Chapter 554 The Jumping Secret Box
The Restricted Section was set up in a large square room with floors and ceilings of dark wood, and tall bookshelves filled with magical books that lined the walls.
Three people and one female ghost shuttled between the bookshelves like this, walking towards the depths.
They soon came to the end, and there was a huge transparent magic cabinet in front of them, and there was a very old leather box in the cabinet.
On that night three years ago, Rove was here, catching the silverfish, and at the moment of catching, he heard a woman's voice.
Shirley and Hermione, who were also nearby at the time, did not hear the sound, but Rove was sure that it was not an auditory hallucination... Although the sound was very soft, it disappeared quickly like the wind.
Since then, the boy has been to the library many times, bringing silverfish with him every time, but he has never heard the sound again.
"The entrance is here." Helena pointed to the transparent magic cabinet and said softly:
"Open it, touch the leather box, and you will appear at the door of the secret room."
Rove raised his eyebrows. He had asked about the magic cabinet. Dumbledore said that it had been placed here since the library was established, but no one knew what it was for.
Unexpectedly, it turned out to be the entrance to the Ravenclaw Chamber of Secrets!
"How to open it, is there a key?" Rove asked.
"There is no key." Helena looked at the magic cabinet and whispered, "All you need is a password, and it will open automatically."
Rove, Shirley and Hermione looked at each other and said in unison:
"Extraordinary ingenuity is the greatest wealth of human beings?!"
"That's right." Helena nodded, "But you need to speak runes."
This request is very simple... The young man quickly used the runes to recite the "famous saying" of Ravenclaw that everyone knows.
I saw the smooth surface of the magic cabinet, suddenly shimmering, faint at first, but gradually brighter and brighter, illuminating the entire library.
Then, with a loud click, the door of the magic cabinet swung open.
Rove reached out to pick up the thick leather case, which was made of unknown material, and it felt rough to the touch.
He just opened the leather case and touched the books inside, and the pages of the book suddenly turned automatically, and the pages turned faster and faster, then the book suddenly burst open, and the pages scattered into the air like colorful butterflies.
The tornado formed by the pages fell down, engulfing everyone including Helena—whoosh! ——Several people disappeared and were sucked into the book.
Rove just experienced a moment of dizziness before landing on a piece of solid ground. He raised his head, and the expression on his face suddenly froze.
Something is very wrong!
No memory of long, dark passages, no wooden doors with eagle-shaped bronze knockers...
Rove didn't appear at the door of Ravenclaw's secret room as Helena said, but stood in a strange place!
The teenager looked around and saw that Shirley, Hermione and Helena had also disappeared, and he was standing alone in a dim, dusty room.
In the center of the room grew a large tree, rooted in a sealed box.
Rove was suddenly surprised to find that it looked like the third painting in Nico's "Book of Abraham".
Just no wizard with a sword, and a turquoise dragon!
It is not a painting in front of me, but a real scene:
The box seemed to be alive, it was beating, and every time it jumped, it made a deep trill.
Rove looked around, and he found that there was nothing in this room except for the box that was beating slowly and lowly and a big tree.
A blood-red human face suddenly appeared on the tree trunk, staring at Rove.
"...Ravenclaw..." came a voice, half whisper, half moan... "Ravenclaw... Ravenclaw..."
The leaves suddenly made a rustling sound, and on each leaf, a blood-red eyeball opened, staring at Rove coldly and quietly.
Those blood-red eyeballs rolled, flickered, and stretched upward layer by layer. It felt like countless eyes were staring straight at Rove, making him feel chills down his spine.
Rove looked for an exit, but the walls of the room seemed to be slowly moving and rolling, trying to trap him.
The boy let out a loud cry, and the feeling of dizziness reappeared. When he opened his eyes, he found that he had left that horrible room and appeared in front of a wooden door.
The wooden door had no handle or keyhole, only a bronze knocker in the shape of an eagle.
The entrance to the Ravenclaw Chamber of Secrets!
Shirley and Hermione seemed to have just landed and were looking around.
Hermione pointed to the other side of the passage and asked, "What's over there?"
Rove didn't speak, he was still panting with lingering fear.
Helena on the side, floating in mid-air, explained: "The passages lead to the secret rooms of Hufflepuff and Gryffindor respectively. The Big Four used to meet and exchange magic experiences."
Shirley keenly noticed that something was wrong with the boy, and she asked softly, "Rove, what's wrong with you?"
Rove didn't answer, but asked, "Shirley, did you encounter any problems when you came here through this book?"
"No." The girl with ponytail looked at Rove, shook her head and said, "It's like using a portkey. It floated in mid-air for a while, and then landed."
"Is that so?" Rove pondered for a while, so he was the only one who saw the scene just now?
Shirley didn't ask any more questions, but took out a handkerchief from her pocket, and gently wiped the sweat off his forehead.
"I'm fine." Rove smiled at her in relief.
Helena pointed to the wooden door and said softly:
"The bronze knocker has been locked by magic since my mother died, and Hufflepuff told me it needed a key to reopen it."
"Professor Ravenclaw has given me the key."
As Rove said, he opened the box and took out a magic book from it. He shook it lightly, and soon a magical creature with silver-gray scales and nine tails at the end of its abdomen emerged.
A thousand years ago, Rove found Cassandra to help her divination the location of the key. She said it was in the library, but for some reason, it was always moving.
Rove guessed that the key left by Ravenclaw was this...900-year-old silverfish!
The silverfish sniffed hard, and flew out of the book and into the bronze knocker.
After a while, the bronze door knocker seemed to come alive, and the eagle's beak opened immediately, asking in a gentle, musical voice:
"If yesterday is placed tomorrow, it will become two days ago. May I ask whether the day after tomorrow is today or yesterday?"
Rove thought for a while and said, "The day after tomorrow should be today."
"The answer is correct." After the voice finished speaking, the door creaked open.
Rove took a deep breath, and stepped into Ravenclaw's chamber... after a thousand years!
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(Thanks for the reward from the big guy "Just Love Wailing Water".)