Chapter 482: The Depressed Diagon Alley
Ten minutes later, the colored light mist that surrounded Jill finally faded as she absorbed it. Jill quickly regained her senses, but at the first moment of regaining her senses, she cried out in her eyes and hugged Rose Crystal tightly. "I swear I haven't done anything bad, don't throw me away. ”
After listening to Ryan's explanation, Rose Crystal immediately knew that Jill might not be a good person in this world, she struggled out of Jill's arms with some difficulty, and then flew to a place where she could look at Jill in the eyes and said seriously: "What you see is only the history of this world and another you, don't confuse her with you." In my eyes, you are just my daughter, and you don't need to bear the sin that is not yours. ”
Ryan and Hermione also smiled and nodded to Jill at this time, and Jill smiled with tears on her face when she saw all this. She now truly feels that this is her real home.
After everyone calmed down again, Ryan and the others cleaned up and used the apparition to come to London, but fortunately, the apparition of the Celestial Empire was somewhat different from that of the United Kingdom, so the Ministry of Magic could not track their traces. Before leaving, Hermione wanted to change Jill clothes, but Jill politely declined. She gave an age-appropriate smile and spun around in place, and the ragged cloak turned into a beautiful black trench coat with a simple silver pattern.
When they arrived in London, they decided to have lunch and then play in the streets, and in the afternoon they would go to Diagon Alley and have dinner by the way. Jill is full of curiosity about this modern London, whether it is eating or shopping, she keeps asking Rose Crystal about this and that. And Rose Crystal also patiently answered one by one.
The four of them left for Diagon Alley after a walk around Oxford Street, and now they had received a list of books in the mail from the school on August 1st, and now they could take advantage of the opportunity to buy everything they needed to buy today.
After arriving at Diagon Alley through the Leaky Cauldron, they were surprised to find that it was completely different from before. The colorful spell books, potions, and cauldrons that used to be displayed in the window were now invisible, obscured by large notices posted by the Ministry of Magic. Most of these intimidating purple notices were enlarged versions of the safety advisories in the pamphlets distributed by the Ministry of Magic during the summer, and some of them featured black-and-white photos of wanted Death Eaters activating in black.
The windows of several shops have been nailed with broken wooden panels, such as Flolin Fosco's ice cream shop and Ollivander's wand shop. The whole street shows a decaying appearance. This feeling is only exacerbated by the many tattered stalls that have popped up on both sides of the street.
"Ward off evil spirits?" Ryan looked at the large string of silver mascots with chains written on the signboard written on the stall. "Fishes in troubled waters are everywhere, I promise these things-"
"Completely useless. Jill picked up a mascot and added with a swear.
The people on the street also showed a certain uneasiness as the surrounding streetscape, and many passers-by had annoyed and anxious expressions on their faces, and no one stopped to speak. Buyers are all sticking together in groups and heading straight for what they want to buy, and no one seems to be shopping alone.
"No wonder Ginny says Diagon Alley isn't as attractive as it used to be, and it's like it's home to 100 Dementors. I don't feel a little bit of joy. Looking at the depressed streetscape, Hermione muttered that Ginny had written a letter to Ryan and them after she had returned from shopping. Ryan and the others thought that as the only shopping street in the British wizarding world, it should not be as bad as the letter said, but now they look at the condition of Diagon Alley even worse than the letter says.
In this case, they were naturally not in the mood to go shopping, and after hurriedly buying all the robes, potions, textbooks, and even owl food they needed, the four of them left Diagon Alley as fast as they could. But just as they were making their way through the Leaky Cauldron, a black-robed man who was drinking stood up and followed.
"Someone was following us. After getting on the bus, Jill leaned over and whispered. Ryan nodded, and before he could get into the car, he noticed a sneaky guy trying to keep up with them. "Pretend you didn't find him, it's too easy to hurt innocents in this place. Let's try to steer him away and take him down and see what we can ask. ”
So the four of them pretended not to see anything and drove in the direction of the East End, and when the sun was about to set, they came to the South Asian immigrant colony in the East End of London, because the place was chaotic enough for Ryan and the others to catch the stalker behind them without attracting attention.
The man in the back was obviously also hoping to find a chaotic place to catch Ryan and them, and he followed quietly along the way, until Ryan and the others got out of the car and hurriedly got up from their seats and followed.
There were not many people on the streets in this area after dark, and Ryan hurriedly walked along the main road for a distance and then turned sharply into the side alley, and the black-robed man behind was stunned for a moment and hurried a few steps to chase after him. When he rushed into the alley, he found that the four prey he had been tracking were gone, and when he was about to quit, he felt something hit him in the back of the head, and then his eyes went black and he lost consciousness.
"Good job. Ryan gave Jill a thumbs up, and Jill looked a little shy and lowered her head. Just now, they used the ability of the wraiths to transform into a virtual body and hide in the wall, and when the tracker caught up, they jumped out of the wall and attacked. Now it seems that this tactic is very good.
Then it was interrogation time, and the four men dragged the stalker to an uninhabited corner and set up the required magical defenses around it, and then the interrogation began. Originally, they were going to ask gently, but after picking up the clothes on the stalker's left arm and seeing the Death Eater's mark, they immediately decided to torture them directly to extract a confession and ask for information as quickly as possible.
Jill volunteered to take on the task, and after conjuring cold water to wake the man up, a short dagger appeared in her hand and began to chop the fingers of the Death Eater one by one, the Death Eater was much more fragile than he had imagined, and he did not have the same unyielding intent at all. Just cut off the three fingers of his left hand along the joint, and he can do everything.
It turned out that he had followed because of the Muggle costume they were wearing. Seeing Ryan dressed in this outfit in the Leaky Cauldron Bar without his parents by his side, the Death Eater plans to punish the Mudbloods for what he sees as filthy, and even worse. But he didn't expect these young men who looked like students to be so able to fight.
In addition, Ryan and the others knew that this stalker was a dark wizard from Albania, who had followed Voldemort in the last war, but only on the periphery back then. This time, I heard that Voldemort had come back and kissed Voldemort's shoes, and Voldemort had rewarded him with a Death Eater brand for his old follower.
After becoming an official Death Eater, he immediately let go of the evil desires in his heart that had been suppressed for more than ten years, and he was present in the last Brockdale Bridge attack.
"Alright, let's clean up here, we're going to move on to the next step. Ryan looked at the eager Jill and saw that this collective action was a great way for Jill to integrate into the family.
Jill cut this guy's throat directly without saying a word, and from her skillful methods and the smile on her face, she knew that she had been expecting this kind of thing for a long time, and her value orientation as a resentful soul in some things was completely different from that of humans. Hermione frowned at this scene, she was not against killing the terrorists, but she was a little uncomfortable with the simple pleasure of killing.
The sensitive Jill sensed Hermione's emotions, and as the Rose Crystal opened the space to remove the corpses and clear the ground, she assured Hermione that she would only take the lives of others if the three of them gave the order.
"Let's go save people. With all this out of order, Ryan said that from the interrogation they had learned that there was a Death Eater den nearby, which contained a few unimportant hostages and many Muggles that the Death Eaters used to torture for fun. Now they plan to get people out before the news goes out.