Chapter 216 Lockhart’s special hobby

That afternoon, Mike contacted a special construction team to come here to discuss the construction of the factory.

This construction team is actually the same construction team that built the duel competition amphitheater before. Mike had already asked Lockhart to get their contact information long before the holiday.

This construction team called Geno Construction is composed of wizards and house elves. Compared with ordinary Muggle construction teams, their charges are higher, but they are truly worth every penny.

Because their construction speed is amazing, the quality of the things they create is also very good, and they also have a warranty! If the building is damaged to a certain extent within a certain period of time, they will come to repair it free of charge.

The most important thing is that they can also add enchantments to the building according to the customer's requirements.

There are all kinds of magic spells to choose from, including the most common Muggle expulsion spells and concealment spells, as well as quite rare counterattack magic mechanisms and traceless extension spells. The leader of the construction team even told Mike in a very subtle way that they could also add the strongest protective spell to the house, the Loyalty Charm!

What is the Fidelity Charm? I believe friends who have carefully read the original novel will know that it is the magic spell that Harry's parents placed on their house in order to protect Harry.

This is an extremely complex magic that can hide a secret in the soul of a living person forever, and the living person selected to hide the secret is called the secret keeper.

When the secret hidden by the Red Loyalty Spell is the location of a house, unless the secret keeper takes the initiative to reveal it, you will not be able to discover the house even if it is right in front of you.

This effect seems to be similar to that of the Concealment Curse, but the effect of the Red Loyalty Curse is much stronger than the Concealment Curse.

You must know that even Voldemort was able to find Harry only because the Secret Keeper leaked the secret.

After Mike learned that the construction team could cast the Loyalty Spell, he chose to let them build his factory without hesitation.

Although his factory does not need to be protected by such advanced magic as the Red Pill Loyalty Curse, being able to deploy the Red Pill Loyalty Curse can already prove the strength of this construction team.

After referring to the terrain and environment of the site, the construction team came up with three construction plans.

The first is an all-wooden roof-type factory building.

This kind of factory building is extremely poor in terms of livability and sturdiness, but it is cheaper.

Since it is surrounded by dense jungle, most of the materials for building the factory can be obtained locally. The quotation given by Geno Construction for this construction plan is 1,000 gold galleons.

The second type is slightly better and is made of bricks.

The third option is the best, with a mixture of masonry, stone and wood, a large factory building and collective employee dormitories. The plan also includes a protective magic package and a fine decoration package, which includes large-scale versions of many commonly used protective magics such as Muggle expulsion spells. .

However, the third option is also the most expensive, with a price of up to 10,000 gold galleons.

Mike decided on the third most expensive plan without blinking an eye.

This is not because Mike is too rich, but because the construction money can be paid in installments, and the interest is pitiful.

The person in charge who came to negotiate after signing the contract on site was very happy. In fact, the operating conditions of their construction team were not optimistic. Firstly, the market in the British wizarding community was too small, and secondly, the wealthy old brands Nobles generally have their own ancestral houses, while ordinary wizards will choose to build their own houses or buy ready-made Muggle houses.

Based on this situation, their main customers are actually only those newly rich people who are newly rich. They belong to the type that does not open for three years and eats for three years.

Mike and Lockhart contributed two orders in less than a year. How could they not be happy?

After bidding farewell to Mike and others, the person in charge immediately used the door key to return to the company to arrange work. However, when Mike, the Weasley brothers and others were preparing to leave half an hour later, they discovered that many black figures had appeared in the distant sky. After a closer look, I discovered that the person in charge had arrived at the site again with a group of construction workers.

So, under the watchful eyes of Mike and others, the person in charge directed the wizards in blue uniforms to take out various building materials from the traceless stretching spell bags they carried with them, and then quickly built a fireplace.

Immediately afterwards, a team of wizards began to level the ground, while more wizards continued to come out of the fireplace, carrying building materials back and forth.

The three Weasley brothers were dumbfounded, because ordinary fireplaces cannot be teleported, and they must be connected to the Floo Network if they want to teleport in. And the floo network application is extremely slow. Now the construction team easily built a fireplace and could teleport immediately, which surprised them.

Mike was not surprised by this. If a wizard construction team like them could operate for so long, they must have their own complete logistics system, and the high-quality and low-cost Floo Network is of course the best choice.

As for why they don't need to apply for an application to build a new fireplace, it must be a classic power-for-money deal.

The construction team was very efficient. In just one hour, a rectangular foundation with a depth of 10 meters was dug out in the vacant land burned by the Weasley brothers. This made Mike feel a little surprised. You know This amount of homework might not be possible even in half a month in the Muggle world.

It was the first time for the three Weasley brothers and Arthur to see such a large construction site, so they watched it with great interest.

But Mike was not interested in this, so he directly asked Shuke to take him and apparate back to his home.

After returning home, Mike was not idle either. He had to go to Lockhart's place again.

Lockhart still has a novel about him. Since he wants to promote the Dolphin Magic drink that will be on sale soon, it must be done at once, not just relying on the influence of the Daily Prophet, Lockhart also needs to mobilize his idiot fans to buy it.

However, when Mike used the fireplace to teleport directly to Lockhart's house, he unexpectedly discovered that Lockhart did not allow him to teleport.

This is the problem with Floo Network fireplace teleportation. Except for fireplaces in public places like the Leaky Cauldron, you need the consent of the other party if you want to teleport to a private fireplace.

So Mike could only angrily go to Lockhart's house in person.

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It was already evening when Mike arrived at Lockhart's house at the address Lockhart had given him.

Mike looked at the brightly lit large villa and the faint music and female laughter coming from the villa, and the veins on his fists slowly appeared.

Although Lockhart's home was large, it didn't have many defensive facilities. Mike didn't even use his wand and kicked open the door of his home.

And when Mike followed the sound and came to a huge room on the second floor, the scene that appeared in front of him made him, an experienced player, couldn't help but sigh that Lockhart really knows how to play.

On the ceiling of the room, the magic lamp that was supposed to emit soft white light was now flashing with colorful light, and directly below the magic lamp were dozens of men and women playing musical instruments suspended in the air. dancing to the music.

A large number of empty wine bottles and clothes were scattered on the floor of the room, and the air exuded the unpleasant smell of alcohol and deodorant.

It was all very similar to a bar or disco in the Muggle world, the only difference was the people dancing.

Or rather, a dancing creature.

In the center of the room, scantily clad 'female' magical creatures of various shapes were seen writhing together with several wizards.

The largest among them was a female centaur, which was currently carrying a skinny wizard with prominent ribs, beating to the music and making shameless sounds. The wizard on its back only grasped the neck below with both hands, as if holding on to the saddle.

In addition, Mike also discovered a Veela on the dance floor who had silver hair like Fleur. Its silver hair shone under the continuously flashing colored light of the magic lamp, which fascinated the two wizards to the point where they almost cried out.

The strange thing is that there is no figure of Lockhart here. Mike walks in the dark room looking for Lockhart, and finally finds him on the bar in a corner.

Lockhart was holding a goblet filled with red wine and was talking to someone.

Due to the angle of view, Mike did not see who the person sitting opposite Lockhart was, but based on Lockhart's constant touching of the other person, he could infer that it was a woman.

However, when Mike walked around to the side, he discovered that the person flirting with Lockhart was actually a short female elf with pointed ears, a big head, and gray skin!

Looking at the heavily made-up face of the female goblin and Lockhart's obsessed expression, Mike couldn't help but open his mouth in shock.

It turns out that Lockhart’s taste is so unique!

The night vision ability of goblins is much stronger than that of humans, so when Mike walked around not far from Lockhart, the female goblin sitting opposite him had already spotted Mike, and after the female goblin asked, Lockhart He suddenly turned his head and looked at Mike, and the expression on his face instantly became extremely ugly.

"Mike! Why are you here!"

Mike felt a little embarrassed when faced with Lockhart's question.

After all, he didn't come here with any ill intentions, but he bumped into Lockhart while he was doing his special hobby.

"I wanted to see you for something, but the permissions of your fireplace didn't seem to be open to me, so I came directly to the door."

"Dear Mr. Mac! You should know, right? When you alone reject your Floo Network transmission application, it means that he does not welcome you now." Lockhart slammed the table and roared, "Can't you Can you send me a letter first so I can prepare a little bit?"

The noise Lockhart made was so loud that it even overwhelmed the loud music nearby, thus attracting the attention of the 'knight' next to him.

Apparently Lockhart also noticed this, so before Mike could reply, he pulled him to a bright room next door.

Mike looked at the room, which was decorated in pink and had various 'heavy toys' hanging on the walls. He tried his best not to laugh out loud, but the corners of his mouth could not help but twitch.

"Laugh if you want! A well-known best-selling author, a handsome guy with countless female fans, and a third-level Merlin badge holder! In private, he actually likes to be with goblins! How funny is this! Right!" Loha Te's face darkened, and he walked around the room, dancing and saying, "I will become the laughing stock of the entire wizarding world if this is spread, and it's all your fault! Mike!"

Mike almost couldn't help but laugh out loud when listening to the first half of the words, but after listening to the second half, especially when Lockhart started pointing fingers at him, the expression on his face suddenly darkened. .

"Don't point your finger at me that you touched with something disgusting. If it happens again, I'm sure you'll never need to use that finger again!" Mike knocked off Lockhart's finger. Shou said with a gloomy face, "Please figure out the current situation! I am the one with the advantage!"

Lockhart sucked in the cold air and shook the hand that was sore from Mike's blow. He originally wanted to talk back again, but after seeing Mike's cold eyes, his body immediately stiffened, and finally he collapsed on the ground with a gloomy expression. That huge bed.

"Tell me, what do you want from me?" Lockhart said desperately.

"Actually, it's nothing. It's just your novel. It should be finished by now, right?"

"Yes, what do you want to do?"

Mike walked to the edge of the bed, looked at Lockhart condescendingly and said: "Please revise it for me and add some more advertisements about Dolphin's Magic Drink. Do you understand the advertisements? Forget it if you don't understand. Anyway, you just All you need to do is praise the Dolphin Magic drink to death. Then, wait until I notify you of the time to publish the book. I told you to do it before you can do it, do you understand?"

After Mike finished speaking, the expression on Lockhart's face suddenly became dull, and he lay on the bed and stared at Mike blankly.

Suddenly, Lockhart sat up suddenly and raised his voice an octave as he said, "Is this what you're doing?"

"That's right."

"Then why did you come in person?" Lockhart looked directly at Mike, "Can't you just write me a letter?"

"I just asked you if you could do it!"

Lockhart saw the expression on Mike's face getting more and more distorted and quickly reacted, nodding his head in response.

Seeing that Lockhart was so obedient, Mike stopped talking. Now that it was getting late, he needed to rush home to have dinner with Professor Flitwick and the others.

So under Lockhart's guidance, Mike deliberately bypassed the previous room that looked like a bar and disco and came to a room with a fireplace on the side.

"Okay, I'm leaving." Mike grabbed a handful of floo powder from the jar next to the fireplace and walked into the fireplace. "You can continue to find your elf girlfriend, but you must ensure that the manuscript is given to you before the day after tomorrow. I'm done. Do you understand?"

"Yes! I understand." Lockhart weakly replied to Mike, and then the expression on his face became awkward. He lowered his head and struggled for a long time before slowly saying, "That... today's matter... …You won’t tell anyone, will you?”

Lockhart lowered his head and waited for a long time without waiting for Mike's response. When he looked up, he found that there was no one in the fireplace in front of him. Mike had teleported away long ago.