It didn't take long for the two of them to come to a towering ancient tree full of fresh mushrooms. The branches and leaves of this thousand-year-old tree obscured the last rays of sunlight that wanted to see the earth.

There is no direct sunlight, and the vegetation here is dwarf and sparse.

The dead leaves and broken branches that had accumulated on the ground for many years emitted a suffocating stench from the erosion of the Marks of Time.

If it weren't for the breeze, it might well have become a place where the bones of life are buried.

Rick frowned, the environment here was so bad that he instinctively thought that no one would come here to collect these red, green, green, and colorful mushrooms.

But house-elves are not human, and they are likely to take risks to come here for the sake of delicious mushrooms.

"Traces revealed!"

Rick's wand touched the ground lightly, and a large cloud of golden smoke erupted from the tip of the wand and quickly dispersed in all directions. It didn't take long for golden footprints of different sizes and shapes to appear in front of Rick and Hagrid.

Rick didn't show up one by one, as he had before. He began to remove the footprints of twenty-four hours ago, and then the footprints of Thestrals, unicorns, centaurs, and other creatures common in the Forbidden Forest.

After this series of operations, a few scattered footprints on the ground were exposed to Rick's field of vision.

"Rick, the chicken mushroom stew you recommended to me last time was really delicious. If it weren't for the house-elves, I'd like to pack up all the mushrooms here and bring them home. ”

Hagrid was holding a very brightly colored mushroom with a red umbrella and a white pole, and the idea came up with the idea of picking all the mushrooms here.

However, this time he entered the Forbidden Forest to find the missing house-elve, and Hagrid felt that it was a bit inappropriate to do these things to collect ingredients while he was on a mission, so he decided to collect a few and go back to try them.

Red umbrella umbrella, white pole pole, lie down together after eating......

Rick looked up at Hagrid, at the bright red mushrooms around him, and a children's song popped up in his head.

"You can try these mushrooms, but not too much, too much will add to Madam Pomfrey's workload."

Giants are generally physically stronger than human wizards, and Rick believes that these poisonous mushrooms will at most make them feel like they have drunk fake wine, and they will go crazy for a while, and they will not be in danger of their lives.

But a half-giant like Hagrid, that's not clear.

"It's all poisonous, so forget it."

Hagrid hurriedly put the mushroom in his hand on the ground and took a small step back, smiling awkwardly.

"Found it!"

The golden smoke converged into several small figures, who followed the golden trail towards the east, this time without using apparition.

Finding the house-elves again, Hagrid ran to Rick's side with an excited face, but watched as the figures disappeared between the two giant trees.

Hagrid's face turned angried again.

"Damn, using Phantom Shifter again, I bet they must have made a mistake while using Phantom Shifter and cost them their lives."

He thought he would be able to follow the footprints to find them, but the house-elves used apparition again, much to Hagrid's anger, and he began to curse the strange house-elves.

"Don't be angry, at least we've found their next destination. Let's go east. ”

"Rick, how did you find out they went to the East? Have you been able to detect where their apparitions are? ”

Seeing that Rick had found the whereabouts of these house-elves, Hagrid was a little incredulous, because he had found nothing himself.

"Can't! I just saw them hold out their fingers to the east. ”

"Is this okay?" Hagrid followed behind Rick, somewhat admiring the wizarding brother from the United States in front of him.

......

Once again, the house-elves used spells to displace, but this time Rick found a clue from the movements of his figure in the golden mist.

One of the house-elves in the front pointed to the east, not knowing what to say to the other house-elves, while the other four house-elves nodded their heads in agreement.

The house-elves communicate with their companions in elven language, and Rick can't tell what they're talking about from the range of their mouth movements.

But it doesn't matter, as long as you understand the body language of the leading house-elf, nothing else matters.

......

The two of them headed east, in the direction of the depths of the Forbidden Forest.

In this area, the trees that the two of them encountered were all big trees that five people could hold and hold each other, and the beast path began to be rugged, and the dense bushes caused a lot of trouble for the two.

"It smells of blood!"

Waving his wand to push away the branches blocking in front of them, the oncoming smell of blood made Rick and Hagrid's eyes solemn, and the two looked at each other and hurried to the source of the blood.

The creatures in the Forbidden Forest cannot escape the shackles of biological laws, and scenes of the jungle can be seen everywhere. The traces left by the carnivores after their gluttony were not unheard of by Rick and the others during their trip to the Forbidden Forest.

But this time it's different, the smell of blood is very special, and the magic contained in it is enough to show that it is a magical creature above the XXX level.

The wisdom of magical creatures above the XXX level is basically very high, and they will not quarrel and conflict unless they have to, except for predation and predation and hatred.

The bloody aura of this XXX-class magical creature foreshadowed a change in the Forbidden Forest that the wizards were not aware of.

Creak! Creak!

The branches and bushes that stood in front of Rick and Hagrid quickly made way for them under the guidance of Rick's wand.

A few minutes later, the two of them pushed aside the tall grass, and they saw a centaur leaning against a large tree with long black hair and tawny skin, and a large amount of blood spreading around his abdomen.

The source of the bloody gas was actually an injured centaur?!!

"Ferenze?! Oh no! Ferenze, are you alright! Wake up, my friend! ”

Looking at the unconscious centaur lying in a pool of blood, Hagrid immediately recognized this as his good friend in the Forbidden Forest, Ferenze from the Centaur tribe.

Last year, when he took Harry and his men on a patrol in the Forbidden Forest, if it wasn't for Ferencze's timely appearance, Harry and the others might have met with accidents.

Harry was in the forest when he met Voldemort, who was drinking the blood of a unicorn with Professor Quirrell, and was rescued by Ferenze when he was unfavored.