Chapter 177: From the bottom of my heart... craving
Gluttony.
It was the best word Louie could think of to describe the monster in front of him, based on his many characteristics.
The mire-like body hides a twisted, split soul.
Filch's former best friend, Squib Cruise, who was originally begging for a living in Diagon Alley, is now taking wolf blood potions under the arrangement of Bu Bird, mutating and becoming a monster with infinite hopes for magic.
He seemed to be hungry all the time.
Or...
His biological instincts had always reminded him that if he didn't consume enough mana to feed him, his body would collapse completely.
So, desperate for magic, Cruise uses his mutated abilities to constantly seek out and attack lone wizards, using every bit of magic possessed by those wizards to prolong his own life.
See.
He had some sanity left.
Otherwise, instead of scurrying around the city of London and struggling to find a lone wizard, he would storm the Leaky Cauldron and Diagon Alley and cause a riot.
After all, Cruise, who once begged for a living there, was well aware that for him "food" ...
There are so many out there!
Other than that.
Of note is the way the wolf blood agent is infected.
Slightly different from what Louis imagined, judging from what appeared in the illusion image, Cruise, who took the wolf blood potion and mutated into a "glutton", did not increase the number of people by scratching others or biting others like werewolves.
Every time Cruise devours a certain amount of mana, a special kind of mucus is secreted from his body, and if he accidentally touches the squib of that slime, Muggles will become infected by the wolf's blood potion.
For example, in the previous attack on Harry, Malfoy and other Muggle homeless people rummaged through the city of London for food in the trash can, thus accidentally ingesting the mucus secreted by Cruise, and became a second-generation gluttonous with a relatively low IQ.
With Grindelwald in charge of London at the moment, Louis obviously doesn't need to worry, and the situation on that side may continue to deteriorate.
But what does the anonymous letter mean?
Rebelling against Filch?
Or a declaration of war?
Louis was a little puzzled.
Soon, by the time the image in the illusion had been repeated several times, Louis had already recorded all the details.
"Whew!"
Ignite a fierce fire to purify every rune letter in the letter, and then use your soul to devour and squeeze every bit of magic contained inside.
When Louis finished doing this, he looked at Filch, who looked sad beside him, and he slowly spoke comfortingly: "Mr. Filch, please mourn." ”
"Luo... No, master, why did Cruise become like this? ”
Forcibly hiding the look of pain in his eyes, Filch bit his lower lip and said, "I wrote to Cruise to tell them that everything would be fine, but they..."
"Mr. Filch, I don't think they are to blame."
Patting Filch on the shoulder vigorously, Louis explained in a solemn tone: "He was also bewitched by Berao to become this ghost." ”
"Who's that man?"
Using the werewolf to show the sharp wolf claws, Filch said with a hideous expression: "Master, can I kill him with my own hands?" ”
"Na Rao, codenamed Bu Bird, is the Dark Lord's loyal minion, if you want to sanction him with your own hands..."
"I can promise to do it for you."
Louis saw Filch kneeling down without hesitation, showing his loyalty, and suddenly thought of another meaning of the provocation of the letter from the bird.
That's...
Turn the tiger away from the mountain.
Because, at this time, after devouring the Rune letter condensed by the old magic of the bird, Louis manipulated his second turn of silent magic, and faintly locked the traces of the bird's magic use, thus determining his current location, which happened to maintain a relatively subtle distance from the location of Hogwarts.
If Louis had been concentrating on searching for the bird's whereabouts...
It is estimated that he only needs to wait patiently for a few days, and he will be able to use the fire to raise ashes for the bird with his own hands.
"But... As a fool of time, Bu Bird's advantages are extremely obvious. ”
"What if he, like Grindelwald, knows the secret of how many doppelgangers I hold?"
As soon as he thought of this, Louis thought that his basilisk clone was going to be placed in the Room of Request to incubate eggs, and the werewolf clone who stayed in London was about to carry out the work of integrating Tumbledown Alley, and instantly thought of the Yang plot in Bu Bird's plan.
His goal was the village of Hogsmeade.
More accurate...
It's Hogwarts.
Obviously, the bird wanted to use himself as bait to lure Louis himself out of Hogwarts to find him, and then use Cruise and other gluttonous eaters mutated through the wolf's blood potion to attack Hogsmeade Village, and then further threaten Hogwarts, making Dumbledore anxious.
And the beauty of Bu Bird's conspiracy lies in...
He took the initiative to reveal his location, and you need to worry about the development of Hogwarts here, so you can't go and arrest him yourself.
Just ask if you're angry!
However, if this question were to be answered by Louie, his answer would be as follows:
"Don't be angry!"
The reason is that the moment he guessed the calculation in Bu Niao's heart, Louie, who had a smile on the corner of his mouth, quietly made a decision, and designed several sets of response plans in a blink of an eye.
"Let's see..."
"I'm not right?"
Secretly speaking, Louie stayed and comforted Filch a few more words, until Filch's mood eased slightly, and Louis said goodbye to him and returned to the dormitory.
The other side.
Deep in the Forbidden Forest.
Cruise, who had dragged a long sticky trail under him, and was named "the glutton" by Louis, was listening to the murmurs that echoed in his ears from time to time, and arrived here from far away London all night.
Using the hole under his face, he took a deep breath of the air of the Forbidden Forest, and suddenly revealed a somewhat intoxicated expression from Cruise's ugly face.
He knows.
This is the Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts.
It was the place he had heard Filch mention countless times in his letters.
As soon as he walked through the Forbidden Forest in front of them, he and his family could see the castle that the family had always dreamed of.
But just as Cruise stopped where he was for a moment, and then he was about to continue moving towards his goal....
Suddenly.
Ripples rippled from Cruise's swampy back.
The next second.
"Poof!"
A miserable white head suddenly came out of it, and said to Cruise in front of him:
"Dad... I'm hungry..."
"Child, bear with me."
Cruise said softly, "Soon we will be at Hogwarts, didn't you long to go to school there before?" ”
"Your old dreams..."
"It's about to happen!"
However, almost at the moment when Cruise finished speaking.
"Poof. Burst... Poof..."
From Cruise's waist, shoulders, and legs, there were three more white heads, which were his other two children, and his wife Nicole.
There were four very different voices coming out of four heads, all of which were meant to express the same hunger.
Listening to the longing of his family, Cruise couldn't help but speed up his pace for a while, because compared to his dream of going to Hogwarts to school...
Now he's...
What I crave even more is food!
"Nicole, kids, we're going soon... You'll be able to eat a full meal in no time! ”