"Crack."
With a soft click of the metal buckle, Ginny flipped the trapdoor to one side, revealing a staircase sloping downward.
"Let's go down and have a look."
After turning back and exchanging glances with Hannah and the others, Ginny took out her wand and carefully walked toward the slightly narrow underground stairs.
Since Sarah specifically said not to let them come over before she left, she always had her reasons, and there was nothing wrong with being more cautious.
But then again, if Luna really sneaked in here after reminding everyone not to go near Sarah's room -
"I hope she's okay... Then, when we find her this time, we have to let Hermione talk about her!"
Ginny, who was walking at the front, was saying this, but unexpectedly, the stairs were actually very short. Soon she found that there was no way ahead, and instead there was a closed door. On the way down, there wasn't even a corner, it went straight to the door.
"The Alajo hole opens."
Since she couldn't find anything like a handle on the door, Ginny thought for a while and tried to use an unlocking spell. Who knows, this door seemed to have no protective magic at all and was simply opened.
only…
"oh!"
The moment the door opened automatically, dazzling light suddenly overflowed from the crack in the door. Because the passage outside was originally dark, such a strong and sudden light immediately made everyone involuntarily shine. He covered his eyes, which were so painful from the flash, and shouted softly.
Fortunately, during the period when they were unable to see, no one or thing attacked them from behind the opened door. Otherwise, no matter how short the time of losing vision is, it will undoubtedly be a very terrible thing.
"What kind of light is this? Everyone, step back...wait, is there no one?"
Ginny said, but soon found that she was not attacked even though she was standing at the front. But... Although it was a good thing that there was no enemy movement, she immediately realized that it seemed that even Luna was not here
"Luna?"
She called out again tentatively, but unfortunately she still didn't get a response. Could it be that they guessed wrong from the beginning and Luna didn't actually come to Sarah's room at all
In order to open her eyes as soon as possible for confirmation, Ginny narrowed her eyes to two slits and tried to adapt to the inexplicable light in this room little by little.
After a while, she finally managed to open her eyes with tears in her eyes, and quickly glanced around the small basement in front of her.
The neat and unadorned walls, a magic lantern in each corner - this dazzling light that can almost blind people comes from them. What is worth mentioning is that there is a tangle of golden chains hanging in the middle, and... Ginny and Hannah behind her saw Luna lying on the ground next to the padlock chain!
"Luna!"
Although my eyes haven't fully adapted to the brightness here, and the tears that were illuminated were in my eyes, the entire field of vision is still very blurry. But seeing that Luna was indeed here, and seemed to have fainted, they naturally couldn't care less, and hurriedly rushed into the door and squatted down next to Luna.
"Luna... wake up! Are you okay... Luna?"
"careful-"
Ron, who followed closely behind, suddenly saw a black light flying out of the diagonal direction, and it was about to go straight to Ginny's neck. Because the distance was too close and the speed was too fast, he only had time to warn, but he couldn't even help him so close.
But before Ginny even figured out what happened, everyone suddenly heard another voice in the small basement.
"Stop... you can't."
Luna, who was being held in Ginny's arms, still had her eyes slightly closed. She just moved her lips and squeezed out such an almost inaudible sentence from her throat.
However, it was her slightly unclear words that made the narrow black shadow in Ron's field of vision suddenly stop at the back of Ginny's neck - it was a very familiar pure black curved blade. .
And then, he saw the sharp blade leave Ginny's neck silently, and quickly retracted into a small, slightly thin, but real shadow.
Obviously, because so many people came into this small space, the shadows that were originally covered and cleared by multiple light sources finally appeared again.
Just when Ron looked at the thin shadow and was a little dazed, he saw Luna in Ginny's arms speaking again.
"Don't worry, it's very well-behaved. It's just a little stupid. It thinks you want to hurt me..."
"'It'?" Ginny didn't see the black blade from beginning to end and only knew what danger seemed to have happened just now. She looked down at Luna with some confusion and asked, "Who is 'It'?" ?Also, why are you here?"
After hearing this, Luna slowly opened her eyes, smiled at Ginny and said:
"'It' is 'it'! A little guy locked here... Oh, I just think it's so pitiful."
She might be in a bad state, or she might just have just woken up from a coma, and her consciousness was obviously still a little unclear. This was said so confusingly that Ginny didn't understand it at all.
But it doesn't matter, as long as you know there is actually no danger here, that's enough.
"Anyway, you're okay, right?" Ginny checked Luna's body up and down again, and found that at least there were no injuries on the surface, and then said, "Let's go out first! Here... the light is too dazzling, and We obviously can't let you lie here anymore."
"No, wait, Ginny."
Suddenly, Ron from behind finally spoke:
"I know! That was the shadow monster that attacked us on the road! No wonder this place is so bright... Luna, you... can you tell me what's going on first?"
Ron can be said to have a clear memory of that enemy hiding in the shadows who was so unpredictable - not only was he extremely fast and had powerful concealment capabilities, but Hermione's gravity trap and even Harry's Sword of Gryffindor were ineffective against him. .
This kind of enemy is simply too evil and terrifying!
But after Luna heard this, she quickly shook her head again and said in a sleepy voice:
"It's okay... it won't do bad things now... it is now... my friend. I also gave it a name, just... 'Shabow'... "
As soon as she finished speaking, Luna fell asleep completely.