He was going to roll a bigger point to get himself and Harry out of the melee.

Although the Ministry of Magic must have cast a spell on the dice to prevent anyone from cheating on it, Cedric figured it out after two rounds.

- a way that is not a way.

That is to use rotation.

From Euler's law, we can get that there are only five regular polyhedrons: regular tetrahedron, regular hexahedron, regular octahedron, regular dodecahedron and regular icosahedron.

Therefore, the ten-sided dice often used in games is not a "regular decahedron", but a 10-sided cone, bounded by the middle edge, with odd and even numbers on each side.

That is to say, if you use a little trick when throwing to make the decahedron rotate, then when it finally stops, the numbers must be the ones that were up when it was rotated.

And what Cedric has to do now is to turn the odd side, the 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 side up, and spin it to throw it away. Although there is no guarantee that the final vote must be 9, at least it will never be 0.

Harry Potter still hadn't discovered this little trick after two rounds, but Cedric noticed it, and deliberately pretended to know nothing: even deliberately threw it in the second round. an even number, for now.

This isn't cheating—it's called the fair use rule. Cedric Heart said.

As Fake Moody said in the original book, "Cheating is also part of the Triwizard tradition." As far as Cedric knew, the principals of several other schools had already investigated the list of monsters imported by the British Ministry of Magic, and let them Their own warriors have carried out targeted training. Compared with them, what I have to do is really nothing.

He seemingly inadvertently held the position of the number 9" in the palm of his hand, and recalled how hard he pushed the dice in the first two rounds, put the position of 9 to the top, and after a little adjustment, he applied the dice to the dice. A neither light nor heavy rotation force, and then it was thrown to the ground.

The dice gently turned seven or eight times on the ground and then stopped slowly, and obediently revealed the number "9" that Cedric wanted on the top.

"Wow! Good luck!" Harry exclaimed from behind Cedric.

Cedric turned his head and returned Harry's terribly bright smile.

"Yeah, good luck," he said.

Judging from his expression, it is really as loyal as he is, and as sincere as he is.

On the surface, this kind of creature seems to be useless except for playing dead, but if you want to be cunning, it is still quite a headache for other creatures - with the broken fork of Brother Runtu. prove.

Harry didn't realize it, he just thought it was the luck of the two of them.

"You can do the riddle," he called to the Sphinx.

But the Sphinx glanced at Cedric with a deep meaning, and only slowly explained his mystery until he looked a little hairy.

It doesn't appear to be unaware, but it doesn't intend to debunk Cedric.

Chapter 371 goes smoothly

After Cedric threw a 9, the situation became very clear, that is, as long as the two people at Hogwarts could solve the task in this room, they would be able to quickly leave the melee zone.

The Sphinx didn't seem to mind Cedric's "cheating" at all, and asked him questions as usual.

"I like to think about life, there are many passing through my life, but what is my only (theneinmytime)?"

"Your spouse?" Cedric blurted out.

"No." Sphinx wagged his tail, "By the way, I have more than twenty spouses, and I get very tired every estrus season."

"real?"

Even though they knew they were still breaking through, Harry and Cedric were still distracted

"Of course, if you're interested, I can introduce you to some of my cool girls when you travel to Egypt, but now you'd better focus on guessing" Sphinx reminded.

The two warriors came back to their senses and began to rack their brains to think.

- As usual 5 Cedric is totally bad at this.

What is a Sphinx's "only '0 tail" if it's not a mate? He's in trouble.

I have to say that this time, the Sphinx's question is indeed a bit confusing. Even Harry was stunned for more than three minutes before realizing that it was playing a word puzzle again.

Dyke... yes" money (mney) J Harry finally answered the mystery in time

, when the eight ne's are in the middle of "my', that's money!" Sphinx raised his paws and shook off a lot of silver coins.

"Correct answer, this is your reward," it said.

The two hurriedly collected the silver coins, then clenched the dice that had been enchanted with the door key, and disappeared from the venue.

This time they're teleported to the Quartz Ridge in Shropshire, England, and they're up against a horde of Sniffers.

Seeing that the audience was unclear, Li Jordan took the promotional materials and took the initiative to explain.

"...In recent years, there has been a boom in the treasure hunt among Muggles, with many Muggles carrying things like metal detectors and seismic radars, looking for prehistoric treasures everywhere.

Although their success rate is very low, unfortunately, due to our negligence and respect for our ancestors, Muggles did find a lot of coins and accessories left in ancient Rome.

But other places can give way, but not the Quartz Ridge, because there are dozens of unspecified treasures buried here by the King of the Hill, a huge treasure, and the Ministry of Magic has found more than 30.

The location where the Hogwarts warriors are now is also estimated to have a treasure mine, and they must gain the trust of the sniffers as soon as possible and find the location of the treasure through them. "

Just as Lee Jordan was explaining, the staff of the Ministry of Magic who stayed at Quartz Ridge also told Cedric and Hart about the tasks they were about to undertake, and the two of them knew what the silver coins the Sphinx gave them were for. use.

From the beginning of the game to the present, the audience has also seen a lot of battles, and it feels good to have such an interesting game to adjust.

The two warriors hurriedly used silver coins to attract those sniffles, and then rewarded them to the most obedient ones, and finally successfully tamed a batch of them, letting them

They started to hunt for treasure for themselves.

After more than half an hour, the sniffers drilled out of the cracks in the rock, and they all became heavy.

Under the watchful eyes of the audience, Cedric and Harry hung up the sniffers one by one and threw them wildly. Finally, after paying the price of dozens of bites, they made a small Coins, Jewelry and Gemstones Pile.

Seeing the audience let out a burst of sighs, Li O Jordan lost no time to incite it.

"Look, this is the treasure of the King of the Hill! I swear there's more to it than that, but unfortunately the Ministry of Magic is understaffed to unearth all the suspicious locations, so Muggle cheap... ah, why no one to help?"

However, judging by the way some audience members are gearing up, there will definitely be no shortage of such "enthusiastics" on Quartz Ridge in the coming months.

Of course, in fact, the treasure of the King of the Hill has been almost discovered by the wizards. Only a few small treasure pits have not been found yet, and the Ministry of Magic is too lazy to spend so much manpower and material resources to continue to find it.

So Lockhart came up with the idea—just like a country whose jade mines are about to be exhausted, they can also play the trick of "jade gambling" and let tourists help find the remaining treasure.

This saves manpower and financial resources in finding treasures, and can also develop the economy of local wizard villages through tourism, turning it into a lucrative business.

Anyway, the Ministry of Magic can collect taxes from nearby wizard villages, and can also share 20% of the treasure windfall, which is definitely not a loss.

Considering that the Quartz Ridge has indeed been unable to find any big treasure trove, the Ministry of Magic decided to adopt this opinion after discussion, and arranged it into the Big Five Tournament for publicity effect.

As for the coins that the sniffers found, of course, the Ministry of Magic had put them away in advance

of.

Looking at it now, the audience's response is very good. I think it will attract some tourists in the future. Everyone is happy.

It's just that Lockhart wasn't among the happy ones, because the game was so smooth, and it made him more and more confused.

The plan for the third game, the Sports Department had notified all relevant departments before Christmas, even including the last two games.

Logically speaking, with little Crouch's intelligence ability, it is impossible for them not to understand the layout of this game. Especially the fourth game is played next to the castle, the fifth game is more in the castle, the third game will be the last game outside and in some way outside the control of the Ministry of Magic, want to be like this. A good opportunity is almost impossible.

Did the Death Eaters not plan to attack at all? Or did he do it too deliberately and was smelled dangerous by the cunning Death Eaters?

Moody seemed to see through Lockhart's thoughts: "Take it easy, Gilderoy... We've got the chips in our hands now!"

Dike, it's still there. "

Lockhart frowned and recalled all the chains in his plan again, but found nothing that could be exploited.

"Ms. Vance sure that all people or creatures with access to the portkey are not under the Imperius Curse?"

"None, I can be sure." Moody said affirmatively, "Everyone present is acting according to their own will, and those spellcasters are old employees of the Ministry of Magic, and there will be no problem. "

"That's weird... Did they really give up?"

Lockhart shook his head and decided not to think any further.

After finishing this mission, Cedric and Harry have come to room 24

In theory, as long as they cast 9 again, they can reach room 33, and then they can use the number 8 to directly reach the small room without triggering the room task.

Which means there's a good chance the game will be over for Harry when the next round of the dice is rolled. If the Death Eaters wanted to make a move, they would definitely take advantage of the next turn or the next turn to solve the problem.

Next is Vagado - their luck is not very good, they can't answer the Sphinx's mystery "dog", so they can't use the white hound to face the dwarf pig monster in Eel Farm. To drive away, I could only temporarily burn a bunch of leaves that I didn't know what they were, and drive away a few of them.

Their actions sparked a flurry of controversy - some judges felt that they failed to get rid of all of the farm's pygmy hogs, so they didn't get the job done.

However, some judges think that there is no need to be so harsh. After all, the dwarf pig monster is not a harmless gadget like a garden goblin. It is already very powerful for students to drive it away without relying on a white dog, and they also offered a gift for everyone. It's a great game, so it's totally okay to let it go.

With regard to this kind of argument that the public is right and the mother is right, Fudge decided to let the audience vote to decide whether the people of Vagado can move forward after a slap in the face

Although Fudge's unwillingness to take responsibility made Lockhart a little grumpy, he did increase the audience interaction, so let it be tolerated.

The final result is also very clear. The audience who watched the fun and did not think it was a big deal voted to pass, because they wanted to continue to watch these leading groups PK with each other, rather than the Hogwarts students singing a one-man show.

Chapter 372 Halftime

After Harry and the others retired, the game was suspended for a while so that the audience could go to lunch. Because the situation at Hogwarts was better, everyone enjoyed the meal.

Apart from the fact that Sirius and Mr. Diggory were having dinner, the two openly quarreled over who had the better son, making Harry and Cedric a little embarrassed, the rest was fine.

Lockhart wanted to take the time to ask Harry if there was anything unusual just now, but he bumped into his foreign book fan while dining with Gemma, and had to spend nearly half an hour trying to get over the siege. The more fans signed the autograph, the two of them were long gone when he got his hands free.

There was no other way, he could only talk to Sirius, because Sirius was at least pure blood, and Gemma would not frown when he saw himself talking to him.

"Is your job going well lately?" he asked casually, ""Did the Muggles make things difficult for you? "

"Every day is making things difficult for me." Sirius mentioned this with a belly: "That **** old witch asked me to teach me information science, saying what to learn from scratch

"The old witch?" Lockhart raised his eyebrows.

"It's that Mrs. Rimington." Sirius waved his hand impatiently. "She actually said that I don't understand anything. If I didn't say that it would take at least a while, I would definitely resign immediately."

He felt very depressed, because the intelligence science on the Muggle side was really good. Even if he was very disdainful of the MI5's fighting style and various things such as thermal imagers, he couldn't deny the Muggle's theoretical research. powerful.

"In a sense, you really don't understand anything," said Lockhart bluntly, "and last year the Muggles enacted the British Intelligence Agencies Act, which I doubt you've even seen. ."

Sirius dissatisfied: "Have you seen it?"

"Of course I did. Honestly, I would like you to enter a Muggle GCHQ if possible. According to Section 3 of the Agencies Act, GCHQ has the power to detect, exploit or interfere with electromagnetic, acoustic and other related devices, and full access to information from those devices — that's pretty much the blatant surveillance of all citizens."

Having said this, Lockhart sighed: "But I don't think Ms. Rimington would hand over such an important department position to a wizard, but you have to mention this and let them know that we know they have such an institution."

"No..." Sirius didn't remember at all, "What management... call headquarters

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"It's the Government Communications Headquarters. If you can't get in, I suggest you go to the anti-terrorist department or the security department. Of course, this is after you have received your studies and training. I suggest you buy more dragon claw powder and Bafei brain-energizing agent."

"I'd rather go drinking with my Muggle colleagues than reading..." Sirius muttered softly.

But having said that, he still had to do it.

Because Mrs. Rimington's "old witch" is really calm, her speaking skills are not inferior to Lockhart, let alone reprimand him, even the "regret" in her words from time to time makes Sirius This self-respecting man couldn't stand it.

Sirius can choose not to do this work at any time, and then pick up the job, but the premise is that he must leave with a full body of merit and glory, leaving a perfect back. He can't allow himself to be looked down upon by Muggles.

Seeing him like this, Lockhart knew that Mrs. Rimington must have figured out his character. Even if she hadn't seen such a person herself, there were still so many well-trained psychologists under her belt, enough for her to pinpoint someone like Sirius with a bright personality and obvious weaknesses.

Although Lockhart sees through, he is not prepared to intervene, as it is part of a tacit deal between him and the Muggle Prime Minister, and it would be helpful to show Muggles some transparency in the wizarding world. To prevent misjudgment by both parties.

For example, he announced that he was about to recruit couriers in Labour-camped constituencies.

Originally, Lockhart didn't care much about it, but Hermione cared more about it than himself. She wrote an organizational outline for Lockhart's "House Elf Courier Union", saying that it was based on the union outline she found from the London library during the Christmas holidays, hoping it would help him.

Seeing the neatly copied Gothic letters line by line, Lockhart said in his heart that it must be false. texture.

She thought she was only passionate about the protection of the rights of house-elves, but after two years, her original determination not only did not fade, but became more determined.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help looking left and right.

"Where's Hermione? Didn't seem to see her at dinner?" he asked Sirius.

Sirius' eyes lit up: "Ha, you've finally started to care about her... If I say that, that's right, it's really not suitable for you now..."

"Shut up! I just wanted to talk about the protection of house-elves," Lockhart interrupted rudely.

Sirius didn't believe it: "You care about that? This is not the Lockhart I know. She's helping Harry prepare his review notes today, because he's missing a lot of homework to prepare for the hegemony, and next year he will Going to take the "Owl" test...

What are you going to tell her?

"I want to tell her that her program is good, but I'm afraid it won't be very effective. Purebloods will object. She'd better change her name to "House Elf Dispatching and Management Organization"... As for the content No need to change it, purebloods wouldn't care about such details anyway. "

At the end, Lockhart also had a hint of irony in his tone.