Chapter 22 Halloween Gift
The Halloween Eve dinner party ended in a noisy and unhappy state because of the intrusion of the mountain monster. The rumor of the mountain monster became extremely terrifying as it was spread by word of mouth in the lounges of various colleges.
The fact that Lu Yunkai, Harry and the other four killed the mountain monster was strictly controlled by the teachers and was not leaked to other students. However, the prefects who had been paying attention to the points of the college cup found that the points of Gryffindor and Slytherin had decreased a little.
The homecoming weekend that the students of Hogwarts (actually mainly Slytherin) had been looking forward to for two months has arrived.
Although the school is good, for Slytherins who generally have a good family background and most of their parents do not work and do not have to worry about not having time to take care of their children, no matter how good the dormitory is, it is not as comfortable as home. Especially the first-year students who enrolled this year all wanted to go home to report their school life to their families.
So when Lu Yunkai, who had slept in late at noon the next day, staggered to the auditorium for lunch, he found that he was the only Slytherin first-year student who stayed in school.
Even Chris could squat on the dining table and talk to Lu Yunkai without any scruples.
"Meow, you slept too deeply last night, didn't you? I called you several times but you didn't wake up."
"Really? But I didn't sleep well, basically I was dreaming all the time." Lu Yunkai looked listless and yawned, "You want to call me for something?"
"Meow! Not long after you left last night, I saw Snape stopped Quirrell in the corridor and threatened him for a while." Chris said in an excited tone.
"Can you stop being curious about this kind of thing!" Lu Yunkai glared at Chris, "Aren't you afraid of getting into trouble?"
"Meow? You are so ashamed to say that? You went to fight with the mountain monster yesterday, isn't it more dangerous than me secretly eavesdropping on people's conversations?" Chris raised her head with disdain on her face.
"You are the only one who talks too much nonsense." Lu Yunkai felt that he couldn't refute this, so he decided to bury his head and continue eating.
"I've decided to follow them for a while to see what secrets they have... Meow? An owl is looking for you?"
Just then, an owl flew into the auditorium and dropped a package in front of Lu Yunkai.
"Someone actually sent me something?" Lu Yunkai was stunned.
"Maybe it's a Halloween gift from your friend?"
"How can I have a friend who would send something to me! And is there any need to send gifts on Halloween?" Lu Yunkai rolled his eyes at Chris and opened the package with twelve points of curiosity.
Inside was a very old notebook. Lu Yunkai took it out and flipped through it casually. There was not a single word.
Is this a prank by someone? Giving yourself an old, unused notebook?
[Six Nat, do you want to sell it? ]
The system also gave a low estimate that made Lu Yunkai speechless.
At this price, you can only buy a piece of parchment, right? This is a notebook after all!
Forget it, keep it for yourself! Lu Yunkai shook his head helplessly.
"Meow? What is this?" Chris looked ridiculous.
"Who knows! Maybe it was a prankster who teased me?" Lu Yunkai didn't take it seriously, put the notebook aside, and continued to eat lunch.
"Did that old man in Knockturn Alley give it to you?" Chris touched the notebook with a suspicious claw.
Chris's silly action made Lu Yunkai laugh. It's rare to see it like a cat.
Although it doesn't seem to be a cat originally...
After eating lunch slowly, Lu Yunkai met Harry and Ron in the front garden of the school.
Lu Yunkai expected that Harry didn't go home. After all, he and himself were both homeless, but Ron and his three brothers didn't go home either, which surprised Lu Yunkai a little.
As far as he knew, Ron's mother didn't need to go to work. They were not allowed to go home at this time, maybe just because there were too many children...
But no matter what, after the "life and death" the day before, Lu Yunkai's friendship with the two of them, which had already faded a little, was reinforced again.
Harry also did not forget to bring a thank you to Lu Yunkai for Hermione who had returned home, while Ron brought Hermione's complaint, "I can't believe he didn't even cast the levitation spell"...
However, after Hermione stood in front of the three of them the night before and took all the blame on herself, none of them would mind the words of this kind-hearted but foul-mouthed girl.
The three of them got together and chatted for a while, and Harry and Ron rode on brooms to play Quidditch together. Lu Yunkai, who had no talent for flying, declined the invitation of the two and went to the library.
He wanted to check the formula of the explosive corrosion potion he used yesterday, and then make one himself.
In this way, he sat in the library for an afternoon, and finally found the formula in the fifth book he read, the "Potion Encyclopedia" recommended by the librarian Madam Pince.
After copying the formula, production method, and precautions on the "Halloween gift" received at noon, Lu Yunkai returned to the Slytherin lounge.
"Well, the venom of venomous horned beasts, the venom of cobras, the venom of giant eight-eyed spiders, and the scales of fire dragons..." Lu Yunkai opened his notebook and began to buy materials from the system one by one according to the records on it.
There was no one in the lounge, so naturally Lu Yunkai didn't need to avoid suspicion. He just conjured up a potion bottle out of thin air and placed it on the table.
The materials were not expensive. There were seven kinds of raw materials in total, which cost Lu Yunkai four gold galleons, and more than half of them were spent on the venom of the eight-eyed giant spider.
When Lu Yunkai started to make it, he finally understood that the reason why this potion could be sold at a nearly sky-high price of more than 100 gold galleons in the system was not because of the materials, but because of the production process.
Too cumbersome!!
Three kinds of venom need to be heated in three different crucibles, because their heating speeds are different, and the dragon scales also need to be accurately divided into two parts, one part is heated on the fire and then ground into powder while hot, and the other part is ground into powder at a low temperature...
Lu Yunkai spent a whole afternoon and did not complete the pre-processing of the raw materials.
But this also aroused Lu Yunkai's desire to win.
Anyway, there is nothing else to do during the Halloween holiday, so let's make medicine well!
After dinner, continue. Lu Yunkai sat in his "exclusive seat" in the lounge until late at night.
"...Pour the hot dragon scale powder into the crucible, boil for one minute, then leave it off the fire for half a minute, then add the dew of the screaming rose, and it's done. Well! Almost there! Almost there!"
Lu Yunkai poured a pinch of powder into the crucible, stirred it with a stirring rod, and then activated the one-minute timer.
Finally it's almost done!
While sighing, Lu Yunkai waved the magic wand in his hand.
"Clean it up."
The cleaning spell, this spell can be said to be the most proficient spell Lu Yunkai uses now.
After cleaning up the crucible, the medicine mortar and other things, the one-minute time is up, leave it off the fire, and add dew.
However.
"Why is the color wrong?"
Lu Yunkai looked at the pool of dark blue potion in the crucible, a little stunned.
He has made a lot of magic potions in the past two months. Although the quality is good and bad, and there have even been failures, there has never been such a situation where the finished product is completely different from the expected color!
What went wrong?
Lu Yunkai could only turn his attention back to his notebook, checking it line by line, trying to recall if he had made any mistakes.
He read it line by line, but found no problem.
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Maybe you can try adding a few drops of dragon blood?
Suddenly, a line of words appeared on the bottom line of the notebook.
Lu Yunkai was stunned.
Could it be that he had been working for too long and had hallucinations? He rubbed his eyes.
The line of words was still there.
"Who is it?" Lu Yunkai asked with his eyelids twitching wildly.
But there was no response in the empty lounge.
It was quiet for a while.
"Is this some kind of Halloween trick?" Lu Yunkai closed the notebook directly, and then poured the potion in the crucible into the red crystal bottle.
[Unknown potion mixture, five Sickles, for sale? ]
The shadow in front of him made Lu Yunkai's mouth open.
Isn't it right? ? The potion that failed before, as long as it is poured into this red crystal bottle, will become a first-level potion!
Unless the formula I made this time is wrong.
Could it be...
Lu Yunkai remembered the line of words that appeared out of nowhere.
Forget it, it can only be sold for five Sickles anyway, if it is broken, just consider these gold galleons as a waste of raw materials! !
Lu Yunkai spent a few more Sickles to exchange for three drops of fire dragon blood from the system and dripped them into the red crystal bottle.
The red-purple fire dragon blood dripped into the dark blue potion, and the color of the potion quickly changed to a color between dark purple and black.
The color seems to be right?
Lu Yunkai activated the system again.
[First-level explosive corrosion potion, 120 galleons. Sell it? ]
It's actually OK? Is it really just a few drops of fire dragon blood? ?
Lu Yunkai was stunned.
He was clearly sure that he didn't miss a word when he copied it from the book! Why is there a raw material missing? ?
More importantly...
Lu Yunkai looked at the notebook he had closed.
Why can this notebook make up for this raw material? Is this thing really just a Halloween joke? ?