Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 678

McGuffin and Blake followed Mr. Weasley, walking in this underground cave like the Colosseum.

After a while, they passed through the ruins and came to a tunnel.

The tunnel was long and deep, and the huge black and red masonry that glowed with red fluorescence gradually disappeared.

Only the golden candle held by Mr. Weasley in front provided the only light here.

McGuffin was going to cast [Luminescent Curse], but was directly stopped by Mr. Weasley. He told McGuffin and Sirius not to cast the spell here.

The three of them gradually walked underground like this.

Then, inside this tunnel... an arm-thick iron chain suddenly appeared, drilled out from the rock walls on both sides and extending deeper.

As the three of them continued to walk deeper, the more forks in the tunnel they passed, the more iron chains there were, and they began to gradually merge together... winding to form thicker and longer chains.

In the end, after walking through a hot wind that almost dries people and crossing the choking smelling tunnel, they came to a huge cave.

The bursts of heat almost roasted the three of them into mummified corpses.

The sight in front of them was unbelievable, and it would be difficult to see such a sight again in this lifetime.

They stood in front of a lake of red lava.

The surface of the lake is so wide that it stretches as far as the eye can see, and the other side cannot be seen at all.

The bright yellow and bright red lava is constantly turbulent, flowing slowly... and constantly engulfing the black rocks standing in the lake.

The ceiling was high, and in some places there were long and deep gaps, where the hot and cold air collided back and forth, making terrible howls.

Chains of chains spread all over the lake shore of the black rock wall, criss-crossing, sending out bursts of chills, or because of these weird chains... McGuffin and the others probably would have difficulty approaching this lava lake.

Couldn't even get off my feet.

But even so, the scorching air, the temperature... almost made them unable to breathe.

"Follow me!"

Mr. Weasley took out his wand and said while holding the golden candle tightly.

He took the two MacGuffins and walked slowly along the lake.

(The shore of this lava lake is covered with some hard black-red rocks, covered with honeycomb-like air holes, large or small, some air holes are constantly spewing out various toxic gases and smoke, and some are directly swaying red lava, like a bottomless lava pool...)
"How far away!" Black anxiously asked Mr. Weasley in front.

"Don't worry! The mysterious man can't find this place...even if he comes here...he won't be able to do anything about us for a while." Mr. Weasley said with great certainty.

He is very confident about it.

However, Sirius wasn't worried about himself, but Harry's side... It was really worrying.

Maybe Mr. Weasley also thought of this. After holding the candle with another hand, he turned around and said to the two of them, "Don't worry about Harry, I've said it before... The flow of time in this world is different. Here...in the ruins of this ancient myth...time has almost stopped..."

Saying that, Mr. Weasley kicked the giant chain of several chains beside his feet and said.

"Without these chains... we would be lost... lost in the ruins."

Finally, Mr. Weasley led the two to the place where all the chains joined.

There is a huge stone winch, almost the size of a basketball court, without a trace of assembly, it is completely carved out of a huge rock.

The iron chains were aggregated and connected into... a huge chain lock with a diameter about the width of a small car, which was tightly wound on the winch.

The winch was engraved with one after another magic pattern, which was uneven, dark and deep.

In the slideway sunken in the middle of the winch... there are chains of different thicknesses wrapped around it, which are creaking all the time... making a sound of pulling.

The winch made of stone rotates slowly, pulling the huge combined chain...from the lava lake...to pull it up, and then to put it down again...and so on and on.

A huge stone platform was built next to the road formed by the iron chain. The stone platform was engraved with golden magic patterns with unknown meanings (different from the magic pattern engravings on the capstan). Even in this bright and dazzling environment, those magic patterns were still very conspicuous.

What's even more amazing is that the temperature on that stone platform... is different from the surrounding hot environment, and it is exuding a hint of coolness. A stream of hot and cold air converges over there to form dense fog, cold smoke... and turbulent strong winds collide around it, forming a series of whirlwinds.

"arrive!"

Mr. Weasley stopped here and said softly to the two.

He waved his magic wand, and drawn streams of flowing lava from the air hole next to it, and even the lava lake, like a rope... winding and flowing in the air, and finally poured into the capstan... into the dark gap of the magic pattern.

As the Dominic red lava slowly flows in the notch,

Those magic lines were lit up bit by bit, and the whole winch began to recover.

——This thing is actually pulling the entire lava lake!
How can it be?

McGuffin stared at everything in front of him dumbfounded.

Mr. Weasley seemed to be used to it, and he calmly threw the golden candle in his hand directly into the lava lake.

Not even a sound came out,

The candle was directly swallowed, melted into a solution, and turned into a scorching gas.

But this kind of behavior is like Mr. Weasley offering sacrifices to the lake.

It started to 'surging'.

The originally viscous lava lake that was only swaying slowly...in the area that swallowed the candle, where the huge iron chain invaded...began to bubble up one after another.

There are big and small, constantly bursting.

The scorching mist began to spray continuously towards the entire ceiling, and bits and pieces of lava kept splashing to the feet of McGuffin and the others.

"Okay, now you can cast the spell!"

Mr. Weasley said hastily, and then he waved his wand and built several barriers in front of several people, blocking the lava fragments that were constantly spraying over.

The lava, which was originally bright yellow and bright red, turned into liquid sparks in the shape of droplets in mid-air... stinging, stinging, colliding and bursting.

Seeing this, McGuffin backed away again and again, and impatiently cast several protective spells on himself, and put the [Bubble Curse] on his head to prevent the poisonous gas bursting out of those bubbles.

The lava lake continued to stir and collide, gradually forming a huge vortex on the surface of the lake.

It was moving, spinning, moving away from them.

After that, the entire lava lake was separated from the magic iron chain.

It's like Moses dividing the sea, like Aquaman in DC using a trident...

The entire lava lake was directly split in half, revealing a chain bridge suspended in the lake (that is, the form in which the giant iron chain extends into the lava lake).

This iron chain bridge is made of arm-thick iron chains, densely woven together...

After a rough look, it is no different from some ordinary bridges, except that the bridge deck is as uneven as a cobblestone path, and the chains are tightly arranged... extending forward, and finally blending into the red lava light... until the specific situation cannot be seen clearly.

The lava lakes separated on both sides, like solidified rock walls, are firmly locked and separated by rows of iron chains from top to bottom...

In the open gaps, the bright red light of lava is constantly emitting.

All the iron chains used on this [Railway]...are connected to that huge winch, and are all extended from that huge iron chain.

"Let's go!"

said Mr. Weasley again.

He led the dumbfounded MacGuffin along the iron chain... slowly to the strange stone platform filled with cold wind and mist.

When they got there, McGuffin and Blake noticed...under the stone platform, at the very beginning of the chain bridge of the lava lake...a circular platform that looked like it was made of tiles stood.

The platform was shining brightly, with a translucent luster... like some kind of emerald red jade.

Arthur Weasley didn't say much.

Just take out another piece of candle and light it up!

Then it was thrown steadily to the center of the circular platform.

The golden light shines!

The entire platform buzzed and began to vibrate, and...a golden light shone from time to time.

Then Mr. Weasley jumped straight down and landed firmly on the platform.

After checking the platform with his wand, he stood there and waved to the two of them!

"MacGuffin, Blake...you can come down now."

McGuffin gritted his teeth, and still followed Black... and jumped into the channel that was opened by the lava lake.

To be honest, although it doesn't sound very dangerous.

But jump straight to such a place,
——The thief is exciting!
After taking a few deep breaths of air, McGuffin finally calmed down the pounding heart in his chest.

Only then did he realize one thing, the air here was not as sparse and choking (poisonous) as he had expected, but instead had a fresh smell of grass and trees.

It's like being in a forest.

The coolness is pleasant and the extremely fresh air is simply refreshing.

Incredible!

It didn't take long for McGuffin to feel emotional.

The platform under their feet began to move forward slowly under the control of Arthur Weasley.

It's like an elevator.

It's just that the "flame wall" separated by the lava lakes on both sides is "trapped and locked" by a series of iron chains, which really makes people unable to calm down.

I don't know if it's because of the suffocating and oppressive feeling brought by this 'topography', or because I'm attracted by the sight that I can't see at all... McGuffin just looked left and right anxiously, unable to say a word.

There was silence on the platform, only the sound of the iron chain turning, humming and pulling.

I don't know how long it took,
The MacGuffin was resting with his eyes closed,

This is because of his previous looking around.

His eyes were almost 'blinded' by the bright light from the molten walls on both sides.

The two pairs of eyes are constantly crying, everything is dark and hazy, and the light spots of various colors... are constantly jumping back and forth where the eyeballs and eyelids meet.

It was quite a while, until Black anxiously asked Mr. Weasley again 'how to get there'.

McGuffin's eyes had only recovered.

Learning from this lesson, McGuffin also followed Mr. Weasley's practice, staring straight at the jade-like platform under his feet, and stopped looking around.

Only at this time did he discover the cool secret in this cable passage.

Under the chain bridges, there is a strange thing.

McGuffin blinked vigorously, and then carefully looked through the occasional gaps on both sides of the chain bridge....

he saw-

Something thick, with a thousand tentacles... dwelling in the lava.

Those roots pierced straight into the lava walls on both sides, shining bright yellow and bright red light, as if they were absorbing the energy of the lava.

this thing...

This thing is like a giant tree root.

How can it be?

what can have...

Immediately, McGuffin's mind came up with the huge... world tree that almost pierced the sky and split the earth.

Before he could speak out the question in his heart.

The strange and delicate platform under their feet slowly slowed down and began to stop.

— Arrived at the shore!

MacGuffin looked up and saw them coming to a black rock wall.

There is no top and no bottom.

All I could see was this black rock wall.

Thousands of iron chains of different sizes split from the chain bridge... in a fan-shaped way... straight into these rock walls.

But in front of them is a dark and deep oval tunnel.

"Let's go!"

Mr. Weasley still took the lead, and he directly took the candle that hadn't completely burned out... and led them forward, into the cave.

The tunnel is straight and wide, the ground is flat, and there are no extra rock fragments.

It's just that there is a slight convex feeling of texture when stepping on it.

With a little bit of golden light, McGuffin saw the ground under his feet... very much like the huge tree root he had just seen.

The passage is straight and sloping, without a fork in the road. Occasionally... there are still traces of iron chains on the cave wall.

As the few people gradually moved forward, after walking a certain distance, some wind began to blow from above.

However, the wind was actually scorching hot, with some vague knocking and collisions, as well as a tragic roar.

McGuffin felt the exit was coming.

Sure enough, not long after, a circular hole with shining light appeared in the dark tunnel... in front of several people.

Black quickened his pace, passed Arthur Weasley and rushed straight up.

But then he stayed near the entrance of the cave in a daze, standing still.

I don't know what happened to shock this impatient guy like this.

Ten seconds later, McGuffin also walked out of the tunnel.

--what!

Shir!
MacGuffin gasped.

Really, such a situation... Even if he was prepared in his heart, he couldn't accept it, let alone Sirius Black.

A majestic, weird... castle that cannot be described in words?Great Wall? ... Or it can be said that it was a huge building complex of some kind of battlefield, which appeared in front of his eyes.

(End of this chapter)