Hogwarts: Capturing Nagini at the Beginning

Chapter 158: If you like the old woman with dead tree bark, go to her yourself!

This time, Luo Bin's eyes no longer followed the bell. Instead, he leisurely tasted apple cider vinegar-flavored boiled water.

Occasionally, he would close his eyes and smell the aroma on the water.

About three minutes later, James put his hands on both sides of the black iron plate and asked, "Guess where the ball is hidden?"

Robin rolled up his sleeves and pointed his index finger to the leftmost bell. James raised his eyebrows in surprise. Robin moved his index finger and pointed to the middle bell. James curled up his upper lip. Robin moved his index finger again and pointed to the rightmost bell. The bell rang, James looked confused.

"Young man, which bell do you want to choose?"

"Choose neither."

Before James could react, Robin grabbed his left wrist and used force to pull out the white fur ball from his sleeve that was used to 'hide and seek'.

Luo Bin clenched the fur ball tightly and waved it behind him. The face of the riveted jacket witch suddenly turned livid.

"How do you know the ball is in my sleeve?" James asked dumbly.

"I'm confused!" Luo Bin said sullenly without changing his expression.

Speaking of which, I have to thank the bartender. If he hadn't come to bring him apple cider vinegar-flavored warm water, Luo Bin wouldn't have been able to figure out how to identify where the hair ball was hidden by relying on the scent of gardenia.

However, he had just recalled the conversation between the two several times before confirming that the tall wizard had never said that the hiding place of the hair ball was limited to three bells.

Luo Bin picked up the gilly bag and was about to leave the bar. James, who was unwilling to do so, stretched out his hand to stop him.

"What?" Luo Bin asked.

"One more try. If you guess correctly, I will give you a treasure. If you guess incorrectly, you will stand on the pillar and provide fun for everyone."

Luo Bin: (￢д￢.), this girl is a pervert, she likes old women with dead tree bark, why don’t you go there yourself?

Luo Bin put the gillyweed into the cloth bag, sat back on the high stool, and said: "If you hide the ball in your leather boots, I don't want to be an accomplice in releasing poisonous gas."

After hearing this, the corner of James's mouth twitched several times, "In this case, I won't use any tricks, and I will just rely on my hand speed to beat you. The ball is only hidden in the bells. When I stop spinning, guess which bell it is in." That’s it, if you guess correctly, you win; if you guess incorrectly, you lose.”

James was excited, spoke faster, and kept rubbing the iron plate with his fingertips. This was like scratching his head instead of taking a gamble!
  The initiative went to Luo Bin. He took a sip of apple cider vinegar flavored water and said calmly: "You can have another one, but the bet needs to be changed. If I win, you stand next to the pillar. Asking for a kiss from that pouty old woman, I lost, too. Do you dare to make this bet?"

"Ask me if I dare, who am I looking down on? You weren't even born when I fought against the Salmon sea monster in the Mediterranean! Young man, this time the winner or loser will be decided, so you have to watch carefully."

After saying that, James picked up the bell in the middle, placed the white fur ball on the black iron plate, and covered the ball with the bell in his hand to show that he was not doing anything.

Then, his two pairs of big hands were like the blades of an electric fan turned to the third gear, so fast that even the afterimage could not be caught.

Three minutes later, James hid his trembling hands under the bar and said, "Guess which bell the ball is on?"

Luo Bin smiled but didn't answer, and reached out to take away the bell on the far left. The white fur ball made James' eyes hurt.

"Mr. Kayden, please!"

Luo Bin put back the bell, looked at the load-bearing column and said.

Willing to admit defeat, no matter how reluctant the merchant was, he still walked under the mistletoe ribbon like the handsome young man before.

He shouted loudly: "I, James Caden, am willing to admit defeat. That witch with gray hair and a mole at the corner of her mouth. Am I willing to be the last person to kiss me this year?"

"I do." The old woman left the table, hunched over and leaning on a cane, staggering towards the pillar. When Luo Bin walked out of the door of the Pig Head Bar, he could still hear the sound of water stains from the fierce fighting inside.

Before going home, Luo Bin planned to stop by Kenziona and ask him how his research on the light purple jellyfish fireworks was going.

At the end of the alley diagonally across from the Pig's Head Bar is the Skunk and Cattail magic weapon shop!

After Luo Bin entered the shop, he found that the owner of the small bar was asleep against the back of his chair. In addition to a ledger, a pen, and an ink bottle, there was an '8'-shaped white cup with a black mark on the bottom on the bar.

Well, if I remember correctly, Dumbledore also had the same '8' cup.

Luo Bin bent over, trying to see what words were engraved on the bottom of the cup. At this moment, the shop owner Kenzio suddenly opened his green eyes, took the cup away and put it under the bar.

"What do you want to do when you come to the store and sit at the bar without picking anything?" Kenzio asked suspiciously.

"emm, I want to wake you up and ask about the progress of the research on light purple jellyfish fireworks. Also, that cup is very nice. Where did you buy it?"

"Buy it? You can't buy it. This cup is a prize I got from participating in the extreme climbing of the snow peak 50 years ago. As for the jellyfish fireworks, I haven't started writing yet."

So, Kenzio and Dumbledore probably knew each other 50 years ago?
  However, more than two months have passed, and the purple fireworks have not been written yet. What the hell are they?

Kenzio noticed Luo Bin's confusion. He bent down and took out a thick stack of documents from under the bar. He pointed to the bottom of the document and said:

"Your list is here. I have to complete it before I can study the purple jellyfish fireworks."

Luo Bin: I believe you, if you want to increase the price, just say so.

"The sacks are over there, and the prices are marked on them. After they're packed, come over to me to pay."

After saying that, he leaned back on the chair and fell asleep holding the thermos.

Luo Bin picked a small sack of S size and activated the magic scanning function as usual. After looking around, he found that in the row with the '1 Galleons' flag, in the large crate next to the horizontal aisle inside, there was something A magic value mark'? ? ? ’ guy.

The last time I encountered this situation was when Kenzio came to sell green waist beads.

Luo Bin walked to the crate and picked up the one marked with '? ? ? ’ round bronze mirror.

This bronze mirror is stained with rust, and its surface is covered with dark golden-brown, hilly-like protrusions, making it impossible to reflect a person's face even if it is illuminated close to the mirror. On the back of the mirror, there are some fish patterns, bird patterns and clouds engraved on it. There are some red and emerald stones whose luster has long been dimmed embedded in the lines.

"Shopkeeper, where did this mirror come from?"

Kenzio didn't even open his eyes to take a look before he said, "I picked it up from the garbage dump."

The bronze mirror and the green waist bead have the same magic value of ‘? ? ? ’, it must be taken.

Luo Bin threw the mirror into the sack and continued to rummage in the crate. After a while, he picked up a black box the size of a quail egg, engraved with the word "invisible" in gold, and opened the lid. There was a small marble-like box inside. Blue opaque beads.

"Shopkeeper, this bead can make people invisible?"

"Of course, you can just put it in your mouth, but it is a semi-defective product that works sometimes and sometimes does not work. Otherwise, it would not stay with the 'junk'. However, each time it becomes invisible, it will definitely last for more than 30 minutes. , and further up, I can’t say for sure.”

Luo Bin pondered for a few seconds, stuffed the beads into the sack, then picked a few more items with slightly higher magic values, checked out the items together, and then turned around and left the main street.

(End of this chapter)