But obviously, John had no intention of letting Godin go just like this, "Don't worry, my friend, you have to help me get rid of these two corpses."
"What? Go to hell, J, people from the Gunyou Gang might be looking for me."
"Really?" John put the wand close to the cigarette, and after a few sparks, the cigarette was lit. "Then if they see that there are two corpses at your door, and they hired them..."
"Okay, okay, damn it." Godin shouted helplessly, "What are you going to do, J?"
John looked at Xing Ze, who understood. He came to Godin and whispered: "Those two people."
"I really don't know. I told you, I haven't seen them."
"They may have disappeared near the old Avery house."
"You must be joking, right?" Godin showed a dry smile, "No one will go there, the Avery house, I mean the people in the Avery family are all crazy, there is something wrong with them
.”
Xing Ze looked at him for a full two seconds. He felt that Godin was not lying, so he changed the question: "Is there anything noteworthy in Knockturn Alley recently?"
"What do you mean...wait, I remember Andrew, he held a dance not long ago?"
"Andrew?"
John on the side interjected: "Andrew Avery, the patriarch of the Avery family. Damn it, Godin, what's the use of this?"
"No, no." Xing Ze raised his hand to signal, "Continue, that dance was very special?"
"The ball is very common. The Everly family holds a ball every year at the Essex Hotel. But this time, they also invited wax faces."
"A bunch of bullshit." John blew out the smoke from his mouth, "The Everly family has always been related to the Oil Gang, there's nothing surprising about it."
"Of course, J, everyone in Knockturn Alley knows that the Everly family and the Oil Gang have close ties, but the two families have never met in public." Godin retorted, holding back his anger.
Xing Ze made a note in his notebook, "When was the dance held?"
"I don't know. It might be the last day of August, or it might be the day before yesterday. In short, it's those days."
Xing Ze realized that he could no longer ask any useful information from Godin. He put away his notes and nodded towards John.
"Okay, Godin, I wish you a safe journey. Oh, by the way, you still have to pay me some money to dispose of the body."
"Fuck you, J, you are a vampire, damn, I wish you dragon pox..."
Xing Ze did not continue to pay attention to the quarrel between the two, but squatted down to inspect the two bodies on the ground.
The moment John fired the gun, he didn't feel any surprise, not even a trace of emotion. There were some changes in his psychology, which he could feel, but he didn't understand.
The strange symbol was found on the neck of the dead wizard, although it was not obvious. The symbol was composed of simple lines and circles, much like some kind of constellation chart.
After staring at this symbol for a long time, Xing Ze felt an inexplicable feeling of nausea and uneasiness. He subconsciously looked away, and the feeling disappeared.
Similarly, he also found the same symbol on the squib. Is it the member mark of the organization? Xing Ze guessed as he drew the symbol on his notebook.
The dispute between the two men seemed to have come to an end. Pojiao Godin had to hand over half of his savings in order to leave Knockturn Alley safely. John gave him an address and asked him to go there to find someone.
After he left, John said to Xing Ze: "It's time for you to leave. It's not safe to stay here. I'll take you out."
Xing Ze pointed to the two corpses on the ground and asked, "What are you going to do with them?"
"Don't worry, as long as you have money, there's nothing you can't do in Knockturn Alley. What's more, people disappear here every day, right?"
After he finished speaking, he waved his magic wand, and the two corpses on the ground disappeared with a simple concealment spell.
"Okay, let's go, get out of here." John urged again. He stepped over the body, chanted a spell, and walked toward the door.
Xing Ze heard that it was the Trace Elimination Curse, a sophisticated anti-reconnaissance magic that could effectively deal with the Aurors' tracking spells and flashback spells. He began to feel that this man who looked very unreliable seemed to be deliberately
Hidden clumsiness.
They quickly returned to the second-hand store. Xing Ze changed into his own clothes and asked John about the weird symbol before leaving.
"Is this some kind of constellation chart?" John looked confused. "I have never seen this thing before. It looks uncomfortable. You said you found it on the two mourners?"
Xing Ze nodded, and John shrugged and said, "Maybe it's the mark of the members within the Undertaker. Who knows what those freaks believe in."
"When can we meet again."
"Wait until I give you news." John looked into the distance, "The Oil Gang will definitely conduct a large-scale search. Knockturn Alley will be very chaotic recently."
"You do know that the curse of that shard is contagious, right?"
"I'm not so drunk that I lost my memory. Don't worry, I will continue to investigate. If the fragment is really in Knockturn Alley, there will be traces of it."
Xing Ze didn't say anything else. He said goodbye to John and walked into Diagon Alley, leaving the darkness and dampness behind. But he stopped in front of the Quidditch boutique and turned to look at the dark street.
, the raven hovered in the sky, restless and anxious.
His intuition told him that something bad was spreading there, but he couldn't touch it yet. Many things were intertwined together, like a ball of wool without logic.
…
After returning to school, Xing Ze went to the cafeteria to have dinner first. He asked the house elf in the cafeteria if there was any tea he could buy.
"If you would like some tea, sir," the elf named Kachi replied, "we can send it to you."
"No, no, I like to make my own tea."
"If that's the case." Kaqi jumped off the stool and searched for a while on the rows of shelves behind him, and then he took out a few bags of tea.
Xing Ze took it and looked at it, and asked a little embarrassedly: "Are there any single tea leaves? These are all mixed teas."
Most British teas are mixed or flavored teas. This method of mixing other tea leaves and adding flowers, fruits, spices and essential oils can make the brewed taste more layered and rich, but Xing Ze prefers it.
Clear drink.
"Oh, you must mean tea garden tea." Kaqi quickly understood, and he continued to search on the shelves, "Do you want green tea or black tea?"
“Green tea is the best.”
"Ah ha, yes." Kaqi took out a few bags of tea leaves from the top of a shelf.
Xing Ze smiled at Kaqi. He paid the money and returned to his dormitory with the tea.
He made a cup of strong tea, then pulled up a chair and sat in front of the window. The afterglow of the sun jumped in from the window, illuminating half of his face.
In the sunshine, he began to examine the little bag of the Undertaker Wizard.