Hogwarts starts with stealing power

Draco remained silent and controlled the [Puppet Spider] to return.

After a while, wizards returned to the abandoned warehouse one after another.

There seems to be some kind of communication method between wizards. After the first wizard came in, he saw Draco and Lin Xia and asked, "Have the others come back?"

Lin Xia said: "No, you were the first to return to the warehouse."

The wizard thought for a while and said: "I will go out first. If others come, just tell me that I have gone over to take care of them."

Lin Xia's eyes flashed slightly: "Are you going to collect the body of another wizard?"

The wizard was stunned, "How did you know?"

Lin Xia: "Draco and I controlled the alchemy items and went out for investigation, and happened to record the entire process of the wizard's death."

"Alchemical items?"

Lin Xia and Draco showed the [Mantis] and [Puppet Spider] in their hands.

The wizard's mouth twitched slightly, "It's really an alchemy item..."

He turned around and muttered: "Each one costs hundreds of gold galleons. This is not a reconnaissance. This is simply a waste of money."

Alchemy items are very expensive and not durable. They need to be repaired after being used a few times.

The more you repair it, the more money you spend on repairing it. It's more expensive than buying a new one. Using alchemy items for detection is just a waste of money.

The other wizards returned, and Lin Xia told them the explanation left by the first wizard.

When the wizards saw what Lin Xia and Draco were holding, their expressions were strange, but they didn't say anything.

The last one to return is captain Mia.

As soon as she came in, she was not surprised to see what Lin Xia and Draco were holding.

Mia asked: "Dren died, who will get his body back?"

"Furzil has passed and will be back soon."

Mia said solemnly: "This is the fourth wizard to die since the anomaly in Windmill Town was discovered. Everyone must be careful when investigating. I suspect that Windmill Town is even more violent and irritable than in the past. When I investigated today, the residents Often it only takes two or three sentences to get violent and hurtful.”

Lin Xia said at this time: "We filmed the entire process of Delen's sacrifice. Captain, do you want to see it?"

Mia raised her eyebrows, very surprised: "Of course."

Lin Xia took Draco's [Puppet Spider] and played back the images stored on the monitor.

Mia whistled loudly and praised: "It is indeed a [Puppet Spider]. Judging from the function, it is an advanced version. It costs at least three to four hundred gold galleons to buy it."

While the wizard was watching the replay, Furqi also came back and joined in the watching without saying anything else.

Lin Xia discovered that the wizards here were extremely indifferent to death.

Someone died in the team, but they didn't seem to care. It seemed that this person just left normally, rather than really leaving them.

Draco hesitated to speak in front of this group of wizards who were analyzing the picture rigorously.

Mia watched the video twice, stopped watching, and left the team. Seeing Draco depressed, she couldn't help but sneered:

"Little wizard, don't make that bitter expression, it will make us look like a heartless person."

Draco said unconvinced: "He is your partner, but you don't seem to be sad about his death!"

Mia looked out the window noncommittally.

"There's nothing to be sad about." She said calmly: "Death is just another great adventure. Each of us will eventually go to this adventure, sooner or later."

…

Because there were victims, Mia thought that Windmill Town had changed again, so she did not arrange for the team members to go out to check in the afternoon, but asked everyone to gather in the warehouse to study strategies.

Perhaps they had offended certain rules through frequent testing, and some of the laws they had studied in the past were no longer applicable.

At least in the past, there has never been a situation where residents on the street would attack someone who just offended one or two residents.

This makes investigation missions more dangerous, but fine for recon missions.

In the afternoon.

Lin Xia and Draco's [Puppet Spiders] were borrowed in turns, and the wizard controlled them to observe the surroundings.

Under the control of the wizard, the two learned many skills in controlling spiders.

These techniques are not difficult to say, but the two of them have little experience and did not expect to be able to use them in this way.

Compared to the [Puppet Spider], Lin Xia's [Praying Mantis] is even more coveted. This is a thing that can be used for remote detection.

But [Praying Mantis] needs to be used with the "thought control transformation method", and no wizard in the team can do it.

So Mia just asked Lin Xia to control [Mantis] to check around the center circle to see if she could find anything.

Lin Xia also had this intention.

But it is a pity that this abandoned warehouse is too far from the central circle, and often has to return just after flying to the central circle.

Even so, they collected a lot of useful data.

They found that the central circle was particularly crowded, but it was also very dangerous. Once the investigation there did not go smoothly, they would face siege by many wizards.

Lin Xia followed the rule of half an hour of investigation and half an hour of rest, and spent the entire afternoon conducting repeated investigations.

While resting, she thought of something and asked: "Most of the residents living in Windmill Town are wizards, right?"

Mia: "Well, 80% of them are wizards, and the remaining 20% ​​are related to wizards. They know the wizarding world very well."

"Then why do they use physical attacks when attacking wizards?" Lin Xia raised a blind spot.

People in the wizarding world are accustomed to using magic, and physical attacks are only methods used by those who do not know magic.

Lin Xia saw that the residents of an entire street had attacked the Deren wizard, but all of them were physical attacks.

They were not without wands, and some of them even put their wands in their trouser pockets, with a large part exposed, but they still did not draw their wands, but used their fists.

This was not very magical.

Mia was stunned, "The angle you proposed is quite fresh."

"We are used to using magic, and we didn't care when we saw them using physical attacks. Anyway, we could resist them with magic after all, but you are right, since we can use magic, why don't they use magic?"

Mia fell into deep thought, feeling that she had grasped something vaguely, but she still needed a little inspiration.

Even if the residents of the town were trapped in the old cycle, there was no reason to forget magic, unless they were not trapped in the past at all!

Mia suppressed this speculation and planned to go out to investigate when night fell.

Night is a good opportunity for exploration. The residents all returned to their houses to rest, and there was basically no one on the street.

Soon, night fell.

Everyone began to move their positions, and under the cover of the moonlight, they headed for the mobile residential building near the center circle.

This place is very close to the center circle, and Lin Xia can completely control the [Mantis] to scout around the center circle.

Even the [Puppet Spider] can enter the center circle with a swagger.

At midnight.

There were subtle sounds of insects and birds outside the window, and there was silence all around.

Lin Xia controlled the [Mantis] to enter the center circle and passed by the doors of every household.

Suddenly, the [Mantis] found a person on the side of the road, and walked in to see that it was a homeless man.

Lin Xia wanted to skip it, but suddenly noticed something wrong, and controlled the [Mantis] to approach this person.

There were many dense maggots on this person!

The [Mantis] jumped directly onto him and observed him closely. Judging from the degree of decay of the body, the homeless man had been dead for at least several days.

Lin Xia immediately reported this to Mia.

Mia looked serious, this was another new discovery.

Before today, they had never left the abandoned warehouse and were extremely cautious in their exploration of the town.

If the two little wizards had not had good reconnaissance tools, they would not have thought of taking advantage of the night to go further and use the reconnaissance objects to explore the town in detail.

Mia said: "Could it be because the town is trapped in the past, and in the past, the homeless man did not die, so the residents assumed that he did not die either. In the eyes of the residents, he is still alive?"

The team members pondered for a while, and they didn't know.

Lin Xia said: "I thought of a good elimination method, but it is difficult to implement."

"What method?" Mia did not look down on her because she was a little wizard.

Being rated as an outstanding student by Hogwarts in the first grade, publishing two papers alone, and creating two magical creations is enough to show that Lin Xia has extraordinary wisdom.

Especially today, Mia felt many times that Lin Xia should be assigned to Ravenclaw. She is really too smart!

"In the eyes of the residents, the homeless man is alive, but the homeless man is indeed dead. His death is unchanging. He was also dead in the past, but he was not discovered by the residents.

If the homeless man still stays in the same place tomorrow and does not move, and the residents turn a blind eye to it, then everyone may be trapped in the past. The homeless man has no past because he has already died."

"But," Lin Xia changed her words, "If the homeless man moves, it means that everyone is not trapped in the past, but is being controlled."

"Wait, I don't quite understand, how can the homeless man move, he is already dead, how can he move!" Rosen couldn't help but say.

The other team members were also puzzled, only Draco and Mia's expressions changed slightly, and they completely understood.

Mia said solemnly: "You put forward a new idea. They may not be poor people trapped in the old days, but they are controlled by others, right?"

Again, the dead have no past.

The reason why the wizards trapped in the past can move is that they are still alive, so they live according to the behavioral habits of the past.

But if the homeless man can still stand up and move tomorrow, it proves that the people in the entire Windmill Town have been manipulated!

Manipulate these people to live according to their past behaviors!

Only in this way can it be explained that even if the homeless man dies, he still has to get up and beg, because the homeless man's past behaviors are all begging.

This idea is really terrifying.

What kind of monsters have they been dealing with?