Chapter 79 Cave
Chapter 79
The old Riddle house in the cave is still the same. The warmth of April is completely blocked out by the thick oak door. Coldness and darkness have always been the main theme of this house.
"Ms. Mu, you are back," Peter said with a complicated expression when he saw him. He seemed to have finally waited for his savior, but also seemed to be worried about something. "He is on the second floor and wants to see you alone.
" When he reached the second floor, he was trembling all over, as if there was a savage beast there.
Mu Yu ignored Peter's fear.
She walked up the old creaking stairs to the second floor. The whole floor seemed to be isolated in another world. All light was blocked, and she truly seemed to be walking in a desolate and silent tomb. There was no fire in the room at the end of the second floor, but she knew he must be there.
"I'm back, Tom." She pushed open the ajar door. At this time, the sun was almost below the horizon. She stood by the door and admired the silhouettes cast by a few rays of afterglow on the wall, which looked like flowing blood.
"Go to a place tonight, Yu. I want to fuse the last Horcrux." Tom Riddle did not look back. He stood by the window and watched the setting sun. Nagini neighed at her beside him, and even if you didn't know how to speak like a snake, you could feel Nagini's excitement.
She walked up to him and looked side by side at the fields and sparse houses of Little Hangleton that she had seen so many times.
She didn't need to ask too much: "That cave by the beach."
Tom Riddle stretched out his hand as if to pull her closer. Such a distance would make the sandalwood scent even more ethereal. But he still doesn't have a real body. Without a real body, he remains just a ghost.
Peter suggested several times that he construct a temporary body using unicorn blood and Nagini's venom. However, he was so weak that even he hated himself. He didn't want Mu Yu to see his ugly side again, even though she had seen him look worse than a wandering spirit.
"Aren't you afraid?" His voice was very much like Nagini's rustling sound when crawling on the ground.
Mu Yu turned her head and looked at his red eyes. She seemed to know what he was thinking: "What should I be afraid of?" She picked up the jade pendant that had been placed on the table. The temperature-nurturing jade pendant that had lost its body temperature was still there when she first got it. With a hint of coolness, "You can try countless times to see if you can kill me. Madman, I am never afraid of every attempt you make."
She quickly pinched the magic formula of the teleportation array, and Tom Riddle looked at her Slender fingers flew in the air.
It's very much like the trajectory she traced in the air in front of the fragrant dessert shop on the streets of London in the past.
She was growing so fast that he wasn't sure how long she could stay in his world.
He must proceed with his plan.
The waves hit the rocks hard, and behind the rocks were steep cliffs. The setting sun has completely sunk, and in this vast world there is only the roar of the waves and the roar of the wind.
Mu Yu stood firmly in the roaring sea wind and looked at the meeting point between the sea and the sky. The sunset had already set, leaving only layers of sunset to illuminate the sky. She really likes this place.
"Whether it is a teleportation array or phantom movement, it can only bring people here. The terrain is dangerous and it is impossible for Muggles to get here. No wonder you said you scared Amy and Dennis unconscious. You have always been good at manipulating other people's fears. "
I destroyed their will. From now on, they don't even dare to hate me. Find that place, Yu, and use your talents. You will never let me down." Tom Riddle almost said to her. It was said in his ears as if he was being bewitched.
Mu Yu didn't answer. She jumped off the rock easily. She did not fall into the cold water, but an invisible force dragged her firmly in mid-air. She walked on the sea as if on flat ground, and the rolling waves only wet the hem of her robe. She walked to the front of the cliff and groped carefully on the uneven rock wall.
There was a crack beneath her, and deep water surged in the bottomless gap. However, no matter how deep and turbulent the water is, it cannot compare with the rich darkness and blood seeping out of it. Her wand pointed at the seawater near the crack. The seawater seemed to be pushed aside by a pair of invisible hands, splitting into a narrow passage for only one person.
Mu Yu followed the temporarily split tunnel and entered the dark crack directly.
The waves and the strong wind all disappeared in this crack. All that was left was the ticking sound of water hitting the rocks. The wand always faithfully carried out her instructions, and the seawater ahead continued to split a path silently.
The crack gradually turned into a long, narrow and low passage, which would undoubtedly be filled with seawater during high tide. She had to lower her body in this secret passage. Her right hand held the wand, and her left hand never left the jade pendant hanging at her waist.
The jade pendant was stained with a few drops of water, making it even colder.
From the moment Mu Yu accurately found the crack on the cliff and entered the secret passage, Tom Riddle didn't say another word. He seemed to have returned to the old days, whether in Norway, Kyushu, or the Room of Requirement at Hogwarts, it was a secret that belonged to the two of them alone.
This secret passage turns left all the way to the deepest part of the cliff. At the end of the secret passage, a set of steps led to a huge cave in front. Mu Yu walked up the steps and carefully looked at the cave wall and surrounding rocks. Her eyes finally rested on the cave wall. Her voice was amplified countless times by the empty cave.
"The energy fluctuations here are different from other places. It's a wonderful maze. As for the way to crack it..."
Tom Riddle looked at the top of the stone wall with her. He knew exactly what he wanted to get into it. However, before he could say anything, Mu Yu waved her wand at her wrist, and a deep wound appeared directly on her wrist, and blood flowed directly from it and dripped on the stone wall.
Her voice was as soft as the breeze: "It's a pity that this method of cracking is a failure."
There was no ridicule, no arrogance, she was just stating an objective fact. She whispered a spell, and the wound on her arm gradually healed.
Only Mu Yu could say such words without changing his expression in front of him.
He seemed to want to touch the wound that had been scarred by the spell, but it was no different from usual, and he went straight through her wrist.
"Breaking the will is the best way to weaken the enemy." He was never willing to admit his mistakes, but this sentence seemed to blurt out without thinking. Even the fishy saltiness of the sea water did not erase the light scent of sandalwood. From his angle, it seemed that Mu Yu's lips curled up slightly.
"You always remember."
A dazzling white arch appeared on the stone wall, and behind the arch was endless darkness. The energy coming out from behind the door was very much like the flood scene she had been to before, cold, desperate, and even full of violence.
Behind the arch is an endless black lake. The narrow cavern widens completely here. The lake seems to have no edge, with only a green light shining in the distance. Mu Yu lowered her head and stared at the seemingly calm lake: "There are at least a thousand inferi in here."
She said this without any fear, as if she was just describing the water plants floating in the lake: "Can The people who find this place are no longer afraid of corpses floating in the water."
"There is nothing more terrifying than death."
"You should know, Tom, when you tried to use that basilisk to kill me. I witnessed something more terrifying than death." She was walking along the seemingly endless lake shore, as leisurely as if she were strolling through her back garden, and she stopped at a certain place as if she felt something.
"Zhenlei, Lihuo, Xuanwu avoid, rise." As she recited the incantation, her wand pointed in different directions regularly. Every time she pointed, there was a burst of light, and she used it to hold her hand in mid-air. Form seals quickly.
First, a green copper chain suddenly emerged from the lake, as if an invisible hand was pulling the chain in mid-air. The chain automatically jingled and coiled on the shore of the lake. A small boat that also exuded green light was pulled from the chain by the chain. The bottom of the lake was pulled up.
I don't know whether it was because of the coldness or something else, but the blood on her face had completely drained away.
She went straight on board. The boat rocked slightly and then quickly set off towards the green light in the center of the lake. The bow of the boat gently parted the lake water and made a rustling sound.
Mu Yu kept looking at the bottomless lake. From the boat, she could more clearly see the corpses with horrific faces sinking in the lake. She seemed to be interested in the Inferi, even bending slightly to get a closer look at the body closest to the water.
Tom Riddle was floating next to Mu Yu, and he would still be annoyed because Mu Yu's eyes never stopped for him.
There was something more terrifying than death... The strong wind from the tower seemed to be whistling in his ears that night. That night was also the time when Mu Yu's brain was the most vulnerable. No matter it was in the time and space where her obsession existed or now, she was never afraid of death.
Is what she is afraid of is the unknown brought about by the cold void, or is it related to something else...
Dumbledore's weapon. Low, dirty, useless love.
The boat gently touched the island in the middle of the lake. Only then did Mu Yu see clearly that the green light before came from the bright green potion in the stone basin in the center of the island. She tried to put her hand into the potion, but invisible energy blocked her in mid-air. She whispered and tried all the spells she knew, but no matter how hard she tried the potion in the stone basin, nothing moved.
"You cast a death spell. The potion can neither disappear nor be reduced. You cannot use transfiguration to turn it into something else. As long as the potion is full, it proves that your soul is always safe."
She did not panic . , even with an abnormal calmness. Tom Riddle suddenly felt that it was difficult to speak: "Yu, you are very smart."
Mu Yu suddenly let out a burst of crisp laughter. At first, she was extremely restrained, but gradually her laughter became longer and longer. The entire cave amplified her voice, but the inferi floating in the lake made the atmosphere even weirder.
Tom Riddle stood aside and looked at her calmly, as if waiting for her to make a decision.
"Madman," Mu Yu stopped laughing. She still looked at Tom Riddle with a smile on her lips, "I was fooled."
"Go on, Yu."
"This is your trap. You didn't finish drinking the potion, or Without your permission, the ship will not sail again, and with my current level of cultivation, it is completely impossible for me to cross the lake where thousands of corpses are lurking. I must drink the magic potion. Weaken me, but you will definitely find a way to let me still have the ability to fuse Horcruxes. You will use magic medicine to temporarily turn me into a tool, so that you can continue to familiarize yourself with the situation in Kyushu, and even find the legendary Kunlun Ruins. "Mu
Yu gently stroked his broken face, "You learn everything very quickly, Tom. When the time comes, my life and death, which will be tortured by the potion, will only depend on your thoughts." The score of grasping the mind is perfect. She can even speak fearlessly about the ending she is most likely to face in the future, as if she is just explaining the life and death of a stranger.
His soul seemed to be burning again. This time the burning was more intense than any other. There was obviously nothing, but the inexplicable burning sensation at this moment almost melted him into nothingness.
Mu Yu's words seemed to come from the other side of the world. She didn't panic at all, let alone his usual pleading: "Ever since you told me in Norway that you hid the Horcrux in this cave, you have already been setting up a plan. You want to tie me up in the safest way." By your side, you will effortlessly get rid of me after you squeeze out the last bit of my use value." She got closer to that withered face, her smile became brighter, and the strand of sandalwood made him crazier. "Tom, are you sure you want me to drink the magic potion? You must rely on my formation to reshape your body. And after drinking the potion, I will no longer be able to support that formation."
All his hidden thoughts were revealed by Mu Yu Take it apart bit by bit. He was confident that no one in the world could use Legilimency against him, so why? She could see into his thoughts without using Legilimency.
Whether she had powers that he didn't know about
was no longer important. She has no way out, the only way out is to be firmly controlled by him and to lead to inevitable destruction at the appropriate time.
He wouldn't allow her to have any chance of getting out of control. In order to resolve this bond, he would rather give up a more powerful body.
"There are many ways to recover the body. You have lost." He regained his former high-pitched and cold voice. He should have immediately let Mu Yu drink the potion in the stone basin. However, it was always difficult for him to face Mu Yu as if he were facing him. Those Death Eaters gave the same orders.
At this time, Mu Yu took a few steps back and stood back in front of the stone basin. A glass appeared in her hand. Without any hesitation, she directly dipped the glass into the emerald green liquid.
She always had her usual gentle smile: "Maybe."