Chapter 22 Grindelwald's Collection

The long spiral staircase was winding and winding. As he stepped on the stone steps, he slowly went down, making a "click-click" sound with every step. 鿿

He stopped suddenly, and the girl behind him was caught off guard and hit his back. She lost her balance instantly and stumbled to the side without a guardrail.

Fortunately, Rolf reached out and hugged Karin's waist in time and pulled her back. The girl's feet went weak and she fell down on the stone steps. She took a few big breaths and said in shock:

"Why did you stop suddenly?"

"There's movement." Rolf whispered.

Karin calmed down her rapid breathing and listened carefully, and sure enough she heard a slight "crunching" sound in the distance.

The girl raised the lamp above her head, and the flickering fireflies illuminated a wider area. She tried her best to look into the darkness, and saw a small manticore appearing.

Then another one! 鿿

Soon, a large group of small manticores shining in dark green followed closely behind, densely covering the entire wall and crawling down quickly.

Karin was overcome by trypophobia when she saw those bugs crawling around. She felt like there were thousands of bugs crawling all over her body, and she couldn't help but scream in surprise.

The group of manticores heard the exclamation and crawled along the stone wall towards Luo Fu and Karin.

The girl wanted to run away and find a place to hide, but Luofu grabbed her arm and comforted her softly:

"Don't be afraid, keep the fireflies in your hands, they won't attack you."

Karin obeyed the boy's words and stood there obediently, but still because of fear, she hugged the boy's elbow tightly, as if this could give her some courage.

As expected, the group of small manticores stopped half a meter away from the two of them. After looking at them for a while, they continued to climb down. 鿿

Karin breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the sweat from her forehead, and asked curiously:

"Where are they crawling to?"

"There is a deep pit at the bottom of this prison. There is a huge manticore living there, and these little manticores are all its children."

Karin looked down, but it was dark below. She didn't see the pit, nor did she see the manticore.

"How did you know?" The girl looked at Rolf in surprise again. He was an Englishman and seemed to know this place well, as if he had been here before.

"I heard what my grandfather said." Rolf explained: "My great-grandfather was once imprisoned in Uxta Prison. My grandfather came here to rob the prison."

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Karin secretly muttered, this family is an ancestral criminal, right?

"Okay, let's continue." Luo Fei raised his legs and walked down again.

They soon reached the lowest level of the prison and walked down a corridor that surrounded a large circular pit on one side and rows of small, damp, stinky cells on the other.

The walkways reeked of rotting food, crawlers were everywhere, and Karin almost stepped on a mouse.

Seeing someone coming down, many criminals stood up and tried to look outside.

Some prisoners were talking, asking Rolf and Karin to come closer; some prisoners were asking loudly what year it was; and some prisoners looked like they were crazy, banging against the fence crazily, their bodies bloody and unwilling to stop, and in the end they were holding on to their hands. He grabbed the fence and cursed the German Ministry of Magic.

There were even more wizards who swore an oath and were willing to be slaves, just asking them to rescue him. 鿿

Luofu paid no attention. He walked and talked, his words echoing softly in the darkness.

"Karin, you must not get close to them. Once these prisoners step out of the cell, they will be attacked by the manticore under the pit.

It was only safe with a firefly light, so they were eager to take it from us. "

Karin nodded thoughtfully.

Along the way, Luofu finally came to a cell. He looked through the iron bars and saw a man lying curled up.

He noticed Luo Fu and Karin, still pretending not to know, but his cold and wandering eyes were watching them quietly.

"Wait for me here, I'll be out in a moment." Luo Fe said. 鿿

Karin looked at the closed cell door and asked, "Do you have the key to the cell?"

"No." Luofu shook his head and said, "You don't need that thing."

"..."

Rolf handed the firefly lamp to Karin, and then his body suddenly shrank like a bird and snake, and slipped in through the gap in the iron fence.

Karin stared at the scene dumbfounded.

After Luo Fe entered the cell, his figure changed again, and he gently covered his nose.

The smell here is as bad as the toilet. Straw that has not been changed for a long time is scattered on the floor, rustling when you step on it. On one side of the wall is a bucket filled with overflowing feces, and on the other side is a wizard huddled in a ball. 鿿

Luofu walked towards the prisoner lying on the ground and was about to check whether he was alive. The prisoner suddenly stood up and rushed towards the young man.

Luofu had already sensed the danger and turned sideways in advance to avoid the insidious pounce. He also raised his foot and kicked towards the prisoner.

The man fell to the ground and knocked over the dung bucket. The dirty and smelly brown mud spread to the ground and was absorbed by the straw.

Rolf looked at the man. He must have been locked up for a long time. He was as thin as a scarecrow, with a mouse face covered by a fluffy beard. His unwashed hair was tangled and hanging down his shoulders. His clothes were in tatters and his face was pale. withered.

The man staggered and turned around, swearing loudly, his eyes burning with anger, saying: "Hand over the firefly lamp!"

Rolf ignored him at all, just looking at the wall, looking for something. Seeing that the boy was distracted, the man rushed over again

Rolf raised his arms, and the man was horrified to find that the iron chain that handcuffed his hands made a rustling sound, and then uncontrollably tightened towards his neck. 鿿

The iron chain wrapped around the man's throat and pulled back violently. He fell to the ground and tried to breathe in air, but he only coughed out a terrifyingly thin hissing sound.

The iron chain dragged the man and slammed him against the wall. Blood gushed out of his head and he fainted on the spot.

Rolf finally found what he wanted. He walked to the corner, leaned over to examine it, and saw the symbol of the Deathly Hallows engraved on a dark brick.

Luo Fu whispered a spell and cut his finger again. Blood flowed on the symbol, as if hot iron touched cold water, making a hissing sound.

The floor tiles began to move and were pushed aside, revealing a passage the size of a person. It was empty and dark, like a stone well in the abyss.

Luo Fu jumped down and soon arrived at a smaller room. He stood in the darkness, but suddenly his hair stood on end, and he felt something staring at him.

He snapped his fingers, and a ball of fire floated in front of him. 鿿

With the weak light of the fire, Luo Fu looked straight into the deepest part of the room and took a step back at the scene in front of him.

He saw a pale, ghostly face, staring at him with lifeless empty eye sockets.

It was a... skull.

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(Thanks to the two big guys "earth, fire, wood, metal" and "二肖小哥" for the reward)

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