The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 112: Searching for the Loot

After waiting for more than ten minutes, the absorption of the mutant fire dragon grass finally ended, and the basilisk turned into a pile of bones. Ryan put on the dragon leather gloves and picked up a piece of bone, but found that the weight was obviously lighter than expected. After squeezing it a little harder, the bone quickly turned into a handful of ashes.

The absorption was too clean. After looking at the basilisk skeleton and confirming that there was nothing valuable left, Ryan began to carefully check the condition of the mutated fire dragon grass.

From the outside, the fire dragon grass had hardly changed, at most its leaves were greener than before. But in the mental connection, the fire dragon grass told Ryan that he had undergone a complete transformation, and he would be truly born in a while.

Born? Thinking of this, Ryan observed the dragon grass again. Only then did he realize that it was not the entire dragon grass that had signed the pet contract with him, but the football-sized fruit on the dragon fruit.

It seems that I was too tired just now and didn't notice this. It seems that I still lack experience and am not careful enough. I can't do this again in the future.

When the garbage in the basement was almost cleaned up, Ryan recalled all the robots and sent them back to the Plants vs. Zombies world, and sent the reluctant mutant fire dragon grass back to the grocery store. Then he began to explore the secret room.

According to legend, Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets was originally used by him to study some magic that the other three giants opposed. If this is the case, then there may be other valuable things left in this chamber.

After all, the size of this secret room and the exquisite decoration would make it a bit of a waste if it were simply used as a basilisk's lair.

As for the claim in Hogwarts: A History that Slytherin raised a basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets in order to cleanse the school of Muggle-born wizards, Ryan didn't believe a single word of it.

The reason was simple: On the one hand, in the battle just now, Ryan found that the basilisk was just a beast with a little bit of intelligence and acted on instinct. And there were not many pure-blooded wizards in the British wizarding world today, even including many families claiming to be pure-blooded. Ryan did not believe that the basilisk's IQ could make accurate judgments.

On the other hand, the basilisk's ability is not enough to completely cleanse Hogwarts. If it is a covert attack, the school may be closed if a few students are attacked. If it is a violent attack, the only option is to attack during a student gathering, and professors are often present at that time. The headmaster and professors of Hogwarts have always been strong, and it is definitely not difficult for them to kill a basilisk together.

So what exactly does the basilisk do? With this question in mind, Ryan carefully examined every inch of the secret room, trying to find the answer to the question.

After checking every part of the chamber and finding nothing wrong, Ryan turned his attention to the Slytherin statue. After reciting the door-opening spell again, Ryan crawled into the open mouth of the Slytherin statue.

The cave is very dark and long, and there is a sense of fear when walking in it. However, the diameter of the tunnel is large enough for an adult to walk upright in it.

After walking for more than ten meters, Ryan saw a bright light ahead. After walking a few steps and turning a right-angled bend, he found himself in a stone chamber. Several transparent crystals were inlaid on the side of the stone chamber, allowing the light from the bottom of the lake to shine in through the crystals. In addition, there was also a dim light from above his head.

With the help of these lights, Ryan carefully looked at this stone room. This space was about the size of a classroom, and there was nothing inside except a burning oil lamp above the head.

Ryan was feeling a little frustrated when he suddenly came to his senses: oil lamp, how could there be an oil lamp in such a confined space? And how could such a small oil lamp burn for such a long time? After using the hook to hook the oil lamp down, Ryan found that it was a very simple bronze oil lamp with a silver Slytherin symbol inlaid on it.

Most importantly, there was a silver oil bowl in the bronze lamp, with two snake-shaped letters S embossed on the edge of the bowl, representing the initials of Salazar Slytherin's name. There was a golden wick in the middle of the bowl. The flame was burning on the wick, but there was no fuel in the bowl.

This should be the Gublai fairy fire. According to legend, only the most powerful wizard can release this magic, allowing the flame to transcend time and burn eternally.

Thinking of this, Ryan hung the oil lamp back to its original position (this oil lamp looked like it was made by Slytherin himself, and it had the Slytherin logo on it. Such a commemorative item was the property of the school, and it was not good to take it away. Not to mention that this item could not improve people's abilities, and it could not be sold for money, so there was not much point in keeping it). Then he began to search the entire stone chamber inch by inch.

Because if there was something in the Chamber of Secrets, it would be hidden in this stone chamber. After all, if that were the case, the presence of the basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets would be explained: it was the monster that Slytherin had hired to guard the treasure.

After repeatedly searching the empty house and failing to find anything except the oil lamp, Ryan tried to read out various requests in Parseltongue. When he read out "Show me your secret" in Parseltongue, the lamp suddenly became several times brighter, showing a large amount of text on the four walls, and projecting a vivid snake in a corner of the wall.

Is this the inheritance of Slytherin? Ryan did not dare to neglect and immediately entered the Plants vs. Zombies world to get a film camera and then rushed back to this house.

While taking the photos, Ryan discovered that the text was in Latin. Fortunately, he knew Latin numbers, so he took photos of all the text in the order of the Latin numbers at the beginning of each paragraph.

After spending half an hour watching two loops and consuming several rolls of film, Ryan determined that there were 186 pages of inheritance in total. Unfortunately, he basically didn't know what was written on it, so it seemed that he could only find a way out after he got out.

After confirming that nothing was missed, Ryan tried to speak in snake language to the wall where a snake had been projected: "Open."

A stone door appeared on the originally smooth stone wall, with an exquisite snake-shaped bronze door handle on it.

Ryan grabbed the door handle and pulled hard, and the door opened easily, which almost caused him to fall because he didn't have a good balance. Even after a thousand years, everything in the Chamber of Secrets was still functioning normally under the protection of Slytherin's magic. This was a very shocking discovery.

Behind the door was a spiral staircase. After Ryan walked up the stairs for more than ten minutes, he finally stopped at a wall.

After reciting the word "open" in snake language again, the wall quickly moved to both sides to reveal a small door that was only big enough for one person to enter and exit. Looking out from the door, Ryan could see the tapestries on the corridor outside and the torches burning on the wall. It seemed that he had returned to the castle.

(End of this chapter)