Chapter 293 291 Secret Corridor in the Snow

Chapter 293 291. Secret Corridor in Ice and Snow

Fine ice chips floated up from the ground, making irregular movements in the air, just as the basilisk locked its body and then rushed out suddenly.

Jon's whole body suddenly rolled to the left!

Immediately afterwards, a loud noise of heavy objects hitting each other sounded in the narrow passage. Jon stuck to the cold ice wall, and after stabilizing his body, he chanted a spell towards the place where the ice chips were emptied!

"God's Edge is Shadowless!"

The invisible blade appeared in the air almost the next second after he cast the spell, and the cold air seemed to be cut by a huge blade!

Soon, a sharp weapon pierced the flesh and a roar sounded!

The smelly blood splashed out like mud trampled out of a mud pit, and a lot of the sticky liquid even splashed on Jon's face, but the unbearable stench did not stop him from dodging the next moment.

The basilisk with a big cut on its soft abdomen twisted its body madly, and its tail, which was like steel, left clear marks on the surrounding ice.

The floating ice chips gave Jon a more direct sense of the surrounding things than seeing with his eyes.

So at the moment when the basilisk went crazy, Jon's body was as light as a monkey and dodged to the original place with a few jumps.

Then he aimed at the direction where he was just now, and raised the magic wand again without hesitation!

"Avada Kedavra!"

The green color filled with death instantly illuminated the entire dark space, and the beam of light representing death shot out from the tip of the chestnut magic wand!

The basilisk clearly felt the breath of death coming. It roared more frantically, trying to twist its body and let its whole body attach to the ice on the far right to avoid the killing curse.

However, the severe pain caused by the wound on its abdomen seriously slowed down its reaction nerves!

When the command to dodge came from its mind and the back half of its body had successfully deflected to the right, the killing curse crossed a short distance of less than ten meters in an instant and hit the huge snake head of the basilisk!

After the killing curse hit, the deadly earth-brown snake eyes lost all signs and emotions representing the existence of life. Then, a "boom" sounded, and the huge body fell powerlessly on the ice, leaving only a mess on the ground.

Jon panted heavily, but he did not act rashly. Instead, he continued to use the floating spell to control more ice chips to float around, so that he could clearly perceive the situation in front of him that he could not see.

After observing from any angle and not getting any feedback even after letting some ice chips fall on the heart of the basilisk, Jon finally breathed a sigh of relief and took off the black cloth covering his eyes.

Now he could finally see the true appearance of the basilisk.

Its body was as huge as the one in Hogwarts, as long as thirty or forty feet, with bright emerald green scales, and its abdomen was half the length of an adult, and the wound was still oozing smelly blood.

This snake was not malnourished at all, or had any strange mutations, and seemed to have the ability to resist the cold.

Such a discovery made Jon's doubts even more difficult to explain, so why was there a basilisk in this maze in the Arctic? Was it Voldemort or someone else who put the snake in?

But of course he didn't have the extra energy to think about this question at this time. After calling out Gabrielle who was hiding in the ice above, they began to look for Nick's figure on the ground full of broken ice and blood.

Soon Gabrielle found something in a corner.

Nick seemed to be frozen, with the horrified expression on his face after seeing the basilisk. His illusory body was as hard as a sculpture. No matter how Gabrielle called him, he could not respond at all.

The little girl cried sadly.

"Jon! Nick is dead!"

Jon followed her voice and came over, patting her head.

"He was dead to begin with, and he can't die again. Don't worry, he is only like this temporarily. It won't be long before we go out and find the professors to prepare an antidote with mandrake, and he will be back to normal."

Jon did not lie to Gabrielle. It was indeed impossible for the ghost to be killed by anything again. Even the instant death of the basilisk's eyes would only make him petrified. As for how long it would take for them to leave here and for Nick to get rid of this situation, this was not something Jon could predict in advance.

Of course, they would definitely not just leave Nick here.

Even in the entire magic world, no one could tell what the petrified ghost belonged to, but the floating spell John used on Nick worked.

His originally stiff body became much lighter, and then with the help of Gabriel, John tied Nick to his back.

This did not cause much pressure on him, but it made him less flexible in his movements.

Afterwards, John did not leave immediately. Even though the battle just now caused a lot of noise and no one knew whether it attracted the Death Eaters in the maze, he still began to collect his spoils from the basilisk.

How could he kill a monster and not pick up the equipment?

He could not take away anything that was too big, and he did not let go of any that he could take away.

He found two snake fangs that looked pretty good. Following the hole that Shenfeng Wuying had opened, Jon took out a thing that was as big as a fist and looked like a snake gallbladder from the snake's belly. Then he dug out the two eyes of the basilisk, but its eyes were too big. He tried all the pockets on his body, but there was no suitable entrance to put the two football-like eyeballs in.

Since he couldn't take it away, Jon didn't want to leave it to the Death Eaters. He simply used the Crushing Curse to blow up the eyeballs and everything else he couldn't take away, and directly chopped the snake corpse, which was originally intact, into meat paste.

He naturally didn't let Gabrielle watch this bloody process. After all the tail ends were cleaned up, Jon carried the petrified Nick on his back and continued to move forward with Gabrielle.

Without Nick's advance exploration, Jon moved forward more cautiously.

After passing an intersection, they came across a new fork in the road. Gabrielle was still asked to make the choice, while Jon left a shallow mark on the ice on one side before leaving.

After walking along the road chosen by Gabrielle for about ten minutes, they came across another intersection that was exactly the same as the previous one, and the mark Jonle had just left was clearly next to this intersection.

This discovery made Jon frown slightly.

But he didn't say much, just took Gabrielle to change a road, and continued to move forward towards the road in the middle of the three-way road, but after walking for more than ten minutes, they returned to the intersection again.

Gabrielle's face was full of surprise.

"Are we at a dead end?"

Jon frowned more tightly, and he didn't answer Gabrielle's words, but took her to the last road that had not been walked yet.

But the result remained unchanged, and it was still a journey of more than ten minutes, and they finally returned to this fork in the road.

Now there was no road for them to try again.

Gabrielle's face was full of surprise. She floated along the ice layer up and down and around the fork road and found nothing.

Jon walked back a few steps and turned a corner. Sure enough, he saw the pile of broken meat still scattered on the ground.

The road where he just killed the basilisk was connected to the fork road where they were now. That is to say, if they wanted to go to this fork road, they would have to pass by the body of the basilisk.

But just now they walked back along three different roads, but did not see the body of the basilisk. Instead, they saw it when they returned from here.

This made Jon suspicious.

He grabbed Gabrielle's hand and stopped her from trying to cross the ice layer in the fork road. Then he held the magic wand and knocked around the fork road.

Finally, Jon found some clues on the two ice walls separated by the three forks.

When his magic wand knocked on the ice surface, the tip of his wand and the ice cubes burst out some inconspicuous bright golden light spots at the moment of contact.

These light spots were very subtle. If Jon had not observed carefully enough, he might have overlooked them.

After seeing the problem, he asked Gabrielle to try to pass through the two ice walls, but there was no abnormal phenomenon. After Gabrielle floated through one side, she floated out from the other side.

However, Jon did not give up trying. He did not use the magic wand again, but put on the ring and used the universal spell to remove the curse on himself.

After that, he stretched out his left hand and touched the ice wall carefully.

As imagined, the cold and hard touch did not come. Jon's hand actually passed through the wall directly, but did not extend from the other side of the wall like Gabrielle did.

Instead, it seemed to disappear and disappeared directly.

This made Gabrielle's eyes widen, and Jon showed an unexpected expression on his face.

He just wanted to try it, but he didn't expect it to be successful!

Jon didn't feel the coldness of the disappeared hand, but felt warm instead.

He took a deep breath, grabbed Gabrielle's arm with his right hand, held her in his arms, and covered her in the spell. Then he walked through the ice wall.

Just like walking forward normally without encountering any obstacles, the next moment Jon disappeared in the ice and appeared in a narrow and warm corridor.

There was no ice on all sides here. On the left was a wall that was obviously made of bricks. On the right was a corridor composed of four or five rooms. Above was a sealed ceiling with several kerosene lamps hanging on it. The blue flames in the lamps illuminated this space.

Gabrielle looked around curiously, and Jon was also attracted by the obvious marks left by some reptiles on the ground.

He finally understood why creatures like basilisks could live in this area of ​​the Arctic.

It didn't stay in the maze carved out of ice all the time. Most of the time, it should live on this corridor!

Jon finally got the answer, but he didn't stop. Instead, he walked towards the room closest to him whose door was always open.

There were a lot of things inside, but they were all destroyed, torn papers, tables, chairs and benches crushed by heavy objects, and things like the remains of a teapot, rotten clothes and the like scattered everywhere.

Jon walked into the room and tried to pick up a few pieces of muddy paper from the ground, trying to get some valuable information from them.

But the handwriting on these parchments was not only blurred, but also not written in English. Jon had no way to distinguish the words that looked a bit like Russian to him.

After circling around this small room, he continued to walk towards the next room after confirming that there was nothing valuable to find.

This was also an open door. It was actually a bit far-fetched to say that it was open, because it was obvious through the broken wood that the door was originally locked, but it was forcibly destroyed in half, and only the upper part had rusty hinges connecting the door frame.

Jon bent over and got into the interior, and a fishy smell came to his face. The space of this room was very large, and there were a bunch of things that originally looked like clothes collected together in a mess.

There were also many huge emerald green snake skins scattered around!

After seeing these snake skins, Jon concluded in his heart that the basilisk he killed could not have been brought here by Voldemort.

It would take more than a hundred years to shed such a large number of skins. This basilisk must have lived here for a long time, and this room was regarded as its own nest.

Enduring the stench, Jon searched here, but still did not find any valuable gains.

Without stopping, he continued to the next room.

The situation in the third room was even more concise and clear. This was a dilapidated house. The wall facing the door in the room had collapsed in half, revealing a large layer of ice, and there were many animals frozen in these solid ices.

Many of them were bears and wolves, and some creatures with strange shapes, which were obviously extinct animals in the current world.

Most of this ice layer was violently chiseled open. These were of course the results of the basilisk. The room was full of various bones. Obviously, it relied on the animal corpses in the ice as food to survive. This room was its canteen.

After getting this information, Jon immediately went to the last room on this corridor.

The door of this room was not damaged and was locked, but before he entered, Jon saw the nameplate hanging on the door and was stunned.

[Adrian Fox's Laboratory]