Hagrid, the gamer, had been staying in the castle during the summer vacation, and he had no place to live, so it was not difficult to save money to buy a house in a unit like Hogwarts, but the enthusiastic Hagrid used all his savings to buy food for the magical beasts, resulting in him not even having two decent robes.

He was at the front to clear the way for everyone, and Lermontov looked at the hounds circling around him, and couldn't help asking, "Can't you let the dog smell to track it?" ”

Hagrid glanced at him, "The Hound of the Magical Beast breed can only track the scent left behind two weeks ago at most, the person you are looking for has been missing for three months, and there are many animals in the Forbidden Forest with complex smells, so it is impossible to find them." ”

"Do you know how big the Forbidden Forest is?" Hagrid saw that the group was silent, and couldn't help but continue to explain to them, "From the place where we just entered, it would take three or four days to walk out of the Forbidden Forest, and that Russian wizard could be anywhere in the Forbidden Forest, and it would be very difficult for us to search. ”

"Is it possible that he had already crossed the border of the Forbidden Forest and ran out?" Director Bones asked.

Hagrid was stunned for two seconds before shaking his head, "If he has Professor Dumbledore's strength, it's still possible......"

"There is an anti-illusion shift ban in the Forbidden Forest, and wizards who want to leave here can only rely on a pair of legs to climb over the mountains in the distance except for the broomstick," Hagrid pointed to the others, and the mountains in the distance seemed quiet and harmless under the reflection of the rising sun, "There are many, many strange creatures in the distant mountains......

"Hogwarts has been established for more than 900 years, and many strange creatures have been put into the Forbidden Forest by some unintentional professors and students, including forest poison insects and beasts from Southeast Asia, and poisonous leopards from the African continent......

"Cystic leopard?" Miss Crawford frowned, "This is a Class 5X dangerous magical beast according to the Ministry of Magic......"

The British Ministry of Magic ranks the danger of magical beasts according to the number of X, from 1X to 5X, and the danger level is getting higher and higher.

"The distant mountains are their territory," Hagrid reached out and waved the branch above Dumbledore's head, "so I said it wasn't realistic to walk out of the Forbidden Forest alone. ”

The crowd was silent.

Lermontov stared intently at the ground, where he expected to find clues.

As Lermontov learned more about the case, he had an answer to the question "where did William go?"

Nine times out of ten, he is dead.

The group continued to move forward, and the rustling sound of the soles of their feet rubbing against the weeds as they crossed the grass sounded a little noisy to others, but Joel's heart remained calm.

Suddenly, a rustling sound joined the rustling sound, and at the same time a fishy wind blew in the face.

Hagrid immediately pulled out his bow and arrows behind his back, Hound Tooth arched his body and grinned at the source of the sound, Miss Crawford stretched out her arm to protect Director Bones behind her, Dumbledore restrained his smile and leaned slightly closer to Joel.

An eight-eyed giant spider with a length of nearly two meters came out of the bushes in front of him, covered with thick black hair, and the big ao waved and bloomed a cold cold light, looking extremely vicious, definitely the upper predator in the Forbidden Forest.

But it was actually fleeing for its life, and its eight black eyes did not look at the people present, but hurried forward.

A slender figure jumped out of the bushes, let out a low roar and swung its claws vigorously, and the sound of breaking through the air slashed through the back of the eight-eyed giant spider, and a wound about two feet long ruptured, the wound was extremely deep, almost piercing the spider's body, and blood bloomed from the wound, quickly robbing the spider of its vitality.

It was Tom the Tiger with heterochromatic eyes, and Joel froze in place.

The tiger's limbs stepped the back of the eight-eyed giant spider, and its strong body directly squeezed out the organs in the spider's body, as if it was as comfortable as a popping mochi.

Tom's big furry face showed a humanized expression of disgust, and he flicked his paws to shake off the filth that had been contaminated, and as soon as he looked up, he saw the stunned crowd a few meters in front of him.

Tom's body has swelled rapidly in the past two years, and his body is already more than two meters long, and his strong muscles can form a terrifying deterrent through thick yellow-black hair.

Where have the strikers seen such a beast in the wild? Aiming his wand at Tom the Tiger, Tom knew that the little sticks in the hands of the Homo erectus could perform wonderful magic, and he jumped from the corpse of the eight-eyed spider and bowed back slightly in a defensive gesture.

"Don't do it!" Joel and Hagrid opened their mouths together, and the Hound Tooth pounced excitedly, his tail swinging like an electric fan, and he made a gesture of goodwill to Tiger Tom.

"It doesn't hurt, don't be too nervous...... Hagrid took the lead in putting away the bow and arrows, Tom glanced at everyone, lowered his head and carefully cut out the eight eyes of the eight-eyed giant spider from the corpse, and smothered it directly into his stomach.

Only then did Joel notice that Tom's heterochromatic eyes seemed to be brighter than before, and he didn't know if it was because he had eaten those basilisk eyes earlier.

The striker saw that the tiger did not make any further move, and only then lowered his wand at the signal of Director Bones.

"Let's not disturb it, just keep going...... Hagrid commanded, "Come back, Yaya!" ”

"What is this?" A striker peeks to the ground as he passes by Tiger Tom and sees a wand broken in the middle mixed in among the dead branches of the weeds.

Lermontov's gaze subconsciously shifted to the past, and his heart beat halfway.

He crouched down and picked up the broken wand, he had seen William's details before he was in front of England, William had a ten-and-a-half-inch blackthorn plum and unicorn fur wand, Lermontov wiped the dust and dirt off the wand, and then used a probing spell on the wand.

"This is William's wand," Lermontov said in a low tone, turning to the striker, "you saw it on the ground, didn't you?" ”

The striker honestly replied, "I saw that this wand had fallen from the tiger." ”

Now everyone looked away, and Tiger Tom was lying on the ground looking at Joel, and his eyes narrowed in satisfaction when he saw that the erect ape's plain expression finally collapsed slightly.

"This tiger did it?" Director Bones walked over and saw the paw prints faintly visible on the severed wand in Lermontov's hand, and her tone slowed slightly.

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"Then the case is closed, and the case report hitters will continue to follow up." Miss Crawford is empathetic and can read the meaning of her boss's tone.

It could not have been better to put an end to the disappearance of a Russian wizard here, as attributing it to the beast's attack on the wizard, rather than the deliberate murder of the English wizard, would have avoided a certain amount of diplomatic pressure and at the same time removed Joel and Hogwarts from the turmoil.

"That's it?" Lermontov sneered, "This matter must be thoroughly investigated!" Who was the figure carrying the sack when the footsteps were used to manifest this spell? ”

This broken wand is like William's life, and the wizard who loses his wand in this dense forest is no different from the next piece of meat on the cutting board, and Lermontov has no hope of William's survival this time.

"I'm confident that the footprints I've cast are the limit of what can be done in the wizarding world today, and I don't think anyone knows more about spells than I do," Dumbledore said, "As Mr. Lermontov has seen, the condensed silhouette of a human being is indistinguishable from gender, age, appearance, or even height, and we don't know anything about what the sack contains. ”

"In this case, how do you want us to track down the murderer?" Dumbledore said calmly, "Not to mention an even bolder guess - is the human silhouette the missing wizard William himself?" ”

"If it's him, what was his intention in entering the Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts three months ago?" Director Bones took over the topic in an aggressive tone, "Should Mr. Lermontov give us an explanation?" ”

Miss Crawford glanced at Director Bones, who was sure that she could mend the sword, and said, "Also, when you were at the Ministry of Magic, you said that Mr. Joel Taylor was suspected of stealing your treasures, do you have any definite evidence?" ”

Lermontov's face was flushed with trembling as he spoke, and he looked around, unsurprisingly seeing the naked mocking expressions on the faces of the crowd, his teeth clenched into his lower lip, and blood trickled out of his lips little by little.