Chapter 226

"Harry, why did you find me?" Cedric joined the discussion with a smile.

"The riddle of the second level will come from these questions, you come and help take a look." Harry said, looking at Luo En and Zhang Qiu on the side, they were discussing fiercely.

"But, does this mean you got the content of the test in advance?" Cedric's smile disappeared all of a sudden. "This is wrong, Harry."

"But what if it happens to be two black and two white in four rounds?" "I think we need to change our thinking. If we deliberately make the rounds that could have been right wrong, we can pass extra information." "Right, and adopting different strategies itself is also a kind of information..."

Harry and Cedric watched each other silently, and the discussion between Zhang Qiu and Luo En gradually became smaller.

"Please tell me, Harry." Cedric repeated again. "How did you get these questions?"

Harry's brain ran fast. Cedric might be limited by morality, unwilling to look at these questions, and he is very likely to suggest that he start from the shore. But Harry is forced by Renata's threat and has to start from the shore himself.

Here must lie, a white lie, to appease Cedric's conscience. Harry knew he had to make Cedric think that these questions were originally leaked to the players by the official, otherwise he would definitely not cooperate.

"It's a clue in the golden egg." Harry said. "Alina told us."

"But Fleur didn't say." Cedric said suspiciously. "She only said that there would be a decryption part in the second level."

"That's because... we reached a deal with her." After Harry thought of an idea, his tone became full of confidence. "She said she could tell us the information about the riddle provided in the golden egg, but we must pay something, so, Zhang Qiu taught her a very powerful spell."

"Is that so?" Cedric looked at Zhang Qiu.

"Ah right, Earth-Gang Summoning Examination Record, it will be very helpful for this project." Zhang Qiu paused, and soon chose to cooperate with a tacit understanding. "But this is a trap, the spell's consumption is too great, she can't use it."

"You are wrong to do this." Cedric sat down. Although he still felt that Zhang Qiu shouldn't deceive Alina, at least he wouldn't reject looking at these questions.

"I told her about the spell's consumption problem, but she might feel that she can think of other ways to solve it." Zhang Qiu found an excuse for her words. "And, she might not have given us the correct questions, right? I suspect that many of these questions are unsolvable."

"Right," Luo En pointed to the parchment angrily and said, "This ball doesn't know the weight, how should I determine it? If the two sides are different when weighed, isn't this trip in vain."

"I also think, perhaps in the original question, it told us that the bad ball is lighter or heavier than the good ball, but the conditions were changed by Alina, so it can't be done." Zhang Qiu blinked and said.

"What ball? Let me see?" Cedric moved the position of the parchment and began to read the questions.

These questions should only circulate within the Hogwarts team, and Harry didn't intend to ask others for help. If it's just getting the questions in advance, under the premise that the questions are difficult, he feels that it is still acceptable help. But if even the answers to the questions have to be borrowed from others, he will feel very ashamed.

However, just relying on these few people in the Hogwarts team, they want to solve these questions, perhaps they still need time and effort to make up for the lack of mathematics. They spent several days, and whenever they had energy, they returned to the carriage to retreat, but they couldn't solve all the problems.

"Why don't we find Hermione." Luo En said with sleepy eyes and no strength. "One more person, one more way of thinking."

"Don't make it difficult for her." Cedric bit his quill and said. "They must have had the answers long ago, we are almost equivalent to going to spy on the answers."

"Not necessarily, such difficult problems, they might also be stuck somewhere." Zhang Qiu said, throwing the pen on the table with dissatisfaction. "Can't these prisoners unite to resist? They have a hundred people!"

"How about this." Harry stood up and said to Cedric. "I'll go ask about the situation. If they have all done it, we won't go to ask for the answers, but this at least shows that the questions are solvable, which can give us some confidence; if they also have questions that haven't been done, we can form an alliance and discuss together."

"Right, Hermione won't even hide whether they have finished or not." Luo En was struggling with the God chess game. "However, just from whether it's done or not, and whether Hermione is willing to say it, it represents four situations, which can pass four rounds of information..."

"Fine, then I'll trouble you, Harry." Cedric said. "I'll study this hat color problem again, I feel like I have some clues."

When Harry walked out of the train, he felt a bit toothache. If he really wanted to find Hermione and the others, how should he explain where these questions came from? But if he didn't go to them, on one hand, relying on their few people might not be able to solve all the riddles, and on the other hand, Harry couldn't help but worry that Alina couldn't pass the second level.

Although, he predicted that the third level might become very dangerous due to Voldemort's move. But if only Hogwarts champions passed the second level, the third level didn't seem to have much significance to hold. Thinking about it this way, perhaps Barty also acquiesced to himself sharing the questions with other champions.

"You said you might have gotten the riddle to be solved in the second level?" In front of the library door, Hermione stared at Harry in surprise. "How did it come about?"

"I made a deal with Renata." Harry once again moved out the excuse of the deal. After all, no one would leak intelligence to others for no reason, but the deal sounded both credible and fair. "I promised to start fifteen minutes late in exchange for her telling me the clues to the underwater riddle."

"But how did Renata get the questions?" Hermione said suspiciously.

"I don't know," Harry shrugged. "But I was going to prepare a spell on the shore anyway, which would delay fifteen minutes, so it's not a waste not to exchange."

"Then you mean, the authenticity of these questions is unknown," Hermione hesitated. "But if it's true, but we think it's fake, that's not good, so no matter what, we still have to do it once, right?"

"Right," Harry pursed his lips and nodded with a half-smile. "And you would have liked to do the questions very much anyway, right?"

"But aren't you afraid that I will tell Fleur and Alina?" Hermione asked.

"I originally intended to let them know too, but I can't let them know for nothing." Harry said. "My condition is to hide it from Cedric and let him think these questions are clues in the golden egg."

"Very simple condition, I can agree for them, but why?" Hermione hugged her chest. "Why hide it from Cedric?"

"Oh, I don't want him to know about my deal with Renata, he has a lot of opinions about Renata." Harry didn't care anymore, lies came out of his mouth. "And the questions themselves are very difficult, I think we need more people to discuss together."

"So, in fact, your main appeal is that you want more people to help solve the questions together." Hermione nodded. "Very fair, but there might not be much gain. I'll go tell them now, and come to find you at the train later."

Harry nodded. In fact, he felt that the main gain was that he could create a little more time for Luo En to contact Hermione and change his mood. As for the questions, maybe if given a little more time, everyone could solve them themselves.

"Hey, what did you talk to them about?" Just as Harry walked out of the castle, a cold female voice sounded.

Harry looked back, it was Renata, one of the people he least wanted to face.

"We..." He took a deep breath. "We reached a deal."

"Is that so?" Renata waited for his follow-up.

"I promised to start fifteen minutes late, I used this condition to trade with them in exchange for clues to the underwater riddle." Harry felt that he was already very proficient in making up lies. "They gave me some questions."

"But the clues we got from Donald don't include questions." Renata revealed the same suspicion as Cedric.

"That's because your bid is not high enough." Harry used the same excuse to deal with Renata as he did with Cedric.

"Starting fifteen minutes late in exchange for some questions is indeed sincere enough." Renata seemed to believe it too. "It seems you are unwilling, working hard."

Harry revealed a polite and awkward smile.

"Very good, then now you have something I'm interested in in your hands." Renata walked slowly toward him. "I also want to make a deal with you."

Harry said calmly: "Do you want these questions? Then make an offer."

"Oh, fine, I will use some intelligence to exchange for these questions." She said. "About the lurking personnel of the Ministry of Magic here, Barty Crouch Jr., or rather, the Tenth Doctor."

"What?" Harry's breathing became rapid all of a sudden. He really didn't know where Renata found the information. This should be the deepest secret of the Department of Mysteries, it can be said that even the Minister of Magic might not know.

However, considering that Renata is a Soviet, things seemed to become reasonable in a weird way.

"I know his past, some stories, you will be interested." Renata said. "Of course, what makes you more interested is that after I get the questions, I will guarantee not to tell these stories to anyone else."

"I promise you." Harry said through gritted teeth. "But I will only give you the original questions, I will not give you our thinking."

"It doesn't matter, we don't need the thinking of a fourteen-year-old child anyway." Renata said arrogantly.