Chapter 110: Additional Missing
"Good question, I guess yes." Zhang Haolin said: "If Voldemort is found by someone else, we will naturally know its location, and the Ministry of Magic may even recruit us to participate in the hunt." The Lord God did not say that we must find it personally, so we can't count it as a failure of our mission, since it is not a failure, it is a completion. β
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"The Ministry of Magic has replied to me, law enforcement is seriously insufficient, and they can't send more wizards to investigate this case of just a few 'Muggles' missing in the forest." Chen Tao put down the magic prop used to call the police and said, "But they said they would contact the Muggle authorities for us and ask the ordinary people to send someone to investigate the situation in this area, are we waiting here or continue to search?" β
"Finally, there are some clues, just wait here for two days, it's too much to look around aimlessly, and we don't have time to exercise,......" Wen Yu suggested, "Just set up a tent in this place and wait for the police to investigate, no one has stipulated that if you enter a magical world, ordinary people can't help, we can still rely on the help of local residents." β
"That's right, we have walked into a misunderstanding before...... Zhang Haolin said approvingly: "Although there are wizards in this world, and they are also very strong and magical, ordinary people are still the biggest force, otherwise the wizards of the Order of the Phoenix would not choose to cooperate with the government in the war." β
"Okay, let's pitch a tent in the open space next to it." Chen Tao thought about it for a while and agreed.
So a group of six people began to set up their own tents on a gentle slope dozens of meters away from the tent that had been scratched on one side, waiting for the arrival of the police.
While setting up their tents and resting nearby, the reincarnators found several more shotgun bullet casings, apparently left behind by the missing men when they shot at something. However, no traces of bullets were found in the vicinity of any living creatures such as bloodstains, which reinforced the suspicion that the missing person had been attacked by a wizard.
During the movie, they discussed the question: In this world, can ordinary people's guns effectively kill wizards?
After staying in this world for ten days, while they were buying, buying, buying, and practicing, they had also basically studied and understood the relationship between wizards and ordinary people in this world, and understood the operation of this world where wizards existed.
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It is true that the physical fitness of wizards is superior to that of ordinary people, but in essence, the two are still the same kind of creatures. The average physical fitness advantage of tens of points is completely unable to overwhelm the technological advantage of ordinary people. In fact, except for those excellent wizards with an agility of more than two hundred and an intelligence of more than three hundred, ordinary wizards have little ability to resist if they suddenly encounter ordinary soldiers with firearms...... The wizard has more than one spell that can be used to protect against bullets, but the fraction of a second of a spell cast is enough for the gunman to shoot the wizard in the head with one shot.
However, even without mentioning practicality, in the peaceful confrontation between wizards and ordinary people, learning bulletproof magic is the lowest way to go.
The fact is that in the Ministry of Magic, Hogwarts...... Even in wizarding areas like Diagon Alley, ordinary people's weapons and equipment are completely unusable, and the Ministry of Magic has a special agency to monitor those ordinary people they call "Muggles". Whenever new technology emerges, the wizarding world has often developed restrained magic before the ordinary people's armies have even used these equipmentβdrastic chemical changes such as electromagnetic interference, anti-deflagration, and bewilderment magic that only works on ordinary people...... and envelop this kind of magic in the form of an enchantment in the wizarding gathering area.
If using combat magic against Muggle weapons is the best policy, and the technology to restrain Muggles is the middle policy, then there is also a good strategy: wizards can completely control the government of ordinary people!
Compared with ordinary people, wizards have a huge advantage, that is: wizards can pretend to be ordinary people, but it is difficult for ordinary people to pretend to be wizards; Ordinary people can't use magic, but wizards can use ordinary people's weapons and equipment! The body responsible for monitoring Muggles has another mission, which is to intervene in the critical or major decisions of the world government of ordinary people.
The International Wizarding Secrecy Act explicitly prohibits wizards from serving as high-ranking Muggle government officials, but it does not prohibit wizards from monitoring and influencing them, and the staff of this mysterious agency is a group of wizards who live in a non-wizarding world like ordinary people...... They are active around the power core of ordinary people as bodyguards, assistants, mid-level officials, and even relatives and friends, quietly guiding the rhythm of the world.
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The reincarnators reported the exact location of the discovery to the Ministry of Magic, which accurately relayed this information to the Muggle world, and the police arrived at the scene at noon the next day to begin an investigation.
After showing the bullet casings, lost shoes and other things to the police, the other party immediately realized that something was unusual. In the afternoon, more police and even troops arrived at the foot of the mountain, and the number of search and rescue personnel exceeded double digits at one point.
After a day of carpet searching in the center of the tent, the search team found the first body in a ravine about five kilometres away from the first scene...... This would have been good news, but things soon took a turn for everyone to expect: in that ravine, the second, third, and fourth bodies were soon discovered!
If it is possible for four people to go out on a camping expedition and carry three travel bags, then the fifth and sixth corpses ...... And even more, how to explain it? That tent simply couldn't hold that many people.
With such a large number of people dying, why would the authorities be unaware?
After identifying the bodies, the police found that none of the deceased were on the missing list, except for the three travelers...... Most likely a solitary or homeless person from a surrounding town.
At first, the reincarnates thought that the travelers had accidentally stumbled into Voldemort's hideout and were killed, but when some of the dead who were not on the missing list were discovered, they began to doubt their original judgment.
"I don't believe that these homeless people would run into the mountains for no apparent reason." Zhang Haolin said: "They must have been killed and brought over to throw their bodies." β
"The details of the situation are not yet known to the police, but thank you for your cooperation with the investigation, Mr. Fatchin-" The officer who took the note felt strange when he read his name, but quickly restrained his curiosity: "You can leave with your friend now." β
"Have you found out the cause of death?" Wen Yu asked on the side.
"Some of the corpses have begun to decompose, but look at the freshest ones......" The policeman hesitated a little in embarrassment, but his mind was confused, and he subconsciously felt that this did not need to be kept secret: "The deceased did not have any external injuries, but his face was frightened, similar to a heart attack." A medical examiner said they all looked scared to death...... Specifically, they will be brought back for further autopsy. β
"Scared to death?" Wen Yu asked with a strange expression: "But-okay, understood, thank you for the news......"
"Are you still going to camp here, we'll search that ravine for another day, and if we don't find anything new, we'll get out of here, and then we'll be responsible for what happens." The white police uncle with two mustaches said to Wen Yu with concern.
"Mm-hmm, let's go right away, it's so scary here......"
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