The Chinese girl from Hufflepuff is both timid and brave

Sun Zhu was frozen as if she had been cast under a petrification spell. She didn't even have the courage to turn around and look.

But reason overcame her timidity, and she immediately hid the talisman in her hand into her wide sleeves, and let the dragon wrapped around her wrist return to the beads.

Although doing so is a bit like trying to cover up one's own faults, it is better than being caught red-handed. She believes that ordinary people would not imagine that the "props" in her hands are from the ancient East.

"Please answer my question." The voice continued, "You are a student of Hogwarts, but you should not be here so late at night."

Sun Zhu had calmed down a lot by now, and her wildly beating heart had calmed down. She turned around slowly, and as she expected, she saw a translucent figure wearing an elegant but old dress.

Her face was solemn yet beautiful, her manners were elegant yet slightly hesitant. She looked at Sun Zhu with a pair of deathly gray eyes filled with suspicion and wariness.

This is the ghost of Ravenclaw House, the Grey Lady.

In fact, after the Room of Requirement is occupied, no one else can enter without permission, and only ghosts can enter.

Sun Zhu bowed slightly and said, "Hello, Mrs. Grey, I'm sorry to bother you so late at night. I am indeed a student of Hogwarts. I am here so late at night to find something."

"What is it?" The defensiveness in her eyes did not diminish in the slightest because of Sun Zhu's politeness.

"A book. It's very important to me. It's different from the other books here." Sun Zhu continued with a smile, "I know it's here, but I don't know what it looks like. Can you help me?"

"Books? The books here are illusions, not entities. How are you going to find them? Even if you find them, you..." Mrs. Grey floated towards the bookshelf, but paused slightly.

"You mean, they are illusions? But I can clearly touch them..." Sun Zhu reached out and touched a book again with some confusion, and took it down.

Mrs. Grey's eyes fell on her again and stared at her for a moment, until Sun Zhu felt a chill on her back, and then she murmured: "It seems that you are allowed to take one of the books."

Sun Zhu looked at her in confusion.

"But you can only find it by yourself. Apart from it, everything else is an illusion to you." Mrs. Grey looked at her deeply and said nothing more, as if she was ready to pass through the wall and leave again.

"Please wait a moment." Sun Zhu shouted hurriedly.

"I won't help you." She didn't look at Sun Zhu again, and said coldly: "If you don't have enough wisdom to discover it, then you don't deserve it."

Sun Zhu hurriedly shook her head, but suddenly remembered that Mrs. Grey couldn't see her actions, so she could only say: "I just hope you can keep it a secret for me. After all, it's curfew time now. If people knew that I was not in the dormitory at this time, my college might deduct points."

Mrs. Grey finally looked at her again, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she only said: "I don't say unnecessary words, and I don't do unnecessary things."

She disappeared completely into the Room of Requirement.

Sun Zhu hugged his shoulders with both hands, rubbed his arms that were numb from the cold, looked at the bookshelf in the circle room, and sighed.

"Why is everything tonight so magical? There is also the ghost in this house. To be honest, she is the most mysterious ghost..." Sun Zhu shook his head, "And she should be the most difficult one to fool. After all, she is Rowena's biological daughter."

Sun Zhu felt that the reason why Lady Grey, or Helena Ravenclaw, could so easily ignore her behavior at the moment was perhaps because she knew what she was going to do.

"Host, your behavior just now must have triggered the [Lies Sound], so you managed to escape the disaster." The system guessed.

Unlike other talents, this skill is a passive skill, and whether it can be successfully triggered is completely unpredictable. Although Sun Zhu had never thought about relying on deceiving people to accomplish anything big in the future.

"Maybe. Anyway, this matter has passed. Let me continue looking for things." She pinched the talisman in her palm again, looked at the dozens of rows of books, and sighed.

"Perhaps, Helena was reminding me of something just now. According to her, except for the book that the crown turned into, everything else here is an illusion?" She drew out her wand, gestured twice at the mountain of books, and whispered: "Wingardium, Leviosa".

On the nearest row of bookshelves, the books are all exactly where they were, without any change.

Sun Zhu cast several more floating spells, but still saw no response.

"If my spell didn't suddenly fail, then it's because the spell doesn't work on these fake books." She took out a pink bubble bean flower from her pocket, and the levitation spell easily made it hover in the air.

"Xiao Tongzi, it seems I'm lucky." Sun Zhu rolled up his sleeves, ready to seriously catch the little devil Guanmian.

Fortunately, the levitation spell is a group skill. Although Sun Zhu's current magic power cannot support her to blow up a large number of books, as long as she can make the only book move, it is equivalent to exposing her true identity.

She repeated the levitation spell on each shelf one by one, and finally saw the thin leather book slowly rising in the middle of the second shelf of the seventh bookshelf.

Surprisingly, this one was not written in runes and looked newer than the other books around it.

In fact, Sun Zhu knew that these books could not have really been handed down from the Middle Ages. After all, when papermaking was introduced to Europe and became popular, the Middle Ages were about to end, and there would not have been so many paper books at that time. Even if European wizards were more advanced than European Muggles, they would not be able to preserve them so well.

And for some reason, this crown disguised as an ancient book turned out to be a book she was relatively familiar with, "Hogwarts, A History of the School." Although it was written in ancient English and the grammar was a little different, Sun Zhu determined its "identity" from the portraits of the four founders on its cover.

She carefully used a levitation spell to move it to a small desk in the room, then pinched the talisman tighter before carefully reaching out to touch it.

As soon as she touched the cover of the book, she felt a strong burning sensation, and a voice uncontrollably surged into her brain: "Do you want to have infinite wisdom? Do you want to achieve those impossible goals? I will help you achieve all of this with knowledge."

Sun Zhu quickly retracted his hand and saw that the talisman was slightly curled up and the edges were already showing signs of being burnt.

She thought about it and simply covered the book with the entire piece of talisman paper. The golden lines on the talisman paper flashed, and after a few breaths, it finally stopped curling up, but there was black air lingering around.

When she touched it again, she no longer felt the temptation of the black magic.

"Obviously, the Advanced Defense Talisman is still useful. It may be able to suppress the evil power of the Horcrux and prevent it from spreading magic to harm people. However, it is not enough to destroy the fragments of Voldemort's soul stored in it." She rubbed her brows and looked at the beads on her wrist.

Uncle Long in the bead appeared in front of her again, his soybean-sized eyes full of speechlessness.

“Are you kidding me? I am the mighty Golden Scale Divine Dragon. I am helping you deal with a mortal demon that has not even reached the Nascent Soul stage. But for a mere piece of soul fragment, you are actually planning to make me bleed?!”