Chapter 440: Ask Dumbledore for advice

Chapter 440 Ask Dumbledore for advice

After using the door key found from the Avery clan leader to leave the underground cave, Mike quickly directed the Los Santos Wizards and the ants to conduct a comprehensive search of the entire Avery secret realm.

Since the entire Avery Secret Realm has been cast with anti-Apparition, anti-Apparition, and unmarkable spells, except for those senior members of the Avery family who are themselves in high positions, absolutely no one in the entire Avery family Most of the members are almost trapped in the secret realm.

The main purpose of the joint search by the wizard group and the ants is to catch the survivors hiding in the secret realm. I believe that with the help of native creatures like giant ants, all these people will be caught out soon.

Of course, arresting people is only one of the goals.

Another purpose of Mike is to collect the goods hoarded by the Avery family in the secret territory and the belongings of the wizarding families.

As the highest combat power present, Mike naturally did not leave the secret realm.

However, he was not idle, but took advantage of the Veritaserum time to conduct a more detailed and strict interrogation of Chief Avery.

The results of the interrogation were similar to those in the underground cave, but Chief Avery also told some other things, such as the fact that they buried a huge treasure in this secret place named after their family.

Inside is the wealth that the Everly family has collected over thousands of years.

Their ancestors obviously did not believe in Gringotts, which was founded by cunning goblins, so they hid most of their belongings in this secret place. What was stored in Gringotts was only some scattered wealth.

As for the actual value of the treasures inside, Chief Avery himself couldn't tell clearly, because there were too many, and there were many things whose value was hard to estimate.

Mike then found someone to go to the location he said and dug out a warehouse filled with gold galleons and various treasures.

After preliminary inspection, the value of this treasure house exceeded one million gold galleons!

This number really surprised Mike, Franklin and others, but Mike thought about it after thinking that the Avery family had occupied this secret land alone for countless years.

But this is not the most important news that Mike got from Chief Avery. Mike has never forgotten that their purpose this time is to find Chris and the pendant. From what Chief Avery told him, Mike inferred that One very incredible thing is that the information Kingsley obtained was probably deliberately revealed by Chris or others.

Otherwise, there is no way to explain why Kingsley could easily know such hidden things in Avery's Secret Realm, nor to explain why the Slytherin pendant that Mike was looking for appeared here so coincidentally.

Although Mike still doesn't know why Chris or others would do this, after eliminating all possibilities, there is only one option left that seems completely impossible!

Speaking of the locket, Mike checked it as soon as he left the underground cave.

But what disappointed Mike was that the pendant was still not the Horcrux he was looking for. There was no smell of Voldemort in it at all.

Mike immediately judged that this was a fake, but the Avery patriarch insisted that it was the real thing.

The reason he gave was that he liked this precious magical antique very much, so as soon as Chris gave him the pendant box, he asked many famous antiquities masters to come and test the authenticity of the pendant box, and the test The result is that this pendant is indeed genuine.

This puzzled Mike.

You must know that when Voldemort made the Horcrux, he had not yet traveled to this world.

Therefore, the appearance of the Horcrux was not affected by his time travel at all, and there would be no changes.

But now if this pendant is authentic, then where did the divided soul of Voldemort go?

Could it be that it was recovered by Voldemort in time? Or did Slytherin create two lockets in the first place?

Looking at the pendant box shining green under the light in his hand, Mike's mind was almost filled with questions.

He really wanted to go directly to Dumbledore with the locket, so that the knowledgeable Dumbledore could give him a correct answer.

Unfortunately, he had more important things to deal with in this secret realm.

"Boss, Ant and the Los Santos wizard force have completed the search of Avery's secret realm."

Benjamin's words brought Mike back from his deep thought. He put the pendant away calmly, nodded expressionlessly and said:

"what's the result?"

"It's generally good. After two rounds of comprehensive searches, we caught a total of 323 rats. The vast majority of them were old people and children, and there were only about thirty middle-aged men and women. In addition, we removed Ever In addition to the treasure provided by the clan leader, I also found a large amount of property and goods. According to preliminary estimates, the total revenue of the first wave of our operation will exceed 1.1 million gold galleons!"

At this point, Benjamin suddenly stopped talking. Mike, who was listening to the report, turned his head strangely and saw Benjamin frowning, looking constipated.

"What's wrong?" Mike asked concerned, "Are you feeling unwell?"

Benjamin shook his head quickly, looked at Mike with a troubled expression, and after thinking about it for a long time, he stammered:

"Mike, although I don't want to admit it, some very bad things happened during the search."

"They hid my Galleons secretly?"

Mike suddenly raised his tone!

"Well, that's not the case. Our people are not fools. They know very well what will happen if they are found hiding the loot. And anyway, you will give them a lot of bonuses after you go back, so there is no need for them at all. Do this.”

"What bad thing can that do?"

Mike was a little confused. He really couldn't think of anything worse than hiding the trophies that belonged to him.

Faced with Mike's inquiry, Benjamin hesitated and said:

"Of the 323 survivors, 110 were killed by them because they were threatening. But in fact, they were killing innocent people indiscriminately. I can see clearly that many people even killed them just because they cursed them a few words. They were executed directly! This is not the worst. Some witches were violated before being executed. This is really... this is really..."

Benjamin was so angry that he couldn't say anything.

And there was an expression of sudden realization on Mike's face.

When he ordered the Los Santos wizard troops to join forces with the ants to conduct a search, Mike's original words were as follows:

"Find all the survivors of the Avery family, and then find a temporary dungeon to lock them all up. If you encounter anyone who is a threat, kill them directly."

Yes, it's such a simple sentence.

This was an order given by Mike after careful consideration, because rationally, it was the best choice to kill all these captives and all their subordinates. After all, they were all technically enemies.

But it was too cruel to do so, so Mike finally chose to lock them all up first.

Mike thought he was pretty good at doing this on his own.

But he apparently forgot one thing when he issued the order, which was to give the mission personnel a standard for judging threats, and he did not prohibit them from doing shameful things to those prisoners.

Ever since, what Benjamin said happened naturally.

Mike was not surprised at all that this kind of thing happened, because his subordinates were not dull robots, but living humans. It was normal for them to do things that tested the bottom line within the limits allowed by the rules to satisfy their own selfish desires.

And to be honest, Mike was already satisfied with their behavior.

Because until now, Mike has not taken back their unlimited fire rights.

This means that if they want, they can even kill all the prisoners directly.

The absence of such a situation shows that the group of wizards under his command are not crazy enough.

But even though he thought so in his heart, he couldn't tell Benjamin that way, after all, the other man was obviously overflowing with the heart of the Holy Mother.

So after a long time, Mike took a long breath, patted Benjamin on the shoulder and said:

"It's my fault for this matter. There were loopholes in the orders I gave them. I must apologize to you, I'm sorry."

As he spoke, Mike also bowed slightly to Benjamin.

"I...I didn't mean it, Mike. I..."

Benjamin obviously didn't expect Mike to do this. After being stunned for a moment, he opened his mouth in a panic and wanted to explain, but maybe it was because the relationship was too tense, so he couldn't explain clearly because of his stammering.

Seeing this, Mike continued:

"Okay, the mistake has been made and we have to try to make up for it. Let's leave all those prisoners to you. Of course, the general direction cannot be changed. We will still clear their memories and keep them in the factory. Work, but the rest of the things like living conditions, material rationing, etc. will be left to you to handle. In addition, I will also punish the wizards who have made mistakes, such as confinement and fines. Do you think this is okay? "

"Of course, it's a good idea to handle it this way, but..."

"So be it, I have other things to deal with, and I hope you can all do your job well. After all, this is for the greater good!"

After saying that, Mike turned the door key in his hand and turned into a twisted afterimage and disappeared into the office.

When Benjamin heard Mike's last sentence, he stood up straight and beat his chest like a conditioned reflex, and at the same time shouted:

"For the greater good!"

After shouting, Benjamin became even more confused, because Mike actually dropped a lot of things and ran away!

Thinking about the many things he had to deal with in a while, Benjamin couldn't help but have a bitter look on his face.

"He always likes to be the hands-off shopkeeper. My life is really miserable!"

Benjamin complained and quickly left the office.

It is not an easy task to completely conquer a new secret realm. There is a lot of work waiting for him.

On the other side, after leaving the secret realm, Mike headed to Dumbledore's forest villa without stopping.

The house elf in the villa garden, whose name was Little Teacup or Little Teapot, was very happy to see Mike arriving and greeted Mike very attentively.

But Mike ignored him at all and rushed directly into Dumbledore's bedroom.

At this time, Dumbledore had gotten rid of the situation of lying on the hospital bed to recuperate, and was sitting at his desk, reading the newspaper and eating breakfast.

The breakfast looked very familiar to Mike, almost exactly the same as what he had at Snape's house.

Dumbledore ate very deliciously, and the early morning sunlight shone through the dense woods and transparent glass on his face, leaving a light layer of pink on it, representing health.

Dumbledore was obviously startled by the sudden intrusion of Mike. He held up a fork with half a sausage stuck in it and was slightly stunned. Then the wrinkles on his face rippled. He showed a bright smile and said to Mike:

"Mike, you're here. Severus just came here to give me a routine treatment. At my strong request, he also made me a breakfast. I have to say, he did a great job. It’s so delicious, I’m hooked. Oh, by the way, do you want some?”

As Dumbledore spoke, he reached out to hand the half of the sausage to Mike.

However, Mike obviously had no desire to eat. He completely ignored Dumbledore's kindness and took out the Slytherin pendant from his arms and placed it in front of Dumbledore.

"Look at this, is this genuine?"

Seeing the pendant box, Dumbledore's expression became serious.

He put down his fork, picked up the pendant box with both hands, put it in the sun and looked at it carefully. After a while, he looked at Mike with a surprised look on his face and asked:

"Where did you get this?"

"I thought you had already guessed it. The information Kingsley gave me led us to the depths of the Avery family's hideout, and this is what we found there."

"Yes, that's right. I should have guessed it. Kingsley has already told me about this..."

Dumbledore's expression was a little strange. He seemed to be distracted, his pupils dilated rapidly, his head lowered and he kept mumbling.

His voice became softer and softer, and gradually even Mike couldn't hear what he was saying at all.

I don't know how long it took, but Dumbledore finally recovered from this strange state.

He slowly raised his head, looked at Mike with a complicated expression for a while, and then asked in an extremely serious tone:

"Can I know, how are the Avery family...well, how are they doing now?"

Mike didn't speak, he just looked at Dumbledore expressionlessly, just like he did before when he was waiting for Dumbledore to speak.

Avery's Secret Realm is very important to Mike at this stage, so important that he is not prepared to reveal any information about the Secret Realm to anyone.

But Dumbledore obviously had some misunderstandings about Mike's reaction. After waiting for a long time but not receiving a response, Dumbledore's expression suddenly became very sad.