Sherlock's face was a little confused when he listened to the three messages she read.

"What does this mean?"

Shilk cleaned up the playing cards on the table and left a square eight.

"A location in the castle, as I said yesterday, was meant to let us find it. It had no interest in these students in Hogwarts, and had no other ideas. It was just to find you."

"But if it was just revenge, it shouldn't be so anxious." She said softly, with a slight confusion in her voice.

Sherlock has no idea of ​​exploring the attempts and purposes of the straw man. The most important thing now is to solve the problem before the matter has expanded and the news has been spread.

This year is not like the year when the secret room was opened. If the school is finally closed, the consequences will undoubtedly be even more serious.

"Number eight..." Sherlock picked up the playing card left by Shilk, pinched his chin and looked at it, "What may this mean? Time? No. 8 or 8 o'clock? Or the location? The eighth classroom? The eighth floor? Or the eighth tower?"

In terms of puzzle solving, Shilk has much richer experience than Sherlock.

"The possibility of time is very small. If it indicates the eighth or eight o'clock, it will not be able to connect with the clues behind it. White and a hidden room indicate the possibility of location."

With Shilk pointing out the general direction, they will have a goal after investigation.

Sherlock had two sixth-grade classes in the morning, so in order to leave time, he had to ask Moody to help him. Because the professor's arithmetic divination class was only allowed to take elective courses in the third grade, her workload was much easier than Sherlock. Even if there were classes today, she could temporarily transfer to other time.

They came to the first floor of the castle and started looking for it from the eighth classroom. According to the eighth classroom they encountered after entering the castle, they found a small empty classroom in this way.

But this room is very ordinary, not even a seat or bench. It looks like a magic potion class classroom that is occasionally used. Sherlock and the others checked every corner here, but nothing was discovered.

"The eighth classroom is wrong, maybe it is the eighth floor? But this range is a bit too large, right? There are many classrooms and offices on that whole floor. I remember Felch also found two rooms there to be used as utility rooms."

Sherlock and Shilk said with a headache while walking along the stairs to the eighth floor.

But Shilk did not show any entangled expression on his face like him. She was not too worried about answering prophecies, which had become a habit.

"There is a great possibility to represent the eighth floor, because there are three prompts, and the number eight is just the first prompt. The wider the range it represents, the more likely it is to be the answer, because the next two prompts can play a streamlined role. All the results obtained by predictions are never useless. If you ignore any of the details, the final results are often very different."

"There are still students in class. Do we need to find one classroom after another?"

Shilk turned his head and looked at Sherlock with his eyes blindfolded by a black ribbon.

"Are you not good at ease?"

Sherlock touched his forehead.

"Well, I admit that I lacked some patience because I couldn't predict what would happen if the student had continued to do nightmare, after all, it used to kill people without any scruples."

"Don't look for one classroom or another, pay attention to the two messages behind, white and a hidden house."

Shilk could see that Sherlock was a little concerned and confused. He had been teaching in this castle for the third year and had long had feelings for Hogwarts.

That's why she needs to be calmer.

She looked at the decorations around the castle. As a castle that had been built in the tenth century, even after many renovations and renovations, the walls in Hogwarts were still not painted or painted, and they were always the original color of stone.

It is so gray that even if the sun shines in, it will give people a unique sense of depression when staying in the castle.

Most of the decorative paintings hanging on the walls are oil paintings and portraits, with rich colors, including short knights riding horses and clamoring, noble ladies holding cats and smiling, and monks holding crosses compassionately.

It is difficult to find information related to white, not only the walls but also the decorative paintings.

So the second prompt "white" should be the most important.

According to Shilk's previous experience in decrypting prophecies, the number eight determines a large range, and white obviously needs to determine a clear direction in this range, and the last prompt is to directly indicate the answer itself.

"You have been in Hogwarts for longer than I do. Do you know what paintings or walls are in the main color of the eighth floor?"

With such a clear hint, Sherlock thought of a painting after just thinking for a moment.

"There is a trolley stick to play Barnabas' tapestry! That Barnabas was wearing a white ballet tutu, and the theme of the tapestry was white."

"Where are we going!"

Soon, they arrived in front of the tapestry.

This is a very humorous tapestry painting. Barnabas in a ballet tutu seemed to want to teach the trolls to dance, but the trolls raised the wooden stick in his hand high to knock on his head.

Barnabas in the painting looked very embarrassed. When Sherlock and Shilk came here, the giant monster holding the wooden stick turned his eyes to them, staring at them and puffing his nostrils.

Of course, Sherlock was not in the mood to pay attention to the monsters in the portrait. He looked around the tapestries. He might not think anything was wrong if he didn't pay attention to it, but now when he came here specifically, he would find something wrong.

Opposite the tapestry, there is a wall that looks a little abrupt. This wall is very ordinary and is no different from other walls of the castle, but its location is somewhat incorrect.

This place is neither the end of the corridor nor the corner of the stairs. Leaving such a place seems a lot of extravagance.

Although there are many such extra places in Hogwarts Castle, the walls will be simply hung with a few moving paintings to decorate them, or simply place a statue directly.

The wall was blank and there was nothing on it, just like leaving such a place deliberately.

Sherlock frowned and looked at the wall opposite the tapestry, muttering the last prompt.
Chapter completed!