Chapter 267 Humanoid Dementor?
I don't know whether it was because the surrounding temperature was too low or because he was too excited, but Benjamin's body was trembling slightly.
After a moment's hesitation, he took his wand out of his pocket.
Although the guy in front of me who can lower the surrounding temperature looks like a human child, who can guarantee that he is not turned into some terrible monster?
Behind Benjamin, a girl saw this and quickly covered her mouth with her hand.
She couldn't bear it, and even wanted to reach out to catch Benjamin to stop him from attacking minors.
Benjamin turned around and gave the girl a silent gesture, and then continued to face the child who was still taking a deep breath.
‘It’s okay, I only use the petrification spell and the stunner spell. This way, even if the child is really a human, I can ensure his safety as much as possible. ’
With this thought in mind, Benjamin was ready to raise his wand and cast the spell.
However, as soon as his thoughts came to his mind, the child in front of him turned to look at him.
This was the first time Benjamin saw the child's face, but just this look gave him goosebumps all over his body. The child in front of him had no face!
The child's face was completely bare where the eyes, nose, and ears should have been, and there was only one mouth on the entire face.
No! That's definitely not a mouth!
It was a black hole, a black hole that was constantly rotating and absorbing something!
"Kekeke..."
Benjamin's teeth began to chatter. At this moment, he seemed to be in the twelfth month of winter, his whole body was cold!
But what's strange is that the faceless monster in front of him seems to be more afraid of them.
I saw it quickly turned around and started running away, as if trying to escape from another exit of the alley.
‘It’s going to run away! Stop it! ’
Benjamin gritted his teeth and raised his wand to cast a spell.
However, the faceless monster seemed to be able to predict his thoughts. Before he recited the curse, he turned back again and took a deep breath.
Benjamin watched helplessly as the black vortex in the faceless monster's mouth suddenly sped up, and the next moment, the surrounding temperature dropped sharply!
At the same time, Benjamin also felt as if something was being taken away from his body, which made him feel weak, cold, and wanted to lie down and sleep.
Everything around him went dark.
This feels so familiar!
Dementors!
This guy is a dementor!
Benjamin roared with all his last strength:
"Call the gods to protect you!"
A ball of silver-white light exploded suddenly, turning into ribbons of light that wrapped around the bodies of himself and his surrounding teammates.
The faceless monster seemed to be very afraid of those light bands. When he saw several light bands wrapping around it, he quickly closed his mouth. Then his facial features began to emerge, and the black hole-like mouth was also covered by a pale replaced by a small mouth.
This is a fairly passable Asian face. If the stains on it can be washed away, it can even be called good-looking.
But the expression on this face at this moment was one of fear. He screamed twice silently, then turned around and started running away.
"stop!"
Benjamin shouted weakly, although as the child shut up, his body temperature began to gradually recover. But at this moment, he was still very weak and couldn't catch up with the child who was walking so fast in front of him.
After struggling for two steps, he gave up the idea of chasing after seeing that he really couldn't catch up with Benjamin, and turned to look at his companion.
But at this moment, his companions and the drug addicts in the alley had all fainted, as had the pair of bad men and women who were doing bad things just now. These two skinny people were still together until they were unconscious.
"Damn bastard!"
Benjamin cursed, groped for a while in his modified deep pocket, took out a bottle of slightly turbid translucent liquid and took a careful sip.
Then, after hesitating for a moment, he poured a little more into each of his teammates.
A fainted person cannot control how much he drinks, so the glass bottle will be empty after all teammates have been fed.
Looking at the empty bottle, Benjamin felt like he was going to die.
He prepared a lot of potions for this hunting competition, all using his own money (potions made from the materials given to you in the Advanced Potions class need to be turned in) and this bottle of recovery potion can be regarded as One of them is quite expensive.
Of course, being expensive also has its advantages.
Only a few minutes after drinking the potion, Benjamin felt that his body had recovered a lot, and it was absolutely fine to at least move around.
And his teammates gradually woke up.
The attack by the faceless monster just now obviously frightened them. One of the two girls cried immediately after waking up. The other also had tears in her eyes, but she gritted her teeth to prevent the tears from flowing out. Instead, she squatted on the ground. Comforting the crying girl.
"I quit! I want to go home! Now!"
The girl cried and said.
As soon as these words came out, the girl who was patting her back suddenly froze. She looked at the crying girl in surprise and bit her lip with her teeth.
"Okay then, I'll ask Hillary to take you back when you recover later."
Benjamin said.
He understands this girl very well.
This girl's family is very well off, and it was this girl who paid for the rent of their large apartment in the East District.
It is normal for such a rich lady to want to give up midway.
This is not to say that the children of rich people are timid and unwilling to take risks and cannot endure hardships. It’s just that because they have money, they have many options to choose from, and they don’t have to work as hard as he does.
The girl probably really didn’t want to continue this dangerous game. After getting Benjamin’s permission, she quickly wiped away the tears on her face, refused the escort of the girl named Hillary, and limped away directly. Out of the alley.
The atmosphere in the alley became gloomy, and the tears that Hilary had been holding back finally flowed.
I don’t know how long it took, but Benjamin’s voice suddenly sounded in the alley.
"This is a game. The winner can get the reward promised by Mr. Townley and rely on it to go further." Benjamin looked very tired and his voice became extremely hoarse. "But this game is not for us. Those exams conducted by the school are protected by professors. This competition may cost lives. So...if any of you want to quit, I will agree to it, and I will never look down on you."
As soon as these words came out, several people had hesitant looks on their faces.
But Benjamin was waiting for the words that they were about to exit, and continued:
“But please remember, we are different from Kelly who just quit, we don’t have a pair of wealthy parents, some of us don’t even have parents!
Kelly, it doesn't matter even if she screws up this competition. She has a way out. Even if she achieves nothing in wizarding society, she can still return to Muggle society and inherit the family property. But what about us?
Can we go back? "
Benjamin's eyes scanned back and forth on everyone's faces, as if he was questioning them.
The next moment, he roared with a ferocious expression:
"We can't go back! Do you understand?
Even fast food restaurants now require you to have a high school degree when recruiting waiters! Can we do it with just our primary school education?
I'm afraid I won't end up living on government relief funds like those bastards I just saw on the street!
Are you willing to live like this? ! "
The roar just now made Benjamin's face turn red. He gasped and coughed. After a while, he opened his arms expressionlessly and said:
"Be a little self-aware, our friends. What those purebloods said is actually right. We are just a bunch of mudbloods! And if we mudbloods want to succeed, we must seize every opportunity and fight with our lives. !
The above is what I want to say.
If you think what I just said makes sense, then I beg you, don’t leave, stay and help me, it is also a chance to win for yourself! "
After saying that, Benjamin bowed deeply to everyone and stayed there for a long time.
But those boys and girls who were still a little shaken at first are now as excited as if they had just been given a shot of chicken blood.
Seeing that no one asked to quit for a long time, Benjamin straightened up and put a smile on his face again.
Because he knew that he succeeded, he succeeded in stabilizing this team that was on the verge of destruction.
"Okay, since no one wants to quit, let's talk about what that thing is and what attitude we should use to face it."
The team members who had just finished drinking chicken soup were all very excited, but they had not lost their minds yet. After hearing about Benjamin’s culture, they all turned their attention to Hillary.
"Ahem! I have never seen that monster just now. It should be an extraordinary creature that has not been discovered yet, or a monster created by some dark wizards through illegal biological experiments."
The team members all looked disappointed when Hillary said this. Hillary is the one with the best grades in Magical Biology and Defense Against the Dark Arts theory classes among them, and has the title of Biological Encyclopedia in Hogwarts.
Benjamin's original intention of inviting her to join the team was to use her to understand the weaknesses of some unseen dark magic creatures, but at this moment, even she didn't know the identity of the faceless monster, which was terrible.
However, Hillary hadn't finished speaking yet. She continued:
"Personally, I prefer the latter, because its behavior pattern shows many characteristics of Dementors. And its appearance is almost exactly the same as that of humans, so I speculate that it should be a combination of Dementors and humans. That is, a dementor in human form.
In this case, we can use the same methods to deal with Dementors, such as the Patronus Charm. "
"What evidence do you have?" asked a young man next to him.
"First of all, you should have felt it when the faceless monster attacked us just now. The feeling was very similar to that of being attacked by a dementor.
Secondly, before I passed out, I saw Captain Benjamin release the Patronus Charm, and the faceless monster seemed to hate the Patronus Charm so much that he ran away. That's right, Captain. "
After Hillary finished speaking, she turned her eyes to Benjamin. Seeing him nodding, she continued:
"The last, and the direct evidence, is them."
Everyone looked at the drug addicts pointed at by Hillary, with confused expressions on their faces.
"As we all know, dementors live by devouring human happiness. So do you think these poisonous insects are happy? Or, do you think they are happy when they suck?"
"You mean, that thing lives by sucking the happy emotions of these poisonous insects."
Benjamin used an affirmative sentence, and he nodded after saying it.
What Hillary said makes sense. These poisonous insects can indeed be quite happy when they are having fun, and judging from the behavior of the faceless monster just now, it is indeed absorbing their happy emotions.
Moreover, one good thing about the joy of sucking these poisonous insects is that you don’t have to worry about accidentally sucking them silly or to death.
Because these poisonous insects appear to be somewhat neurotic to ordinary people, and even if they are sucked to death, others will only think that they have overdosed.
D-suckers and dementors are a perfect combination!
Suddenly, Benjamin seemed to remember something and said to everyone:
"Now it is basically certain that the faceless monster has the weaknesses and abilities of the dementors, but I would like to add that when I was fighting that monster just now, it took action several times when I was just about to take action. It interrupted my spellcasting, so I strongly suspect that it also has some kind of precognitive ability or mind-reading ability. Of course, this may also be a coincidence, but we still need to be careful."
"These are not big problems. Even if it has the ability to read minds or predict, the limitations of this ability must be very large, and it cannot be used without restrictions. As for the ability of Dementors, that is not a problem. All of us here know the Patronus Charm, and it’s not difficult to trap it.”
The brown-haired young man who reported the news to Benjamin at the beginning stood up and said.
And his words were immediately approved by others, and everyone spoke out to reconcile.
Seeing that everyone's emotions were rising again, as if they were going to fight the faceless monster now, Benjamin walked out and waved his hand to signal everyone to be quiet.
For a moment, there was silence.
Benjamin said after seeing this: "Although the other party's ability is not strong, for the sake of safety, I suggest that we still collect intelligence, and the best intelligence source is..."
He did not continue speaking, but looked at the poisonous insects in the alley.
"Is this possible? These people are very glib and won't tell the truth."
Benjamin showed a mysterious smile and said, "It will definitely work!"
After saying that, he pulled out a pendant around his neck. Hanging on the pendant was a small glass jar filled with liquid.
"Is this..."
"That's right, Veritaserum!"
