Early the next morning, after the two of them got up and packed up, Ryan asked Hermione to wait for him in the hotel lobby, and then he went out alone. It wasn't until 20 minutes later that a small white SUV with double doors came to the hotel.
At the door, the glass rolled down, and Ryan's face appeared in the SUV. "Okay, let's go."
"Where did this car come from?" Hermione asked after getting in the car and fastening her seat belt. "This car looks so rough!"
"On the way here yesterday, I saw a second-hand car dealer there, so I just went there and bought this car for two thousand dollars. Even though the car is a bit rough, the Russian Ladaniva is a good one.
Car. Especially this time we have to pass through a lot of places with very bad road conditions. It would be very difficult to get there without an off-road vehicle. At least this is better than walking on two legs." Ryan said while holding the steering wheel.
"You can squint for a while." Ryan said to Hermione. "It's about three hundred kilometers from here to our destination. According to the information I bought from Knockturn Alley, the giants are now hiding in Knockturn Alley.
In a valley in the Ural Mountains. We are now driving along the road all the way north to Lower Tula, and then heading west into the Ural Mountains from there."
"Is your information accurate?" Hermione asked curiously. "Theoretically, shouldn't the place where the giants are hiding be a secret?"
"Not exactly, we haven't heard of it before just because many wizards don't worry about where they are, just know that they are far away. Their exact location is considered general information in Diagon Alley, I just spent
For thirty galleons, I bought this information mixed with a dozen other information."
When he arrived on the road to the outskirts, Ryan looked around and saw no one around, so he stopped the car and waved his hand to open the space door and released two things.
"This is us?" Hermione immediately saw what the two things Ryan put on the back seat were: 1:1 puppets of two people. They were extremely well-made and could not be seen as dummies.
"That's right, I'm going to use them to create our alibi." Ryan briefly introduced, "This thing is very simple to do, because there is no need to think about the circuit, which saves a lot of work."
"Then how can we make them look like us? Do you have remote control?" Hermione was a little curious about something she had never seen before.
"Of course not." A girl's voice sounded, and Rose Crystal opened the space door and got out. "That would be too complicated. In fact, let the brother's doll carry a bag and I can get into the bag to control the remote control. In this way, I will take advantage of the opportunity.
You can also play around here." After saying that, the rose crystal raised the things in his hands and waved them. Only then did Ryan realize that the little puppet was holding a guide map and a camera.
Prepared in advance. It seems that after telling Rose Crystal about the plan more than a month ago, she has already prepared for this trip.
After saying goodbye to Rose Crystal, they watched the two dolls get out of the car. In the car, Ryan and the others used the tricks of the Faceless Man to change their appearance through makeup. Before returning to Yekaterinburg, they would wear local styles.
Tatar and Russian face action.
At noon, the two people braved the wind and snow to reach Lower Tula, which is a beautiful small town. They were lucky, the weather was very good along the way, which allowed them to reach here smoothly along the road.
After getting off the bus, Ryan and Hermione went to a small restaurant together. Being in Russia in the winter, especially when the economy is not good now, there is not much to eat in this place, so the two of them just ordered a large plate of Russian dumplings stuffed with beef.
I ordered another pot of beet soup by the way.
After sitting down and looking around, they found that the store was very small and the decoration was very simple. It should have been opened directly by hanging a sign on the house facing the street. Fortunately, it was very clean and the aunt who was the owner was also very enthusiastic.
"Why do you young people from other places come here in this weather?" the aunt asked after serving the dumplings.
"Compared with our place, it can be considered warm here." Ryan pretended that he and Hermione were high school lovers traveling from Yakutsk. "We have already had winter vacation there, so we took advantage of the vacation.
Come and see the great Ural Mountains recorded in this book." Fortunately, Russia also has both yellow and white people, so Ryan said that he was from the Far East and the aunt naturally believed it.
"Yakutsk? No wonder!" the aunt showed a clear expression. "My son went to Yakutsk on a business trip at this time last winter, and he told me that it was already more than 20 degrees below zero. He didn't even think about it.
Dare to go out without a car."
"Yes." Ryan agreed, "So we ran out to play. We will go to the mountains in the past two days and then go to Yekaterinburg. By the way, where in the mountains nearby is more suitable for fun."
"Ah, it's a place suitable for young couples to play." The aunt's eyes turned around on the faces of Ryan and Hermione and said. "You can follow the road to the west and go a little further into the mountains. There will be a lake that freezes in winter.
The back is quite beautiful. There is a trail going south from the lake. Now you can go around it when the snow is not very thick. There are even a few cabins where you can stay overnight. But remember, you must not go north."
The aunt enthusiastically introduced the surrounding places with better scenery, but her face became serious when she mentioned that she was not allowed to go north.
Ryan recalled the information he had and found that the information recorded that the group of giants was in a valley more than 30 kilometers north of the lake. So he asked his aunt: "Why can't it go north?"
"It used to be no different from other places, but I don't know what happened more than ten years ago. No one could go there, and everyone who went there died in the end. Later, someone told us that the geology there had undergone drastic changes, and the dead people
People just encountered mountain climbing accidents. When we went to the lake a few months ago, we heard a huge noise from the north at night. So you two must not go there." The aunt warned seriously.
"In this case we will definitely not go there." Ryan said, "We will go to the lake to have fun and come back in two or three days."
After paying the bill with US dollars, Ryan and Hermione left the hotel. After sitting back in the car, Hermione asked: "Did you just ask the shop owner where the giants were?"
"Yes." Ryan started the car. "Based on their information and what I know, now I can confirm that those giants are still there and we can just stop them."
The road in the mountains is difficult, especially now that the water is dripping and turning into ice. In some places Ryan and Hermione had to use magic to help the car get out of trouble. Of course, in order to minimize the possibility of exposure, they chose animals from other worlds.
Magic. For example, controlling the shadow pad under the wheels to help the car escape from the pit. Fortunately, there are many people walking on this road and the road conditions are good. So it only took more than an hour to reach the lake.
"The car can only drive so far. Then we have to walk. Let's set off." Ryan drove the off-road vehicle to the radiation world, and then he and Hermione plunged into the woods by the lake and walked through the woods.
The snow is heading north.
Fortunately, it hasn’t snowed very much recently, and the snow in the forest is only a dozen centimeters thick. Accompanied by the sound of crunching on the snow, the two people held a cane in one hand and a wand in the other in the silent woods.
They were moving forward. Neither of them said a few words during this stretch, and they could only see the white mist coming out from between their mouths and noses.
"Okay, we are almost there." It was already night and the sky was completely dark. The air in the Ural Mountains, which has no industrial pollution, is very fresh. When you raise your head, you can see the beautiful Milky Way and the stars in the sky through the gaps between the branches.
There was silence all around, except for the sound of the wind blowing the treetops and the sound of snow falling on the trees. At this moment, Ryan stopped and said.
"Are you there yet?" Hermione gasped softly while holding on to her cane. Even though she had never given up on exercise in the past few years and had strengthened her body, the ten-hour trek in the snow made Hermione feel very tired.
She was tired, especially when she had only rested three or four times in the past ten hours, which in total was not enough for an hour.
"Yes, I think there are traces of magic near this place. I think we should be there soon." Ryan nodded. At this time, Hermione saw Ryan summoning Xiao Qing. Xiao Qing quickly turned into a lot of activities.
The vines were scattered into the surrounding woods. "I asked Xiaoqing to investigate first. Harry and Hagrid told them that the Death Eaters sent by the mysterious man were also in the giant tribe. I didn't want to fall into a trap and be beaten by them.
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"Three Death Eaters, not two." Ryan closed his eyes and possessed Xiao Qing, slowly surveyed the surroundings, and then suddenly opened his eyes and said.
"What?" Hermione looked at Ryan.
"Hagrid said before that he saw two Death Eaters coming to the Giant Tribe, but there were actually three Death Eaters who came here. One of them was separated from the other two and had been hidden in the dark. It seemed that he was a Death Eater.
Just a backup plan." Ryan explained. "Okay, let's go there. Xiaoqing has just scouted out a safer road."
After that, under the leadership of Xiaoqing, the two of them climbed the last ridge along a winding route.