Chapter 451 The Unreasonable Ash Snake (Please Vote for Me at the Beginning of the Month)

"The frozen ash snake eggs are of great value and can be used to make emotional drugs. If swallowed whole, they can also treat fevers." Newt handed over a box filled with ash snake eggs. To Snape. Snape put the box in his arms and prepared to return to Hogwarts Castle.

When he reached Tom, he paused. Luna, who was shrinking next to Tom, was shocked: she had just been too fascinated by watching the ash snake laying eggs, and forgot that she was not supposed to be here...

"Ten points from Ravenclaw, you know why." Snape left these words softly and left.

Looking at Snape's retreating back, Hermione gently patted Luna on the shoulder, "The result is pretty good. I only deducted ten points and didn't put you in solitary confinement."

From Hermione's point of view, the scenes of the Ash Snake's birth, laying eggs, and death were precious, but they could not be used as a reason or excuse to skip class. This time I skipped class because of the Fire Ash Snake. Next time Professor Scamander gets a Fire Dragon Egg, will you skip class? What about the next time I get a three-headed dog that’s pregnant?

Skipping class is like a crack in a dam, it will only get bigger if not repaired in time. There will only be more and more excuses, and this should not have been made in the first place.

Luna nodded, seeming to agree with Hermione.

After Snape left, Professor Scamander's lessons came to an end.

Tom looked at the traces left by the Ash Snakes and his mind was filled with questions. He didn't understand where the fire ash snake came from? And what is the reproduction method of fire-ash snakes?

"Professor Scamander——" Tom stopped Newt who was about to leave and asked him his question.

"How were the Ash Snakes born?" Newt paused, "They are created when the demonic fire burns unchecked for too long."

Hermione had frowned since Tom had asked the question. It's not that the question Tom asked was too complicated, but that it was too basic and seemed like he wasn't paying attention to the lecture at all. It's like the teacher has just finished explaining the structure of atoms to you in class, and you ask about the arrangement of electrons outside the nucleus.

Tom didn't care that the question he just asked was very basic. He continued to ask persistently: "Don't they lay eggs?"

This was what he was puzzled about: If the ash snakes were born out of magic fire, why would they lay eggs?

In the non-magical world, there are also many insects with very "short" lifespans, but this is actually just a human illusion. What people see is only the final adult stage of these insects. In fact, their lifespan is more than a few hours or a day and night. In the darkness invisible to humans, these bugs may have survived for several years, burrowing out of the ground and only showing up to reproduce.

Tom suspected that the same was true for the fire-ash snake, which had a lifespan of only an hour. What the wizards saw was only the final stage of the Fire Ash Snake's life. But this is very unreasonable, because as far as Tom knows, the eggs of fire-ash snakes cannot hatch little fire-ash snakes. So what is the significance of their behavior? Did they appear out of nowhere?

"The eggs of fire-ash snakes cannot hatch into young fire-ash snakes." Newt understood what Tom meant.

"The research on fire-ash snakes is still blank at present. We know almost nothing about them. We don't know how they reproduce, and no one has seen the complete life cycle of fire-ash snakes. We only know about the devil. When a fire is lit, it can attract ash snakes to come and breed, but the eggs they leave behind have no other effect besides causing fires." Newt spread his hands and said, "Tom, you have finally stopped me. There is currently no answer to this question in the magic world.

"There are two conjectures. Some people think that fire ash snakes are not real magical animals. They are more like elemental creatures, 'souls' formed after the uncontrolled burning of magic fire. They are made of pure fire elements. The process of laying eggs only enriches the fire element, so their eggs can cause fire."

"Another conjecture is that fire ash snakes do not belong to this world. They have a strong "fire" tendency and will be attracted to magic fire. Their reproduction requires specific substances, and we do not have such substances here. Therefore, the fire-ash snakes attracted by the demonic fire cannot leave any real offspring."

"Both conjectures have a certain truth. We can't make a judgment. This is also the charm of magical zoology." Newt blinked and left with his suitcase - he wanted to go back to the castle and have a good sleep. Sleep.

Newt didn't have a clear answer here, but he told Tom everything he knew.

"So what do you think? Which guess do you think is true?" Hermione thought thoughtfully on the way back to the castle. Tom's question gave her a new perspective. Hermione couldn't help but think carefully.

"I think an experiment is needed," Tom said seriously.

In the face of conjecture, the best way to prove it is to conduct experiments rather than imagine it out of thin air. Just like whether two iron balls with different masses will hit the ground at the same time, Aristotle thought about it and intuitively believed that they would not hit the ground at the same time. Galileo did an experiment and proved that they would fall to the ground at the same time.

"We can try to communicate with the fire ash snakes. If they are just elemental creatures that act on instinct, then they should not be able to communicate. As for the conjecture that the fire ash snakes come from another world, it is difficult to verify... but it is It’s not impossible.”

"Huh? How do you prove this?" Hermione's curiosity was aroused by Tom. The conjecture about a different world is simply a fool's errand. Unless that different world is found, it cannot be proven at all.

"There are two conjectures A and B. If conjecture B is too difficult to prove, we can prove that conjecture A is correct." Tom stretched out his hand and made a circle, "We can ignite the same scale of magic fire at the same place. If the same The demonic fire gave birth to a very different number of fire ash snakes, which means that the fire ash snakes are not elemental creatures, but come from an unknown place - that is, the other world you call it."

"But if the numbers are the same, they might be elemental creatures from another world." Hermione found a small loophole in Tom's theory.

Tom:…

It's really good...

"Then we can just take the Exquisite Ball and ask the Fire Ash Snake!" Tom had an idea and suddenly discovered a shortcut that was like cheating.

"What a great idea!" Hermione's eyes lit up. She wished she could find a fire-ash snake right now and ask about its origins.

Hermione's eyes were full of curiosity.

"Next time...haven't you seen how tired Professor Scamander is? It's very difficult to artificially breed a fire-ash snake." Tom poured cold water on Hermione.

"Alas..." Hermione sighed. She understood that now seemed not to be the time to study the Fire Ash Snake.

When the two walked into the castle, a figure stopped in front of them.

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