Sword and Magic and Taxi

Standing where Ms. Ellerbella was attacked, Zhao Mai looked around. Along the steep and twisting spiral staircase, his room was just above, but the door was barely visible from this position. If he crouched down, Zhao Mai could just see Tolkien's room over the stair railing. Since the spell cast by the wand basically does not turn around, the attacker's position will definitely not be lower than the level where Tolkien lived.

There are three paintings on this short staircase. It looked like a clown who was blindfolded and tied to a turntable. The flying knives flew towards him and stuck on the turntable with bang bang bang. He would dance and struggle, but he couldn't get away no matter what. The second painting is of a huge willow tree, with its thick body supporting the lush branches, and the green leaves dragging to the green grass. The third painting is an old woman drinking tea in front of her portrait. She is always crying, with a heartbroken expression.

Excuse me, what did you see when it happened?

The woman drinking tea turned her head, removed the handkerchief wiping her tears, and covered the fresh tea stains on the table. She shook her head and pointed to her throat, indicating that she couldn't speak. But she dipped her finger in the tea and wrote a line on the table. After flipping the mirror image, Zhao Mai knew that it was I didn't see anything.

Didn't you see it? Didn't you even see how Lady Ellerbella came down? There was no need to write this time. The tea-drinking woman shook her head, continued to pour water from the teapot into the teacup, and then cried silently while holding the cup. Get up and drink it. She always repeats this action, has done so in the past, and will do so in the future.

The clown shouted: Ah, I heard a bang, I thought there were more knives! But I'm blindfolded, blindfolded! Can you untie me, at least I have to know who has been using the knife Throw me away!”

Didn't you hear the sound of the incantation?

I just heard banging noises and rolling, like balls, medicine balls! The clown spun around and around: Oh, I fainted, fainted, but why didn't I faint?

Zhao Mai then asked the reserve grain to come over and smell it to see if there was any fresh and strange smell. A Liang was wagging his tail, patrolling back and forth on the steps, and running up and down the stairs. Soon, it licked Zhao Mai's leg with its tongue, and then pointed directly in the direction of the willow tree.

Is there something wrong with this painting? Zhao Mai looked at it carefully. The more he looked at it, the more weird the willow tree became. It seemed that there was something hidden under the lush branches and leaves. He moved closer, and the willow tree changed. The pointed green leaves turned into claws, and the slender willow branches swelled into thick vines, wrapping the entire tree. The originally enchanting willow trunk became rough and twisted, with layers of knots and small holes secreting blood-like sap piled on the trunk. Now the painting is not a willow, but a dragon's claw vine and a thorn tree, the two most dangerous plants in the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts.

After the picture changed, Zhao Mai saw a black shadow jumping down from the branches, hiding behind the trunk, and running away into the distance. The grain reserve made a woof, woof, woof sound and pointed at the black figure to remind Zhao Mai to pay attention. How did the black shadow enter the painting?

Zhao Mai could only touch the canvas when he stretched out his hand, and it was useless to poke with the wand. He leaned close to the canvas and looked around the edges of the picture, barely able to see a crescent moon in the sky. And now the moon phase outside is first quarter, which means that the time in the picture is different from that outside.

Can pictures be used to escape? He felt a little strange. At this time, Reserve Liang put his front paws on the wall, scratching constantly, and tilted his head to look at his owner. Zhao Mai suddenly realized that he lifted up the paintings of Dragon Claw Vine and Hemp Thorn with force, and there was indeed a passage behind it!

It's said to be a passage, but it looks like it's just a door with a pull tab painted on the wall. Zhao Mai stretched out his hand to grab it, but could only touch the flat wall, but he was able to hook the raised door knocker with his wand. Then he pulled harder, and a small, dark passage appeared. This passage is not big, and someone of Zhao Mai's size can only squeeze in while lying on his stomach. It seems that the tree landscape painting saw what happened, but it was unable to speak, so it used image transformation to remind Zhao Mai that the attacker was hiding behind it, and then ran away.

I'm going to chase the murderer, don't worry about me. Zhao Mai said to Tolkien: You take care of yourself, and also take care of Ado and Dogian.

I want to go too! Xiao Hua said floating in the air.

Not this time. Ado can't pass through this passage, and the food reserves are not enough, let alone carrying flower pots. You stay here and protect everyone. There may be more than one attacker, in case it is an organized gang What about action?”

Okay... Xiaohua has always been unhappy that she can't go on the adventure.

After saying that, Zhao Mai used the force of nature to transform into a giant python, swam up the wall, and then got into the passage. Li Lili stood up straight with all his strength, then arched his head into the passage and tried to jump in, but failed several times. It looked at Tolkien with tearful eyes, and the latter held its buttocks with both hands and finally stuffed it into the passage.

The walls of the faculty and staff building are only as thick as a layer of stone, but the passage is quite long, and Zhao Mai crawled for half a mile. When he was halfway up, he heard a whimper coming from behind. It turned out that the reserve grain was already very big, and it was hunched over all the time, and after a while it couldn't climb anymore. Zhao Mai turned back, wrapped his tail around it, and pulled it forward. Reserve's four claws stretched out from the python's coils, tilted his head and licked the snake's skin with his tongue. Because he felt too cold, he even sneezed at Zhao Mai.

The exit of the passage is the hollow of a willow tree, facing the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts. Zhao Mai put down the food reserves. He sniffed around the entrance of the cave, raised his paws and pointed in the direction of the Forbidden Forest.

Did that person run inside? Zhao Mai transformed into a python and could only hiss. The reserve barked twice as an answer. Hissing and woofing are two completely different animal languages ​​and cannot be communicated at all. Zhao Mai stopped talking nonsense and let the food reserves run in front, while he twisted and swimmed behind to catch up.

The Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts is vast, stretching from the herb gardens and plantations to the horizon. Only a small part of this forest belongs to Hogwarts. In this area, there are simple paths, better than no road signs and several wildlife observation areas. However, with the occurrence of many attacks by monsters and dragons attacking wizards in various places, most schools have stopped the field observation of animals courses and have all changed to looking at pictures and written examinations. So no one came in the Forbidden Forest for a while - except for trick-or-treaters and adventurous fools - so it seemed particularly lonely.

The part of the Forbidden Forest close to the campus is not dangerous, but the deeper you go, the more likely it is that something will happen. Known dangers include dragon's claw vine and thorn tree, both of which are man-eating plants that are good at hiding themselves, are very powerful, are resistant to magic to a certain extent, and will actively capture food. Additional dangers include a variety of poisonous flora and fauna, a primitive centaur colony, vermin that cause a variety of deadly magical effects, and a disorienting fog of confusion.

Legend has it that there are even undead haunting here.

Now there is a new danger: Zhao Mai.