"Don't interrupt!" Harry glared at Draco. "That's called quick thinking!"
"Right, quick thinking..." Draco casually raised both hands, making it clear he had no intention of arguing further. "Go on."
"Ahem!" Harry coughed lightly a few times and returned to the subject of the Golden Egg. "Hermione reminded me that the reason the sound from the Golden Egg was so strange..."
"Was actually that it was hinting to us that the Second Task needs to be carried out in the water. And definitely not on the surface—we have to go deep down to the bottom of the lake... We might even run into merfolk."
"Merfolk!" Cedric seemed to think of something and instinctively cried out with him. "No wonder..."
"Merfolk?" Draco raised an eyebrow. "In other words, we need to dive to the bottom of the Black Lake, because a group of merfolk lives there."
"That's right!" Harry nodded. "We looked up the relevant information too, and found out the merfolk are at the bottom of the Black Lake."
"I copied down the lyrics from the Golden Egg..." He took a strip of parchment from his pocket. "You should take a look first!"
While Cedric and Draco read the strip, he talked about the two lines of the lyrics he cared about. "I feel like the line 'At the very beginning, you will lose the treasure you depend on to survive' is very important..."
"It means we'll lose something, and that thing will definitely be extremely important. And then there are the last two lines, mentioning 'Return with a Full Load' and 'Return Empty-Handed'..."
"This might be similar to the First Task. The so-called completion of the 'Great Work' is like seizing the Golden Egg. We have to bring back the completed 'Great Work' for it to count as truly