On the day before Christmas, Ryan and Hermione took a spaceship and spent a day placing a batch of magic props for observation at seven previously selected locations to collect data. Until the sun began to set, the sunlight illuminated the earth.
When everything turned orange, Ryan and the others finally dragged their exhausted bodies back to Hogsmeade.
"Just wait until the morning after tomorrow to retrieve those props." After stepping through the thick snow and walking into the town gate and onto the street, Ryan said to Hermione, "Because we have to analyze those items at different times throughout the day.
The flow of magic power is different in the location. Then analyze these data to select the most suitable location, and arrange the planting of different magic plants according to the flow of magic power in the selected location."
"After a whole day of surveying, I can feel that this job is a bit complicated." Hermione pressed her hand on the back of her waist that was a little sore from placing the magic instruments and said, "By the way, how many things did you store?
.After opening the space door just now, I saw that you only stored the materials for building three manors in one warehouse. And there are nearly a hundred warehouses in that place."
"Well, that's something reserved for the outbreak of large-scale wars or disasters in several worlds. I have three similar warehouse groups in different worlds, and the warehouse group in the doomsday world is just one of them." Ryan explained. "Every time.
The materials in this warehouse group can sustain the lives of 100,000 people for three months. In addition, there are various magical raw materials that can sustain the use of 3,000 ordinary wizards for half a year under normal circumstances."
"Is this a modern national reserve?" Hermione murmured. "No wonder you can destroy those important production institutions in the British wizarding world without hesitation, because you are confident that you can fill those gaps."
"Yes," Ryan nodded seriously. "Most of the products in Weasley's Joke Shop recently are produced using these reserve resources, but I think the resources will be localized soon after these plantations are established.
Provided.”
"So what about the demand for magic ores?" Hermione asked, "Before we discovered the mines, was this gap all covered by similar ores that you obtained from other worlds?"
"Don't forget the trade with China and the underground trade with Europe," Ryan tilted his head slightly and said close to Hermione, "Hogsmeade and the Ministry of Magic were not idle when we were fighting before. They have succeeded.
We have regained more than 60% of the overseas trade channels before the outbreak of the war. This is enough for us. After all, Britain was not the main producer of magic minerals before, and these things mainly relied on imports."
After listening to Ryan's explanation, Hermione nodded. At this time, an owl flew towards them, and then dropped a letter as it flew over their heads.
"Tonight is Christmas Eve. Who will write to us at this time?" Hermione picked up the letter after checking the letter on the ground for a while. "Hey - this is actually an anonymous letter."
"Anonymous letter?" Ryan's interest was also aroused. He was curious about why someone would go to such trouble to send him such a thing.
You must know that when Hogsmeade Town is on alert, this kind of letter cannot be mailed in from outside the town using ordinary owls. The only way is to release owls in Hogsmeade Town. It can be mailed
Most of the anonymous letters were from unfriendly people, and Lane couldn't imagine how anyone would put so much effort into sneaking into town just to send a letter.
"There is only one photo in the envelope." Hermione had already checked the envelope at this time, and after carefully checking it inside and out, she only took out a photo, and on the back of the photo was written in purple ink a name located in Huozhou.
The address of the new area in the town of Germode.
"The thing in the photo is very strange -" Hermione said after looking at the photo with the last ray of light before sunset, and then handed the photo to Ryan. "It looks like a tall glass for drinking wine.
, but the feet are a bit short.”
Ryan took the photo and looked at it carefully, and found that the photo was a bit old. But after looking carefully, Ryan still found that it was not a goblet, but a strange crucible with one leg. This
The crucible was sealed in a piece of transparent material, and the entire transparent material was placed on a stone platform.
Maybe because the person taking the photo was some distance away from the stone platform, the stone platform and everything on the stone platform looked small and blurry. This is why Hermione recognized this thing as a glass.
.
"Then let's go to the address behind the photo first." Ryan's curiosity was aroused by this photo, so he suggested, "Anyway, there is still a little time before dinner, and this place is not far away from Hogmore.
Virtue, there shouldn't be any big danger."
"You're right." Hermione thought for a moment and said, "If I remember correctly, this place is not too far from the Weasley family's temporary residence. We can go and take a look first."
After walking along the main road in the town for three or four minutes, they turned a corner on the small road leading to the Pig Head Bar. Soon, they arrived in front of the row houses at their destination. It was already dark by this time
However, the candles hanging on the trees to celebrate Christmas and the street lights on the roadside illuminated everything clearly.
"Let me see, No. 7A, South District." Ryan muttered in a low voice while looking at the house number. Soon they came to the gate of No. 7A, South District. This is a standard Hogsmeade building.
The main building of the house in the newly built area is a two-story red brick building with a pointed black roof and a small window opened on the roof to ventilate the attic.
"There seems to be no one in the room." Hermione said after taking a look at the house through the wrought iron gate in the yard. This is a very obvious thing, because today is Christmas Eve, and everyone living in Hogsmeade has used mistletoe early.
The branches, lights, etc. decorate the house beautifully. However, the house in front of me is dark with no lights at all, and there are no decorations outside.
Of course, this is not surprising. After all, when we first built houses, we preferred more to less, so there are indeed many temporary residences that are now unoccupied. For example, there are several rooms on this road that are unoccupied.
However, unlike those unoccupied rooms, the snow on the wrought iron gate of the yard of this house fell to the ground. At the same time, there were traces of the gate being opened on the snow in the yard, and there was a row of footprints leading directly to the gate.
"Open Alajo." Hermione recited the opening spell to the iron door, and the door opened inwards. There was basically no magic defense in this kind of unmanned house. After walking through the small yard and arriving at the door of the room, Ryan
First, he released bunches of pink light that penetrated through the cracks in the door and windows of the house. After confirming that there was no danger in the house, he used the same unlocking spell to open the door.
"Fluorescence flickering." After entering the room, Ryan lit up his wand. The furnishings in this house are no different from other rooms on this street, they are just some simple furniture. Because the environment of this place is good, so
Even if no one has lived in the room for more than two months, there is not much dust in the room.
"Let's search around and see if there are any clues." Ryan said to Hermione. "I just checked that there are no magic fluctuations in the room, so there is no need to worry about the door key. But for safety's sake, when I see something different
Don’t touch it when you’re wearing something.”
"Understood." Hermione nodded, then raised her wand and followed Ryan. Because this temporary house was not big, they quickly searched the first floor and the cellar. Everything was normal here. But when they reached the second floor
After walking downstairs to the workshop, two people found something on the table in the workshop that shouldn't be there.