Chapter 250 The vestibule of hell (4)
Chapter 250 The vestibule of hell (4)
On the road where the blizzard was roaring, Harry and Ron were running forward mechanically.
The stop sign standing on the side of the road in the distance seemed only a few feet away, but no matter if they moved forward, they could not reach it.
They could only watch, watching the only light in the blizzard, right in front of them.At this time, thunder suddenly sounded in the sky.Boom!Click!
"Ah!" Ron was startled and almost fell down.
The two of them looked back. In the distance, over the town, someone tore through the dark clouds.
A corner of the blue-green sky appeared like silk.
The golden afterglow lingers in the air, sending out ripples.
Spectacular.
"Anthony?" Harry murmured with dark eyes.
Then he stumbled and fell into the snow.
"Harry!" Ron yelled. At this time, he was cold and dizzy. After seeing Harry fall, he couldn't hold on and fell.
too late...
A lot of black mist suddenly appeared on the two people who fell. No - it didn't look like mist at all, but more like gathered tiny grains of sand.
The gravel was like running water, slowly wrapping around their bodies.
From the feet to the head, it still covered the whole body in an instant.
At this critical moment, a large, glowing dog appeared on the snow. With a howl, the black gravel on the two men's bodies instantly faded away.
Then, a faint sound came from the woods.
"Have you seen who it is? Sirius." A pale, frail male wizard squeezed out from among the fir trees.
His body was wrapped in several pieces of clothing made of completely different materials, including animal skins, leather, and cotton clothes.
It's like it was picked up randomly from a garage sale.
"Yes, Harry and Ron." Sirius also emerged slowly. He had wounds on his mouth, nose and back, but he still held Lupine's shoulders and walked towards the main road with difficulty.
"Why are the two of them here?" Lu Ping asked doubtfully.
"Not only that, look at the lion in the sky over there. I'm sure that boy Anthony is here too, and I bet that this must be his idea again." Sirius trembled, maybe out of anger. , or was moved because Anthony lured away the dementors.
"At least he summoned the Patronus." Lupine sighed, and then both of them fell silent.The heavy snowstorm made it difficult for them to even breathe.
This was already the third day that he and Sirius had been trapped in this hellish place.
From the beginning, he blindly wanted to prevent the spread of that terrible thing, but now, he just wants no one to come in.
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Anthony stood upright in the sky, with the strong wind in his ears. The moment the patron saint jumped out, his head suddenly became quiet.
He felt a sense of peace that he had never experienced before, and he felt truly relaxed.
This allowed him not to dispel the patron saint, but to shrink it and keep it in his arms.
He continued to rise, and soon he seemed to have reached a certain critical point, and the surrounding scenery became quite chaotic.
One moment he seemed to be in the air, the next moment he seemed to be on the ground.
The sky seemed to be higher, and even the green-blue sky where he had just broken through the dark clouds became blurry.
Looking at the kaleidoscope in front of him, the ever-changing spirit, Anthony immediately understood that there was definitely some kind of magic protection in the sky, maybe some kind of phantom spell, which could make people deviate from the track without knowing it, so that they could never get out.
But he was different. He was rising straight up, like a hydrogen balloon. Even Anthony didn't control his direction, letting the strong wind blow him.
This lack of control was an opportunity for him to break through this illusion.
Soon, as if bubbles broke through the water, Anthony's vision suddenly became wider. The snow stopped, the wind stopped, the sky was clear, and the stars were shining.
The half-circle moon hangs high in the sky, emitting a cold light.
The light shone on Anthony, but he felt happy from the bottom of his heart.
Immediately, he dialed a certain number.
The other end of the phone picked up the call directly without any pause.Anthony briefly explained what was going on in Godric's Hollow, and repeatedly warned not to advance rashly, but to try to cover it with fire and blow up the surrounding illusions.
They were also asked to inform Dumbledore that major changes had occurred in the town, etc.
He talked a lot, very carefully, and it took him more than ten minutes.
At this time, if Anthony controls the direction, he can try to float out.But, when I think about Harry and Ron still being trapped in a small town...
He didn't hesitate much and immediately lifted the spell effect on his body.
Then he fell straight into the bottom, into a layer of mist.
For a moment, the wind and snow hit his ears again. The moment he landed, he reduced the shock and stopped his speed, controlling his body and landing on the ground.
"Weird!" Anthony, who was wearing an invisibility cloak, looked around blankly.
He had just made such a big noise, why didn't any Death Eaters show up?
This is obviously not normal.
and...
The flowing and terrifying creatures on the street did not even attack him.
Can't they see themselves?
For a moment, Anthony's thoughts became active. If the Death Eaters had left here and these monsters couldn't see him, then he...
He looked around and saw a huge crack in the ground in the square not far away.
All the monsters were heading there, and he might be able to go in and investigate.
As soon as he left, Anthony didn't hesitate at all. Maybe he would get a glimpse of Voldemort's crazy magic there, and maybe he could destroy some important facilities to destroy the magic surrounding the town.
He followed the abominable, evil, black 'sludge' with no visible limbs or eyes step by step, and gradually approached the underground cave.
A strange evil wind blew from the street, just as Anthony approached the cave.
The swirling blizzard was blown to both sides.
A cave entrance glowing with purple light suddenly appeared in front of him.
Standing at the entrance of the cave, even though he was so close, Anthony still couldn't see clearly what was coming out of the cave.
There seemed to be some mist covering up the situation inside the cave.
But now that we're here, holding back doesn't seem to be in the name of Gryffindor.
Anthony, wrapped in an invisibility cloak, watched coldly, then walked in decisively.
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At that moment, Anthony seemed to step out of a shadow.
He clearly walked into the cave entrance, and the next second, he watched helplessly as he walked out of the cave entrance.
"Mirror Image Technique?"
Anthony knows a kind of mirror magic that allows people to enter the mirror world. Everything that happens in the mirror world will not affect the real world.
Dumbledore is an expert in using this magic, but why would Voldemort use mirror magic here?
He clearly has the entire town under his control.
"Hurry up, please hurry up, that guy is in the Baker's bunker, I know, that guy is a madman, he is feeding the monster."
The speaker was a living person next to Anthony.
Yes, please forgive him for using the word living person.
Because compared to the black abominations outside, he was surrounded by normal living people.It's just that those people were a little strange, as if they were under the Imperius Curse.
The person in front of him had bloodshot eyes, a beard, messy hair and a haggard face.
The whole person's spirit seemed extremely depressed.Only the chattering mouth is still telling about his terrible neighbor.
"I've heard that sound, that sharp scream like a wire scratching the glass. That sound comes every night. I haven't had a good night's sleep in several days."
"You really should have a good sleep." A voice came from behind Anthony, it was...
The black 'sludge' that came in with him!
But now he turned into a normal person.
"The more it collapses, the more opportunities those things have." said the man transformed from 'Sludge'.
"Sir, please save us. Please save us." Just as he was speaking, the old man actually shed tears of fear. He had really been tortured for too long and lived in fear all day long. middle.
He suddenly stretched out his skinny arm that looked like a layer of human skin and grabbed the other person's arm.
Muddy tears fell from his dim eyes.So disgusting.
"Okay, Mr. Corliss, everything will pass." The mud man had no choice but to calm the old man who had a mental breakdown in a low voice.His eyes looked at Anthony from time to time, hoping that he could do something.
"Huh?" Anthony looked slightly to the left, and sure enough, there was another person behind him.
That is...
"Bella?" Finally, Anthony saw the first Death Eater.
"You have to help him, John, yes~~you have to help him." Bella's cold voice suddenly sounded in front of this strange cave entrance.
"Yes, I want to help him, help him." The mud man murmured to himself as if he was possessed by an evil spirit. Then, he suddenly took out his wand and moved toward the people in the square. Walk to the statue.
wizard! ! !
Anthony looked at this scene in surprise. The man turned out to be a wizard.
Also, Godric's Hollow was originally a place where wizards and Muggles lived together, so it was normal for wizards to appear.
Then, he also discovered that among the people who walked out of the cave, only the wizard named John seemed to be bewitched by Bella. The others, or in other words, the Muggles, were very proactive in walking towards the statue. No human guidance is needed at all.
"Is it because wizards and Muggles have different resistance abilities? Wizards still have to use language to confuse them?"
Anthony couldn't understand, but with the blessing of the invisibility cloak, he still mustered up the courage and slowly followed Bella towards the statue.
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In just a few steps, they arrived in front of the statue. Suddenly, a cellar appeared in front of the base of the statue.
There are about a dozen stone steps going down, with a large door at the center.
John, who was controlled and thought he was saving people, walked down without any explanation, and then pushed open the door of the already rotten bunker.
And the moment he was pushed away, a strong musty smell mixed with stench came out.
Enduring the nauseating smell, Anthony frowned, then suppressed the discomfort in his stomach and walked into the lower level of the mud-filled bunker.
"Tick, tick."
The interior of the bunker is extremely humid.
There was a thick, dark green liquid everywhere on the walls and stairs.
Such a scene was unbearable even for Anthony, who had explored the secret chambers of Windsor Castle.
To be honest, this is really not a place for people to live.
Fortunately, he had already seen a bolted door in the distance. It was a metal lock full of rust and stained with dark green liquid.
"What are all these?" Anthony sighed, the so-called courage in his heart had begun to waver, if it weren't for the group of Muggles following behind him.
He had already turned around and gone out.
John used magic to open the metal stopcock.
Then, his hands went deep into the green mucus, and with a push, he pushed open the taboo-sealed door.
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In an instant, a terror from another world rushed towards him, instantly overwhelming Anthony's heart and cognition.
I saw that the dark stairs at the bottom that continued leading to the depths were filled with corpses.
Skeletons were spread all over the ground.
There is no place to put your feet.
And the bones all have signs of rodent bites.
"Muggles, wizards, robes..."
Anthony didn't dare to squat down and study it carefully. He could only move on numbly, his eyes passing over the piled bones and clothes.
"It's in the way!"
Suddenly, Bella in front of him kicked out the skull that was blocking her feet.
"Boom! Boom!" The sound of bones falling was unusually hollow.
This makes the surrounding atmosphere even more terrifying.
Under the robe, Anthony was clenching the wand tightly. If any accident happened, he could guarantee that he would be able to cut off Bella's head in just one second.
"Squeak."
The sounds of stepping on the bones kept coming.
Every squeak is torture for the only sane person here: Anthony.
His tense nerves had reached their limit.
The hand holding the wand tightly became a little stiff.
They continued to move forward like this for about three or four minutes, when suddenly a little green light appeared in the distance. A group of monsters and people walked into the green light one after another. The light dissipated, and a hall was revealed.
"This is?!"
Anthony, who was following Bella, fell slightly.That hellish scene jumped into his vision.
In the cave in the dim light, there were densely piled up the bones of various human beings, old, young, male, and female.
This place seems like a slaughterhouse used by devils to torture mortals.
In the center of the cave, those poor people were forced to crowd together tightly, circle after circle.There are many mountains, this is a hill made of bones.
Anthony only felt a little dark in front of his eyes, and he knew that this was a sign that he was going to faint.
How he wished at this moment that he could faint directly, allowing him to temporarily escape from the vestibule of hell.
"That is..."
On top of those disgusting mountains.
An indescribable monster was crawling on the ground biting a skeleton with no flesh left.
It was a dark green ball of flesh, covered with black eyeballs, and it had more than a dozen arms of uneven thickness on its waist. Each arm had this one on the end. Mouthparts, they are biting the skeleton beneath them.
"Oh my God!" An unprecedented primitive terror rose up from the bottom of Anthony's heart.
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