Chapter 42: Hide

The only known information is that the thing is likely to be more than one and a half meters tall - while being able to easily cover Wendy in a standing position with a cloak, there is still enough energy to tie her hands and feet behind, no matter how you think about it, it should be a big guy taller than Wendy.

"No, I really can't think of anything else besides your luggage." He said slowly, frowning. "You know, you told me before you left, you said that the box is very important, and even if it sinks, you must always carry it on your back. You didn't even put your luggage down when you came, and you even had to carry it on your back when you went to a banquet...... But now? You haven't been running back and forth with that thing since your first day here! You've forgotten about this habit! ”

Oriana was stunned for a moment, then waved her hand hesitantly.

"But it doesn't make sense, remember when our luggage was checked by the French wizard on the plane? The detection magic he used was so advanced that if it was in my box, it would be impossible not to find it. And...... I don't think there's room in my box to fit a big guy with a body length of one and a half meters, I have a lot of luggage! ”

"So could it be a biological transformation? And with the Confusion Charm? Brandi said, "You see, since you were able to fool the quill of the censor with the Confusion Charm at that time, it should not be impossible to fool the uncle who was on the plane at the security check......

"No way, Britney...... I said, have you studied the Confusion Charm yet? Oriana covered her forehead helplessly, quite angry. If you want to cast a confusion charm, you must at least have a casting target, and I can't directly attack the Ministry of Magic officials in front of everyone, so I can't use the confusion charm to confuse another spell! Besides, while I can transform creatures, I don't believe that uncle's magic can't even be traced - they're trained wizards, not Muggles who just look, touch and inspect with iron boxes! ”

"The one you're talking about is called an X-ray security machine, not an iron box." Brandi defended weakly, and he continued to wave his wand, using a levitation charm to move the messy tables and chairs scattered on the floor back into place. The small pieces of paper with the rune shorthand had left them with a lot of effort to restore the scene, and the tables and chairs with missing arms and legs, as well as the bombed walls and floor tiles, were returning to their original splendor with the help of repairing the magic patterns.

There wasn't much time left until dawn, and they didn't want people to open the doors of the ballroom and find craters and table legs all over the floor.

"Speaking of which, on the day of the attack, I remember that you had not been seen since the afternoon, and when I saw you again, you appeared in the foyer on the first floor, as if looking for something." As he was cleaning off the dust and rubble off the tablecloth with a fresh clean, Brandi suddenly remembered something. "What are you doing there?"

“…… Let me think. "Oriana played with a strand of hair on her chest and tried to recall, "At noon that day, I met Professor Mary who taught us etiquette at the observation deck in advance, and after chatting with me at the observation deck for a while, she said that I looked very good in temperament, and I no longer needed to be trained in standing etiquette. So she agreed that I would not have to go to class in the afternoon, and instead asked me to go to the library to help her find some materials on the style and color of the clothes - there were a lot of requests, and she was anxious to get them the next morning. But I don't want to spend a night there, because the guys there always make me a little... Hmm~ my heart was beating faster - so in order to help her finish it quickly, I simply didn't eat dinner. ”

Well, if you translate it, it's probably that she is very uncomfortable from the eyes of the library boys, so she stays in the library when there are few people and works quickly......

This is quite in line with Oriana's behavior - although she can't say anything good about her friends on weekdays, she still seems to be a very conservative person in her bones. After a few weeks in Beauxbatons, Brandi had barely seen how she had ever talked to a boy. It is a typical thief with a thief's heart but not a thief's guts.

Of course, this has to be on the premise of not treating Britney Spears as a boy.

"So by the time I got back to the dorm, it was actually quite early, and I was even one of the early ones to go back to the tower, and after Katie said what was going on inside the tower, I quickly realized that it might have something to do with my mission. So I was back at the observation deck as soon as I could—I thought that if the killer had already left the tower, the only way was to go through the portal. ”

Speaking of this, Oriana patted her full chest with a little smugness, and Brandi's eyes jumped up and down a few times. "And as you know, my code name is 'Tracing Blockade', so I'm naturally a little bit good at tracking magic. When I was in my third year, I developed a rune magic that could scan the subtle traces of creatures walking through the area in an hour, and I thought I could find clues with that spell. ”

"So what did you find? Will you keep chasing from the fifth floor to the first floor foyer? In order to take revenge on Orianna for teasing herself, Brandi snorted expressionlessly and said sarcastically. If she could really find useful information, she still didn't know anything?

Sure enough, Oriana's expression became a little embarrassed.

"Who said I," she struggled to excuse her failure, "my spell took effect, and I found there a trail that looked like a cloak dragging on it, which would cover all the footprints of all the people in its path, apparently the creature's path. So I followed the path that the cloak dragged until —"

"The hallway in the foyer on the first floor?"

Orianna shook her head, "No, the trail finally disappeared at the west end of the fifth floor...... There was a sudden interruption around the corner of the hallway, and I had no idea how I did it. I went to the first floor because the tracking magic told me that after the monster had escaped, another person had left the tower, and I wanted to go over and ask her if she had noticed anything in the dorms. However, when I followed the trail to the hallway on this side of the ballroom, I realized that the person was not our Hogwarts student - it was Professor Mary, who lived on the second floor of the tower, and when I saw her, she seemed to have been notified by the headmaster, and looked angry and was rushing back from the ballroom. ”

The windows on the west side? The direction of the observation deck is the northernmost part of the castle, and that monster is panicking?

The two of them were lost in thought at the same time.

Brandi was still holding his cheeks and trying to make excuses for the monster, when suddenly he let out a frightened and terrible scream, and he was so frightened that he bit his tongue.

"What are you doing?!" He hissed and stuck out his tongue and looked at Oriana angrily, only to find that her face was as surprised and confused as his own.

"It's not me...... "Orianna pointed aggrievedly to the ballroom door, "it's coming from outside." ”

Not her? It's a familiar female voice, huh?

Broken!

After a moment, he reacted immediately, stood up suddenly, and despite his unkempt and ragged appearance, he picked up his wand and rushed out barefoot. He violently pushed the door open... In my heart, I have already gone through the whole family of the perverted young girl one by one...... Auntie, you're really going to get me in trouble!

Unlike Hogwarts' irregular cloisters and secret doors, the first floor is remarkably simple, with only a few corridors branching out from the foyer, leading to the large event rooms including the Great Hall, the Ballroom, and several spare classrooms. Coupled with the fact that Fleur didn't seem to intend to hide her footsteps at all, turning two corners, Brandi soon saw a faint light not far away.

- She was scared and wanted to back away when she first saw someone coming, but when Brandi called out to her, her body stiffened, and then she jerked around and lunged at Brandi - crashing into his arms, wrapping her arms around Brandy's body like an iron hoop, strangling him until he was almost out of breath.

Oh, oops.

The allure on his face and the wonderful touch of the girl's body swept through Brandy's brain quickly, and he staggered back two steps with Fleur in his arms, and the blood rushed straight to his brain, unable to break free from the light happiness it brought for a long time - until he felt the watery coolness on his shoulders and his trembling body.

Tears? How scared she was like this!

Reason immediately returned to his mind, and he quickly patted Fleur on the back and pulled her out of his arms. At the same time, the other hand held the wand flat, pointing to the empty hallway where Fleur had fled. "Don't be afraid, Miss Delacour, take it easy..."

"What's wrong?" At the same time, Orianna chased after her, still carrying Brandi's high heels. Seeing Fleur trembling all over, she subconsciously took out the loose-leaf book. A soft green glow, and Fleur's pale face seemed to be slightly ruddy.

"Out, out, appeared......" Fleur couldn't catch her breath, she wiped a handful of tears, and spoke incoherently excitedly. My spell didn't work for him, he ...... He's chasing me! I can't get rid of him! ”

Oriana gave Brandi a look, saw his wolf-green eyes searching the passage, and shook her head at herself. He relaxed and put his arm around Fleur's shoulder. "Don't worry, there's no one behind you, you're safe. Take a deep breath, Miss Delacour, tell me, who is chasing you? ”

"I... I can't say no, I didn't see his face! "But I saw his shadow, black, like a wide cloak." ”

!!! Brandi and Orianna looked at each other solemnly. At this moment, hurried footsteps were heard in the corridor in the distance.

"Find a place to hide first." Orianna reacted immediately, and immediately retreated back with Fleur, who was a little weak-legged. "Get out of here, there was a lot of movement just now, and the Aurors on patrol have rushed over."

"But there's no safe place here!" Brandi whispered nervously.

"Just follow me!"

Oriana gave a rough order, and the three of them bypassed the doorpost and entered another hallway, which had two doors on the wall, one of which was boarded with large black warning letters written on it. "The scene of the accident, suspended use."

"There's no time! Let's get in quickly! ”

"Where?"

Oriana tore off a note, and a blue light erupted from the void, and the planks fell off of their own accord, and the door creaked open.

“…… But, but here? ”

"Less nonsense! Get in! Orianna pulled Brandy, who was still hesitating, and the three of them swarmed in and closed the door.

Immediately afterward, the plank of the doorway was re-secured under the guidance of magic...... The hallway, silence returned.

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