The other side.

More than fifty nautical miles from the cargo ship on which Hoffa was boarding.

A frigate bird hovered overhead in the oncoming breeze, then glided sideways, circled half a circle and flew away.

The huge warship floated on the sea, it was more than 200 meters long, 30 meters wide, 10 meters deep, the turret towered like a tall building, and the white smoke from three steam turbines and 12 boilers cast an ominous white fog around him.

Battleship Scharnhorst.

A German cruiser that once sank a British aircraft carrier.

If it's a weekday, at this point in the middle of the day, the deck should be busy. Mopping the floor, loading ammunition, repairing, and even playing cards and drinking. But now, on the deck of the Scharnhorst, the top warship of the German Empire, there is a quiet pin drop.

Several soldiers on duty stood at the entrance to the turret with guns, looking nervous. To the helplessness of the soldiers who had been ordered to maintain order on the deck, there were five black-robed Imperial wizards standing opposite them, as well as the infamous man sitting in the middle of the wizards.

I saw a man in military uniform sitting on a chair among the five black-robed wizards, reading a newspaper, his skin was brown and red, as thin as the handle of a whip, and his shoulders, hands, and neck showed strips of muscles. The shiny leather boots looked unreal in the soft hazy sunlight, the face under the reflective sunglasses was faint but solid, and the blue uniform was spotless, and the folds were like a knife edge.

It was none other than the German Gestapo colonel, Müller Mans.

The people he threw into the concentration camp claimed to fill the entire Red Sea together.

The visitors hadn't spoken much since they first stepped onto the deck, but the air was so thick that they felt like a broken ship in the middle of the ocean, ready to be murdered at any moment.

A soldier standing guard felt that his buttocks were a little itchy, but he was too embarrassed to reach out and scratch them, so he secretly pressed his butt against a raised screw cap on the iron wall behind him and rubbed it slowly.

A black-robed man caught a glimpse of his movements and narrowed his eyes.

The soldier was embarrassed.

"What about Dominic, why hasn't he come out yet?"

The black robe asked coldly, "We have been waiting here for three hours, how long are you going to ask us to wait?"

The soldier who twisted his ass squeezed out a smile: "I'm sorry, the major is busy now, it's inconvenient to meet people, please wait a little longer." ”

The black robe sneered: "Half an hour ago, you said the same thing, half an hour ago, you still said that." ”

Soldier: "......"

Colonel Mance, who was reading the newspaper, smiled and said, "Calm, Aldo." Major Dominica has a lot of opportunities. ”

The soldier looked relieved.

The black-robed man named Aldo said in disgust: "Why did we come to Normandy to arrest someone, and we had to report to Dominic?"

Mance didn't raise his head, and said lightly: "This is politeness, we can't just break into other people's territory without even informing him, and even if we don't respect Dominic, we must respect the adults behind him." ”

Heavy footsteps came from the deck.

"It's coming, it's coming!"

One of the black-robed wizards said, and the other black-robed craned their necks to restrain the impatience on their faces.

The door of the battleship's deck to the cabin was pushed open by several soldiers who bent over.

A fat figure was lifted out on the stretcher, his thick arms hanging weakly from the edge of the stretcher, and blood slowly dripping from it.

"That's ..... Dominic?"

A black-robed man asked with a frown.

"How could it be. ”

Mance smiled, and he continued to flip through a page of the newspaper.

A few soldiers carrying stretchers walked to the side of the boat and lifted the stretcher as if they were taking out garbage. Throw the fat guy down, and the hapless guy fell like a rag doll off the battleship and landed in the sea with a thud.

Soon, the water was churning, and countless black shark fins emerged from the murky water, devouring the thrown creature in the blink of an eye.

After throwing the body, the soldier pushed the door back into the cabin. The black-robed wizards turned their heads indifferently, not paying much attention. It wasn't long before heavy footsteps were heard again on the deck.

"Are you here?"

The black robe's expression became solemn again, and some people even tidied up their robes.

This time, a two-meter muscular man stumbled open the hatch, he covered his mouth and chest, and as soon as he went out, he fell to the ground hard, and the vertebrae in his back were punctured.

"..... this?"

The Dark Wizard was stunned.

"It's not. ”

Mance continued to shake his head.

I saw that the strong man who fell to the ground twitched, and blood gushed out of his back, spreading to the feet of the black-robed wizard in the blink of an eye.

Several soldiers followed him out of the cabin, and in surprise they lifted the strong man up, and threw him into the sea as he had just thrown the big fat man.

Under the action of gravity, the man plunged into the water.

The sea boiled, and the sharks danced wildly, devouring the two unknown creatures in the blink of an eye.

The black robe was silent.

At this moment, a young lieutenant pushed open the iron door and walked over to several black-robed wizards, bowing slightly.

"Major please. ”

"Great. ”

Mance closed the newspaper with a smile, retracted Erlang's legs, and sat up from the deck chairs.

The lieutenant led the group down the deck, the lights of the cabin flickering on Colonel Muellermans' face, and he put his hands behind his back and looked at the steel machine with interest.

The discolored beige walls were speckled with rust that was still expanding. Every few meters, a battery-powered fluorescent lamp hangs from the steel beams, casting an ugly green light, intense but uneven.

It didn't take long for them to follow the young lieutenant to the bottom of the deck, a place that resembled a boxing ring.

In the center of the ring, two men are fighting each other in the ring. One of the brawny men pinched the other man's spine and struck him in the abdomen, and the beaten man spat out a viscous scarlet substance. The smell of blood wafted through the air, as if you were in a slaughterhouse.

Soon, one of the men was defeated by the other, and was directly pressed to the ground, and smashed to death.

He stood up, looked at the men entering the ring, craned his neck, and walked over to them.

Several black-robed snickers disdainfully, "It's a shame, is he a wizard or a boxer?"

Soon, however, their laughter vanished as the man approached.

This is a stunning-looking man, he is covered in scars, he is three meters tall, and his whole body is full of extremely developed muscles, just one look can make people feel intimidated.

"Hi Ethan, long time no see. ”

Colonel Mance looked up enthusiastically and greeted the man in front of him.

"Mance. ”

The man's throat rumbled like thunder, and the soldier next to him helped him take off his gloves and handed him a glass of milky milk.

The glass was the size of a normal person's head. He took it and drank it down. The blood in his hand left a bright red palm print on the milky white cup.

Mance: "You're in a good mood, I've heard that you've been clearing up all the Allied transports in this area lately, and Lord Grindelwald should be very satisfied." ”

"Hmm. ”

Dominic snorted indifferently, "More milk." ”

The soldier standing next to him refilled his washbasin-sized cup with a large amount of milky liquid.

He looked up and gulped down.

After drinking the milk, the half-giant asked, "What are you here for, there are not enough things in Paris or the days of the Wizards' Guild are too idle." ”

"Neither, my friend. It's me who recently ran off an important source of information. Chloe Lemay, a descendant of the alchemist Nick Lemay, is now in your jurisdiction. ”

"And then?"

"And then?" Mance asked rhetorically, "aren't you going to do something?"

Dominic smiled, his eyes finally focused on Mance's face: "If you want to arrest someone, you can do it, you don't have to come to inform me, Colonel." ”

He deliberately bit the word colonel very hard, and then turned around: "More milk." ”

(The soldier brings a larger jar.) ）

Mance: "If you can, you can interpret it as a kind request. ”

He looked up and drank the milk, "Don't you have a lot of wizards under your hands? Are they so wasted that they can't even catch a woman?"

The bitter sarcasm stirred up the black-robed wizards under Mance, and some even took a step forward and drew their wands.

Mance didn't care about Dominic's ridicule, he laughed and raised his hand to stop the commotion.

"Her magical abilities are a bit slippery, and once activated, it's hard to stop, and you're a well-known wizard killer, and almost no wizards can escape from you, so I'd like to ask you for a favor. ”

"And what's the pay?"

Mance: "I'll tell you a story, Major. ”

Dominic straightened his gloves and didn't lift his head," he said. ”

"My grandfather had seen a super-sailing battleship, the USS Santa Trinidad, in Spain at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in 1797. The ship was the only four-deck warship in Spain. Armed with 140 guns.

At that time, he was the best warship in the world, and no one knew that he would lose. But unfortunately, less than ten years later, it was defeated by the British Victory at sea, and it has been in ruin ever since.

When my father was young, he used to work for the Volkeng shipyard, and at that time, the Qing government in the Far East ordered two warships from my father's shipyard, Dingyuan and Zhenyuan.

It has a displacement of 7,000 tons, armor 12 to 14 inches thick, and is mainly armed with four 12-inch guns. It was the largest warship in the Far East at that time. For a while, there was no difference in the limelight.

However, less than a decade after they were at sea, they were sunk in the Yellow Sea by the little-known Japanese navy. ”

As he finished slowly, Dominic's face had become very ugly, "What do you want to express, Colonel?"

"Actually, I want to say that the fate of man is actually the same as these ships. If you can be in the limelight today, you may fall and die tomorrow, and no one knows what your fate will be in the future. ”

He said sincerely, "But God's mercy occasionally gives me and other mortals a chance to get a glimpse of the heavens. This opportunity is now in front of you and me, Ethan, and if you can get Chloe Lemay back, I can share with you the opportunity to see the future. ”

There was a moment of silence.

Dominic sneered: "I see. ”

"What do you understand?"

"I understand that this is why you, as a Muggle, can lure so many wizards into serving you. Right?"

Mance's face changed slightly, but he remained calm: "I promised to see through the future, yes, but this is not demagogy. ”

"I'm not interested, please go back. ”

Dominic stood up and waved his hand.

"Next!"

The soldiers standing on the side immediately opened the iron cage in the arena, and two more big men were escorted out.

Dominic moved his muscular neck, leaped high into the air, and jumped into the ring.

Mance's face was gloomy for a moment, but in an instant, he returned to normal, and he stepped forward and lay on the guardrail of the boxing ring:

"I heard that in 1928, you defeated ten faceless gargoyles, in 1935 you killed three Luxembourg giants alone, and in 39, you were accepted as a disciple by Grindelwald for killing 36 members of the British Violet Wizard Order, and since then you have been known as a wizard killer, right?"

Dominic: "Say what you want to say, hurry up." ”

"Isn't it boring that the former Giant Destroyer, the Wizard Slayer, is now here fighting with some ordinary Muggles!?"

Rumble!!

A muggle man was smashed out, breaking the guardrail and slamming into the iron wall, smashing into a pile of meatloaf.

Blood splashed on the faces of several black-robed men, and they stood still in place with fear.

Dominic walked slowly in front of Mance, and at this moment, his already tall stature appeared taller, blocking almost all the light.

"Don't dictate to me, Mance. If you don't like it, you can come down with me to play, and if you do, maybe I'll help you find that Lemay. ”

"No, I don't want to kill myself. ”

Mance calmly spread his hands, "However, in return, I can introduce you to a better opponent." ”

"No one in this sea is my opponent. ”

"That's right. Miss Lemay had a bodyguard by her side, and he was also a student of Master Grindelwald, as you should have heard. ”

"Who are you talking about?"

"Hoffa Bach.