5. Employees of the Ministry of Magic
The gunfire went out, and the wriggling stone hands on the corpse slowly retreated. The midnight moonlight shone through the glass of the church on the floor tiles, blood mixed with rain slowly seeping through the cracks in the bricks into the soles of Hoffa's shoes.
Hoffa straightened up from the wall, his face solemn.
Noble lowered his gun, his expression changed from fierce to depressed, and he covered his severed arm: "Damn, how did I start a business with this kind of guy"
"The Wizards' Guild definitely knows where we are. ”
Noble gritted his teeth and said, "I can't stay here, withdraw immediately." Otherwise, they will be caught and die. ”
"But what about the weapons?"
Huo Fa seemed quite calm: "Without those guns, the capital chain will be broken, and as soon as the capital chain is broken, the career that we have just started with great difficulty will be lost." ”
"You think those people are third-rate pub monsters with Muggle weapons, they're well-armed wizards. ”
"Right now we don't have the capital to fight with them," Noble said. ”
"No, please respect the objective facts. ”
Hoffa said calmly: "We are already on the verge of bankruptcy, without that batch of weapons, this year's time, all in vain." ”
"What, stinky boy, crazy about you, with such a big heart?
"I'm not crazy. ”
"And what are you going to do?"
Noble sneered, "Go to the Wizarding Guild and tell them that we made the contraband and that the ownership belongs to us?"
"No, I'll go to Durant's warehouse first. ”
Noble jumped to his feet in a hurry: "Then what if those people are waiting for us next to the goods?"
"I have a special illusion and they can't catch me. ”
Hoffa paused: "I didn't let you go, you can go first by yourself, just like before, I don't care." ”
After saying that, he calmly found a bunch of keys on Durant's body, and then walked outside the church.
Noble looked at Hoffa's back in disbelief. After being stunned for a long time, he muttered:
"Asshole"
But after scolding, he still chased after him.
Seeing him come back, Hoffa didn't say much.
The warehouse is located at the end of the street in the East End.
It was late, and the rain in the sky was gradually stopping.
Upon arriving at their destination, both men appeared unusually cautious.
Hoffa entered the phantom state early, always ready for the ghost to walk, while Noble also clutched his injured arm, pinched his gun, and carefully navigated through the shadows.
They were vigilant, but they met no resistance. Nor did they see any enemies or ambushes.
Eventually, when the two of them came to the broken wooden door of the warehouse, they both looked confused.
"Anyone?"
Norber asked, sweat dripping from his forehead.
Hoffa shook his head, his perception telling him clearly that there was no one in the room. Noble breathed a sigh of relief, and he hurriedly put the gun in his waist and squeaked open the door to the warehouse.
The door of the warehouse opened, and the old arched tin warehouse was full of pieces of wooden boxes, and when the wooden boxes were opened, some ordinary pots and pans were placed in each box.
The two of them carefully examined these things, and from time to time Hoffa picked up one, those ordinary looking everyday objects, and when they returned to his hands, they began to squirm and deform, and finally turned into a black gun with an unusually cold and hideous appearance.
When he put the weapons back in, they turned back into what looked like ordinary pots and pans. This is all the construction products that Hoffa has made with Noble for half a year.
It looked the same as Muggle supplies, except that he had to wrap the weapons with a Transfiguration Charm after crafting them, so that they could avoid Muggle customs.
"It's all there. ”
Noble breathed a sigh of relief.
"Anyway, take the things with you first. ”
And Huo Fa rubbed his chin and frowned.
"Don't you think it's too quiet?"
"Don't worry if it's quiet or not, you're lucky if you don't meet those Germans. ”
As he spoke, he took out a Traceless Stretch Backpack, drew his wand, and lit them on the wooden boxes one by one.
With each click, a box floats up and flies into the bottomless stretch backpack.
Soon, they were packing their things. Like a well-fed hamster, it sneaks out the door, trying to get out of this place as soon as possible.
But when he reached the corner of the street, Hoffa, who was fully perceptive, noticed a creature twenty meters away, and he grabbed Noble's arm, and Noble was frightened and quickly pulled his weapon out of his trouser pocket.
The two stood in the shadows, staring firmly at the other side of the road.
Then, a tall, thin figure slowly appeared on the other side of the waterlogged road.
It was a woman in a gray robe. She was about twenty-three years old, with a high nose and deep eyes, white skin as frost, and no hair on her head, and she looked like a European monk.
Without blinking, she looked at the hiding place of the two in the shadows.
Hoffa reacted for two seconds, and immediately realized that this was the woman who had just accosted him at the bar.
But it's one o'clock in the morning, and under the repressive rule of Germany, it's not normal people to think about it at this time.
Not to mention that they had met once before, so thinking about it, that meeting in the bar was also premeditated.
"You guys actually came over first, it looks like Durant is dead. ”
The woman spoke English, which was incomparably clear in the quiet streets.
"I know what you're capable of, Mr. Bach, but I'm not from the Wizarding Guild, so you don't have to run away right away. ”
There was no point in hiding, and the two slowly emerged from their hiding place.
"Who are you?"
Hoffa's spirit is highly tense, in this dangerous world, anyone can become his opponent, especially this kind of female bald head that appeared out of nowhere, it looks very wrong.
The woman unbuttoned her chest, and under the cover of her gray coat, she wore a black uniform with a gleaming silver plaque.
"The British Ministry of Magic prohibits the misuse of magic, Delfina Ribourne. He is also the assistant to the current Minister of Magic. ”
Delfina, Hoffa was slightly stunned, when he was in the church tunnel, he heard a black friend talk to him, and someone from the British Ministry of Magic was also looking for Durant, but he didn't expect it to be her.
Noble glanced at Hoffa, who was not a German wizard, which confused him a little.
"We've met?"
Hoffa frowned and asked, he always felt as if he had heard the other party's name somewhere.
The bald woman shook her head and looked at him with a smile, "If you don't remember, you haven't seen it." But I know you, Mr. Bach. ”
"What do you know about me?"
"I know you left Hogwarts in 1941, a year ago you were accused of being a dangerous wizard bombing London, and a year ago you were arrested by the Ministry of Magic on suspicion of making dangerous objects, but you slipped away, am I right?"
Hoffa didn't say a word, and the muscles on his face twitched.
"In the past six months, you have disappeared, but a large number of constructed weapons are circulating in the world.
The Wizengamot had already banned construction techniques in 1939, but unexpectedly, you, once one of Hogwarts' best students, known as the glory of Ravenclaw, had just left school and became an arms dealer. ”
After a pause, the woman said slowly, "Aren't you ashamed?" ”
Click!
Noble raised his pistol, "I know that he knows so well, do you have a crush on him?"
Hoffa raised his hand and pressed his arm, sneering, "That's right, are you here to arrest me? With the current power of the Ministry of Magic, you can't protect yourself." ”
The woman narrowed her eyes and smiled slyly, "Ha, you're right, we're struggling to make ends meet, so I'm not here to catch you." ”
"Then what are you doing here? ”
"I'll come"
The woman stepped forward, and with the muzzle of Noble's black hole, the cage hand walked up to Hoffa. looked at him without blinking and said:
"I'm here for your help. ”
"I was so embarrassed to talk about it just now, and in the blink of an eye you want to ask me for help, I don't think I will agree. Hoffa said.
"It was all a joke. Minister Muen is the one who wants you, but now Minister Muen has taken the blame and resigned. The newly appointed Minister Drazes has specially entrusted me to come to you. ”
Hearing the last name again, Hoffa's eyelids twitched. He bypassed Delfina and wanted to leave.
As a result, the other party stopped him with open arms.
"Eh, don't be so indifferent, I have no ill intentions, I just want to have a friendly chat with you. ”
"We don't talk to people from the Ministry of Magic, baby. ”
It was Noble who answered her.
"Did I ask you what you think?"
The woman glanced at Noble arrogantly.
This made Noble furious:
"Bald, I don't care who you are. Get out of the way, or die. ”
"Hagrid, you've been wanted by the Department for the Management of Magical Beasts no less than fifteen times in the last thirty-plus years. The year before last, he had killed two Azkaban escorts.
You could have killed me and walked away, but your son, Rubeus Hagrid, is still studying at Hogwarts. You can't ignore his growth at all. ”
"You!"
Noble barked like a cat that had been stepped on by the tail: "You dare to touch my son."
Hofa pulled his grumpy companion, "What are you talking about?"
Delfina: "Durant has captured a lot of Jews from here, one of whom is close to the Ministry of Magic, and Minister Drazes wants someone to send her back to England." ”
"What does that have to do with me? It's obviously your job. ”
"The British coastline has been sealed off by Grindelwald, and no wizard can escape the eyes of the Imperial Wizarding Society. If you want to take someone out of his grasp, only you can do it. ”
Listening to her, Hoffa sneered. After the other party finished speaking, he flatly denied it.
"I can't do it, you can find someone else. ”
"You and Hagrid's weapons can be shipped to England, is it difficult to sneak people there?"
"Things are things, people are people. I can't. ”
"You can do it. ”
"Can't do it. ”
"Yes. ”
The bald woman's stubbornness annoyed Hoffa, and he was inexplicably approached by the institution he had been fleeing from, and gave himself an inexplicable task, and he didn't want to have anything to do with the British Ministry of Magic at all.
So he said bluntly, "What if I don't want to do it?"
"You must help with this favor. ”
"No one can force me to do anything, especially back to London. ”
"Minister Drazes doesn't want to help?"
A hint of disgust flashed in Hoffa's eyes: "The last thing I want to see in my life is him." ”
Looking at the other party's categorical appearance, Delfina slowly lowered her arm.
"Then this conversation didn't happen. ”
"Farewell. ”
After saying that, Hoffa turned his head without hesitation and strode away from the spot.
Noble glared at the woman with some ferocity.
"Don't follow us. ”
"I don't, I promise. ”
The woman said as she looked at Hoffa's back.
Noble lowered his arm and hurried to follow in Hoffa's footsteps, turning back three times in a hurry. It wasn't until he couldn't see the tall figure that he said:
"This must be a ploy of the Ministry of Magic. Trying to trick us back to England and put us under house arrest. These guys, one in the infighting, are still looking for trouble with us at this time. ”
"Whatever. ”
Hoffa said: "I've decided, I won't care about anything else. ”
"Hah, you're a clever little ghost. ”
Noble laughed, not knowing whether to praise him or embarrass him.