Chapter 521: Confrontation

Harry felt as if something had pulled his soul away, making him dazed.

Everything here was unreal; the walls had double images, the sink seemed to be gurgling with water, no matter what, he couldn't hear clearly.

"It can't be..."

He put the Alchemy Frog in his hand, and then put the fang on the diary:

"Tell me, how do I get in!"

The diary remained motionless.

"Let me try."

Luo En picked up the diary and pulled, but there seemed to be an inexplicable force that made him unable to tear the diary even with all his might.

Now they were even more certain that there was something wrong with this diary.

Luo En panted and put the diary on the edge of the sink, where there was also a tattered pen.

When the pen touched the diary, a magical thing happened; the ink was absorbed, and a line of words appeared:

【Speak "Open" in Parseltongue】

Harry and the other two couldn't care about that much anymore.

Hermione ran to the Headmaster's office, while Harry and Luo En rushed into the Chamber of Secrets.

The tunnel of the Chamber of Secrets was as silent as a grave; they only heard an unexpected sound, *crack*, and found that Luo En had stepped on a mouse skull.

Harry lowered his wand to check the ground and found bones of small animals everywhere.

Harry desperately restrained himself from imagining what had happened here.

The Basilisk had come out, and Sean's alchemy creations had all been petrified... then he...

Harry buried his head and ran forward, turning a dark corner in the tunnel.

"Harry, there's something there..."

Luo En said in a hoarse voice.

The two stood frozen, staring.

Harry saw the outline of a coiled behemoth lying on the other side of the tunnel, motionless.

Their wand light shone on a huge snake skin, greenish and very bright, clearly the skin of a venomous snake, coiled on the ground of the tunnel, empty inside.

Clearly, the animal that had just shed this skin was at least twenty feet long.

This discovery made their hearts even heavier.

After running in the dim environment for a while, they finally stood on one side of a long, dimly lit room.

There were many stone pillars carved with coiled giant snakes in front of them; they looked around, but saw nothing.

Harry dripped ink into the diary and threatened it with the fang again:

"Tell me, where is Sean?"

The diary shook for a while:

【Finally took the bait, it took a lot of my energy to influence... that guy you mentioned is indeed very troublesome; even I couldn't do anything about him for a while.

But my target is not him, but you, Harry Potter.】

"What do you mean? No—tell me, where is Sean?!"

Harry pushed the basilisk fang closer.

【Basilisk fang... where did you get it... but it doesn't matter, you have already arrived here; you found it yourselves.

As for that guy, if he came here... hehe, he should be dead.

But before you die, I also have many questions waiting to ask you, Harry Potter.】

Luo En was struck by lightning; he sat on the ground, his expression dazed.

He even forgot he was in the Basilisk's lair.

Harry couldn't see clearly; he roared and stabbed the basilisk fang directly into the diary.

With a terrifying, lasting, ear-piercing scream, streams of ink gushed out of the diary, flowing down Harry's hands to the ground.

Then, a dark shadow stood in front of him.

"This is what you asked for! Damn thing!

Speak to me, Slytherin—the greatest of the four founders of Hogwarts!"

This shadow was the shadow of a tall boy with black hair; he was summoning something.

In the distance, Slytherin's huge stone face moved. Harry and Luo En watched in extreme horror as its mouth opened, wider and wider, finally forming a huge black hole.

Harry and Luo En both knew what he was doing, so Harry raised the basilisk fang again:

"I'm waiting for you—Harry Potter!"

The shadow twisted and struggled, its arms waving constantly, and screams came from its mouth...

Harry and Luo En both closed their eyes.

"Run!"

Harry said.

Then he seemed to bump into something.

"Harry?"

He heard a voice that couldn't be more familiar.

Sean looked at him in confusion; he was just about to bump into a stone pillar.

"Se, Sean... I really am dead after all... I'm sorry, I came too late..."

Harry turned his head and saw Luo En; he couldn't say another word.

Luo En... was also dead...

And Luo En's reaction was even more intense; he rolled his eyes and fainted directly.

"You're not dead, Harry."

Sean had come over looking at the plan map; he happened to see Tang Mu summoning the Basilisk, and then it was stabbed half to death by Harry.

He looked at the notebook; ink was still dripping from the diary.

The Basilisk's venom had burned a hole through the diary, and it was still hissing with black smoke.

And in that hole, it was pitch black, and the shadow was as thin as a wisp of smoke:

"Impossible, how could the Basilisk be solved by you..."

Tang Mu stared at Sean, somewhat dazed.

Sean could feel that he couldn't do anything anymore; two seconds later, he let out a low roar of unwillingness and anger, and disappeared.

After breaking free from Tang Mu's influence, the diary seemed to become normal, and there were even some handwriting inside:

Sean keenly saw the word "Hagrid"; he waved his wand, and the diary flipped open:

【Big oaf Hagrid, clumsy, causing trouble, gets into trouble every week; he raises werewolf cubs under his bed and sneaks into the Forbidden Forest to wrestle with trolls.

But I have to admit, even I didn't expect the plan to be executed so smoothly. I thought someone would definitely realize that Hagrid couldn't be Slytherin's heir.】

It seemed Hagrid could be cleared...

Sean thought.

"Sean?"

Harry seemed to have reacted only now,

"You defeated the Basilisk?"

He asked in disbelief.

Sean nodded.

Harry completely relaxed; his eyes turned red again, and the joy of regaining what was lost made his whole head dazed.

"It seems you guys did well too?"

A kind and wise voice sounded at the right time,

Luo En also had movement; he climbed up from the ground and saw Hermione and Buliduo.

In an instant, he felt the entire Wizarding World was finished.

"Hermione, how come you're dead too."

He said with a mournful face.

Hermione punched him in the chest, which woke him up instead:

"I'm not dead!"

"Oh—hehe—"

Buliduo smiled.

Knowing he had made a fool of himself, Luo En turned completely red and stood aside motionless. ===== CHAPTER 522 =====