The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 108 Entering the Secret Room
When the Christmas dinner was almost over, Ryan had to admit that although his mother's cooking was delicious, the house elves were better than humans in terms of cooking skills. At least the food at such an important banquet was better than the food he had eaten at a Michelin-starred restaurant with his parents.

After leaving the hallway, Ryan quickly returned to his dormitory and read for half an hour before going to bed, setting the alarm clock to 2 a.m. Fortunately, his roommates had gone home for the holidays, so the alarm clock would not disturb others.

After going to bed, Ryan was a little sleepless due to excitement. Fortunately, he habitually practiced the Maoshan Shangqing Heart Method before going to bed. After practicing for a week, he finally fell into a deep sleep.

At two o'clock in the morning, the alarm clock rang on time. Ryan got up from the bed and put on the assassin's equipment. After checking that everything was there, he left the bedroom wearing his school uniform.

After leaving the common room, Ryan found that Hogwarts was particularly quiet during Christmas. It might be because most of the students were not in school, and the students who stayed in school were very tired from playing. The corridor was quiet, and there was no one.

After successfully reaching Myrtle's bathroom, Ryan discovered that Myrtle was not there, probably because she had gone somewhere to play on Christmas. At Nick's last Halloween party, he knew that ghosts also had their own entertainment.

Ryan walked over to the sink and confirmed that there was indeed a faucet that didn't flow, with an embossed snake on the side.

This is it. In my last life, I read on the official website that the renovation of Hogwarts in the Victorian era involved the participation of the Gaunt family. They moved the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets to its current location and used a sink as a cover. Now it seems that this should be true. After all, flush toilets and faucets could not have been there when the school was first established, and even if Slytherin was a dark wizard, he would not be so perverted as to set up an entrance to the Chamber of Secrets in the women's bathroom. This can only be a modification made by later generations.

Fortunately, Ryan had inherited the language of snakes in the world of Mr. Zombie. He spoke to the sink in snake language and said "open it". The faucet emitted a dazzling white light and began to spin rapidly. Then, the sink also started to move.

Finally, the pool disappeared from sight, revealing a thick section of water pipe that was large enough for an adult to crawl into.

After casting a shock-absorbing spell on himself, Ryan got into the pipe. The shock-absorbing spell was one of the spells Ryan was most proficient in. After all, if he used it well, he could perform a leap of faith.

After jumping off the pipe, Ryan felt as if he had rushed into a dirty, dark, and endless pipe. He could see many pipes branching off in all directions, but none of them were as thick as the one he was in. This pipe twisted and turned, with a very steep slope all the way down.

And these twists and turns also caused Ryan to hit corners from time to time, and he felt that he might have gone very far underground.

Finally, the pipe became horizontal again. With the help of the shock-absorbing spell, Ryan stood steadily at the exit of the pipe. This was a huge stone tunnel with mud all over the ground. He felt the humid environment around him and felt that he was probably under the Black Lake.

The tunnel was silent, and Ryan took out a lantern to light the way for himself. There was no other sound in this place, only the occasional snapping sound of something under his feet when he walked.

Ryan brought the lantern grass close to the ground and found that the ground was full of small animal bones. But this should not be the leftovers of the basilisk. After all, considering the size of the basilisk, the energy obtained from eating such small animals is not as much as the energy consumed in the pursuit.

After turning a corner, Ryan found a long object about six or seven meters long on the ground, motionless. After slowly approaching, he found that it was a bright green snake skin. It was obvious that it was a venomous snake. The snake skin was coiled on the ground, and it looked like the snake had been shed for some time. In this humid environment with stagnant air, there was actually a thin layer of dust on the snake skin.

Such a good thing naturally could not be missed, Ryan opened the door of the Wanjie Grocery Store and put the snake skin in. Fortunately, this thing was not heavy.

After collecting the snake skin, Ryan continued to move forward. The road ahead was winding, and he could only turn one corner after another. It must be said that the designer of this tunnel is a psychological expert, because this kind of winding tunnel in a dark environment will make people walking here always worry that there will be a monster waiting for you after turning the corner.

After turning another corner, the front finally stopped being a monotonous black tunnel. A wall stood at the end of the tunnel, with two snakes entwined with each other carved on it. Their eyes were made of huge, sparkling emeralds.

Ryan walked to the wall and observed it carefully, and finally found out with regret that these emeralds were part of the magic mechanism of this place. So he had to give up the plan of prying the gems.

"Open." Ryan said again in snake language. The two snakes separated, and a big crack appeared in the wall, which became bigger and bigger. Finally, the wall slowly slid to both sides and disappeared. Ryan tidied his clothes again, threw the robe that was a bit of an obstacle into the space bag, and then walked in carefully.

After entering the secret room, Ryan found that it was a long room. After casting a magic detection to confirm that the basilisk had not come out, Ryan opened the space door of the Wanjie Grocery Store and took out the cage of roosters kept there.

After getting ready, Ryan began to look around the room. The ceiling of the room was very high, supported by many stone pillars with large coiled snakes carved on them, casting shadows on the ground.

This house was not completely dark as imagined, but was glowing with a faint green light. Looking along the light source, the top of the secret room was inlaid with many transparent crystals, through which Ryan could see the bottom of the Black Lake. Some underwater fluorescent plants at the bottom of the lake brought light to the secret room through the crystals.

It is a good thing to have a light source in the secret room. After all, the basilisk can determine the opponent's position by smell and sound, but it is difficult for Ryan to fight now by relying on detection methods other than vision.

After reaching the end of the room, Ryan saw a statue in front of him that was as tall as the room itself, standing against the wall.

Looking up, you can see that the statue has an old face with a sparse beard hanging from the chin to the feet.

Ryan saw the old age and fatigue of Slytherin from this sculpture. It seems that the legend that Slytherin was at odds with the other three founders and left in anger after many quarrels is true. At least from this statue, it can be seen that Slytherin's condition in his later years was indeed not good.

However, despite sympathy, Slytherin's pets did begin to threaten students in the school, and even killed a student fifty years ago.

As we all know, magical creatures are an indispensable part of the magical world and have an important position in the magical world. Indiscriminate hunting and killing of magical creatures is a very bad behavior. But killing people with artificially bred creatures has crossed the bottom line. This is the main reason why Ryan came here to hunt the basilisk.
(End of this chapter)