Hogwarts, where the stars shine

The Slytherin common room was quiet late at night, there were still some embers in the fireplace, and wisps of smoke were rising intermittently.

Mesa leaned crookedly on the armchair, his eyes closed tightly, and his brows sometimes relaxed and sometimes frowned, as if he was experiencing a nightmare.

Lilia leaned on Mesa's shoulder and held on to his arm.The girl's breathing was rapid, her palm-sized face was wrinkled, and she was also deeply trapped in the nightmare.

When the last embers in the fireplace were extinguished, the two people leaning against each other woke up at the same time, their chests rising and falling violently, as if they had just run ten thousand meters.

After waking up, neither Mesa nor Lilia spoke. Instead, they each rubbed their cheeks vigorously, as if they wanted to use this method to dispel the lingering fear in their hearts.

After a while, their breathing gradually became calmer, their violently beating hearts slowly calmed down, and their frowns relaxed.

"What kind of monster was that just now?" Lilia put her hand on her chest and asked with lingering fear, "How could there be such a terrifying thing in the secret room of the lounge?"

Two common rooms with almost the same layout are connected, and there is an unknown monster hiding in the secret room. Aren't you afraid that the humanoid faceless monster will come out and hurt the students?

Or, were Slytherin's ancestors so big-hearted?

Lilia had some difficulty understanding the way of thinking of her ancestors. Those monsters didn't look like they were trying to protect the library.The densely packed monsters and dripping grease still made me feel frightened after thinking about it.

Lilia was not the only one who couldn't figure it out. Mesa was also confused and full of questions.

He said in confusion: "It's indeed a bit strange. If that library is for inheritance and for cultivating better Slytherin successors, what are those disgusting fluids used for?"

Tonight's special experience was indeed a bit bizarre, half heaven and half hell.

Anyone who can discover this secret place must be extraordinary.Either they are bold and adventurous, or they are delicate and good at discovery.

Both types of people are valuable to cultivate to a certain extent, as evidenced by the rich information in the library.But everything in the other room is strange and strange, seeming to expel everyone who enters the secret place.

What is the purpose of setting up two completely opposite rooms?

The two of them, immersed in memories and thoughts, had not yet realized that their bodies had never left the common room.From the moment they pulled the knocker, their bodies were leaning back in the armchair.

Thinking of the fountain in the secret room and the sticky and disgusting fluid, Lilia frowned in disgust, as if she were surrounded by a hundred durians and a hundred canned herrings at the same time.

Mesa, who was thinking over and over again, suddenly thought of something. He reached into his pocket, and then asked in a deep voice: "Lilia, how did we sit on the armchair?"

"Of course we ran over from the stone wall!" Lilia replied matter-of-factly, "Wait, no! How we ran over here... I have no idea at all!"

Sometimes, human memory goes awry and certain fragments are lost.

For example, when a football hits the face hard, humans will only remember that they were hit by the football, but they will not remember the posture in which they fell after being hit.

However, the two Mesa people who escaped from the secret place did not suffer heavy blows to their heads, and their consciousness remained awake.Even if you were a little panicked when you ran away, you shouldn't forget how you got back into the armchair.

"I... I just remember that I was walking in front and opened the door knocker." Lilia continued, "Then, we seemed to be sitting here, with no memory of running from the stone wall."

Mesa took a deep breath and said seriously: "When I dragged you out of the library, I picked up a manuscript about black magic and put it in this pocket."

"You mean, the manuscript you packed up is missing?" Lilia asked in surprise.

Seeing Mesa nodding in recognition, Lilia turned to look at the medieval tapestry.She felt as if the characters on the tapestry were laughing at her.

The distance between the Ouroboros door knocker and the armchair, the missing black magic manuscript... everything that happened tonight was like an extremely real dream.

"This is not a dream, Lilia." Mesa said, "In other words, this is not an ordinary dream."

He guessed what Lilia was thinking, because when he realized that the manuscript was missing, Mesa's first thought was also a dream.

When you wake up from the dream, the manuscript in the dream will naturally not be stored in the pocket of reality.The two woke up in the armchair, and because it was just a dream, their bodies had not moved.

But there is one thing that is difficult to explain clearly in dreams, and that is the real reason for Mesa's confusion.

Generally speaking, people cannot read while awake in a dream.Even if you perform reading and learning activities in your dream, your memory of the dream will become blurry when you wake up.

But Mesa not only read it clearly, but the contents of the manuscript were completely unknown to him.

After waking up from the dream, instead of being blurry, Mesa's memory was extremely clear.Mesa remembered every sentence and line of the manuscript, and his understanding of black magic improved.

This is Hogwarts, this is the magical world of magic, but Mesa doesn't want to use mysticism to generalize tonight's weirdness.To put it bluntly, Mesa couldn't let go of the library.

Without understanding the circumstances of this "dream", Mesa will not be able to use that library with peace of mind in the future.The manuscripts there are treasures of Slytherins from all generations, exclusive information that is not even available in the forbidden book area.

The bizarre secret place reminded Mesa of a movie he once watched, "Silent Hill."The inner and outer world in the movie is somewhat similar to tonight's experience.

By touching the Ouroboros knocker, Mesa enters a dark hallway filled with grease, like the fog-shrouded surface world in Silent Hill.

Walking through the long corridor and opening the door at the end, you enter another common room. It's like switching from the outside world to the inside world, and danger comes with it.

Mesa recalled the plot of the movie while comparing the eerie secret places.

Although the existence and expression of the two are different, Mesa can draw parallels between them.What is Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry? Isn’t this the Scottish Highlands of Silent Hill?

"Subconscious, or soul!" Mesa said suddenly, thinking of a relatively reasonable explanation.

"What?" Lilia asked confused, "You mean our bodies did not leave the common room, but our consciousness, or soul, entered another room?"

Mesa said firmly: "That's right! The moment we pull the Ouroboros knocker, we are taken into another 'world' by the knocker, and our bodies are still in this real world. So we will be in the armchair When you wake up, you can't bring out the manuscript from another 'world'. Because only the soul, or consciousness, can travel between the two 'worlds'!"

"It sounds like some myth or legend, but I can understand what you want to express." Lilia muttered softly.

She continued: "But how does our consciousness separate from the physical body? Is it that unknown fluid in the corridor?"

Mesa clasped his hands together and put his chin on his head. He said, "Yes, I only think of this possibility. Next, what we have to do is to find out about this unknown substance."

Perhaps Steele Martin came here for this disgusting grease.