Heavily in debt, McGill finally sold his store, which was a difficult but necessary decision.
Wang Xu chose to acquire at a premium. Today's prices in Diagon Alley have returned to the level before Voldemort came to power. Moreover, due to the rise in prices during this period, store prices have increased by more than 60% on average.
This is not because Wang Xu wants to be taken advantage of, but because he wants to give a suitable price to let Maggie stay and help him.
Maggie agreed. He had been dealing with potions all his life and selling the shop was a last resort. He didn't really want to leave the field of potions.
Wang Xu directly appointed Maggie as CEO of the King and Granger Potion Store, assisting Hermione in managing the store.
At the same time, he is also helping Hermione actively build momentum, asking her to come forward to hold gatherings of high-level figures, actively fund the Ministry of Magic, contact the Muggle Parliament, and pave the way for the Ministry of Magic to take power after graduation.
In fact, to Wang Xu, it doesn't matter whether Hermione can become the Minister of Magic. His support is entirely out of respect for Hermione's wishes.
After all, Hermione is only a sixth grader now, and she has seventh grade to go. It will be ten years before she becomes Minister of Magic.
Wang Xu himself doesn’t know what it will be like ten years from now. It’s just a casual move.
Time flies, Wang Xu shuttles between reality and the magical world, waiting for the next world to open with peace of mind.
Wang Xu has already looked away from the real world.
How is the world of Breaking Bad? It doesn't matter if you are an NPC. You have to live your life as you should, and no one will hang yourself.
During the day, he taught his young apprentice martial arts, and at night, he hooked up with Hermione. In the blink of an eye, another month passed.
...Plane 17...
The scenery of the North is covered with thousands of miles of ice and thousands of miles of snow. Looking inside and outside the Great Wall, nothing remains but vastness.
This is a poem describing the scenery of the northern country. Wang Xu thought about it, but considering his current situation, this poem was very suitable for the situation.
There is endless ice and snow in front of you, the cold wind is howling, and the cold wind is blowing on your face like a knife. A few penguins are playing and fighting in the distance, which is the only life on this ice and snow continent.
"Penguins?" Seeing this group of cute creatures, Wang Xu guessed that his location should be the Antarctic, and judging from the temperature of minus 60 to 70 degrees, it was still the center of the Antarctic.
Wearing hiking boots on his feet and a warm jacket on his body, Wang Xu walked aimlessly on the glacier.
There is a characteristic of the shuttle door. Basically, the location where the door opens is not too far from where the plot takes place. This is common sense gained after traveling through it more than a dozen times.
Wang Xu felt that this time would be no exception. This continent, which is covered with ice and snow all year round, is likely to be the place where the plot takes place.
It's just that he can't think of which movie or TV series this is the opening of. After all, Antarctica is inaccessible and there are not many movies centered on it.
Carrying a backpack and leaning on a cane, Wang Xu walked away as the penguin watched.
I don’t know how long I walked, but it probably took about forty minutes.
Just when Wang Xu was wondering if he had gone to the wrong place, a low-lying valley and an abandoned Antarctic whaling station appeared in front of him.
Wang Xu took out a telescope from the space ring and stood on the valley, looking at the whaling station below.
The whaling station looks like it has been abandoned for a long time. Everything is covered in heavy snow. There are no footprints on the ground and no trace of human life.
Retracting the telescope, Wang Xu stood on the edge and looked down. It was about thirty or forty meters high, so with his Qinggong, there was no problem at all.
Whoosh!!
As soon as he stepped forward, Wang Xu jumped out like a wild goose. He stepped on the air with both feet, making ripples in the air with each step, and landed in front of the whaling station in the blink of an eye.
"Antarctic Whaling Station, built in 1904, headed by Captain Leo!" There is a sign outside the whaling station with the American Empire flag painted on it and the name of the person in charge of the whaling station.
Wang Xu looked around. The valley was well chosen. It faced the Antarctic wind. Even if it had been abandoned for so long, there was only less than half a meter of snow on the ground. If it had been placed above the valley, it would have been covered by the blizzard.
Covered up.
Withdrawing his gaze, Wang Xu walked forward, walked around a whale skeleton, and saw two rows of huts built by whalers.
Pushing open the door of a house, Wang Xu took a flashlight and took a photo inside. Inside was an office, the table was covered with dust, and a group photo hung on the wall.
There are a total of eighteen people in the group photo, standing in front of a whale being pulled ashore, looking like they must be people from the whaling station.
Walking in with a flashlight, Wang Xu looked for clues.
Everything else was unremarkable, the only thing that interested him was an open safe in the corner.
The safe contained cash, bills, two holsters, and a box of ammunition.
There was nothing in the holster. The weapon had been taken away, along with more than twenty rounds of ammunition.
Wang Xu squatted down and flipped through it. No one touched the U.S. dollars. They simply took away the weapons. Obviously, the abandoned whaling station was not abandoned voluntarily, but was in danger.
The people at the whaling station probably took weapons to fight the danger and never came back.
In order to verify his idea, Wang Xu went to several more rooms.
In the staff dormitory, he saw burned charcoal, a diary with March 10, 1904, and a bed covered with quilts.
There were clearly a few nails nailed above the bed board. Wang Xu guessed that either clothes or shotguns were hung here, and now they were gone.
After leaving the dormitory and walking further inside, Wang Xu saw the grocery room, storage room, machinery maintenance workshop, oil depot, and most importantly, the kitchen.
The kitchen was very messy. On the cutting board, Wang Xu saw dried diced potatoes, a half-drunk bottle of vodka, and an iron tube placed on a kerosene lamp.
The inside of the iron bucket was very clean. Wang Xu looked inside and saw only a dried sea fish and some frozen water.
From the surrounding things, Wang Xu quickly thought of a picture.
It might be noon or night, and some people at the whaling station were sleeping, some were cooking, and some were drinking and chatting together.
Suddenly, they spotted the enemy, took their weapons, and never came back.
So the question is, who is the enemy? Wild animals are impossible. Antarctic snow wolves only survive in the periphery of Antarctica. They became extinct in 1857. Moreover, the climate here is too cold for snow wolves to survive at all, and even more
It was impossible to destroy a fully armed 18-man whaling team in 1900.
Could it be that they are peers and are caused by humans?
It doesn't look like it. If humans kill these whalers, they won't be able to let go of the finances in the safe.
Wang Xu just looked at it and found that there were at least several thousand dollars in it. In 1904, when a worker's daily salary was 2 US dollars, it was equivalent to at least one million dollars today. No one could refuse such a large amount of money, unless the two parties fought for one.
There were no survivors at all, everyone died here.
"The location where the shuttle door opens is not far from here. This should be the place where the plot takes place. Let me find where this is." Wang Xu took out his special mobile phone and began to search from the database.
Answer.
Search keywords, Antarctica, 1904, abandoned whaling station, movie, valley under ice and snow.
Soon, a series of messages were refreshed on Wang Xu's mobile phone. Wang Xu glanced at them and immediately focused on a movie... "Alien vs. Predator"
Billionaire Charles is the chairman of an energy company. One day in 2004, he discovered through his thermal imaging satellite that there was an ancient pyramid-shaped temple 800 meters beneath the Antarctic glacier.
Emits strong thermal energy induction.
In order to verify his discovery and explore how the pyramids emit heat, Charles formed an elite team to investigate the Antarctic, kicking off the Alien and Predator series.
"Alien vs. Predator!" Wang Xu suddenly raised his head and looked at the sky outside.
At the same time, Jupiter, an invisible spacecraft...
"Why is this human being here? He is not the one we selected!"
"I don't know. He looks very strong. I want to collect his skull."
"This coming-of-age ceremony, I want to hunt ten aliens, no, twenty..."
On the spacecraft, a three-dimensional image appeared, with a young man on it, looking up at the sky.
On both sides of the screen, there are three weirdos sitting about 2.5 meters tall, wearing armor and masks, pointing at the three images.