Chapter 244 Solving the Puzzle

Sherlock looked a little confused as he listened to the three messages she read out.

"What does it mean?"

Silk cleared away the playing cards on the table, leaving an eight of diamonds alone.

"There is a location in the castle. As I said yesterday, its original intention is for us to find it. It has no interest in the students in Hogwarts and has no other ideas. It just wants to find you. "

"But if it's just revenge, it shouldn't be so eager." She said softly, with a hint of confusion evident in her voice.

Sherlock had no intention of exploring the straw man's intentions and purposes. The most important thing now was to solve the problem before the matter escalated and the news spread.

This year is not like the year when the secret room was opened. If the trouble ends up having to close the school, the consequences will undoubtedly be more serious.

"The number eight..." Sherlock picked up the playing card left by Silk, held his chin and looked at it, "What might this refer to? Time? Eight or eight o'clock? Or the location? ? The eighth classroom? Or the eighth tower?"

Silk has much more experience in solving puzzles than Sherlock.

"The possibility of the time is very small. If it indicates the 8th or 8 o'clock, it will not be connected with the clues later. The white color and a hidden room are more likely to indicate the location."

With Silk pointing out the general direction, they would have a target for their next investigation.

Sherlock originally had two sixth-grade classes in the morning. In order to save time, he could only ask Moody to help with them. And because the arithmetic divination class taught by Silk was an elective course only for third-year students, she His workload is much easier than that of Sherlock. Even if he has classes today, he can be temporarily transferred to other times.

They arrived at the first floor of the castle and started looking for it from the eighth classroom. After entering the castle, they followed the pattern of walking along the corridor to the eighth classroom and found a small empty classroom.

But this room was very ordinary. It didn't even have seats or benches. It looked like a potions classroom that was only used occasionally. Sherlock and the two checked every corner here, but found nothing.

"The eighth classroom is wrong, maybe it's the eighth floor? But isn't that a bit too big? There are a lot of classrooms and offices on that whole floor. I remember Filch even found two rooms there. As a utility room.”

Sherlock and Silk said with a headache as they walked up the stairs to the eighth floor.

Silk's face did not show the same tangled expression as him. She had become accustomed to solving prophecies, so she was not too worried about this puzzle.

"It is very likely to represent the eighth floor, because there are three hints, and the number eight is only the first hint. The wider the range it represents, the more likely it is the answer, because the next two hints can simplify it. All predictions The results are never useless, and if you ignore any of the details, the final results are often very different.”

"There are still students in class, do we have to go from classroom to classroom to find them?"

Silk tilted his head and looked at Sherlock with eyes covered by a black ribbon.

"You're not good at solving puzzles?"

Sherlock touched his forehead.

"Okay, I admit that I lack some patience, because I can't predict what will happen if the student's nightmare continues. After all, it has killed people without any scruples before."

"You don't have to search from classroom to classroom. Pay attention to the two pieces of information at the back, which are white and a hidden room."

Silk could see that Sherlock was a little concerned and confused now. He was now teaching in this castle for his third year and had feelings for Hogwarts for a long time.

That's why she needs to be calmer.

She looked at the decorations around the castle. As a castle that had been built in the tenth century, even after many renovations and renovations, the walls in Hogwarts were still not painted or spray-painted. It is the original color of the stone.

It's so dusty that even if the sun shines in, it will give people the unique sense of depression that comes with staying in a castle.

Most of the decorative paintings hanging on the walls are oil paintings and portraits, with rich colors. There are short knights riding horses and shouting, a smiling lady holding a cat, and a compassionate monk holding a cross. scholar.

Not only on the walls but also on the decorative paintings, it is difficult to find information related to white.

So the second tip, "white," should be the most important.

According to Silk's previous experience in deciphering prophecies, the number eight determines a large range, and the white color is obviously to determine a clear direction within this range, and the last hint directly represents the answer itself.

"You have stayed at Hogwarts longer than I have. Do you know if there are any paintings or walls on the eighth floor with white as the main color?"

With such a clear reminder, Sherlock just thought about it for a moment and then remembered a painting.

"There is a tapestry of a troll beating Barnabas! That Barnabas was wearing a white tutu, and the theme of the tapestry is white."

"where are we going!"

Soon, they came to the tapestry.

This is a very humorous tapestry painting. Barnabas in a tutu seems to want to teach the troll to dance, but the troll raises the wooden stick in his hand high and is ready to hit his head.

Barnabas in the painting looked very embarrassed. When Sherlock and Silk came here, the giant holding a wooden stick turned his eyes to them, staring with his eyes and bulging his nostrils.

Sherlock certainly didn't feel like paying attention to the giant in the portrait. He looked around the tapestry. He might not have noticed anything if he didn't pay attention to it at other times, but now that he came here specifically, he would find something wrong.

Opposite the tapestry, there was a wall that looked a bit abrupt. This wall was very ordinary and no different from other walls in the castle, but its location was a bit wrong.

This was neither the end of the corridor nor the corner of the stairs, so leaving such a place seemed redundant.

Although there were many such redundant places in Hogwarts Castle, those walls would simply hang a few moving paintings to decorate them, or simply place a statue directly.

This wall was blank, with nothing on it, as if such a place was deliberately left.

Sherlock frowned and looked at the wall opposite the tapestry, muttering the last hint.

"A hidden house... A hidden house..."

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