Chapter 189: The Barrier Outside the Secret Room

Lockhart pursed his lips, looked at the meaningful eyes of the crowd, and quickly made a choice between face and life.

If you lose face, you can earn it again, at most you can move to another place, but if you lose your life, you will have nothing left.

"I'm sorry, I have to refuse this time." Lockhart said seriously, "I don't want to stay here for a moment, I want to go back now."

"But you are the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, this is your responsibility." Professor McGonagall said unhappily. Although she also felt that Lockhart could not help, it was not a good thing for a deserter to appear in the team at this time.

"You can't say that, this is not my obligation." Lockhart disagreed, "When I accepted this position, the work regulations did not include this."

"Are you saying that you are going to desert?" Harry asked in disbelief.

Lockhart smiled and shrugged, without denying it.

"How can you run away?" Hermione couldn't accept it. "You wrote so many great things about yourself in the book."

"Books can deceive people." Lockhart grinned, "Those stories are true, but the protagonist is changed from an ugly old wizard, or a disgusting old witch with hair on her chin and no taste in clothes to a glamorous Gilderoy Lockhart.

Only by making people think that those things were done by me can the sales of the book go up."

"You, you, you are really... a liar." Hermione's chest heaved with anger, and she couldn't speak clearly. Her disappointment was beyond words.

Others were also stunned. They could all see that Lockhart was a jumping clown, but they didn't expect him to be more unbearable than they thought. His character was simply terrible.

"It's really disgusting." Aaron had expected it. It was normal for Lockhart to do such a coquettish operation.

"Whatever you say, I'm just plagiarizing at best, and I haven't violated any laws!" Lockhart said. Since he had already exposed his cards, there was no need for him to pretend to be so tired.

Professor McGonagall threw a petrification spell at him and imprisoned him in place.

"Ignore this bastard. I will ask the Aurors to come and investigate after Ginny is rescued."

Everyone calmed down and continued to move forward in the rugged tunnel by bypassing the dense snake sloughs.

When they reached the end of the tunnel, a solid wall blocked everyone. On the wall were two snakes entwined with each other. Their eyes were inlaid with sparkling emeralds, and they looked like they were alive.

Abe jumped down from Aaron's arms, looking at the wall vigilantly, and sharp claws slowly stretched out from his limbs.

Aaron took a deep breath, "The basilisk is inside, prepare two roosters.

In addition, if anything unexpected happens, remember not to look into its eyes. If possible, it is best to close your eyes and fight."

Ron and Hermione subconsciously hugged the roosters in their hands, and they immediately made loud crows, dispelling the depression in everyone's hearts.

"Harry Potter." Snape looked at the wall and said meaningfully: "It's your turn to play as a serpent speaker."

Harry cleared his throat and walked to the wall, hissing in serpent language: open.

The two snakes began to slowly separate and coiled on the left and right sides of the wall respectively.

The wall slowly opened from the center, but what caught everyone's eyes was not a secret room. The emeralds in the eyes of the two snakes emitted green light, forming a gray-white curtain wall to block the entrance.

"What is this?"

"Don't touch it, Harry." Professor McGonagall carefully stretched out her finger to touch it, but was shocked back several steps the next moment.

Professor Flitwick took out his wand, and the white light hit the gray curtain wall, forcibly creating a black crack on it.

But the crack was restored after a while, and powerful magic seeped out from the wall, offsetting Flitwick's spell.

"Block." Professor Flitwick exclaimed, "And it's not an ordinary barrier, it's powered by two magic crystals, and it's been set up for at least a month."

"Can it be broken?" Ron asked anxiously, "My sister is still in it!"

"I'm sorry, Ron Weasley.

This barrier is carefully prepared at first glance. Even if we use brute force to break it together, it will take a certain amount of time."

"How long will it take?"

"At least twelve hours." Professor Flitwick said with an embarrassed look, "This is the fastest. The person who set up this barrier is an absolute genius.

Unless he left some rules, there is only one way to break it with brute force."

After the voice fell, two lines of words really appeared on the gray curtain wall:

Aaron Gaius (this is the premise); one, three, five, seven.

"What?"

Aaron blinked blankly, and the others looked at him in confusion.

"What's going on?" Aaron felt a big word of danger engraved on his forehead, as if someone was pointing at him with a killing curse.

"Obviously." Professor Snape's face was gloomy, "You have entered the sight of the Slytherin heir."

"But I've been low-key enough!" Aaron said with tears in his eyes, "I haven't had any outstanding performance in the past two semesters. How did he know about me?"

After saying that, Aaron seemed to have thought of something and turned his head to look at the three Gryffindors.

"Don't tell me you told it."

Hermione and Ron shook their heads immediately. They kept their mouths shut.

But Harry weakly raised his right hand and said ashamedly: "It might be me.

Tom Riddle took me back to his memory. I told him that Hagrid was not the murderer, and then told him the clues you found.

He was very interested in you, so..."

Aaron's mind went blank when he heard this, and his heart was on the verge of collapse.

"Didn't I tell you not to tell anyone?

You also promised me, is this your promise?"

"Sorry." Harry said awkwardly, feeling guilty and not daring to look directly at Aaron.

At the time, he thought that Riddle's diary would not tell the secret, so he didn't take it seriously, but he didn't expect it to be so big.

"Haha! Do you think that's all you need to do to apologize?" Aaron pointed at the curtain wall with a sneer, "Look carefully, my name is written on it!

I worked so hard for so long just because I didn't want to be targeted by the big boss behind the scenes, but you sold me out so easily."

"I... I really didn't mean it."

"You'd better not mean it, otherwise I will strangle you to death." Aaron bit his back teeth and grabbed Harry's collar, "Do you know that I have never thought about taking risks myself, never.

I am a Slytherin who knows how to protect myself. Why do you treat me like this? Have I offended you in any way?"

Harry shook his head blankly and wanted to say something, but swallowed it back when it came to his lips.

It seems that whatever he says now is wrong. This is no longer a drag, this is directly dragging Aaron into the abyss. It's strange that he can be in a good mood.

Harry can only look at Professor McGonagall for help, hoping that she will say a few good words, at least let Aaron let him go first.

"Alas!" Professor McGonagall said helplessly: "Time is running out now, let's think about how to rescue Ginny first!"

"There is no other way." Aaron sighed, "I have to go now."

"No, I don't agree." Professor Snape shouted, "No one knows what's going on inside. There may be other dangers besides the basilisk.

You don't have to take risks for Ginny Weasley, and we have no reason to let you, a student, take risks."

"Haha! Professor, I just said that I never thought of taking risks.

But thanks to the famous savior, now I am also I have no choice, the other party is coming for me. "Aaron gradually calmed down, "It's only a thief for a thousand days, how can you guard against thieves for a thousand days?

There is a saying in our family's ancestral motto: If I don't kill him today, he will definitely find a way to kill me tomorrow.

Since he is on my mind, I can only kill him, otherwise I won't be able to sleep well in the future. "

"That... Gaius." Professor Sprout frowned and said, "Your idea is good, but your strength is too weak now, we can think of other ways."

"No time."

Professor Sprout was speechless after hearing this.

If they can break this barrier, it will naturally not be so troublesome, but who can make them unable to break it!

"What does the second sentence mean?" Hermione looked at the numbers on the curtain wall, frowning, "One, three, five, seven, these are all odd numbers, representing the year or the password? Or..."

"It's not that troublesome." Aaron rolled his eyes, "The sum of the four numbers is sixteen, which means that people under the age of sixteen can pass through the curtain wall.

Riddle may have the ability to escape from the diary. He is very confident, so confident that he can ignore any peers."

"We can go in and help you." Harry said with courage, "We are all under the age of sixteen, and the four of us together may not be able to beat Tom Riddle."

"Don't, count it as I beg you, don't come to drag us down." Aaron was very resistant, he had a very clear understanding of the abilities of these three Gryffindors.

Only Hermione had some ability, but this was not an exam, so she couldn't help much.

As for Harry and Ron...it's really hard to say!

If one of these two people was a little more reliable, he could win behind several professors, so there was no need to take such a big risk.

"But my sister is inside." Ron said unconvinced.

"Then stay outside for your sister." Aaron said impatiently, "If Ginny is still alive, I will do my best to rescue her. If she is dead, I will do my best to bring her body out intact."

"Ginny must be alive." Ron said loudly, but he was a little unsure in his heart. After all, he saw a lot of bones along the way.

"I hope so!"

Aaron sighed and walked towards the curtain wall.

"Wait, Gaius." Professor McGonagall stopped him and said, "You forgot to bring the rooster."

"It's useless, Riddle has made sufficient preparations." Aaron said regretfully, "This barrier is for living people, and the rooster can't get through."

Hearing this, Abe couldn't sit still. He didn't trust his master to abandon him and take risks alone, so he spread his wings and flew towards the barrier.

The sharp claws tore sparks on the curtain wall, but the damage to the barrier was limited and would always be restored to its original state in the next second.

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