Dawn should have been full of life.

When the sun peeks out from the east and shines its first rays into the world, the orange glow permeates the horizon, outlining the distant buildings still soaked in the night fog.

The leaves of grass in the countryside are slowly falling in the morning dew, and the sunlight reflects the enchanting colors.

Yes, in fact, all this has not changed so much, at least far from being as big as people think. Nature's tenacity and persistence are by no means easily destroyed by one or two people like Helmault.

Only, when Sirius leaned against the roof and looked at the gray fog-shrouded London in the distance...... All he could feel was dreary and desolation.

Aside from his regular patrol hours, he seems to have been on the roof for almost half the night. He watched the whole world sink into the night, and then gradually it was lit up by the sun, until now it was time for a new day.

And at this moment, he suddenly saw several black dots in the distance suddenly appear in his sight, and slowly enlarged towards him.

It was the last patrol team that had returned from flying the established route.

"Hah"

Raising his arms suddenly, Sirius let out a long sigh as he stretched. He hadn't slept all night, but he didn't feel sleepy at all, only a visceral tiredness that made his body seem somewhat weak.

By the way, this night, not even a living corpse was seen on the periphery of the fog.

"It's time for a shift change...... After going outside, I'll send a message to Maca and Lupin to report on the current situation! ”

While talking to himself, Sirius casually flipped the skylight open next to him, and with one hand on the roof, he jumped cleanly back into the attic below.

Perhaps due to the years of practicing the Animagus form, even in human form, his movements when he landed were very light, and he barely made a sound.

Of course, this was mainly due to the fact that there were still team members resting downstairs, and he didn't want to wake up his colleagues at the Ministry of Magic who had managed to take a nap because he was too quiet.

"Shh

When several owls living in the attic saw him coming down, they were about to chirp a few times, but he immediately stopped them.

"You can rest a little longer," Sirius whispered to the owls standing on the back of the chair and the wooden table, "and I'll be out for a while, and you'll have work to do when I get back!" ”

When the clever owls heard this, they immediately stopped making a sound, but tilted their heads and blinked their big round eyes, and looked at him quietly.

"By the way...... Good morning. ”

As he spoke, Sirius kept at his feet, and soon walked briskly down the stairs next to him.

"Goh?"

After his figure disappeared, the owls also got together and whispered a few "cooing", as if discussing who should do the "work" for a while.

After a while, the attic was completely quiet again.

But who knows, whether it is Sirius or the owls, the intimate whispers will be in vain.

Because soon, there was a loud "bang" downstairs, which woke up all the team members who were taking a nap from sleep.

"What's wrong?"

Sirius, who had just reached the halfway point up the stairs, heard the movement below, and immediately stopped controlling his footsteps, and ran down at a faster pace.

When he rushed downstairs in a hurry, he saw that the team members who had just returned from patrol were carrying two wounded people covered in blood, and were hurriedly putting them on the old sofa next to them.

"Both are survivors," the leader of the squad replied quickly, "to escape before sunrise and when it was darkest...... According to the woman, who was relatively lightly injured, they had been hiding in the cellar until then. Originally, I wasn't actually injured, but I had no choice but to go out to forage for food because I had eaten everything I could eat...... And then it was attacked. ”

"Hmm."

Sirius nodded thoughtfully as he watched his two teammates who were skilled in healing spells give first aid to the two wounded.

"I was injured and there was no way to treat it, so I ...... Did you just run out? ”

"I fainted before I even said this, but that's probably it!" The captain nodded before he said, "And that's not the most important thing...... Before, she said, there were survivors in that cellar! ”

This sentence made Sirius's brows furrow suddenly.

Maca had been told a thousand times to patrol outside the fog, but if she had to do so, she should try not to step into the fog as much as possible.

Even if Maca hadn't strictly forbidden their patrol team to enter, as she had ordered the alienated eight-eyed spiders, she knew on her knees how high her assessment of the danger in the gray fog was.

"Is this an extraordinary state of affairs?"

The captain said, and couldn't help but look back at Sirius, although he was nominally the leader of the patrol team, but Sirius was still in charge of the command on their side.

However, it can be seen that the other party actually wants to go over and rescue the remaining survivors.

"Hmm...... Count it out! Sirius frowned, "One of our missions is to rescue survivors who might still be alive, isn't it?" ”

That being said, it was clear that he had to bear not only the lives of the survivors, but also the lives of nearly twenty members of his three patrol teams.

Now to enter the fog that Maca called "extremely dangerous", he had to consider the possibility of total annihilation.

"We can only go to a small team," he thought for a moment, "and the rescue operation is limited to one time, and if it doesn't come back in an hour, the actual situation will be reported to the Spiral Town immediately." ”

With that, Sirius turned to say:

"There has been no 'deceased' all night, and the perimeter should be safe...... By the way, did the lady say where the cellar where they were hiding? ”

"Near Maiazfils Park," the other immediately said, "to be honest, it's a bit far from here...... It's already a relatively deep part of the fog zone. ”

"It's hard for them to get out."

Sirius said, looking at the two injured patients who were being rescued again, and couldn't help but sigh slightly.

As can be seen from the costumes of the two, the more injured of the two women appears to be a wizard, while the other is supposed to be a Muggle.

It was hard to imagine that they could escape from such a deep place, even if they looked at the rather serious injuries they had experienced along the way.

"Damn Helpo...... Damn disaster! ”