Chapter 171 Illusion (Part 2)

"Kill him," their voices were mixed, unfamiliar and as if they were all uttered by Mu Yu himself, "kill him."

The whispers rolled directly in her mind: "Kill him. He, we can come back, kill him, Xiaoyu, and you will have a family again."

Whoever they want her to kill,

the strands of lightning seem to be determined to tear the entire courtyard into pieces. The three shadows were still surrounding her perseveringly. Gradually, they were no longer as simple as three shadows. They merged into a mass of unclear blood mist, with several mouths open, including men, women, old and young, dripping with blood. Turning towards her: "It was he who bewitched you and lured you onto this path. Kill him and your sins will be forgiven. Kill him and we will all forgive you."

Countless pairs of grotesque bloody hands pointed at her The extension was not like touching her, but more like dragging her into the blood mist and burying her together with them.

She did seem to have a lot of lives on her hands. There are so many that I can’t even remember them.

Since when,

the light in the woods was dim and there was almost no sunlight. Someone was behind her, teaching her how to wave the wand and commit the same sin.

In this way they are the same, no longer distinguishable from each other.

She seemed to be able to vaguely see the outline of the man.

The wand was in his hand, causing more memories to come flooding back. This wand has always been her most loyal partner in the past few years, accompanying her from unreachable light to decadence, and has never betrayed her.

The blood mist around him not only did not dissipate, but also filled the air into a sea of ​​blood that could not be dissolved. The woman's head squeezed out, completely distorted and soft, and she tried to reach out to her: "Xiao Yu, kill him and you will have a mother." She also wanted to twist her unrecognizable face to squeeze out a smile, "Xiao Yu, Don't you want to be with mom? Mom will protect you and won't let anyone hurt you. "

Olivia only left her a incomplete notebook, and even the name Sinclair was unknown when she knew what she was . Lost meaning.

A pair of bloody hands wrapped around her, trying to drag her into the sea of ​​blood without any explanation. She seemed to be hallucinating again. Her father, mother, and grandfather were sitting at the dining table, smiling and picking up food for her. The table was full of her favorite food.

It was the dining table that spoke, it was the lamp hanging overhead that spoke, it was the room that should have been dead long ago that spoke, begging, roaring, crying for her to kill him.

The pain in her neck pulled her back. A withered and bloody hand roughly tore off the locket from her neck, holding it tightly before throwing it into the sea of ​​blood.

"Come back! Give it back to me!" She didn't care about anything else, and she even forgot that she knew how to use magic. She grabbed the hand with all her strength, so hard that she broke it alive. As soon as she grabbed the locket, she held it tightly in her hand, "It's mine."

More and more bloody hands wrapped around her body, working together to control her body. This place is extremely weird, she can't even use any magic.

A brilliant fantasy.

"Xiaoyu." The other hand wrapped around his wrist again, but Mu Yu was no longer able to resist at all.

She saw herself.

The face floating out of the sea of ​​blood was different from the vague and shapeless human figures around it. It was as normal as if it had never been contaminated by any dirt, and it was impossible to tell that it was born out of the hazy mist.

This face, this tone, it seems that it is her, but it also seems that it is not her.

Just because she was so clean and pure, it didn't look like her soul was stained with murder, but more like the little girl she saw in the Mirror of Erised when she was eleven years old.

She finally remembered what monster she saw in front of the magic mirror in the first grade.

"You are reluctant to kill him," a girl who looked exactly like her caressed her cheek, "I understand you, Xiaoyu."

Mu Yu stopped struggling, only holding on to the locket chain and refusing to let go.

The girl walked step by step through the piles of dead bones and blood, and hugged her gently from behind. There was nothing strange about being hugged by a shadow with the same appearance as herself. She didn't feel a trace of redundancy, it was more like it should be the way it should be.

Two identical faces were reflected in the sea of ​​blood.

"He has been with you all the time. Xiaoyu, how could you forget," she breathed at Mu Yu, "At that time you could only see a shadow. You said to that shadow."

She paused and slowly wrapped around On the neck: "You want to use your abilities, you can't stand being chased in the corridor every day, and you want to take revenge on everyone. You want him to stay with you forever."

The shadow behind him smiled when he said the word forever. Trembling: "What you like is the Tom who wandered around London with you. You like the Tom who read with you in the tower and the Black Lake. You like the eleven-year-old lonely and dark soul like you. You need me to read my heart to you. Do you want to reverse the magic of time and go back to London fifty years ago?

"It's a pity that it was just an obsession."

The scene in the blood kept changing . And broke into pieces.

"You can only like, Xiaoyu, you can't fall in love with someone. Love makes you weak, and love loses your reason." The cold hand moved towards the wrist holding the wand again, "You traded with each other, and for a short time you were attracted by power. Stand together. You need to use one person's residual power to get involved in Europe, and you need to use powerful forces to tightly knit the East with you."

Instead of touching her wand, she touched the ring and somehow took it from it. A gleaming fang emerged.

The last basilisk fang in her collection.

"You all want supreme power and eternity, but there can only be one God. Ending each other is your final destiny." The other one pointed her fangs at the locket in her hand, The gentler he is, the more sinister it is, "I can help you end it, I'll help you, I guarantee it will be quick and painless."

Looking at the translucent basilisk fang, Mu Yu's expression changed several times. In the end, he grabbed the fangs from that hand with shaking hands, closing his eyes as if he had made a difficult decision: "I will do it myself."

A few tears evaporated into the sea of ​​blood.

"He doesn't love you either. You all know that after solving Northern Europe, he is afraid of your growing prestige and that you will replace his position in the eyes of the old department. He wants to control you more and more." Seeing that she was still hesitant, the man behind him The girl hugged her tightly, not allowing her to break away, "Xiaoyu, you are very smart and understand everything. Why do you have to live soberly and in pain?"

The hand holding the fangs stopped shaking, and even the locket that had been tightly grasped was loosened. .

The girl behind her who had the same face as her moved her hand to the locket with satisfaction, and continued to persuade in a low voice: "Well done, Xiaoyu. Destroy this Horcrux, then deal with him, and from now on From now on, only you will enjoy endless power and life, and you will always weave ideals for others and will not be chased in the corridor..."

She was speechless. The fang was inserted backhand into her waist and abdomen.

Mu Yu turned around and looked at the phantom that was the same as himself with an expressionless face, roaring and screaming. He grasped the locket floating in the air again and pulled out the basilisk fangs: "Even what I really want is She didn't even see clearly, and she still wanted to destroy the will to replace me." The fangs she pulled out were stained with blood. She held them in her hands and played with them without any scruples. "This is God. This is the punishment that those people keep saying I will encounter." It's the last gift that grandpa gave me."

After having enough fun, she dug her fangs in again: "I choose this path entirely by myself, and it has nothing to do with anyone's temptation." She tied the locket around her neck again and hung it up. , "We are taking different paths."

She didn't want to explain too much, so she pulled out her fangs again and inserted them directly into the shadow's throat: "You were wrong from the beginning. I love him, everything about him," she wrapped the locket around her face, "And my will is also eternal."

The boundless sea of ​​blood dissolved into flying catkins. When she came back to her senses, she was still sitting on the sticky tree trunk where she had been admiring the sunset, being held in a familiar cold embrace. inside.

She had never longed for the cold so much. Once he started asking for it, the warm liquid on his face couldn't stop flowing, falling down his chin and onto his body.

His pale and slender fingers wiped away her tears. She keenly noticed that the hand was shaking when it touched her, and it was held tighter and tighter.

They made a concerted effort to conceal what had just happened to each other.

A sweet red rain fell from the dark sky, and the endless strange raindrops seemed to have no end, falling on their shoulders one after another, lighter and more elegant than snow.

The entire sky seemed to be mourning death with the flying red rain.

"It's time to go to Hogwarts."

The two of them said this in unison. Mu Yu was the first to smile calmly. She was becoming more and more wanton and did not know the boundaries: "Let's go, madman, it's time to go home."

Hogg Within Watts, Dumbledore was also looking up to observe the sudden rain. The soft raindrops that were clearly flying fell on the castle and made a rustling sound, and sparks fell into the castle with an unpleasant friction sound.

The blood rain mixed with the damaged golden light covered the fortress that had been quiet for hundreds of years.

"Minerva, evacuate the minor wizards immediately. Adult wizards who want to participate in the war can stay. Harry has rehearsed the evacuation plan many times and is very familiar with the process." Dumbledore strode down the corridor. He was always calm and calm. , "Kingsley, you are responsible for coordinating the manpower guarding each tower. Remember to leave a place for me."

Not only did Kingsley look stunned after being ordered, but the other wizards along the way also looked at Dumbledore in shock. Professor McGonagall hesitantly said: "Your body, Dumbledore..."

"I know this body best myself." Although gentle, Dumbledore's words were full of undeniable meaning. They were the same person at this time. Already standing in the spacious courtyard.

"You know there's nothing we can do to keep them out forever," Professor Flitwick piped up.

The rain of blood in the sky never stopped. But so many people, standing in the creaking and dilapidated defensive spell, knew that they were about to face enemies several times their own. They also knew that Hogwarts without defense was actually the same as Kodos Dorez and Booth. There was not much difference between Barton and Ilvermorny, and still no one shrank back.

"But we can at least contain it for a while," Professor Sprout took over, subconsciously looking at Dumbledore and then at Harry, who was rushing over, "buying time for the others."

"Thank you, Pomona. ," Dumbledore nodded to Professor Sprout, then turned to Harry and said, "Harry, the road ahead is difficult and the spark is difficult to hold on to, but there is no eternal night in the world. Don't abandon those who have fought alongside you. Comrades, ignore the will of the team, you know they like to play with faith."

Hearing what he said, Harry knew what Dumbledore had planned for him: "No! Professor, I want to fight alongside you."

Dumbledore left. He stepped forward and touched his head softly for the first time: "Harry, you said that you are Dumbledore's man through and through. This is my request, my order, you must live," he pointed at Harry. At the heart, "James Lily also hopes that you will live. They will always coexist with you, here."

His gentle expression suddenly became serious: "Take away Daphne and Astoria Greengrass at all costs. Tell. They fight in many ways, but don't forget that their father hopes that they can live for a long time with his life."

Harry's eyes were red, but he knew that there was no point in arguing at this time, and he should not add unnecessary casualties out of his will. : "Yes, Professor."

Dumbledore turned to Professor McGonagall and said, "Minerva, as the Principal of Hogwarts, I approve your use of that spell."

Professor McGonagall was so excited that his whole body was shaking: "Oh, Dumbledore, I've been looking forward to this spell for a long time," she cleared her throat and shouted, "The Stone Pier is out!"

The statues and armors in the entire corridor jumped down, and there were booms upstairs and downstairs. A loud crashing sound.

"Hogwarts is under threat!" Professor McGonagall said loudly, "Keep the borders! Defend us! Do your duty to the school!"

Statues of all sizes rushed out in a swarm, standing tall against the rain of blood. Castle borders.

The rain fell harder and harder, forming pools of blood on the ground, almost blurring his vision.

Mu Yu's eyes passed over the towering iron gate. On both sides were stone pillars with winged wild boars on top. Behind the groups of standing stone statues, the majestic castle still extended a dazzling spark in the blood rain, and it was dark behind her. They looked so small under the blood-stained team that didn't even look at them.

When she first entered this old castle, she was attracted by its freshness and looked forward to creating a new home from it.

"They will fight to the end," she whispered, stroking Nagini as she climbed towards her.

Tom Riddle took her hand and kissed it solemnly: "They never learn well."

She caught a raindrop on her fingertips and put it in her mouth to suck: "Let's begin."

The sky above the castle seemed to explode. There were bright fireworks.