"Who am I? Where am I?"

"Did I see this tree just now?"

"Why did the forest path we promised disappear just as we were walking?!"

Elena looked blankly at the dense forest around her that looked similar to before. Except that the ground seemed to be slightly tilted downwards, the trees were still as lush as before, and there was no sign of them leaving the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts.

That's right, she got lost again.

Faced with this familiar feeling, Elena's heart was completely calm, even a little...

(╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻

Who the hell can still laugh when they are about to starve to death! Hundan!

At the beginning, she did chase the two unicorns in the direction where they disappeared.

However, after only a minute or two of chasing, Elena instantly realized a problem. With her short legs, it was still a bit unrealistic to chase those lively [Scottish One-Horned Aries] in the dense forest.

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Fortunately, just as she was about to return the same way, she saw a vague forest path.

Recall this tip from Hogwarts Gamekeeper Rubeus Hagrid:

"When you walk in the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts, as long as you don't deviate from the path, it's usually difficult to get lost and you won't encounter any danger."

Therefore, Elena decisively gave up the Unicorn Plan and chose [Plan B] - to follow the teachings of the elders and find the path automatically.

But every path a person takes always has a starting point and an ending point.

At worst, if you walk a little in both directions, you can always successfully return to the entrance to the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts. If you are lucky, you will succeed once. If you are not lucky, you will just try one more time.

However, the premise for this is...

This path must be the path taken by mankind...

Looking at the poop of unknown magical animals and the scattered footprints in front of her, the corner of Elena's mouth twitched.

Only then did she suddenly realize an important issue - judging from the frequency of human wizards' activities in the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts, most of the vague forest paths in the Forbidden Forest are usually not the place where human activities occur.

The footprints left behind.

"Don't panic, it's not a big problem, just go back the way you came."

Elena exhaled calmly, narrowed her eyes slightly, and tried to distinguish her own footprints on the ground illuminated by the wand. However, with her current size and weight, she could not leave any traces in this dense primitive jungle.

What obvious traces.

After she stopped and turned around a few times, she couldn't even tell which direction she was coming from.

"So hungry→So hungry↗So hungry↘I'm really hungry↓..."

Elena hummed softly, gradually calmed down, and thought carefully.

There are various groups of magical animals living in the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts. Most of them have a certain degree of intelligence. As long as they encounter any of these creatures, most of them can find a way to communicate well and let them help lead the way.

She may not be able to see the legendary Thestrals, but in addition, there are unicorns, trolls, hippogriffs and other species that can communicate. Of course, the most ideal among them is one with a complete social system.

Horse tribe.

At this moment, Elena suddenly heard a strange rustling sound coming from a place on the left, roughly ten feet above the ground, as if something was touching the branches and leaves in the forest, accompanied by

There is a clicking sound.

In fact, these sounds are not obvious, and most of them are mixed with the wind in the Forbidden Forest.

However, for some reason, it sounded particularly abrupt to Elena's ears, like ripples suddenly blooming in the calm water. She even roughly sketched the size of the other party in her mind for the first time.

"Hi, Good Evening."

Before the opponent could pounce down from the sky, Elena turned around first, raised her wand and said with a smile.

"Dear... Mr. Spider."

This is a giant spider that is as big as a horse pulling a cart. It has eight ridiculously long, hairy long legs. The front two legs are a pair of large shiny black claws. It emits a burst of sound when it opens and closes.

A faint clicking sound.

There is no doubt that this is a specialty of the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts, the Acromantula tribe.

Facing the wand that was so close at hand, the spider that had quietly lurked to the upper left of Elena and was about to pounce down suddenly froze, and a hint of fear flashed in its eight terrifying black eyes.

As a magical creature living around Hogwarts Castle, it is well aware of the power of these human wizards - even if it is a human cub, it is quite a terrifying threat when her wand is aimed at it.

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The most important thing is that it can vaguely sense the malice hidden in the little thing in front of it.

"Hello, would you like to know how to get to Hogwarts Castle..."

Elena's eyes were firmly fixed on the big furry spider in front of her, without any fear. Every experienced hunter knows that when facing an unknown creature in the jungle, turning around and running away is always the worst thing.

options.

When you have a firearm in your hand, calmly locking onto the opponent is the most correct option.

For wizards, the magic wand also has the same effect - powerful impact and lethality, which will repel all ungrateful beasts at the first time. Humans walking upright are giants from the perspective of most animals.

In fact, if the opponent is a creature that has never eaten humans, the result of this confrontation is usually...

"Hey! Don't run away! They're all petrified!"

Elena shouted anxiously, and quickly followed the fleeing spider. The wand in her hand occasionally cast spells, trying to keep the Acromantula behind and ask questions.

road.

She has already lost a unicorn once. If she misses the big spider she finally encountered again, she doesn't know when she will be lucky enough to encounter a living magical animal again. After all, the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts is really too big.

Big.

Compared with the previous failed chase, this chase process was obviously much easier.

Although the big spider relied on its eight long legs to easily throw Elena away, the gradually changing environment around it became the most eye-catching signpost, guiding Elena to continue moving forward.

As the girl moved forward, the ground was gradually sloping downwards, and the surrounding trees became sparser and sparse. Many tree trunks showed an unhealthy gray color, as if they had been eroded by some pests, and the branches and leaves were covered with white spiders.

net.

After chasing for about five or six minutes, Elena came to the edge of a wide depression.

The trees that were originally in the depression have been cleared away, and a few spiders crawl from time to time on the ground covered with thick fallen leaves. When you step on it, you feel like walking on a thick carpet in a common room. In the center of the depression under the starlight,

It is a terrifying sight that is enough to scare most people.

spider.

They are not like the common little spiders that crawl away in a hurry, but each one seems to be the size of a domestic pig, with eight eyes and eight legs, dark and hairy, and waving its big black claws and clicking.

The clicking Acromantula.

What a huge group of people...

Elena narrowed her eyes, glanced around at the densely packed giant spiders in the depression, and shook her head with sigh.

Biological invasion, even in the magical world, is indeed a problem that cannot be ignored.

According to the records in "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", the Acromantula is a huge, ferocious spider; an adult spider's legs stretch to both sides, and the span can reach fifteen feet. It is a high-risk carnivorous magical creature with certain intelligence.

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The most important thing is that a female Acromantula can lay up to a hundred eggs at a time, and the hatching time only takes less than three months - the Acromantula group in the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts lives a life of

For nearly fifty years, if it were replaced by an ordinary primitive jungle, there might be only overflowing giant spiders left in the forest.

The giant spider that escaped from Elena was now a little bit below the steep slope, next to a misty hemispherical giant spider web in the center of the depression. Its companions surrounded it, and the movers made noises to each other.

There was a clicking sound, as if they were whispering something.

Accompanied by the "complaints" of the giant spiders (as Elena guessed), the Acromantulas turned around one after another, their eight fierce black compound eyes looking up and down at the little human witch who appeared on the edge of the depression, exuding

An increasingly unsettling atmosphere, and the only thing stopping them from attacking is...

"People! Aragog! People!"

Elena vaguely heard such a sound from the noisy opening and closing of large claws not far away.

Obviously, as a community of magical animals with strict hierarchies, the elders really need to make decisions when facing such unexpected situations, and this is exactly in line with Elena's appeal - she just came to find a guide.

Soon, a giant Acromantula the size of a small elephant emerged from the misty hemispheric spider web. Its body and legs were black with gray, and each of the spiders on its ugly head with big pincers

His eyes were covered with a layer of white haze.

There is no doubt that this is the pet [Aragog] kept by Hagrid, and he is blind.

"What's going on?" Aragog said, his two large claws moving rapidly.

Compared with those ordinary Acromantulas, its voice is much clearer and thicker than those of small spiders.

"People! Aragog! People!"

The spiders gathered around Aragog excitedly waved their large claws, making clicking sounds, and pointed at the little silver-haired witch standing in a daze at the edge of the depression.

"Is it Hagrid?" Aragog shook his big claws in confusion, and his eight milky white eyes looked blankly.
To be continued...