Behind the stone gate in the wall is an empty and dim palace. On both sides of the hall stand many thick pillars, on which are carved huge snakes coiled and entangled. The ceiling is so high that the top cannot be seen and can only be melted into the darkness. The dim light shines down from an unknown place, casting strange black shadows on the thick stone pillars.
In this empty palace, every step you take produces a hollow yet loud echo.
This empty atmosphere should have been very scary, but with Ander's army of zombies leading the way, it immediately became lively.
The noisy footsteps echoed in the palace, causing Fana to ask, "When Salazar Slytherin built the Chamber of Secrets, he probably never thought that so many people would come into his Chamber of Secrets one day, right?"
If these infernal corpses can be considered human beings...
Ender smiled when he heard this, then he seemed to see something and quickly waved his wand.
In an instant, the marching army of corpses suddenly stopped, and the entire palace became quiet again.
Fana followed Ander's gaze and saw a towering statue standing there above the ceiling. He had an old face full of wrinkles, a sparse and curly long beard, and gray feet with nothing on under a stone-carved wizard robe.
"This must be the statue of Salazar Slytherin!"
Ander said softly, then turned to look at Anna: "Get ready..."
Fana nodded, and the grizzly bear under her immediately spread out its limbs and carried her to hide next to a stone pillar.
Ender looked up at the tall statue in front of him and imitated the second sentence Tom Riddle taught him.
"Speak to me, Slytherin - the greatest of the Hogwarts Four!"
As soon as the words fell, a loud rumbling sound came from the huge Slytherin statue.
The originally solemn stone sculpture's face slowly opened its mouth, and a gloomy and hoarse hissing sound came from his mouth, as if something was crawling upwards from the depths of the statue.
“Here it comes!”
Ander perked up and hid behind his army of Zombies nervously.
With a rustling sound, a giant snake several dozen meters long crawled out of the mouth of the Slytherin statue and fell onto the dusty hard ground with a loud roar.
Ander immediately closed his eyes tightly and put on the blindfold that Fana gave him, observing only through the perspective of the Inferi.
The basilisk's gaze was deadly, but Ender's army of Inferi had already died, so they naturally could not die again.
However, the effect of petrification still exists. Not to mention the corpses, even ghosts will be petrified by the basilisk's gaze.
But the prerequisite for petrification is to look into the basilisk's yellow snake eyes.
Before taking action, Ander had ordered all the Inferi to remove their eyeballs. Without eyeballs, they naturally could not look the Basilisk in the eye, and the Basilisk's deadly gaze became completely useless.
Nearly a thousand corpses had lost their eyes. Ander had spent a lot of money to deal with the basilisk.
However, as long as we can kill the basilisk and get its body, all the sacrifices will be worth it!
As for the lack of eyes, how can Ender observe the Basilisk through the perspective of the Inferi?
Then we have to talk about the more than ten bats flying above the army of zombies!
As we all know, bats live in dim caves for a long time and are mainly active at night, so they rely on their unique echolocation ability to determine the location of external objects and themselves.
In order to deal with the basilisk, Ender caught many bats during the summer vacation, blinded their eyes, and transformed them into Inferi.
The purpose is to be able to accurately judge the position and actions of the basilisk even if the vision is lost.
Using the unique perspective of the Inferi bats, Ander closed his eyes tightly and controlled the Inferi army to attack the Basilisk.
Basilisks have a very keen sense of smell, and the thousand-year-old basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets can even use its nose to distinguish the Muggle ancestry of wizards.
Because of this, it originally had no intention of taking action, because the last order it received was to attack students with Muggle ancestry, but Ender and Fana who came to the Chamber of Secrets were both pure-blood wizards and were not within its attack range.
But when the first Inferi roared and rushed towards it, grabbing its snake hide with its black claws, the Basilisk became angry.
It raised its huge head high, moving its scarlet tongue as big as an adult's arm, and its bright yellow snake pupils angrily scanned the annoying insect-like corpses around it.
But for some reason, its deadly gaze, which was always effective, lost its effect in front of these corpses.
The dense army of Inferi pounced on it one after another. Some of the Inferi waved their claws to grab its snake skin and fine scales, some opened their smelly mouths and bit it hard, and some of the Inferi stepped on their companions' bodies, using their hands and feet to climb up along the basilisk's body.
For a moment, the basilisk was covered with infernal corpses, like cheese covered with honey and crawling with dense ants.
“Hiss—”
The basilisk flicked its scarlet tongue and swung its head and tail angrily.
Every time he swung, he could throw away the seven or eight corpses hanging on his body.
But even if those Inferi fell heavily to the ground, causing their limbs to be deformed and their bones to be shattered, they would still open their dislocated bloody mouths and limp towards the basilisk.
And it's not just them, the same goes for the Inferi still hanging on the basilisk.
Even though their nails were cracked and their teeth were broken, they still attacked the basilisk greedily and madly.
The basilisk's scales are very powerful. They can deflect spells and defend against ordinary swords, but it has just shed its skin, and the scales on many parts of its body have not yet grown.
Although the attacks of the Yin Corpses are weak, they have no taboos and dare to attack anywhere, and they are omnipresent.
Finally, as one of the Inferi attacked a certain part of the body, the struggling basilisk let out a shrill scream that even Ander could hear.
Afterwards, the furious basilisk fell into madness, twisting its body wildly, constantly shaking off the corpses on its body. The rapidly wriggling snake body was like an Indian train full of passengers, crashing around in the open space of the palace.
As the basilisk passed a stone pillar, Ender, riding on the back of the grizzly bear, waved his wand.
“Shattered into pieces!”
“Shattered into pieces!”
In an instant, two white spells shot towards the stone pillar beside the basilisk, hitting the upper and lower ends of the pillar respectively.
The thick stone pillar immediately broke from the position he had prepared in advance, and smashed heavily into the basilisk with a whistling airflow.
"boom!!"
With a loud bang, the broken stone pillar hit the basilisk's tail hard and instantly broke into several pieces due to inertia.
Although this attack smashed many of the Inferi hanging on the basilisk into meat paste, it also caused real damage to the basilisk.
The basilisk's huge head and the entire front half of its body were raised high, and it let out an angry and painful hiss.
Ander controlled the grizzly bear under him to leap backwards, avoiding the falling rubble, and came to Fana.
"What's wrong with you? Are you not ready yet?"
Ender asked loudly, frowning.
Fana was also in a state of distress because for some reason, the rooster she brought stopped crowing.
No matter how she stimulated it, the rooster refused to open its mouth, let alone make a fatal cry to the basilisk.
Ender frowned and guessed, "Could it be that Salazar Slantherin left behind a backup plan?"
"Forget it!" Ender shook his head. "Never mind it. Just use the rooster's crowing sound you recorded in advance. Anyway, this guy is much weaker than I thought. Even without the rooster's crowing, we can still defeat it!"
"……Oh well!"
Fana nodded, threw away the attack in her arms, and took out two large speakers instead.
At the same time, the furious basilisk finally pulled its tail out from under the stone pillar, and it seemed to have found the culprit. Its bright yellow snake eyes were fixed on Ander and Fana not far away.
Just as it was about to charge towards the army of corpses, the loud crowing of a rooster suddenly sounded, echoing in the empty palace.
Hearing the voice of its natural enemy, the basilisk's huge body, which was originally crawling, stood up instantly. Its scales and snake skin were stretched taut, and it shook its head in uncertainty, as if it was extremely frightened.
Ander's eyes lit up: "It works!"
Fana shook her head, as if she was a little disappointed. "According to the description in the original book, the basilisk will flee in panic when it hears the crowing of a rooster, otherwise it will lose its life in convulsions. But now looking at this guy's reaction, the effect of the rooster's crowing has obviously weakened..."
Ander smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. It's a good thing if it works. Leave the rest to me!"
Before he could finish his words, several gray figures suddenly attacked from both sides of the basilisk.
The sharp claws filled with corpse poison were like a sharp blade, instantly scratching the basilisk's left eye.
The basilisk hissed in pain, and several gray shadows nimbly landed on the ground, staring at the basilisk with sharp teeth bared. They were the gray wolf corpses waiting for an opportunity to attack the basilisk.
And on the pile of rubble behind the basilisk, more gray wolf corpses quietly appeared.
Ender looked down at the scene through the bat's vision and chuckled, "Very good, you interfere and I'll take the lead. This boss will be defeated soon!"