Chapter 158: Tang Dun's Past

"Right here on the eighth floor, opposite the tapestry of Barnabas the Barmy." Zhang Qiu said. "You always thought this was an empty corridor, right?"

"Indeed." Harry nodded. "But you also just discovered it recently, right? You didn't notice there was a secret room here several times when you were waiting for me at the dormitory door before, right?"

"Of course, because opening the Room of Requirement requires you to recite it three times, for example, now, I need a bathroom." Zhang Qiu repeated. "A bathroom, a bathroom."

A bronze carved door slowly appeared on the wall, looking very high-end.

"Strange, why is this here..." Zhang Qiu seemed to be a bit puzzled.

At this time, the door suddenly rang. Before Harry could react, Zhang Qiu stuck an Invisibility Talisman on his forehead with amazing hand speed.

The door didn't open, and Harry could hear Zhang Qiu breathe a sigh of relief.

He sensibly shook open the Invisibility Cloak, hid their figures, and then whispered: "What's wrong?"

"Tang Tang Nade." Zhang Qiu said softly. "He also often uses the Room of Requirement. The bathroom door shouldn't look like this, or rather, this might be the bathroom he wants."

"Do you want to go in and take a look?" Harry couldn't help but be a bit curious.

"You want to peek at a professor taking a bath?" Zhang Qiu showed a strange expression. "But taking a look won't do anything."

The two, wearing the Invisibility Cloak, quietly pushed open a crack in the door. A huge marble pool was steaming with mist, and a suit and shirt were scattered on the ground, and a red tie was hanging crookedly on a rack not far away.

"I understand. Tang Tang Nade should have come here to take a bath and change clothes before the banquet." Zhang Qiu looked at the clothes on the ground and said softly. "Because his personal items are left here, it's not that the Room of Requirement responded to us, but that we happened to open the Room of Requirement that is currently in use and has already become a bathroom."

"Tang Tang Nade didn't take his dirty clothes away after taking a bath?" Harry squatted down to check the suit, which had a coffee stain on the front. "This is Brioni, very expensive."

"Don't worry, his uncle is the richest man in America." Zhang Qiu looked at the suit with sour eyes. The well-tailored, smooth-fabric suit was just thrown on the ground, being ruined by the wet floor of the bathroom.

"Then do we still use it?" Harry looked at the door. "What if Tang Tang Nade comes back?"

Zhang Qiu picked a light golden hair from the clothes and blinked. "It doesn't matter. According to my second-year records, he called Hermione to his office after discovering the attack scene today and didn't send Hermione back until bedtime. According to Hermione, because he was worried about Hermione being attacked, he taught her self-defense spells all night."

"Ah, if that's the case, it should be after he sent Hermione back that he noticed Neville returning." Harry remembered the scene he saw during the trip before.

"In short, we can use this room at will before twelve o'clock." Zhang Qiu breathed a long sigh of relief. "You wash first, I'll go see what Deng Buliduo is doing."

"Uh, I'll be as fast as possible." Harry scratched his head, not knowing where the trace of disappointment in his heart came from.

Harry didn't use the big pool that was steaming with heat, just took a simple shower in the shower area on the side, then used a spell to dry his school uniform, put it on again, and carefully pulled open the door crack to look outside.

Zhang Qiu lifted a corner of the Invisibility Cloak and smiled at him. The two quickly swapped positions. Now let Zhang Qiu go in to take a bath, while Harry waited outside wearing the Invisibility Cloak.

After waiting for a while, there was a movement from the stone statue not far away.

Doudou walked out of Deng Buliduo's office, looked in the direction of the Room of Requirement, and then hurried downstairs.

Harry spent three seconds reacting. There was no Professor Doudou in the school during the second year, so this must be the Professor in the trip.

After a while, Zhang Qiu came out. When she saw Harry, she smiled happily.

"You're still here?" Her tone carried a hint of surprise.

"I'm not in a hurry to leave." Harry shrugged. "The Professor said he would come to pick me up tomorrow morning."

"Then let's go back to the Chamber of Secrets. Other places in the school are not safe." Zhang Qiu pouted. "I mean, it's easy to bump into other selves."

Harry nodded in deep agreement. The two, wearing the Invisibility Cloak, walked quietly toward the second floor, but just as they reached the corner, they heard a familiar voice.

"Grandmother once said that men cannot do two things: waste food and make girls cry." Neville said to the empty girl's bathroom. "Harry, I know you're here."

The second-year Harry lifted the Invisibility Cloak. "Alright, but don't let her splash me."

"This is lively enough." The Harry at the corner complained. "The second-year me and Ron, the third-year Neville who traveled, and the me and the Professor who followed Neville, plus the two of us, how many people is that?"

"Wait, in other words, there are three Harrys here, but you haven't been excluded by space-time?" Zhang Qiu caught the blind spot all of a sudden.

"Perhaps because of the Invisibility Cloak?" Harry said uncertainly. "I didn't expect the Deathly Hallows to be so powerful."

"Then I can really regret it now." Zhang Qiu sighed. "If I had known I could borrow your Invisibility Cloak, I wouldn't have had to stay here for two more years."

"Then you can still..."

"No." Zhang Qiu shook her head gently. "I've thought about it. I'll mix through this year first, and go to Koldovstoretz next year."

"Go to the Soviet Union?" Although Harry hadn't heard of that place name, he could probably guess some from the distinctive naming.

"Right, the Soviet magic school, go to Yanayev's territory and see it with my own eyes." Zhang Qiu nodded. "I can almost be sure now that it is the Soviets who are disturbing your fate."

Harry gently held Zhang Qiu's hand, the two closed their mouths, held their breath, and watched the third-year Neville pass by while talking, and then, after estimating that the third-year Harry had also left, Harry spoke again.

"But what I can't figure out is what they did and what their purpose is." Harry said.

"Do you know the background of the Frye siblings?" Zhang Qiu said softly. "The assassins who killed your aunt's family, they came from Crawley town."

"Crawley? It wouldn't be the one I'm thinking of, right?" Harry was stunned all of a sudden.

"I use the Inspiration Spell every month and regularly send letters to the Embroidered Uniform Guard, asking them to investigate." Zhang Qiu said. "Some small clues were connected like this. To make a long story short, the gold master behind the Frye siblings and the Assassin organization is the Earl of Grantham you know—George Crawley."

"George Crawley's law firm in London suddenly received a large sum of suspicious investment in 1982. In the same year, the Frye siblings began to operate a London gang organization called Assassin; in 1984, he inexplicably inherited the legacy of a Soviet relative, and adopted Ivy in the same year."

"He said it was the orphan of a Soviet relative." Harry added.

"So Ivy definitely has a Soviet background, right?" Zhang Qiu said. "She is the emotional card played by the Soviets."

Harry stroked his chin. Calculated by Ivy being one year younger than him, she was only 3 years old in 1984, and it was almost impossible for her to be any kind of agent or spy.

"But according to what you said, the Soviets spared no effort to win me over, what are they trying to do?" Harry asked puzzledly. "Even if I am the leader of the Wizarding World in the future, the Wizarding World has its own way of operating. Whether it's surname 'Zi' or 'She' makes no difference to wizards."

"The explanation the Soviets gave us is that they hope the Magic Communist International will win you over, build a red British Wizarding World, and gradually spread to Europe." Zhang Qiu pondered. "I once thought things were just that simple, but now it seems they must have ulterior motives."

"No matter how you analyze Yanayev's previous layout, you can only see that he is winning me over." Harry shook his head. "His real purpose is still unknown."

"You should remember the Cuban incident." Zhang Qiu's tone carried a hint of uncertainty. "If the Soviet Union deployed weapons comparable to nuclear weapons in the UK, for example, a wizard combat group that completely leans toward the Soviet Union, has experienced the baptism of the Wizarding War, is experienced, and is equipped with advanced equipment. Or he plans to use wizard power as a doomsday force after a nuclear war, because the anti-Muggle ward theory can theoretically shield nuclear explosions..."

"He can overlook and threaten the whole of Europe." Harry was stunned for a moment. "If the whole of Europe is reddened, the Cold War pattern will become Asia-Africa-Europe versus North-South America, so the Soviet Union will have a great advantage."

"And no matter what, the Heavenly Dynasty will not stop it." Zhang Qiu shrugged. "We are also waiting to share the spoils."

"If the spoils you are talking about refer to dividing the EU, then I am really thankful." Harry shrugged. "Fortunately, the Soviet Union gave me a ticket, otherwise I would have been dragged to death by those vampires sooner or later."

"Correction, now it should be called the EU." Zhang Qiu said.

"What's the difference?" Harry didn't quite understand.

"Actually, there is no difference. Simply put, the EC changed its name to the EU. Of course, you seem to have called it that before." Zhang Qiu shrugged dismissively. "It should be preparing to implement the Euro..."

The gradually drifting topic came to an abrupt end. Zhang Qiu made a gesture of silence. Outside the breathing of the two, Harry heard another subtle footstep.

He soon realized that it was Neville who had returned.

"That's the third-year Neville, he's preparing to go into the Chamber of Secrets to take a look." Harry whispered in a mosquito-like voice.

Zhang Qiu looked at her watch, and then showed a look of terror.

"At this point, Tang Tang Nade is still tutoring Hermione." She whispered the same.

Then who will stop Neville from going down? Although it doesn't matter if he discovers someone living inside early, the history Harry knows is that Tang Tang Nade stopped him.

Perhaps, history is just "Harry saw Tang Tang Nade stop Neville".

"Do you have Polyjuice Potion?" Harry whispered. ===== CHAPTER 159 =====