Chapter 1210 The Evil Collector

"...After I get out, I will be responsible for luring those guys away, and then you can go pick up that kid Remus. Alright, don't think about it, it's settled like that!"

In the Leaky Cauldron, Aberforth had already put one hand on the door frame, as if he was ready to move at any time.

Seeing this, Kingsley could only nod his head accordingly.

But before asking the Aurors to remove the magic barrier, he still thought about it again, and finally turned his head to Sirius and said:

"You and Aberforth go with you! Your Animagus form is quicker and better suited for this kind of work. Be careful and bring them back after a short circle, and I'll get Lupine brought it here."

"Well, no problem," Sirius readily agreed, and even casually said, "Would you like me to go out later and check the surrounding situation by the way?"

"No, no need!" Kingsley hurriedly said, "Maka recommended to me a person who is very suitable for investigation work. Before coming here, I asked her to monitor the surrounding area with the Leaky Cauldron as the center. To be honest, her Animagus form is much more hidden than most people!"

"Oh?"

Sirius asked Auror and Striker to line up, and asked a little curiously:

"What is it?"

"It's a beetle!" Kingsley shrugged, then turned his head and greeted, "After Aberforth and Sirius go to lure most of the dark wizards away, you all rush out with me—remember to Stay in formation and don't love to fight. The rest of you stay here until we come back!"

Having said that, he gestured to the team members supporting the magic barrier, and then continued:

"Wait for me to count to three, and you will cancel—"

"Wait first!"

Before Kingsley finished speaking, Aberforth suddenly reached out and held him down.

"Look outside, there are new changes!"

When Kingsley heard the words, he immediately stopped talking and turned around, looking outside the bar door.

It can be seen that there are still many dark wizards with cloudy eyes wandering outside right now, and because the blue flame of the Limeflame bottle at the door has long been extinguished, there are even many of them crowded outside the magic barrier and attacking here.

Can wait until Kingsley is over the shoulders of these people,

When I looked around, I found that a small part of the dark wizards who kept wandering started to evacuate in the same direction for no reason.

From the looks of it, the number of black wizards who retreated for no reason should be around thirty or forty. Of course, that doesn't include the part that Kingsley didn't see at first.

And more importantly, the retreat of these people seems to have a purpose no matter how you look at it.

"The one who was the leader just now left that way, and now this group of people is also going there... Do you think there is any connection between the two evacuations?"

"Perhaps?" Sirius said, "However, wouldn't this just make it easier for us to take Remus over!"

...

Just when Kingsley and the others were about to go out to meet Lupine, a small bug was slowly crawling on a street lamp not far outside.

And if you take a closer look... yes, it is obviously a beetle.

As Kingsley said earlier, this beetle was an investigator recommended by Maca, and her original identity was a columnist for the Daily Prophet.

Needless to say, this was Rita Skeeter, the reporter who liked to collect events everywhere and then slapped them with her shorthand quill.

To be honest, she has never been very likable, especially the people she interviews and writes about.

However, aside from her annoying gimmicks, her Animagus form is actually quite functional. In addition, she has always been cautious in her actions, as long as she is intimidated and lured, it is indeed quite good to let her take charge of being an investigator.

But speaking of it, Ms. Skeeter, who has turned into a beetle, is actually quite happy now.

Because from the day she worked for Kingsley, the other party had acquiesced to her identity as an illegal Animagus. From now on, as long as she doesn't go too far, even if she accidentally exposes herself as an unregistered Animagus one day, she doesn't have to worry about being accused and punished.

Not to mention, this time she was still on the investigative mission as a war correspondent for the Ministry of Magic. Like this London disaster, she was the only reporter in the world who was able to report in detail.

As a reporter and contributor, what could be better than being granted an exclusive?

However, every inch of air in this mist is filled with the smell of danger. If she hadn't had such a small and hidden Animagus form, she felt that she might have declined the job.

"Oh, actually, so far, it feels pretty easy."

After lying on the old street lamp for a while, staring at the dark wizards below, she flapped her wings and took off again, flying to the other side of the street with an extremely small buzzing sound.

She wanted to follow those guys who turned and evacuated almost at the same time, because her keen sense of smell as a reporter had already told her that following the past would definitely see some newest discoveries that no one knew about.

Flying and stopping all the way forward, none of the black wizards who were constantly advancing below noticed her existence. Even if she accidentally flew a little lower sometimes, these guys didn't respond at all.

Needless to say, this instantly reassured her.

However, due to the surrounding fog, it is easy for people to blur the passage of time in it. I don't know how long it took, and Skeeter was a little tired from flying, and then he realized that a figure suddenly walked out of the intersection in front of him, walking towards him with a little stiffness step by step.

When she got closer, she suddenly saw that the man was no different from an ordinary wizard from head to toe. But those eyes were the only ones that had a strange color as pitch black as ink.

Just looking at it like this, the two eye sockets seem to have no eyeballs, which looks quite creepy.

When Skeeter saw it, he couldn't help trembling, and quickly moved away a little, and quietly landed on the leaves of a tree by the roadside.

"It's enough here. They can hear and see what they say and do... that's enough."

Skeeter was muttering to himself inwardly, obviously, she had already started to feel a little nervous.

But fortunately, the male wizard, who looked a little strange at first, didn't seem to notice the existence of her little beetle. From the first time we met each other until now, he hasn't even glanced at her.

At this point, she couldn't help but let out a small sigh of relief.

Then, she saw that the other party suddenly stopped in the middle of the street, and looked at the dozens of people gathered expressionlessly.

"Sin..." His jerky words suddenly echoed faintly in the street, "Take your life...it is a sin, and it is your sin to contribute."

Before he finished speaking, he didn't even move, when he saw the faces of all the congregants with cloudy eyes and dull expressions suddenly turned ferocious.

These people seemed to feel some kind of severe pain, and they all tried their best to scratch their chests and necks, even though their necks were scratched with scarlet bloodstains, they didn't stop.

But at the same time, looking at their eyes that were originally gray and black, they suddenly became clear. It's just that the bloodshot eyeballs are covered with strands of blood, which can't be called returning to normal.

Immediately afterwards, several of them suddenly seemed to be unable to hold on any longer, and suddenly their will collapsed and they fell on the street with a plop. They all fell silent one by one, their pupils tended to spread as their angry eyes widened.

And if there is one, there are two. Gradually, these dozens of people almost fell to the ground one by one, and soon they all fell to the ground, and no one was spared.

It was at this moment that the wizard who watched all this with cold eyes took a deep breath. Looking at him like that, it's as if he wants to suck all the things that ordinary people can't see into his body.

After a few seconds, he calmly stopped breathing, walked around the area lying on the ground as if nothing happened, and continued walking forward without saying a word.

Skeeter on the tree looked at the "corpse" in front of him, and suddenly began to regret - what happened just now, is it too evil?

Suddenly, she felt as if she was an ordinary Muggle watching a wizard perform magic. The other party didn't do anything, but things just happened out of thin air!

"No, I can't go on any longer, I want to go back! No, not to go back . . . to leave London, to leave this dreadful place!"

Just thinking of this, Skeeter, who was lying on the leaves, suddenly turned her head, but was shocked to find that the weird wizard she thought had left was standing under the tree with her neck up, expressionlessly using those black His bright eyes looked straight at him.

"what!"

Skeeter let out a scream of mingled fear and panic in her heart, and she spread her wings and was about to take off into the sky. But at the same time, the man under the tree could be heard coldly saying:

"Greed, distortion, jealousy...great sins...contributing your sins."

This time, Skeeter finally realized that he could at least understand what the other person was doing—a sticky black substance suddenly emerged from the man's body, and with a wave of his hand, the unknown black substance suddenly One drop was separated out, and it hit the beetle that had just flown into the air extremely accurately and quickly.

In just an instant, that drop of mysterious substance returned to him and merged into it. But the beetle that Skeeter turned into had already fallen to the ground without a sound, still maintaining the movement of spreading its wings and never moving again.

The man took another breath, then turned his head silently and walked away.

And at some point, those "religionists" who were lying on the ground before had all got up from the ground numbly, and followed him wordlessly and gradually walked away.

.. m.