Meanwhile, outside Hogwarts Castle.

Outside the gates, which are decorated with winged boar sculptures on both sides, there is now a neatly planned "research area".

As the bell rang in the Hogwarts Tower, hundreds of researchers and family members from the former Soviet Union came out of their rooms and whispered to each other with nervous expressions as they arrived at the research building in Sector H.

"Hey, Natasha, do you know what this is going to do today?"

In the crowd, Arkhipovna gently poked the woman next to her with her elbow and asked in a low voice.

"Your family is now in that magic castle, I guess you should know at least something, right?"

"Actually, I probably don't know as much about this as you do—I've only seen little Frank until now, and as for Alexei and Danilova, they haven't heard from them yet......"

Natasha shook her head, glanced behind her with some anxiety, and sighed softly.

In her field of vision, she did not see the majestic and quaint magic castle described by Danilova, all she could see was a desolate and abandoned dilapidated field, and there was no trace of human activity other than that.

Unlike Arkhipovna from the Landau Institute, Natasha is one of the accompanying family members here.

Since she had not signed a "magical employment agreement", let alone left the area, she could not see many of the basic magical facilities or buildings around it, and could only rely on a rudimentary map to roughly identify the directions.

"Hogwarts House City Life Guide—"

Natasha looked down, glanced at the card that appeared next to her bed, and said thoughtfully.

"If you take it literally, it should be a daily briefing session after that. ”

After dinner last night, they received a strange card detailing the place, time, and simple subject matter, which at first glance looked like a flyer on the streets of Moscow some time ago.

Hogwarts - House - City?

The school in the wizarding world was far more mysterious and rigorous than she had imagined.

Whether it is direct current or alternating current, there are some strange malfunctions here, which are not something that can be done by electromagnetic shielding in the conventional sense, and seem to her to be more similar to the information at the scene of the Chernobyl accident.

On the other hand, the area is not completely unguarded.

Magic is indeed full of wonder, but that doesn't mean that every user of them is equally cautious, and in just a few days, Natasha has found traces left by others other than their "outsiders".

Needless to say, in the shadows of this area, there must be unknown people silently watching their every move.

While the two were talking, they followed the flow of people to the large lecture hall located on the first floor of the research institute.

Although the population of the "Hogwarts House Metropolis" area is still very small, most of the buildings and facilities were planned according to the standards of the world's top research institutes and university campuses.

Even with the influx of nearly two hundred researchers at this time, the lecture hall barely filled the first three or four rows.

"Over here, Natasha, Bovna!

Before Natasha and Arkhipovna could see their surroundings clearly, there was a hearty greeting from the chair in front of them on the right, and an old man in his seventies stood up and waved at them.

Vinogradov, a gem-sized fossil of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Szeklov Institute of Mathematics.

Almost half of the math, physics, and biology researchers in the audience had taken the old man's class, and according to Elena and Dumbledore's original idea, he was supposed to go to Hogwarts to teach as a representative of the Soviet scientific community, but for various reasons, the old man pushed his protégé Alexei out in his place at the last moment.

Obviously, as the "female madman" of the Landau Institute and the "Natasha" of the Alexei family, these two ladies naturally belong to one of the most orthodox "descendants", and when they heard the old man's greeting, they quickly nodded and leaned over with a smile.

At the same time, scholars from the rest of the institute beckoned each other to sit with their friends.

Hogwarts and Destiny launched the "Spark Legacy Project" not in an instant, due to security and confidentiality considerations, most scholars will temporarily quarantine and observe after arriving at Hogwarts to ensure that no outside wizards or non-wizarding intelligence personnel will enter the Hogwarts House city in disguise.

Thus, this was the first time that all the scholars arriving at Hogwarts had actually seen each other.

To be more precise, it was even the largest academic salon in decades, and even in the last period before the collapse of the Soviet Union, a large gathering of top scholars like this had never happened.

People gathered together to whisper and whisper, exchanging their experiences and guessing about the contents of today's briefing—if nothing else, it was supposed to be their official introduction to the wizarding world.

"So...... Hasn't today's host arrived yet?"

Natasha frowned, glanced at the empty podium, and subconsciously touched her back with her left hand.

She is more concerned about the mastermind behind all this than the scholars who are taking the opportunity to gossip.

These days, whenever Natasha asks about it, Alexei will terminate all subsequent topics on top secret, lack of clearance, etc., as if he had worked at the Institute of Nuclear Physics.

But whether it is from the husband's expression of desire to speak, or the clues, everything is obviously not simple.

This is by no means, at least not a simple "humanitarian aid", as most scholars believe, such a large-scale transfer of people across almost half the world, concealing the behavior of more than half of the world's population today, and simply cannot have the courage and strength of a magic school that needs to teach eleven or twelve-year-old children.

If every "middle school" had such an ability, the wizarding world would have been above the non-magical realm long ago.

Natasha carefully observed her surroundings, the windows were all open, and the sunlight was shining through the semicircular arched windows at the top of the auditorium and spilling onto the ceiling, and the doors of the entrances on both sides were not closed, so that there were no guards in sight.

Similarly, no one other than them arrived on the scene.

However, she could not see any signs of confusion on the faces of many of the veteran academic masters present, and under their infection, the atmosphere in the entire lecture hall was quite relaxed, without the slightest panic and nervousness.

Speaking of which......

Natasha's gaze slowly swept over the faces of Vinogradov, Valeryanovic, Mendanlov and others, and her eyebrows were thoughtful, if she was not mistaken, they should have important personnel of the same rank as Alexey.

She is well aware of her husband's influence, and wants to gather such a large group of scholars, which is not something that can be accomplished by the junior Alexey's circle of contacts - these living fossils in various fields present are the "betrayers" who really pry the academic circle of the former Soviet Union, and if nothing else, I can know a little useful information today.

At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded from the podium not far away.

A somewhat sharp, sly-sounding voice that seemed to be a little wary.

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Woo~