124 Chapter 57

Osilvia fell silent, staring at Hoffa without blinking.

And Hoffa pointed to the Black Lake outside the floor-to-ceiling windows and said: "I have always wondered why the group of lake monsters cut the ice in the middle of winter, but now, I want to understand. The Black Lake is the key. The key that connects the real and the unreal."

Osilvia turned her head, and she hurried back to her sitting position.

When Hoffa thought she was going to take the crown, she lifted the silver plate first and popped a sandwich into her mouth.

She probably has been hungry for a long time and feels that eating like this is too inefficient. So it simply turned into a snake, opened its bloody mouth and swallowed all the food in one gulp.

Hoffa looked at her, turned his head and held his forehead, and could hardly complain.

Afterwards, she hooked up the golden ring on the ground with her tail, swam to the small pool in the office, and transformed into a human form.

"To the Black Lake?" she asked.

"That's right."

"Come with me."

Osilvia stepped directly into the pool and disappeared into it.

Hoffa cautiously walked to the pool next to the office, looked at the lake outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, and thought that this might be a secret passage directly connected to the Black Lake.

He took a deep breath and stepped into the pool. With a muffled bang in his ears, he seemed to have entered the water speed skating in an amusement park. The body twisted and bent, falling continuously.

Ten seconds later, he rolled into the black lake, like a weightless astronaut in space, surrounded by dark green lake water.

Fortunately, Osilvia swam over quickly, grabbed his arm, swung his legs, and swam up quickly.

The lake water in early spring was not much warmer than it was at Christmas, Hoffa pinched his nose with one hand, and Osivia's arm with the other. This year has been his most swimming year, and Slytherins are always inseparable from the water, which makes Hoffa in the wind direction very difficult.

He's a Ravenclaw, and he likes the wind, and places that are dry and cool.

Osivia drilled out of the lake, and took Hoffa to stand on the hillside beside the black lake.

The wand soaked up the moisture, under a bright white moon in early spring.

Hoffa pointed to the lake: "Look."

Osivia looked at the lake, but found that the lake was too dark at the moment, and even the reflection of the school did not exist in it. On the entire lake, only the moon in the sky can be seen.

"Where is the school... the shadow of the school?" Osilvia couldn't believe it.

"That's the problem."

Hoffe's tone was a little excited: "The magic of ancient wizards must be more than one place, but if there is a mirror image, there is no place more suitable than here."

"However, how do we get there? I don't know anything about this place."

Hoffa thought for a while, and an encounter from a long time ago came to his mind, and he waved to Osilvia.

"This way."

The two walked under the bright moonlight, and the dry branches exposed after the ice and snow melted were trampled off by the two, making a crackling sound. Under the moonlight in early spring, the shadows of the two people stretched long on the ground.

At last they stood on a stony floodplain far from the castle.

Here, you can see the station in the distance, and you can also see an old-fashioned train waiting at the station. That's the school bus, and all the students will be evacuating the school the day after tomorrow.

Hoffa stood on the stone flood beach, the moonlight was cold and blue, and the stones on the ground seemed to be coated with a layer of white silver frost.

Looking at the dark lake, he said softly:

"I've been here before, when I was on the train on the first day of school, I came to this place out of nowhere. When I was here, I saw the chassis of a speeding train. Two of my friends said it was a dream. , or my hallucinations.

Thinking about it now, it was definitely not an illusion, nor was it a dream. "

Osilvia: "What the hell are you talking about?"

As soon as she finished speaking, there was a sudden sound of splashing on the distant lake, and a hazy figure emerged from the water and floated on the lake. Looking at Hoffa without blinking, he waved at them.

After Hoffa and Osylvia looked at each other, they walked slowly on the stone floodplain.

The cold water quickly covered Hoffa's feet, his knees, his waist, and he stepped on the jagged pebbles, palms flat on the water, and stopped.

The figure in front of him was very familiar to him, he had just seen it a month ago.

It is a lake monster with brown hair, a charming and soft face, crystal dots on its chest, and a huge fish tail underwater.

It's a girl lake monster. Like last time, she came to Hoffa as if she had heard some kind of call.

"are you ready?"

She still asked this time.

But this time Hoffa understood what she meant. This is a vehicle similar to the Vanity Dolphin, so he asked, "Can you take me there?"

"Yes, but I need to be paid."

The lake demon floated on the lake, and said in an ethereal voice.

"What reward?"

Osivia asked. "Do you want us to praise you?"

The lake demon shook his head and looked at Hoffa quietly.

Hoffa: "Key, right?"

He took out a bracelet and coins.

"Wealth, fame, and one more thing."

The female lake demon said in an ethereal voice.

Osilvia took out the crown.

"right."

She stared at the crown without blinking for a while, raised her slender white arms from the water, placed them in front of Hoffa, lowered her head, looking like a queen waiting to be crowned.

Hoffa looked at the crown in Osivia's hand, took it, held it with both hands, and put it on the head of the lake monster.

Then, he grabbed her slender palm, put Aglaia's bracelet on her hand, and finally put the coin in her palm.

Under the dark moonlight, a silent ceremony ended without a sound.

The female lake demon looked at the three things on her body and nodded with satisfaction. Then, she held Hoffa with one hand and Osilvia with the other.

"Take a deep breath," she said.

"Wait a minute," Hoffa said.

"What's wrong?" the lake demon asked.

Hoffa looked at Osivia seriously.

"You were like the Kamikaze last time, are you still that crazy this time?"

Osilvia was taken aback for a moment, then pursed her lips, as if she was tasting something extremely bitter.

She didn't speak for so long that the crowned lake demon frowned impatiently.

Hoffa: "Osilvia.?"

"Hoffa, I'm sorry for the past six months. I'm not a qualified friend, my character is bad. And, I hurt you more than once."

Osilvia raised her head and said seriously:

"But if I can, I hope to make up for my mistakes."

Hoffa bent down and covered his mouth.

"Wow, you can say such provocative things, I'm going to throw up." He straightened up and stuck out his tongue at the lake monster.

"Take us away, I think maybe I need cold water to sober up."

The lake demon smiled slightly and leaned back.

Immediately, they were pulled into the lake by her at the same time.

In the icy lake water, the huge tail of the lake monster swung, and it dropped to a depth of tens of meters in a blink of an eye. The surrounding darkness and water pressure were so quiet and mysterious.

Hoffa's mouth was full of tiny bubbles. He looked at the dark abyss below him, but he didn't feel much water pressure abnormally.

He looked behind him and saw the huge fish tail of the lake monster swinging in the water, above him.

Wait, is that the top?

Maybe not.

Hoffa turned upside down, or rather, the world turned upside down.

At this moment, he was no longer diving, he was ascending, rapidly and decisively.

A bright gleam shone before him, a light in the dark.

The light continued to magnify.

Crash!

With a sound of water, the lake demon brought the two of them out of the water and let go.

Hoffa looked around and couldn't help but be amazed by what he saw.

The lake water here is not black, but presents a hazy and dazzling white state, and they can see the bright starlight above their heads. But can't see the moon.

There was hazy water vapor everywhere, and the visibility was less than twenty meters.

Hoffa knew that he had come to another layer of Hogwarts, the school's mirror world.

"Be careful, he's back." After speaking softly, the lake monster turned around and made a huge splash with its fish tail, before disappearing into the crystal white lake water under its feet.

Hoffa and Osivia looked at each other, and the two slowly paddled forward. Although Hoffa couldn't swim, there was a strange magical force on the water that kept him from sinking.

After a while, his fingertips touched something hard. Taking a closer look, Hoffa found that he had touched a hard, black, long and thick thing.

A straight rail.

It lay across the water like this, coming from an unknown place and leading to an unknown distance. It was the railroad track that I saw in the inexplicable illusion when I started school.

He touched the rails and exchanged glances with Osivia.

The two climbed up the rails and slowly climbed up. At this moment, Hoffa seemed to have returned to the moment when school started.

He stood on a huge mirror, and there was a thick rail in the ripples under his feet.

At this moment, neither of them spoke, they walked forward slowly with solemn expressions.

Along the railroad track, they saw a dark train carriage standing quietly above the water before long.

Under the carriage, there is a piece of shimmering white stones. These things look like milky white crystals, white but thick. They form a place similar to a platform piece by piece.

"Merlin beard."

Osilvia sighed softly, "This thing was definitely not built by ancient wizards."

Hoffa didn't answer. He weighed his feet and looked into the carriage. The carriage was empty and there was nothing.

"call."

He breathed a sigh of relief, wiped his sweaty palms on his wizard robes, drew out his wand, and withdrew his head.

After stepping out of the carriage, Osilvia patted him on the shoulder and pointed to the distance.

"Hoffa, look."

Following her fingers, Hoffa saw a row of dark lines in the misty water vapor.

After getting closer, the two gasped, and he realized that it was not a line at all, but a group of densely packed people.

black people.

These people were not wearing clothes, nor did they move or breathe.

With their heads down and their bodies of pure black metal, they are a large group of constructs.

They knelt on one knee on the white water, facing one direction like a pilgrimage.

"Sure enough, it's hiding here, no wonder no one can find it at all." Hoffa murmured in a low voice.

Osilvia grabbed Hoffa and stood in front of him: "Be careful."

The two remained vigilant for a long time, but those structures were like dead objects, motionless.

Hoffa looked in the direction of the pilgrimage of these structures, which was the center of the white lake.

A towering white island.

The two walked from the rails onto the white shimmering island, and water droplets fell from them automatically.

The island is not big, only about 30 square meters, filled with milky white crystals, and there are four ten-meter-high statues around these crystals.

Hoffa recognized the statues immediately.

Gryffindor holding a sword

Slytherin holding an orb

Hufflepuff with wand

And, Ravenclaw with the scales

The four statues looked solemnly at the center of the island.

There, Hoffa saw a tall white platform, and under the platform, densely packed book scrolls were piled up.

Hoffa and Osilvia looked at each other, and she also looked at Hoffa palely.

The two slowly approached with shocked expressions.

Hoffa picked up a book casually, and looked at the title "Eternal Life. Bloodline Conversion".

Turning the pages of the book, there are all kinds of mysterious and sharp red magic circles. The whole book is written in ancient English with auburn, and the color is like dried blood. Hoffa touched the pages of the book, and the touch made him extremely uncomfortable.

Hoffa put down this book and picked up another "Taboo. Demon Transformation"

As soon as he opened it, he saw a ferocious man's face. He was completely naked. The page described in detail the process of transforming a human body into a demon. The content made Hoffa's scalp tingle.

He put down the book and picked up another one.

put it down again, pick it up again

Put it down, pick it up.

"Eternal Life. Soul Split", "Taboo. Nightmare Shadow", "Taboo. Demon Summoning", "Reincarnation. The Scourge of the Dead", "Reincarnation. Mist of Corruption", "Taboo. Wandering in the Spirit World", "Shadow. Living Witch Funeral", "Shadows. Haunted".

While watching, he climbed up.

The entire hillside is densely packed with such secret techniques.

The more he looked, the paler Hoffa's face became.

In the end, he put down his book, and stood on the high place of the stone platform with Osilvia, looking at the hundreds of books of forbidden spells below him, surrounded by a silence like stagnant water.

no doubt.

Forbidden library.

right here.

This place is simply a paradise for dark wizards. Taking out any book here is enough to cause violent shocks in the modern wizarding world. How much ancient dark knowledge is banned here.

"Where's the half-human king?" Osylvia asked Hoffa weakly.

At this time, a gentle and hoarse voice came from behind them:

"The four founders wanted to destroy all these forbidden techniques. They thought that this would end the conflict between people. Naive idea, in fact, conflict is the eternal melody of human beings."