Harry Potter: Transmigrated Detective Link

Puff!

Accompanied by a slight muffled sound, Link and Snape finally got out of the pipe and landed on a patch of damp ground.

However, just like inside the pipe, it was still pitch black here, where you couldn't see your hand in front of your face.

Link took out his wand, preparing to use Lumos. But before he could recite the spell, Snape directly shoved a potion bottle into his hand.

"Drink it."

Hearing Snape's cold voice, Link didn't hesitate much and twisted open the cap, pouring the potion into his mouth.

The potion was a bit bitter going down the throat, but its effect quickly showed.

Link only felt a cool sensation over his eyes, and then the world in front of him rapidly lit up.

It was only until now that Link could finally see clearly the environment they were currently in.

This was a huge, damp cave. Countless sharp stalactites hung from the cave's ceiling, and from time to time, drops of water would fall, merging into the moist soil below.

On the ground, there were terrifying traces left behind by crawling serpentine creatures. Among them were many ghastly white bones. Judging by their shapes, they seemed to be the skeletons of rodents and fish, there weren't any humanoid bones. This made Link slightly relieved.

"Looks like we came to the right place. This should be the basilisk's nest."

Snape's voice was hollow and deep, and surprisingly, in this vast space, it didn't echo at all, incredibly eerie.

Hearing this, Link frowned and tugged on Snape's robe, saying, "Don't kill Arkam."

Snape turned his head and looked at Link impatiently, then forcefully pulled his robe back, saying, "Hmm."

After saying that, the two continued moving forward, but they hadn't gone far when Snape suddenly yanked Link behind him and fiercely swung his wand.

Buzz~

Link only heard a sharp, tooth-aching sound. When he struggled to peek out from behind Snape, he saw that on a distant wall, a terrifying slash had suddenly appeared. And just slightly in front of that slash, lay a huge object that looked very much like Arkam.

This discovery gave Link quite a shock. But when he looked more carefully, he realized, it was actually just a giant shed snakeskin.

And at this moment, the snakeskin had already been sliced cleanly in half by Snape's earlier spell.

"It's just a shed skin, what a pity." Snape regretfully put away his wand.

Seeing this, Link got angry. He pointed at the already sliced-in-half snakeskin and said, "Didn't you say you wouldn't kill Arkam? Then what was that just now?"

Snape curled his lips, seemingly unwilling to speak. But seeing the anger in Link's eyes, he finally waved his sleeve and said, "Accident."

After saying that, Snape walked around the snakeskin and continued forward.

Link followed behind. But now, he had grown more cautious. Snape's attitude toward the basilisk Arkam might be even worse than Dumbledore's. From now on, he had to be careful.

The two continued forward a bit more, and after turning a corner, they finally arrived in front of a wall.

Carved on the wall were two intertwined venomous snakes, with several large emeralds embedded in their eyes.

Link didn't hesitate much and stepped forward directly.

"Hiss hiss hiss~ (Open)"

Rumble rumble~

Accompanied by the sound of massive stone grinding, the stone wall cracked open from the center between the two snakes.

What appeared before Link and Snape now was a wide plaza.

The entire space of the plaza was shrouded in a strange green mist, and among it stood many massive stone pillars engraved with coiled venomous snakes, supporting the entire underground plaza.

This should be the legendary Chamber of Secrets of Salazar Slytherin.

And in the original story, this was also the battlefield where Harry Potter fought the basilisk. Here, the basilisk Arkam and that so-called heir could appear at any time.

Thinking this, Link silently lowered his head, keeping his gaze fixed on the floor.

This was a crucial method to defend against the basilisk Arkam's fatal gaze. As for perception, Link could completely rely on the super-sensory spell and a bit of remaining peripheral vision.

Snape beside him did nearly the same, clearly also understanding the basilisk's danger.

"Stick close behind me. Don't stray too far."

"I got it." Link said seriously.

He wasn't a real child like Harry Potter, wouldn't throw childish tantrums, and understood the seriousness of the situation very well.

Snape, hearing this, didn't say more. He nodded and led Link into the green mist.

Although the green mist looked quite intimidating, when Link actually touched it, he found it was just the fog rising from the two pools on either side, and its greenish tint came from the reflection of the emeralds laid at the pool's bottom.

Still, neither Link nor Snape let their guard down, at a time like this, they both clearly understood how dangerous this journey was.

But what surprised Link was that even when the two of them reached the far end of the plaza, a wall with a huge human face sculpture, no enemies had appeared around.

"Salazar Slytherin…" Snape gazed at the human face on the wall and murmured, "Looks like you didn't lead us to the wrong place."

After speaking, Snape stepped aside and gave Link a look.

The meaning was very clear, it was for Link to open the door.

But… this time, Link didn't move.

In the original book, Voldemort's remnant soul had indeed summoned the basilisk from the mouth of this face sculpture by reciting a long spell.

But unfortunately… Link had forgotten the content of that spell.

This was something that seemed trivial at first glance but was actually quite normal. After all, although Link liked the Harry Potter series, he wasn't obsessed to a crazy extent.

And Link wasn't like John, one of those guys who could memorize all the dialogue after reading the books.

Looking at Snape's obviously impatient face, Link eventually braced himself and walked toward the sculpture of the human face.

He still decided to try. He vaguely remembered that the spell Voldemort used in the original book sounded casual, as if he just made it up on the spot.

If that were true, then as another Parselmouth, Link might also be able to open the wall.

Thinking this, Link took a deep breath, raised his head, and looked at the sculpture of Salazar Slytherin on the wall.

The sculpture depicted Salazar Slytherin in middle age. Honestly speaking, Link thought he was still pretty handsome, although still a bit worse than himself, but it really did perfectly match the portraits of Salazar Slytherin seen around the Slytherin common room.

Link truly didn't understand why the movie made Salazar Slytherin's sculpture so ugly, like a deformed old man, and so poorly made.

Shaking his head with some emotion, Link opened his mouth, ready to speak the command "open" like before.

But before Link could say the words, he suddenly frowned.

Because he suddenly noticed, the eyes of the Salazar Slytherin sculpture, which had been closed, seemed to have slightly opened.

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