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After searching for a long time, he couldn't find it. Verne speculated that the button should have rolled down behind the curtain beside him. It was the light blue curtain surrounding most of the Ravenclaw lounge. There were countless layers of surfaces. He lay down and stretched his hand to hook it in. Unfortunately, he couldn't catch it. He wanted to lift it up but found that it was too much. He probably had a curse fixed. Then he took out a magic wand from his sleeve and shouted, "Verne's button is coming." After waiting for a while, he still found nothing.

"It seems that the 'Flying Curse' is not as simple as imagined. No wonder it is ranked in the fourth grade course." Verne did not want to bother other seniors for this, so he had to go around half of the lounge and enter from the edge of the curtain. While calculating the position, he searched hard. In the layered shadows of the curtain, Verne's magic wand was the only light source. Now he is still in the first grade and has insufficient magic power, so the light generated is not strong enough, so he has to bend and hunch forward.

After searching for a long time, Verne gradually lost his patience and his back became more and more sore. Just as he was about to stand up and stretch, his head hit a corner hard, causing him to scream in pain. "It hurts so much... What the hell is it?" He looked up and found that it turned out to be a painting.

The painting looks very old, with the frame mottled golden paint, and the content dynamically describes a fairy who is stuffing his mouth with a black cloth, struggling to be placed in front of the guillotine. Every few seconds, the guillotine will fall, and a knife will be cut off, blood will splatter, and then the head will be taken back again, repeating itself.

The sounds in the lounge were absorbed by the curtains, and there was a dim light around it, which made Verne feel that he was alone in this gloomy environment. In addition, the content of the painting was bloody, which scared him so much that he shivered.

In fact, this painting was too terrifying, so it was blocked behind the tassel curtain. If it weren't for the "permanent paste curse", it would have been removed. For thousands of years, the past Dean Lavenclaw had no idea who hung the painting here, so he could only infer that it was done by a naughty student in the past.

As time passed, Verne's courage gradually recovered. He poked the painting with his finger, but accidentally pressed it on the black cloth that the fairy had in her mouth. The cloth fell down, and the fairy let out a shrill scream before her head, which shocked Verne to fall to the ground. Fortunately, the picture was reincarnated, and the cloth was stuffed back into the fairy's mouth again, and the scream just now seemed to be absorbed by the cloth curtain, and did not disturb other classmates in the lounge.

After a long time, Verne mustered up the courage to continue investigating the painting. He was curious whether there was a passage or a secret room after the painting, because this was often found in Hogwarts, such as outside the kitchen passage of the castle, there was a still life of fruit. Just scratch the itch of the pear on it, it would giggle and turn into a door handle.

Then, Verne bounced the guillotine with his fingers, and found a slight metal sound. Then he pulled down the guillotine pull rope on the drawing, and found that the guillotine actually rose up. When his fingers were released, the guillotine fell down fiercely. Then, Verne, who was very interesting, pulled up the guillotine and let go immediately. After this back and forth dozens of times, a killing pleasure surged in his heart. It was not until he came to his senses that the fairy rolled his eyes and couldn't even struggle before his death.

"It seems that you will get tired of enjoying the same fun all the time. Maybe you can change your taste, what do you think, sir?" At this time, Verne himself thought he was perverted, "Let me think for you, let me think for you... How about 'hanging'? Maybe it will be easier!" After saying that, the picture changed instantly, and the guillotine turned into a towering straight wood. The fairy was hung on it, his head was lowered, and his face turned purple. Then, the picture changed back to its original guillotine.

Verne was very excited, as if he had found an opportunity to understand the mystery. He talked about seven or eight ways of death, which made the demons in the picture tremble in panic, but these did not make the demons even more miserable, and the painting did not move away or became a door handle.

Looking at the pictures that were restored to the theme of the guillotine, Verne was surprised to find that the fairy was ecstatic and placed her head under the guillotine. He couldn't help but say hatefully: "When I go on vacation, I will definitely read the information about the 'Top Ten Tortures of the Qing Dynasty'. I must find the secret of this painting!" Looking at the fairy crying sadly, Verne turned around and left resolutely. He didn't think at all that there might be no so-called passage or secret room after this painting.

On the way back, Verne felt a pause, bent down, and found the button that he had forgotten long ago. Perhaps this was just as the elders said, when something could not be found, as long as you don't think about it, it will automatically appear in front of you.

The Christmas holiday came in the blink of an eye. Verne's friends, Dacari and Ferre, did not choose to stay, but planned to return home to celebrate the festival. On the day of the festival, Verne slept indulgently until almost noon. He looked at the neat bedding on the next bed and felt a little lonely.

Before the holiday, in addition to his two close friends, the other Lavenclaws also invited Verne to their house for a holiday. I won’t talk about those in the same grade, and even a few unknown senior sisters were the same, which moved him very much and was also a little embarrassed. At that time, he didn’t know whether he refused, whether it was to prepare his homework or to maintain his fragile self-esteem.

Before washing up, Verne was surprised to find a small pile of gifts at the foot of the bed. Although he told his friends not to give him gifts before the holiday because he had no money to return the gift, in fact, he still had some expectations in his heart. Verne was whispering to despise his hypocrisy, and happily took out the gifts. He had a lot of expectations for gifts from the magic world.

A few minutes later, he harvested five boxes of candies produced by the Honey Duke, a turtleneck sweater, two magic books, a blue indigo quill pen, and countless greeting cards. In addition to the blessings, he also expressed his hope that Verne would not refuse and would give it back when he had money in the future. Dakarie, the gift-giver of the quill pen, even wrote that the purpose of this pen was to ask him to help complete his homework, and designated the history of potions and magic in his holiday homework.

Seeing this, Verne's eyes felt a little sore. He quickly got up, rushed to the table, took out many parchment paper, and began to write congratulations in a literary way. At the same time, he added a few more words of thanks to Quirinas's heart, because they had never met again since they had talked at Medical Wing. His impression of this was a bit faint, but the other party still did not forget it, and even sent a spell book with notes, which made Verne feel a little ashamed.
Chapter completed!