Three days later, inside the Bullhead Bar on Magic Street, USA.
Li Chuan looked at the newspaper he just bought with a smile on his face.
"It seems like today is the day. I remembered the time correctly."
The newspaper contents in the past few days were all about "Prohibition". The Chief of Staff of Congress proposed to introduce Prohibition like the No-Maj government, but President Serafina Picqueli vetoed the proposal.
He claimed that wizards in the United States have had enough troubles due to conflicts with No-Majs, and grog liquor must not be banned, which won unanimous praise from local wizards.
But today, the headline in the newspaper suddenly changed to "Magical riot, threatening to expose the wizarding world."
The picture below shows a destroyed house and a cracked road. It describes that an unknown magical creature attacked No-Maj's house yesterday. Many No-Majs witnessed what happened at that time.
There are many descendants of the Purifiers in the United States. Purifiers are the name given to humans who extremely hated wizards in the Middle Ages. Most of them were Puritans and were proud of killing, selling, and enslaving wizards.
One of the most famous is the Salem Witch Trials that took place in the Massachusetts colony in 1693. The purgeers tricked No-Majs into killing twenty witches on trumped-up charges.
Although the purifiers were killed in revenge by wizards afterwards, this incident also greatly intensified the conflict between local wizards and No-Majs. To this day, the relationship between American wizards and local No-Majs is the worst in the entire world.
Poor.
Unlike in the UK, where the head of the Muggle government and individual members are still aware of the existence of the Ministry of Magic, the MACUSA and the US government have no communication or cooperation at all.
Nowadays, a descendant of the Purifiers named Mary Lou Barebone has established an anti-witch organization called Second Salem in the local church.
She declares the evil of wizards every day, which deepens the gap that had already calmed down a bit.
After paying off Yin Xike who was having breakfast, Li Chuan quickly left the bar, and a phantom appeared near the International Bank of New York.
If he remembered correctly, it was in the movie that on the morning when this news appeared, Newt Scamander met his No-Maj friend Jacob and his future wife Tina at the entrance of the International Bank in New York.
"Since there is light in this world, there will also be shadows. In our city full of light, there are such shadows lurking. They carry out destruction and then disappear without a trace.
We must fight, join us, Second Salem, and we will fight together."
At this time, on the steps in front of the bank, a middle-aged aunt in a purple coat was giving a passionate speech.
She was none other than Mary Lou Barebone. She would give a speech in front of the bank every morning to ask humans to join her anti-witch organization. In the evening, she would use soup kitchens to get orphans living on the streets to help her distribute leaflets.
She herself adopted three children, two boys and one girl, but she was not kind to them, especially the boy, whom she abused almost every day.
Li Chuan walked out of the alley and crossed the street. He did not pay attention to Mary who was speaking above. Instead, he took the leaflet from the hands of a fifteen or sixteen year old boy and started chatting with him.
"May I have your name?"
"Credence."
The young man had a pot-top haircut, twinkling eyes, and looked timid and inferior.
"My name is Tom Foley, is that your mother?"
Li Chuan pointed at Mary who was still giving a passionate speech.
The young man glanced at Mary, and a look of fear suddenly appeared on his face:
"She's not, she's just my adoptive mother."
"Well, I think you seem to have some talents that ordinary people don't have. Are you interested in going to other cities with me?"
Li Chuan said with a smile.
The young man looked at Li Chuan in surprise, with a hesitant look on his face, but he quickly shook his head:
"no thanks."
After saying this, he crossed the street and handed out leaflets to pedestrians on the opposite side.
If someone had told him to take him away from here before, he would have agreed immediately because he never wanted to be physically abused by his adoptive mother every day again.
But now, he has new hope.
A wizard like the sister who helped him before promised that as long as he helped him with things, he would take him into the magical world and let him become a wizard.
Li Chuan didn't say much when he saw this, he just smiled and walked through the crowd to the position next to the bank gate to observe.
This introverted boy named Credence is actually the target of Grindelwald's visit to New York this time, an Obscurus with huge destructive power.
Obscurus refers to a very special parasite formed by wizards who did not learn magic when they were young and did not properly channel the transformed magic power in their bodies.
It usually appeared in the era when wizards were in turmoil and were hunted by Muggles. In order to avoid being hunted by Muggles, many young wizards would deliberately suppress their magic power and become Obscurus.
Obscurus would normally die before he was ten years old, but Credence was able to live until now, or even die at the age of twenty-three, because he contained much greater talent and potential than a normal wizard.
Therefore, the power of Obscurus in his body is also extremely terrifying. The house and street that were destroyed yesterday were actually caused by him being abused by his adoptive mother and losing control of his emotions.
Grindelwald came to New York because he wanted to obtain the Obscurus, a large-scale destructive parasite, but he still didn't know that Credence was the Obscurus and thought he was an orphan in Mary's Church.
That's why he used becoming a wizard as a temptation to deceive the trust of the simple and timid Credence, so as to help him find Obscurus.
At this time, Grindelwald was only forty-three years old and had just officially launched an uprising. Although he had a group of supporters, he had not yet established a stable rule in Europe and needed the assistance of a destructive force like the Obscurus.
Of course, this is just Li Chuan's guess, because in the movie Grindelwald said that he wanted to use the power of Obscurus to kill Dumbledore, but he felt that that was not the real reason.
After all, Grindelwald should know best how strong Dumbledore is. Although Obscurus is powerful, it is impossible to kill Dumbledore.
"coming!"
At this moment, a commotion suddenly broke out among the crowd listening to Mary's speech at the entrance of the bank. Li Chuan keenly noticed that a platypus-like creature squeezed out of the suitcase of a curly-haired man.
"Looks like it's him."
The little guy who looks like a platypus constantly shuttles among the crowd and steals coins and jewelry. It is obvious that he is the magical animal Xiu Xiu who has a special preference for treasures.
The curly-haired man carrying the suitcase and chasing after Sniff was Newt Scamander.
Newt in the crowd saw Sniff escaping into the bank, and felt something bad, so he quickly chased after her. Tina, who was monitoring Mary in the crowd, saw this and followed her out of her original Auror instinct.
So far, there are more than 300 first orders, and it is estimated that by 12 o'clock, it will only be more than 400 at most. There are more than 13,000 collections, and less than 500 first orders. It seems that the new book has been sold out, but I still thank the wind chime.
Two more chapters will be added today about Makino and Atmos’ rewards.
Although I'm disappointed, I don't know how to be a eunuch. I will work hard to tell the story well in the future.