Hogwarts Outsider Chapter 36: The blood-sucking monster

It seems that Professor Kettleburn does not intend to express more views on the issue of "Hagrid the half-blood giant".

It's not easy for Matthew to ask any more questions.

Two people and one cat continued to walk along the path in the Forbidden Forest.

They walked for nearly half an hour, getting deeper and deeper into the forest, the trees in front of them began to become extremely dense, and the trail was almost impassable...

Suddenly, Tom's hair stood on end all over his body, and his whole body tensed up——

"It seems that we are getting close!" Professor Kettleburn said in a low voice.

He took out his wand again, this time of course with his left hand instead of his prosthetic.

"Meow—" Facing the depths of the woods ahead, Mao Lizi uttered a cry.

The cry was full of hostility, like a demonstration or a warning.

Through the tangled branches of an ancient oak over there, a clearing can be seen ahead.

"Is the lair of those guys here?" Professor Kettleburn said to himself.

He waved the magic wand in his hand, and the lush branches suddenly spread out, forming a passage.

"Wait!" Professor Kettleburn was taken aback suddenly, he raised his arm to stop Matthew who was about to go over, and at the same time muttered: "What is that?"

A pure white thing, shining on the ground.

Professor Kettleburn's face suddenly became serious, and he moved closer to the thing.

"Oh, Merlin's beard!" he exclaimed.

……

Matthew noticed that Professor Kettleburn's body was shaking slightly.

Even before facing more than twenty centaurs, the Hogwarts hunting ground guard had never been so panicked.

He also took a few steps closer and saw clearly the white thing on the ground——

There is no doubt that this is the corpse of a magical animal.

Matthew had never imagined that there would be such a beautiful and miserable death situation.

It looks like a horse, but its hair is softer, whiter and more shiny than ordinary horses.

Its slender legs kept the posture when it fell, stretching unnaturally; its mane was spread flat on the ground covered with fallen leaves, white as the most precious pearl.

But it's dead, dead dead.

Only dots of silver-blue blood can be seen around.

Matthew finally understood that the traces he saw on the fallen leaves were not illusions.

"Unbelievable..." Professor Kettleburn half-kneeled on the ground and took a deep breath: "This is a unicorn, this is a murder!"

"Unicorn!" Even though he had vaguely guessed something, Matthew was also very shocked.

From the textbook "Where are the Fantastic Beasts" before, he clearly described the "unicorn":

"Although unicorns look docile, their personalities are quite different from their appearance. Adult unicorns can fight elephants and even fire dragons, and they run very fast. For ordinary wizards, it is very difficult to capture them. Among the many kinds of magical animals, the unicorn is also one of the top magical animals on the food chain..."

But now in front of him, a unicorn corpse quietly appeared.

"The blood has been sucked dry..." Professor Kettleburn inspected the wound on the unicorn's neck, and said with a stern expression, "It was the murderer who did it... and the murderer didn't leave for too long. ..."

"Could it be... a vampire?" Matthew asked softly.

As soon as he asked this question, he himself felt a little stupid.

"Impossible. It's impossible for a vampire to successfully attack a unicorn. Their strengths are not on the same level." Professor Kettleburn shook his head without hesitation.

"So..." Matthew hesitated for a moment, then asked again: "Where are the vampires?"

But this time, Professor Kettleburn didn't answer, he just looked at the unicorn's body quietly, his expression a little dignified.

"Professor Kettleburn?" Matthew whispered again.

The professor of Care of Magical Creatures woke up like a dream.

"It seems that what the horsemen said is true. In this forest, there is a thing that I can't deal with. I have to inform Professor Rozier!" He murmured: "No I thought, this time after class practice, I will encounter such an accident!"

Matthew looked at the woods behind him with some vigilance.

At this moment, at any time, he felt that a blood-sucking monster would emerge from the woods behind him and suddenly attack them!

Matthew had no choice but to hold the teapot tighter again.

"Mr. Wakefield, our after-school practice is over!" Professor Kettleburn said while carrying the unicorn's corpse on his back with his prosthetic limb.

"Then shall we go back to the castle now?" Matthew looked at the dark path with some concern.

Although he didn't know anything when he came here, he didn't feel anything; when he was going back now, looking at the gloomy jungle, he felt that he might encounter danger at any time.

"Don't worry, I have a solution!" Professor Kettleburn smiled.

He raised his wand ~IndoMTL.com~ and a red spark shot straight into the sky.

……

Matthew didn't know what Professor Kettleburn called, but he thought he would have to wait a long time.

Unexpectedly, only a few minutes later, a weird animal got out from among the branches and leaves above their heads.

A rather odd animal with the body, hind legs and tail of a horse, but the front legs, wings and head of an eagle.

The grim beak is extremely sharp, and the eagle claws on the front legs look at least half a foot long, which is intimidating!

The big bright orange eyes sized up Matthew, and then turned to Professor Kettleburn.

"Very good baby, take us out of here!" Professor Kettleburn patted the animal on the shoulder, and then greeted Matthew: "Come here, Wakefield, this is a hippocampus." Winged beast, come on its back!"

Matthew hesitated for a moment, then walked over.

As he approached the hippogriff, the monster was visibly displeased.

But then, Professor Kettleburn patted it on the head, and it quickly became obedient again.

Matthew and Professor Kettleburn climbed onto the back of the Hippogriff successively. Professor Kettleburn also took the body of the unicorn with him, and said goodbye to Tom the Kitty .

With a violent up and down bump, they flew into the sky.

Matthew hugged the hippogriff's neck tightly, closed his eyes, and crawled through the lush branches and leaves.

Then, a vast sky awaits him!

They soared in the blue sky, breathed the fresh air, and almost had a panoramic view of the entire Forbidden Forest...

Then, fly in the direction of Hogwarts Castle!