Chapter 359 Being targeted by a madman, a brand new toy
In the corridor where Lin Xia was patrolling, there was a sudden sound of "ta, da, da" footsteps.
She immediately stopped and turned to look in the direction of the sound.
There happened to be an aisle in front, which blocked the place where the sound came from.
Lin Xia thought for a while, and instead of following the scheduled patrol route, he went to the corridor where the sound came from.
Nothing came of it.
When she returned to the original patrol spot, the outstanding student on the next patrol walked up to her and asked in a low voice: "Why did you deviate from the path? Did you find anything?"
His expression was casual.
After all, ever since the Voice Guardian came to Hogwarts, the unusual movements in the school have decreased a lot.
This outstanding student even thought that Lin Xia was making a fuss.
Lin Xia said calmly: "When I was patrolling nearby, I heard a strange sound. My audio-visual device should also have recorded it. I plan to hand it over to the patrolling professor later."
"Recorded it?" The outstanding student immediately looked serious.
Lin Xia was the first to notice something strange. He had no intention of taking credit, but said vigilantly:
"Now that you have discovered something, you should hand it over to the patrolling professor now to prevent it from escaping if something strange really happens."
Lin Xia said thank you to him and then went to find Professor Snape.
Seeing Lin Xia's arrival, Snape raised his head from the chore of refining the potion.
Lin Xia discovered that the three bottles of potion reagents in front of the professor were all different in color and were still bubbling. It seemed that they would be completed soon.
Raising her head, she met Snape's cold gaze: "Excellent student Lin Xia, you'd better come to me if you really have something to do, otherwise -"
He paused and said mockingly: "Even 1,000 gold galleons are not enough for you to compensate me for this pot of potion."
Lin Xia didn't say anything and reported his findings to him calmly.
Snape's eyes flashed slightly and he asked, "Where did you hear it?"
Lin Xia said: "It's in the corridor in front of the grocery store. I walked over and checked it out. I didn't find anything, but I thought I should report it to you."
Snape: "I'm going to check now."
He stood up in a hurry, frowning, and passed by Lin Xia.
Lin Xia also turned around, wanting to go with him.
Snape suddenly stopped, turned his head to look at Lin Xia, and said unceremoniously: "You should know what I am refining."
Lin Xia nodded: "If I guess correctly, you are refining the Fuling Potion."
Snape said calmly: "It is difficult to control the timing of Fuling Potion, and it requires a bit of luck to succeed.
Today I finally found the feeling and just need to integrate the last two steps. Your potion talent is excellent, I believe you should know how to refine the Fuling Potion, right? "
Lin Xia looked into his empty, dark eyes and thought: If she said she didn't know how, Snape might choose to finish refining the Fuling Potion before going out to check it out.
So she nodded: "I tried refining it once before, and luckily I succeeded."
Snape raised his head and said coldly and arrogantly: "You stay here and help me refine it. If the refining goes wrong, I will ask you to compensate!"
Lin Xia was slightly speechless and reminded him: "Professor, my mission is only to patrol, and it does not include helping you refine the magic potion."
Snape turned around and refused to listen to her explanation: "I believe that the outstanding student Ms. Lin Xia will not let me down."
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There was another rush of "ta, da, da" footsteps in the corridor.
The outstanding student who was patrolling turned around and saw Professor Snape walking resolutely, reaching the corridor in front of the grocery store with a clear purpose.
He glanced around first without making any reaction, then walked inside and opened the door of the grocery store himself.
There were other outstanding students behind him. Before Snape went in, he turned back and said coldly: "What are you doing with nothing to do? Get back to your patrol position!"
After saying this, he was still not satisfied and said coldly and mockingly:
"Or do you expect me to be able to rely on you at critical moments?"
The top students looked at each other in confusion. Snape was not merciful at all, so they could only return to their original patrol route.
An excellent student muttered: "Why are you kicking us out? I think there is something wrong with that grocery store!"
Another outstanding student's face changed when he heard this, and he yelled: "Silence! Don't let the professor hear these words!"
If there's something weird that even the professor can't detect, do you think we can solve it? "
The complaining top student stopped talking.
If he continued to speculate like this, he would have to wonder if Snape was collaborating with the weird world of evil gods, or if he was deliberately hiding something from the school.
But this is impossible.
Every official employee of Hogwarts has signed an agreement with the school and cannot do anything that harms the school.
Otherwise, there is no need for the school to send someone to deal with it, and he himself will be harmed by the content of the agreement.
In the grocery store, Snape first looked up at the picture frame in the center.
The picture frame is a pure golden background, and the person who was supposed to be in the picture frame has gone somewhere else.
Snape had no intention of calling the portrait back.
He walked into the innermost warehouse and patrolled row after row of containers with an expressionless expression.
Finally he reached the last row and found nothing.
Snape turned around and was about to leave when suddenly a pale face with heavy dark circles appeared in front of him.
It was Bellatrix!
After the torture in the past few years, Bellatrix's face had become very haggard and old, and those who knew her before could hardly recognize her.
But among the Death Eaters, her face was not the most exaggerated.
Almost all Death Eaters were of this style - deep eye sockets, heavy dark circles, pale face, and extremely crazy mental state.
They like to shout and laugh, get angry easily, and have a desire for destruction from the bones.
Bellatrix grabbed Snape's robe with a ferocious face, and said in a hurry: "Who? Who installed these disgusting gadgets in Hogwarts!"
Her voice trembled, her body trembled, as if she could not control herself at any time.
"I want to destroy it, I must destroy it!"
At this point, her face suddenly flushed, and she had the enjoyment of being abused to the extreme.
Snape looked at her calmly and said slowly, "I advise you not to be impulsive. This thing is called a voice guard.
It is not only installed on this floor, but also deployed throughout Hogwarts, and there are many surveillance cameras around it.
Once one of them is destroyed, Hogwarts will notice it. As long as Dumbledore comes, he can easily track your whereabouts.
You don't want to be exposed, do you?"
Bellatrix suddenly laughed, "Exposure? Why would I be afraid of being exposed?
If it weren't for the master's plan, I wouldn't hide like a rat in the gutter!"
Snape narrowed his eyes slightly and said calmly, "For the master's plan, you should know what you are going to do."
Bellatrix's eyes turned red, and she was determined to know who invented the voice guard.
"I won't destroy those annoying gadgets, but that doesn't mean I can't go find the initiator and tell me who invented it?"
"Or do you not want me to know who it is?"
Her eyes suddenly became cold and distant, and in that crazy look, she revealed an extremely inconsistent calmness and wisdom, as if she saw through Snape's heart.
Snape said calmly: "Why should I hide it for her? I can tell you that the person who invented this thing is a student at Hogwarts, named Lin Xia."
"Lin Xia?"
Bellatrix repeated the name several times and laughed, as if she had encountered something happy and danced like a child.
"I remember her, I remember her name, I'll find time to play with her, she will definitely be a good toy, more durable than Harry, haha, hahaha..."
Snape said lightly: "What are you doing here?"
Bellatrix: "I received a very interesting message, also related to the students of Hogwarts, it is said that a little cutie will hold a paper conference at the Ministry of Magic.
The name of that little cutie is also Lin Xia, haha... She is really interesting, Snape, you have been a professor at Hogwarts for so long, and you can finally make some contributions, I need your help..."
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In the office, Lin Xia kept time and blended the three potion reagents together. The potion bottle immediately bubbled and evaporated violently.
She waved the potion spoon, rotated it clockwise three times, and then rotated it counterclockwise five times, and then chanted the spell.
After a while, a bottle of Fuling potion that seemed to have an amber color appeared in her hand.
After Lin Xia sealed it well, she raised her hand and took the potion to her eyes for inspection.
Although the three bottles of potion reagents have a lot of volume, they experienced violent evaporation during the fusion process, and only a small tube of Felix's potion, about the length of an index finger, was left.
Judging from the quality, this potion is made to a very standard and perfect standard.
If it can be sold on the black market, the starting price will be at least 1,000 gold galleons.
Felix's potion is often auctioned at auction houses because this kind of potion is often unsalable.
When she put the potion away, the door of the office was also opened, and Snape walked in hurriedly.
He just glanced at the Felix's potion, then quickly looked away and said coldly:
"Your patrol time has come, hurry back to the dormitory."
Lin Xia nodded, and did not ask Snape about the results of the investigation. If he really found something, the professor would tell her.
No, that means nothing happened.
When she walked to the door, a cold voice came from behind her: "Lin Xia, you will go to the Ministry of Magic next week. Before the paper conference, you'd better stay in Hogwarts."
Lin Xia asked puzzledly: "Why?"
Snape said lightly: "Your two studies are very important to the wizarding world. I'm afraid someone will want to kidnap you and lock you up in a place where no one can find you, just let you do research."
Lin Xia was silent for a while, and asked sincerely: "Professor, do you think it would be better for me to hire a bodyguard back?"
Snape sneered: "If even Hogwarts can't protect you, it's even more unsafe outside.
Also, do you think senior wizards will be impressed by your gold galleons? They have a lot of things to do."
Lin Xia: "I have money."
Snape sneered: "Not even 1,000 gold galleons..."
"Ten thousand." Lin Xia interrupted calmly, "If my personal safety is in danger, I am willing to pay 10,000 gold galleons to hire a high-level wizard as a bodyguard."
Snape choked and said angrily: "You are full of copper smell. Don't think that money can buy everything. Go back quickly!"
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Lin Xia did not take Snape's words lightly. On the contrary, she took it very seriously.
After returning to the golden wooden house, she began to count the strange objects she had obtained before, to see if she could stop the high-level wizard for a while.
But unfortunately, the things sacrificed to the scales of fate before were relatively low-level, and the strange objects made were also low-level.
It is useful to face low-level wizards, and it can also block intermediate wizards, but for high-level wizards, an armor can be used to protect them.
And after that, she did not encounter powerful sacrifices, but she used energy conversion more to move the energy into her body.
The scenes she faced before were not advanced, and the dangers she encountered were not particularly powerful, and the strange objects made by the scales of fate could deal with them.
But Snape would not remind her for no reason.
Lin Xia guessed that perhaps some senior wizards would keep an eye on her.
Thinking of this, Lin Xia asked Professor Bablin about this question after finishing the magic rune class on the second day.
Since Professor Bablin had become her mentor, Lin Xia was not polite. If she encountered any problems with magic rune, she would ask if she didn't understand.
If her safety was in trouble, she would probably be in trouble as a mentor.
Lin Xia thought that she was still useful to Professor Bablin.
This time, Professor Bablin still used gossip to attract students' interest in class.
But the magic rune learned in this class was more difficult than the last time. More than half of the students could not understand it, but they all listened very seriously.
Professor Bablin's requirements also became lower accordingly. She only asked students who could understand to continue to understand.
Five students learned the new magic rune, so she was quite satisfied.
These five students were Lin Xia's five-member group.
They already had a certain foundation in magic rune, and the magic rune they were learning now was a review of the old and new, which was not difficult for them.
Compared with the relaxed attitude of the five-member team, Mikkel, who was also studying hard, had a grim look on his face.
In the azure panel in front of him, it was clearly written:
[You are learning magic runes. Due to your poor aptitude, you cannot understand the secrets of magic runes. No bonus will be given for magic runes knowledge this time]
Mikkel turned his head and looked at Neville beside him. Neville put his hands on the table like a good student and listened carefully.
Mikkel couldn't help but ask: "Neville, can you understand what Professor Bablin is saying?"
Neville nodded: "I can vaguely understand a little, but I still can't understand some of it."
Because he couldn't understand, he didn't raise his hand when the professor asked who understood it just now.
Mikkel thought Neville was bragging and asked a few questions that he couldn't understand at all.
Unexpectedly, Neville could answer them after just thinking for a while.
Although he spoke stumblingly, at least he could answer.
This made Mikkel a little depressed. Could it be that his magic rune aptitude was not as good as Neville's? (End of this chapter)
