Chapter 120 The Basement of the Cabin
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Wo Bu Geng Xin
In fact, Luke himself can't explain why he feels a sense of belonging to such a place.
Although the temperature here is like spring all year round, the vegetation is evergreen, the mountains are surrounded by water, and it is full of vitality, but after all, this place is just a hut, and the only living thing that is active all year round is the snake.
Maybe it's simply staying for a long time.
Luke murmured secretly.Other than that, he really couldn't think of anything else to say.
But a sense of belonging is not a bad thing, he can't expect himself to be like a player, trying to change the world while not integrating into it.No one is a fool, you are out of tune with the whole world, and you still expect to be able to talk to others?Thinking of something bad?
If that's the case, don't talk about friendship, just talk about transactions.
Thinking of all this, Luke walked towards his hut. After seeing Luke, the snakes did not continue to stay here, and soon scattered like birds and beasts.Despite the magical protection here, the temperature has always remained relatively constant, neither hot nor cold.But it is winter after all, and the snakes still don't like to move.
Being able to gather between the time Luke walked into the forest and the time he arrived at the hut already showed their mobility and loyalty.
Ask them to spend Christmas with Luke?Spare them.No matter how smart they are, they are just a group of snakes.The role of guard can still be done.Let them become a group of family members who can give you warmth.This requirement is beyond the standard!
In any case, this Christmas Eve, Luke is destined to live alone.
Fortunately, he was alone for many years before, and before he traveled from the previous life, the only feeling he had about Christmas Eve was that someone gave apples and someone had apples.So he has no special obsession with this festival.
No problem though.
[Ding dong!Congratulations to the host for ushering in the first Christmas after fully activating the system. At the same time, because the host took the initiative to complete the task after fully activating the system.A Christmas gift pack is specially distributed as an encouragement.Make persistent efforts to the host, do not forget the original intention, Merry Christmas. 】
[Ding dong!The gift pack has been stored in the system warehouse, please pay attention to check it. 】
Luke: ...
"Tsk, it's a great holiday."
Luke sighed sincerely with a serious face.
However, he was not in a hurry to open the gift bag. He had accumulated a lot of various task rewards and achievement rewards in the system.Sometimes when I get busy, I don't have time to drive this thing.But fortunately, they can't be lost there, so Luke doesn't care about them. Whenever he is happy, he will open two to add to the fun, or to suppress his happy mood.
The latter are mostly.
Not all the things given by the system are useful.For example, those few company operating guidelines.You say it's useless, it works.You say it is useful, but it is not really impossible to buy it in the Muggle world.
After all, the Squib business genius who is loyal to the Gunter family is a living textbook in itself.
It's a pity that he is a squib, and he can only serve as a guide to Luke's industries in the wizarding world, and it is impossible to operate them himself.Not even with Gaunt's reputation.
Filch's job is already enough to make most Squibs envious, it's the best job.
And such a job, in the eyes of the vast majority of wizards, is just not popular.
At the same time, things that didn't feel strange before suddenly felt strange.
Raymond Sacco, Squib, one of the great capitalists of the Muggle world.In recent years, he has been behind the scenes, and a large number of shares are held by others, so he has become more and more low-key.But in the ears of some knowledgeable people, this name is like thunder.
He was besieged by many "friends" back then, but he was able to survive. In the eyes of some people, Raymond's life is a huge legend.
To be able to survive the siege is naturally the help of the Gunter family.Raymond has been helping the Gaunts make money from the start.Someone helped him hold the shares, but most of the shares in his hands were still held by the Gunter family.
Luke's parents passed away so early that he didn't even remember it. Raymond was like an old housekeeper, taking care of the young Luke.
But since he's a Squib, he can't even live permanently in this forest.So Luke can be said to have grown up alone in the forest since he was a child.
Just eat and drink without worrying about it.
Communication with Raymond is more by letter.
But thinking about it now, there are really too many things that are wrong.
Gaunt, one of the natural leaders of the pure-bloods, found a Squib as a vassal and asked him to help them expand their strength in the Muggle world.
In this sentence, the first half and the second half of the sentence have nothing to do with the word reasonable.
And Luke analyzed it and knew that Raymond either knew nothing about such a question, or he would never tell the truth when he asked this question himself.
It was hard for him to imagine that when he asked Raymond this question, Raymond gave his answer frankly.When I asked him why he didn't say it before, Raymond said to himself, 'You didn't ask. '
The style of painting will be wrong.
For some people, it seems that there are many secrets, and it is not good for people to tell them.That's what happened to Dumbledore's old Riddler.Of course, the taboo knowledge he hides in his heart may be really harmful to people if he speaks out?
Luke himself can't tell for sure, but this kid has been stubborn since he was a child, so I'll look it up myself if I can't ask.
Anyone who walks will leave traces.Luke didn't believe that there was anything else that could not be found out because of the painstaking investigation.
Of course, what if it is true?
Pull down and ask.What else can I do... How much is face worth when it comes to some important secrets.
So Luke didn't think too much, and simply walked into his small bedroom.
Although the size of the bedroom has been infinitely extended, it still doesn't look too big. The bed occupies more than half of the space, and at first glance, the most expensive thing in the room seems to be the bed.
It's not that other things are not expensive.Instead, gemstones and gold threads are used to form patterns, fabrics full of magic power are used to sew bedding, and a bed is carved from wood that exudes life breath... The value of this bed is too high, and other things are not very expensive .
It can only be said that the members of the Gunter family are very concerned about the quality of their sleep.
However, Luke didn't intend to fall asleep now, but went straight to a big box in the corner of his room.
I placed my hand on the pattern of the snake head on the box and twisted it slightly, and there was a crisp 'click' sound inside the box.
Then Luke opened the lid of the box and saw the stairs going down.Luke climbed into the box and walked down slowly.
After he went down, the snake head with the snake pattern on the outside of the box swung back again, and then there was a pile of gorgeous clothes at the top of the stairs, and some scattered jewelry rose up from below, filling the entire box.Afterwards, the lid of the box closed by itself, and everything was peaceful.
And Luke, who entered the bottom, looked at the book storage room in front of him, which was smaller than the Hogwarts library, but only one size smaller, with a calm expression on his face.
He didn't think how big it was before, even when he entered Hogwarts and saw the Hogwarts library, he felt that the Hogwarts library was not as big as he thought.
Hermione asked him why.He said that the book storage room in his home is a little smaller than this library, but only a little smaller.
Then Hermione asked him to think about it.Is it because the Hogwarts library is too small, or the book storage room at home is too big.
Snake-shaped magic lamps illuminate the place like daytime.Luke also knew that these snake-shaped magic lamps were not only magic lamps, but also the defensive facilities of this book storage room.
Once someone breaks into the storage room, the end will not be very good.
As for how it counts as breaking in... Luke hasn't researched it yet.If the things in the treasure house are left over from many years ago, then this book storage room is a standard handed down from generation to generation.To say those taboo knowledge.There are much more here than in the treasury.
Standing at the entrance to the vault, Luke picked up a thin slab of stone from the entrance table.
Several entries such as 'History', 'Knowledge of Biological Magic', 'Political Means', and 'Spell Science' were simply engraved on it.These entries only occupy more than half of the slate from top to bottom, and there is still a part of the blank, which seems to be waiting to be filled.
And Luke searched on this slate, scanned the entry he needed among the top entries, then stretched out his finger, pressed it, and injected magic power.
With a flash of light and shadow, Luke disappeared from the spot.
The light and shadow in front of Luke's eyes changed, and he saw the sign hanging on the bookshelf to his left.
"Family Secret Notes"
This is the name of this collection of books.It can be seen that in addition to the large bookshelves that are filled, more bookshelves are still empty, as if waiting to be filled by later people.
Luke didn't immediately walk into the bookshelf.After putting the slate on the small table beside him, he first looked at the bottom of the title. The line was familiar, but it was only a joke before.
"We keep our secrets here. But don't read our diary! Unless you really need to."
The words 'unless you really need to' are especially small.Even if you don't look carefully, you can't see it.And 'but don't just flip through our diary! 'A few words are extraordinarily large.The exclamation point is even written in red.
These diaries may be related to the privacy of the ancestors, or they may be dangerous.Before, Luke just laughed it off.To be honest, although some of their diaries are very interesting, most of them are journals.
The heirs of the Gaunt family are all good at grammar.Even if it is a journal, the writing can be as beautiful and emotional as prose.
But a running account is a running account, and the diary... who knows how true or false.
Anyway, Luke doesn't keep a diary, but based on his knowledge of himself, he doesn't think the diary he writes will be so objective.
Exaggeration and self-praise are inevitable.Human beings are almost unavoidable.
Looking at these diaries, on the one hand, the tall image of the ancestors is easily destroyed; on the other hand, it is really not as interesting as the various other records they left behind and the secrets related to each family.
The latter can be read as an adventure story, or a horror story.It is also an important prop for Luke to pass the boredom when he was a child.
But now, Luke can only rummage through the diary.The ancestors started writing diaries at different times, and Luke didn't know if he could find the information he wanted.
But he still walked into it and began to look for the name that Nicole Flamel could never forget.
Jess Gunter.
It's actually not that hard to find.Although each generation of people can basically fill a bookshelf, the books here are still not so vast.
After all, it is almost passed down from generation to generation. Do you expect such a family to have many people?
Counting all the branches is not much.
So without much effort, Luke found the bookshelf that Jess Gaunt had left behind.
This is a bookshelf that is packed to the brim.The ancestor's life seemed quite turbulent.As for the diary, after Luke read it a little, he fell into deep thought.
Nearly two rows of diaries... How did the... ancestors of this family do it?
Luke looked at the diaries and felt a headache for a while.It looked like he was going to be tormented by the gaudy grammar, the baseless bragging, again.
And this amount...it doesn't look like it can be read in a Christmas holiday.
But things have come to this, Luke can only take out his wand, let these diaries float down from the bookshelf, and then manipulate them to fly with him, walk out of the bookshelf, and when he returns to the small table, pick up the slate A little more.
In the next moment, both Luke and the book returned to the hall at the beginning.
Luke put the book on the large desk not far away, and then he was about to go back to the small table and put the slate away.This is a very important index directory.Although the ancestors have left behind repair and reconstruction methods, but the high-end magic involved is too much.
Luke decided to keep it safe, not to lose it, let alone break it.
But before he had finished placing the slate, he heard the ear-piercing sound of 'dang, clang, clang' from the snake-shaped magic lamps.
Luke's expression changed.This is someone approaching the hut, but there is his own aura on him, which is considered to be a reminder that he has friends visiting.
"a?"
With such doubts in mind, Luke walked towards the exit.
Luke moved quickly, and within a short while, he appeared at the door.
Then he saw Gemma who was surrounded by snakes and couldn't get an inch not far from the hut.
Gemma was carrying a food box, with a somewhat embarrassed expression on her face.
"I wanted to give you a surprise. I know there should be no one in your family." Gemma looked around, and the colorful and long creatures still made people uncomfortable, "But I didn't expect that your family would There are so many...friends."
Luke froze for a moment, then laughed.
Although the temperature here is like spring all year round, the vegetation is evergreen, the mountains are surrounded by water, and it is full of vitality, but after all, this place is just a hut, and the only living thing that is active all year round is the snake.
Maybe it's simply staying for a long time.
Luke murmured secretly.Other than that, he really couldn't think of anything else to say.
But a sense of belonging is not a bad thing, he can't expect himself to be like a player, trying to change the world while not integrating into it.No one is a fool, you are out of tune with the whole world, and you still expect to be able to talk to others?Thinking of something bad?
If that's the case, don't talk about friendship, just talk about transactions.
Thinking of all this, Luke walked towards his hut. After seeing Luke, the snakes did not continue to stay here, and soon scattered like birds and beasts.Despite the magical protection here, the temperature has always remained relatively constant, neither hot nor cold.But it is winter after all, and the snakes still don't like to move.
Being able to gather between the time Luke walked into the forest and the time he arrived at the hut already showed their mobility and loyalty.
Ask them to spend Christmas with Luke?Spare them.No matter how smart they are, they are just a group of snakes.The role of guard can still be done.Let them become a group of family members who can give you warmth.This requirement is beyond the standard!
In any case, this Christmas Eve, Luke is destined to live alone.
Fortunately, he was alone for many years before, and before he traveled from the previous life, the only feeling he had about Christmas Eve was that someone gave apples and someone had apples.So he has no special obsession with this festival.
No problem though.
[Ding dong!Congratulations to the host for ushering in the first Christmas after fully activating the system. At the same time, because the host took the initiative to complete the task after fully activating the system.A Christmas gift pack is specially distributed as an encouragement.Make persistent efforts to the host, do not forget the original intention, Merry Christmas. 】
[Ding dong!The gift pack has been stored in the system warehouse, please pay attention to check it. 】
Luke: ...
"Tsk, it's a great holiday."
Luke sighed sincerely with a serious face.
However, he was not in a hurry to open the gift bag. He had accumulated a lot of various task rewards and achievement rewards in the system.Sometimes when I get busy, I don't have time to drive this thing.But fortunately, they can't be lost there, so Luke doesn't care about them. Whenever he is happy, he will open two to add to the fun, or to suppress his happy mood.
The latter are mostly.
Not all the things given by the system are useful.For example, those few company operating guidelines.You say it's useless, it works.You say it is useful, but it is not really impossible to buy it in the Muggle world.
After all, the Squib business genius who is loyal to the Gunter family is a living textbook in itself.
It's a pity that he is a squib, and he can only serve as a guide to Luke's industries in the wizarding world, and it is impossible to operate them himself.Not even with Gaunt's reputation.
Filch's job is already enough to make most Squibs envious, it's the best job.
And such a job, in the eyes of the vast majority of wizards, is just not popular.
At the same time, things that didn't feel strange before suddenly felt strange.
Raymond Sacco, Squib, one of the great capitalists of the Muggle world.In recent years, he has been behind the scenes, and a large number of shares are held by others, so he has become more and more low-key.But in the ears of some knowledgeable people, this name is like thunder.
He was besieged by many "friends" back then, but he was able to survive. In the eyes of some people, Raymond's life is a huge legend.
To be able to survive the siege is naturally the help of the Gunter family.Raymond has been helping the Gaunts make money from the start.Someone helped him hold the shares, but most of the shares in his hands were still held by the Gunter family.
Luke's parents passed away so early that he didn't even remember it. Raymond was like an old housekeeper, taking care of the young Luke.
But since he's a Squib, he can't even live permanently in this forest.So Luke can be said to have grown up alone in the forest since he was a child.
Just eat and drink without worrying about it.
Communication with Raymond is more by letter.
But thinking about it now, there are really too many things that are wrong.
Gaunt, one of the natural leaders of the pure-bloods, found a Squib as a vassal and asked him to help them expand their strength in the Muggle world.
In this sentence, the first half and the second half of the sentence have nothing to do with the word reasonable.
And Luke analyzed it and knew that Raymond either knew nothing about such a question, or he would never tell the truth when he asked this question himself.
It was hard for him to imagine that when he asked Raymond this question, Raymond gave his answer frankly.When I asked him why he didn't say it before, Raymond said to himself, 'You didn't ask. '
The style of painting will be wrong.
For some people, it seems that there are many secrets, and it is not good for people to tell them.That's what happened to Dumbledore's old Riddler.Of course, the taboo knowledge he hides in his heart may be really harmful to people if he speaks out?
Luke himself can't tell for sure, but this kid has been stubborn since he was a child, so I'll look it up myself if I can't ask.
Anyone who walks will leave traces.Luke didn't believe that there was anything else that could not be found out because of the painstaking investigation.
Of course, what if it is true?
Pull down and ask.What else can I do... How much is face worth when it comes to some important secrets.
So Luke didn't think too much, and simply walked into his small bedroom.
Although the size of the bedroom has been infinitely extended, it still doesn't look too big. The bed occupies more than half of the space, and at first glance, the most expensive thing in the room seems to be the bed.
It's not that other things are not expensive.Instead, gemstones and gold threads are used to form patterns, fabrics full of magic power are used to sew bedding, and a bed is carved from wood that exudes life breath... The value of this bed is too high, and other things are not very expensive .
It can only be said that the members of the Gunter family are very concerned about the quality of their sleep.
However, Luke didn't intend to fall asleep now, but went straight to a big box in the corner of his room.
I placed my hand on the pattern of the snake head on the box and twisted it slightly, and there was a crisp 'click' sound inside the box.
Then Luke opened the lid of the box and saw the stairs going down.Luke climbed into the box and walked down slowly.
After he went down, the snake head with the snake pattern on the outside of the box swung back again, and then there was a pile of gorgeous clothes at the top of the stairs, and some scattered jewelry rose up from below, filling the entire box.Afterwards, the lid of the box closed by itself, and everything was peaceful.
And Luke, who entered the bottom, looked at the book storage room in front of him, which was smaller than the Hogwarts library, but only one size smaller, with a calm expression on his face.
He didn't think how big it was before, even when he entered Hogwarts and saw the Hogwarts library, he felt that the Hogwarts library was not as big as he thought.
Hermione asked him why.He said that the book storage room in his home is a little smaller than this library, but only a little smaller.
Then Hermione asked him to think about it.Is it because the Hogwarts library is too small, or the book storage room at home is too big.
Snake-shaped magic lamps illuminate the place like daytime.Luke also knew that these snake-shaped magic lamps were not only magic lamps, but also the defensive facilities of this book storage room.
Once someone breaks into the storage room, the end will not be very good.
As for how it counts as breaking in... Luke hasn't researched it yet.If the things in the treasure house are left over from many years ago, then this book storage room is a standard handed down from generation to generation.To say those taboo knowledge.There are much more here than in the treasury.
Standing at the entrance to the vault, Luke picked up a thin slab of stone from the entrance table.
Several entries such as 'History', 'Knowledge of Biological Magic', 'Political Means', and 'Spell Science' were simply engraved on it.These entries only occupy more than half of the slate from top to bottom, and there is still a part of the blank, which seems to be waiting to be filled.
And Luke searched on this slate, scanned the entry he needed among the top entries, then stretched out his finger, pressed it, and injected magic power.
With a flash of light and shadow, Luke disappeared from the spot.
The light and shadow in front of Luke's eyes changed, and he saw the sign hanging on the bookshelf to his left.
"Family Secret Notes"
This is the name of this collection of books.It can be seen that in addition to the large bookshelves that are filled, more bookshelves are still empty, as if waiting to be filled by later people.
Luke didn't immediately walk into the bookshelf.After putting the slate on the small table beside him, he first looked at the bottom of the title. The line was familiar, but it was only a joke before.
"We keep our secrets here. But don't read our diary! Unless you really need to."
The words 'unless you really need to' are especially small.Even if you don't look carefully, you can't see it.And 'but don't just flip through our diary! 'A few words are extraordinarily large.The exclamation point is even written in red.
These diaries may be related to the privacy of the ancestors, or they may be dangerous.Before, Luke just laughed it off.To be honest, although some of their diaries are very interesting, most of them are journals.
The heirs of the Gaunt family are all good at grammar.Even if it is a journal, the writing can be as beautiful and emotional as prose.
But a running account is a running account, and the diary... who knows how true or false.
Anyway, Luke doesn't keep a diary, but based on his knowledge of himself, he doesn't think the diary he writes will be so objective.
Exaggeration and self-praise are inevitable.Human beings are almost unavoidable.
Looking at these diaries, on the one hand, the tall image of the ancestors is easily destroyed; on the other hand, it is really not as interesting as the various other records they left behind and the secrets related to each family.
The latter can be read as an adventure story, or a horror story.It is also an important prop for Luke to pass the boredom when he was a child.
But now, Luke can only rummage through the diary.The ancestors started writing diaries at different times, and Luke didn't know if he could find the information he wanted.
But he still walked into it and began to look for the name that Nicole Flamel could never forget.
Jess Gunter.
It's actually not that hard to find.Although each generation of people can basically fill a bookshelf, the books here are still not so vast.
After all, it is almost passed down from generation to generation. Do you expect such a family to have many people?
Counting all the branches is not much.
So without much effort, Luke found the bookshelf that Jess Gaunt had left behind.
This is a bookshelf that is packed to the brim.The ancestor's life seemed quite turbulent.As for the diary, after Luke read it a little, he fell into deep thought.
Nearly two rows of diaries... How did the... ancestors of this family do it?
Luke looked at the diaries and felt a headache for a while.It looked like he was going to be tormented by the gaudy grammar, the baseless bragging, again.
And this amount...it doesn't look like it can be read in a Christmas holiday.
But things have come to this, Luke can only take out his wand, let these diaries float down from the bookshelf, and then manipulate them to fly with him, walk out of the bookshelf, and when he returns to the small table, pick up the slate A little more.
In the next moment, both Luke and the book returned to the hall at the beginning.
Luke put the book on the large desk not far away, and then he was about to go back to the small table and put the slate away.This is a very important index directory.Although the ancestors have left behind repair and reconstruction methods, but the high-end magic involved is too much.
Luke decided to keep it safe, not to lose it, let alone break it.
But before he had finished placing the slate, he heard the ear-piercing sound of 'dang, clang, clang' from the snake-shaped magic lamps.
Luke's expression changed.This is someone approaching the hut, but there is his own aura on him, which is considered to be a reminder that he has friends visiting.
"a?"
With such doubts in mind, Luke walked towards the exit.
Luke moved quickly, and within a short while, he appeared at the door.
Then he saw Gemma who was surrounded by snakes and couldn't get an inch not far from the hut.
Gemma was carrying a food box, with a somewhat embarrassed expression on her face.
"I wanted to give you a surprise. I know there should be no one in your family." Gemma looked around, and the colorful and long creatures still made people uncomfortable, "But I didn't expect that your family would There are so many...friends."
Luke froze for a moment, then laughed.
