Chapter 85: Luring the Enemy
It was late at night.
Meka Anders came back from a long journey, and he went back to the room in the tavern. He put a yellowed photo on the table and put it together with the information he had collected.
In the photo, there was a tall man wearing a dark robe, with a lighter leather belt around his waist and a magic wand.
The pale face seemed to have not seen the sun for a long time, his right eye was bulging, the corner of his eye was bloodshot, and the corner of his mouth showed a weird smile to the camera.
"Carney Pattinson worked as an Auror in the Ministry of Magic for a period of time. Later, he had a conflict with his colleague after drinking, broke into a private house at night and brutally killed his colleague's family of three, including a girl under 10 years old. As a result, he was wanted by the Ministry of Magic and lived a life of escape."
Meka put away the paper recording this information, and took out another piece of paper, which recorded the life of the dark wizard Carney after he fled to Fandao Alley:
"Since 1982, Carney has been hiding in Fandao Alley and met an illegal alchemist. The two hit it off and started illegal experiments and transactions. Carney looked for suitable "goods" to provide experimental materials for the illegal alchemist "Akerman."
"The so-called "goods" are mostly children. It seems that Akerman's experiments require young bodies." Meka thought.
But he felt that the selection of this "goods" might also be due to Carney, because he heard that Carney seemed to have a bad past, so he especially hated children.
The third and fourth pieces of paper contained fragmentary information, which were stories recorded by people who had witnessed the dark wizard Carne.
"From these examples, it can be seen that the dark wizard Carne is quite powerful and very vigilant. He will flee in a hurry at the slightest sign of trouble." Meka touched his chin.
He felt that it would not be easy to kill this target, because Carne had killed three dark wizards who had grudges with him in Knockturn Alley.
That day, the fight in the alley was witnessed by the people around. The momentum was terrible, and Carne won with blood in the end.
"But he hates children, loves money like his life, and is addicted to gambling..." Meka had an idea.
He took out a bottle of potion, threw the collected children's hair into it, and waited for the polyjuice potion to take shape completely.
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"Oh?" In the daytime, Meka was about to go out to do something, and suddenly heard someone in the tavern talking about "rumors", so he stopped on the stairs.
"There is news from the Ministry of Magic, which may affect many people." Someone lowered his voice.
"What news?" The person at the same table smiled, "It's so mysterious. Is something big going to happen?"
"That's right." The man said earlier: "I don't know what news the Minister of Magic got, and suddenly he wants to confiscate the dark magic items in private homes."
"Ah?" The person at the same table was stunned, "Didn't they clean up a lot of dark wizards in the past few years? It's been quiet for several years, why are they suddenly coming again?"
The man shrugged: "I don't know, but Minister Fudge has done a lot of stupid things in recent years, I'm not surprised at all."
The two changed the topic and chatted, while drinking and drinking, their faces were flushed.
"Is the Ministry of Magic starting to confiscate private homes now?" Maeka smiled.
He knew this would happen, but he didn't expect it to come so soon.
"This may be a good opportunity for 'treasure hunting'."
Maeka felt that many people would send away the 'treasures' they had hidden in their homes during this period, and it is estimated that some of them would flow into Knockturn Alley.
Then he might be able to find the 'treasures' used to make Horcruxes easily for a long time.
Meka thought for a while, walked down the stairs and left the tavern.
He came to a dark alley and drank the polyjuice potion. When he came out of the alley, he was already a boy with short light hair and a black robe.
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"Where is the cargo? Kane, you have been slacking off recently. I have reached a critical point in my experiment. What if something goes wrong?"
The old man wearing silver thin-framed glasses was talking. He had black hair and black beard, covering most of his face.
"What's the hurry? Am I not here to deliver goods to you?" The black wizard Kane handed over a black bag.
There seemed to be a living thing in the black bag. The bag was tied very tightly, but it still made people feel that the living thing in it was about to run out.
The black-haired old man took the bag, looked at the "cargo" in it, nodded with satisfaction, then tied the bag and stuffed it into his arms.
"Don't delay the next cargo." The black-haired old man warned.
He took out another bag from the pocket of his robe, shook it, and a crisp sound of gold coins suddenly came out of it.
"I know, I know." Kane responded impatiently.
He took the purse, checked it, took out a gold galleon from it to play with, then turned around and left this hidden place.
Soon, Kane came to another hidden street, which was deep but very "bustling".
From a long distance, he heard the sound inside. Someone seemed to be throwing money, and the sound of gold coins falling to the ground was crisp and loud.
Some people were laughing, and some people were crying, shouting "It's over, the money is gone, all gone", and then they were dragged out of a certain place.
"I'm here again." Kane saw the place from a distance and smiled.
He was about to go over, and someone bumped into him head-on, and the gold coin in his hand fell to the ground and rolled out.
"Sorry, sorry." The person who bumped into him seemed to know him, his face turned pale, and he apologized hurriedly.
"Go away!" Kanai gave him a disgusted look.
He saw the man leaving, then patted his robe, looked around, and finally saw the shining gold coin in the corner, and wanted to pick it up.
"This is..." Kanai was startled.
There was a very small figure hiding under the robe, picked up the gold coins, and never returned, hiding in a dark alley.
He was a little surprised, because he actually saw a child outside this secluded place, and he seemed to be a street child. His clothes were dirty and stained with mud and water.
"How dare you take my money?" Kanai stared at this scene with his white and protruding eyeballs, and a strange smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
He felt that it was just right, the 'goods' had just been given out, and it was time to prepare the next batch of 'goods'.
He strode forward towards where the small figure was, and walked into a dark, deserted alley.
Not long after, Kanai chased him deep into the alley, roughly pulled up the small figure, and pulled open the brim of his hat, revealing the face of a boy with light-colored short hair underneath.
"Who?!" The boy suddenly screamed and struggled wildly, trying to break free from the opponent's big hand.
"It's really a little thing." Kanai smiled, his white eyeballs moving strangely, a little penetrating:
"You took my money and you still want to run away? You don't even want to see where this place is?"
"Tell me, how should I punish you?"
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