Chapter 474 Blake’S New Punching Bag!
Tall snow-capped mountains stand tall.
At the foot of the snow-capped mountains, there is a dense forest.
Suddenly, a carriage appeared from the sky and flew directly to the forest and landed.
"Master Lance, we have arrived. But... there is nothing here."
The goblin coachman, who was sitting on the driver's seat of the carriage and driving several Yeji, said carefully.
The door of the carriage was pushed open, and Lance, who was well-dressed, looked around and then jumped out immediately.
"Just send me here, and don't worry about the rest. You go back first. By the way, remember, you will come here to pick me up at nine o'clock tomorrow morning." Lance dismissed the goblin medic.
Within the goblins, there are also status and levels.
This low-status goblin coachman obviously did not dare to say anything more under Lance's threatening gaze.
He just nodded and drove the Yeji carriage into the sky again.
Lance raised his head and saw the carriage disappearing into the clouds.
Then he started to look at the surrounding scene.
After confirming the direction, he walked forward in the forest full of snow, one foot deep and one foot shallow.
As time goes by, the woods around us become more and more sparse.
The road underfoot also changed from being full of snow to a solid dirt road.
Lance's expression also changed from calm to anxious.
"I remember, it's obviously this place...Did I remember it wrong?"
"It's impossible...but why haven't you found it yet after everyone left?"
Lance muttered to himself, just when he couldn't help but want to give up.
Suddenly, Lance felt that the road under his feet turned into a big whirlpool!
Then, as soon as his feet were empty, he felt that his body was falling continuously...
"ah.…………
Before Lance finished screaming, he found himself down to earth again.
However, when he came back to his senses, he realized that the surrounding environment had completely changed.
The forest, originally with withered branches and leaves, has turned into endless darkness...
The sky is dark, the ground is dark, and the surroundings are dark.
Lance just felt like he was in the middle of the universe.
An indescribable panic suddenly surged into my heart.
"What are you doing here?"
A voice that was neither male nor female came from all directions.
Lance was certain in his heart. He suppressed the fear in his heart and said respectfully and concisely: "I'm here to find Locke.
In this place, the more you talk, the faster you die.
Therefore, if you can express it in one word, don’t think of using two words...
"Wait." After the voice said, the surroundings fell into silence again.
Lance had no choice but to continue to stand there and wait.
However, in such a special environment, even time seems to have frozen.
Lance only felt extremely depressed.
Suddenly, Lance heard footsteps coming from behind.
Lance turned around quickly and immediately saw a tall goblin in gorgeous clothes slowly walking out of the darkness.
"Lance, I remember I told you that you can't come here to find me easily, unless something big happens in Gringotts and I have to come forward."
This goblin is tall, only among the goblins.
Because he is almost 1.6 meters tall.
After Lance saw this goblin, he was immediately intimidated by his aura.
He quickly bent down and said: "Yes, President Locke. A big thing did happen. If it hadn't been for this big thing, I wouldn't have dared to come here to see you.
"I'm listening," Locke said impatiently.
"Yes...it's like this...Gringotts was robbed..."
Next, Lance used the shortest sentences to tell everything about last night and today.
Including the stolen vault, as well as the warheads and shell casings left at the scene, and of course, there was also the instigation of Grindelwald's group.
After Locke listened quietly, he frowned and said, "You came to me just because of this little thing?"
"Is this... something?" Lance looked at Locke in shock.
Dozens of vaults were stolen, and the entire Gringotts was brought to the forefront.
But Governor Locke said this was just a small matter?
"Isn't this a small matter? You can let Gringotts pay in advance and maintain the reputation of Gringotts first. Instead of coming here to find me directly!"
Lance's voice trembled, and he mustered up the courage to say: "Advance payment? But... President Locke, among the lost treasury, the smallest pure-blood family's treasury contains at least half a million.
..."
"This is still the smallest pure-blood family treasury... If it is bigger than this treasury, we have lost ten."
"Is this really all paid for in advance?"
"It is true that we have the ability to advance payment, but... if we really do this, our losses will be too great."
"And...we obviously don't need to pay in advance..."
Lance cautiously looked up at Locke's expression.
His meaning is very obvious. Now that everyone knows who did it, why not just ask the other party to spit out the money?
Even if the other party refuses to spit it out completely, Gringotts doesn't have to pay that much if it spits out part of it...
(cged) Locke actually felt heartbroken when he heard that the property in a vault was no less than half a million gold galleons.
Moreover, the most important thing is not a matter of money, but a matter of face, and a matter of damage to Gringotts' reputation!
"You go back first, I know about this." Locke said.
Lance nodded and said yes.
He knew that Locke had understood what he meant.
Presumably, Locke will definitely find those robbers who use Muggle weapons next and have a good negotiation.
As long as the gold is recovered, the Gringotts incident can be overcome safely.
I just need to delay it for a few more days and it will be fine.
As for whether Locke can get the gold back?
Lance never doubted Locke.
As long as Locke takes action, he will never fail.
Always like this.
Just as Lance was thinking, the surrounding scenery changed drastically again.
In the blink of an eye, Lance found himself standing in the vast snow forest again.
And what happened just now was like a dream...
Hermione stared hard at the piece of parchment in front of her.
His face turned red.
Blake smiled and said: "How is it? Have you solved it?"
Hermione shouted: "Shut up! I'm thinking!"
However, after another five minutes of silence, Hermione dropped the parchment in her hands.
"Without a soul lantern, I feel like a waste..."
"I can't understand the alchemical formula you wrote at all."
Blake said: "You demand too much of yourself."
Hermione felt Blake comforting her, which made her feel a little better.
Blake continued: "...In fact, even if you turn on the soul lantern, you still can't understand this alchemical formula."
"Crack!" The quill in Hermione's hand was broken. "If you don't say the last sentence, will you die?"
"Do you mean to say that even if I turn on the lantern, I'm still useless?"
Blake waved his hand and said: "I didn't say that, really... I mean, you are too impatient to learn. You should still lay a solid foundation first."
"Just like Muggle mathematics, if you want to study more advanced knowledge, you have to start with the simplest addition and subtraction."
Hermione threw down the broken quill helplessly, "Then how did you learn it? As far as I know, it's less than two years since you came into contact with alchemy?"
"No, it's not less than two years. In fact, I have been studying for a long time."
"Have you been studying secretly for a long time? Did you already know alchemy when you were at Madam Marian's place?"
"no.....…"
"Then how long have you been studying?"
Blake held out two fingers and said seriously: "The practice lasted two and a half years...
Hermione turned away. Really, with this kind of pervert, there really wasn't much to say.
Does it make any difference whether you can do something that others cannot do in a lifetime in two and a half years or two years?
"Oh, don't be like this, I just want to show off in front of you."
"My purpose is to make you appreciate me more, not to make you ignore me from now on."
The shocked Hermione said with a straight face: "I'm sorry, I really don't deserve to appreciate you..."
"Don't be like this, Hermione, how about I give you a massage? My technique is very professional, and everyone who has tried it says it is good!"
"Don't...go away..."
"How about you try it first?" Blake rolled up his sleeves.
"Ahem!" Cassandra next to her coughed twice.
"This is the first time I've seen someone talk about taking advantage so seriously, and..."
Cassandra pinched her waist and said angrily: "...Blake Green! You still do this in front of me, do you think it's appropriate?"
Blake smiled and said: "I think it's quite suitable. It's extremely suitable."
"You...why are you such a scumbag! If you could be more focused...that would be great." Cassandra said sadly.
"No... Cassandra, if I am too dedicated, many girls will be sad. I hate seeing girls sad the most, so I have to let myself be a little bit scumbag. Hey, only those who know me well know that this is called fraternity." Blake said seriously.
"Bah! Shameless!" Cassandra and Hermione yelled angrily at the same time, and then kicked him in unison.
"brush!"
A faint blue light flashed, and the Phoenix Girl appeared in front of Blake.
She tilted her head curiously and looked at the postures of Blake and the two girls.
Blake coughed twice and calmly patted off the two shoe prints with different patterns on his body.
Then he took a letter from Qingnv's mouth.
After unfolding the letter and reading ten lines at a glance, Blake's expression immediately became serious.
The letter was sent by old Lepp.
The people at Chaos Wish contacted the current temporary person in charge of the Fourth Natural Disaster through the channels agreed in advance.
That is, old Lepp.
Then asked about the Gringotts robbery.
Moreover, they did not wait for the people from the fourth natural disaster to defend themselves.
Even Shi made a request for the Fourth Natural Disaster to return Gringotts' gold, and his tone was very harsh.
In other words, they had already determined from the beginning that the people who robbed Gringotts were the ones responsible for the Fourth Natural Disaster.
Blake was sure at this point.
Goblins are indeed related to Chaos Wish, and the relationship is not shallow.
As for Chaos Wish, after seeing the strength deliberately revealed by the Fourth Natural Disaster.
We still have to use such a tough attitude to get the gold back.
It can be seen from this that the comprehensive strength behind Chaos Wish should be very good.
Otherwise, we wouldn’t have such great confidence.
Blake put away the letter, but felt an indescribable excitement in his heart.
When a person is strong to a certain extent, he will always
I want to find a strong opponent to compete with.
Now it seems that the forces behind Chaos Wish just meet the standards in Blake's mind.
You know, the last time he felt this way was Winsty's father, that seemingly very powerful vampire.
Of course, although the vampire gave Blake a little surprise, it was only a little...
So, that guy is now in Blake's inventory and has become a pretty good collectible.
From time to time, serve as a guinea pig for Blake.
In this day and age, there are many sandbags that can be worn out in one shot, but there are not many sandbags that can recover automatically after being punched through.
"What's wrong with you? Why are you smiling so evilly?" Cassandra asked suspiciously.
Blake touched his face, "Am I smiling evilly?"
"Yeah, just like the bad guys in the Quibbler novel." Cassandra said seriously.
"Haha... Is there a possibility that I am actually a bad guy?" Blake smiled evilly and walked towards Cassandra and Hermione.
News that the Goblin is related to the group that attacked Blake.
Blake soon told Grindelwald.
After confirming that the goblin belongs to the hostile party.
Grindelwald showed no mercy.
Instead, it immediately stepped up its efforts in public opinion.
Grindelwald, who controls the Daily Prophet, can do whatever he wants in the battle of public opinion.
In just two days, Fudge and Gringotts truly realized what boiling public discontent meant.
The wizards who besieged Gringotts once filled Diagon Alley.
The Aurors and strikers who were densely guarding Gringotts were attacked by the surging crowd every day.
If it weren't for Dumbledore's magical protection, they wouldn't have been able to hold on for two days without being trampled alive.
But even so, they still feel like a lonely boat on the sea every day...
Will be overturned at any time...
It was not just Gringotts in the UK that was affected.
Gringotts in other countries around the world have also been greatly impacted.
Many wizards were incited and came to Gringotts one after another to empty their treasury.
Because they are all worried that if they withdraw their gold too late, they will be like those poor people who saved money in Gringotts in England and will never be able to get it out.
Just when the public was raging, Grindelwald suddenly announced that in order not to affect the establishment of welfare institutions, he decided to urgently withdraw a sum of money from his own vault in Gringotts, Austria.
Part of the money is used to establish welfare institutions.
The first step taken by the establishment of the welfare institution was to temporarily advance gold galleons for the goblins, and pay those poor people who could not withdraw the money with their belongings in the Gringotts vault.
Worth the equivalent of gold galleons.
The premise is that these people must make a magical contract under the witness of the Ministry of Magic and transfer their property in Gringotts to Grindelwald.
From the beginning, everyone waited and watched, then some people started to try...and finally everyone flocked to withdraw money from the newly established welfare institution.
Grindelwald only took three hours.
With three small losses, Green Sky successfully made the goblins of Gringotts owe him a huge sum of money.
However, when some pure-blood families also wanted to apply, they were decisively rejected by Grindelwald.
The reason they gave was that welfare institutions have limited funds and must first help those in greater need.
This made many wizards who were already disgusted with those pure-blood families who were arrogant all day long have a great impression of Grindelwald and his welfare institutions.
In just a few days, Grindelwald's reputation miraculously reversed...
Even if someone wanted to come forward and reiterate Grindelwald's crimes, their voices were drowned in the ocean of public opinion. .