Admiral of Hogwarts

250 An unexpected discovery

In the next period of time, the most important thing for most students may be the first Quidditch game. Although the first game was Gryffindor versus Hufflepuff, the Ravenclaw team also entered training.

"Well done, Veneto." On the Quidditch pitch. Roger Davis, who had just captained the Quidditch team this year after graduating from his senior captain, shouted to Veneto who sent the Bludger halfway across the pitch with one strike. Then he looked at the group of rookies in front of him.

"We need a Chaser and a Seeker this year, so next I need to conduct a test on you to ensure that we can select the two players who are most suitable for the current team."

Unlike Gryffindor and Slytherin, who like to select the most skilled students as players, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff prefer to select players who are slightly less skilled but can work well with the team.

Therefore, in addition to the basic test, the most important thing in the selection competition is to allow those candidates to join the team for a while to ensure that the opponent and the entire team can have enough tacit understanding.

Veneto's task in the trials was to imitate the opponent's batters and test the flexibility and courage of these novices by hitting bludgers.

To be honest, it is really fun to watch the novices turn pale with fear as the Bludgers played by Veneto fly by with the sound of wind and fly all over the field.

Unfortunately, Hugo received a notification from Firefly looking for him just halfway through, so he had to leave here and rush to meet her on the fifth floor of the castle.

After arriving at an empty corridor on the fifth floor, Hugo saw the fireflies waiting there. Firefly was standing in front of a mirror wearing a school uniform robe.

"What happened? You need to call me here so urgently?" Hugo asked Firefly standing there as soon as they met. "What did you find this time that made me scream so urgently?"

"Some very magical things." Firefly said, taking out his wand and tapping the frame of the mirror, "Turn it over to the left."

As the words fell, the two-meter-high mirror moved to the left, and then revealed a dark tunnel entrance. Through the light in the corridor, Hugo saw that there was a spiral downward staircase in the hole.

"Wait a minute, I seem to have an impression of this place." Hugo thought for a moment, and then quickly recalled a passage in the original novel in his mind.

"If I remember correctly, this should be a secret passage leading to Hogsmeade Town."

"Yes, this is indeed a secret passage. I think besides us, only the Weasley twins in the school know about this place now." Firefly, who was walking in front, said through the Admiral's network.

"But we should be the only ones here now, because the central part of the tunnel collapsed last winter, so the Weasley twins gave up here."

"The reason why we come here is very simple, because we hope to use this abandoned tunnel to rebuild a new tunnel and then use it as our exclusive secret passage."

"The reason why I called you, Admiral, here today is because we discovered something unexpected during the construction of the tunnel, so we need you to make the final decision."

Knowing that the ship girl would not harm him, Hugo followed Firefly down the spiral staircase. In his opinion, this should be a surprise that the ship girls hope to give themselves.

The two people walked down the stone stairs for a long time before their feet stepped on the ground. If their judgment was correct, their current location should be three or four floors underground.

Unlike the imaginary secret tunnel, the height and width of this tunnel are huge in size and appear to be very straight. It feels like you can even drive a Hogwarts Thestral carriage.

Stone braziers were fixed on both sides of the corridor, with dim flames burning on them. However, when Hugo curiously stretched out his hand to the braziers, he found that these braziers had no temperature at all.

"What's burning in these braziers is not real flames, but the simplest magic light." Firefly explained after sensing Hugo's movements through the Admiral's network.

"And the whole thing is connected to the magic system of Hogwarts Castle."

"In other words, this tunnel was built together with the entire castle!" After hearing Firefly's answer, Hugo was stunned for a moment, and then felt relieved.

After all, the overall condition of Hogwarts Castle was in very bad condition when it was built, so as a school, fortress and shelter, it is very reasonable to have a secret troop transport and evacuation tunnel.

After about ten minutes of progress, the road was completely blocked by a large pile of collapsed rocks and soil. At this time, Firefly walked to one side of the tunnel, and then used force to move a large stone as tall as a person aside.

"This place has a weird interference effect on various magic powers, and it also interferes with certain aspects. However, we have not yet figured out the rules, so in order to avoid danger, we can only use purely physical means to solve the problem."

Firefly explained, and then led Hugo into the newly dug hole. At first, the surroundings were just dirt and rocks, but after walking more than ten meters, a fork suddenly appeared at the front.

"The tunnel on the right was dug by a few of us, trying to bypass the collapsed area in the original tunnel and reopen the tunnel. The tunnel on the left is our new discovery."

The ship girls do not need lighting when digging in the dark, but use radar, sonar and other detection methods to carry out their work. And it was because of the existence of sonar that they discovered another secret tunnel next to the ancient tunnel.

After turning left and entering the tunnel discovered by the ship girls, Hugo saw the entire tunnel through the searchlight turned on by the firefly.

This is a tunnel that looks very old, and is overall very finely built. Different from the tunnel that Hugo and the others passed through before, the stones in this tunnel are very neatly trimmed, and you can even see patterns carved on them.

As Hugo and the others continued to move forward, abandoned rooms began to appear on both sides of the tunnel. According to Firefly, these rooms may have been dormitories, warehouses, and spaces containing magical instruments of unknown purpose in the past.

"The intensity of magic in the entire area is unusually high, and during previous exploratory excavations, we discovered some strange structures that were filled with magic."

"According to their analysis, those structures should be part of the magic defense system currently operated by Hogwarts Castle——"

While reporting what he had just discovered, Firefly led Hugo forward. Finally, after walking more than ten meters, they stopped at the door of a small cave hall.

After looking inside the cave, Hugo unexpectedly discovered that four shipgirls, Reputation, Perseverance, Glory and St. George, were waiting here. Behind them, a door covered with runes and made of some unknown metal stood there.