Chapter 268: Magical glasses, a tool to avoid eye contact with the basilisk!

Professor McGonagall and several other professors hurried to the library.

Looking at the messy scene on the ground, she couldn't help but put her hand to cover her mouth and sucked in a few breaths of cold air. Several other professors were also shocked.

Professor McGonagall bent down and took the initiative to help Lin Xia and Hermione up.

"What happened, kid?"

Lin Xia looked at Hermione who was crying in her arms, then at the little wizards surrounding her, and said with a headache:

"Professor, let's go somewhere else to talk. I have something important to report to you."

Professor McGonagall immediately dispersed the little wizards around her, while several other professors moved Mrs. Pince to the infirmary.

Lin Xia and Hermione came to Professor McGonagall's office.

"I just saw a pair of huge snake tails. I guessed it was a basilisk, so I immediately closed my eyes. I also told Hermione to close her eyes, and then used the Iron Armor Charm to protect myself."

Professor McGonagall asked seriously: "Did you just use the Iron Armor Curse?"

Lin Xia: “Not only did I use this spell, I also used the Shattered Bones spell.

The basilisk seemed to be angry, and it resisted fiercely. We were pushed to the bookshelf by the reaction force of the iron armor curse. "

Professor Lockhart had already rushed over and was chattering away.

"It's a pity that I didn't come to the scene of the first crime. If I were there, I could easily subdue the basilisk. When I went to Bach Forest three years ago, I encountered a basilisk. All it took was a simple move. The avoidance spell, it ran directly around me..."

Lin Xia suddenly looked up at Lockhart.

"It seems that Professor Lockhart is very experienced. Why don't you conduct a self-examination in Hogwarts and search for the basilisk?"

Lockhart choked on his words. When he saw the looks from other professors, he immediately said:

"Of course it's no problem. I'm happy to contribute. But just by myself, I'm still a little short of manpower. I need the help of some professors..."

Professor McGonagall interrupted: "Okay, that's not the point now."

She looked at Sprout, who had just arrived, "What did Mrs. Pomley say?"

Dean Sprout said solemnly: "Being petrified has the same symptoms as the person who was petrified before."

Mag frowned, "So, is it really a basilisk?"

Professor Snape suddenly said: "It's not necessarily a basilisk, maybe some powerful black magic master sneaked into the library and wanted to get something from it.

But Lin Xia and Hermione accidentally bumped into him, so he disguised himself as a basilisk and fought with them. After all, they didn't see the whole basilisk at all. "

Hermione's mood had calmed down and she said angrily: "Professor Snape, if we really saw the basilisk, we would have been petrified!"

Professor Snape said indifferently: "I only care about evidence."

Hermione argued with reason: "Mrs. Pince was petrified, which is the best evidence."

Snape still had the same arrogant tone: "It is not difficult to petrify a person. Many high-level wizards can also do it."

Lin Xia asked back: "But Mrs. Pingsi is an adult wizard after all. Regarding the difficulty of turning people into stone, it should be easier for us little wizards, right?"

Snape sneered coldly: "Who knows what that person is thinking."

Professor McGonagall said seriously: "Okay, the investigation ends here. You can go back first. The other professors will stay. We will discuss this matter all night long."

After Hermione went out with Lin Xia, Hermione was still very angry.

She asked: "Did Professor Snape suspect that we were collaborating with that dark wizard, so he questioned us?"

Lin Xia couldn't help but be stunned.

From this angle, she really didn't expect it to be possible.

But Lin Xia was 100% convinced that it was the basilisk.

If she hadn't sacrificed the magic stone and her magic power had become more powerful, she might not have been able to force the basilisk back under normal conditions.

However, the appearance of the basilisk reminded her that she should work hard to practice her ability to fight in the dark.

The wizard cannot guarantee that every battle he fights will be conducted in a brightly lit place.

Practicing fighting in the dark will help you deal with various difficulties.

Lin Xia returned to the Hufflepuff common room.

Draco didn't sleep and was waiting for her here.

When he saw Lin Xia, he immediately walked over, cast an anti-eavesdropping spell, and asked what happened today.

Lin Xiayan said concisely: "I encountered a basilisk and escaped death."

Draco glanced at Lin Xia several times and asked with some surprise: "Why can you speak so calmly? If Hermione hadn't reacted so aggressively, I would have thought it was just a small incident."

Lin Xia said calmly: "Crying can't solve all problems, Draco, we have to grow up after all.

Rather than crying, I'm more worried about how to stop the basilisk after it has come out so blatantly.

I can force it back this time, but that doesn't mean that others can. If there are several incidents where little wizards are petrified, Hogwarts may really not be able to continue. "

Draco asked solemnly: "Do you have any solution?"

Lin Xia: "You mean to deal with the basilisk?"

She shook her head: "Don't think about it, this matter can't be solved, and it's not something we can solve."

She thought: "Perhaps, we can nip it in the bud from another aspect, at least so that the little wizard will not be petrified immediately after seeing the basilisk.

Even if he is not petrified, he does not necessarily have a great chance of survival. After all, compared to his single combat capability, even if the basilisk loses the ability to petrify, its huge body is enough to kill the little wizard. ”

Draco immediately said: “If you need my help, just let me know! "

Lin Xia returned to the golden wooden house.

She opened the diary, wrote only one sentence, and closed it.

[I was attacked by a basilisk today, but fortunately, I survived.]

Tom was about to answer, but the diary was covered again, which made him feel aggrieved.

The basilisk appeared again? Who released it? Besides him, is there another heir of Slytherin? Is Lin Xia injured...

Tom had many questions to ask, but he couldn't tell them.

It didn't realize that a word from Lin Xia could stir its mind upside down, and it was no longer as calm as before.

Lin Xia came to the small laboratory in the golden wooden house.

The world is big, and cultivation is the biggest. She practiced as usual.

I don't know if it's because the longer she has been in contact with the barrier of the Xuandian realm, the more she can feel her body. changes in the body, and the balance problem in the body.

Her body is seriously out of balance!

Fortunately, she had read many banned books before, physical, online, and borrowed from the library, all of which became her nutrients and made up for some of her shortcomings.

Otherwise, her body might have some problems due to extreme imbalance.

And for wizards, signs of physical problems often cause magic riots.

This is a common effect of losing control.

Even if Lin Xia becomes Mo Mo, she can retain her self-awareness, but if possible, she doesn't want to transform into that state.

This will expose many of her trump cards.

And who knows what kind of harm her magic riot will cause now.

Lin Xia sighed: "I still have to read more banned books and make up for my shortcomings! ”

She only practiced for a while and then stopped.

Her body was so unbalanced that if she hadn’t wanted to maintain the state of practice, she would have wanted to stop practicing.

In the dead of night, Lin Xia started to research a new invention.

She wanted to make something that would prevent people from looking into the eyes of a basilisk even if they saw one.

Lin Xia pondered, perhaps, she could use the principle of optical refraction to make a distorted optical image?

For example, the eyes are clearly looking forward, but the scene presented in the lens is a little more deviated from reality?

Lin Xia immediately started to experiment.

The next day.

On During the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, Lin Xia took out her homemade "magic glasses" and asked Hermione and others to try them on and tell her how they felt.

The little wizard no longer had any expectations for Lockhart's class, and everyone was chatting privately.

Lin Xia and others had to be reserved and create the illusion that they were concentrating on the lecture, at least in the eyes of outsiders -

Their backs were straight and they listened very seriously.

But the reality was that Lin Xia and others were chatting.

Hermione put on the magic glasses and felt the different world outside while answering Lin Xia's questions.

"Well, I'm fine. I just couldn't react yesterday. I was too scared.

Thank you, Lin Xia. If you hadn't reminded me, I might have turned into a stone statue."

Lin Xia said, "I think we can try to use spells in the dark, so that we won't lose the accuracy of the spells in the dark in the future."

Hermione agreed and said, "I think so too. "

Ron took off the magical glasses, put them on again, and then took them off again, exclaiming in amazement.

"It's amazing, Lin Xia, how did you do this, what magic did you use?"

Harry was also very interested in the magical glasses, but he seemed to understand some principles, at least he could feel that it was not magic.

Harry said: "It should be related to physics."

Draco just tried it for a while and solved the case: "Using the principle of optical imaging, the scene we see is folded twice, and after reflecting it on the lens, the pattern becomes different."

Ron exclaimed again and again, fixing his neck: "I am very sure that I am looking forward, and I can clearly see the back of other people's round heads.

But after putting on the glasses, I can only see a small tuft of hair on the top of other people's heads, and the picture is offset a lot! This is amazing! "

Hermione waved her wand, and the quill automatically jumped up and wrote on the parchment.

She was already writing a trial report on the use of the magic glasses!

Lin Xia waited until they had almost finished playing before asking: "Do you think that after launching these glasses, you can avoid the eye contact with the basilisk in the first place?"

Hermione, Harry, Ron and Draco all said in unison: "Yes!"

Draco asked a question: "But in fact, it is somewhat useless. Even if you avoid the eye contact with the basilisk, the little wizard may not be able to escape the pursuit of the basilisk.

The speed is not as fast as the basilisk, the power is not as strong as the basilisk, and the skin of the basilisk is resistant to magic. Even if magic is used, it may not cause damage to the basilisk.

If you see the basilisk and are petrified in the first place, you can avoid danger. What do you think?"

Ron and Harry looked at each other, that's true.

People who have been petrified have never suffered secondary damage, and each one is intact.

But if you don't get petrified and keep running away, you may not be able to stay intact.

Lin Xia thought for a while, and her eyes lit up: "We can take advantage of the weakness of the basilisk. Didn't we invent a screaming chicken doll before?"

Hermione figured it out and said excitedly: "Yes, we can use the magic glasses to avoid the first eye contact with the basilisk, so that we won't be petrified, and then use the screaming chicken doll to force the basilisk back.

The basilisk is very strong, but it is not without weaknesses. They hate the crowing of roosters very much and will hide when they hear it.

And where there are basilisks, roosters are the first to die, and they must be killed by the basilisk.

Although roosters are not the natural enemies of basilisks, their behavior is enough to prove that they are afraid of roosters!"

Hermione didn't know what she thought of, and said fiercely: "If more and more little wizards see the basilisk, let's see what Professor Snape has to say!"

The Defense Against the Dark Arts class was over, and Lockhart wanted to delay the class with a smile on his face.

And Lin Xia and others had already slipped out in advance through a false appearance.

Wanting to promote the magic glasses, the first thing they thought of was the Weasley twins.

As long as they are recognized by the twins, their ability to bring goods is great.

Professor Lockhart talked nonstop for five or six minutes until a little wizard blushed and couldn't help raising his hand to say he wanted to go to the bathroom, and then he officially ended the class.

Alas, what a pity.

He was telling an adventure story in the dark forest and had some disputes with a witch.

Then he persuaded the witch in this and that way, and the witch finally wanted to devote herself to him, but he refused with integrity.

After a while, all the little wizards left, and only the illusions of Lin Xia and others remained on the table.

These illusions were taking notes seriously.

Lockhart walked over and said with a smile on his face: "Hey, aren't you leaving yet? The next class is about to start."

No response was received.

Lockhart was a little embarrassed and said with a fake smile: "I didn't expect you to like my class so much and keep your head down to take notes. Let me see, maybe I can give you some guidance."

As soon as his hand hit Ron's shoulder, he missed and fell on the table, hitting his head heavily on the table, with stars in his eyes.

...

After listening to Lin Xia's idea of ​​the magical glasses, the Weasley twins decided to bring the goods for free and try to sell them out.

This upright look made Ron a little uncomfortable.

He muttered: "I thought you would want to charge money for it."

George: "It seems that our lovely brother has been fooled."

Fred: "The magical props that can help Hogwarts overcome difficulties do not need to be charged."

George and Fred said in unison: "We only make the money we deserve!"