51 Fog
The situation in the Balkans in '92 was particularly chaotic.
Only two years after the fall of the Romanian Red Party government, the newly inaugurated National Salvation Front is actively providing economic samples for the newly dissolved Soviet Union, shock therapy has caused inflation to skyrocket, and the welfare guarantees and relatively sparse population that have not completely collapsed make the country look like it on the surface, but a closer look reveals that the country is already a bit rotten.
The industrial collapse is getting worse every year, the people are getting poorer, and the population policy left behind by former President Ceausescu, who was heroic when he was shot, has turned Romania into a famous source of human trafficking in Eastern Europe, not just young girls and young girls, well, sometimes cute boys as well.
Gangs kidnapped young girls from various parts of Romania and sent them to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and then transported them to Western Europe and Southeast Asia by sea, and this famous human trafficking trade route was already revealed in this year. A large number of ignorant boys and girls were tempted to leave their hometowns by a piece of fried chicken and a glass of Coke, or were turned into the corners of the road and thrown into a bottomless black hole.
Some ordinary people living in the town of Acaga can breathe a sigh of relief today, the day before the earth-shattering events in this southwestern Romanian town, the riot at the gangster 'Tuke' base, which has been in control since the government got out of control, and when the usually inactive police arrived at the scene of the crime, what happened almost made them vomit their breakfast.
In the depths of this underground casino used as a base for the gang, there are blood stains and people who have fallen to the ground and groaned, and it is miraculous that each of them is still alive, but Mr. Police generally thinks that it is better to live like this than to die- All the victims' limbs and bones were weirdly twisted, and even if they could be connected, they would be left with lifelong disabilities, and more importantly, everyone's head was hit dozens of times, and the person who did it was very measured, and the most serious effect was just paralysis, of course, cough, all of them became dementia.
The group of dementias did not provide any useful information to the investigators, they lost their ability to speak, and only rolled their eyes.
Surveillance systems were not a widespread technology in this era, so the police did not find any clues, including the investigation at the scene. There were no traces of anything but blood and victims, and even the traces of the fight were left only a little, many of which seemed to have been erased out of thin air, leaving only fragments of shattered logic.
These poor creatures must have offended the top crime syndicates, the police thought, and then stopped paying attention to the question of who the murderer was, since the fall of the old government, they have been turning a blind eye, occasionally preying on the people like gangsters, at the beginning of the year there was a bird incident of independence in the south, more refugees across the border into Romania, which is getting poorer but still peaceful, and the police are busy with other things - this is painful enough.
Isn't it good to have the gang eliminated at the moment? In the basement, a bunch of girls to be sold were rescued, and several missing local girls were among them, and their families were grateful for their kindness, so that these black-hearted policemen who were usually scolded bloody got some conscience satisfaction.
They don't care why the mysterious murderer would go to great lengths to cripple all his victims than kill them with less effort, the case is so bizarre that few people realize that the criminal's target is the dollar in the safe, even though according to the criminal's statement, "You want to sell me?"
"That guy must be a psychopath. "After the police came to such a conclusion, they no longer cared about the matter.
The culprit used the money obtained from the crime, and after some twists and turns, he crossed several borders in a row, all the way to London, England.
......
Shirakawa walked into the small shop that had not yet closed the door, and bought a steak and three tomatoes rather strangely, and this was tonight's dinner.
Compared to the crowds of the Celestial Empire in later generations, the fog of this era seems a little quiet, even if its population density exceeds that of most places on earth.
As he sat there, he felt his eyes constantly falling on him, and Bai He was a little speechless, looking at the glittering table for the first timeβit was similar to when he was eight or nine years old in his previous life, except that his light red pupils and pure white hair were too dazzling.
Shirakawa is also helpless about this, unlike the four-ring arcane 'Transfiguration' of Antas, the transformation mechanism of Animagus and the 'Xiumagus' derived from it is not free transformation, but directional transformation, just like a wizard's Animagus can only correspond to one form, and the Transfiguration of the White Dragon can only correspond to one image, and the more painful thing is that this image is extracted from some characteristics of the caster himself, such as age and appearance.
Well, although the body shape is a little abnormal, as a young dragon that has actually been out of the shell for less than five years, it is acceptable to become a child, but what does it mean to be so short?
Bai He sat on the stool, looked at his dangling feet, looked at the ceiling speechlessly, and said Okay, as tall and burly as a dragon?
However, in terms of human form alone, it is already very rebellious to be able to change the appearance of eight or nine years old at the age of four or five years old, isn't it?
Diners were paying close attention to him, but luckily the exact same symptoms of albinism were not unacceptable signs, and most adults would not bully a child who looked less than ten years old.
He poked the tomatoes on his plate with his fork out, opened his mouth and took a hard bite.
"Hey...... Mr. β
A soft voice sounded next to him, and Bai He saw a cute little girl in a dress who didn't know when she stood at the table, she climbed the edge of the table with both hands, and said 'hey' vigorously, and sat down on the opposite side of Bai He.
She looked at the big tomatoes on the plate of Baihe with glowing eyes, and puffed out her cheeks to show a cute expression: "Don't you mind sharing your tomatoes with me?"
"This was sold to me by your mother. Bai He ate the rest of the tomatoes, and glanced at the young woman who was wiping the table at the front desk, her movements were neat, and her face with sporadic spots was simple: "She's the proprietress here, why don't you ask her for it?"
"No, I can't. The girl smiled and said, "Mom said that a tomato has to have a tomato's price." β
"So what?" Bai He couldn't help but admire, this is a typical bourgeois consciousness.
"So I'm craving to eat it. She narrowed her eyes with a smile.
Bai He looked at the girl's face - big eyes, smooth skin, at this age, I can't tell what it will look like when I grow up, but if I don't grow crooked and fat, I won't be ugly.
As a face blind to white women, Shirakawa said he was reluctant to delve into the rationale for this idea.
So he replied decisively and resolutely: "No!"
"Why?!"
"A tomato costs a tomato. β
"Hey!" the little white girl stood in her chair in exasperation, "You stingy fellow." β
Bai He continued to pick up another tomato and bit it, the little girl's seizure didn't play a role, he sat back angrily, and suddenly approached Bai He's ear: "Stingy ghost, I'll exchange things with you, so it's always okay." β
"Swap with me?"
"You don't have a place to live yet, do you?" the little girl had a sly look in her eyes: "Don't try to lie to me, stingy, I see you wandering around every day, and I saw it all the other day when you drove DalΓ out of their territory." β
"Hmm, what's the matter? Let you see it, but don't be afraid that you know, that little kid doesn't need to be repaired. Bai He remembered the boy who wanted to bully him with his height and strength that day, of course, he knew this person before he came to London, after all, he was a well-known trick in the original book.
"Wow, that's really cooool~ You're awesome. The little girl's eyes flashed and clapped her hands and said, "Let's be honest, that guy Dali has wanted to beat him for a long time, and he harasses the girls in the neighborhood with his fox friends every day." β
How old are you?, Bai He couldn't help but be speechless.
"How's the deal? She looked at Bai He and said eagerly, "Your identity is also problematic, right? I saw it, every time the police came to patrol, you hid, and how could a normal person buy tomatoes for dollars?"
Bai He became vigilant: "This is your true purpose." β
"yes, I'm going to get Angel a companion, you know? The little girl said expectantly, "If you stay, it won't be lonely." β
Bai He was a little stunned.
Is it albinism? looks like this...... The difficulty is high, wow.
He was a little curious, and at the same time he really wanted to find a reliable place to live in this place - if he didn't have it now, it was estimated that in a few days he would have to fight the idea of the local underworld, and in this era few countries would allow a child to travel long distances alone, and be able to cross the border continuously or smuggle - hitchhiking, hitchhiking, as for the danger...... Will he be afraid of danger?
However, long-distance flight is something he does not dare to do, first, he is afraid of the radar in the sky, and secondly, he estimates the cutting-edge level of the mage of this plane, and he does not dare to guarantee that he can fly long distances so arrogantly.
He remembered clearly, on the territory of the Rotten Country, the Ministry of Magic could quickly know which student had violated the spell during the holidays. Although you can theoretically fool the past with your own spell casting level, what if you accidentally break through it?
Bai He glanced at the proprietress and saw that the proprietress who had finished wiping the table smiled and winked at him.
He had a score in his mind, and put the last persimmon on his fingertips and played with it, and the red persimmon rolled between the palms of his hands like a juggling, and this difficult action immediately caused the little girl to exclaim.
"Here you go. The tomato fell lightly into the girl's hand, and she turned back and winked at the proprietress while showing a celebratory yes gesture, and Shirakawa rolled her eyes secretly when she saw it.
Could it be that this is the love and kindness that you want to pick up when you see a lost kitten? Cute stupid human, you are picking up a dragon!
"Follow me!" the little girl jumped off the stool, and the tomatoes were thrown directly on the table, she took Bai He's hand and walked back, opened the door with the sign 'No. 21 Privet Road' hanging behind her, and stomped up to the second floor.
"Wait a minute, I have a question, how old are you?"
"I'll be 11 next month, what's wrong?" the little girl looked at Shirakawa in amazement.
"It's nothing ......" is that your height is too touching, Bai He looked at the girl's little short legs, and silently added in his heart.
His resentment about inexplicably becoming shorter was more than half of it in an instant.
Following the girl, his eyes secretly fell to the location of the legendary No. 4 Privet Road, and silently began to calculate.
After learning the Transformation Charm, what interests him in the HP world are those famous black magic, which are highly similar to Antas's necromantic spells in terms of effect, including Horcruxes, Death Curses, Yin Corpses, Curses, etc., which Shirakawa is very interested in.
In the case of ignorance of this kind of spell, Bai He, who was in Luo Country at that time, did not dare to go south to Albania to die easily, even if it was a remnant soul, Voldemort was also the peak of this world's spell-casting ability, who knows what he arranged in the forest? Can his soul really fight him? And can he really find him?
Many of the place names in this world are only concepts in the original book, including some wizard settlements, so do you want him to go to great lengths to find them street by street according to the textual descriptions?
Be conservative, Bai He hit the idea on the head of Hogwarts, if you can get in, it shouldn't be a problem to find the information of the dark arts, Wormtail has been a mouse at Hogwarts for more than three years and has not been discovered, and Bai He is also full of confidence in his transformation skills.
It took almost two months from research to comprehension, and then the correspondence between 'Xiumagus' and 'Animagus', the average wizard has to practice repeatedly for several years, is prone to accidents, and is his own newly invented difficult spell to study all aspects clearly, plus all kinds of messy things all the way from the Balkans to the United Kingdom, this time the calendar is already mid-June 1992, only a little more than two months before the second Hogwarts starts.
Do you want to find them, or do you want to find a way to attract them?
Attract first, and then take the initiative if you can't attract.
If you really can't do it, go directly to the protagonist.
So be it, Shirakawa made a decision.
"Angel is inside, go in and accompany him!" The girl opened the door, and Bai He couldn't help but be surprised when she saw the only living thing in the room.
A red-eyed, long-haired white rabbit was happily eating food on the bed, its tail cocking and looking embarrassed.