Chapter 1710: ?Monkey Mystery

It was really strange, because of Fleur, Harry rarely felt happy in the dark just now.
He ran wildly on the dark path, as if he had endless energy on his body, using the directional charm from time to time to determine whether the direction was correct.
His desire to win the trophy was stronger than ever, but he found that he always walked into a dead end. The maze was so big that he never encountered other players for a long time.
He counted the number of people in his mind. Fleur needed to rest and stay where he was. Krum was stunned and did not wake up for a few hours. Then he and Hermione were removed. Then there were six students from other schools in the maze.
Just be careful of the man from Moon Mountain in Africa. Animagus, who knows how to use guns, is definitely not the opponent you want to meet in a small space.
Harry would not take the initiative to attack others, but he was worried that others would treat him as prey.
The feeling of being watched came again, but he raised his head and looked around, but he didn't find a lighted camera in the bushes.
As time passed by, the sky became more and more gloomy. The dark clouds like black cotton meant that it might rain soon, but Harry felt that he was lost, and the rain might have settled.
The rain curse and the food curse are not high-level, but he hasn't learned either. In the past rainy days, he only needed to stay in the house, eat some sweets, and play with Ron and the others in the fireplace.
Now he regrets it a bit, knowing that he should spend more time learning the basics, instead of playing wizard chess or going to Hagrid to chat.
At this moment, he suddenly heard a little movement. When his gaze turned to a long and straight fork in the road, the light of the magic wand shone on an extremely strange monster. He had only seen it in "Where are the Fantastic Beasts". Its pictures.
This is a sphinx, a sphinx that is a specialty in North Africa. It has huge claws like a lion, a long yellow tail, and a bunch of fluffy hair on the tip of the tail, like a small duster.
It's just that she has a woman's head. She should have found it by following the light. She looked at Harry with round eyes in the dark, making a snoring sound as if she was laughing.
Harry didn't know whether he should be the first to do it, because if it was the same as the record in the book, then Sphinx would prefer to guess riddles than cannibals, and it would be best to avoid wasting physical energy in battle.
Sports professors have talked about the necessity of a reasonable distribution of physical strength in the course. It is not that you have to fight against any enemy. Sometimes it is better to talk about conditions or reason.
She really didn't have the feline's plan to hunch down and then pounce, just squatted on the path to block Harry's way.
Then she spoke, her voice low and hoarse: "You are about ten miles away from the target. Of course, the fastest way is to get past me."
She flicked her tail and pointed behind her.
"Then...borrow it?" Harry answered tentatively.
"No." She blocked the path between the hedges and flicked her big hairy tail: "Unless you can answer my riddle, I will let you pass if you guess it, and I will kill you if you don't guess it!"
Harry was a little nervous. The answer was Hermione's good project, but not his.
However, there was a flash in his mind. If the riddle was too difficult, he could not answer it. As long as he did not speak, it was neither right nor wrong. The Sphinx would not hurt him. He could retreat and find another way.
"Okay." He took a deep breath and patted his chest to cheer himself up: "Please write a question!"
Sphinx sat on his hind legs, tilted his head and began to ask questions:
"Someone raised five big macaques. He bought them a bunch of peaches, but they couldn't share them equally. So he drove away the monkeys and said they would be divided the next day."
"But in the middle of the night, a monkey came to him to pray. He relented and gave the first monkey a peach, so that the remaining peaches could be divided equally by the five monkeys tomorrow."
"The first monkey took his share in advance and went back to sleep. But it didn't take long for the second monkey to find this human to pray."
"He also ate a peach, and the remaining peaches could be divided into five equal parts, so he also took his own share in advance."
"The third, fourth, and fifth monkeys all encountered the same situation, that is, when they eat one and take one-fifth, they can be eaten by the next monkey and then divided into five again. ."
There was an unspeakable smile on the monster's face, as if it was so funny that it couldn't be said. After waiting for a long time, he said the question:
"Excuse me... when did this black man named Nick Fury die?"
"Can you say it again...speak slowly?"
Harry, who was calculating how many peaches there were, looked blank. Who is Nick Fury? Did he offend the Sphinx?
The Sphinx asked patiently again, still pulling his tail to play with his paws, it was not her who was in a hurry anyway.
"Why is there such a problem? This is too strange."
The black long straight boy looked dead, he could answer this question without having to run away.
Sphinx blew on his sharp nails: "You have to ask the man who got me here. He came to Egypt not long ago to find me and negotiated a condition with me if he can answer my question. , But I can't answer him, then I have to come here to accompany you human cubs to guess riddles."
"Is that the problem that held you back then?" Harry asked, this familiar style must have been done by the physical education teacher.
With an awkward expression on Sphinx's face, she scratched her chin:
"It's not difficult, but I rushed to answer...Before he asked the final question, I replied it was '3121'. I thought this question was about the total number of peaches. I answered the joke I was not asking. Alas, I have been in the Egyptian puzzle world for thousands of years without fail, but I fell into a psychological trap because of my pride and arrogance. That man is really hard to guard against."
Harry wiped the cold sweat that didn't fall on his head. Fortunately, he was not good at math, and he didn't count the number of peaches at all. This was the first time he was happy because he was not a schoolmaster.
If you are smart enough to answer, you probably have to run away now, right?
"This person named Nick Fury will die the next day, because he said peaches were divided the next day, but he secretly divided the peaches the night before, right?"
Harry calmed down and licked his lips to give the answer. Thanks to the Ron family who had been to Egypt in the second grade, they also showed off some knowledge with Harry after returning. He still remembers:
"Professor Wilson once said, "No one can stand without credibility." UU read www.uukanshu.com. This is a question he gave you. He also emphasized that Fury is a black man. That is to say, early the next morning, because he broke his faith in monkeys. This person of ours will'not stand up', which literally means lie down. In the Egyptian murals, the lying black human body represents the dead."
Sphinx gave way, and her big furry cat's paws were still clapping in front of her: "You are indeed very clever. It is good for humans to be able to see the second in the fifth layer of meaning. Anyway, you Pass the level, as long as you keep running on the road behind me, you can find the trophy."
"Thank you." Harry swept past the monster. The other party didn't mean to attack him at all. He was really creditable, but he also cared about something: "You said this riddle has five meanings, and the third one is what?"
The sphinx monster glanced at him, then lay back on the intersection:
"The man said:'Mankind is like the monkeys in this story many times, only caring whether they get fewer peaches than other monkeys, but forgetting who bought them the peaches, so they will avenge their gratitude. ..... "Hey, this story is interesting, isn't it?"
Harry smiled awkwardly. He did almost go in the direction of "after the uneven distribution of peaches, monkeys kill humans and vested interests", which is dangerous.
This is probably a trap specially prepared for smart people. If someone who is really smart thinks this way, he will definitely analyze the fighting power gap between horse monkeys and humans and try to calculate the time of human death, right?
There is no doubt that wrong ideas will only get wrong answers...
Harry bid farewell to the monster again. He ran forward and made up his mind that he was determined not to be a monkey...no, not to be the kind of ungrateful person.
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