Ravenclaw's Blue Gem

"That's because the only living creatures here should be you and me. Both my father and I are not interested in decorating and renovating the castle. If it weren't for the house elves walking around from time to time, it really looks like a ghost house... …Need to light up?"

"Yeah!"

Although Barbara nodded, when the oil lamps on both sides of the wall suddenly burned, the shadow cast by the lights enveloped half of Max's face, and also cast large chunks of dense darkness under the ground. She was originally Suddenly, my nervous mood got a little out of control, and I couldn't help but scream.

"It's embarrassing..." Barbara fell into a state of self-loathing in the next few minutes, coupled with Max's merciless laugh at that time, it made him feel extremely embarrassed.

"I think it's so cute, Barbara." Max walked ahead happily. She wanted to take Barbara somewhere to see from the beginning. "Besides, you will be scared not because you are guilty. Young, walking here will probably make many people feel uncomfortable. How can a deadly, cold house make a good association?"

"But this is your home. I am your lover and lover. I was scared when I came to my girlfriend's house. It's too embarrassing to look at..." Barbara covered her face.

"Make no mistake, this is not my home, it's just my home in my impression... Even now I will not change my opinion, but you may like Paluru, it is a very qualified housekeeper."

"Is it the housekeeper hired by your family? You rarely praise people, you must like him very much." Barbara asked curiously, hoping to know more about Max's past and family.

"No, it is a house elf. But it has been taking care of us since I was born. Without it and other elf, my father and I would starve to death in the castle, because I can’t cook. But I don’t know if my father will, and he has never cooked for me.” Max’s face can’t see her emotions, “Sometimes it even makes me feel more like me than my father. Family."

"Max's father...I remember you occasionally write to the family, is it a very strict person?" Barbara asked worriedly, because Max showed boredom explicitly for the first time, although it was slight, but It's really hard to see, usually she is very casual about other things.

"Strict...I think it's true. I think he doesn't take me seriously, but that's normal. After all, I don't have a reason to be valued by him. My father pursues more unknowns instead of The finished product after completion."

They finally came to a relatively bright corridor, and the red carpet was spread all the way to the room at the end.Barbara looked at the picture frames on both walls: "The portraits are all blank."

"Because I don't have any impression of those noisy ancestors." When the two reached the end, Max pushed open the heavy oak door, and a blast of cold air hit Barbara's face. She couldn't help but hit. There was a chill.

The two of them entered, surrounded by many bookshelves, filled with various books and parchment scrolls, "This is my father's study, and it is also the entrance to the basement." Max walked in a certain direction and moved the corner. The candlestick inside turned halfway to the right, and the two large bookshelves in the middle slid silently to the sides, revealing a large opening, no light to illuminate, only the deep darkness shrouded there, like the mouth of a wild beast. general.

"Um... I seem to like you more than I expected, Barbara." Max first walked to the entrance of the cave, but she didn't move on. Instead, she blocked Barbara who was trying to follow her, ignoring her face. Yan Hong on Shang said, "Look, my hands are trembling a little. This is something that has never happened before. It is amazing..." She raised her palm, and her fingertips really trembled slightly.

"If you follow along, you will definitely regret it. There is nothing warm below. I will give you a chance. If you want to leave, take advantage of it now."

"But those are all related to Max you." Barbara didn't even hesitate, and took Max's hand."So I must know. If I choose to back down here, will you break up with me?"

"Well, I'll break up with you." Max said directly, without mercy, "but that might be better for you."

"Then I absolutely don't!" Barbara exclaimed, and Max looked at her and smiled.

"Then let's go."

*****

Walking down the gloomy narrow stairs, Max didn’t turn on the lights, but strangely there was always a little glimmer around the walls. "These are probably things my father has done. To provide a light source, I rarely come here. Here, because it would make me uncomfortable, I haven't investigated it." Max didn't know whether he had guessed or caught Barbara's attention direction, and said.

Her tone was colder than ever, and her pace was quick.This narrow path is reminiscent of the way back to the Slytherin lounge, because the Slytherin lounge is in the basement, and every Slytherin student has to walk this way countless times.

Maybe it’s because her footsteps are fast, maybe because the stone steps are not long, and they quickly stepped on a solid ground. At this time, the two sides of the walls are no longer the green light before, but replaced by more reassuring ones. Torches, not many, but enough to light the way forward.

"Everything about me is behind that door," Max said. "It's too late to shrink now, Barbara. I won't let you run away."

Barbara shuddered, perhaps because Max’s words were so serious and cold. She seemed to have removed all her masks. The brown eyes that Barbara had always loved were gone. As if the predator was looking at the prey.

"Max...?" She frowned, because Max's hand strength suddenly increased. She locked Barbara's arm like a shackle, half-tugged her towards the door, and then put her hand on the door knocker Come, take a deep breath.

"I will finally come back."

Pushing open the door, it is a square stone room, unexpectedly spacious, probably because there is only a stone platform in the center of the whole stone room; but it looks very strange in Barbara’s eyes, the surrounding stone walls They are all densely covered with runes of different colors, which seems to be due to the different pigment materials used in drawing.Among these mysterious and profound lines, some even Barbara is very difficult to read. You must know that she has been devoted to the ancient magic text, but only from the content she can read, Barbara Suddenly, his face became pale.

"What is this……"

"It really hasn't changed here, and I didn't expect that when I saw these things again, I could talk to you calmly, Barbara, is it because you are here? It's incredible. I thought I would never It will let people know about this place, and you will really surprise people."

Barbara's face was pale. Although she resisted looking at these things, her eyes scanned line by line unconsciously, with words in her mouth. She read very hard. After all, it was a genius wizard who spent decades of time and painstaking work. Good preparation.Then she felt her hand being held.

Max led her into the stone room. She had completely given up on laughing, and walked towards the central stone platform with a sullen face, "I sat up from this stone platform. The first thing I saw when I sat up was My father..." She looked at Barbara, and slowly rubbed her palms on the smooth stone platform, "If we count the growth time of ordinary human beings as babies, then I am actually younger than you, Barbara. Bara."

"...Sure enough, is everything I saw true?" When she was shocked to the extreme, her mind became blank, but she calmed down because of it. Barbara's composure made Max touch her cheek with appreciation. .

"Yeah, you are right. Thanks to your knowledge of some runes, I don’t have to reinterpret them all. It’s great..." Max said, "As you can see, this stone platform, this stone room, and these The mess of runes on the wall is what makes up Max Siegel—welcome you, Barbara, welcome to the womb that gave birth to me."

Chapter 61 The Girl Who Pursue X (11)

"The womb... you were born here?!" Barbara cried out in horror. Even though she had a foreboding from those words, she still couldn't accept the other person's actual hearing, "You are kidding me! I have never heard of anyone who can make humans before!"

"Then you know now, my father is a genius or a fanatic." Max said, without a look of pride on his face. "In principle, I need you to keep this matter secret, but you No need anymore."

When Barbara understood what Max meant, she was already pushed onto the stone platform by Max, and there was no need to even make a sound. A strong rope directly entangled Barbara in circles. Pulling hands and feet confined her to the stone platform, but Max didn't seem to want to close her mouth: "Max, what are you doing!" Barbara looked at Max anxiously, but found that that had always been Someone who can make her feel at ease observes her face-to-face with no expression.

"It’s amazing. I’ve actually dealt with many magical creatures, and I’m also familiar with the state of creatures when they die, but it’s the first time to do this to humans. You don’t have to shake so much, Barbara, you are different from those prey. Yes." She seemed to have changed back to the gentle and considerate lover before, and slowly stroked her hair with her hand, and the smile hung back again.

"Then why did you tie me up, I'm very uncomfortable like this, Max, let go of me!" Barbara can't even control herself to describe the runes for liberation. She is still a novice and can't do it. Leaving directly in a life-threatening state.

"I'm sorry to make you feel uneasy." Max apologized, "It's just that I've always wanted to try this. From the perspective of a bystander, the person lying on it is really small." Although she apologized, But he didn't intend to release Barbara at all.

"I find that if I am here, I can more easily perceive subtle changes in my mood. Is this also because of the connection between us?" Max leaned in front of the stone platform, "But my emotions are a little bit out of control, which is very bad. Yes, I even want to tell... Do you want to hear the story of the birth of a monster?"

She did not intend to really ask for Barbara’s opinion: “When I woke up from here, I actually had my own consciousness and thinking ability, but I couldn’t speak because I hadn’t tried it. I straightened up, my father He stood on the side, he was looking at me like I was looking at you, and then he said, "Can I dress by myself?" Max closed his eyes and recalled, "I can't speak clearly, but I can understand him. Speaking, you also understand what he means by "wearing" and "clothing", maybe because I have his blood and wisdom flowing on me? So you can understand that when I try to speak, I did this, even if that It's just an'um', how scary is in my heart?"

"Although I understand, I still can't understand more profound things. I don't even know who I am, so I have to walk on the ground. Not to mention that my father didn't even pay attention to me. He heard me answer. Then I pointed at the clothes on one side and left directly. All I can remember are those cold eyes, which are exactly the same as mine..." Max's fingers crawled onto Barbara's eyes, "You said you liked me. Eyes, Barbara. But I hate, the same eyes as my father. Every time I look in the mirror, I feel uncomfortable. If I can choose for myself-Professor Dumbledore’s is very good, that kind of vast and peaceful Blue, I have always liked his eyes."

Barbara’s trembling stopped unexpectedly. She was just subconsciously afraid because of Max’s abnormal behavior, but she had a high affinity for Max, and as Max said she even gradually developed a kind of pity. Feelings.

"You are not a monster."

"No, I am." Max said, "I can't explain my dirty background to anyone. I was born different from everyone else. From the beginning I was a stranger. I was the only one. I understand and learn. I’m faster than anyone, I’m better than anyone, I’ve never missed it. So I don’t understand you either. There are monsters in my heart, but I’m always bound by morality or love. I’ll do what I want. Now, why do you have to be patient and restrained? Just like Meg, he automatically chose to be alienated. Isn't it good to grab what you want?"

"I told you about Florence, didn't you?" Barbara blinked her eyes, and she couldn't move freely. "Yes, you mentioned to me that it was your pet when you were a kid, but died later. Up."

"Yes, it passed away. But I haven't said the cause of its death." Max said, "I strangled it to death." Her tone was very flat, perhaps with a little satisfaction, but absolutely nothing. Sorry.

"Huh? Why!" Barbara said in shock, "You told me you obviously liked it."

"Yes, I really like it. Although it is troublesome to take care of it, it does make me feel good. The warm feeling should be called liking."

"So I strangled it so that it belongs to me alone, and I don't have to worry about it leaving me."

Max’s speech speed increased slightly, and he seemed a little eager: "But I also quickly understood that this is impossible, because your rules think it is a distortion, even if it is that boring rule, if I want to survive here I still have to disguise... But I still feel emptiness day by day. It’s clear that everything in this world doesn’t matter to me, and the hole in my chest is still unsatisfactory. Then I must have not found something...Barbara, Can you give me this thing?"

Barbara’s brain was confused, and she suddenly regretted it. If she could have half of Max’s information processing ability, it would be great. At this time, she could only be helpless about being an idiot, but even if she was an idiot. , Can also feel the weirdness in Max's words.

"Are you calling for help, Max?"

"Help? Of course not, I have figured out all the joints. But it is normal for you to think about it, because I really said too much this time, you may not understand..."

"No, I understand." Barbara said, "You are contradictory. Is everything about you really a disguise? Although I can't tell what's wrong, even if I'm a fool, I can't like a completely false one. Man, don’t you want to tell me here, you are very painful and lonely. Do you think I will leave you after all this? I don’t care if you are a freak! I like... I love you, Max!"

"You, love me?" Max started thinking about something.

Barbara tilted her face to one side, but when Max squeezed her jaw and forced her to look at her, she said, "Yeah."