221. Re-entry chamber
The violent explosion only sounded in Lynn's ear for a moment, and he felt himself flying back quickly, with various blurred cloud shapes flashing in front of his eyes, and there was no sound around him.
He didn't have time to think about what the explosion was, because all his energy was focused on the time converter in his hand.
Lynn was not fast in turning the pointer. His lips squirmed gently, and he would count forward every time he turned around. He was all focused, because once he counted wrongly, he would not have the chance to count again and again.
“241,242,243,244…”
He kept counting down at the rhythm of one second and one circle, the pointer of the time converter in his hand kept regressing, and his body kept flying backwards. It seemed like there was a bottomless hole behind Lin Neng, which made him fall continuously and never touch the end.
He couldn't hear the sound of chanting numbers. Although Lynn recited every number out loud, he could not hear anything.
However, his thoughts were very focused and did not think about anything else, but he was thinking about every number with all his heart. Each number represented that he had retreated for an hour and went straight to the last number that Lynn had read Dumbledore told him.
“478,479,480,481,482,483!”
He counted 483 times and then pushed the pointer back 45 degrees, which also means that he has rewindled the time for 483 hours and 15 minutes.
The glowing clouds around him disappeared, and Lin Neng felt that he touched the ground again. He gently rubbed the floor with the soles of his shoes, and then the jumping flames came into his eyes.
Now he is obviously no longer in the principal's office. Looking at the scene around him, here is the corridor on the third floor of Hogwarts.
There was no one around. The time converter he had held in his hand had been wrapped around his neck. He untied the converter from his neck, then took two deep breaths to relieve the dizzy vomiting feeling after the time travel ended.
There are no electrical appliances in Hogwarts. The mechanical clock only displays the current time, but does not display the year, month and day of today. However, there is a very simple way to verify whether he has returned to the right time.
He pulled out his wand and used the magic body spell on himself, then took his steps lightly and walked down the stairs silently.
No one was met from the third floor to the first floor, which made Lynn feel a little relieved, because according to normal circumstances, all the professors, wizards and ghosts in Hogwarts were attending the opening dinner in the auditorium, and it was normal that there was no one around.
He did not go to the auditorium to confirm the situation with great courage. Lin Neng's magical body curse was not very clever. At most, he could only hide his body in the shadows. If he arrived at the brightly lit place in the auditorium, a little more careful person would find him at a glance.
After he got down to the first floor, he waited quietly by the gate of the castle. Without letting Lynn wait for long, a middle-aged man wearing a wide black robe, greasy hair hanging like kelp, and a gloomy face like water in the black lake. He walked out of the auditorium like a big bat and pushed open the gate of the castle in front of Lynn.
It is Severus Snape, the president of Lynn.
Lynn did not move around, he continued to huddle in the corner and wait patiently. Not long after, Snape sneered and grabbed the two embarrassed unlucky guys back to the castle.
"Good Harry, it's so good. Instead of doing Hogwarts Express, he drove back to Hogwarts in a flying car and broke a precious ancient tree. It really didn't bury your idiot surname."
Harry and Ron pulled their heads down, listening to his sarcasm behind Snape, followed him into the auditorium.
Lynn looked at this scene expressionlessly in the shadow. Harry and Ron blocked the magic wall of the nine and three-quarters of the station because Dobby blocked the magic wall, which caused them not to catch up with today's Hogwarts Express. They could only return to school in the magic car Ron's father's privately transformed. However, the car broke down in the middle and fell over the castle and finally hit the willow to hit the man. Snape also came out of the auditorium to find them.
This is what happened on September 1st.
Through this, Lynn can confirm that he did not count the wrong laps and accurately returned to the day of the Hogwarts school dinner.
After verifying today's date, he did not stop. While the school dinner was still continuing, there was no one else in the castle, Lynn quickly walked to the girls' bathroom located in the corridor on the first floor.
Myrtle is not here today. Today is not only the school dinner for the little wizards and professors, but also the ghosts go to the auditorium to celebrate.
This time is undoubtedly an excellent verification for Lynn to test the Basil monster at this time when he is not in the secret room.
If the Basilica monster is still there, it proves that the secret room was opened from the time after school started to the time when he first entered the secret room and found that the Basilica monster was missing. Then Lin Neng only needed to wait for the middle of the girl's bathroom to catch the person who took the Basilica monster away from the secret room.
If he went in now, the situation inside was the same as that when he went in three weeks, then things would be even worse. This means that the time when the secret room was opened must be advanced again, and it may even be traced back to the time when Lynn first grade enrolled. The longer the time span is pulled, the more complicated the situation is.
Lynn walked into the girl's bathroom while praying that things would not be so troublesome.
He found the copper faucet with a snake engraved, and then took Tom out of his pocket.
"What? Are we going to go in this place again tonight?"
Tom has been in Lynn's pocket all the time, he didn't know that they had traveled through time.
"I'm going to go in and see Tom again. Maybe the Basil monster is coming back suddenly?"
Because Tom also had suspicion, Lynn did not tell him the truth, but instructed him to open the passage of the secret room again.
As Tom pronounced the snake words "Open", the reservoir under the faucet separated from the middle, revealing a huge pipe inside. Lynn put Tom back in his pocket and then climbed down the pipe.
He soon landed on the ground.
"Fluorescence flicker (no amplification)."
A bright white light lit up from the tip of Lynn's wand, illuminating the dark secret room below.
Just as the light lit up, Lin En saw the huge creature beside him. He reacted very quickly and flashed and retreated ten meters away in an instant.
The huge creature seemed to be dead, without any reaction to his movements and stayed still in place.
Lynn vigilantly pointed the light source on the wand at the thing, and then he saw that this thing was indeed not a living thing, but a snake skin that was more than twenty feet long.
The snake skin is very bright in color, and it is green under the magic wand illuminated spell, as if it had just shedded for not long. It was coiled on the ground of the tunnel, and it was empty inside.
Lynn was very sure that when he came to this secret room three weeks later, the snakeskin had disappeared.
When he saw this thing, he was sure that someone must have entered the secret room during the period after school started. He didn't know whether the snake monster had been taken away, but the snake skin must have been taken away!
Lynn had not studied the living habits of magical animals, and he could not judge the specific time for the snake skin to shed. However, judging from the bright green surface, the snake skin was obviously not long after it was shed.
The secret room was still quiet, and Lynn passed by the snakeskin and continued to walk deeper, and he walked to the statue of Slytherin with his back against the wall.
Lin En stood quietly in front of the statue without moving, and at the same time held his breath.
His footsteps were the only source of sound. Now that he stopped, the secret room became extremely quiet. In such an environment, some originally small sounds gradually amplified.
It was a slight hissing, very light, but Lynn could hear the source of its sound, which came from the mouth of the statue of Slytherin.
To make sure he heard it correctly, he took Tom out of his pocket again.
"Are you going to continue talking about the great Slytherin now?" Tom asked yawning, he was a little sleepy. After all, if it were the time when they came through, it was the time for him to prepare to go to bed.
Lynn shook his head and said softly to Tom.
"No, you don't have to speak this time, but listen carefully and tell me what you hear."
After he said that, he became quiet again. Tom was not as developed as Lynn's five senses. Even if his voice was very small, he could be keenly captured. He needed to listen more attentively.
Lin En was not in a hurry, and did not urge him but waited quietly.
After a long time, Tom suddenly spoke.
"It said he was so hungry, the mouse had eaten enough, and it didn't want to eat the mouse anymore."
Tom paused for a moment, then continued to translate, "The human child's meat is delicious, it likes it very much, but he can't eat it without the owner's order. It is waiting for the owner to come back and wait for a long time."
After the translation came to this point, Tom said with certainty: "Evil guy! This thing must be the basilisk you said. I can understand everything it said, but why is it back?"
After confirming that the Basil monster was still in the secret room at this time, Lynn immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and he did not hear any different emotions from Tom's words.
"Maybe it had a walk next door before, but it was back now, which is a good thing."
Lynn put Tom away again, stared at Slytherin's ugly face like an old monkey, paused in place for a few seconds, then turned around and walked out of the secret room.
To be honest, Lynn just hesitated, and he inevitably had an idea.
Now I will solve the Snake monster, and then wait here to wait for the rabbit to catch the people who enter the secret room. Depending on the situation, I will give him a chewing on the big melon or a single forgetfull. In this way, the subjective history of Lynn and others will be changed, and the Snake monster will eventually disappear, but the person who solved it is actually his future self.
However, if the real murderer who took away the Snake Monster in objective history was not alone, but a gang, it would be very troublesome if Lynn did this. He would clear all the memories of all the people who knew about taking the Snake Monster out of the secret room. Otherwise, their memories were inconsistent with the original history, which means that Lynn changed the subjective history of some people, and he would not dare to gamble on the consequences afterwards.
Lynn finally left the secret room honestly, locked the entrance to the secret room to death, waiting for the person who actually took the basilisk away.
He was not in the secret room. Even if Lynn was physically strong and had a good match with the monster, he could not survive without eating or drinking for seven consecutive days.
However, there is only one entrance to the secret room. As long as Lin Neng stays by the door of the girl's bathroom, he can wait for the person who lets the basil monster go.
Before the banquet was over, Lynn secretly went to the kitchen to steal some food. Although his alien pocket also stored some food in front of him, the space inside was limited after all. He put a bunch of miscellaneous things, and the amount of food and water was stored for up to two days.
I can’t eat, but it doesn’t matter if I have a poor sleep quality.
He was lying in a corner of the bathroom. He closed his eyes and sniffed for a while and could recover his energy for the whole day. It was a bit embarrassing that this was a girl's toilet anyway. Usually, the girls in the upper grades basically didn't come here because of the existence of Myrtle, but the freshman girl who just started school didn't know about this, so Lynn couldn't stay in the bathroom all the time. He had to stay outside the bathroom during the day.
While Lin En was catching bread in the corner of the bathroom, he vaguely heard a cry coming from a distance.
"It's great, they're alive, but unfortunately I died too early. If I didn't die, I could attend the school dinner as much as they did."
Myrtle's voice was very recognizable, and the voices were from far to near. In order not to let her hear the noise, Lynn had to put away the bread that she had not had time to finish gnawing.
Even after returning to her permanent residence, she did not stop crying. Instead, she felt like she was returning to a familiar place and her emotions were even more released.
"Wuwuwu, while the group of ghosts were chatting just now, I asked the fat monk why he didn't invite me for his death party this year. He actually said that he did not hold the death party this year. He must be lying to me. He did not want to invite me, and he must be disgusting me."
"There is also a Pipi ghost. When he came out of the auditorium, he was laughing at the acne on my face again, but can I change this? It was like this when I died, and it has been like this since I became a ghost, just like Nick, who almost had no head, couldn't cut off his head completely, woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-
Myrtle's deep murmuring and crying echoed in the bathroom. Lynn unfortunately discovered that he could not be at peace at night. Whether this crying ghost could calm down depends entirely on his luck.
Lin Neng sighed silently, hoping that the person who opened the secret room would come soon so that he could be free as soon as possible.
Chapter completed!