Jane Yu quickly faced a second wave of human barriers after breaking through the first one.
The barrier was formed by her classmates, surrounding her layer upon layer.
"Congratulations—how did you do it? That dragon actually listened to you?"
Draco's congratulatory words were cut short as his gaze was drawn to the moving dragon model she held.
"A dragon model? Merlin—how can it be so exquisite, my goodness, it can move! It's yawning! It's glaring at me! I'm going to die!"
He caressed the Ukrainian Ironbelly model lovingly, clicking his tongue incessantly, looking as if he was about to marry it the next second:
"Look at these shiny scales, these spikes, these claws, so beautiful!"
He even forgot to taunt Harry and Ron standing nearby, showing the dragon's allure to him.
"Congratulations, Yu!" Daphne burst out with immense strength, pulling the dragon-obsessed Draco aside, "I knew you could do it! If you don't win, who will—wait, what are you doing to her, Granger?"
"You were amazing!" Hermione grabbed Jane Yu's sleeve, preventing herself from being pulled away by Daphne, "The book says wizards use violence to threaten dragons into submission, but you didn't do that at all! It seemed completely voluntary! And is lying down a new way to tame dragons?—Ouch! Who's squeezing me! I haven't finished—"
She was soon pushed away from Jane Yu by the surging crowd, thanks to Dumbledore's foresight, she didn't manage to take away the corner of her robe embroidered with magical runes.
Blaise and Theodore couldn't get a word in under the crowd's heavy attack, while Harry and Ron were squeezed to the outer layer by the united little snakes.
With three years of rich experience in anti-squeezing and anti-stamping, Daphne held Jane Yu's arm, excitedly babbling about the competition scenes:
"Yu... Yu! You know? No one can compare to you!"
"Cedric turned the stones on the ground into dogs, trying to make the dragon chase them, but halfway through, the dragon decided to catch the egg thief first, Hufflepuff almost lost a general; the girl from Beauxbatons made the dragon half-asleep, but it snored and burned her skirt; Krum from Durmstrang hit the dragon's eye, resulting in the dragon crushing half of the real egg—too bad you didn't see the faces of those Romanian dragon handlers! They looked like they wanted to eat him! And then there's Potter, he tried to compete with the dragon in flying skills, but got his arm smashed by its tail!"
She panted heavily, bending over, a long string of words successfully exhausting her lung capacity and Jane Yu's hearing.
Blaise and Theodore finally squeezed into the circle after struggling hard:
"They're about to score, we need to go see!"
A group of people surrounded Jane Yu, marching towards the edge of the arena where five judges sat on elevated golden chairs on the right side.
With Jane Yu's good eyesight, she saw the first judge, Madam Maxime, raising her wand high, its tip spraying out a silver ribbon forming the number "10".
"A perfect, world-shocking performance." She smiled and commented, making a joke, "But I think this champion must have misunderstood the task, she only needed to pass a dragon, not raise one!"
After her, Mr. Crouch and Dumbledore both gave a score of "10", followed by Bagman doing the same.
Only Karkaroff's face was sullen, he paused for a moment, reluctantly spraying out a score of "8".
This triggered boos and protests from the audience.
"He gives very low scores to Hogwarts students!" Ron shouted, "Only gave Harry 4 points! But he gave Krum 10 points! Annoying, biased guy! Unfair! Unfair!"
Although this voice came from a Gryffindor Weasley, his words were unanimously recognized by the Slytherin students.
"If the score limit wasn't 10, Yu could have gotten 100 points, 1000 points, points!" Daphne seemed ready to wave her hand to beat Karkaroff, "How dare he give only 8 points?"
"If he had to deal with the dragon himself, his head would have been burned bald." Blaise sharply commented, "Does he think he can do better than Yu?"
Among the indignant students, only Jane Yu's soul flew away.
It wasn't until she was called to the tent by Bagman and handed a golden egg that she barely came to her senses.
But who could have thought that among the thousands of dragons in the world—
It would still be this one?!
Turning back suddenly, the dragon was still there, at the Triwizard Tournament?
Even snatching her script on the spot, performing a staged accident?
Now her plan was completely ruined!
Not only couldn't she surrender and withdraw—
She even leaped to the top of the leaderboard!
She inexplicably stole the spotlight from the protagonist Harry!
Couldn't even lie in the medical wing! Couldn't get out of homework!
She still had to face the next unknown threat, whether it was a wizard duel or a 5x level creature!
People can't, or at least shouldn't, always encounter a familiar dragon every time, right?
Jane Yu felt her heartbeat accelerating, needing to imitate Harry to secure an ambulance for rescue.
But amidst her myocardial infarction, Bagman had already happily announced the start time of the next event and made hints:
"The next event starts on February 24th next year... The clue is hidden in the golden egg..."
Jane Yu looked at the golden egg, suddenly feeling a bit itchy in her teeth.
Such a big egg, is it pure gold?
She lowered her head and bit the golden egg.
There was the scent of gold.
Could leave teeth marks, maybe it's real, probably worth quite a bit.
"Do we need to return the golden egg after the competition?" she asked.
"What?" Bagman replied in surprise, "Of course not, just open it to get the clue, as for the shell, it's a souvenir for the champions!"
A big golden egg in the account, now she felt much better.
Pretending to be dead in the next event should not be too late!
Anyway (a taste) there's still three months (another bite) until the next event (bite bite bite)!
The scent of money, truly fragrant!
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