Chapter 198： treasury

In the magnificent Gringa, Mike came down to a stone gate under the guidance of Griphook.

When Griphook opened the stone door, what appeared in front of Mike was not a scene as majestic and luxurious as the Gringotts Hall, but a narrow stone corridor with torches hanging on the left and right walls of the stone corridor, crackling and burning. .

This stone corridor is a steep downhill, which is not surprising. The vault of the Gulin Pavilion is located directly below the Gulin Pavilion. In fact, according to the description of the Gringe vaults in the original work, the entire underground of Diagon Alley should be empty.

Mike and Griphook walked down cautiously while supporting the wall. After a while, a winding railway appeared in front of them.

Pulling the car, who was familiar with the road, got into a small mine cart that could only allow two adults to sit down, and waved his hand to signal Mike to sit on it.

Looking at the minecart without any protective measures in front of him, Mike hesitated in his heart, so he asked:

"Don't you have any other better means of transportation?"

"I'm sorry, Mr. Tony, even if Mr. Fudge (the current Minister of Magic) comes, he can only sit down here." Griphook spread his hands and said with a helpless gesture.

Now that Mike has no other choice, he can only step on the small minecart reluctantly, but he has already scolded the fairies in his heart.

Mom Refak! As the only bank in the entire British wizarding world, it still has the right to mint coins. The means of transporting customers to the vault to withdraw money is so backward! If you are not a monopoly company, your service attitude would have already gone bankrupt.

Although his heart was turbulent, Mike still looked calm and calm on the surface, but before driving, he took out his wand and put on an armor for himself just in case.

That's right, he only put on himself, and did not put on the pull ring.

He didn't pay much attention to Mike's eye-catching actions and Griphook, his face still looked respectful.

"Are you ready? Mr. Townley."

"Drive..."

Mike had activated the minecart without even saying the last word, the pull ring. The moment the minecart was activated, Mike only felt a strong sense of pushing back and directly crushed him on the minecart. On the mine bucket.

Fortunately, with the protection of the armor body, Mike didn't feel any discomfort except for the feeling of pushing his back. Even the hurricane caused by high-speed movement was perfectly resisted by the transparent shield of the armor body.

Mike originally wanted to accuse Griphook of driving ahead of time, but when he saw Griphook sitting in front of Mike without armor protection, his face was distorted and deformed by the wind. Much better.

This underground passage with railways is like a maze. The minecart that Mike and Griphook are riding in gallops, turning right for a while, turning left for a while, and then crossing a fork in the road. This small minecart looks like itself. Recognizing the road, driving at an extremely fast speed, there is no need to pull the ring to control it.

This series of turns made Mike couldn't help but grab the handle of the minecart, but even so, Mike was still thrown around.

I don't know how long it was before Mike's eyes suddenly opened up. It turned out that they finally drove out of the narrow underground passage and came to a wide underground space.

Mike's peripheral vision saw the fire coming from under him, so he instinctively looked towards the source of the fire.

It's okay if you don't look at it, as soon as you look at Mike's arm, you get goose bumps.

I saw that there was an abyss under them. At this moment, they were telling driving on the steep rock wall. The trembling track in front of them made Mike very worried that the minecart they were on would suddenly fall.

And the source of that fire light turned out to be a fire dragon, a scrawny, pale fire dragon covered in scales.

This unnamed fire dragon is now being locked by six thick chains, one end of the chain is linked to the rock wall, and the other end is tied to the fire dragon's limbs, tail and neck.

These chains should have tied it up when it was young, so it has grown directly into its flesh now.

In addition, Mike also noticed that the eyes of this fire dragon showed an extremely unhealthy pale color just like the body. This was obviously a manifestation of degraded eyes after staying in a dark environment for too long.

Perhaps due to the deterioration of eyesight, this fire dragon's hearing is very developed. After hearing the infrasound made by the minecart that Mike and Griphook were riding on the track, the fire dragon immediately reacted, roared and spit out a large group of flames in the direction of Mike.

Because the distance was too far, the fire dragon was very weak, so the flames dissipated not long after they spewed out.

"These **** beasts!"

The pull ring in front also found that the underground fire dragon was trying to attack them. After cursing, he took out two pieces of iron that were put together in his arms against the wind, and shook it frantically at the fire dragon below.

These two iron pieces should also be magic props, and the sound it made when it shook was extremely penetrating, and it was still transmitted to the ears of the fire dragon below through a long distance.

After hearing the crisp sound, the fire dragon seemed to be convulsed, roaring and struggling with great pain.

The six thick iron chains flew up with the fire dragon belt, twitching crazily for a while, and then pulled straight again, making a dull sound.

In a short while, blood stains appeared in the place where the fire dragon was **** by the iron chain. Large strands of dragon blood flowed down its limbs, and gradually formed a creek under it. But the fire dragon seemed to feel no pain, and was still struggling crazily.

It wasn't until Griphook stopped the movement in his hand and put away the iron piece that the fire dragon calmed down.

"I made you laugh, Mr. Tangley, these dragons are always untamable."

Griphook reluctantly squeezed out a smile to explain to Mike against the wind, but Mike didn't reply. The way the Gringotts goblins deal with the fire dragon is really shocking, leaving him speechless.

Seeing that Mike didn't answer, Griphook was not angry, turned his head and continued to look forward.

After a while, the pull ring pulled a switch on the minecart, and the minecart suddenly slowed down, and the metal wheels wiped out the sky on the rails.

In the end, the minecart stopped on a small platform, and Mike and Griphook got off and stepped onto the platform.

"Mr. Tangli, this vault numbered 688 is currently the best secondary vault in our position." As soon as I got off the car, he said enthusiastically, "Look, the fire dragon as the guard is right below this vault. , I believe you just saw that fire dragon is so powerful, if an intruder wants to harm your vault, the fire dragon will burn him to ashes."

The thrilling journey just now made Mike feel that he wanted to vomit in his throat, waved his hand to signal Griphook not to speak, Mike stood there and relaxed for a while before suppressing this feeling.

"How often do you check the vault?"

"About 10 years!"

Hearing Mike nodded. Due to occupational diseases, he has been paying attention to the security arrangement of the Wizarding Bank since just now. Now it seems that except for the staff who are relatively lazy, they only come to check every 10 years. Outside the vault, this vault is simply impeccable.

But these goblins are lazy for no reason. With such excellent security measures, their artificial inspection of the vault is completely meaningless.

"Yes, that's it." Mike Chang said with a sigh of relief, "Hurry up and leave here. I don't want to stay here anymore."

"As you wish, sir!"

Griphook bowed again, turned around and took out a golden key to the door of the only vault on this small platform.

The golden key was inserted into the keyhole on the door and twisted slightly, and suddenly a intensive triggering sound of the mechanism came out from the door, and as the sound stopped abruptly, the vault door opened automatically.

What appeared in front of Mike was a cave of about 50 cubic meters in size. The cave was very dry and the air was very fresh, unlike the pungent sulphur smell outside.

"This vault is equipped with constant temperature magic and various protection magics. No matter what you put here, it will be well protected. Even the fragile parchment can be kept intact here. year."

Griphook once again introduced Mike to the situation of the vault, but Mike ignored him, opened the box and dumped the gold coins in the non-marking stretch curse bag onto the floor of the vault.

As the clear sound of the collision of gold coins continued to sound, a hill made of gold coins was piled up in the vault.

Mike, who had done all this, repacked all the non-marking stretch curse bags, and turned around to leave.

However, he turned around to find that Griphook was staring at the pile of gold coins with his eyes straight at the moment, almost drooling.

"Pull ring, pull ring!"

Mike called the pull ring several times before he woke up, wiped the non-existent saliva, and the pull ring took Mike out of the underground vault directly.

Mike finally came to the Gringotts Hall again with a sigh of relief.

"Mr. Mike, please come with me. You still have some documents to sign."

Griphook disappeared after taking Mike into the hall, but then another goblin greeted him, holding a document and asking Mike to sign.

Mike sat down on the counter, picked up the file and looked at it.

In fact, there is nothing good about it, except for some procedures.

If you want to withdraw money after making a deposit at Gringotts, you need a voucher. These vouchers can be your own face, a key or an exclusive magic signature, and even if you have a family, a family crest with a special magic mark can also serve as a voucher.

Mike naturally has no family, so he left a magic signature to serve as a voucher when using the check later. Finally, Mike cashed the check Lockhart gave him, and put the 1,500 gold gallons back into his box as pocket money.

After finishing all this, Mike finally completed his task today and walked out of Gringotts under the farewell of the fairies.

In the corner of the Gringotts hall, two middle-aged wizards saw Mike leaving Gringotts, and after looking at each other, they followed silently.

Because Mike's previous actions were too swaggering, many people in the hall noticed this little wizard who carried a huge sum of money. And the two of them just watched Mike exchange a cheque for 1500 gold gallons with their own eyes, so they became greedy.

After the two left, the shabby Muggle-born wizard gritted his teeth, hesitated and followed silently.

It was already twilight when Mike walked out of Gringotts, and he actually stayed in Gringotts for an entire afternoon.

At this time, Diagon Alley looked very deserted. Most of the shops along the street had closed. Only a few shopkeepers who lived in the shops were still open. Feeling the hunger in his stomach, Mike quickened his pace.

He and Professor Flivy have made an appointment to join the rally in the Raven’s Nest tomorrow morning, so he has to go to Professor Flivy’s house tonight.

In my mind, I imagined the various foods made by the house elf Lolo, and Mike's saliva was secreting rapidly. He couldn't wait to return to Professor Flivy's home.

However, at this moment, the peculiar voice dedicated to Papi the Raven suddenly rang in Mike's mind.

‘There are three people following us two at 100 meters at 7 o’clock and one at 150 meters at 4 o’clock. ’

Wensheng Mike's movements suddenly stiffened, but soon returned to normal.

"I'm really not afraid of death." Mike thought to himself, "I'm a little wizard, so I think I'm a bully?"

Mike continued walking calmly, but the direction he was walking deviated from the road and began to walk in the direction of Knockdown Alley.

The two middle-aged wizards behind them were suddenly delighted when they saw this. They didn't expect Mike, the little wizard, to be so stupid. If Mike went directly to the Broken Cauldron Bar and used the fireplace to leave them, they really couldn't help him, and now Mike ran into Knockoff Alley by himself, it was simply looking for death.

But the heart of the young Muggle wizard who fell at the end was twitched.

Knockoff Alley is a dangerous and dark place. He and Diagonal Alley are like light and shadow. Diagonal Alley specializes in all kinds of ordinary magic items, and Knockoff Alley is full of black magic shops.

There was the highest density of black wizards in the wizarding world, and even the Aurors did not dare to enter it rashly. Death is the norm here, and those who are incapable of entering here are looking for death.

With the passage of time, Mike has entered Knock Down Alley, and the two middle-aged wizards have quickened their pace. The young wizard following them can see clearly that they have pulled out their wands.

"If it's too late, they are going to shoot that kid!"

The young man's fists were clenched, and the images of Mike being killed by the two middle-aged wizards flashed in his mind for a while. In the end, he finally made a decision.

I saw him gather his hands around his mouth to make a trumpet, exhausted all his strength and shouted:

"The kid in front, run!"