Chapter 95: Moaning Myrtle

June 1993, which didn't require exams, was definitely the happiest time Harry spent at Hogwarts. Teachers originally needed to arrange review homework for the exams, but now they didn't need anything.

Even Zhang Qiu, who claimed to be "born for O," was no longer soaking in the library every day, but went to play with Haige with Harry, went to the kitchen to find snacks, laughed and played on the lawn, and shot green prank spells at each other.

Haige soon accepted the fact that the spiders had been wiped out, and he even comforted Alagoke in turn, persuading him not to take his disobedient children to heart. Compared to feeling sorry for those spiders, he was more grateful to Harry for keeping Alagoke.

The house-elves in the kitchen also seemed to participate in this carnival. The things they could take out to entertain "lost students" were much better than before, and they even allowed the children to cook for the first time. Zhang Qiu finally made a bowl of traditional Eastern "Lucky Beef Noodles" for Harry. The exotic soup noodles made Harry feel warm all over, and he was very happy to have a bowl before the next Quidditch match.

And except for Na Wei who was still tirelessly looking for the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets, even the second-grade volume king Hermione no longer buried her head in the homework pile. Several times, Harry found her and Professor Fontroy having a picnic on the lawn. But when he wanted to go over and say hello, he always found them talking about profound spell knowledge, so Harry could only choose to hide far away.

Such happy times didn't last long. Butler Carson mailed them three custom-made one-way glass goggles. The one for Harry was thoughtfully equipped with a prescription, making it a replacement for his usual glasses.

"Now we are fully prepared." Harry distributed the goggles to Luo En and Na Wei, "The only problem is, where is the real entrance to the Chamber of Secrets?"

"I have searched every corner of the castle," Na Wei said distressedly, "Or every corner I can search."

"Then the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets should be in those corners you can't search." Luo En said.

"Currently, because the basilisk is likely to still need to rely on pipes to move, I think the Slytherin prefect bathroom is the most likely." Na Wei said, "But it doesn't exclude ordinary bathrooms, or even the Slytherin Dean's office."

"Snape's office?" Harry scratched his head with a headache, "You might as well think about it this way, since the person who launched the attack is a student, the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets should always be in a place where students can walk."

"Alagoke said that a girl died in the bathroom fifty years ago." Na Wei counted on his fingers, "This shows that in the attack fifty years ago, the basilisk really poked its head out of the pipe and made eye contact with people."

"So you would look for these places connected to water pipes everywhere." Harry nodded, "I don't think the prefect bathroom is possible, because if so, once the Chamber of Secrets is discovered, wouldn't the opener of the Chamber of Secrets be directly exposed?"

"Slytherin himself also knows that the Chamber of Secrets is not tolerated by the other three houses, he wouldn't pit the prefects of his own house, right?" Luo En echoed.

"Then it is very likely that the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets is in some girls' bathroom..." Na Wei showed a difficult expression.

"Ask girls to investigate?" Luo En said thoughtfully, "Maybe you can ask Zhang Qiu for help, so you don't have to continue to struggle between Hermione and Hanna."

"Wait, the girl who died in the bathroom." Harry suddenly thought of something, "What if she never left the bathroom? What if she is still there?"

"You don't think that's, Myrtle?" Na Wei suddenly had a clue.

"Anyway, we have to take a look." Harry picked up his Invisibility Cloak, and the three of them quietly returned to the scene of the first attack.

When Harry twisted the doorknob through the Invisibility Cloak, he suddenly thought, if Ignotus Peverell knew that his descendants used the Deathly Hallows to sneak into the girls' bathroom, he would definitely be so angry that he would come back to life.

Myrtle was sitting on the water tank of the last stall.

"Oh, it's you," she said when she saw Harry, "What do you want this time?"

"Ask how you died." Harry asked.

Myrtle's temperament changed all of a sudden. She looked very proud. Perhaps only on this question did she have absolute confidence.

"Oh, it was terrible." She said with relish. "It happened right here. I died in this little room. I remember it clearly. I hid because they always made fun of my glasses. I locked the door and cried inside, when I heard someone come in. They said things that were weird. I guess that was a foreign language, right? Anyway, what really attracted me was a boy's voice. So, I opened the door and told him to leave the girls' bathroom, and then—" Myrtle said proudly, emphasizing, full of radiance, "I died."

"How did you die?" Harry asked.

"Not sure," Myrtle said in a calm tone, "I only remember seeing a pair of huge yellow eyes. My whole body seemed to be lifted up, and then, I floated away..." She looked at Harry dreamily, "Then, I came back. I decided to pester those who laughed at me, I want to make them regret it."

"Where did you see those eyes?" Harry asked.

"Probably there." Myrtle said, pointing vaguely to the sink in front.

That looked like just an ordinary sink. Harry and his little partners checked every inch inside and out, including the pipes below, and then, Na Wei found a tiny snake carved on the side of the copper faucet. He hurriedly called Harry to see it.

"That faucet has never been able to be opened," Myrtle said happily when Harry tried to turn the faucet.

"Harry," Luo En reminded him, "Say something, try Parseltongue."

"But—" Harry pondered, every time he successfully said Parseltongue was when he encountered a real snake. He stared at the miniature snake carving and tried to imagine it as a real snake.

"Open." He said.

He looked at Luo En, and Luo En shook his head at him.

"This is English." He said.

"Try this." Na Wei took out his wand, "Serpensortia."

A thin black snake emerged from the tip of his wand. Harry was sure he was about to talk to this little guy. He looked at the snake and said softly: "Open."

What Luo En and Na Wei heard was not these two words. They noticed that what came out of Harry's mouth was a strange hissing sound. In an instant, the faucet was covered in a brilliant white light and began to rotate, followed by the sink also beginning to move. Not long after, the sink sank, revealing a pipe wide enough for one person to slide into.

Harry heard Na Wei gasping, so he looked up at him again.

"I'm going down from here." He took out his goggles.

"Wait, Na Wei." Harry said in English, "We need to be prepared, this is likely a ferocious basilisk."

"Yes, I have to go back and put on Gao Wen's armor, you'd better bring the Sword of Gryffindor." Luo En added.

"And Haige's rooster and my pistol." Harry looked at the dark hole again, "Let's close it first, so as not to let others enter by mistake."

Harry closed the Chamber of Secrets, came to Haige's hut, and claimed that he didn't eat enough for lunch, so he asked him for a live rooster. Haige also stuffed them with some rock cakes, which Luo En thought could be used as throwing weapons.

Then, the three returned to the dormitory, each brought their weapons, and helped Luo En put on his armor. Considering that this armor could exert the greatest increase between 3:00 and 6:00 in the afternoon, they sat in the dormitory for a while longer and set off at 3:00.

Luo En walked in the front, relying on the protection of the armor, he firmly believed that he could deal with most problems. Harry followed closely, he tucked the pistol into his waist, and held the rooster that the basilisk was afraid of in his left hand. And Na Wei walked at the end with a wand in his left hand and a sword in his right, vigilantly.

The pipe was filthy, pitch black, and seemed endless. He could see many other pipes extending to the side, but none were as huge as theirs.

Twisting, rotating, sliding straight down. Harry knew he had slid far deeper than the school and the dungeon. And not far in front of him, Luo En's armor was still clanking.

Just when he started to worry about what would happen after landing, the pipe extended horizontally, and he shot out from the end of the pipe with a "bang," landing on the wet floor of the stone underground passage. The underground passage was enough for people to stand and walk, and it was pitch black all around.

"We must be miles away from the school." Harry's voice echoed in the pitch-black underground passage.

"Maybe at the bottom of the lake." Luo En said while examining the pitch-black, sticky walls around him.

All three turned to stare at the darkness ahead.

"Lumos." Harry muttered to his wand, and they started to set off, their footsteps sounding particularly loud.

This passage was too long, they could only see a small distance ahead. In the wand's light, their shadows were reflected on the wall, looking terrifying.

"Step lightly," Harry whispered as they strode forward, "Snakes can sense us through vibration."

In the case that the three of them deliberately stepped lightly, the underground was as quiet as a lonely grave, and the first unexpected sound they heard was the cracking sound of Luo En stepping on a mouse skull. Harry lowered his wand to check the floor, only to see small animal corpses scattered messily on the floor.

"Careful..." Luo En raised his magic sword and approached the huge, curved outline at the corner slowly. It was lying there, not moving.

"Maybe it's asleep." Luo En turned to look at the other two.

"Fortunately, it's just a shed skin." Harry raised his glowing wand and carefully examined this snake skin that was at least twenty feet long.

"Wait, there seems to be a sound ahead." Na Wei covered Harry's wand with his hand, not letting it emit light.

Far away, they could hear a girl's sobbing. ===== CHAPTER 96 =====