After talking to Delphi last night, Maca, who had left her, spent the night under the central plaza until the sun had fully risen.

At this time, there were actually many people in the square, and when he came out, he found that everyone was obviously watching the vertical downward tunnel he had opened.

Truth be told, the moment he emerged from the tunnel—seeing so many people staring down at him—he suddenly felt the mood of the marmots in the Muggle Zoo.

"Oh, good morning, everyone!"

After greeting her with a subtle smile on her face, Maca quickly filled the hole in the ground and left the plaza, returning to the hall on the first floor of the new Ministry of Magic.

When he walked through the door, the first thing he saw was not Lupin or some Ministry of Magic member as he expected, but the trio of Hermione, Harry, and Ron.

Oh no, the foursome to be exact, because Maca subconsciously looked left and right, and soon saw Neville in front of the book and newspaper display on the side of the hall.

"Why are you here? And so early? ”

It can be seen that at the moment, except for Neville, who is flipping through an old newspaper, the other three are gathered around the Spiral Town sand table in the middle of the hall.

Hermione, in particular, seemed intrigued by the magically scaled down model of the town's buildings, and she didn't lift her head until Maca spoke.

"Maca?"

A familiar voice sounded at the door, and several friends, including Neville, turned their heads almost at the same time.

"Oh," Hermione said after a pause, "didn't you have us make a magic shield at Hogwarts before?" Last night, when I saw the town's protective charm, I wondered if I could make some more of its defenses for this place. So, I'm going to come and see this sandbox......"

"Well," Maca said as she walked forward, "well, didn't we test the curved slate last time?" The unfinished building area to the east has a lot of stone slabs that you can use as you like...... Of course, try not to waste it! ”

"Oh! Those stones...... Can we really use it? ”

Looking at Hermione's sparkling eyes, Maca knew that she must have seen those stone slabs a long time ago...... Even, maybe they were already playing those slate ideas.

"By the way, you're all here, what about Luna?" Maka asked curiously, "Well, and Ginny, Hannah...... Why, Harry and Neville, you two don't have to take a walk with your girlfriend this morning? ”

"Oh, Harry aside, Neville definitely doesn't need to," Ron shrugged his shoulders beside him, "I heard Ginny say before I came out, Luna found her and Hannah's room in the middle of the night, and then squeezed into Hannah's bed until dawn - they hadn't gotten up yet!" ”

"Huh?"

When Maca heard this, she couldn't help but shake her head, and then said,

"What about Ginny?"

"She said she was going to stay there and practice spells, so she didn't come with us." Harry said, "I think she wants more self-preservation, too...... After all, you know Maca, and she's always been a bit of a strong girl—"

And when Maca slowly walked to the side of a few friends, taking advantage of the time before breakfast to chat with them casually, hoping to eliminate the slight uneasiness in the hearts of a few people, the door in the depths of the hall was suddenly gently pushed open from the inside.

"Lupin, where have you been? I thought you'd be here! ”

"Oh! While it's true that I'm here most of the time, you can't make me do all the things I should have done here for 'some' time to go elsewhere, can you? ”

"Okay, okay, you've won—" Maca reacted as soon as she heard this, and saw him wave her hand, "I didn't say what I said just now." ”

Before he could finish speaking, he didn't wait for Harry, who was obviously puzzled, to open his mouth to ask about this topic, and immediately turned to say: "Lupin, the matter of that statue has been clarified last night, but there are a lot of things to say, I'll sort out a written information for you later, and you can understand it more intuitively!" And now ......"

As he spoke, another wizard suddenly ran in through the main entrance, and in his hand he had a crumpled note that he knew at first glance had been taken from an owl's letterbox.

Maca watched as the other man ran all the way to Lupin, handed the note over, and hurried out of the hall after saying "I'll wait at the door".

When Lupin unfolded the note and read the ciphertext on it, his brow immediately twitched slightly.

“…… Marka, there's an update from the patrol team," he quickly passed over the cipher slip quietly, "I haven't seen any enemy all night. ”

Harry and Neville were obviously not aware of the subtle changes in Lupin's expression, and although Ron had made some progress over the years, he still looked like a child under Lupin's sophistication.

Only Hermione, although she didn't see anything on the surface, somehow felt that something was not quite right.

"Oh," Maca thought as she looked at the note, her chin propped up for a moment, before she said, "there were quite a few of them before, but now there are none of them, as I said last night, and that's obviously wrong...... Now that there has been no all night, it is naturally more suspicious. ”

At this point, he shook the note in his hand again, and then continued:

However, it is not wrong to say that such a judgment has been proven before. When the movements of the dead are uncontrolled, unless they find a creature to attack, they are basically wandering aimlessly. ”

"That's why they come out of the fog one by one."

Correspondingly, once they are not on the edge, it means ...... Helbo must be summoning them. ”

After analyzing it like this, Maca went back to the previous topic:

"So, there's a real good chance that the outer part of the fog is already empty - those living corpses are more likely to be concentrated somewhere deep in the city, rather than still wandering around looking for targets."

"Hmmm......"

Lupin couldn't help but nod his head when he heard Maca say this, and his expression became faintly relaxed.

But just as he was about to say something more, Hermione, who was silently watching, finally couldn't help but say:

"Maca, Lupin, what the hell...... Is something wrong? ”

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