In the dark and oppressive space, only the fluorescent light emitted by Allen's magic wand could be seen.
Suddenly, Allen stopped in his tracks, as if a spell had been cast on him.
He saw a pair of eyes, reflecting a faint light in the darkness, watching him.
The unknown was the most terrifying.
Allen didn't know the temperament of the owner of this pair of eyes, was it gentle or irritable? Was it harmful to humans? Was its attack power strong?
He stretched his magic wand forward, trying to see clearly with the help of the fluorescent spell.
The pair of eyes suddenly flashed to the side, and then a white thing ran past Allen.
In a panic, the white shadow hit a piece of granite, staggered a few steps to the side, and in the blink of an eye, hid in the shadows of another pile of ruins.
Allen paused for a few seconds, and decided to track it.
At first, Allen couldn't find it, but after groping for a while in the dark ruins of the stone house, Allen found a round well, exactly the same as the wells he had found before.
However, this well was half covered by a fallen pillar.
Allen suddenly had a thought: Could that thing have gone down the wall of the well into the well?
Allen poked his head out, and looked down with the help of the fluorescent spell's light, and saw a white, fast-moving thing the size of a giant turtle.
As it crawled down, the pair of big bright eyes stared straight at Allen, and the stare made Allen shudder!
It was simply a spider with a human face!
It was climbing down the wall of the well, and Allen noticed that along the wall of the well, there were many black protruding stones that formed a ladder down the well.
The human-faced spider crawled extremely fast, and soon disappeared into the darkness where the magic wand couldn't shine.
"It seems that the earth under my feet must have been dug crisscrossed, and the tunnels in these round wells lead to the underground space." Allen secretly speculated.
In order to confirm his guess, Allen intended to go down to investigate, but something tugged at his lapel.
Allen immediately turned around to see a shrunken Tina and Sniff.
When they saw that Allen wanted to go down, they were very anxious.
Allen sensed that they were using their innate animal instincts to sense that there was something in the well that was harmful to them.
However, Allen's curiosity was already piqued by the white human-faced spider. Ignoring Tina and Sniff's attempts to stop him, he put them back into the pet space and jumped over the well.
It had to be admitted that Allen's movements down the well were rather hurried because he was worried that he would lose the courage to continue exploring in such a dark, unfamiliar, and oppressive environment.
After climbing down about two hundred meters, Allen felt very tired.
These protruding stones were obviously prepared for the human-faced spiders that were smaller and lighter than Allen. They were small and narrow, making it difficult for Allen to climb up.
He felt aggrieved and exhausted.
If that was all, it would be fine. Who would have thought that a stone step would be loose, unable to bear Allen's weight and suddenly rolled down into the deep well, almost throwing Allen to the bottom of the dark well.
After a while, Allen hung there with one hand holding a protruding stone.
After a false alarm, Allen endured the soreness in his arms and back and climbed down the well as quickly as possible.
Not knowing how long he had been climbing, Allen changed his mind several times and wanted to climb up, no longer caring about what was underground.
But this idea was dismissed after a few turns in his mind, because going up may be more difficult, more tiring, and maybe he would reach the bottom soon!
Finally, Allen's feet stepped on the ground, and a narrow hole appeared on the wall of the well about a foot to his right.
Allen let out a long sigh of relief and went into the hole.
Inside the hole was a narrow horizontal tunnel.
Holding the magic wand, Allen cautiously went through the tunnel and came to a huge underground cave.
This was an arched cave, extending into the darkness where the magic wand could not shine.
A huge stone statue of a Cockatrice cast a strange shadow in this hazy light.
The human-faced spider was hiding in the shadow, avoiding the light, and was faintly discernible.
The air was filled with the smell of blood. A little further away from the center of the open space, there were scattered bones of small birds and beasts.
The strong smell of blood, the inexplicable stone statue, and the human-faced spider lurking in the shadow, all of these made people feel uncomfortable.
Allen felt that he might have guessed wrong. Salazar? How could Slytherin build a secret room in such a place?
He must have accidentally broken into the nest of the human-faced spider.
He just did not know if there was only one spider like this, or if there was a group of them!
As if it thought that Allen was not a threat to it, the human-faced spider actually crawled out of the shadow and quickly crawled towards Allen.
Allen dodged, avoiding its hook-like leg.
At that moment, Alan saw the face of the spider that was neither human nor ghost. It was a pale, chin-less face, and huge, eyelidless eyes that were light red and a little gray!
It looked disgusting!
This human-faced spider seemed to want to turn Allen into its food. It opened its mouth and spat out a long spider silk, wanting to entangle Allen.
"Raging fire!" The tongue of fire followed the spider silk and quickly jumped towards the human-faced spider.
The human-faced spider quickly cut off the spider silk and hid in the shadow.
The burning spider silk fell to the ground, and the fire gradually weakened. After the spider silk was burned out, it was extinguished.
Seemingly seeing that Allen was not to be trifled with, the human-faced spider intended to escape.
Its emotional fluctuations were caught by Allen.
Allen chased after it. The human-faced spider used all its strength but still could not avoid Allen's attack. In the end, it was petrified in place.
Carefully observing the cave, Allen was pleasantly surprised to find traces of the Cockatrice's venom.
The corpses of those birds and beasts were most likely caught by the Cockatrice to raise the human-faced spider.
After carefully observing the traces left behind by the Cockatrice and the human-faced spider in the cave, Allen guessed that in return, the human-faced spider most likely served as the Cockatrice's mount. It carried the Cockatrice, which was not very agile, up the well.
This proved that Allen's speculation might be correct. This could indeed lead to the secret room!
Allen walked deeper into the cave.
After walking for a while in the darkness, Allen came to a large hall.
As if it had detected the magic power emitted by Allen's magic wand, the surroundings brightened up.
The magic lamps on the walls lit up one by one, and the bright light dispelled the darkness.
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