Time never stops and waits because of human hesitation.
Christmas of 1991 finally passed quietly.
On this morning at the end of December, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry woke up from a dream. The surroundings of the castle were covered with several feet of snow, and a hard layer of snow had also condensed on the lake and the pool in the courtyard.
ice.
In addition, nearly one-third of the owls in the school's owl shed looked a little sluggish. Due to Hogwarts' overall strategy these days, they had to frequently shuttle through the windy and snowy sky to deliver letters.
Under such intense correspondence, several fat chickens with round faces became ill and could no longer send letters for the time being. They had to recover their strength and keep themselves healthy under the care of Hagrid, Elena and others.
Keep taking off.
Hogwarts was on holiday, and the castle was mostly empty in an instant.
Except for a small number of students who chose to stay in school for some reasons, most of the little wizards have left school and returned to their homes to enjoy a happy and relaxing Christmas vacation with their families.
Of course, Hermione, Luna, Hannah and others were no exception. When the last class before the holiday was over, Hermione and others couldn't wait to get on the train, leaving behind the white-haired balls and flying back to their respective places.
at home.
Girls are always more attached to their parents and family than boys, and the younger the children, the more so.
Besides Elena, only Harry and Ron signed the stay-at-school list among the first-year students.
Harry didn't want to go back to Privet Drive to spend the holidays with his uncle's family, and the reason Ron and his two twin brothers stayed was because the Weasleys were going to Romania to visit Charlie Weasley - the nearest place.
The situation was unstable, and the Weasleys had been a little worried, so they took this opportunity to visit their second son.
As for Elena's reason for staying, it's even simpler...
As the actual helmsman of the Destiny Group, the CEO of the Hogwarts Foundation, and the successor of socialism (soul mark)... she needs to take advantage of this precious time to complete the anatomy and planning of the chaos after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Work, this may be the busiest Christmas she has ever spent in her life.
An old era ended in a hasty manner that most people did not expect.
Neither the Soviet people nor the Western countries entrenched outside Eurasia were ready to receive this large amount of wealth and resources before. The new era was rushing in a disorderly chaos.
expanded.
Of course, the so-called chaos is limited to people in the non-magical world.
For most wizards living in the magical world, the impact of the disintegration of the Soviet Union has not yet had time to spread to their lives. For a small number of wizards, they have prepared several plans for this day.
moon.
With huge financial support and foresight, Elena conservatively estimates that at least within the first week after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, she and the entire Destiny Group will be nearly invincible in the former Soviet Union - a slight chance
Soon, when the Americans and Russian oligarchs entered the situation, the situation was not so optimistic.
Compared with the economic benefits at her fingertips, Elena immediately set her sights on the most valuable resources of the former Soviet Union, those talents who were about to or had already been ordered to stop research and be laid off from major research institutes by the Yeltsin government.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, funding for a large number of scientific research projects was cut off.
Except for a few studies that do not require much cost, such as mathematics, most scientific researchers have been forced to stop their work and leave the research institutes one after another to look for ways out to solve personal survival problems - the economy is in trouble.
Governments of various countries can no longer afford the military, let alone scientific researchers.
According to incomplete statistics from later countries, more than 80% of scientific researchers were displaced after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and less than 16% of them found a major again in a field similar to their own research and became precious "Experts from the former Soviet Union."
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It’s not that there aren’t smart people in the world who don’t understand the importance of scientific researchers.
But in the context of this era, the term "former Soviet experts" is not equivalent to "former Soviet scientists". Its more accurate definition should actually be called "former Soviet weapons experts."
No matter in which era, experts who conduct weapons research are only a small part of the huge scientific research group of mankind. Those who truly form the cornerstone of human civilization are those basic science and technology researchers and basic theory researchers.
After these researchers leave the institute, what they have learned throughout their lives cannot become skills for making a living.
Therefore, except for a small group of "Soviet experts" who are strictly guarded by various governments and closely watched by Western spies, they receive many olive branches from different regions every day.
Even more people are wandering in every corner of the European continent carrying suitcases worth tens of millions of dollars worth of research manuscripts.
Like most homeless people, they squeezed their heads to apply for a job as a security guard in a certain warehouse, a waiter in a certain bakery, an accountant in a certain foreign shopping mall... Or they held their lifelong research results and were hungry and cold.
Passed away silently.
With the disintegration of the Soviet Union, they were quickly forgotten by everyone like bubbles in the sun...
In other words, in this era when it has become difficult for most people to survive, this group of scientific researchers has no value to most countries in the non-magical world - harmless and expensive, even worse than a
A veteran of the Patriotic War is useful.
And Elena's target is precisely this group of scholars that no one cares about at all.
Weapons and powerful killing capabilities are abundant in the magical world.
What Hogwarts, or the wizarding world lacks, has never been the means to kill each other, but the fire and knowledge that can stabilize the foundation of a civilized world and enable it to rise quickly.
With the first ray of morning light after Christmas, employees from Tianming have already begun to take action.
If nothing else goes wrong, she will be able to get the first batch of lists by tonight's evening - fishing in troubled waters is always the safest approach. Even before the Soviet Union announced its disintegration, many research institutes were already in a state of semi-paralysis.
The power of magic, the attraction of knowledge about the unknown world, free food and accommodation...
This is an irresistible temptation for those scientists who have long been idle at home. Even if the negotiation breaks down temporarily, it doesn't matter. After all, the biggest advantage of magic negotiation is that you can flexibly use the Forgetting Curse to reverse the situation.
As long as they experience a few more severe beatings from society, it won't take long for those researchers who are in trouble to understand how irresistible the conditions she offers are... In terms of how to play with and control people's hearts,
Elena, who studied under Grindelwald and Dumbledore, can be said to be nearly invincible.
However, before that...
Elena still needs to solve a small problem.
A question that has been bothering her from time to time these days.
The white-haired dumpling raised his head, looked confusedly at the familiar corridor around him, and whispered uncertainly.
"I seem to have just walked through here? Or is this the path Hermione took me last week?"
Invincible, she got lost again and again.
…
And at the same time, on the other side.
Budeker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Russia.
"...I refuse! I will not betray my motherland!"
"But the Soviet Union no longer exists, and your research has been stopped for a long time..."
"No need to say anything, please come back! Wait, what are you going to do?!"
"Sorry...this is Miss Theresa's request - for the sake of pleasant communication and confidentiality next time."
"Everything is forgotten!"
As a cold voice sounded, the eyes of Mr. Alexey, the deputy director of the institute, became distracted.
"Another refusal, these Soviet Muggles are so stubborn."
Kurt Meier shook his head, put away his wand, and drew a circle on the roll of parchment in his hand.
On the list in his hand, a large series of circles have been drawn one after another, all representing Muggle scholars who have directly rejected invitations from the wizarding world. So far, he has not completed a successful lobbying.
"Obviously, they are so embarrassed that they have to sell their watches and medals for potatoes. What are these guys who have been forgotten and abandoned by their own country, government and even the magical world still insisting on? Unreasonable Muggles."