Hogwarts: Nagini captured at the start

Chapter 66 Bloodthirsty Dark Ghost

"Go through here, I'll set the example."

Robin emerged from the Invisibility Cloak as he spoke. Before Harry could even be shocked, Robin rolled up his sleeves and trouser legs and swiftly passed through the crisscrossing magic ropes.

"See how simple it is!"

"Is it simple?"

Harry's lips twitched slightly. He thought to himself, "We've come this far. If we turn back now, wouldn't all our efforts be wasted?"

He took off his invisibility cloak and, mimicking his roommate, bent over, turned, lifted his leg, stepped forward, turned his foot, lowered his head, lifted his leg again, lay down, and crawled forward. When his upper body finally emerged from the magic rope's encirclement, he was ecstatic, so much so that...

Fortunately, Luo Bin acted quickly and pressed down on his sacrum and coccyx.

After throwing the invisibility cloak over, Ron passed through the magic rope with the speed of a sloth lightning bolt.

The restricted book section is more sinister and terrifying than the regular reading area.

Walking through the aisles between the bookshelves, you can always hear faint whispers. When you strain your ears to listen carefully, you can't tell where the whispers are coming from.

"Did you two bring wands?" Robin asked.

Harry shook his head, while Ron pulled his secondhand wand from his sleeve and expertly pushed the protruding unicorn hair core into the bottom.

Robin: ...

"It still works, really, I'm not kidding you."

To make his words more convincing, Ron waved his wand diagonally upwards and then downwards, chanting, "Flicker."

Whoohoo!

Ron gazed at the white light at the tip of the wand and exclaimed excitedly, "Look, it's working perfectly!"

"Nobody thinks it's bad, let's start looking!" Harry suggested.

"Okay, let's split up."

Since Harry didn't bring his wand, and Ron's secondhand wand was "bright" enough, the two of them teamed up, while Robin walked alone into the depths of the restricted area.

The bookshelves in the restricted section had many books, but the titles were either difficult to pronounce, the gold lettering was peeling off, or they were printed in other languages.

In short, they have a hundred ways to leave book seekers clueless from the titles alone.

Luo Bin heard a faint rustling sound of pages turning in the distance and decided to pick up a book and take a look.

He held up his glowing wand and scanned the bookshelves, finally choosing a thick, dark red book with gold thread inlaid on the top of its cover.

He had just pulled the book off the shelf when a strange electric current surged from the golden thread, startling him so much that he quickly flung it away with all his might.

Bang bang!

The thick book, thrown to the floor, trembled violently, as if something was trying to break free from it.

*Snap!* (The thick book opened automatically)

Whoosh!

The thick book flipped through its pages rapidly, then suddenly stopped halfway through. Robin gripped his wand tightly and slowly approached the book.

When he was only a meter away from the thick book, a hideous and terrifying black ghost head suddenly sprang out from between the pages.

The ghost head's two eyes, as big as pigeon eggs, gleamed with an eerie orange light, and its toad-like, blood-red mouth emitted a high-pitched, shrill, and chilling scream.

After it finished calling, it made a crunching sound from its tightly closed mouth, like it was laughing or grinding its teeth.

However, Robin could read its intense thirst for blood in its orange-tinged eyes.

With a series of cracking sounds, the black ghost had emerged halfway out of the ground. It braced itself on the floor with one hand and stretched out the other with all its might, its long, sharp gray nails trying to tear the toe of its prey's shoe.

Luo Bin: →_→, what, you want to infect me with your onychomycosis?

Luo Bin slightly bent his fingers, and a bright red flame the size of a grapefruit condensed in his palm, crackling and sparking with blue electricity at its center.

With a flick of his other hand, he dug out a ball of flame the size of a chestnut and flung it onto the toenail, which was about a centimeter away from his shoe.

It's sizzling!It's sizzling!

The onychomycosis nails were burned and melted, and the air was filled with the smell of burnt protein. The black phantom stopped crawling out, and its orange-glowing eyes revealed a strong sense of clarity and stupidity.

After letting out a miserable, piercing howl of pain, it clutched its burnt fingernails and retreated into the pages of the book.

Black Ghost: (へ╮), I'm angry, but I can't beat him. Survival is the priority, so I'd better run away quickly!

It probably never imagined that one day, the thick book that sealed it would become its own refuge.

Robin had no intention of letting the cowardly bully get away with it. He held the raging fire in his palm and swung it toward its chest.

With a series of sizzling sounds, the black ghost's body deflated rapidly like a punctured balloon, eventually turning into a wrinkled black sheet spread out on the book pages.

Luo Bin felt a burning pain below his left collarbone and heard hurried footsteps coming from outside a dozen bookshelves. He quickly chanted a spell to put the black leather into the giant Rubik's Cube and activated the "Broad Knowledge of Books" skill of the Silverfish Spirit Book.

When Harry and Ron arrived in a panic, Robin had just managed to stuff the thick book back into the bookshelf.

"What was that sound just now?" Harry asked nervously.

"A book, a book that makes you scream when you open it."

Just as Harry was about to ask what the smell in the air was, he suddenly heard the clatter of footsteps and the clinking of keys coming from the corridor outside.

Yes, it's Filch!

"We can't let him catch us, we have to get out of here quickly."

The three of them ran to the exit of the forbidden book area, climbed over the magic rope, and squeezed into the invisibility cloak.

Squeak!

Filch pushed open the door, held the oil lamp high, and craned his neck to see if any bad guys had broken into the library.

Inside the Invisibility Cloak, Harry looked at Filch, who was blocking the doorway, with a troubled expression. This treasure could make people invisible, but it couldn't make their physical form disappear. He blinked and frowned, then winked at his roommate for help.

Robin extended three fingers, twisted his wrist slightly, changing the 'horizontal' direction to 'vertical', and pointed to Filch's outstretched arms.

Having lived together for so long, the three of them had developed a remarkable understanding of each other, and Harry and Ron immediately grasped Robin's intentions.

Then, the three of them lined up in a single file, tiptoeing, and quickly slipped under Filch's outstretched arms.

It's worth mentioning that the moment Luo Bin bent down and crawled through the arm, he smelled a sour, rotten smell similar to pickled peppers. There was a reason why he thought Pipi Ghost was cursing the "bald, smelly old man" for not taking a bath.

After escaping the library, the three of them, led by Harry, ran wildly down the corridor.

At the library entrance, Filch rubbed his cool armpits, a hint of doubt showing in his furious, light-colored eyes.

He carried the lantern into the restricted book section. After smelling the lingering burnt smell in the air, he became even more convinced that the shrill and miserable screams were the work of the bad guys. He cursed under his breath as he took a shortcut to chase after them.

On the other side, the three of them ran into a very narrow corridor.

"Where are we now?" Ron asked breathlessly.

Luo Bin looked up at the tall armor beside him and said quietly, "I don't know, there's a similar suit of armor in the kitchen on the first floor, but... where we are now is definitely five floors higher than the kitchen."

"Shh, don't talk, someone's coming," Harry whispered a warning.

"Professor Snape, you instructed me to report to you immediately if anyone was wandering around at night. Just now, some bad guys sneaked into the restricted section of the library and caused trouble. I heard screams and smelled..." Filch complained.

(End of this chapter)