Without realizing it, Su Er and the others had reached the end of the path.
Unlike at the entrance, several barrels stood scattered here, identical to those outside the Hufflepuff Common Room, all resting on dark stone troughs.
A faint sour smell hung in the air.
Su Er sniffed, looking a little surprised. This smell was unmistakably the same as what came from the barrels outside the Hufflepuff Common Room.
Su Er remembered those barrels of vinegar outside the Hufflepuff Common Room vividly, because in their first year, Justin had carelessly gotten the password backward and been mistaken for an intruder.
Good grief, had you ever seen a water gun? Back then, the large barrels outside the common room had sprayed everyone at the entrance like water guns, except what came out was not clear water, but vinegar that had been brewing and fermenting for ages.
That smell had reminded Su Er of the aged Shanxi vinegar he had encountered on a tour of its birthplace in his previous life. No! This was even stronger!
Vinegar that had fermented for hundreds or even a thousand years was astonishingly potent!
"Familiar, isn't it?" Lisi chuckled. "As a student of Hufflepuff House, surely you haven't forgotten how to get in here?"
Su Er nodded and stepped forward, taking out his wand. Although the barrels here were arranged differently from those in the Hufflepuff Common Room, the underlying principle was the same.
After tapping the brass strip at the bottom of a barrel to the rhythm of Helga Hufflepuff's name, Su Er stepped back. The lid of the barrel he had tapped suddenly opened, and a stone platform rose from within.
There was nothing on the platform except three recesses, each a different shape.
Without any prompting from Lisi the centaur, Su Er