"Hey, who are you?"

Vikeldo Klum stumbled up and shouted to Hoffa in half-baked English: "Is this the monster you raised?"

Sphinx looked at Hoffa, "Do you know him?"

Hoffa nodded slowly.

"But he doesn't seem to know you."

The Sphinx smiled and said: "Do you think he is wise and foolish, or does he have strong limbs and a simple mind?"

Hoffa didn't answer this question. Although he probably knew the answer, Krum over there had already drawn his wand and looked very alert.

The Sphinx turned its head and looked at Vikeldo Krum: "Hey, young man from the north, tell me what is always smiling, what is never sleeping, what is wearing borrowed clothes,

Accompany you for half your life."

Viktor Krum pointed his wand at the Sphinx and said loudly: "Can I pass here only if I defeat you? Is the trophy right behind you?"

"Answer my question, young man."

Sphinx said lazily.

"Crush them all!"

Viktor Krum waved his wand, and a spell rushed out from his wand, but disappeared without a trace after touching the Sphinx's body.

The sphinx calmly flicked its fingers, then turned silently, like a lioness preying on a gazelle, and instantly pounced on it. Even Hoffa, who was so fast, didn't even react, and waved his wand Viktor.

In the blink of an eye, Krum was knocked upside down on his feet. His wand was thrown away and rolled to Hoffa's feet.

"The answer is not what was asked."

The Sphinx shook the legendary Seeker's thigh, cheek to cheek, and said irresistibly.

"Do you know the answer to the riddle?"

"monster..."

Krum was hanging upside down, staring angrily at the Sphinx, his eyes seemed to be able to breathe fire.

"It seems you don't know anymore, and you don't seem to be a person who likes to use your brain."

It sniffed Vikeldo Krum's thigh, as if sniffing something extremely delicious: "It's so strong, you must be delicious..."

After that, it opened its mouth, and the lips that were originally as delicate as a young woman's opened wider and wider, revealing the extremely sharp teeth behind them, just like a real lion, and finally they were big enough to kill Victor Crewe.

The extent to which Mu’s head is stuffed inside.

At this time, Vikeldo Krum's face turned pale with fright, his teeth chattered slightly, and he did not speak.

"moon."

A voice came from below, interrupting the sphinx's cannibalism. It was stunned and lowered its head in displeasure.

Hoffa looked at Vikeldo Klum worriedly. He took a step forward and said again: "The moon."

"That's an accurate answer, but that's not your problem."

The Sphinx carried the boy and said coldly: "Anyone who answers the riddle incorrectly will be eaten by me and disappear into the maze. This is the rule."

"Then there is a first-come, first-served principle, I come first." Hoffa said: "Why don't you respect me and ask him questions first?"

The Sphinx was stunned and looked at Hoffa in a strange way. One person and one animal looked at each other for a long time. Finally, the Sphinx took the lead in relying on its eyes, and its mouth returned to its original shape.

"It seems that it can't be done now... You are right, I have more important guests now..."

It raised its huge lion claws and threw Vikeldo Krum out of the ring maze, just like throwing garbage.

Then, the Sphinx straightened its paws and stood up solemnly, just like its famous sculpture in Egypt. Its voice changed from an ethereal female voice to a rumbling roar:

"As time goes by, as a servant,

From the time I first met Hera on Mount Ida,

Wander the labyrinth of Zagreos.

endure her dark and vicious curse,

Finished her bloody red feast,

Hold high the holy fire of wisdom and knowledge,

I am finally free,

Named after the sphinx, the priest who holds the code in his hand,

I can see through villains and hypocrites at a glance,

The incompetent and the immoral have no place to hide in my eyes.

If anyone can answer my riddle,

Then I will give him some small help,

However, only true heroes are qualified to answer my questions."

It flicked its sharp lion claws, used the scimitar-like claw tip to gently scratch Hoffa's chin to his heart, and licked his lips: "Are you?"

"What are you going to ask me?"

Hoffa took a step back, avoiding the sphinx's sharp claws, and asked sarcastically: "Four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening?"

"Hahahahahahaha~"

The Sphinx laughed happily, and the voice was very pleasant:

"As you all know, I asked Oedipus this question, but it was just one of my millions of questions. In fact, everyone's problems will be different. If you are not Oedipus, I will naturally not ask you.

Same problem as him."

"Then come."

Hoffa shrugged confidently: "I am Ravenclaw, and no riddle in the world can stop me."

"Of course, I know the rules of your college."

A mischievous light shone in the Sphinx's eyes: "So I don't intend to put you off with a simple riddle like I did with Oedipus or anyone else."

"Oh?" Hoffa raised his eyebrows in surprise: "Then what do you want to ask me?"

The Sphinx moved slowly, and it circled Hoffa very gracefully, looking him up and down:

"I want to ask you, why do people build things like mazes? Guess."

"Why build a maze? Of course it is to trap people in it." Hoffa said matter-of-factly.

"Why should people be trapped in a maze?"

Sphinx asked again: "If you want to trap people, why not just make a cage?"

The question became more difficult. Hoffa frowned, touched his chin in front of the Sphinx's hand and turned it around a few times. After thinking for a long time, he stopped and said slowly:

"It's too direct, and... if it's a cage, people outside can see it. If it's a maze, people outside can't see it. In other words, it's very difficult to see."

"so what."

Sphinx lay on the ground and looked at him with a smile.

"So the things closed in the maze cannot be seen by outsiders. They are shameful things. They can neither let outsiders see it nor let the things inside get out."

Hoffa said slowly, his tone becoming more solemn.

“Quite an accurate summary.”

Sphinx licked his paws, "But what exactly is something shameful? There is nothing new under the sun. In this world, nothing seems strange about anything that happens."

"Come on and commit a crime."

Hoffa thought for a moment and replied: "Society generally uses prisons and cages to isolate criminals.

But if criminals want to hide their crimes, they will build a maze instead of a simple cage. Because they don't want their crimes to be seen by others."

"Very close," Sphinx immediately asked, "But what exactly is crime?"

It smiled and said: "In the era when I was born, my mother was Echidna, and my father was her son, the two-headed dog Ottersius. They did this. In the eyes of people at the time,

Seems normal.

But today, it is almost the behavior of a madman."

After a pause, Sphinx continued: "Five thousand years ago, tooth for tooth, eye for eye, violence for violence was the norm, and murderers would be respected, but now killing is prohibited.

Five hundred years ago, under the control of the church, drinking alcohol in this land was a crime, but now, alcohol can be bought everywhere.

A hundred years ago, it was normal for women all over the world to marry at the age of fifteen, but now, it is a crime to marry a man at the age of fifteen.

So let me ask this smart Ravenclaw, what is a crime and what is a shameful thing?"

The question became more and more pointed. Sphinx pressed forward step by step. A trace of sweat dripped from Hoffa's forehead. He frowned in thought for a long time and answered:

"Different eras have different rules, which are products of the era and environment. You cannot apply the past time to the present. This itself violates the law of time and is too one-sided."

"Aren't rules lies?"
To be continued...