Chapter 106: Sleepless Night at Hogwarts

The Hogwarts Castle at midnight is quiet and peaceful, having washed away the hustle and bustle of the day. Perhaps only at this time will people realize that they are in a deep castle.

In the dim corridor of this ancient castle, a pair of twin brothers were moving quickly and nimbly. Their occasional jumping and chasing showed their good mood at the moment.

The two men's goal was very clear. They didn't stop at all and went straight to the fourth floor.

But in their excitement, they didn't notice that in the dark corners of the corridors, there were small snakes of various shapes. Whenever the Weasley brothers passed by them, a small snake would quickly crawl to the nearby windowsill and sway its body wildly, as if dancing.

Outside the castle, Meng Mengjiao hovered over the ground, taking in the overall situation, and occasionally used her flying posture to make some special codes to convey the messages.

In the Ravenclaw common room, Yang Tian was watching Meng Meng Jiao's flight trajectory with great interest using a panoramic telescope, muttering from time to time:

"Across the corridor."

"It's the sixth floor. That's fast."

"Yo yo, Plan A is going smoothly. Looks like I don't need to do anything."

The girls beside him were also listening to Yang Tian's report with excitement. Penelope teased in a low voice: "It seems that there is no need to implement Plan B. It must be said that Mrs. Loris is also well-known. Our classmate Yang Tian also knows what fear is."

"Tsk, would I be afraid of it? If you don't believe me, let's make a bet. After curfew tomorrow night, I will go find it alone and have a one-on-one chase battle with it to see if it can catch up with me." Yang Tian protested.

"How dare you! Do you really think we don't know your plan? Let me tell you, don't even think about going to the restricted book area. At least not now!" The four girls' strong joint opposition directly suppressed Yang Tian.

"Keep your voice down, keep your voice down, don't you know what I'm doing? I didn't say anything else." Yang Tian, ​​looking unwilling, could only avoid the topic...

While the five little ones were laughing and playing, the Weasley brothers had quickly arrived in front of a mirror at the corner of the fourth floor.

The two brothers smiled at each other. George took out the Marauder's Map and examined it carefully for a while before saying, "It's safe. Filch and Mrs. Norris are patrolling the dungeon. Everyone else is where they should be."

Fred didn't waste any time hearing this. He pulled out his wand and knocked three times on the spires decorating both sides of the mirror. After repeating this operation twice, there was a loud bang, and the entire mirror door with the wooden frame as the boundary automatically opened to the left.

The two brothers were obviously used to this and were not surprised at all. They hurried in and the mirror door closed.

"Fluorescent flashes." George's voice came from the secret passage.

"See if it's safe," Fred whispered.

"Relax, my dear brother, you see everything is fine, right?" Having said that, George still carefully looked at the map in the dim light.

Seeing that everything was normal, the two brothers completely let themselves go and walked quickly into the depths of the passage.

In fact, this secret passage is very spacious and the road surface is quite flat, but there is no light source in the passage. So the two brothers can only rely on the lighting spell to carefully search and move forward in the secret passage.

After walking for about 4 or 5 minutes, Fred suddenly shouted, "Look over there, there's a surprise there."

George quickly looked in the direction of the sound, and saw colorful lights coming out from the corner ahead. The colors kept changing, and the light appeared and disappeared, which was very similar to the scene described by the Patil sisters. The two brothers smiled at each other and rushed over impatiently.

When they got closer, they didn't rush to take action, but looked around first.

This is a corner of the secret passage, and also the edge of the field where they experiment with prank props. It is thought that due to multiple explosions during the experiments, the nearby walls were damaged, and serious cracks appeared from top to bottom. Especially where they were standing, there were large cracks, and the light was coming from these cracks. However, since the cracks were covered with turbid water, it was unknown what was inside.

The two of them did not think any more and took out the digging tools they had prepared. With a wave of their wands, the tools started working under the control of their magic power. However, they did not notice that the densely packed toadstools on the damp wall near them were emitting a different smell.

After digging for more than ten minutes, the crack had turned into a big pit. Feeling victory was in sight, the two men were overjoyed. They walked shoulder to shoulder towards the pit and carefully examined everything inside.

"The water is too turbid. It looks like we have to pump it out before we can take any action." Fred said first.

"Yeah, let me think about it, maybe I can... Oh my god, what is that?" George, who was still trying to find a solution, suddenly shouted in horror.

"Don't make a fuss, please. I was dizzy to begin with, and you're even more frightened..."

Before Fred could finish his reply, the two men stumbled and fell to the ground.

At this moment, a small black shadow quietly rushed to George's side from the darkness, took a quick look, and hit the vital point. With just a slight pull, he pulled out the Marauder's Map, which was half exposed outside the wizard's robe due to carelessness.

The black shadow did not stop for long. He quickly stuffed the live map into the pocket in front of his belly, then rolled a few times and disappeared into the dark secret passage.

After about 5 or 6 seconds, a weak voice suddenly came from the darkness: "Luminescent light flashes."

Then, curses and mutterings followed: "George, wake up, bastard, how could the mutant fly agaric appear here." Before the words fell, there was another dragging sound.

"Ouch, Fred, be gentle, you hit my head."

"Come on George, how are you doing now?"

"Much better. Is it because of those fly agaric variants? Fred? I saw it just now. He got hit before I could say anything. What about you? Did you faint too?"

"Damn it, it was these crap that caused me to faint. I was just dizzy and paralyzed. I couldn't move. Fortunately, it didn't last long, only a few seconds. What should I do now, George?"

"What else can we do? Let's blow up all those fly agarics and then continue our treasure hunt."

"Haha, well said, let's get started."

The two brothers were full of energy again. They picked up their wands and started attacking the mutant fly agaric from a distance. They cast spells one after another, and the agaric was broken into pieces.

But before the two could be happy, something strange happened. It was unknown whether the secret passage had finally become overwhelmed after years of wear and tear and multiple explosions, or whether the Weasley brothers had extraordinary magical powers.

In short, accompanied by continuous "boom" sounds, large areas of the secret passage walls fell off, broken rubble continued to fall from the ceiling, and the ground was shaking constantly.

In just a moment, the corner was blocked by collapsed debris, and even the Weasley brothers rolled to the ground and were almost buried in it.

The two men, still in shock, got up in a hurry and scrambled towards the exit of the secret passage. But before they had run far, loud noises came one after another, and the ground shook even more violently...