173: Footprints manifest

Director Bones thought for a moment to see that Joel did not look unhappy before nodding in agreement, and she led a team of thugs, the staff of the Law Enforcement Division, who captured ordinary criminals, to Hogsmeade Village with her.

Joel followed behind Lermontov and did not panic at all.

Director Bones and Joel Apparition Shift, and the group assembles in Hogsmeade.

"This is the place that Mr. Lermontov is talking about?" Director Bones looked at the small two-story building in front of him, "I don't see anything strange. ”

"There should be no one living here," the striker deduced as he circled around the building, inferring from all sorts of information, "we can go straight in." ”

Lermontov paused, and the fingers of his right hand gently stroked his left forearm, and he was silent for a long time.

"Has the owner of the house found out?" Director Burns did not immediately give instructions to break the goal.

"It's Miss Claire White," the strikers pulled out a list of Hogsmeade village residents, "she's a professor at Beauxbatons School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and doesn't live in England. ”

Joel raised an eyebrow, apparently surprised by the owner of the house, who had not expected Professor White to buy the house after leaving Hogwarts.

"Professor Beauxbatons......" Director Bones weighed for a moment and looked at Lermontov, "Mr. Lermontov, you have to think clearly, if you insist on breaking down the door of the house, you will need to report the damage caused to the Russian Ministry of Magic and negotiate with the owner of the house. ”

Lermontov gritted his teeth, he saw that Joel beside him looked as calm as usual, and he couldn't help muttering in his heart.

Whether William's stinky boy found Joel Taylor or not is still a mystery, and Lermontov now suspects that William was intercepted and killed by some enemy on the way.

"No problem!" He nodded in agreement.

Director Bones was noncommittal and motioned for his subordinates to open the door.

The house was covered with dust, the wooden furniture was covered with a dust cloth, and the plants and trees in the vase had long since dried up, and it was obvious that it had been uninhabited for a long time.

As soon as Lermontov entered the house, he searched the ground like a hound, with the eyes of a gloomy owl, not missing the slightest suspicious clue.

Joel put his hands behind his head and his eyes narrowed slightly, looking at Lermontov from behind.

This crime scene has already been cleaned up by him, and it stands to reason that there will be no loopholes......

Lermontov jerked out his wand and dusted the ground.

"Appare Vestigium!" The spell Lermontov used was what Joel had expected, and the tip of his wand sent a cloud of golden dust out of it, condensing and reorganizing in the air.

Joel had a smile on his face, and he was secretly glad that he had cleaned up all traces of the scene in the first place, otherwise it would have been possible for Lermontov to find some clues.

The golden dust condensed into a strange shape in the air, revealing no valuable information.

"Mr. Lermontov, have you found a clue?" Director Bones said coldly.

"No......" Lermontov shook his head, he searched the house up and down, and found no suspicious clues, it was an ordinary abandoned two-story building.

However, he was not reconciled, and before leaving for London, Andrew, the leader of the Eternals, took great pains to find the last place where William's Eternalist sign stayed, and Lermontov was sure to bring the Nordic tablets back to China.

He gritted his teeth, but instead of withdrawing his wand, he stabbed it hard in his left forearm.

Joel raised an eyebrow, and a bad premonition appeared.

All eyes in the room were fixed on Lermontov, and Director Bones pulled out his wand.

She didn't trust the Russian wizard, and it was not worth it if Lermontov lured them into a trap, and the British had always been hostile to the Soviets, now Russia, and the same was true for the Muggle world when they were placed in the wizarding world.

Joel's face was grim, he could feel the magic in Lermontov's body swelling rapidly, which was beyond his expectations, the mark he had cut off from William's body had not yet had time to study, and it seemed that there was still a lot of use for it.

Then why didn't William use it when he duel him?

Drawing from the mark, Lermontov stood up, and with a wave of his wand, the golden dust shone even brighter, and under Lermontov's command, it emerged from the gate of the two-story building and headed into the distance.

"Keep up!" Lermontov's eyes shone scarlet, he was slightly hunched, his face was decayed, and he looked more than ten years older than before.

The crowd hurriedly left the house after Lermontov.

"What an old madman......," muttered one of the strikers, muttered angrily, and several of his colleagues chimed in, and Director Bones stood by to hear the grumblings of the crowd without saying anything.

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But not stopping her subordinates' swearing remarks against Lermontov invisibly showed her own attitude.

No one here believes that Joel has anything to do with this inexplicable disappearance, a Russian wizard who entered without the permission of the British Ministry of Magic, and then threw the pot on the head of a third-year Hogwarts student?

Who among you believed that a 14-year-old could subdue the vicious Eternal Night?

No kidding.

The group followed the golden dust all the way to the center of Hogsmeade Village, stopping at Duke Honey's candy shop.

Joel realized his negligence, and when he brought William back to Hogwarts, he cleaned up all the traces on the road, except for the Duke of Honey's candy shop, where the owner was at the time, and he couldn't handle the traces.

The golden dust went straight into the candy store, scattered around the store and began to change shape, the screen has been turning rapidly, and all the customers who came to shop at the Duke of Honey candy store were restored by the golden dust one by one.

Footprints is a spell that flashbacks characters and events that have appeared within a certain range, and in general, the more powerful the wizard is able to work backwards, the longer the timeline and the clearer the events that have happened.

The confectionery owner was guided out of the store by Director Bones and handed over to the Law Enforcement Division.

The golden dust shifted faster and faster in the air, and Lermontov's eyes became more and more scarlet, and Joel watched from the sidelines in fear of the sudden bleeding from his eye sockets.

Lermontov let out a sudden roar, and the golden dust froze: the elderly shopkeeper sat at the counter studying the new syrup, the door open, and nothing unusual around.

"Cut, that's it?" One of the strikers said dismissively.

Lermontov increased his mana output, and he seemed to be overdrawing his energy, and another large wave of golden dust flew out from the tip of the staff, completely restoring the scene of the candy store.

The picture flickered for a moment, Bones' face froze, and Lermontov was ecstatic.

Joel's face remained unchanged, and everyone present could clearly see that the innermost floor of the store had quietly moved, revealing a dark hole, and later the plank closed again, and everything was normal in the candy store.