riddle still communicated with them calmly.

"I've said it all, if you don't have this thing, go back to your dirty lair!"

A strong low air pressure exuded from Riddle's body, and a cold ruthlessness flashed in his eyes. All the Death Eaters silently clenched their wands, including me, but he raised a hand to signal us not to act rashly.

"As far as I know, the blood cage flower I'm talking about doesn't belong to you centaurs. If you need your consent to collect a wild medicinal herb, don't you take the wizard group too seriously?" Riddle There was a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, "I believe that the centaurs never like to interfere in any affairs of the magic world, let alone make enemies with any faction politically, don't they? You enjoy an unfettered and free life in this jungle, why bother?" Because this blood cage flower deliberately made things difficult for us?"

They were silent and walked anxiously, when one of the centaurs took two steps forward, he had a pair of amazing blue eyes and shining platinum-blonde hair, no other centaurs seemed hostile to us So heavy, he stopped the centaur who was uttering evil words with his eyes, and his tone was very polite: "We didn't mean to stop you, but you have to know that the growth environment of blood cage flowers is extremely dangerous. If you die there, you may die." Don't blame us for not reminding you."

"Don't worry, whether our trip is life or death has nothing to do with the horse people, and no one will pursue it. We only hope that you can give us good guidance, that's all."

The centaur looked up at the sky, and said to Riddle: "Follow the Big Dipper, it will guide you, I wish you good luck." He took the lead to make way for us, and Riddle thanked us symbolically, Go deep into the jungle.When I approached the horse man, his eyes suddenly aimed at the ring on my hand—the treasure of the Lin family. His expression became very serious in an instant, and he opened his mouth as if he wanted to ask me something. My expression changed , quickly hid his hands in his sleeves, and quickened his pace to keep up with Riddle.

I feel a little strange, does a horse person know this thing?Maybe I'm overly nervous.I looked back, he was still standing there watching us, I quickly looked away.

"This group of mules are too arrogant." Crabbe muttered, "They can't be used by us, why don't we find an opportunity to teach them a lesson."

Avery elbowed him.

"Use your brain a little bit, Crabbe." Nott sneered lukewarmly, but Crabbe had long been accustomed to his poisonous tongue, and he was immune to it, curled his lips and stopped talking.

"Why did the centaur ask the Ministry of Magic to attribute them to the ranks of animals, because they never interfered with anything that happened around them. The previous giants and werewolves had something in our hands and wanted us, so they can naturally be used by us. Horse People are different." Riddle surprisingly showed a little patience, "If you don't want to, then don't force it, it is neither useful nor threatening to us, there is no need to anger this group with a few words of quarrel, that is tantamount to scaring the snake away , does us no good at all."

"Oh." Crabbe rolled his eyes at Nott.

The road ahead is getting wider and wider, and at some point a thin layer of mist has formed.We tried to disperse the fog with fluorescent flashes, but obviously failed.The more we continue walking, the thicker the fog will be. We can only gather together to prevent getting separated.Ranbusi followed Riddle, and I naturally wanted to stay away from him, so I walked side by side with Alphard.Irina moved a little closer to me intentionally or unintentionally—she has been keen to stare at me, as long as I stay a little away from Riddle, she is afraid that I will make some small moves, but I move closer to Riddle, She kept staring at me with her brown eyes as if she was going to eat me alive, wishing she could make a thick wall between me and Riddle herself.

"This is a poison barrier." Irina said with a frown.

Fortunately, Riddle made each of us drink the antidote in advance. He is very clear about the growth environment of the blood cage flower and has done a lot of preparation work.

After a while, the fog was so thick that we couldn't see the road at all. I could only see Irina and Alphard who were closest to me, and everyone else who was a little further away disappeared.

The sound of the grass being blown by the wind came from all directions, but there was no wind here—if there was wind, the poisonous barrier should have dispersed long ago.I sensed a hint of danger, but this also gave me inspiration: "Maybe it will be useful to use the weather spell."

As I said this, I cast a weather spell, and light rain began to fall in the nearby sky, but the fog was still unaffected.Wind—or no wind.

"Be careful, I feel something is wrong." After a lot of tossing, I could only remind him helplessly.

Riddle suddenly stopped in front of me, and I continued to walk forward without realizing it, and almost bumped into him.

A spell was cast, and I saw something long like a black tail retract into the mist.

"What?" Ranbusi stared warily at the place where it disappeared.

Not long after the silence, I caught a glimpse of Alphard staggering from the corner of my eye. He grunted and cast a spell to the left. It was that dark thing again, and it retracted again, without anyone noticing it.

"Use the Fire Curse." Riddle said lightly.

There are some grass and trees around, which were quickly ignited by the flames, and the high temperature rushed straight up. The fog dispersed a lot, and the effect was very significant.I picked up a thicker stick and lit the top, and the others did the same, and we extinguished them before the fire got any bigger, and continued our scouting with torches.

After not taking two steps, Alphard suddenly fell to his knees on the ground.

"What's wrong?" I wanted to help him up, but his body sank, his hands rested on the ground, and he shook his head.

"What's going on?" Irina noticed the situation here for the first time, approached and squatted down.She stretched out her hand and touched Alphard's left arm. I turned around and found a deep bloody gash on his arm, as if he had been cut open by a knife. Some turned outwards, and the red and black blood stained the clothes, looking hideous and terrifying.

"Is it that thing just now?"

Alphard nodded and took a few breaths: "Toxic."

Irina skillfully turned up his sleeves, tore off a strip of cloth and tied it up above the wound, squeezed the wound hard to let the blood out, even though Alphard grinned in pain, she ignored it.

"Wait a minute, Alphard is injured." I stopped Riddle.He turned his head, and I stared into his eyes, trying to ask for his opinion—he said he didn't want my abilities to be known by the Death Eaters, but now that Alphard is injured, I don't know if he would agree to make an exception.Riddle looked at Alphard's bleeding wound expressionlessly, didn't say a word, and didn't give me any hints. Instead, he turned around as if nothing had happened, and began to look at the surrounding environment.

"The poisonous blood is almost released, but the wound has been bleeding out and cannot be stopped." Irina covered the wound with her hands, and the blood penetrated the cloth and flowed down her fingers.

Riddle walked forward for a certain distance, Crabbe came over to take a look, and found that Riddle was still going forward, he hesitated for a while, and finally followed, Ranbusi and Nott didn't stop for a while.

I looked at their backs in disbelief, and a surge of anger welled up in my heart.

"What should I do?" Irina stared at Riddle anxiously.

"Why don't you keep up, I'll think of a way here." I said.

"No!" Irina didn't even think about it, she refused directly, and gave me a fierce look, but soon her tone softened again, and she kept looking at Riddle and the others who were going away, "Master is going far away .”

"Then why are you still pretending to be here? If you want you to follow them and stare at me so closely, why don't you focus more on your dear master." I couldn't help but sneer, "He doesn't care about us, Thank you for being so loyal."

"Shut up! I'm going to tell him what you said, how dare you say that about the master!" She looked at me angrily.

I snorted coldly, put my hand on Alphard's wound, and used my healing ability. Within 2 minutes, his wound was almost healed.

"...Thank you." Alphard looked at my hand with some surprise. Irina's expression was more exciting than his. I made a silent gesture to her, and then quickly caught up with Riddle and the others.Riddle glanced back at us, probably guessing what I did, but he didn't say anything.

"How? Ready?" Crabbe asked in a low voice, slowing down.

"Just let the poisonous blood out." Alphard covered the original wound, where the sleeves were still covered with blood, and it was not clear what was going on. Only we know that his wound is hardly visible anymore.

"I knew it." Crabbe patted him on the shoulder and stepped forward again.

From here onwards, no grass has grown, and the soil under my feet is getting thicker and thicker. I am even afraid that I will sink into the swamp with my next step.A cave appeared not far in front of it. Water was dripping from the upper edge of the cave mouth, and the ground in an area next to it was constantly bubbling out. We didn't dare to approach it.

"What's that?" Crabbe pointed to the hole.I looked inside, and under the reflection of the fire, there was a dark shadow shaking there, and I raised my wand carefully.However, as soon as I approached the bubbling area, the black shadow rushed out, and its huge tail pierced my head. I hurriedly cast a spell to resist.Now I can see clearly what was attacking us through the mist before—it was the tail of the monster in front of me.

"It's a manticore!" cried Ranbusi.

Its attack was no longer as cautious and tentative as before, we barely dodged it, the spell hit its tail, the hard carapace was lifted, it roared, and launched a more violent attack.

"Wait a minute—" I turned around and knocked back the scorpion tails attacking from behind, "There are two!"

Riddle raised his hand indifferently, the wand shook violently in his hand, a dazzling green light emanated from the tip of the wand, and that breathtaking force hit the manticore coming out of the cave.Its tail was in front of it, and it was shattered under the impact of magic. The carapace and the manticore's blood splashed all over the ground. I heard its scream, and then the second green light followed, hitting firmly on the ground. On top of it, its huge body fell stiffly into the bubbling swamp, halfway down.After a while, the other half that was floating on top also slowly began to sink, and the swamp turned into a pool of scarlet blood—the manticore was completely corroded, and there was not even a bone residue left.

On the other hand, we are still procrastinating with the other one.

I watched this scene in shock, and only lamented that his killing curse has become so proficient.He turned around, and I ducked aside, the spell hit another manticore that we imprisoned in place, and it also ended up in the same end, except that it was lucky and left a whole body.

I took a long breath, recovered from the thrill, and deeply realized the horror of black magic and the Unforgivable Curses.The Ministry of Magic does not allow the use of the Unforgivable Curse. If a war is to be launched, it is unimaginable-as long as this prohibition is not abolished, they are doomed to be passive.

We crossed the cave and found the blood cage flower under a tree.That tree is dead, there is not a single leaf on it, the bark is brittle, and a piece will fall off when you touch it, but the succulent pottery grows so brightly at the root of the tree, the bright red color is as good as the flowers in a radius of several miles. The barrenness formed a stark contrast.

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[Every day I hope to go back to the past. If I had to choose again, I would definitely not be like today.However, I don't seem to have any choice... I'd better work hard, hoping to end everything before it starts and leave this place early. ——If you have the opportunity to meet Professor Dumbledore alone, tell him for me that if something happens in the future, I hope he can discuss with the Ministry of Magic personnel to change some policies...such as some hard bans... I dare not write to him, his name is too conspicuous. ]

A giant snake's head crawled up the table from the back of my arm.

"Ah!" I screamed, my whole body shook with fright, subconsciously covered the letter paper with something, my hands and feet were weak, I stood up from the chair while patting my chest, retreated to the bed, away from the desk.I jumped on the bed, lifted the quilt and got in, wrapping myself tightly, my heart pounding.

I poked half of my head out of the quilt and watched the python slowly crawl down from the table, slide down the chair to the floor, pass by the foot of my bed, and slip out the door. Tu Xinzi.

"Huh—" After the snake came out, I stayed under the covers for more than half an hour before I carefully got up from the bed, put the letter in an envelope, put it in my pocket, and walked out of the room.

I tiptoed past Riddle's room, I heard voices coming from inside, I opened the door curiously, his door was not locked, after all Death Eaters never barge in without warning.

He stood in front of the table with his hands on the table, and I was shocked to see that the skin on his exposed hands and forearms began to peel off and became bloody, and then the flesh and blood were crazily corroded, and the bloody white bones were exposed , I covered my mouth.

He panted heavily, his body trembled, and the corroded flesh grew again, and then began to fall off and reorganize, but he firmly grasped the corner of the table, stubbornly not making a sound.

Obviously, he was experimenting with himself again.When he made the potion, he added the blood cage flower. I don't know what kind of medicine he was developing, but it must be something serious—maybe this phenomenon also means that he failed.

I hesitated, walked in, stood behind him, and watched the cycle continue.

The color of the blood stings my eyes.I lowered my head, not looking at the horrible picture.

"Do you need my help?" My voice was emotionless.

"Who allowed you to come in casually?" He said in a low voice, his voice was hoarse and annoyed, his red eyes stared at me coldly, his neck was bruised due to the pain, and there were obvious blood stains on his lips.

Right now, Riddle looked...really fragile.

I suddenly had a thought, if I do something now, can he be easily killed.

I deliberately didn't look at his arm, smiled easily, and sat on the table in front of him unhurriedly - I think I'm extremely presumptuous now.

"Tom Riddle." I put my finger on his chin, "I think, maybe you should really stamp me with a Death Eater mark. Or..." You might even die yourself someday I don't know.I thought maliciously in my heart.

I wanted to see some panic or fear in his eyes, but unfortunately, no.

"Think about it, Ashley." He said softly.I frowned.

"Hiss—" Out of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of the glowing eyes of the snake beside the table, and my hand shook violently.

damn it.

I calmed down as if I had been doused in a bucket of ice water.Not to mention that my ring is still in his hand, he has made at least two Horcruxes, and I haven't found them yet, so he won't die.

Of course, these are not important. The important thing is that I don't want to die with his broken soul.

This damn poisonous python.

"What are you talking about?" I smirked and moved my hand to his, "I'm here to help you."