Chapter 266: Goodbye After a Thousand Years

After doing all this, Les walked out of the palace again.

Daphne and Astoria, who were standing on the sand dunes opposite the ruins, were stunned. In their perspective, Les was just going in and out of the ruins, looking very busy.

But this busyness had nothing to do with them. In the final analysis, it was because the two of them were not strong enough and could not even resist a sneak attack.

"Maybe we need to focus more on practicing magic." Daphne sighed, "This way we can help Les as soon as possible."

"Yeah." Astoria nodded and agreed with her sister's proposal.

After entering the palace ruins this time, Les felt that some corner of the passage had changed, perhaps due to psychological suggestion - there was no difference in the scene in front of him, but Les just felt that something seemed different.

He rushed to the depths of the passage quickly.

Sure enough, the two dog-headed stone statues returned to their original state and stood silently outside the door of the hall.

After confirming that his guess was correct, Les turned back, but an accident happened again - he actually heard a human voice!

[Ancient palace...mysterious...habits...]

The passage was long and narrow, and the distant sound was carried to where Les was by the wind. Although it was unclear, he could still clearly distinguish that it was his own voice! ! !

Les' eyes widened suddenly.

He instantly realized that he had always underestimated the palace in front of him. It did not record a period of time, but marked a period of time and then sent the people who entered the palace to that period of time!

If time is a rushing river, and people are fish drifting in the long river, then this palace is the boat on the river, leaving anchors on the shore. After the fish jumped on the boat, they would be taken to the anchors upstream by the boat.

Of course, it may be that he was overthinking, and the palace only recorded the images of him and Daphne when they came in, but he couldn't gamble, the risk was too great.

The biggest taboo of time travel is to meet yourself in the previous timeline.

Les took a deep breath, and his brain was working fast: What should I do? According to the timeline, I will bring Daphne and Astoria here in a few minutes.

Now, he was especially grateful for his kindness in teaching. If he hadn't taught Daphne and the others about the ruins mechanism on the way, he could have reached this section in less than a minute.

Although he only had a few minutes left, Les was not too panicked. Because he knew that he would definitely find a hiding place.

The reason was very simple. The past self didn't see "himself" in the passage, which meant that the future self must have successfully hidden.

He just needed to be patient and calmly look for the destined opportunity.

Soon, Les's eyes fell on a wall.

The moment he saw the wall, Les suddenly remembered that this was where Astoria found the abnormality.

Behind the relief of this wall, there is a dark room hidden.

He had observed it before, and found that the seal of the dark room had been opened by someone, so he didn't pay attention to it anymore.

But now the seal on this dark room has never been opened.

A flash of enlightenment flashed through Les' mind. He placed his hand on the relief and carefully felt the magic circuit inside the relief.

Soon, his magic broke through the seal inside the relief, and the sun sculpture held in the hands of the statue turned into a hole that could barely accommodate one person.

Without any hesitation, Rice used a spell to fill the cave with fresh air and then went in, and the cave entrance closed immediately.

The dark room was pitch black, without a trace of light. With the help of the fluorescent spell, Rice could see the layout of the cave clearly: in the dark room that was not much bigger than a wardrobe, there were hundreds of papyrus rolls piled up.

"Oh?" Rice suddenly became interested and immediately took a roll and unfolded it to read.

He thought it recorded the characteristic spells of ancient Egypt, but from the pictures attached to the scroll, it should be a record of the ancient Egyptians' sacrifice to the sun god, or perhaps the so-called "oracle".

Rice was not very interested in these mysterious things, but since he was trapped in the dark room with nothing to do, he simply studied the contents of the papyrus scroll - the same mentality as those who entered the bathroom without a mobile phone and started to study the shampoo formula.

Just as Rice was studying the papyrus scroll in the dark room under the dim fluorescent light, a conversation came from outside.

"Rice--"

"There should be a dark room or a hidden passage there, and the mechanism on it has been cracked."

The voices of the three people gradually faded away, and Rice in the dark room realized that he could go out.

What he had just experienced gave Rice a bold idea.

If he could see himself who had entered the ruins before after adjusting the inner compass, what would happen if he turned the outer compass and adjusted the time of the palace to the time when Hufflepuff entered?

He might very well meet Hufflepuff who entered here a thousand years ago!

As for what will happen next, Les didn't know, but just seeing his old friend was enough to make him take action.

After confirming that he had walked far away, Les walked out of the dark room and walked out of the ruins along the passage. Looking at the sun that had hardly changed its position, Les' heartbeat quickened a few points.

He told Daphne and Astoria to stay where they were, and then walked into the middle passage and came to the compass.

This time, he turned the outer circle of the compass and moved it forward one level.

Instantly, a very strong feeling of dizziness emerged in his mind, making Les' eyes black. At the same time, he also felt like he was put into a bag, and then someone outside sucked the bag into a vacuum.

This feeling lasted for a few seconds, and then dissipated completely, but the strong side effects still made Les vomit.

After the physical discomfort subsided, Les slowly walked out of the palace. When he stood in front of the exit of the passage, his heartbeat accelerated to the extreme. He could almost hear the sound of his heartbeat and feel the blood hitting his eardrums again and again.

After walking out of the passage, Les immediately looked at the sand dunes opposite - thank God, Daphne and Astoria were still standing there.

He did not hesitate any longer, and rushed into the passage on the far right at the fastest speed, and then rushed all the way into the deepest hall.

After waiting patiently in the hall for a while, a few clear and crisp sounds were heard outside the door, and then the door of the hall was opened, and an elderly witch who looked quite dusty walked into the hall.

Les had been waiting for her here for a long time - it had been nearly a thousand years since the last time they met.

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The second update is here, and the next update (try to) be at midnight~

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