HP's Silence is Gold

Chapter 52

"Who will go first?" Hermione, who had stood in front of the water pipe for a long time, swallowed and asked, "Should we wait here until dawn when all the students come to the bathroom before making a decision?"

"Me." Tom said, floating to the water pipe immediately.

"You, soul?" Lena didn't mean to despise Tom, but when he was in a ghost state, there was no difference between the first and the last one, and no one could hurt him... Uh, no, why can Ron hit him What about him?Thinking of this, Linna stretched out her hand and grabbed Tom's arm, pulling him closer to her. At the moment when her hand could completely touch the other side, Linna was surprised to find that Tom's body was even bigger than when she first saw him. , but also materialized, what is going on?

Tom was half a head taller than Lena. He didn't expect that Lena would grab his arm and lead him towards her. He looked down at the top of the girl's head, and the corner of Tom's lips curled into a half-smile. "Little Linna, I didn't expect you to be so active." Tom is handsome, not counting his cheating and gloomy personality, he was one of the most popular boys in Slytherin back then. Another popular one, everyone knows who it is without mentioning it.

Draco made a smirk, stepped forward quickly, and stretched out his hand to pull Lina towards him. "Mr. Tom, your imagination is really rich."

"Are you jealous?" Tom was not angry, he looked at Draco with a smile on his face.

"This joke is not funny." Draco turned cold.

"You're so boring." After Linna glanced at Tom lightly, she walked directly to the big pipe, and without saying a word, she just burrowed into it. When the others reacted, she had already slid into the pipe and quickly Rushing to the next dark, sticky, endless slide, she saw a tangle of tubes branching out in all directions as she descended, but none of them were as close as the one she was on now. The root pipe is thick.

Lena went down so quickly, making Harry wait for someone to stay, and by the time she regained consciousness, she had already disappeared in the tube. "She... She went down alone first? Didn't even have a plan??" Hermione covered her face and was confused. She should have held Linna just now, and she was the person closest to the pipe.

Pansy chuckled, and she climbed into the tube too. "Little Linna's speed is really fast, I'm going down too, you guys follow too." After she finished speaking, she slid into the pipe, and the wind gushed past her ears. Pansy could clearly hear Harry They followed her, and there was a slight thud around the bend.

Lina had already reached the bottom, she stood to the side, and looked at the dark stone tunnel in front of her, after a while Pansy and Harry also emerged from the pipe. "Fluorescence flickering!" With a wave of the wand in his hand, a faint light was emitted from the top of the wand. With this light, everyone's eyes turned to the dark place ahead.

Tom hasn't said a word since he came in, his bright black eyes have been staring at the front, there seems to be something attracting him. "Go forward, be careful." Lena followed Tom, her voice echoing in the dark tunnel.

The tunnel was pitch black, like a cemetery. The fluorescent flashes were not very powerful, and they could only see a small area in front of them. The light from the wand reflected the shadows of their group on the wet wall. It looked very eerie.The deeper she went inside, the more uneasy Linna felt. She frowned and asked in a low voice, "There is something."

There is indeed one thing in front of Linna, it is a huge monster, everyone except Tom is shocked when they see it, Linna raises the wand in her hand, so that the huge snake skin is printed on everyone more clearly. The fundus of a person's eyes is green and very bright. At first glance, it looks like the skin of a poisonous snake lying coiled on the ground of the tunnel, but the inside is empty and there is nothing. Obviously, the animal that shed this layer of skin is at least It is twenty feet long.

"What the hell is this?" Hermione gasped.

"Mutant?" Linna stepped forward and poked the green skin with her hand.

"...Linna, this is not a sci-fi movie." Pan Xi said helplessly beside her.

"It's definitely a snakeskin." Ron said with certainty.

"Weasley, our eyes are not blind yet." Draco said coolly from the side.

"This is the skin of the basilisk." Tom explained before coming to the snake skin. When he said this, there was a sense of nostalgia in his tone. "I didn't expect it... to still be here."

The surroundings suddenly became quiet, and even Ron, who wanted to refute Draco's words, shut up. Everyone looked at Tom, and they still looked at him with particularly weird eyes. They didn't want to imitate Tom and the snake. Stories that have to be told in the strange room, but his expression now is definitely too fascinating. Have you ever had a sadomasochistic relationship with a basilisk?

Not noticing the weirdness in everyone's eyes, Tom drifted forward... Ah, no, he walked, his body is becoming more and more materialized now.Linna bypassed the huge snake skin and followed. Although she had a lot of doubts in her heart, it seemed that now was not the time to ask. This so-called secret room was a bit too weird.

Linna followed, and Harry and the others naturally wouldn't fall behind. They quickly followed the pace of the two people in front of them. After turning one turn after another in the tunnel, they came to a solid wall. It was carved with two intertwined snakes, with large, shining emeralds in their eyes.

"Slytherins really like green, even the snake's eyeballs are inlaid with emeralds." Hermione said with emotion.

"The eye color of each college's logo is its own representative color." Tom stared at the little snake and replied.

"Oh, so that's the case." Hermione nodded understandingly.

Harry came to Tom's side, and he tried to hiss in a low, hoarse voice to the two little snakes, "Open."

His actions made everyone present look at him in surprise. "Are you a Parseltongue?" Draco's expression on his face was particularly un-Malfoy, but he didn't have time to wear a mask right now, who would tell him why Harry in Gryffindor spoke Parseltongue?

"I seem to understand snakes when I was a child." Harry scratched his hair and said embarrassedly: "Well, I thought it had something to do with magic, but now it seems...it doesn't have much to do with magic, right? Doesn't everyone know that Parseltongue?"

"I won't." Hermione said with a twitch.

"Me neither." Pansy shook her head.

"How could I? Parseltongue only appears in Slytherin!!" It was Ron who was more excited.

"Thinking about it now, it's not so strange that you can speak Parseltongue." Draco looked at the calm Linna, and he had a clear idea in his heart. "Linna is in Slytherin. It seems natural that you are a Parseltongue."

"It doesn't matter if you follow Slytherin?? Potter is a pure Gryffindor!!" Ron jumped angrily beside him, and he yelled loudly. "Harry, don't use Parseltongue in front of outsiders, especially in Gryffindor!!"

"Are you a wife?" Pansy looked at Ron and smiled ambiguously.

"Whether you are an insider or an outsider, what I say now is serious." Ron didn't understand what the smile on Pansy's face meant, but he said to Harry very seriously.

"Weasley is right, Potter, you'd better not use Parseltongue in front of outsiders in the future." Draco agreed with Ron, Parseltongue is not everyone's welcome.

"Hmph, has Parseltongue reached the point where everyone is chasing and beating it now?" Tom's lips curled into a sneer.

"Not yet, but it's scary enough." Draco shrugged helplessly, which was why his father didn't let him practice Parseltongue against snakes outside.

"Ah, it's opened." The two small snakes on the wall in front of me separated, and the stone wall split from the middle, and slowly slid to the sides and disappeared.The scene in front of me is not a novelty. In this magical world full of novelties, what are these?They walked in, and what caught their eyes was many stone pillars carved with coiled and entangled snakes erected beside them. The towering stone pillars supported the ceiling hidden in the darkness. They stood in a long, dimly lit room. side of the room.

"It's too eerie here." Ron was not used to such a quiet place. "Hey, do the founders of Slytherin like to build secret rooms in this kind of crappy place?" The further they went, the more secretive the surrounding atmosphere became, and Tom began to play taciturn and silent again, which Lena herself didn't like. Talking, of course, would not chatter. As for the others, except for Ron, they all chose to be silent. They quickly walked to the last pair of parallel stone pillars, and saw a statue as tall as the room itself, clinging to it. On the dark wall behind.

Everyone raised their necks and looked at the huge statue in front of them.It was a face as old as a monkey, with a long, sparse beard that fell almost to the hem of the wizard's robes carved in stone, and two large gray feet standing on the smooth floor of the room.

"This is... Salazar?" Pansy asked in a daze.

"It should be...." Draco was stunned. The founder of Slytherin has such a virtue? ?It's... too deceitful.

"Salazar looks like a monkey." Ron expressed his opinion without hesitation.

"Ron, don't be so blunt, you are disrespectful to your ancestors." Harry hurriedly stopped Ron from continuing his speech.

"The master is not like a monkey!!" A crisp voice came from the depths of the statue, and then a long object slowly slipped out of the statue's mouth. When this huge object fell to the ground , the whole secret room was shaken and trembled.Ron was closest to the behemoth, his whole face pressed against a thin, sticky tongue.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" Ron was terrified, and he backed up in a panic, but...the other party didn't seem to want him to back up. "Where do you want to go?" The figure of the huge monster became clear. It was a big snake with green body and bright light. Its body was about as thick as the trunk of an oak tree. When it was coiled up, it looked like a hill. A piece of tail wrapped around Ron, who wanted to run but his legs were weak.

"Why do people from Gryffindor and Ravenclaw appear here?"