Chapter Twenty-Three: Manson Manor (I)
Brandi, who was in a big deal, finally reluctantly agreed to take Luna with him...... He couldn't go back twice, the only thing he had to worry about was Luna's safety and Mr. Lovegood's rage. The existence of the former invisibility cloak is barely guaranteed, but the latter ......
Truth be told, Brandi was ready to be executed the moment he agreed - death wasn't terrible, it was just a great adventure.
That's what Dumbledore said......
Somerset was still quite a distance away, and Brandy had planned to take a train or bus to see it after visiting Luna's house. But Luna's family is worthy of being a wizard family, and they can save that a lot of money - Luna rummaged through the warehouse at home and found a smudgled flying carpet!
It looked like a moldy carpet that hadn't been cleaned in years, and it was covered with large chunks of stains and mud. But when Luna said something, it struggled to get up from the ground, floating at the height of Brandy's knees.
"Luna, are we really going to sit on this?" Brandi frowned as he watched it twitch from time to time, and his face turned white. "This thing really won't fall out of mid-air and kill us."
Luna patted the thick dust on it, and the flying carpet shook violently, as if coughing.
"Probably not, I used it to London when I was seven or eight years old, it was bought by my grandfather from Italy, and it was used very well until it was banned, and it was actually very stable to sit on."
"It's still illegal?" Brandi gasped excitedly.
"It's already illegal for us to break into the lockdown zone, Brandi ......"
ββ¦β¦ That's right. β
In the end, Brandi reluctantly sat on the flying carpet with Luna, who was older than him. Luna grabbed the corner of the carpet and lifted it lightly, and they flew to Brandy's screams.
After the initial horror, he had to admit that what Luna said actually made a lot of sense. Compared to the thrilling broomstick, the user experience of the flying carpet is obviously several notches higher, and Brandi was surprised to find that he dared to look at the ground. You know, for Brandi, who has a certain fear of heights, he couldn't wait to have his nostrils facing the sky when he played broomsticks before......
Lest the Muggles notice, they flew very high into the air, so that even if they were seen, they would be about the size of a black dot. The landscape below was shrunk thousands of times over, and Brandi could faintly see the Burrow, which was already as big as an ant......
After about three hours of hypothermia, they finally saw the city of Bath on the ground, and they flew around the town until Brandy felt a faint wave of magic, and landed in a wilderness, they really lacked experience in flying at high altitudes, and they were wearing summer and autumn robes and trousers.
"Ahh Brandi sneezed and sniffled, and he shuddered and pulled his wand out of his trouser pocket. Hold it in the palm of your hand and whisper. "Show me the way."
The wand spun and pointed north.
"We should go that way, but we'd better get some rest. Luna...... Do you need some chocolate? I remember I still had a few pieces in the box. β
Luna nodded, she was now wrapped like a dumpling, and all the clothes in Brandi's box and her bag were now on her.
Brandy found some dead branches from nearby and barely made a fire, and the two of them sat next to the fire, lazily warming themselves.
"By the way, Luna, you said that your mother's spell was a blue light, and then the test table exploded?" Brandi suddenly thought of the image Luna had told him earlier, and he seemed to think it sounded familiar.
"yes, dark blue spells." Luna said in a trance, without lifting her eyes. "It just sank into the marble platform, and then it exploded. That room was blown up and there were holes everywhere......"
"All over the place?" He suddenly noticed the key point, "Do you mean an explosion in all directions?" Didn't it explode from a certain point? β
Luna looked up in surprise and glanced at him. "yes, why do you ask that?"
He didn't speak, his mind remembering the day he fought Voldemort in the Forbidden Forest, could that spell be ......
When they had hastily eaten something and regained their body heat, they got up and hit the road. Brandi rolled the Flying Carpet into a roll and hid it in a dense thicket, and put a protective charm on it to keep it from crawling in...... That little spell wouldn't work for Muggles, of course, but there was no need for him to add another Muggle banishment charm - if nothing else, they were already on the outskirts of Manson Manor.
Relying on her sensitivity to magic, Brandi could keenly perceive that this place was full of irritable and resistant magic...... He couldn't tell which protective spells they were, but he could find the right direction with his perception of magic.
As they progressed, the feeling grew stronger, and even Luna began to feel that something was wrong, as if the whole world was warning them not to move on. Finally, they pushed aside a shrub that was almost as tall as they were, and a fenced field appeared in front of them, with several dilapidated houses and abandoned fields...... There is also a pond that has not dried up after decades.
The fence is marked with bright red magic paint in large and eye-catching letters - "High-risk areas ahead, no entry is prohibited." β
"Is this it?" Luna reached out and touched the paint, which felt like it was touching sticky blood.
"I think so, Luna, put the Cloak of Invisibility on......" Brandi took a deep breath as he waved his wand, and an apparition of the armor appeared beside him. It was no longer a looming appearance, it was completely a full-body armor that shimmered with light.
Behind him came the sound of Soso, and Brandy couldn't see Luna when she looked back. Only one palm grasped his arm, signaling her presence.
"After a while he entered the manor, and followed me three or four paces behind. Try not to make a noise, we don't know what's in there, we need to be as cautious as possible. If I'm stuck in a trap or something, you can just run away from me. Take the flying carpet to the nearest wizarding gathering point and find the owl to deliver a message to Dumbledore - you should know who Dumbledore is. β
The arm was gently pinched. He breathed a sigh of relief. "This is an agreement, I hope you don't miss the ......"
In order to complete his mission quickly, Brandi tried to make a direct trip to the location of the Manson family cemetery as much as possible. He had thought that the cemetery should be in some remote corner, but when he circled the manor, he found that the family seemed to have a quirky habit of putting the cemetery in their own backyard. So he had to muster his courage and began to go deeper into the dilapidated houses.
No one has been in this place for decades, and the smooth stone bricks have long been covered with moss, and it seems that walking on them is slippery and can fall at any moment. The fences and wooden fences had completely corroded away, and they were scattered on the ground in pieces, and if you stepped on them unintentionally, they would be crushed. To the left, what appeared to be a warehouse-like hut had completely collapsed, the twisted shape clearly not a natural collapse, but the result of black magic - the same miserable appearance was the small building across from it, the shattering charm had opened a huge hole in its side, and the moldy floor and scattered debris could be faintly seen.
If there was still some intact, it was probably the swarthy building in front of them, which looked like it was three or four stories long. The dark walls were littered with deep pits made by spells, but it was unknown if the material was solid or if it was magic...... Although the wall had been shattered like a spider's web, it still persisted in not collapsing completely. The glass on several arched windows had long since shattered, revealing the crumbling chandeliers that were skewed above.
A few decades ago, there was undoubtedly a terrible battle here......
Brandi approached the black door of the room, staring at the dent that had been blasted by the spell - the steel door was probably the only thing still intact here.
Carefully navigating the mansion, Brandi finally saw his target...... Rows of low, dilapidated graves.
He walked through the tombstones, scanning the names on themβWilliam, Isabel, Lawrence............
With that, he stopped at the far right corner of the second row of graves. The missing piece of the tombstone was inscribed in black: "The Tomb of Wright Manson, Our Most Faithful and Excellent Son...... Established in 1945. "Come to think of it, this is the empty tomb that Wright's parents set up in despair after searching for their son for three years to no avail.
But now, your son is back......
Brandi sighed, he opened the suitcase he was carrying and took the urn out. With a flick of his wand, the Separation Charm caused the mound behind the grave to spread out on its own to the sides, and he placed the urn in it and buried it. That's when β
His body froze suddenly.
"Brandi." With her hands tightened, Luna stood behind him and said hurriedly, her tone no longer in a trance. "Do you feel ......?"
"Something is staring at me."
Cold sweat fell from Brandi's forehead, and he vigilantly raised his wand to his chest, pulling Luna by the arm and pulling her behind him.
"Do you feel where you are?"
Luna's voice came from the void...... "It's vague, but I can tell the general direction." β
The two of them paused, then spoke at the same time.
"On your left!"
"Upstairs!"
To the left of what Luna said was a low tombstone, which was empty.
But the place that Brandi was referring to, the second floor of the mansion......
In the window, a swollen male's head was turning at an unusual angle, and Bai Sensen's face was like a skeleton, and it was staring in the direction of Brandi with hollow eye sockets that seemed to have no vision.
This is...... What the?