"Riddles?!"
This was very characteristic of the Sphinx. This kind of monster had the habit of guarding treasures.
Elwyn recalled the description of the Sphinx in The Monster Book of Monsters. For more than a thousand years, they had been used by wizards to guard their precious items and secret places. The Sphinx was a very intelligent animal and liked riddles and crossword puzzles.
They were willing to communicate with wizards, and usually only became dangerous when the things they guarded were threatened.
Although the Sphinx spoke to him gently, Elwyn had no doubt that if he answered incorrectly, the result would be very bad.
He would have to fight with the enraged Sphinx and face the pursuit of at least a hundred sprites …
In the current situation, he had no other choice but to choose to answer, hoping that the riddle would not be too difficult.
"I choose to answer," Elwyn said. "What is your riddle?"
The Sphinx sat on her hind legs, blocking the middle of the road, and looked at Elwyn with a smile. "There is an animal in the world. This animal has four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs at night. The more legs it has, the weaker it is. What kind of animal is this?"
She blinked and looked at Elwyn with a mysterious smile on her face.
This was the famous Sphinx riddle, also known as the riddle of human life. Anyone who had heard the story of the Sphinx would have heard this riddle.
The correct answer was human!
In the morning of life, human was a delicate baby crawling on all fours.
At noon, which was the period of human youth, he walked on two feet.
In his old age, he was so old and weak that he had to rely on crutches as a third leg.
The monster opposite Elwyn went easy on him. Many people knew the answer to this riddle that had been passed down for thousands of years.
"The answer is human!" Elwyn paused and continued to ask, "Why?"
He wanted to know why the Sphinx would give such a simple riddle. Although Elwyn promised to help her unlock the shackles on her feet, it was not in line with the Sphinx's character. She would not let Elwyn go for no reason.
If that was the case, the fairies would not have let the Sphinx guard the vault. It was too dangerous!
She would let any wizard who promised to unlock her shackles pass. What kind of watchman was this? She might as well not have one.
"Because I really do miss home. You appeared just in time." The Sphinx smiled even more warmly. She stood up and straightened her front legs to one side. "One more thing. I can feel your heart. You mean no harm. As for the demon beside you, I happen to know him. He has done many evil things and deserves to be punished. "
The Sphinx was a kind magical creature that represented benevolence and nobility. If not, she would not have appeared in so many legends, and the ancient Egyptian spellcasters would not have built a huge sphinx to commemorate this creature and show the mercy of the pharaoh.
"Thank you," said Elwyn, tapping the shackles on the Sphinx's hind legs with his wand.
As he moved, the shackles broke, and the Sphinx was free!
"I should be the one thanking you. I have been here for more than ten years. Finally, I can go back to my hometown."
"Do you need me to help you get out?" Elwyn continued to ask. He had a good impression of this monster.
"No, I can get out of here by myself. There is an underground river below that can lead me out of this place," said the Sphinx. "I can hear the sound of the water. Those fairies can't find me."
"Well, where is your hometown?"
"In the depths of the Sahara Desert. If you have time, you can come there as a guest. Goodbye, human wizard. Thank you again for your help. "After the Sphinx finished speaking, she ran along the tunnel and gradually disappeared.
Elwyn waved and turned around.
At the end of the passageway was a semi-circular hall, and one could see a treasury and a set of heavy doors.
Elwyn controlled Zuo Sai to look at one of the doors and pressed his hand on it.
The door of the vault disappeared, revealing a cave.
Inside the cave was an unimaginable number of treasures. From the floor to the ceiling, there were gold coins and golden wine cups, silver armors, exquisitely crafted scarab amulets, pure gold pharaoh coffins, and statues of various gods. This was a cave filled with mirrors.
If Elwyn had not seen Nicole before, he might have been surprised. He might have been surprised by the pure gold cave where Lemour kept the Book of Abraham, but now he did not feel anything.
But now, he didn't feel anything. He just felt a little regretful that he was too late. All the truly valuable things had been packed up by Zuo Sai and sold to Malfoy. Now, all that was left was a pile of useless gold and artifacts without magic. He really didn't understand why those fairies were so obsessed with these things.
Even so, there were still many rare ancient Egyptian treasures with high artistic and collectible value.
They were all dug up by Zuo Sai or secretly hidden during the regular excavation process. Behind each item was a bloody and dark crime. He was not qualified to own these items at all. He should have turned them in to the Egyptian Ministry of Magic.
Just these were enough to keep this fairy in prison for the rest of his life.
"Remove the magic on them and put these things away," Elwyn said, kicking the boxes on the ground.
These boxes had all been expanded by the Traceless Stretch Spell and could hold many things.
While Zuo Sai was putting things into his pocket, Ivan didn't stand on ceremony. He walked into the stone room and put everything he was interested in into his pocket. There were many priceless decorations, stone tablets with hieroglyphs, books, and so on.
Although Zuo Sai had sold all the research value, there were still many that had slipped through the net.
After carefully sorting through them, Elwyn was still surprised.
He planned to go back and study ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Maybe he could learn some secrets from these stone tablets.
Egypt, an ancient country loved by the gods, had too many secrets waiting to be unearthed.
Elwyn and Hermione could not explore everything on this trip. They could only feel a part of it.
But with these things obtained from Zuo Sai's vault, it was enough to make Elwyn's trip very valuable. The significance was no less than the trip to Sicily.
After more than an hour, the two of them finally finished sorting out all the treasures.
"Let's go, let's go back!" Elwyn said, waving his wand. "Take these things back and turn yourself in."
If nothing went wrong, the ending that awaited Zuo Sai was complete ruin.
In front of these things, no matter how he quibbled, it was useless.
When the time came, there would be no need for Elwyn to control them. The Auras would naturally know what to do, and the fairies of Gringotts would not be able to help him …
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