Scotland in mid-February is not as cold as winter, with only some snow on the distant hills. The Forbidden Forest has turned green because most of it is made up of evergreen trees.

After landing on the edge of the Forbidden Forest, Ryan and the two of them changed their clothes directly under the cover of a large rock. After that, he raised his wand and cautiously walked into the Forbidden Forest.

The moment they walked from the shallows on the shore of the lake to the tree, the gold medal in the hands of the two people beeped and vibrated at the same time, which gave Ryan the illusion that he was holding a mobile phone to receive text messages in his previous life. After lifting the gold medal, they found that the gold medals of the two men each showed three dots on them, as well as the scope of the competition and the location of the exit.

"In this way, we will synthesize and look for them one by one from near to far. After finding the hostages as soon as possible, we will return to the exit, after all, we are the weakest group, and it is better to have as few conflicts as possible with the other contestants. Ryan said directly to Harry after looking at the content of the gold medal, and Harry nodded after listening, because this weakest group is his hind legs, so Ryan raised his hands in agreement when he proposed a plan to reduce fighting with others.

It took the two men seven or eight minutes to get to the point where the shore of the lake at the edge of the Forbidden Forest could not be seen, but in fact they had only walked a few hundred meters. However, by this time, the woods have become more and more dense, and at the same time, various plants have begun to appear under the trees, showing a vibrant forest ecological environment.

The plants under the trees also greatly hindered Ryan's travel, especially Harry's. Harry had only followed paths in the Forbidden Forest before, and had no experience of walking in this primeval jungle. Fortunately, as the master of natural magic, Ryan is still very comfortable in this environment. Under his guidance, Harry stumbled to keep up with him.

By the time the gold medals beeped again half an hour later, Ryan and Harry had already won three gold medals and were on their way to the fourth point.

"It seems that there are up to five people entering the Forbidden Forest now. Ryan glanced at the gold medal in his hand as a detector and counted the number of gold medals displayed, and said, "It's time soon, for the time being, we have unilateral transparency in the arena, but I don't know how long this transparency can be maintained." So we have to try to be as fast as possible and avoid running into people from other schools. ”

Luckily, they saw a gold medal belonging to someone else on their way to the fourth point, so they took the gold medal belonging to another Durmstrang, Gustav, with them.

At the fourth point, Ryan and the others finally saw a hostage: Hermione was sitting quietly on a tree branch looking boredly at the sky, and after seeing Ryan and them, he greeted them easily: "Good morning Ryan, Harry." I haven't seen you in days, how are you doing?"

"It was not bad, we could even order what we wanted to eat. I even once even had a very authentic Celestial Empire-style cold skin and meat sandwich bun. Ryan pressed his gold medal on the glowing circle under the tree, and the circle quickly disappeared.

Seeing the circle disappear, Hermione immediately jumped straight from a branch more than four meters high. Before Harry could exclaim, Hermione landed gracefully.

"That's cool!" Harry let out a heartfelt compliment.

"Thank you. Hermione raised an eyebrow and then turned to Ryan and said, "The circle is too small, and the ground is too dirty." So I just climbed up the tree and sat down, so that it would be clean and I could see farther. ”

On the way to the next point, Ryan finally figured out what was going on today: Hermione and the others were called to the office by Professor Dumbledore early this morning to inform them that they were hostages, and the headmasters led them into the Forbidden Forest.

In the Forbidden Forest, after reaching a predetermined point after every distance traveled. One by one, the hostages were placed in a circle drawn by the three principals. There was magic in these circles, and Hermione tried it and found that she couldn't get out at all, so she had to stay inside and wait for Ryan to rescue her.

Harry, struggling to pull his feet out of a tree pit full of fallen leaves, looked with envy at Ryan and Hermione, who were as agile as elves in the forest. After finding Hermione, the team's travel speed increased again, and many times when he encountered more difficult places, he would be dragged by Ryan and Hermione directly, saving a lot of time for detours. Especially in the stall where Harry's fitness has greatly decreased after more than half an hour of walking in the forest, this kind of help will be of great help to the overall team.

For wizards, magic can help in the journey, but it still requires good physical fitness or other prerequisites to use it.

For example, without enough practice, the Light Body Charm can only make people wrestle non-stop, and in the chaotic environment of the Forbidden Forest, it is easy to constantly bump into certain obstacles, and as for the apparition manifestation, it is impossible to appear in the right place without knowing the destination. Not to mention that some of the magic principles of temporary physique enhancement are to overdraw the body, which is only useful for the final sprint.

Harry naturally felt that he was the one who was dragging behind when he teamed up in the Forbidden Forest, and he expressed great confusion that these two friends, who were just in the library every day, walked faster than himself as a professional athlete in the Forbidden Forest, especially as a girl, Hermione's physique was better than him, which made him a little unacceptable. But the facts are in front of him, and in this case, his self-esteem supports him to grit his teeth and keep up to avoid further humiliation.

"Wait, I think we might need to fight someone else. As the three of them climbed a two-story stone wall, Ryan suddenly stopped everyone, and on the gold medal in his hand, a point belonging to someone else, very close to their fifth point, suddenly disappeared.

"You mean someone is going to come and ambush us?" Harry quickly saw why Ryan had asked him to stop.

"If this person can see the gold medal position of the other people. I guess he's very likely to do that. Ryan nodded. "And we've been on the road for so long, I think other people's gold medals will show where we are. ”

"So what should we do?" "We should—" After a little discussion, Ryan and the others changed their formation and began to walk cautiously towards the next point.

Still a hostage at the next point, in a clearing in the woods, Ginny sat with her legs crossed against a rock. Harry hurried over to Ginny when he saw herm, while Hermione waited at the edge of the woods.

But Ginny's eyes widened when she saw him, and she shouted something to Harry. Because of the distance, Harry could only see that Ginny looked agitated and pointed to the woodland on the other side of the clearing.

"There's an ambush—" Harry finally came to his senses, rolling on the ground with the speed he could run. Just in time for a flash of red light to pass by.

He raised his wand vigilantly and aimed at the place where the magic had hit, but only to see the bushes swaying slightly, and the assailant should have moved away.