Chapter 286 The Sun and the Starry Sky!

Dumbledore's hand gently passed through the air.

A line of words that burned and leaped like flames appeared under the wave of his palm.

[The place where one hides is not visible during the day or night. The person who lives here should enjoy eternal sleep]

Zhang Xiao silently read this line of words several times and asked curiously:

"Professor, is this the door-opening riddle left by Voldemort?"

Dumbledore laughed, as if he heard a very interesting sentence, and laughed happily:

"Zhang, as I just said, Tom did not design this for people to open.

It must have a way to open it, so that he can enter, but it will never leave a riddle for people to guess."

Dumbledore stretched out a finger and gently tapped his temple.

"But any magic has the most basic foundation. Even this extremely complex compound magic is composed of spells one by one.

As long as you can find the most basic things, you can figure out the idea of ​​the person who set up this magic."

So high-end?

Just like cracking a password, others use brute force, but Dumbledore is different. He directly looked at the security questions and used them to guess the idea behind setting the password.

The question is how to do it?

Zhang Xiao couldn't figure it out, but he had a good habit, that is, if he didn't understand, he would ask, and it wouldn't be embarrassing.

"Professor, how did you do it?"

"It's very difficult. It not only requires very advanced magic theory and skills, but most importantly, it requires extremely rich experience."

Dumbledore said easily:

"Time will give these things to everyone fairly."

He paused, ended the topic, and turned to talk about the level set by Voldemort's 'Peak of Mind'.

"Zhang, then the problem we have to solve now is to find the back door that Tom left for himself and open it."

In the dilapidated hall, the two of them fell silent again, staring at the illusory wooden door and the flame text left by Dumbledore in the sky.

This door is very dilapidated and looks similar to the furnishings in the old Gaunt house.

[A place that is hidden, not visible during the day or night, and the person who lives here should enjoy eternal sleep]

In fact, this sentence is quite easy to understand. Tom's original intention must be more than this, and it should be much more complicated.

What we see now is what Dumbledore has summarized and condensed after removing the dross and retaining the essence.

"Professor, this sentence should mean that the room hidden here will not appear during the day or night, and the people living in it can enjoy eternal tranquility?"

"I think it should be. The problem lies in the sentence that it is not visible during the day or night. This is the key to hiding."

Since neither day nor night exists, it means that it will only open when day and night coexist?

The twilight line immediately popped up in Zhang Xiao's mind.

With the movement of celestial bodies, the twilight line is also constantly moving, which means that there is always a moment or a short period of time when day and night coexist.

No, Zhang Xiao shook his head. If this is really the case, then this room does not need to be worked at all.

Because there will always be two twilight lines in a day, that is to say, if this is really the case, there is no need to do anything, just wait here, and this room will automatically open twice.

Except for the trolls, no one would think that Voldemort would regard such an idiotic design as one of his most proud designs in his life.

Breaking the door by force - obviously it is not possible, otherwise Dumbledore would have done it long ago.

Zhang Xiao looked at Dumbledore with a headache. The old man was looking at the door quietly and thinking.

Since Dumbledore got the resurrection stone in the previous life, it means that the headmaster finally solved Tom's puzzle.

Is it based on his understanding of Tom?

Compared with Dumbledore, Zhang Xiao's understanding of Voldemort comes from novels. To be honest, Voldemort's strongest dark lord in history is not found at all.

There is no sense of oppression. It feels more like a manic psychopath holding a gun in Zhang Xiao's hand.

It was only after he personally participated in the cave that he had a more intuitive impression of Voldemort.

There was really no clue. Zhang Xiao was irritable and prepared to look around. Anyway, Professor Dumbledore said it very clearly.

Voldemort was too conceited about this door, and even so confident that he didn't set up any other defenses in the old house.

This was beyond his and Dumbledore's expectations.

Because in this way, the cautiousness of the two before was like a battle of wits and courage with the air, which was very awkward.

The old house of Gaunt is somewhat similar to the old house of the Black family at 12 Grimmauld Place. I don't know if this kind of house was popular at that time.

The color tone is very dark, the stairs and corridors are very narrow, and the kitchen hall and the like are not decorated, but built with rough big stones.

The uneven brick and stone walls are exposed to the outside, which looks primitive and wild.

There are winding traces on the dusty ground, which are left by snakes, and the big pit is full of bones of small animals.

It looks extremely disgusting.

The moon is still hanging in the sky. Zhang Xiao stares at the bright moon outside through the narrow window, and his thoughts unconsciously turn to Tom's puzzle.

Or maybe he didn't know what he was thinking about, he just kept daydreaming about random things.

There is no day or night. Speaking of which, this window is really small, like a prison cell. How could anyone not like a house that is transparent from the north to the south?

The lighting is not good, can the house be habitable?

This kind of topography and construction is a perfect match in terms of Feng Shui, right? Just like a ghost house.

Hey, fool!

By the way, those who live here should enjoy eternal sleep. What does that mean? Are you burying your Horcrux here?

Turtle, is it really a ghost house?

Zhang Xiao smacked his lips and looked back at Dumbledore. The principal was still thinking hard.

What a great principal. He is over a hundred years old and he still spends all his time thinking about coming to the wizarding world.

Through the narrow window, the stars outside were still there, but the room was very bright, so it was not very clear.

The rest of the windows were covered tightly with thick dust. Only this window could see a little bit of the sky through the broken glass.

Um? like

Zhang Xiao looked at the window, then looked back at the door, his eyebrows raised, as if something was about to come out in his heart.

After thinking for a while, he took out his wand and cast a spell on himself. Using his toes, he floated lightly and stopped next to the tall, narrow window.

The history of using glass windows in the West is very early, but due to technical limitations, most of them are tinted glass, but the Gunter family has a rich ancestor.

Relatively expensive transparent glass was already in use at the end of the 18th century.

Because the exterior walls are made of rough stones, the window sill is extremely thick, and fragments of glass are scattered on the window sill.

Zhang Xiao gently tapped the glass with his magic wand - [Restored to the original state]

As if going back in time, these glass fragments flew up precariously, flying towards their original position like a swallow in the forest.

In the blink of an eye, the glass returned to normal. Like other windows, thick dirt covered the entire glass.

But there is a round hole as big as a silver coin in the center of the glass. It is very regular, and you can tell it is intentional at a glance.

"professor."

Zhang Xiao stared at the round hole and spoke very slowly, but Dumbledore listened very seriously without any sign of impatience.

"You said, the house is dark, do all the people who come here choose to light up?"

Dumbledore's long white eyebrows twitched twice, as if he had already guessed what Zhang Xiao would say next.

He took out his Deluminator again, accompanied by a few crisp clicks.

The whole room was once again plunged into darkness, a kind of darkness that made it impossible to see even one's fingers.

The illusory door is there, and it seems to be emitting light, but miraculously it can't illuminate anything.

Magic is so magical that it can ignore the laws of physics.

"I don't know if your guess is right, but we can try-"

The two stood in the dark room, waiting quietly.

It was already late at night when they came over. They had walked through that wilderness before and experienced so many explorations.

Time has passed quietly for a long time.

Suddenly a little light appeared on the dim horizon, and then light pierced the sky.

The intersection of morning and darkness flies across the earth from a distance at an extremely fast speed.

as always.

A small dot suddenly lit up in the dark room. It was only a faint dot at first, but it became brighter and brighter. It was like a small sun rising in the darkness.

The bright sunlight passed through the small hole in the glass, and under the Tyndall effect, it was like a beam of light piercing the sky, and happened to shine on the door.

The illusory door actually acted like a mirror, projecting this beam of light onto the ceiling of the old house at a strange angle.

Zhang Xiao watched all this nervously. He stared at the illusory door with wide eyes, trying to see the slightest change.

But nothing happened.

Isn't it right? Isn't it so?

Zhang Xiao pursed his lips, feeling a little frustrated but mostly thinking quickly about what went wrong.

"Zhang, don't use this expression. In my opinion, you are already outstanding enough."

Dumbledore suddenly said softly, and he suddenly pulled out his wand:

"Your guess is correct. The sun that represents the day is already there.

Then all we need is to make up the night. "

The gray-haired old professor seemed to be holding a magic pen and splashing ink in the air.

"It's just that there are some things that only old people understand. Back then, Tom learned the first celestial magic - the starry sky!"

The top of the head suddenly rolled, and the dark ceiling seemed to be cut open by a knife, just like the ceiling of the Great Hall of Hogwarts.

Revealing the dazzling stars.

At this moment, the illusory door suddenly changed!

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