Chapter 164 You are its keeper
The moment Snape raised his wand, Jiang Li immediately held his hand and said gently, "Don't be afraid, Ella won't hurt you."
Snape stared into Jiang Li's eyes quietly and slowly put down his wand.
Out of trust in Jiang Li, Snape did not launch an attack rashly, but the moment the basilisk approached, his hair stood on end and every cell in his body screamed of danger.
The cold snake body with a moist breath slid across his fingers.
The only source of warmth came from Jiang Li's hand.
The huge snake head rubbed against Snape to show its friendliness.
Snape was frozen in place, motionless.
He was afraid that he would not be able to resist attacking the basilisk, until the basilisk slowly moved to another place and his tense muscles relaxed.
"It's too dangerous and not suitable to stay in Hogwarts. It will hurt other students." Snape said in a deep voice.
"Don't worry, I will take care of this."
Jiang Li gave Snape a reassuring look.
I can't feel relieved at all.
Seeing Jiang Li so confident, Snape felt that nothing good would happen next.
The basilisk is too big and it is not convenient to take it out. I guess as soon as it gets out of here, it will be hit by countless spells. It still needs to change its image.
Jiang Li took out a brush from his bracelet, dipped it in the basilisk's blood, and began to draw a magic circle on the ground, occasionally mixing in some magic paints he made.
After finishing the painting, she said to the serpent monster that had curled up like a hill:
"Ella, come here."
Hearing her voice, Ella slowly swam to the center of the magic circle.
After she stood up, Jiang Li directly activated the magic circle.
The complex magic array lit up in an instant, and the magic power of the blue light was like countless thin threads, enveloping the huge snake monster and wrapping it like a dumpling.
As the thin line tightened, the basilisk's body became smaller and smaller, and finally its body became as thick as a finger, and the light of the magic circle gradually disappeared.
Jiang Li shouted at the basilisk.
"Ella, come over to my side."
Ella heard her voice and immediately swam quickly towards Jiang Li, following her fingers that were wrapped around his wrist.
The originally scary snake monster became smaller and looked very cute.
Jiang Li took out a pair of sunglasses from the bracelet, waved his wand to make it the right size, and put it on Ella's eyes.
The small snake head is wearing a pair of tiny sunglasses, which is a bit strange and a bit cute.
"Look, isn't Ella really cute?"
Jiang Li walked to Snape and handed the basilisk wrapped around his hand to Snape as if he was offering a treasure.
Snape didn't know what to say.
However, the current appearance of the basilisk can indeed make people relax their vigilance.
"Not bad." He answered against his will.
This is a basilisk. Even if it becomes smaller, it still poses a huge safety hazard.
He is not as carefree as Jiang Li.
The next second, Jiang Li grabbed his hand and wrapped Ella around his wrist.
Snape's face changed slightly and he tried to shake it off.
Jiang Li held his hand tightly and ordered Ella who was wrapped around Snape's hand:
"From today on, your mission is to protect Severus' safety. He will be responsible for your food and drink. You must listen to him and are not allowed to hurt anyone without his permission."
"Is he my friend?"
The small snake wrapped around Snape's hand hissed.
"Yes, so you have to protect him."
Jiang Li stretched out an index finger and gently rubbed the little snake's head.
"it is good"
Snape looked at the conversation between Jiang Li and the basilisk with a complicated expression.
"I have already talked to Ella. It won't hurt you. You just need to feed it some when you eat every day." Jiang Li said to Snape.
Snape looked at Jiang Li deeply, then looked down at the inconspicuous basilisk wrapped around his wrist.
"Okay, I'll take care of it."
He didn't believe in this basilisk, but he believed that Jiang Li would not harm him.
Hearing this, Jiang Li was a little surprised.
Seeing how Snape was resisting the basilisk, she thought it would take some persuasion to get him to agree, but she didn't expect it to be so smooth.
"Ella said she likes barbecue. You can feed her some barbecue." Jiang Li conveyed.
In the past, basilisks caught and ate their prey in the sewers, and they ate raw meat.
Just now, Jiang Li threw a roasted chicken into its mouth, which instantly amazed Ella.
It turns out the food is so delicious. What a hard life she had lived before.
When the two came out of the secret room, Myrtle was still holding a box of cookies, sitting on the sink in the bathroom, stuffing them into her mouth nervously while looking around vigilantly.
When he saw Jiang Li and Snape coming out, he immediately floated over.
"You two are not dead!"
Her voice was a little sharp, and then she walked around Jiang Li in surprise, looking left and right. When she saw the basilisk in Snape's hand, she screamed instantly.
"What the hell is that? Why is there a monster wrapped around your hand?!"
Myrtle screamed and ran through the wall and disappeared.
Jiang Li lowered his head and asked the basilisk: "Did you do anything to her before?"
"I don't remember, but it seems like someone asked me to take a look at her."
Ayla hissed in reply.
Snape, who was standing next to him, was lost in thought as he watched Jiang Li talking to the basilisk.
He remembered that Jiang Li needed to use a Parseltongue translator at first to understand the basilisk's words, but now it seems that he doesn't need it anymore.
Seeing that he looked very confused, Jiang Li explained to him that he planned to modify the Parseltongue translation for Snape later.
After all, Snape will be the keeper of the basilisk from now on.
Originally, Jiang Li wanted to skin the basilisk and use it as alchemical material, but after seeing Snape almost being smashed to death by the basilisk during a fight, he felt that he still needed a meat shield to protect him.
The basilisk is pretty good. It looks thick-skinned and tough. When Snape fights in the future, it can stand by and block damage. It is much more useful than the protective necklace she made.
Jiang Li felt that he was really worried about his weak fiancé.
And she was very concerned about the prophetic scene she had seen from Nick Flamel before.
"Mrs. Norris, who's there?"
Filch's voice sounded from outside the bathroom.
Jiang Li and Snape immediately used the Disillusionment Charm.
Outside the bathroom, Mrs. Norris's hair stood up, as if she had sensed something horrible, and she kept breathing into the room.
Filch had never seen Mrs. Norris like this before.
He stroked Mrs. Norris and soothed her softly, "Are there any students wandering around at night?"
Mrs. Norris kept breathing towards the bathroom until she realized the danger was gone, and then her blown-up hair returned to normal.
Jiang Li appeared in another corridor holding Snape's hand.
He was very happy to see that he did not teleport out of the range of Hogwarts this time.
It seems that her teleportation accuracy has increased a bit.
The little basilisk wrapped around Snape's hand was wearing miniature sunglasses and curiously poked its head out of the sleeves of its robes.
It has never seen the scenery outside.
Although it couldn't see clearly because of the sunglasses, it felt that the air here was different, with the smell of flowers, soil, and living people.