Recently, there has been an increase in the number of Muggle disappearances.

As a result of the previous disaster, Mundungus realized that future intelligence gathering might need to include the Muggle world as well.

However, the social makeup of the Muggle side is much more complex than the population of the wizarding world.

"To be honest, it's a lot of work to find out the news from the Muggle side - although it's a special time now, the international secrecy law is still there, and we don't dare to make it too conspicuous......

Listening to Montungus spitting out bitterness there, Maca didn't really say much.

In fact, the International Secrecy Act was created to protect wizards and Muggles in both directions. As long as the two parties are as isolated from each other as possible, a lot of trouble can be avoided.

If I had to give an example...... That's war, for example.

It's just that in terms of the situation during this time, Helbo's constant tossing and turning also made Muggles have a lot of inevitable contact with wizards, so that the international secrecy law or something has almost become an ornament.

However, the fact that he, Helbo, can ignore the laws of the modern wizarding world does not mean that Mundungus, the wizards who can only wander on the edge, dare to cross that line.

"Mr. McLean, you say...... If we want to go to the Muggle world and develop some 'manpower', will this work? ”

Looking at the appearance of the thief's eyebrows and rat eyes, Maca suddenly said angrily:

"It doesn't work!"

He naturally knew what this guy was thinking - as long as he got permission or instruction from his side, then this guy could do these extraordinary things in his name. If the federation asks about sin, he, Marka McLean, becomes the strongest shield.

In fact, Mondigus's idea is mainly for the growth of intelligence channels, of course, there are selfish motives, but the benefits to the Order of the Phoenix and Maca are indeed obvious.

And let's be honest, if Makaken had nodded his head, it would have been possible with his current network.

But......

"The temporary investigation is fine, if there are really any valuable clues, you can use the Truth Breathing Potion or even the Imperius Curse, I can help you carry it. But you have to keep the word 'temporary' in mind," he said solemnly, "and now is not the time to break down the barriers, so don't stretch your hand too far." ”

To put it bluntly, if Maca had been willing, he would have agreed to the invitation of the Queen and the old bishop a long time ago. But he knew very well in his heart that it was too early to talk about these things, and if he really did it, he would only get a burning ending.

After saying this, he returned to the original topic:

"So, what did you just call the 'Muggle disappearance'? Did a wizard do it? ”

Seeing that Maca completely disagreed with his thoughts, Mundungus could only stuff the thoughts that made him a little itchy back into his heart.

Because he knew that there were only a few people in the world who could do anything like that of an outrageous move to develop power in the Muggle world—at least he certainly didn't have that qualifications himself.

After a little bit of gathering his thoughts, Mondongues explained in a whisper.

"It's just because it doesn't look like a wizard did it, so I can't make up my mind!" He said a little depressedly, "Actually! The disappearances themselves are not difficult to find, and even if the Muggles were to investigate them themselves, it would only take a little more time at best. ”

"The strange thing is that behind those disappearances are actually human lives, and ...... The process of death of those who died is also very bizarre for the most part, the kind of 'bizarre that can be traced'. ”

When Maca heard this, she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows and said:

"'Bizarre with traces'? How so? ”

Immediately, Mundungus picked a random case that he had already investigated and told Maca as an example.

According to him, there was an accident in such a seemingly ordinary Muggle family a few days ago:

It was a home of a husband and wife and two young children. The husband is a car salesman, while the wife, who has just given birth to her second child, quit her job to take care of the children at home.

Obviously, this is actually a very common family in London.

But just a few days ago, the wife found out very accidentally that her husband was having an affair. This is undoubtedly a rather heavy blow to a woman who has only been married for a few years.

So, the wife, who has always been gentle and sensible, questioned her husband that night and tried to get him to explain everything.

She thought that her husband would be secretive and refuse to admit it—that would annoy her just as much, but it would also prove that he still had her as a wife in his heart.

Marriage is not a one-person thing, not to mention having two children now. Even for the sake of the child, she wants to see if she can redeem it.

But what she didn't expect was that her husband would admit it nonchalantly!

Needless to say, this quarrel between the husband and wife escalated further with the husband's attitude, and a cold war began between the two.

"It's fairly normal so far," said Mundungus, "that this kind of thing happens all the time, both on the Muggle side and in the wizarding world. But then ......"

A pair of scissors, a human life; The deceased was the husband, but it was not the wife who did it.

“…… It was the eldest son of the two who moved it," he said, frowning, and gesturing with his hand, "only five years old, and so tall - the boy stabbed his father in the throat three or four times in a row while he was drunk!" ”

"Five?" Maca couldn't help frowning and said, "Is it his own will?" ”

"Yes," Mundungus nodded, "I asked myself...... But there's also the problem that the case was originally a case of disappearance. At that time, the wife did not know that her husband had died in the bathroom, and she only found that her young son was missing...... In a panic, she called the police. ”

"Any questions?" Maca asked, confused.

However, Mundungus spread his hands with it.

"It's not a problem," he said, "it's because it's okay, and that's the biggest problem — as I said from the beginning, the number of 'disappearances' has been increasing lately." ”

Hearing this, Maca suddenly said:

"That's why you just said that human lives are involved behind the disappearance...... No, it should be said the other way around - is it all all about the cases of human lives that were first implicated in the disappearance? ”

"Yes, that's it." "We have roughly counted the deceased and the murderer, and the distribution of cases can only be said to be around London—both in and out of the city. The only thing that is 'missing' is the same for everyone...... Although there is nothing strange about the missing, and most of them are easily recovered afterwards. ”

Judging from what he said, is this matter related to the wizard...... Or, to put it more clearly, whether it has something to do with Helbo, it's really hard to conclude.

Of course, when it comes to suspicion, Helbo must be insignificant.

"Hmm......" Maka pondered, and only said after a moment, "is it because your current numbers are not enough to detect the situation in time, so you will mention to me to go to the Muggle world to develop manpower?" ”

"yes!" "It's too chaotic on the Muggle side, there are so many people on the Muggle side, and there are a lot of wizards on our side who are not familiar with Muggle things. ”

"Don't talk to me," Maca said, waving her hand, "Anyway, you guys just keep an eye on it as you are, and I'll figure out the rest." ”

With that, he picked up the remaining half of the butterbeer and drank it in deep thought.

Seeing that Maca was silent, Mundungus turned his head again to look at Aberforth, who immediately looked away impatiently.

"Uh...... We'll keep an eye on it, so I won't bother you for the rest of the day - feel free to call me if you have something, I'll be right next to you! ”

After saying a word to Maca, Mondongues, who felt a little bored from sitting down, stood up and walked to the other round tables with his fiery whiskey.

Maca replied casually, not bothering about his departure.

He was now thinking about the "disappearance", especially the fact that "most of the missing people were easily recovered afterwards".

Obviously, there must be a reason for this. If these disappearances are "man-made", the reasons for this are all the more intriguing.

As for those seemingly "bizarre" deaths, Maca has already had some personal thoughts.

"Anyway, you'll have to go and find out for yourself first."

Gently lowering the empty glass, Maca muttered.

……

The next day, Maca received a summary of the case compiled by Mundungus. He asked the other party to make a record of all the cases he had followed, so that he could choose and check them.

As Mundungus points out, there are a lot of these disappearances.

This list is nothing compared to the population around London. But if he had to check them out one by one, to be honest, he really didn't have that much time.

Right now, Maca was sitting in his potions preparation room, casually flipping through the case records in different handwritings. It didn't take long for him to shake his head:

"There's really no pattern to it."

But after roughly scanning it first, and finding that she didn't see any clues, Maca settled down and carefully looked at them one by one.

Because he is usually accustomed to flipping through all kinds of messy materials, his reading speed is much faster than ordinary people. I saw that the pile of reports was rapidly alternating in his hand, and most of them were turned over in a blink of an eye.

But suddenly, his hand as he flipped through the report stopped.

"It's—"

Maca stared at the piece of paper in her hand, looking back and forth again, her brow furrowing more and more.

After a few moments, he placed all the other reports on the table, took the one and quickly walked out, hurriing out of the room.