Hufflepuff was just stunned at first, and lamented with some regret that his descendants had been cut off.

But then he thought... Tom Riddle, why does this name sound familiar?

It didn't take long for Hufflepuff to remember, isn't this the name of Slytherin's last descendant?

Under Hufflepuff's inquiring eyes, Adam nodded:

"That's Tom Riddle. After Merope was driven away, he pawned the locket left by Slytherin for ten pieces--"

"What?!"

Slytherin's eyes glared. It would be fine if his relics were not worth a fortune after two thousand years, but why did they depreciate instead?

Adam did not stop, but continued to explain:

"When Tom Riddle grew up, he worked in the same store. He saw Hepzibah Smith bought Slytherin's locket at a high price in this store, so he began to contact each other and used sweet words to get closer to each other..."

"One day, Hepzibah Smith showed Tom Riddle Slytherin's locket and Hufflepuff's gold cup without any suspicion. She was killed by Tom Riddle and the relics of both fell into his hands."

This short explanation contained a lot of information, so many founders needed some time to digest it.

"The relic I left for my descendants is my gold cup..."

Hufflepuff murmured, which was not surprising.

After all, the relics that can be specially commemorated by descendants two thousand years later are basically the most iconic things, and I probably won't leave any treasures for my descendants. The most iconic thing is probably the gold cup with the magic of transferring food.

But...

"Helga's golden cup is not a powerful magic item. Apart from its commemorative significance and the fact that it can be used as proof of Hufflepuff's identity, there is no need to kill for it."

Ravenclaw looked at Slytherin:

"From Tom Riddle's deeds, he did not need the identity of a Hufflepuff's descendant. So, your descendant killed Helga's descendant in order to get your locket back, and the golden cup was just a by-product?"

Slytherin's face darkened when he heard this:

"I don't admit that he is my descendant!"

Seeing this, Adam suddenly said:

"But he inherited your will, awakened the basilisk you left in the Chamber of Secrets at Hogwarts, and cleaned up the non-pure-blood wizards in the castle."

Slytherin: ? ? ?

"Salazar?!" x3

Hearing this, the other three founders could no longer sit still and looked at Slytherin in surprise.

"What's the matter with the basilisk?"

"What's the matter with the Chamber of Secrets?"

"You want to attack the students?"

You want to accept pure-blood wizards as your students, that's your freedom, we won't interfere, but what do you mean by killing our students?

Slytherin was no less shocked than the other three at this moment, and couldn't help looking at Adam.

I'm not! I didn't! He slandered me!

Even if he supported the pure-blood theory, how could he attack the students of Hogwarts?

In fact, it was true. Slytherin didn't have the heart to attack the students of Hogwarts after all, but he was always wary of those half-blood and even Muggle-born wizards, so he left a basilisk that could survive long enough in Hogwarts.

If the situation in the future really gets bad, then his heir will use Parseltongue to wake up the basilisk and clean up those non-pure-blood wizards.

"The current Slytherin didn't do that, but that doesn't mean the future Slytherin won't do that... Do you want to meet him?"

Adam, who was always watching the fun, took out a small snake with its eyes closed from his pocket.

Woke up from sleep, the basilisk spit out its tongue subconsciously to collect the smell information around it...

Hmm? !

"Hiss hiss--(Old Master?)"

When it felt the breath of Slytherin, the basilisk was confused. Was it sliced ​​and put into the pot by Adam while it was half asleep? It has already reached the underworld?

Is it finally its turn? Fortunately, Adam still has a conscience and didn't let it feel pain...

Huh? !

The basilisk felt Adam's breath again, and this time it was completely confused.

It couldn't be that Adam was so high that he copied himself to taste the saltiness. Ouch--

Silently flicking the basilisk's head, Adam withdrew his finger without leaving a trace.

On the side, Slytherin couldn't hold back when he saw the basilisk. The other party's subconscious reaction couldn't be faked. You have to know that it was a snake, not a cunning goblin.

So, this is really the basilisk that he will cultivate in the future and leave for his descendants to clean up Hogwarts?Once Slytherin accepted this setting, he felt that this was probably what he did. Using Parseltongue as a way to activate it could indeed ensure the purity of the bloodline of the descendants who activated this method... Fxxk!

Suddenly remembering that it was the half-blood Tom Riddle who finally activated this method, Slytherin's face became even uglier.

"Salazar, it calls you old master, it seems that it was indeed created by you."

Among the four giants, only Slytherin speaks Parseltongue, but he is not the only one who can understand Parseltongue. Ravenclaw also mastered this foreign language through acquired learning.

"Salazar, what else do you have to say?"

Gryffindor frowned and stared at Slytherin.

"..."

Slytherin opened his mouth and finally spread his hands:

"Okay, this may indeed be what I do in the future, but the problem is that I haven't done it yet. I swear that I will not cultivate any basilisks or build a chamber of secrets in the future, okay?"

"I'm afraid it's not that simple."

Ravenclaw frowned slightly and looked at the basilisk in Adam's hand.

Although it was something that had not happened to them, it was also something that had happened to Adam. If Slytherin really kept his oath, then where did the basilisk in Adam's hand come from?

"That's true. There are several rules about time, one of which is that the past cannot be changed."

Adam touched the basilisk, which was still in a state of confusion, and was considering whether to go forward and reminisce with the old master. He forced it to shut down and put it back in his pocket, and began to explain to the four founders:

"The 'past' is the basis of the 'future', so even if the people of the 'future' go back to the 'past' and change the 'past', the best case scenario is that under the influence of the people of the 'future', the 'past' just happens to become the 'past' familiar to the people of the 'future'."

This is very confusing, but the four giants are all wise people, so it is not too difficult to understand.

"In other words, no matter how the people in the future change, they are all part of the original past?"

Ravenclaw summarized this.

"Yes, I call this situation the correction ability of time itself..."

Adam nodded affirmatively, and then added:

"But that's only the best case scenario. The worst case scenario is that the impact of the future on the past is so great that time cannot correct itself... For example, a person goes back to the past and kills his grandfather who has not yet married and had children."