Chapter 178 You Follow Me?
Alice is not wearing her school uniform today.
She was wearing a slim-fitting black dress, a lady's hat decorated with white flowers, and was carrying a small rattan basket in her hand. She was walking outside the Forbidden Forest like a noble lady on an outing. .
John cast the [Disillusionment Curse] and [Silent Breathless Curse] on himself and moved closer.
Only then did she realize that she was not just on an outing, but was collecting and searching for nearby magical herbs.
From the withered and worthless 'beating toadstools' to the secretions of the field awn, she collected all the materials she saw along the way into the little basket.
It is worth mentioning that every movement of Alice is very elegant.
Even when picking up materials on the ground, she did not bend down directly like John, but slowly bent her legs and squatted down, then reached out her hand to pick it up. Every movement gave people a sense of perfect elegance.
And this also brings a strong sense of contrast.
Because most of the materials she picked up were dirty and of low value. They were things that a man like John would be too lazy to get his hands dirty when he got lost.
Why would a young lady who has obviously received strict etiquette training pick up such rubbish in the Forbidden Forest and seem to enjoy it so much?
John couldn't understand.
What confused him even more was that Alice obviously had no jungle experience.
She swept all the way and came directly to the nest of an Acromantula.
Moreover, she seemed to be very curious about the crypt and threw a stone into it.
"Snapped--"
The stone fell, as if it hit something crisp.
After a long silence, a rustling sound suddenly sounded from the cave.
Immediately afterwards, an Acromantula the size of a horse crawled out of the hibernating nest.
It poked its head, its eight eyes shining with greed, staring at Alice.
What's even more outrageous is that Alice did not escape.
She stared straight at the Acromantula, her eyes filled with greed.
The next moment, the Acromantula suddenly rushed out of the burrow.
At the same time Alice also drew her wand.
"Thunderbolt explosion!"
As soon as the red light appeared, a ball of light bombs hit one of the Acromantula's front legs and a big explosion occurred, blowing its entire leg to pieces.
And the light bullet did not disappear.
Under the impact of the explosion, it continued to bounce and explode.
The Acromantula was also aroused by the previous explosion.
It roared, and with its remaining legs, it burst out at astonishing speed. It arrived in front of Alice in just a moment and threw her down.
Seeing that the Acromantula's big claws were about to fall, Alice finally let out a terrified scream.
At this moment, John, who had been hiding aside to watch the show, pulled out his wand.
"Shen Feng has no shadow!"
"laugh--"
The invisible blade swept across, like a hot knife cutting through butter, easily cutting off the entire upper body of the Acromantula.
The Acromantula whined, and its body fell down weakly, suppressing Alice.
The light cyan blood spurted out from the wound and poured directly on Alice.
This made Alice even more panicked, screaming and struggling.
John revealed his body and walked forward slowly, without helping Alice out of trouble, and just looked at Alice's ugly appearance with a smile.
But what he didn't expect was that the moment she saw him, Alice stopped struggling and shouted:
"You follow me?"
The smile on John's face faltered.
He looked at Alice for a long time and then said:
"Are you French so...pretentious?"
Alice had climbed out at this time and asked after hearing this:
"If you weren't following me, what were you doing in this cold forest on a nice Hogsmeade day?"
"It's my turn to ask you the same question."
As John spoke, he clapped his hands as if he suddenly thought of something, and suddenly realized, "I know! Our distinguished Miss Alice Lopez must think it is not good for these Acromantulas to enter hibernation when they are hungry. , so you want to come over and feed them, right?! Hehehe——"
Amid John's laughter, Alice's expression became extremely ugly.
But John wasn't going to let her go yet.
He kicked the small basket on the ground with his foot and said with great disgust:
"It's all rubbish. There are no valuable materials produced in the Forbidden Forest in winter. I don't even know this common sense. Haha, you are rubbish too.
Also, are you short of money? "
Alice was so angry that she was shaking when she heard John's ridicule.
But after hearing the last sentence, he immediately calmed down.
"Of course, I'm very short of money."
She struggled out, approached John with elegant steps, and said softly with a smile, "Don't you like me? If you can give me ten thousand Galleons, I will agree to be your girlfriend."
"Pfft-"
John couldn't help but laugh.
He waved his wand to create a water mirror and said to Alice:
"I don't like you. Besides, look at your dignity now. It's disgusting."
Alice looked in the mirror and found that her black dress had been soaked with the blood of the Acromantula. Not only was it wet, but it also had a strange bluish-gray color to it, which was indeed very ugly.
She glared at John, then looked in the mirror and started cleaning the stains with [Clean Up].
John snorted coldly, turned around and started to take out the Acromantula's venom.
After he finished taking it, he realized that Alice had finished cleaning it and was leaning behind him, with her hands behind her back, bent over, and her eyes full of envy.
"Acromantula venom is a very expensive material." Alice said, "You are not following me, but you are following the Acromantula and preparing to hunt them, right?"
John ignored her and turned around to go back to Hogwarts Castle.
But Alice followed quickly. She changed her previous unfriendly tone and said with a smile:
"Acromantulas are social animals. If you can meet one, it means there is a large group in this forest. I think we can cooperate and hunt them together!"
As soon as he said this, John turned back sharply and put his wand directly on Alice's neck.
"I'm really fed up with your arrogance."
John said expressionlessly, "What qualifications do you have to cooperate with me? If you don't want to die, never enter this forest again!"
As he spoke, John slowly increased the strength in his hand, and the tip of the nun's wand lit up with a dangerous magical aura.
If it were Draco, it would be time to keep retreating and begging for mercy.
But Alice is different.
No matter how John increased the strength in his hands, she would not take a step back.
On the contrary, she looked at the golden runes on John's wand with great interest, then looked at John and said:
"I can create an alchemy machine to assist our work of hunting Acromantula. This can increase our work efficiency many times."
"What kind of alchemy machine?"
"In the form of a spider. It can directly go deep into the cave to hunt the hibernating Acromantula on the opposite side. It can also collect spider silk in the cave, dismember and collect Acromantula carapace and other materials."
Alice said, "With it, I can actually hunt the Acromantula by myself. But considering that accidents may happen, I really need your force protection."
There was a smile again on John's expressionless face.
He released the wand against Alice's neck and helped Alice straighten the collar that he had just messed up.
Alice didn't resist during the whole process, she just looked at John with a smile.
This made John look at her again and said calmly:
"Where is the machine now?"
"It's right here." Alice pointed to her head and said, "But I will be able to make it soon. Don't worry, I won't let you down."
"I hope not, otherwise..."
"Or are you going to kill me?"
"That's not so."
John spoke, looked at her deeply, and walked directly to Hogwarts Castle.
Alice didn't feel threatened at all, and followed John with a smile.
The two of them slowly returned to Hogwarts Castle as if they were returning from an outing.
However, just as they arrived in the foyer, John saw Snape staring at them with his hands behind his back.
"Ah - isn't this John Shafiq?"
Snape's cold eyes swept over John and Alice, "It turns out that you left Michelle alone just to accompany her."