Chapter 4154 4156 [Breaking Into Gringotts]

Xiang Nan then came to Saltaire Village in the east of London.

This is a very secluded village. It was very small forty years ago, and it is still very small forty years later, almost inconspicuous.

Xiang Nan quickly found a cliff on the coastline east of the village. The cliff stretches for miles, the cliff is steep and sloping, and it is beaten by the waves all year round, so it is smooth and slippery, and no one can climb it.

And at the bottom of the cliff, a crack is faintly visible.

Xiang Nan jumped from the cliff, and when he reached the sea, he had turned into a sea otter, and he swam in along the crack.

There was a dark secret passage in the crack, which was easily submerged by sea water when the tide was high.

The widest part of the secret passage is only one meter wide, and the entrance is even less than thirty centimeters, which can be said to be easily overlooked.

If Dumbledore had not been smart, following Voldemort's life trajectory, groping and checking step by step, no one would have known that he would hide the Horcrux here.

Xiang Nan swam along the secret passage for about 800 meters and finally came to the end of the passage. There was a staircase at the end.

Xiang Nan climbed up the staircase, turned back into human form, and then used the drying spell to dry his clothes. He walked up the staircase and came to a wide cave.

Xiang Nan carefully identified it and couldn't help showing a little disappointment.

Because he didn't detect the breath of magic in the cave.

"It seems that Voldemort shouldn't have hidden the Horcrux here yet." Xiang Nan guessed.

This is not surprising. Because as far as he knows, Voldemort hid the Horcrux in this cave in 1980. Now it's only seven or eight years, a difference of two years.

"Come and take a look every now and then." Xiang Nan then swam out of the cave and left the cliff.

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After leaving the cliff and returning to the Dragon Power Shop, Xiang Nan sent a message to Dumbledore, telling him that he didn't find the Horcrux in the cave.

Although Dumbledore was disappointed, he did not say anything, but encouraged Xiang Nan to continue searching.

Xiang Nan agreed, and in the following days, he continued to develop magic props, anti-curse equipment and potions, etc., and visited the cave on the cliff every now and then.

In addition, he also tried to go to Gringotts.

Gringotts has a history of hundreds of years, and has set up many ancient and powerful protective magics to ensure that it is not invaded by outsiders at will.

Its security can even be compared with Hogwarts.

But Xiang Nan knows the art of escaping the earth, which does not exist in Europe at all, and has even been lost in the East. Voldemort, who is well-informed, has never heard of such magic.

And Xiang Nan used this magic to travel around Hogwarts. The common rooms of Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin could not stop him.

So he wanted to try whether the art of escaping the earth would work in Gringotts.

If it works, then if Voldemort wants to give Hufflepuff's gold cup to Bellatrix to hide in Gringotts, Xiang Nan can easily steal it without any trouble.

If it doesn't work, Xiang Nan will consider using other methods.

Quirinus Quirrell, Hermione Granger, and Harry Potter can break into Gringotts, Xiang Nan doesn't believe that he can't.

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Xiang Nan then performed the earth escape spell and entered the underground of Gringotts.

He could feel that Gringotts was indeed surrounded by ancient and powerful magic. Among them were anti-intrusion magic, anti-theft magic, anti-destruction magic, and so on.

These magics were densely packed, layer upon layer, like a net of heaven and earth.

Not to mention people, even if a fly or a mouse wanted to sneak in, it would be sensed immediately.

And once sensed, the goblin guards would rush over immediately, and their magic was also quite powerful.

Therefore, Gringotts's defense capabilities were indeed extremely powerful, comparable to Hogwarts.

However, for Xiang Nan's earth escape technique, these goblins' protective magics did not work as expected.

Because Xiang Nan's earth escape technique was to merge himself with the earth, not like a mouse digging a hole.

This magical Taoist technique was probably unknown to the goblins in Gringotts, so it was impossible to prevent it.

After finding out this, Xiang Nan was relieved.

He then sneaked into the pit under Gringotts.

This pit went hundreds of miles underground and was said to be the ruins of the ancient goblin kingdom.

Goblins are an ancient magical creature, and they had mastered magic even before humans.

However, goblins hate humans and are unwilling to tell humans their magic secrets. And humans also tit-for-tat, not telling goblins the secrets of the magic wand.

In addition, goblins have different habits from humans. They believe that anything made by goblins belongs to the goblins. Humans only buy the temporary right to use it, and they should return it to the goblins after they die. Giving it to others is no different from stealing.

The founder of Hogwarts, Godric Gryffindor, once commissioned the goblin king Ragnark I to make a sword. However, the sword was so well made that it attracted Ragnark I's covetousness.

He decided to send goblins to steal the sword back, but was repelled by Gryffindor, who warned them not to steal again. Ragnark I had no choice but to swallow his anger, but from then on, goblins began to spread the rumor that Gryffindor had stolen the goblin's sword.

Because of the difference in ideas, conflicts often broke out between humans and goblins. The book "History of Magic" records many wars between goblins and wizards.

Through these wars, although human wizards did not turn goblins into slaves like they did with house-elves, the power of goblins still suffered a major blow.

The goblin kingdom was destroyed in the 14th century, and the remaining goblins dispersed and lived in groups in the form of tribes. Then the goblin Gringotts built the first and only wizard bank in the UK on the original site of the ancient goblin kingdom.

The British Ministry of Magic once wanted to control Gringotts, but after operating it for a while, they found that it was simply not working, and finally had no choice but to return it to the goblins.

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Under the Gringotts Bank building, there are huge pits that are winding and reach hundreds of miles to the center of the earth. There are a large number of vaults on the rock walls in the pits.

For hundreds of years, almost all wizards in the British wizarding world have kept their money in Gringotts.

From wealthy ancient families such as the Black family, the Lestrange family, and the Malfoy family to poor people like the Weasley family.

The defense levels of these vaults are different. The closer to the upper vault, the weaker the defense, and you only need a key to open it.

The keys of the middle vault are no longer valid, and the fairy must operate it personally to open the door of the vault. Otherwise, you will be sucked in by the door and trapped in the door and unable to escape.

The fairy only checks the vault once every ten years, so it is a sure death.

As for the vault at the bottom, it belongs to the oldest family, and their defense measures are also the most stringent, and there are even dragons guarding the door of the vault.