Chapter 313: Stun

"I only learned about Barty from Dumbledore two weeks ago." Taylor's expression was heavy. "The previous message from the Ministry of Magic was that he had been sick for a long time and had not gone to work and could not be found at home. The person is suspected to be missing.”

"Just last night, when I got up in the middle of the night to take care of the herbs in the greenhouse, I saw a staggering figure wandering outside the woods where I live."

"At first I thought it was some drunk guy in the town who went the wrong way, but when I approached that person with a light, I realized that he was Barty Crouch who had disappeared."

"When I saw him, his mental state seemed a little wrong. I asked him why he was here. He didn't answer my question. He just kept repeating that he wanted to see Dumbledore."

"I wanted to take him to my house first and pour the poor guy a cup of hot cocoa, maybe it would calm his mood a little bit, but when I touched him, he was like crazy. Just like inside, he broke free from my hand and ran deep into the woods."

"I still need someone to keep an eye on my house, so I have no way to set off and try to find him on my own. I can only tell Dumbledore about this as soon as possible this morning to see if I can tell him what he may have suffered." Exciting guy to take to St. Mungo’s.”

After getting specific information from him, Sherlock stood up from his chair and asked solemnly.

"Are you still sure that Crouch is still in the woods?"

Taylor shook his head.

"I can't be sure. I can only say that I did see him in the middle of the night last night. He did run towards the woods. As for whether he is still in the woods now, I don't know."

After knowing everything he could know, Sherlock did not stay with him for long. He left directly and turned around to enter the woods he mentioned.

Then he immediately released Fox and Fiddlesticks, two birds, one red and one black.

The woods are not big and the trees are sparse, so you can get a wider view from above.

After Sherlock walked into the woods, he keenly discovered some special traces.

The ground here is very soft, and there are indeed many messy footprints at the edge of the woods, where Taylor accidentally encountered Crouch. These footprints obviously belong to one person and continue to extend deeper into the woods.

Sherlock followed the traces of these footprints and searched into the woods. Sky, Fox and Fiddlesticks were also helping him expand the search area.

Soon he made a new discovery.

However, these discoveries did not come from Crouch, but from several other wizards.

The appearance of these wizards was not unfamiliar to Sherlock at all.

Each of them was a pure-blood wizard who had a record of being a Death Eater, and one of them was carrying an unconscious old man on his shoulders.

That person is officially Barty Crouch that Sherlock is looking for on this trip!

…

At the same time, in Hogwarts, the second event of the Triwizard Tournament also started as scheduled.

There are still five referees, but the missing Crouch's position is temporarily replaced by his new assistant Percy.

Audience seats were also set up by the Black Lake at this time so that students could intuitively see the progress of the Warriors' game.

But in fact, they basically can't see anything underwater. At most, they can only know who finishes the race first.

Harry finally arrived at the venue ten minutes before the game started.

He slept in a daze in the library last night and was not woken up by Dobby until early this morning.

In the end, he still couldn't find the spell from any magic book about moving freely underwater, but Dobby who woke him up gave him new hope.

As a house elf, Dobby had access to many places in the castle. He overheard the specific details of the competition in advance and helped Harry find a gillweed.

After eating this plant, the user can grow fish-like gills and breathe freely underwater.

Dobby undoubtedly helped Harry a lot.

He hurried to the game site with the gill grass, and almost everyone was waiting for him.

Fortunately, except for the principals of the other two magic schools who seemed to be in a bad mood, no referee reprimanded Harry for this.

After he arrived, the game officially started.

Everyone has their own different way of getting into the water.

Krum used superb transformation skills to turn his head into a shark head, which can not only breathe underwater, but also possess a human body and use magic.

Cedric and Fleur both used the Bubble Curse. This kind of spell can only be learned in senior years, which is obviously not something that Harry can access in advance.

Harry also ate the gillweed. The sides of his cheeks turned into fish-like gills, and webs appeared between his fingers and toes.

Compared with the performance of the other three, Harry was obviously the most ordinary now, even a little ridiculous, which made the students in the audience burst into laughter.

But Harry was in no mood to pay attention to the jeers.

He already knew from Dobby that Ron was tied to the bottom of the water at this time. Through the songs of the mermaids in the golden eggs, he subconsciously thought that if he did not rescue Ron in time, he might die underwater. .

So after entering the Black Lake, he swam down desperately to find the mermaids.

Soon, no one was seen, but a familiar singing voice came up from the bottom of the water.

That was the song sung by the mermaids. With this sound as a target, Harry swam towards the direction of the singing without hesitation.

From a distance, he had seen four unconscious figures tied up.

Not only Ron, but also Hermione, Qiu Zhang and Fleur's sister Gabrielle, whom he had met at the Dracours' house in France.

Each of these four hostages has a relationship with Harry!

Two are his friends, one is his secret crush, and the other is his friend's sister.

Harry no longer regards this as a game. He wants to rescue every hostage trapped here.

But those ugly-looking mermaids who guard the hostages with a fork in their hands will certainly not let him do such a rule-breaking thing.

Just when Harry and the mermaids were arguing, he drew his wand and prepared to take action.

A heavy fork suddenly hit the back of his neck, and Harry's eyes went dark and he completely lost consciousness.