Snape showed a bit of contempt, "I take it you have never been to an underground auction, young man?"
"The items I need every day can be found in ordinary stores, and I don't think serious people would go there."
"Ignorance." Snape said disdainfully, "The underground auction is only held twice a year, and it attracts many wizards to participate. They will not change their addresses casually. What's more, at that time, no wizard would treat Muggles
The plague should be taken seriously.”
This makes sense. Many Muggle plagues are not transmitted to wizards. Even if they are infected, they can be cured by various potions and magic.
As for the underground auction, he also knew something about it. It was a gathering of dark wizards from all over the UK. The location changed randomly every year, and only those wizards who received invitations were eligible to participate.
This auction organization has a long history. Almost every minister of magic has tried to use this gathering to wipe out all the dark wizards, but without exception, none of them has been successful.
"Don't interrupt me again, young man," said Snape, "I don't want to waste my time on your ignorance."
"Please continue, Professor, I promise not to interrupt you again." Xing Ze made a gesture of closing his mouth.
"On August 10th, Eric wrote to me asking for help. He said that he was being followed and that he always felt like someone was watching him. I could read his anxiety and uneasiness from the letter, but I didn't go.
There is no reason to go, our friendship has not reached this level yet."
Very typical of you. Xing Ze smiled slightly.
"Then, on August 16, he wrote me another letter. His words were even more confusing than before, and some sentences were even written in Latin and runes. He firmly believed that he was being followed.
, and began to experience hallucinations and auditory hallucinations. I realized that his spirit was probably on the verge of collapse, but I still didn’t understand why he wrote to me for help, until..."
Having said this, Snape walked to his desk. He recited a spell, and a secret compartment opened on the desk. He took out two letters from it.
"I don't want to spend time telling you what he wrote. You can take the letter and read it yourself." Snape handed the letter over, but when Xing Ze reached for it, he took it back, "Wait a minute, young man
Dumbledore trusts you, but I don't, so if you want to report me with a letter, I advise you not to do so."
"Who do you think I am, Professor." Xing Ze replied sincerely, "You know, I am different from those Aurors."
After saying that, Xing Ze reached for the letter and read it. After reading the first letter, he asked: "So what moved you to help?"
"The Shard," Snape said, "he mentioned the Shard in his second letter. Just before that, Ministers Fudge and Kingsley came to ask for Dumbledore's help. They mentioned that the Welsh government had captured
An infected person, and found a white fragment..."
Xing Ze knew about this matter, and Bishop Andrew had told him about it - the arrested man was a wizard antique collector, and they found him at the port of Holyhead. At the time, he was unconscious and his whole body
Almost ulcerated, he wanted to take a boat to Ireland, but the white fragment was hidden in his backpack.
What is disturbing is that the day after he was sent to the hospital, he turned into a puddle of blood, or to be precise, a twisted, semi-dissolved residue.
The nurse who went to take the temperature in the morning was so frightened that she lost her mind, and the attending doctor was also horrified. Fortunately, the local pastor notified the church in time, and the matter was suppressed.
It was then that the Ministry of Magic realized that the menacing plague also posed a threat to them.
"Eric, that poor fool." Snape's voice made Xing Ze reply, "I knew the moment I saw him that he was possessed by evil spirits."
"You met in London?"
Although he was very dissatisfied with Xing Ze's distraction and interruption, Snape still replied patiently: "Yes, he gave me an address and sent it together with the letter."
"Can I see it?"
Snape hesitated for a moment, and he whispered: "Dumbledore asked me to do my best to cooperate with your investigation, young man. But so far, apart from seeing that you like to interrupt others and wander from time to time, there is nothing.
Something worthy of praise.”
"I think you will gradually discover my advantages, it only takes a little time."
"I don't think so."
"Can I see the address, Professor?"
Snape took out the piece of paper with the address from the same secret compartment. Xing Ze took it and wrote on his notes while asking: "Do you know anything about dreams, Professor?"
"Not much. But enough to tell that Eric is possessed by evil spirits."
"How to tell."
"He was holding the white fragment and mumbling something. His eyes were sunken and red. He probably hadn't slept much. Moreover, he had filled the room with weird symbols, including exorcism spells, isolation spells, and many more.
I don’t know them. However, those gadgets are of little use against things that come from dreams.”
"You said he muttered something. What did he say?"
"Some illogical whispers, sometimes in English, sometimes in Latin, and more often than not I don't know what language he used. 'Come from the underground, he who calls me from the underground.'"
"kindness?"
"Comed from the underground, He called me from the underground. These are the only two sentences I can understand."
"Wait." Xing Ze hurriedly wrote down these two sentences in his notes. Snape glanced at it and corrected: "It's him, not him."
Facing Xing Ze's confused gaze, Snape explained: "I later found these two sentences on the wall, written in his own blood."
Although Xing Ze wanted to ask what this meant, he understood that Snape wouldn't know either.
They chatted for more than half an hour. As time went by, Snape's words became more and more sarcastic, and Xing Ze ended the conversation wisely.
In addition to Eric, he also tried to inquire about the Everly family, but Snape kept silent about it.
Before leaving, Xing Ze asked Snape for a letter to facilitate the investigation. He thought he would be rejected, but to his surprise, Snape gave him the letter without saying a word, as if he was eager for him to take it.
As if walking.
On the way back to the dormitory, Xing Ze finished reading the second letter. As Snape said, the language in the letter was messy and illogical, but when it came to the white shard, Eric's statement was
becomes very clear.
He spent a lot of money to buy the fragment from the auction and tried to extract the magic power contained in it. But what he didn't expect was that there was something else in the fragment.
In the letter, he stated that he had been followed after leaving Digger Village, and later attracted the attention of Aurors, but these were far less frightening than the peeps from the dark.