Chapter 1040 Clues to the Golden Egg
From the Sword of Gryffindor to wizarding currency, goblin artifacts have properties that cannot be replicated.
Such technical barriers mean that even if they can be completely cracked, it is impossible to produce something identical.
Under Harry's astonished eyes, the golden egg was thrown high up by Vincent and instantly broke into hundreds of pieces of different sizes.
They are all suspended in the air, one layer inside another, like a three-dimensional structure diagram.
The sound-generating device is no bigger than a fingernail, and its surface has a unique silver-iron luster.
Vincent pinched it between his thumb and index finger, and Hermione beside him couldn't help but admire its exquisiteness.
Her alchemy skills were no longer at the entry-level level. Although she was still some distance away from ordinary alchemists, her knowledge was in no way inferior to theirs.
Ever since their defeat, goblins have been forbidden to use wands. Wizards can use magic to shape objects, but they can only forge them by hand.
The surface of the sound-generating device appears to be as smooth as a mirror, but in fact it is densely engraved with their words.
It looks more like a pattern, but has the same magical effect as magic runes.
"Hold it for me." Vincent handed the device to Hermione and took out Nicolas Flamel's manuscript from the Flamel Ring.
Harry glanced at it curiously, but he couldn't even understand the few geometric patterns, let alone what the unknown words meant.
"What's that on top?"
Vincent flipped through the book carefully without even turning his head. "Some common alchemical formulas summarized by my teacher."
Harry couldn't help but take a deep breath.
This was the manuscript that attracted countless alchemists. It was indeed not something that a poor student like him could understand.
Vincent, who had been flipping through a dozen pages, suddenly stopped and said, "Found it."
Hermione also came over curiously, staring at the strange patterns on it.
It was the writing of fairies. It would be abnormal for Nico, who had lived for more than six hundred years, not to have conducted any research on it.
Every alchemist has a unique code table, so like Harry, she couldn't understand the unknown text that looked like annotations at the bottom.
"Strange..." Vincent looked up at the sound-generating device in Hermione's hand with a puzzled look.
According to Nico's research, the goblins' advanced forging skills are actually the same as alchemy, which pursues the balance of all things.
Refining - Medium - Reaction - Carrier
The four elements are indispensable, but the sound-generating device in front of him is incomplete because it lacks the second medium.
Obviously the goblins would not make such a major mistake, so the device was deliberately made to be defective.
Because of the lack of medium, the sound it produces is incomplete, just like the intermittent noise produced when the radio signal is poor.
To explain it in layman's terms, the sound emitted by the device is encrypted, and the way to crack it is to find the code, that is, the missing medium, and let it act as a "code filter", similar to the Muggle Morse code that requires specific frequency analysis.
Vincent showed an excited expression again, and Hermione and Harry finally felt relieved.
The process of finding the medium is long and tedious, but since it is hiding the clues to the second project of the Triwizard Tournament, it should not be particularly difficult.
Common media include air, flame, wood, metal, water, soil, glass, etc., which can be divided into gases, solids and liquids according to their categories.
After trying one by one, the sound-generating device obviously reacted to the liquid. It no longer emitted horrific screams like a concert in hell, and the tone and volume were much lower.
After replacing several liquids, the sound produced was the same.
Vincent frowned and stared at the cup in his hand.
The sound-generating device was completely immersed in the milk, and it is possible that the liquid hindered the propagation of sound.
“Does it require a specific liquid?”
He fished out the sound-making device soaked in milk, and before it could return to its original scream, he wrapped it tightly with his magic power.
Hermione, who had been listening carefully with her eyes closed, opened her eyes and said, "Put it back first. I think I heard something."
Vincent put the sound-generating device back into the milk, and the sound, which seemed to have become unclear due to the liquid, sounded again.
Hermione closed her eyes and listened intently.
Sure enough, the whole sound has a rhythm.
She raised her index finger and shook it back and forth along with the sound.
Suddenly, her eyes shot open, "It's a song!"
"Song?" Vincent looked surprised.
Seeing her determined look, he and Harry also tried to close their eyes and listen quietly.
It has nothing to do with being pleasant to the ear, but it does have a fixed melody.
The missing medium is liquid, any liquid.
However, a new question arises: what exactly does this song want to tell them?
Harry leaned closer to the cup and looked at the sound-generating device immersed in the milk without blinking. "Do you think the song itself is also encrypted?"
"It's very likely." His guess was confirmed by Vincent and Hermione.
Since sound needs a medium in order to be recognized as a song, then a transmission medium should also be needed to hear clearly what is being sung.
After the gas is removed, the only things left are solids or liquids.
Vincent raised his hand, and the sound-generating device flew off the cup and floated in the air. "Are you ready?"
Hermione and Harry took a deep breath and then nodded at him.
It is more likely that the propagation medium is also liquid than solid.
"Clear water like a spring——"
A large amount of clear water spurted out from the tip of the alder wand, and was constrained by Vincent's magic power into a giant sphere, covering the sound-generating device and the heads of the three people.
The hazy sound became clear, it was a particularly strange chorus song:
"Seek us where our voices are heard,
We cannot sing on the ground.
As you search, consider:
We took away your most precious treasure.
You only have an hour.
To find and take back what we have taken.
After an hour all hope is gone,
It is gone forever, never to be seen again."
After listening to it completely, Vincent controlled the water ball upwards, allowing their heads to escape from the water ball.
After taking a short breath, the three of them looked at each other quietly.
The song reveals four clues in total, they are:
"Seek us, where our voices ring, we cannot sing on the ground." The first sentence reveals the location where the second project will take place.
"As you search, please consider carefully: we have taken away your most beloved treasure." The second sentence reveals that the mission is to take back the "most beloved treasure."
"You only have one hour to find and take back the objects we took." The third sentence reveals that the mission has a one-hour limit.
"After an hour, all hope is gone. It is completely gone, never to be seen again." The last sentence reveals the serious consequences of mission failure.
Summarizing the four clues, we can conclude that the second item is not on land, but where the singing is heard, that is, underwater, and the four warriors need to find the "most beloved treasure" within an hour, otherwise they will lose it forever.
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