Chapter 380 The Mystery of the Elves

Chapter 380 The Mystery of the Elves
Sharfu walked closer to the display shelf against the wall and looked at the organs soaked in liquid on the shelf.

After observing for a while, Sharfu slightly raised her eyebrows and said softly: "Master, these don't look like human organs..."

"I know," Xie Ling said with a strange look on his face, "Can you guess what it is?"

Sharfu tilted her head and thought for a while, then shook her head slightly.

"These organs..." Xie Ling said slowly, "are from house-elves..."

With a "pop" sound, Shanshan's whole body went limp, and his entire short body collapsed to the ground as if it had lost its backbone, his eyes, which he managed to open, were filled with fear.

Xie Ling gently waved his wand at Twinkle, and Twinkle fell asleep with a peaceful smile on her face, obviously falling into a happy dream.

Although the house-elves in the Dragon Society had been brainwashed by Sherin to become his most loyal subordinates, Sherin did not rewrite their memories and personalities. So even though Winky had overcome her fear of wizards and could attack Bagman in order to accomplish the task assigned by Sherin, the scene before her still aroused the fear in her bones.

Salv said with a strange expression: "House elf... Why does the Selwyn family want to collect these organs? Do these organs have any medicinal or alchemical value?"

Xie Ling showed a strange smile and said, "Look carefully--"

"These organs are alive."

Sharfu was not afraid at all. Instead, she observed the organ in front of her more attentively. She took a deep breath and said, "This..."

"Some of the hearts are still beating slightly." Xie Ling pointed at the jar. "Look carefully at the other organs. There is fluid flowing in the blood vessels. And this hairy arm just twitched a little bit."

"I remember that it was mentioned in the magic heritage of Ravenclaw and Slytherin that it takes a huge price to ensure the activity of organs." Shalfu frowned, "Even if alchemy is used, it is not something that ordinary people can afford."

"I didn't detect any traces of spells or alchemical runes on the jar." Sherin knocked on the glass surface of the jar and said solemnly: "I think this should be attributed to the liquid inside. This should be the goal of our trip - the highest inheritance of the Selwyn family..."

"So, the core inheritance of the Selwyn family is this kind of potion that can keep the experimental materials active?" Sharfu said in a cold voice: "It's not as interesting as I imagined, but it's okay. Then let's pack up all these bottles and jars and take them back for research?" After that, Sharfu took out a bag that had been cast with the Traceless Stretching Spell, and she was waiting for Xie Ling's order to start making money.

"Wait a minute, we have to take the things away," said Xie Ling, who fell into deep thought. He walked around the laboratory and said, "I always feel that we have missed some important details - for example, why did the Selwyn family go to so much trouble to dissect so many house-elves? House-elves are not an easy resource to obtain... To make them willing to pay such a huge price, there must be a huge benefit behind it that we haven't thought of..."

As mentioned before, house-elves must apply to the House-Elf Resettlement Office of the Ministry of Magic. The application requirements are quite stringent, and the cost is not affordable for ordinary wizards. In the entire British wizarding world, apart from Hogwarts, there are only a few powerful and ancient pure-blood families that can have a house-elf to serve them.

Even a powerful family like the Malfoys could only have one house-elf at a time. However, there were at least two or three hundred bottles and jars of all sizes here, which meant that the Selwyn family's laboratory had dissected at least forty house-elves, an extremely incredible number.

Sherin could not imagine the staggering price that would be paid to obtain more than forty house-elves.

Although this potion that can maintain the activity of experimental materials is extremely valuable to Sherin, compared with forty house-elves, the return rate of this effort is completely disproportionate. No matter how rich the Selwyn family is, they will not spend money like this.

Xie Ling stopped and cast his eyes again at the various alchemical instruments on the long table and the old-fashioned execution platform. He narrowed his eyes slightly, sighed, and said, "What exactly does the Selwyn family want to gain from this experiment..."

Seeing Xie Lin's slightly impatient face, Sharfu couldn't help but comfort him: "Don't push yourself too hard," she said softly: "The Selwyn family has always been famous for being mysterious and low-key in the wizarding world. As a pure-blood family, no one knows what their main business is. Isn't it normal that you can't guess what they are thinking now?"

The Selwyn family...mysterious and low-key...mainly engaged in industry...

Schelling vaguely caught a glimpse of inspiration, but he was never able to figure it out thoroughly.

At this point, Xie Ling knew he had to take drugs again——

Taking a sip of the Felicis, Xie Ling opened his mind.

No one has ever known what the Selwyn family's source of income is or how they accumulated such amazing wealth.

The Selwyn family was willing to spend a huge amount of money to purchase, obtain, or even illegally abduct a large number of house-elves for experiments. They had to be dissected alive in extremely cruel ways while keeping their organs active.

Xie Ling suddenly realized that he might have fallen into a misconception.

Is it possible that all the wealth of the Selwyn family actually comes from these experiments?

The house-elves were not acquired by the Selwyn family at a great cost, but were a means for the Selwyn family itself to make wealth - wait, so house-elves are the product of the Selwyn family?
Even Schelling was shocked by the absurdity of his own thoughts at the moment.

As we all know, house-elves were originally a branch of the ancient elves. They were later captured and domesticated by some wizards with ulterior motives, and became the slaves they are today who obey the wizards' orders.

At this moment, Xie Lin also remembered a doubt that had troubled him for a long time. A wizard family can only have one house-elf, and the wizard master has absolute control over the house-elf he owns. Without the master's permission, the house-elf cannot leave the house where it is bound, so -

How do house-elves reproduce?
In the Ministry of Magic, where do those house-elves that are allocated to the pure-blood families by the House-Elf Resettlement Office come from?
A terrible guess gradually emerged in Xie Ling's mind.