Hogwarts starts with stealing power

Chapter 109 The first victim

Draco also heard the conversation between the two sisters and asked in a low voice: "How do you feel?"

Lin Xia was noncommittal: "It's too vivid."

It doesn't look like he's being manipulated at all.

Maybe it's because of this that Mia feels that these people are trapped in the old cycle instead of being manipulated.

Arriving at the garrison point in the town, protected by tall walls, everyone felt somewhat relaxed.

Lin Xia asked: "Captain Mia, how long have you been stationed in the town?"

Mia said seriously: "We were only stationed for a week. In the previous weeks, other teams were stationed and took turns recording information."

Lin Xia asked again: "You said that the residents of the town may be trapped in the cycle of the past. How long have they been trapped?"

Mia: "One week, the townspeople do the same thing they did last week."

Lin Xia pondered, one week would have a big impact.

Mia added a few more precautions and repeatedly warned not to bore the residents, otherwise the residents would get violent and hurt others, and the damage would be very powerful.

Several wizards have been injured by the residents because they asked too many questions and the residents could not answer them, and several of them died.

After the explanation, only Lin Xia and Draco were left in this place. The other wizards ran outside to do tasks. They also needed to collect other information about the town.

After Draco waited for them to leave, his tense mind relaxed slightly, and he muttered: "They just left us and ran away. They didn't worry at all that something would happen to us here!"

Lin Xia took out the [Praying Mantis], held it in the palm of his hand, and sketched the magic circle in his mind to control the transformation method.

A few minutes later, the mantis flapped its wings, flew briefly, and jumped out of the window.

A mantis's perspective is different from a human's perspective, everything around him looks tall.

But since it is a model, it has a viewing angle adjustment function.

Lin Xia continuously reduced the mantis's angle of view to an angle that the human eye considered suitable and normal, and controlled the mantis to fly towards the center circle.

She felt like a three-year-old child exploring the town.

Until then, she had no time to distract herself from answering Draco's question.

"After all, this is the safe zone they explored. Safety has been guaranteed. The previous teams are stationed here."

The place where they are located is an abandoned warehouse in Windmill Town, and no one is seen all year round.

If the townspeople were trapped in the Old Loop, they would definitely not come to the warehouse, because none of them had been to the abandoned warehouse in the past week.

Draco was not idle either and released the [Spider Puppet] given to him by Professor McGonagall. He could detect anything he could.

The spider puppet comes with two devices, one is the spider, and the other is a small display that allows you to see the spider's perspective.

Draco cast a spell on the display screen: "Grow bigger quickly!"

The palm-sized display screen is enlarged to the size of a television. The scenery observed by the spider can be seen on the display screen, and it is adjusted in advance to the best viewing angle for humans.

[Spider Puppet] As a mature magical creation, all its flaws have been improved. The only disadvantage is that it cannot be detected over long distances, and it is easy for others to find out the location of the controller.

Lin Xia got inspiration from it, picked up the magic wand and waved it to his head, "Photography spell!"

The next second, a light screen popped up in the air, projecting the scene she observed through the [Praying Mantis] in her mind outside.

The power of the magical world is so magical, and magic is almost omnipotent.

Compared with Draco's spider, [Mantis]'s viewing angle is a bit limited, but fortunately it can fly to far away places to explore.

Without making any complicated movements, Lin Xia could probably stay connected for 30 minutes, including the time for [Praying Mantis] to return within 30 minutes.

Otherwise, if [Mantis] is lost outside, she may not be able to find it, and even if she looks for it, she may not be able to find it.

Although the [Praying Mantis] model is larger than the average mantis, it is only about the size of a palm. If it is lost in the woods or other places, it will be more difficult to find it.

Both scenes were shown outside, and the two of them observed them together.

Suddenly, Lin Xia heard the voice of a wizard talking through [Praying Mantis], and she controlled [Praying Mantis] to jump over, just in time to jump onto the pavement.

This is a small stall, and the store manager is sitting in the shop, looking at the products in silence.

The wizard in the team came to ask about the price, pointed to an item and said, "How much does this cost?"

Store manager: "One gold galleung."

"What about this?"

"Five silver coins."

"what about this?"

"15 Copper Nuts."

The wizard looked down at the note in his hand and asked again: "Pack up everything I ordered. How much is the total?"

Store manager: "One gold Gallon plus five silver coins... Silver coins plus 1 copper coins..." His voice became more and more intermittent as he went on, as if there was a glitch.

The wizard noticed something and stared at him nervously.

Store manager: "A total of 1 gold... 5 galleons of silver..."

Suddenly, the store manager's expression became ferocious, and he suddenly became violent and hurtful! The wizard said quickly: "Armor protection!"

"Bang!" A heavy muffled sound hit the invisible shield. Just by hearing the sound, you could tell how hard the blow was. This was just a purely physical attack.

The wizard quickly left the small vendors. According to past experience, as long as he quickly got out of their sight, the residents could quickly restore calm.

He didn't notice that after he left, a small [Praying Mantis] also left.

[Praying Mantis] recorded a series of expressions of the stall owner from anger to calmness, chasing the wizard in the direction he left.

He had already gone around to another street and went to another shop to continue asking the same questions he had asked before.

It seems that the wizard's task is to ask the prices one by one and then check the residents' reaction ability.

The place where the wizard ran happened to be within the detection range of Draco [Spider Puppet].

Lin Xia said decisively: "Let your spider get close to this wizard. I have a hunch that we can find something from this wizard."

After watching the wizard ask the price four times in a row, Lin Xia and Draco also vaguely gained something. Lin Xia took the [Mantis] back first.

Draco took the lead and said: "Although they are very flexible in their expressions, their logical thinking is very rigid. One is one and two is two. Once they are asked to do complex calculations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, their expressions will become ferocious, and every one of them will That’s true, without exception.”

He pondered: "So I think it is unlikely that they are trapped in the old cycle. If they are really trapped in the old cycle, their logical thinking should still be there, so why can't they answer the question?"

Lin Xia nodded and said: "I think the captain and the others also discovered this problem, so they started to test it many times. I just have a worry."

Draco quickly asked: "What are you worried about?"

Lin Xia's eyes were deep: "What if the residents are not trapped in the old days, but are controlled by people or things, allowing the residents to repeat their lives according to their habits before death.

If there hadn't been a flaw in the radio station and the residents' logical thinking was too weak, the Ministry of Magic wouldn't have discovered the anomaly in the town so quickly.

Now that the Ministry of Magic is stationed in the area to investigate and frequently test the bottom line of the residents' rampage, I am worried that I will offend the manipulator behind the scenes. "

Draco: "You mean, the residents of the town will change?"

Lin Xia shook his head: "I can't say for sure, I just have a guess in this regard."

As she spoke, she ran the "Nine Heavens Xuanyang Secret Record·The Furnace" over and over again, quickly recovering her magic and spiritual power.

At this time, Draco's [Spider Puppet] made a new discovery.

Specifically, it was the wizard that the spider was following who discovered something.

He walked around another street and went to a brand new store. Just when he was about to ask the store for the price, he suddenly met two female residents who came to buy things.

Draco was startled, "Aren't these the two young ladies we saw when we entered the town?"

Hearing this, Lin Xia looked up and said, "Yes, they also changed their clothes."

The wizard may have been attracted by the beautiful young girl, and had an idea. Instead of talking to the store owner, he talked to the two girls.

"Hello, what are your names?" the wizard asked very talkatively.

The two girls were stunned at first, a little at a loss, and their crisp voices became intermittent and hesitant.

"My name is... Beta."

"My name is...Mary."

Wizard: "Are you all residents of this small town? I just came here for vacation. Can you tell me what fun places there are in Windmill Town?"

Beta's voice changed from crisp to mechanical: "There are many interesting places in Windmill Town. There are, there are, there are wind... cars."

Mary repeated the same answer, and the two of them looked at the wizard with increasingly weird expressions.

The wizard subconsciously felt bad and quickly used "armor protection" on himself!
Three attacks fell on the wizard at the same time. This time there was not only an attack from the witch, but also an attack from the store owner.

The shopkeeper just overheard their conversation and showed strong hostility towards the wizard.

All three of them were purely physical attacks. "Armor Protection" avoided the first attack, but failed to avoid the second and third attacks. The wizard was immediately beaten and fell to the ground.

He raised his wand and gave himself another shot of "Armor Protection" with difficulty.

At this time, the wizard showed excellent fighting skills. Even though he was injured and dizzy, the "armor protection" superimposed on his body this time was obviously very strong and could at least withstand the next seven or eight physical attacks.

But because they were surrounded by these people, the wizard's situation became very dangerous.

Because it was not only those three people who were attacking, Lin Xia and Draco discovered through the [Spider Puppet] that all the residents on this street were swarming towards the wizard.

What followed was a one-sided massacre.

No one in the town used magic spells to beat the wizard to death.

Because they were surrounded by many residents, Lin Xia and Draco did not see the scene of the wizard's death, but they heard the wizard's curses change from anger to calm.

Draco immediately felt a physical nausea and walked to a place to vomit.

Lin Xia took a deep breath, she was okay.

Draco used "clean up" to get rid of his own filth, and stayed in one place in silence for a long time before returning.

Lin Xia's voice sounded: "If I were you, I would not continue to watch the puppet spider. I would control the spider to return. I have recorded all the scenes."

(End of this chapter)