Chapter 700: The Children Are Attacked
The world never revolves around a certain person, everyone has their own life. While Maca's side was busy with such and such things, Black's old house was also passing day by day.
Recently, as the days have gradually become dull, the children who remain here have slowly regained some of the feeling of being alive. Although it was only occasional, occasionally, there was finally a childish and innocent laughter here.
But the most noteworthy is probably the younger sister of the werewolf sisters, Lennie.
She's not very old, and she's usually noisy. At first, when these children, who were about her age, arrived at the Black House, she thought she was about to have a large number of companions to hang out with. But when she found out that it was a group of lifeless children who came here, her heart was undoubtedly very depressed.
But after a while, something happened to Lupin's surprise - Leni somehow plucked open the locked doors of the children's hearts, and although the children were still silent when they were with her, they were at least willing to run back and forth with Leni in the house.
And now, even Lupin, who has been trying to guide the children out of the shadows, has to admit that Leni is really responsible for the fact that these little ones can gradually become more cheerful.
In fact, now Leni has become the child king of Blake's old mansion. With the exception of the little girl named Isla, who only wanted to stay with Helen Schoen, the other children all ran after Leni's ass all day, and sometimes even walked around the streets outside for a short while.
"If this continues, Hogwarts may have another special batch of new students next year. When they make more friends in school, they may be able to move forward with their own lives like other children. ”
In the reception room on the first floor, Lupin was reading the newspaper leisurely and talking happily. Across from him, Sirius, who was sitting on the other side of the long table, nodded and seemed to be in a good mood.
In the past two days, they have finally had nothing to do, since they had followed Maca to the Iranian wizarding world, and since they came back, they would go out and run around every day, and grasp some of the situation in Britain in a timely manner.
Both of them were the kind of people who couldn't sit idle, especially Sirius, and it was even worse to have him sit all day than to kill him.
Today, too, when the kids have had enough of playing with Lenny, it's time for them to go out and find out the news again.
The seat closest to the doorway at the long table belonged to Lena for the rest of the time.
Because of that low-key and introverted personality, even in the old Black House, which is based on cordiality and harmony, she always maintains a certain sense of distance from everyone. Coupled with her personal preference for cooking, she prepares three meals and refreshments for everyone when Mrs. Weasley is away.
Truth be told, if Sirius, the owner of the mansion, always seemed to be unobtrusive, Lena would have almost existed like a servant here. Of course, no one would think that way at this point.
However, even Lupin wanted to be polite to Lena from time to time, trying to remind Lena that everyone was equal here. But if Lena immediately becomes more polite than them, it will undoubtedly put the cart before the horse.
So, in desperation, the others had to follow Lena.
In this seat, for example, Lena will always sit in the far corner, and sometimes even stand at all. And when Lupin and Sirius are talking, she will definitely not get involved, let alone interject casually.
When it comes to people who don't know how to get along, Lena will definitely be ranked first by everyone.
But today, at this very moment, when Lupin and Sirius were casually discussing where to go first to get information in the afternoon, Lena's sudden opening suddenly startled the two of them.
Since it was so sudden, they didn't listen much to what Qing Lena said, so they were just surprised.
"What?"
Sirius took his feet away from the chair next to him, and Lupin subconsciously put down the Daily Prophet in his hand, and both of them looked at Lena who stood up suddenly.
"It's Lenny...... Leni is in danger. ”
Lena's expression was similar to usual, but her brows furrowed slightly. But her hands tightly twisted in front of her revealed the anxiety in her heart.
"Where? Can you feel it? Sirius immediately asked.
"In ......," Lena pursed her lips and suddenly turned around and walked towards the door, "I can't tell you exactly where it is, but Leni wanted to transform just now...... It didn't work out, but I did feel it. Please follow me, I know the direction......"
It stands to reason that Leni and those children won't run far. And in this community, there are alienated eight-eyed giant spiders patrolling around, and no matter how you think about it, nothing should happen.
But when Lupin and Sirius followed Lena straight through two blocks, they understood. Somehow, Leni actually ran away today.
"The two of us have been outside to investigate the situation every day for the past two days, but we haven't found that anyone has touched the vicinity of the old house, which is really ironic."
As he hurried along, Sirius said with some annoyance.
So the answer is already obvious, these two veteran members of the Order of the Phoenix who have experienced two Death Eater battles are completely inferior to each other in terms of tracking and searching. It's even possible that those who wandered over here were brought by them by accident.
Since Lena was unable to sense where Leni was trying to transform, the trio had to rely on their legs to correct their direction as they ran.
Regardless of the specific strength of the three of them, at least looking at the speed and endurance of running, Lena, who is a congenital werewolf, is obviously a lot stronger. While both Lupin and Sirius were gasping for breath, Lena was able to suppress the anxiety in her heart and restrain her speed a little, lest the two of them chase her.
"Over here—"
After passing another alley and running down a somewhat deserted street for a while, Lena jerked around and kicked open the iron door of a large warehouse.
It was once a ingredient storage warehouse for a light industrial factory, but of course, it was completely empty after it was abandoned in the early years. Now, when Lena and the three of them stepped inside, except for some cold shelves, all that was left were plastic baskets everywhere and transparent packaging bags scattered all over the place.
Right now, the door of the warehouse was kicked open by Lena, and the wind from the street outside suddenly poured into the rather empty warehouse, causing the bags on the ground to scatter in all directions.
"There's a fight there—"
Lupin looked deeper and soon spotted several shelves that had fallen to the ground.
The shelves here are very large, and when they were used in the past, it was obvious that they needed to be stacked with light goods, so the steel shelves were quite strong and rigid. However, the shelves that had fallen were now all deformed, and it was evident that they had suffered a considerable amount of blows.
The three of them hurried over to check it out, and Sirius immediately discovered other clues.
"Look at these two sides," he said, pointing to the large windows on the left and right, "and the windows on both sides are broken...... Lena, you noticed that this is indeed the place where Leni tried to transform, right? ”
Lena nodded quickly.
"Well, she must have burst into the warehouse through a window on the side, trying to transform while hiding from someone. But the transformation didn't work, and the enemy followed, so she immediately escaped through the window on the other side......" Sirius said, observing the broken glass on the ground again, and then continued, "It's out this way, let's keep chasing!" ”
Sirius's speculation was reasonable, and Lena immediately agreed, and ran to the window on the right first. But at that moment, Lupin waved his hand quickly.
"You chase first, I'll look in the opposite direction—" he said, "Lenny is obviously only one person, so she must have hidden the children somewhere, and then she will act alone to try to distract them." ”
In this case, Lena will definitely make it a priority to ensure the safety of her sister, but Lupin must also take responsibility for the children. In fact, half of his judgment can only be said to be speculation, but to say that the possibility of the other half is the development he least wants to see.
"Well, I'll leave it to you, but you have to be careful!"
Within a few moments of Sirius's words, Lena had already jumped out of the broken window. If it weren't for the limitations of the werewolf itself, even if it was difficult for the innate bloodline to transform during the day, she would have left the two of them and ran to save people by herself.
But she also knew very well in her heart that under this blue sky and white clouds, her combat power was definitely not comparable to that of a wizard who cast a spell with a wand. To save her sister, she must rely on the power of others.
The children were attacked, which is certainly not a trivial matter, not to mention that those children were rescued by Maca in the first place. Lupin was running to the other window, and he was also thinking that when he found the children, he would have to go back to Black's house and get a letter to Hogwarts.
Suddenly, a bang caused Lupin, who had just jumped out of the window, to subconsciously turn his head, and he thought about it for a while, and then he couldn't help but feel a little sure in his heart. Judging from the distance, Lena and Sirius should not have traveled that far, so it may be the commotion from Lennie's side.
At the very least, it seems that it is possible to identify a person who is still alive - even if it may be like him, an anomaly that seems to be ordinary on the surface, but in fact cannot be called "human".
Shaking off the complicated thoughts in his mind, Lupin sped up his running speed again, while taking a closer look around him.