Chapter 166: Potion of Despair
After hearing what Kreacher said, Regulus knew that he had to drink the potion in order to get the things in the basin.
His hands trembled slightly. He glanced at the spoon beside him, scooped up a mouthful of despair potion, and ordered Kreacher, "No matter what happens later, you have to let me finish this potion."
"No! Kreacher cannot hurt the Master!"
Kreacher had drunk these potions and knew how terrible they were.
"This is my order. No matter what happens, you must make me drink it." Regulus said with a serious expression.
Kreacher's tears and snot were all mixed up, but he was finally forced to agree to this under Regulus's order.
The moment Regulus drank the potion of despair, he felt cold all over, his face turned pale as paper, and his whole body began to tremble. His mind began to recall some terrible memories.
He took another sip. Under the double torture of body and mind, he began to sweat profusely.
When Kreacher saw his appearance, he cried in pain and fed the despair potion into his mouth as he ordered.
I don't know how long it took, but the water in the stone basin finally disappeared, revealing something at the bottom.
It is a quaint pendant.
This is the Dark Lord's stuff.
Regulus no longer had the strength to move. His throat felt like it was burning. He wanted to crawl to the shore to drink water, but his clothes were soaked with sweat.
"Kreacher, take this thing away and destroy it."
He gave Kreacher instructions weakly.
With tears in his eyes, Kreacher took out the pendant necklace from the stone basin and did not leave.
Regulus took off the pendant from his neck, used a Transfiguration spell to create an identical pendant box and placed it in the stone basin.
The pendant inside the stone plate disappeared, and the despair potion was used to cover it.
After doing all this, Regulus had no strength left.
The Inferi under the lake seemed to have noticed his weakness and began to climb toward the shore, trying to pull Regulus into the water.
Regulus grabbed his wand and fired spells at the approaching Inferi, but there was no way to repel them.
"Kreacher, take the necklace and get out of here."
Seeing that Kreacher was also caught by the Inferi and dragged into the water, Regulus gave him orders.
After saying this, he was dragged into the water by the Yin corpses. The Yin corpses tightly strangled his hands, feet and neck, and dragged him to the depths of the lake.
The cold lake water poured into my mouth and nose. The burning sensation in my throat did not ease at all. I felt a strong sense of suffocation and it seemed as if the air in my lungs was squeezed out.
He struggled desperately and kept falling down.
It seemed as if the world was left with only endless darkness and biting cold.
Fear followed him like a shadow, tightly wrapped around every nerve in his body.
The scene before my eyes grew darker and darker.
Is death so scary?
Past memories flashed through his mind like a projector, finally stopping at the day when he and Sirius had a quarrel.
At the moment when his consciousness was about to fade away, he saw a fiery red light burning towards him.
Was it the messenger sent by Merlin who came to pick him up?
Regulus thought vaguely.
The next second, the flame passed through him and burned all the corpses around him at the bottom of the lake to ashes.
A figure swam towards him, grabbed his collar, and swam above the lake.
Regulus' eyes were dazed and he wanted to open his mouth to speak, but the next second the lake water poured into his mouth again.
Jiang Li pulled him by the collar, pulled him to the shore, patted his cheek, and asked, "Are you okay?"
Seeing that he had no reaction, Jiang Li took out all the potions that could restore his spirit and stuffed them directly into his mouth.
A few seconds later, Regulus regained consciousness, his entire body filled with burning pain and an extreme thirst.
He grabbed Jiang Li's hand and begged, "Water, give me water!"
Jiang Li didn't say anything. Regulus seemed unable to bear the thirst and crawled to the shore to drink water.
The corpses below were getting restless and wanted to pull him up.
"The God of Fire leads the way."
She grabbed Regulus by the collar and pulled him back from the lake.
Flames rose up into the sky, surging heat waves hit the face, the red flames illuminated everything, and burned until the lake water boiled.
The corpses didn't even have time to let out a shrill scream before they disappeared in the flames.
Regulus looked at this scene, his pupils slightly dilated, the light of the flames reflected on his face, full of shock.
Jiang Li hugged Regulus with one hand, picked up the unconscious Kreacher, and Apparated away from here.
She took both Regulus and Kreacher to their rooms at Hogwarts.
"Who are you? Why do you want to save me?"
Regulus made a hoarse sound, his face turned blue, he had no strength left in his body, and his internal organs felt like they were being burned.
"Water, please give me water."
He murmured in pain, not knowing whether his body was soaked by the sweat or the lake water.
Like a person who has been thirsty in the desert for a long time.
Seeing this, Jiang Li knew that he was poisoned, but he didn't know what kind of poison it was.
Jiang Li picked him up, put him in the bathtub in the bathroom, turned on the shower head, and let him soak in the water to reduce his pain.
Afraid that he didn't have the strength to support himself, Jiang Li considerately placed a small stool for him to hold on to.
There was a sound of a door opening outside.
Jiang Li immediately went out with his wand and saw Snape walking in.
"You've come just in time. Please help him take a look at what's going on."
She was just about to go to the Slytherin dormitory to get Snape to help Regulus, but unexpectedly he showed up.
Before Snape could say anything, Jiang Li pulled him into the bathroom, where he saw Regulus lying in the bathtub with a pale face.
The expression on his face immediately became serious and he stepped forward to examine Regulus.
Jiang Li told Snape what had just happened, and then asked in surprise: "Didn't you go back to the dormitory? Why are you here again?"
Snape took out a potion to ease Regulus' pain, and replied slowly, "When I saw you suddenly disappear just now, I guessed what happened, so I wanted to come here and wait for you to come back."
Hearing this, Jiang Li suddenly realized and pinched Regulus' mouth. Snape opened the potion very quickly and poured it into his mouth. He pinched Regulus' mouth and made him swallow the potion.
The two of them cooperated very well.
Regulus: "..."
Although he is very weak now, it is no problem for him to open his mouth to drink medicine, so there is no need to pick his mouth.
"who are you?"
He asked Jiang Li weakly.
It was this person who just appeared in front of him and saved him from countless zombies.
Seeing his confusion, Jiang Li changed back to his own appearance, smiled gently at Regulus and said, "I am Gardenia."
Seeing this familiar face, Regulus couldn't help but shed a tear, his face full of shock.
"You're not dead?"
Hearing this, Jiang Li turned to Snape and asked in surprise: "Didn't you tell him that I'm still alive?"