Hogwarts Crawler.

Adam nodded secretly. No matter what Uther prepared, his protective magic could protect Uther. Even if they didn't take action, the centaur would not have a good ending.

You have to know that wizards generally look down on magical creatures. As long as the wizards can survive and report the magical creatures that actively attack wizards, they can basically say goodbye to this world, not to mention that Uther's father is the Minister of Magic in Egypt...

Chapter 76: The Ambition of Gathering All the Magical Animals (and Food) in the World

"So...are we going back now?"

Adam suggested.

"It's a bit late indeed."

"Let's go then."

"I have no opinion."

"Me too."

After being warned by the centaurs, even Bernard no longer had the heart to take risks.

However, perhaps this is what is meant by "planting flowers with care but they do not bloom, while planting willows without care but they grow into shade trees"...

"Oh my god..."

The moonlight of the waning moon was not bright, and snowflakes were floating in the sky, but all this did not prevent the unicorn from appearing to glow.

“It’s so beautiful…”

Bernard almost groaned.

"Don't scare it..."

As soon as Cologne finished speaking, the unicorn's ears moved and it looked towards them.

Just when everyone thought the unicorn was going to run away again, it actually took a few steps back, and then seemed to be attracted by something and walked towards them hesitantly.

The unicorn walked up to them with a look of disgust, opened its mouth and bit Adam's sleeve and dragged him away from the remaining four people. Then it snorted in satisfaction and rubbed against Adam intimately.

The four people who watched the whole process: "..."

Bernard spoke quietly:

"Don't unicorns only accept virgins approaching them?"

"Ah, yes."

There was no emotion in Cologne's response.

"Maybe it doesn't count if the unicorn approaches actively."

Fortunately, Adam did not forget his brothers. After being obsessed with the unicorn's soft hair and beautiful appearance for a few minutes, he came to his senses, made an appointment with the unicorn to meet next time, and then said goodbye to the unicorn.

Next time I come, I'll try to use the double cards to get a few unicorns to raise...

It must be said that the aura of love cards is really strong. Adam feels that he can also work hard to become a magical zoologist after graduation.

Or, a collector of magical creatures? It would be a wonderful thing if there was a place that could gather all kinds of magical creatures from all over the world.

However, it is a bit difficult to achieve this goal by yourself, but Nick Lemay left behind connections, so it is time to contact the senior who has long admired him.

As for the restaurant and the cinema that is still being planned... the daily operations can be completely handed over to the employees, and Adam only needs to master the core technology.

Perhaps God was supporting Adam in developing his interests and hobbies, for on the way back they actually encountered two lone eight-eyed giant spiders.

Well, the two eight-eyed giant spiders can be described as being alone for Adam and his five companions.

"Don't do anything yet!"

Adam stopped Uther and the others from taking out their wands, especially Cologne, who was still thinking about avenging the shame of being unable to help last time as he could only passively defend.

"This pair looks like a male and a female. Let me take them home and raise them."

"You want to raise them?!"

Cologne's expression is hard to describe:

"Adam, to be honest, I don't mind if you keep a snake monster in your dorm, but this giant spider..."

"I can shrink them down."

Adam waved the Wand of Darkness, and the two eight-eyed giant spiders seemed to sense the basilisk aura on Adam and wanted to escape, but they suddenly felt that the whole world became bigger and covered with a filter - they were shrunk and put into a glass jar by Adam. As usual, he left a breathing hole on the lid of the glass jar, and continued:

"And I heard that spiders taste delicious when roasted."

"…If you want to raise it, it's not impossible."

Colon swallowed.

Imagine a giant spider that can grow to more than ten feet tall... How much meat would that have to haveψ(｀?′)ψ

Now that Adam has said this, those who believe that Adam can keep an eye on the two spiders only have one thing left to say:

“Leave one bowl for me!”

Adam was in a good mood on the way back. When he returned to the dormitory, he put the glass jar of the Acromantula on the bedside table, next to the glass jar of the Basilisk.

Although they seemed a little stressed when the glass jar of the Acromantula was placed next to the Basilisk, it's something you just need to get used to.

After initially struggling to leave the glass jar in vain, the stressed-out eight-eyed giant spider began to mate, apparently wanting to leave offspring before dying, which wasn't a bad thing for Adam.

He couldn't rely solely on cloning and capturing the magical animals he raised, so of course it would be best if they could reproduce.

As for the magical creatures that cannot be obtained by breeding...if the copies made by the double cards were not exactly the same as the originals, and Fawkes had a contract with the Dumbledore family, Adam would have gotten himself a phoenix long ago, but such magical creatures are still rare after all.

I don’t know what the situation is with normal spiders, but before Valentine’s Day, Adam had already bred a large nest of eight-eyed giant spiders. Even after they were shrunk and put in bottles, they were still enough to make people’s scalps tingle.

However, the prerequisite is that this person has never eaten grilled Acromanthus, otherwise in this person's eyes, there would not be much difference between an Acromanthus and a hairy crab as big as a king crab.

"You guys need to grow up quickly~ Slurp——"

Cologne looked at the little spider in the bottle and swallowed his saliva.

"Adam, we don't have to wait until they grow that big. We can eat them when they are almost there..."

"They have only been hatched for a few days. We need to wait at least another month."

Adam smacked his lips.

It was my first time trying grilled giant eight-eyed spider. The sweet, tender spider meat wrapped in fat and the chewy spider silk sacs immediately conquered the taste buds of all tasters, including Adam himself who cooked this dish.

It has to be said that the deliciousness of the Acromanthus spider was a little beyond his expectations. In the future, the restaurant's signature dish must definitely be the roasted Acromanthus spider. However, if it is fifteen feet long, the pricing may be difficult... If it is too cheap, it will be unreasonable, and if it is too expensive, few people can afford it. It may only be served as a special for banquets.

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In contrast, a one-month-old giant spider is nearly perfect:

At this time, the eight-eyed giant spider has a toxin that can make the spider meat more delicious under high temperatures. The spider silk sac becomes chewy because it stores enough spider silk, and this size is almost the size of a dish.

If only they could bring their own cutlery like scallops and oysters, Adam would be willing to call the Acromantula a treasure bestowed upon mankind by the God of Gourmet!

Compared with the eight-eyed giant spider, Adam couldn't help but feel a little disgusted with the basilisk.

It cannot be said that basilisk is completely unpalatable, it’s just that the meat is a bit too tough and has a strong fishy smell. It is still very delicious if stewed into a meat soup with good seasoning - but the taste is about the same as normal snake meat soup, and it is not very competitive compared to the Acromantula.

The only thing that surprised Adam about the basilisk was probably its eyes.

The pair of eyes that were blinded by Fox's claws were actually very tough and could not be pierced by a kitchen knife. After Adam dug out the eyes with the sword card, they still retained enough magic power to petrify living things.

Adam felt that once he studied alchemy carefully, he might be able to refine the basilisk's eyeballs into powerful magic props, but now this pair would definitely not be preserved until that time.

In the end, because there was still magic on the eyeballs, and considering that the eyeballs might still be too challenging for foreigners, Adam treated the eyeballs with a purification spell and roasted them like pig eyes. He solved the problem alone in tears.

So fragrant!

Well...when I said before that the basilisk's eye surprised Adam, I meant that the taste of the basilisk's eye was very delicious and surprising.

Chapter 77 Happy New Year

The Christmas holiday is short after all, just over a week, and everyone has to return to Hogwarts to continue their studies for the second half of the school year.

However, they never felt disappointed for the past holiday. What the Badgers are looking forward to most is the one extra festival they have this year compared to other colleges - Food Festival (crossed out) Chinese New Year!

Last year, at everyone's strong request, Adam agreed to celebrate the New Year with everyone this year. For this purpose, he specially applied to Professor Sprout for four underground classrooms and the middle corridor as the venue. After Professor Sprout approved the note, she said that she would also come to join in the fun.

Although it is Chinese New Year, the activities have actually started in the twelfth lunar month. One silver coin is required for admission, and you can eat as much food as you like unless otherwise specified anywhere in the venue. The main purpose is to create a lively atmosphere, and there are various small activities in the venue such as ring tossing and pot pitching, with extra snacks and prizes. It is free but the number of times each person can do it is limited, and cheating with magic is not allowed.

"This is a Hufflepuff event, why are you two here?"

Bernard was surprised to spot the Weasley twins in a corner of the grounds.

"We were specially invited by Adam!"

"Because our invention is very festive--"

"Would you like a nice and safe crackle?"

"Everyone gets half price for the first copy they buy, and 20% off for the second copy~"

The Weasley twins introduced their wares in unison.

"Uh, forget it. It's such a nice day..." Why should I be so hard on myself?

"This time is different, we swear on our lives - these fireworks are normal holiday items!"

"If it turns out to be a prank toy that explodes this time, you'll report it to Adam and have him throw us into the pot along with the mandrake!"

Hiss—what a vicious oath! I have to say Bernard was moved.

"Give me two!"

“Thank you for your patronage!”

"What color do you want?"

Apart from the twins who are doing a booming business, Adam's side is also busy as well.

"Adam Adam, is this the New Year's Eve dinner?"

Ernie held the deluxe Laba porridge with nuts that he had just caught. Although it tasted good, it seemed a little different from what he had said last year...

"It's Laba porridge now, and we have the Little New Year's Day to worship the Kitchen God and eat kitchen candy, and finally the New Year's Eve dinner. There will also be lantern festivals and glutinous rice balls on the Lantern Festival, so don't be anxious."

"Gudong-"

The sound of swallowing saliva could be heard all around. The badgers were happy that there were still many delicious foods waiting for them, but at the same time they found helplessly that it would take many days to eat them. They really wished that time could pass quickly...

In addition to these regular activities that can be participated in for one silver Sickle, there are additional rewards for participating in some special activities on New Year's Eve, but this requires some preparation, so Adam has announced it in advance.

Now Cedric has started to learn the lion dance for the egg yolk pastry stuffed lion dance that year, vowing to win the first place. He is currently dragging his roommates to rehearse every day.

The two-meter-high oriental dragon made of malt sugar also attracted a large number of badgers who wanted to perform a dragon dance. Unfortunately, Adam dismissed most of the dragon dance teams after seeing it, on the grounds that the western dragon was not included in the competition results.

In order to encourage the badgers' enthusiasm, Adam specially prepared a variety of kitchen candies on the day of the Kitchen God worship, including round sugar melons, slender and hollow Kanto candies, short and thick mouse tails, peanuts wrapped in white sugar icing, peanut crisps, sesame crisps... There are only seven or eight ingredients, but due to various methods and shapes, there are dozens of combinations, which come together to form a sweet ocean.

After worshipping the Kitchen God, the badgers can run to the sea of ​​candies and scoop up whatever they like with their spoons. I wonder if the Kitchen God will be surprised this year why there are a group of children from foreign countries among the people worshipping him.

"In Chinese legend, the Kitchen God will report to the gods in heaven at this time every year about the bad things the family has done in the past year, so everyone should make sticky and sweet candies to stick the Kitchen God's mouth shut so that he won't tell tales~"

While enjoying the food, Adam also gave everyone some popular science about Chinese mythology. Of course, it doesn’t matter if you haven’t heard it, because these badgers will regret it during the Lantern Festival~

Amidst the lively atmosphere, New Year's Eve was finally approaching. However, on the day before New Year's Eve, Professor Dumbledore approached Adam with a bitter face.

"Um... other colleges are going to participate too?"

Adam was speechless. What does cultural export mean? In this era, he is probably the first person to export Chinese culture, directly influencing the next generation of the British wizarding world.

"But I'm not prepared. How about... wait until next year?"

"Well, I'm actually under a lot of pressure here too. How about getting some candy or something to comfort them?"

As Professor Dumbledore spoke, he glanced in the direction where the sweet fragrance came from.

Emmm...

Professor, to be honest, it's you who wants some candy, right?

Adam hesitated:

"But, everyone contributed to the layout of the venue, and this time we are mainly giving back to everyone for their unremitting support, so it is so cheap. Now suddenly other colleges are joining in..."

Professor Dumbledore did not say anything either. He just silently raised his fingers and wiped the corners of his eyes. After wiping a little, he finally squeezed out a few tears.