After more than half an hour, Catherine finally arrived at her destination, but almost at the same time as she landed, the direction of the pointer suddenly turned more than half a circle to the east, and the girl immediately realized that Tonks had returned to London, and she hurriedly took out her address book and asked her friend for help.

Catherine felt that according to the temperament of the new Auror, it should be impossible to ask someone to take her apparition to her destination, as for the other routes, using a regular portkey would require extremely cumbersome procedures, and it would take a long time to take a broomstick or a knight's bus, so the most likely way for Tonks to reach Weston Marina was Floo.com.

When Catherine first came into contact with the Floo network, she thought that the structure of the Floo network was similar to an air route, no matter where it was from anywhere, it used a point-to-point straight channel, and after an in-depth understanding, she found that the point-to-point connection was only the hub center of the county city, and as for the next level of town, it was a network connection similar to a highway, and it was only because the transmission speed of the flyway network could be comparable to that of a rocket that there was no "congestion".

For example, if you just say "London" when you throw Floo powder, you'll come out of the fireplace in the Leaky Cauldron, because the hub of downtown London is Diagon Alley, and in public places in London, you have to say a more specific place name, such as "London Ministry of Magic", so that when you arrive in London, you can turn into the branch passage of the Ministry of Magic.

However, some occasions are not completely public, such as Hogwarts, except for open days, even if you say "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry", you will be sent to Hogsmeade Village, and as for private fireplaces, although they are connected to the Floo network, unless you have access or have "access permission", you may not be able to break in even if you use violence.

Somerset is located in the southwest of England, bordering Bristol Bay to the north. There are two cities in the county, Bath being the largest city and Wells being the other; Taunton in the south is the largest town in the county, and is also the county seat of Somerset, Yeovil is the third largest town, and the second largest town is Weston-the-Sea, but Weston-on-the-Sea has no outstanding features in other aspects except for the seaside, so the Ministry of Magic has only a public fireplace here.

Since coming into contact with the wizarding world, Catherine has used Floo.com to go out in public very rarely. Basically, they are manifested by people with their retinue, so the girl is still very unfamiliar with the specific situation of Floo Network, and naturally she doesn't know where the public fireplace in Weston de Marina is located.

In normal times, Catherine would indeed choose to reach Weston Marina directly through the Floo network, and of course she might choose to use her first-class fire bolt, or take the rampaging knight bus, but now that Tonks has begun to formalize this "hunt" game between them, the girl naturally has to get her own attitude and make a careful choice.

Catherine never despised anyone. Even if Tonks' performance so far still can't be recognized by the girl, after all, she has received three years of Auror training, but she lacks actual combat experience, and this "hunt" game. It is precisely so that this newly appointed Auror can apply the theoretical knowledge she has learned to practical action as soon as possible.

It's just that Catherine didn't expect Tonks to practice so fast. This forced the girl to give up most of the methods she had learned in the wizarding world, as she would never believe in the "Aurors" who existed to deal with dark wizards. There would be no special methods for restraining wizards that only the insiders knew, so she wasted an hour flying a helicopter to Weston-Sea.

However, even though Catherine estimated that Tonks would only use Floo, she was still unsure whether they would choose to go directly to Weston-Sea, or to other towns in Somerset, or simply to Bristol, the most prosperous city in the southwest of England, and find a way to get there, after all, they still had a day and a half to go.

So when Catherine obtained the locations of all the public fireplaces in the southwest of England through the address book, she finally decided to stay in Weston-Sea-Shore to "wait for the rabbit", after all, this is the end of this "hunt" game, but she is not too sure whether she can keep the "rabbit", after all, Tonks is a disguised Magus.

When Catherine used the Black family's heirloom pocket watch to track down, she knew that Tonks had been able to control her emotions while concentrating, so if she continued to stand near the public fireplace in Weston-on-Sea with her pocket watch in the open, her "prey" would have turned around and flown away with the apparition at the first opportunity, in which case she would have lost.

Because the public fireplace in Weston de Mer was located in a pub in the harbor, Tonks could see most of the harbor as soon as he stepped out of the bar, and could use the apparition to return at any time after leaving, at which point Catherine would have to follow the other party's "tail" in vain, with no chance of winning at all.

Catherine can't stop Tonks from reaching Weston-the-Sea, she can only find a way to make the "prey" think that the "hunter" is still "on the way", and there is still time to observe the environment around the harbor, so the girl must disguise herself and let the "prey" let her guard down.

Tonks did use the Floo network from London to the south-west of England, as Catherine had expected, but she only arrived at Weston-on-Sea after visiting Bristol and other towns in Somerset.

The bar where the Weston-the-Sea public fireplace is located has long been vacant due to the lack of foot traffic, and there were originally homeless people, but the occasional green flame in the fireplace has made the place a famous haunted house, and if it weren't for the permanent protection magic on the inside of the house, it would have been in ruins.

When Tonks arrived, she saw an empty house filled with sea breezes, and she immediately raised her wand to carefully inspect it to make sure that there were no traps set by the "hunters" in or around the empty house, and then cautiously walked to the window to take a look outside.

The harbor outside the house was very depressed, only a few boats were scattered about the day's catch, the other ships were moored at their respective docks, the streets next to the harbor were also quiet, there were not many vehicles, only the smell of fish wafting in the wind, and the shops on the side of the road were a few more people, but one or two were lazy, as if all the anger on their bodies had been evaporated by the June sun.

Tonks knew that it was difficult for her to fit into the port at this time, so she could only quickly adjust her mood, then changed her appearance and clothing, left through the back door and turned into the alley next to her, walked slowly to the street, carefully observing the port and the people around her, but the locals didn't pay attention to her at all, many people were sleeping, and occasionally saw someone awake, but also half-squinted, looking like they were going to die.

Tonks walked along the harbor and saw a purple-haired girl glancing at her, she initially suspected that it was Catherine, but she was dressed in a tight-fitting leather suit, with a bewitching face and a bunch of copper wires wrapped around her hair, clearly a rebellious Muggle, without the slightest Slytherin temperament, and the purple-haired girl then leaned on the table and closed her eyes like everyone else.

Tonks ruled out the purple-haired girl's suspicions, but after a cursory observation of the harbor, she immediately used her apparition to leave Weston-by-Sea, and in order to prevent the same thing from happening last night, she even used all the detection methods she had learned to make sure that no one was following her before going to the resting place she had chosen before.

But when Tonks came out of the shower, she was shocked to find that the purple-haired girl she had noticed in the afternoon was sitting on the sofa in her room with her legs crossed, whistling arrogantly at herself.

"Catherine?" Tonks asked, dumbfounded.

"You're in great shape! Tonks. The purple-haired girl gave an exaggerated wink.

"How did you get to Weston-Marina?" Tonks hurriedly grabbed his clothes and hid back in the bathroom to put them on, "I'm pretty sure no one magically entered that town until I got there, so I checked it three times. ”

"I flew there in a helicopter." The purple-haired girl tucked her flight license between her black nails, "But I didn't expect you to see through such a simple disguise." ”

"You don't look like you at all right now." Tonks rushed to the purple-haired girl and looked at her carefully before snatching her pilot's license, "Don't tell me, you caught up with me in a helicopter?" ”

"I don't have any experience flying at night, so I won't risk my life and property!" The purple-haired girl squinted her blue eyes, and a sneer hung on the corner of her mouth, "I waited until you didn't move, and then I went to Reading, Birmingham, and Carmarthen through the Floo network, and then to all the public fireplaces in Rystor, and finally went up and down this building several times before I was sure of the room you were in." ”

"How long did it take you?" Tonks asked in surprise.

"About an hour." The purple-haired girl shook her head full of copper wire.

"There's simply no way I'm not staying in one place for more than an hour! I always have a break! Tonks shouted frantically, "This game can't be played anymore." ”

"You're right." The purple-haired girl pouted her bewitching red lips and threw a flying kiss at her with a smile, "So I think the content of tomorrow's game should be changed." ”

"What has become?" Tonks asked cautiously. (To be continued......)