harry potter book of crimes

"McLean, I have to say, I only realize now...how wise your decision to evacuate London collectively was..."

"Huh? What happened?"

In the square in the center of Spiral Town, Maka and Lupine were standing next to the magic statue and chatting in a low voice. Not far away, the rather dusty Sirius nodded slightly, seeming to agree.

Lupine's words.

"That's right," Sirius saw Maka asking, and immediately took over the conversation and said, "You know, I have been secretly patrolling around London with two teams of people...guess what I saw?"

For Sirius at this time, rhetorical questions were obviously just a way of "drawing important points". As soon as he asked the question, he continued as if he was asking and answering himself:

"There are still a few remnants in the fog...well, they are the previous enemies who can control unknown black substances. We have confirmed that those guys cannot leave the scope of the fog."

"However, we also discovered another kind of enemy!" He paused for a moment, then explained, "They are like the Inferi created by dark wizards in the past through secret methods... Well, very fast Inferi.

.Although it has a certain resistance to magic spells, it is definitely not as good as the former that can construct a magic shield on its own."

Judging from Sirius's description, he has obviously fought against those "accelerated versions of the Inferi". But from what he said, those new enemies don't seem to be that powerful?

However, Sirius followed closely:

"However, those guys were able to cross the border of the fog and run outside without any hindrance!"

After emphasizing this point in his tone, he looked at Lu Ping solemnly.

"As always, I didn't notice anything wrong at first, because they were not too different from the original crazy wizards, so I just regarded them as remnants that had not been completely eliminated. But... when I brought them with me

When a team was on the edge of the fog and saw a corpse 'standing up' with my own eyes, I knew where those new enemies came from!"

By the time Sirius said this, Maka actually understood what he and Lupine wanted to say. But perhaps because of the importance of this matter, Lupine still added:

"Obviously, if so many wizards and Muggles are still in the fog now, the consequences will be unimaginable. That Haierbo simply wants to start a war in London that will bring him millions of troops.

The cataclysm!”

"Well..." Maka frowned and whispered, "When I announced it was complete, I didn't expect so much... At that time, I just knew that Haierbo wanted to collect souls to create a new body through massacre, so I

"

Unexpectedly, Haierbona was a plot to kill two birds with one stone!

If the strength of the demon he summoned hadn't exceeded his imagination and caused a huge surprise in his plan, Maka's evacuation operation would most likely not be possible in the end.

And when the time comes, with the nearly eight million people in the London metropolitan area... there will be an unstoppable Helbo, plus an army of millions of "enhanced versions of the Inferi"!

At that point, whether it's letting Muggles use weapons of mass destruction, or Maka finding a way to use attack magic that covers a large area.

Anyway, no matter which way of response, London is definitely not available.

Thinking of this, Maka couldn't help but secretly smacked Lupine and called him "wise and far-sighted", but he understood that this time it was luck that was mainly on his side.

And this also gave him a rare secret of luck.

"Sirius, is there anyone watching over there?" He thought for a while and couldn't help but ask.

"Of course!" Sirius nodded immediately, "I will wait for the members of the two teams to repair themselves a little, and then go back... There were a lot of casualties in London, but after all, there were still a lot of bodies left unprocessed.

It’s clean, and you can’t live without people there now.”

"Yeah." Maka immediately nodded and said, "I will also let my spiders take action. But they will definitely not be able to step into the fog. If my little guys die in it, they will become Haierbo's accomplices.

, that will become a big problem!”

After watching Sirius go to rest, Maka and Lupine were silent for a moment, then waved their hands and put the matter aside.

Anyway, the worst case scenario has not happened, that is a good thing, and we have to continue to move forward. If you always focus on the gains and losses of the past, it will only lead to no progress.

The next moment, Maka looked at the statue in the center of the square again.

Before Sirius came back, Maka had already made a preliminary inspection. It was a human-shaped statue made of mercury and constructed with magic. Currently, under the illumination of the street lights around the square, the slightly undulating surface was shining with brilliance.

.

But who is the prototype of this statue... To be honest, Maka really didn't realize it for a while.

"Have the Silent Man from the Department of Mysteries of the Ministry of Magic studied it before?" Maka asked while looking at it, "Did they say whose statue this is?"

"No," Lu Ping shook his head, "This mercury statue itself has no final shape. Many details have slight changes. It can be said that it is different every moment. Some people think that it is very similar to the one who advocated the planning of Spiral Town at that time.

A minister of magic, if you compare it with his portrait, it's not the same."

After Maka heard this, she touched her chin and thought for a moment, and then couldn't help but said loudly to the mercury statue:

"Hey! Can you say something?"

Unfortunately, he was obviously not the first person to try to communicate with him, and this was not even the first time he spoke to him.

But although the statue would move from time to time, or look up at the sky, or fold its arms in meditation, it did not respond to Maka's intention. This made people wonder whether it had no will of its own at all and was completely just

Just doing some actions according to the magic settings.

"Maybe... this is just an ordinary statue with a slightly novel design?"

Maka's magic induction can't sense anything, and based on the construction history of Spiral Town, this thing seems to be just a product of the modern magic world. It seems that there is no possibility that it exceeds the common sense of modern magic.

"Anyway," Maka thought about it for a while, and then said, "Let's go check out other defense buildings in the town first! If there is really something wrong with this statue, maybe we can get some clues from other details.

!”

Having said that, Maka let Lupine lead the way and quickly left the square and went elsewhere.

But they didn't know that not long after they left, a pair of eyes extended from a building near the square and landed directly on the mysterious mercury sculpture...