Chapter 228 226 Doing Things and Dealing

Chapter 228 226. Doing things and trading

Jon spoke slowly.

"It's nothing Sir, I just helped a little. If you think it's okay in return, can you give me that stone slab? I'm quite interested in the magic text on it."

Regarding his request, Sir Stoker was quite generous, he said readily.

"Of course there's nothing wrong with that. You can always take that slate away if you want."

Then he stood up from the chair and said politely.

"Because of this memory, I still have some personal matters to confirm. Can you excuse me for a while, Professor? Of course, you and your students can still visit this tower as you like."

"It doesn't matter, you go and do your work first."

Sir Stoker walked out of the study and disappeared from Jon's eyes around the corner of the stairs.

Jon watched his leaving back, slowly reached into the inner pocket of his robe, and took out a corner of the invisibility cloak, but then he also touched the contract that he had hidden in advance.

Without struggling for long, Jon stuffed the invisibility cloak back on and quickly walked to the stairs and went downstairs.

He came to the drawing room, where Neville and the other five were still drinking tea and chatting, but the house elf Rabil was not here.

"Come and help, Hermione."

Jon didn't waste any extra words. He directly placed the contract on the coffee table.

"How much of it can you understand? Translate it all to me."

Everyone saw Jon's solemnity. Hermione did not pause. She looked at the old parchment with a serious expression and began to read it quickly.

Soon she had a preliminary result.

"This is a contract. There are many professional words on it, and I don't recognize many of them. But the general meaning of the contract is that it helps the signers of the contract maintain a balance, a balance between animals and humans. This word should be The meaning of blood curse."

Jon's brain was spinning rapidly, and he quickly thought of the treatment information about blood-cursed orcs that he had seen in Sir Stoker's study.

"In other words, this contract is roughly a treatment plan for curing a certain blood curse?"

Hermione nodded affirmatively to Jon's question.

"Yes, if you exclude those professional words that I can't understand, this does seem like a treatment plan, but this contract needs someone to maintain it, and it must be a member of the Stork family."

Jon's face became more solemn, and the expression on his face was uncertain. After thinking for a moment, he immediately put the contract away again, and then said without doubt.

"You guys get back on the ship right now! Then sail the ship away from this sea!"

Neville and the others looked at Jon with obvious confusion in their eyes, but because they had enough trust, they would not ask why they did this, but asked.

"how about you?"

"I want to ask something clear from Sir Stoker. You can be absolutely assured that I have obtained some small gains from this tower and will not be in the same danger as I encountered on Azkaban Island. But you can't If you stay, it will restrict my hands and feet."

Jon spoke quickly and in a serious tone, and Neville and the others could tell that now was not the time for joking.

The five people immediately stood up and left the living room. When Hermione reached the corner of the stairs, her face turned pale and she pursed her lips, looking at Jonti for the last reminder.

"You have to be careful."

Jon made his promise extremely seriously without any hesitation.

"I definitely will."

Neville and the others did not stay, and disappeared from Jon's sight along the descending stairs.

Jon did not stay here anymore, but went in the opposite direction to Neville and the others, going up to the top floor.

He climbed up the stairs of the study to the top of the tower. Sir Stoker was standing next to the gap covered by the stone slabs, his face as gloomy as ever.

After seeing Jon walking up, his gloomy expression gradually dissipated, and he turned to look at him calmly.

"You are not Durmstrang's professor who took his students on a study trip, am I right?"

Jon also said calmly.

"You are not a simple knight who lives in seclusion and only wants to study astronomy, right?"

Sir Stoker stared at Jon and was silent for a moment, then he suddenly laughed.

"It's really ridiculous. We originally thought that the identity shown by the other party was real, and then used this seemingly real identity to join forces to uncover a mystery. But when our goal was achieved and the mystery was revealed, we... I discovered that you and I actually have ulterior motives."

Jon's voice gradually became cold. After understanding part of the problem, he actually didn't have much energy to chat with the knight in front of him.

"You're doing something for the Dark Lord!"

"It's not about doing things." Sir Stoker shook his head. "I didn't lie to you, professor. You should be a professor at another magic school. Although I am a pure-blooded person, I don't agree with the so-called theory of pure-blood superiority. I didn't like the man named Tom Riddle, but I had to make a deal with him."

He raised his head and stared at Jon. The sky became gloomy at some point. Dark clouds shrouded their heads. The sea breeze that had been dampened by magic gradually began to become more rapid, blowing up their robes and making sounds. There was a sound of fabric being twitched.

"You took the contract?"

Jon's right hand was always retracted in his sleeve, and his hidden hand tightly grasped the end of the wand.

"Such a powerful dark devil can't be a blood curse orc, right? He asked you to sign this contract. What is he trying to balance?"

Neville and the others didn't stop for a moment, and stepped on the stairs that could move by themselves and left the tower quickly.

However, just when they had gone down to about the 20th floor, the stairs that were still moving suddenly stopped.

Not only did it stop, but it immediately began to move rapidly in the opposite direction, and began to move above the tower!

Neville reacted quickly, or it should be said that the five of them reacted quickly. They held hands together and then stared at the gap between the floors when they went up the stairs.

"Jump!"

Neville shouted.

The five people jumped down from the stairs that were rushing, and the huge inertia threw them a long distance, and finally hit the wall and stopped.

"He wants to keep us?" Ron said in surprise.

Li rubbed his arm, which was sore from the collision, and said with a breath of cold air.

"It must be the problem that Jon discovered that attracted the attention of that knight. He wanted to keep us here to contain Jon!"