Chapter 2 The Unlucky Pierce (Part 2)
While Qin Weijie was trying to fall asleep, in continental Europe, fifty miles east of Amiens in France, an acquaintance fell into an embarrassing situation.
Fifty miles east of Amiens is a section of the Somme River in France with a slow flow and a narrow river surface. This is the battlefield site of the famous Battle of the Somme during World War I, and it is also the starting point of the Battle of the Somme.
Although 23 years have passed since the war, the depression here is still there. Although the ruins of the early wars have been cleaned up, the chilling spirit left by the heroic spirit still hangs over this land.
23 years ago, under the baptism of artillery fire and war, it turned into a hell on earth. The Battle of the Somme lasted for nearly 5 months between the British and French allied forces and the German army, causing a total of 1.3 million casualties, which was the heaviest casualty in human history. A positional battle (in the eyes of the year).
This battle demonstrated the horror of the lethality of modern war weapons. Although human flesh and blood created these war machines, they were unable to resist the advancement of war machines with flesh and blood. Everywhere they passed was scorched earth and bones. The cruelty of war is written.
However, even after experiencing such a scene of purgatory, mankind still failed to learn from it, just as people always try to learn from history, but "the only lesson that mankind learns from history is that mankind does not learn from history. ", this remark turns the word history into war, and it is the same reason.
It was late at night, on the banks of the bleak Somme River, suddenly there were several loud noises, and a group of weirdly dressed guys seemed to appear on the river bank out of thin air, gathered together and chatted with each other.
"What is the situation? You sent an emergency owl letter saying that all seven members of the joint investigation team are missing? How did they disappear? Where did they disappear?"
A sturdy man with a hideous scar on his face was followed by three people, who quickly walked towards the group of people behind them.
"Captain Pierce, I'm sorry...we don't know much about the specific situation..." A tall woman with heavy makeup said, "Let me introduce myself first. I'm the deputy director of the intelligence department of the Auror Office of the French Ministry of Magic. Meishan Cyruster."
Said that Meishan Celeste stretched out her left hand gracefully, the man with the scar frowned slightly, the gentleman took Meishan's hand, kissed lightly on the back of the hand, and then responded in a cold voice: "Ministry of Magic, Head of Operations, Auror Office, Pierce."
Pierce is also an old acquaintance. Anyway, since Qin Weijie came to the UK, the captain has almost always been around Qin Weijie, willing to work hard. Sometimes Pierce felt that he was the captain as a nanny.
Fortunately, Qin Weijie had a falling out with the old Marquis Foley this summer, and Pierce began to perform the rest of the relatively important tasks.
But it may be that Qin Weijie, the God of Plague, has been protected for a long time, and he has been contaminated with a lot of bad luck unique to Young Master Qin. Comrade Lao Pi's first serious mission this year has something wrong.
The specific situation is as follows. Since Grindelwald and the Muggle government attacked Poland at night and wiped out the newly established Polish Department of Magic Enforcement overnight, this incident is almost equivalent to declaring the beginning of an all-out war.
Under such a situation, the French Ministry of Magic also felt that it was in jeopardy. Grindelwald’s next target was likely to be the French Ministry of Magic, so the French Minister of Magic had to put down his face and ask his old friend, the British Ministry of Magic, for help.
The British Ministry of Magic has also been experiencing troubled times recently. Hector Foley is on the verge of impeachment, and basically has no real power in his hands.
The British Ministry of Magic is in chaos without a leader. Although each department is still performing its duties, it is basically independent, and it is difficult to lend a helping hand for a while.
Under such circumstances, standard political means could not be responded to, and the French Minister of Magic had to find another way.
Isn't the British Ministry of Magic at this time a group of dragons without a leader and doing their own thing? Then simply find the Auror office of the British Ministry of Magic and ask them for assistance. First, form a joint investigation team and do some simple investigation tasks that do not involve in the war. Let the team run the investigation first. Some mysterious incidents that have occurred in France recently, wait until the British Ministry of Magic's "impeachment incident" is settled, and then formally appeal to legalize the joint investigation team.
At that time, with the foundation of early cooperation, coupled with some political lobbying, calling for some cold-hearted remarks, the British Ministry of Magic will inevitably be brought in. With the help of the British Ministry of Magic, the situation on the mainland should be eased a lot, and there may even be some The ability to launch a counterattack against Grindelwald and reverse the situation.
I have to say that although this move was not in compliance with the rules, it did solve the urgent need under the recent shortage of personnel.
However, the person who approached the French Minister of Magic and completed this plan of "cut first, then play later" is our "golden nanny" Captain Pierce.
In Pierce's opinion, this matter was going well. After all, the Aurors of the British Ministry of Magic did not officially intervene in the war, but only did some simple investigation tasks.
In fact, it’s okay if it goes on like this, just like the plan, the big deal is to wait until the dust of the ‘impeachment incident’ settles and report to the higher authorities, but just at this time, a team member of the ‘Joint Investigation Team’ disappeared inexplicably .
This is a serious operational accident. Even if it complied with the rules, it would have caused a lot of trouble if Pierce hadn't acted first, and the current authorization to form a joint investigation team was entirely decided by Pierce himself. If something happened, Pierce would become a The first responsible person.
No matter how this matter develops now, as long as the missing small team of Aurors is not found, Pierce will be punished accordingly when the chaos of the British Ministry of Magic settles, and the punishment will not be light, and the Wizengamot may even be involved. Parliament, which judges the laws of the wizarding world.
Maybe I can only wash chrysanthemums in Azkaban for the rest of my life~
Pierce is also very desperate at this time!
"Who did I mess with!? Why is it always me who is unlucky!!"
This must be Pierce's inner monologue at this time.
"Miss Meishan, please give me an explanation? How did a group of people disappear out of thin air? What mission did they go to perform?"
Pierce temporarily suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, and turned to question the head of the French Ministry of Magic, Messan Celeste.
Mei Shan frowned in embarrassment, and took out a roll of parchment from the briefcase of her entourage, which was the record of this operation.
"We are also very sorry that this kind of thing happened...We didn't expect this kind of thing to happen!" Mei Shan said with a little apology, and then introduced the detailed tasks performed by the members of the joint investigation team.
"Recently, there have been inexplicable magic fluctuations near the Somme River, so we sent this team of Aurors to investigate. Originally, this kind of task was not difficult or dangerous, but for some reason, the team that performed the investigation task earlier today Lost contact with us, we have sent three groups of investigators to look for them, but they have not found any trace of them, so we notified you with an urgent owl letter."
"That's it?" Pierce asked.
Mei Shan smiled wryly, and nodded: "We only know so much. It is said that this investigation task does not involve Grindelwald, so there will be no danger, but the disappearance of the seven members of the team is extremely strange. We now We can only continue to send investigators to investigate, and we can only say that we are very sorry for this incident... We will also try our best to deploy people to search for the missing persons!"
At this time, Pierce was one head and two big, and he was too lazy to talk anymore, so he took out a pipe and took a puff of tobacco, and looked around and looked at the ruins.
"This is... the ruins of the Battle of the Somme?" Pierce asked after a long time
Mei Shan nodded without saying anything.
At this moment, a gust of wind blew by the Somme River, and the bleak and cold atmosphere filled the whole land. Suddenly, Pierce felt the warmth in his pocket, and subconsciously reached into his pocket and took out a yellow paper bag. Triangular pieces of paper.
This was given to him by the evil young master when he was protecting the young master of the welfare family during the summer vacation. At that time, the young master of the welfare family said it was a talisman and asked Pierce to carry it with him.
Pierce didn't care too much about it, he just regarded it as a child's trick, and put it in his pocket casually and didn't bother about it.
But for some reason, just when a gust of wind blew past, this amulet unexpectedly produced a slight change.
The warm and comfortable golden halo circulated on the amulet, as if it had resisted the inexplicable wind. Pierce felt that the biting cold feeling just now disappeared instantly.
In the next second, a shrill scream sounded in everyone's ears, and a gray-black shadow appeared in front of everyone.
A group of people turned their heads to look at the inexplicable shadow. The shadow was dressed in the standard military uniform of the French army during World War I. Its skin was festered, and dark black sticky blood soaked its entire face and clothes. A turbulent black mist flowed over its body. The entire shadow is suspended in mid-air, looking extremely terrifying and eerie.
"What is this!!" Someone in the crowd exclaimed, and quickly took out his wand to cast magic on the shadow.
But after the magic was released, it passed through the shadow and hit the rock without causing any damage to the shadow.
Pierce was also taken aback by the sudden change at this time, and hurriedly took a step back, but bumped into a big man behind him, and was pushed towards the terrifying shadow by the reaction force.
Fuck~ Why is it always me who is unlucky! !
However, in the next second, when Pierce bumped into the group of shadows, the group of shadows let out a scream, and then struggled in pain, but was finally suppressed by the amulet emitting golden halo in Pierce's hand. Ashes to ashes.
"What is that black monster?" Mei Shan looked at the dissipated shadow in shock, and then looked at the amulet in Pierce's hand: "What is this?"
Pierce was still in shock at this time, he stared blankly at the amulet with a slightly dim halo on his palm, and muttered in his mouth: "One...an amulet...an amulet made of Chinese Xuanfa.
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