Hogwarts starts with stealing power

Chapter 110 Breaking through the fog, a terrifying idea
Draco remained silent and controlled the [Puppet Spider] to return.

After a while, wizards returned to the abandoned warehouse one after another.

There seems to be some kind of communication method between wizards. After the first wizard came in, he saw Draco and Lin Xia and asked: "Have the others come back?"

Lin Xia said: "No, you were the first to return to the warehouse."

The wizard thought for a while and said, "I'll go out first. If others come, just tell me that I've gone over to take care of them."

Lin Xia's eyes flashed slightly: "Are you going to collect the body of another wizard?"

The wizard was stunned, "How did you know?"

Lin Xia: "Draco and I controlled the alchemy items and went out for investigation, and happened to record the whole process of the wizard's death."

"Alchemical items?"

Lin Xia and Draco showed the [Mantis] and [Puppet Spider] in their hands.

The wizard's mouth twitched slightly, "It's really an alchemy item..."

He turned around and muttered: "Each one costs hundreds of gold galleons. This is not a reconnaissance. This is simply a waste of money."

Alchemy items are very expensive and not very durable. They need to be repaired after being used a few times.

The more you repair it, the more money you spend on repairing it. It’s more expensive than buying a new one. Using alchemy items for detection is just a waste of money.

The other wizards returned, and Lin Xia told them the explanation left by the first wizard.

When the wizards saw what Lin Xia and Draco were holding, their expressions were strange, but they didn't say anything.

The last one to return is captain Mia.

As soon as she came in, she was not surprised to see what Lin Xia and Draco were holding.

Mia asked: "Dren died, who will get his body back?"

"Furzil has passed and will be back soon."

Mia said solemnly: "Since the anomaly in Windmill Town was discovered, this is the fourth wizard to die. Everyone must be careful when investigating. I suspect that Windmill Town is even more violent and irritable than in the past. When I investigated today, the residents Often it only takes two or three sentences to get angry and hurtful."

Lin Xia said at this time: "We filmed the entire process of Delen's sacrifice. Captain, do you want to see it?"

Mia raised her eyebrows, very surprised: "Of course."

Lin Xia took Draco's [Puppet Spider] and played back the images stored on the monitor.

Mia whistled loudly and praised: "As expected of [Puppet Spider], this function is still a high-end version. It costs at least three to four hundred gold Galleons to buy."

While the wizard was watching the replay, Furqi also came back and joined in the watching without saying anything else.

Lin Xia discovered that the wizards here were extremely indifferent to death.

Someone died in the team, but they didn't seem to care. It seemed that this person just left normally, rather than really leaving them.

Draco hesitated to speak in front of this group of wizards who were analyzing the picture rigorously.

Mia watched the video twice, stopped watching, and left the team. Seeing Draco depressed, she couldn't help but sneered:

"Little wizard, don't make that bitter expression, it will make us look like a heartless person."

Draco said unconvinced: "He is your partner, but you don't seem to be sad about his death!"

Mia looked out the window noncommittally.

"There's nothing to be sad about." She said calmly: "Death is just another great adventure. Each of us will eventually go to this adventure, sooner or later."

……

Because there were victims, Mia thought that Windmill Town had changed again, so she did not arrange for the team members to go out to check in the afternoon, but asked everyone to gather in the warehouse to study strategies.

Perhaps they had offended certain rules through frequent testing, and some of the laws they had studied in the past were no longer applicable.

At least in the past, there has never been a situation where just one or two residents were offended and they were attacked by a group of residents on the street.

This makes investigation missions more dangerous, but fine for recon missions.

In the afternoon.

Lin Xia and Draco's [Puppet Spiders] were borrowed in turn, and the wizard controlled them to observe the surroundings.

Under the control of the wizard, the two learned many skills in controlling spiders.

These techniques are not difficult to say, but the two of them have little experience and did not expect to be able to use them in this way.

Compared to the [Puppet Spider], Lin Xia's [Praying Mantis] is even more coveted. This is a thing that can be used for remote detection.

But [Praying Mantis] needs to be used with the "thought control transformation method", and no wizard in the team can do it.

So Mia just asked Lin Xia to control [Mantis] to check around the center circle to see if she could find anything.

Lin Xia also had this intention.

But it is a pity that this abandoned warehouse is too far from the central circle, and often has to return just after flying to the central circle. Even so, they collected a lot of useful data.

They found that the central circle was particularly crowded, but it was also very dangerous. Once the investigation there did not go smoothly, they would face siege by many wizards.

Lin Xia followed the rule of exploring for half an hour and resting for half an hour, and spent the entire afternoon conducting repeated investigations.

While resting, she thought of something and asked: "Most of the residents living in Windmill Town are wizards, right?"

Mia: "Well, 80% of them are wizards, and the remaining 20% ​​are related to wizards. They know the wizarding world very well."

"Then why do they use physical attacks when attacking wizards?" Lin Xia raised a blind spot.

People in the wizarding world are accustomed to using magic, and physical attacks are only methods used by those who do not know magic.

Lin Xia saw residents on a whole street attacking Dren wizard, but they were all physical attacks.

It's not that they didn't have their wands on them, some of them had their wands in their trouser pockets, with a large part of them exposed, but they still didn't pull out their wands, but used their fists.

It's not magic.

Mia was stunned, "The angle you proposed is quite new."

"We are used to using magic. We didn't care when we saw them using physical attacks. Anyway, we can resist them with magic. But you are right. Since they can use magic, why don't they use magic?"

Mia fell into deep thought, feeling that she had vaguely grasped something, but she still needed a little inspiration.

Even if the town's residents are stuck in a past loop, there's no reason to forget about magic, unless they're not stuck in the past at all!
Mia suppressed this speculation and planned to go out to investigate again when night fell.

Night is a good opportunity for exploration. Residents have returned to their houses to rest, and there is almost no one on the street.

Soon, night falls.

Everyone began to move their positions, and under the cover of the moonlight, they headed towards the mobile residential building near the center circle.

This place is very close to the central circle, and Lin Xia can completely control [Praying Mantis] to investigate around the central circle.

Even the [Puppet Spider] can swagger into the center circle.

midnight.

There was a faint sound of insects and birds outside the window, and there was silence all around.

Lin Xia controlled [Praying Mantis] to enter the center circle and passed by the doors of every house.

Suddenly, [Praying Mantis] found a person on the roadside. When he walked in, he saw that he was a homeless man.

Lin Xia wanted to skip it, but suddenly noticed something was wrong, and controlled [Mantis] to approach this person.

There are a lot of maggots on this person!
[Mantis] jumped directly on him and observed him closely. Judging from the degree of decomposition of the body, the homeless man had been dead for at least several days.

Lin Xia immediately reported the incident to Mia.

Mia looked serious, which was another new discovery.

Before today, they had never left the abandoned warehouse and were extremely cautious when exploring the town.

If the two little wizards didn't have very good detective tools, they wouldn't have thought of taking advantage of nightfall to go further afield and use the detective tools to investigate the town in detail.

Mia said: "Could it be because the town is trapped in the past, and in the past, the homeless man did not die, so the residents acquiesced that he did not die either. In the eyes of the residents, he is still alive?"

The team members pondered for a while, and they didn't know.

Lin Xia said: "I thought of a good elimination method, but it is difficult to implement."

"What method?" Mia didn't look down on her just because she was a little wizard.

Being rated as an outstanding student at Hogwarts in the first grade, publishing two papers on his own, and creating two magical creations is enough to show that Lin Xia has extraordinary wisdom.

Especially today, Mia felt many times that Lin Xia should be assigned to Ravenclaw, she is so smart!
“In the eyes of the residents, the homeless man is alive, but the homeless man is indeed dead. His death is unchanged. He was also dead in the past, but he was not discovered by the residents.

Tomorrow, if the homeless man is still there, not moving, and the residents turn a blind eye, then everyone may still be trapped in the past. The tramp did not pass because he was already dead. "

"But," Lin Xia changed his words, "If the homeless man moves, it means that everyone is not trapped in the past, but is being manipulated."

"Wait a minute, I don't quite understand how the homeless man can move. He's already dead, so how can he move!" Rosen couldn't help but say.

The other team members also looked puzzled. Only Draco and Mia's expressions changed slightly and they completely understood.

Mia said solemnly: "You put forward a brand new idea. They may not be poor people trapped in the old days, but being manipulated, right?"

As the saying goes, the dead have not passed away.

The reason why wizards trapped in the past are able to move is because they are still alive, so they live according to the behaviors and habits of the past.

But if the homeless man can still stand up and move around tomorrow, it will prove that the entire people of Windmill Town have been manipulated!
Manipulate these people and live according to the old behaviors in the past!

Only in this way can we explain that even if the homeless man is dead, he still has to get up and beg, because the homeless man's past behavior was begging.

This idea is truly terrifying.

What kind of monster have they been dealing with?
(End of this chapter)