Chapter 872: an innocent passerby

Chapter 872: an innocent passerby

 Chapter 872 An innocent passerby

From the perspective of most wizards, the dark wizards lingering in the shadows of Knockturn Alley and Cornwall do not actually pose much of a threat.

Because they all have one thing in common, that is, they will only stay in a fixed place. People in Knockturn Alley rarely cross that passage and enter Diagon Alley, and the wandering wizards in Cornwall will only stay in a certain place near the Atlantic Ocean. A port gathering.

As long as you don't go near these places, there won't be any problems.

But is this really the case?

Although shotguns can threaten hungry wolves and drive them into a deserted area, wolves can also choose to bypass the frontal threat and find other ways.

For example, they can find foxes and moles and dig a path underground, which not only avoids the threat of shotguns, but also leads directly to the garden behind.

When Barty Crouch Jr. walked out of the passage and looked at the streets with different styles in front of him, there was a flash of excitement and madness in his eyes.

"What an amazing project." He stuck out his tongue excitedly, "I didn't expect the legend to be true. There is really a secret passage from the bottom of Cornwall to Devon."

"It's a pity that we don't have enough manpower, otherwise we wouldn't have waited until a year ago to complete it." Next to him, a wizard with short brown-red hair came over and looked at Barty Crouch Jr. up and down with a scrutinizing gaze.

The knotted muscles on his arms were like marble, and a scar ran through his entire face, making him look extremely ferocious.

"Babor Lenis." The other party introduced himself: "The owner of a second-hand black magic shop."

"Barty Crouch...the Dark Lord's most loyal servant."

Seeing the other person's habit of sticking out his tongue from time to time, Lenis couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth.

Is this a bee sting on the tongue?

Are all British wizards this virtuous?

Especially when he heard the other party's self-introduction, he couldn't hold back and burst out laughing.

"Ho, **** ho...I'm so sorry, I couldn't hold it back." Lenis grinned, showing his dirty and yellowed teeth, "This is the first time I've seen someone call themselves a slave, and they are so proud, you are a hybrid of house elves. Come out?"

The people following him also laughed unbridled.

"you…"

The hooded wizard took a step forward, but before he could say anything, he suddenly covered his neck and let out a painful groan.

Boom!

The next second, a head hit the ground, and Gululu rolled to the feet of Barty Crouch Jr.

"I'm sorry, my subordinates are ignorant. How could they leave such things lying around?" Lenis said expressionlessly. With a wave of his wand, he swept away a skull-shaped necklace from under the opponent's feet.

"Are you provoking the Dark Lord?" Barty Crouch Jr. took out his wand with a ferocious expression.

"Britain has not even been unified...Dark Lord? What a ridiculous title." Lenis sneered.

"Avada Kedavra!"

"Avada Kedavra!"

The two green lights collided together in the air, forming a larger ball of light.

The battle began in a situation that no one expected.

But a moment later, the two of them disconnected their magic power in unison.

"Not bad, he has some strength." Lenis stared at Barty Crouch Jr., "According to the agreement, the witch named Lestrange should be here this time. Why was the person changed?"

"That trash? She's dead!"

"Really? What a pity." Lenis looked at Barty Crouch Jr.'s hand holding the wand, "But I remember that she seems to have a mark."

Barty Crouch Jr. lifted up his sleeves to reveal the Dark Mark on his arm. A dark green python emerged from the mouth of a skeleton of the same color, circling and twisting, lifelike.

The python's eyes seemed to have some kind of magic, looking straight at Lenis, making him subconsciously take two steps back.

"Very good." His expression calmed down a bit, and he glanced at the Dark Mark again, "As I said before, we are willing to join that...Dark Lord, but according to the agreement, after the Dark Lord clears out the British Ministry of Magic, Cornwall and Devon are ours.

"In addition, you need to pay us a commission of thirty thousand galleons."

"No problem, the Dark Lord will not treat any servant who follows him badly." Little Barty turned his head. A person next to him reacted immediately and threw a heavy box to the ground.

The box was opened, and it was filled with gold galleons. The golden light was shining, and the intentions of some wizards around him immediately became anxious.

"I think you are mistaken about one thing." Lenis lay on the box and took a deep breath, then looked at Barty Crouch Jr., "We are just a cooperative relationship, and we are not house elves. "

Little Barty's expression became ferocious again, but this time he held it back.

"Yes, a cooperative relationship." He showed a fake smile and made a decision in his heart.

Being disloyal to the Dark Lord will lead to death, but now is not the time. After the group of bugs in the Order of the Phoenix are dealt with, it will be these guys' turn.

He tried hard to control his expression, but this behavior made Lenis find it very funny.

It can be seen that the man in front of him, like Lestrange, is the kind of dark wizard in the ivory tower. Although he is very powerful, he is only arrogant at home and never goes out.

He is too immature and his thoughts can be seen at a glance.

But Lenis doesn’t care. Who hasn’t been careful? Besides, these galleons are not fake. As long as you make money, everything else doesn’t matter...

Lenis gently stroked the Galleons in the box. Just as he was about to put the box away, he saw a wand out of the corner of his eye...a wand that appeared out of thin air.

Without any hesitation, Lenis instinctively rolled to the side...

"boom!"

A magic spell fell on the place where he was before, blowing the box to pieces, and countless gold coins scattered out like rain.

At the same time, Lenis also took out his wand and pointed at an open space behind the Death Eaters.

"puff!"

Along with a dull sound, it seemed like something was burning, and a trace of charred black appeared in the air out of thin air.

Bang!

A piece of broken wood fell down and rolled twice on the ground. To be precise, it was a prosthetic leg made of wood, with a patch of bright red blood on it.

"Alastor Moody!"

Lenis instantly became furious. As someone who often dealt with Aurors, he immediately recognized that this was Alastor Moody's prosthetic leg. After discovering that the other party had escaped, he immediately pointed his wand at the minibus. Ty Crouch.

"Damn it, you brought Aurors here and killed them!"

"I think it was you who exposed your whereabouts!" Barty Crouch Jr. was almost furious.

Of course he knew how Alastor Moody came here. It could be seen from his position that he had been following his group.

In other words, he didn't fall for Gilman's full set at all, but followed Moben who was connecting with them. Those two idiots were fooled.

But in this situation, he couldn't tell the truth or admit it.

Countless curses exploded in the sky like fireworks.

At the same time, in the woods not far away, Alastor Moody was running limping.

He used the invisibility cloak to follow the Death Eaters before. His original plan was to disguise himself as a Death Eater and kill the wandering wizard named Lenis and cause civil strife in the other party, but he didn't expect the other party's intuition to be so keen.

Also, as a dark wizard who traveled to several countries and whose wanted orders could be compiled into a book, he would have died long ago if he was not sharp.

Now he just hopes to run out of this forest that serves as the isolation zone as soon as possible.

Alastor looked grave.

The Apparition was interrupted just now. Although the body part acted on the prosthetic leg, he also suffered some injuries and was unable to Apparate for the second time in a short period of time.

I hope the chaos he created can last for a while, at least for him to spread the news.

There are almost a hundred people in Lenis's group, plus the secret passage leading directly to Devon County. If the Order of the Phoenix doesn't know anything, it will definitely suffer a big loss.

Thinking of this, Moody quickened his pace again. It's just that one jumping leg is missing. Even if it is temporarily supported by the deformation spell, it is really inconvenient.

Not long after, a curse struck from behind.

Bang!

The green light hit his back, and Moody exploded.

"Transfiguration!" Barty Crouch Jr. rushed from behind, half of his face was blackened, and he was obviously seriously injured.

"The other party is a legendary Auror, how could he be caught so easily."

Lenis also came over, and the two seemed to have reached an agreement to temporarily cease fighting and give priority to chasing Moody.

"I've sent people to the exit in advance. He can't escape!" Lenis said coldly: "Search separately and send a signal first if you find any clues. He has been hit by a burning curse and cannot run far.

"I don't believe that with so many of us, we could let an injured Auror escape!"

At his order, the people following him dispersed immediately. Barty Crouch Jr. waved and the Death Eaters joined them.

Then the two of them each chose a direction and ran away.

Shortly after they left, a piece of mud next to them suddenly shook twice, and then a hand stretched out.

Moody pulled himself out of the ground and leaned against a tree, breathing heavily, his blue magic eyes moving rapidly in his sockets.

He barely escaped, but only temporarily.

Moody knew very well that it would be difficult for him to escape.

After all, this is Lenis' territory, and there are so many of them that it is almost impossible to escape from the roundup of more than a hundred wizards.

If he had an invisibility cloak, he could still give it a try, but his invisibility cloak was broken.

The only way now seems to be to take risks and use phantom.

Although in his current state, he would definitely split up if he used apparation, but if he just teleported his head, it would still be no problem.

As long as the head is transmitted, he can use the characteristic that injuries will not be immediately reflected after splitting to send the news here...

"Hey, Professor Moody, do you need any help?"

A pleasant voice came from behind.

Moody was startled, and the magic eye moved rapidly, feeling like it would pop out of the back of his head in the next second.

The wand in his hand spurted out a stream of red sparks, heading straight for the person behind him.

"It's me, Professor Moody, don't hurt your own people by accident."

"Do you think you can fool me with this kind of trick?" Moody jumped up from the ground with an ejection. "Kyle will not come to a place like this at this time."

"That's wrong. Why can't I come?" Kyle shrugged, "Why, do you need a ticket for this place?"

Moody didn't answer or even speak. He raised his hand and cast two magic spells.

Kyle originally wanted to repeat his old trick and use the Iron Armor Curse to block it, but it wasn't until he discovered that the second spell was green that he jumped to the side.

"Killing Curse...Professor Moody, you are going too far." Kyle patted his chest with lingering fear. He could not guarantee that his silver shield could block the killing curse.

"In order to save you, I gave up thirty thousand Galleons, thirty thousand galleons! You used the Death Curse on me?"

"Prove your identity!" Moody continued to raise his wand.

"You came to Hogwarts when I was in fifth grade." Kyle said, "The first lesson was about understanding the Unforgivable Curse and learning the Iron Armor Curse."

"This information is not enough. Draco Malfoy also knows it." Moody frowned.

Kyle rubbed his forehead and said he was Draco Malfoy? This sentence is more extreme than the death curse just now.

"Well, the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix is ​​at No. 12 Grimmauld Place, the ancestral home of the Black family."

Moody's good eye narrowed sharply.

"Are you really Kyle?"

"Of course, Death Eaters can't tell the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix."

"But...why are you here?"

"Mr. Weasley told me an address, a lighthouse in Devon County, so I went to try my luck. Unexpectedly, I actually got something." Kyle said.

He did go to Devon County according to the address given by Mr. Weasley, and happened to encounter a meeting between Death Eaters.

"Why didn't I find you?"

"You can use the invisibility cloak to follow the Death Eaters, why can't I use the invisibility cloak to follow you." Kyle sighed, "Actually, I always thought you had discovered me, but you just didn't say anything, until you suddenly jumped out just now I didn’t even realize it... Professor Moody, can’t your magic eye see through the invisibility cloak?”

"The magic eye can only see through an invisibility cloak..." Moody said after a moment of silence.

He himself was under the invisibility cloak before, so of course it was impossible to see Kyle who was also wearing the invisibility cloak.

"That's it, okay." Kyle nodded, "But Professor, when you jumped out just now, you really scared me. I..."

"No, they're back." Moody's magic eye suddenly burrowed into the back of his head, and he held the wand tightly, "Hurry up and tell Dumbledore what's going on here!"

"Ah, there's no rush. The main thing is that I don't know where Dumbledore is at the moment."

Compared to the nervous Moody, Kyle was much more laid-back, so laid-back that even Moody felt that he had rebelled.

Almost in the blink of an eye, a dozen people appeared around them.

"I felt something was wrong just now." Lenis walked out of the crowd and stared at Moody fiercely, "You were injured, so you shouldn't be able to run so fast. I didn't expect you to actually hide under our noses. past."

"You can't run away this time."

"Barbolenis!" Moody looked at the dozen or so people around him, his heart sinking to the bottom.

It was too late to run away now, and what was even more troublesome was that there was now another Kyle beside him.

What is this, buy one get one free?

If it weren't for the wrong timing, he really wanted to pull Kyle's ears and ask him why he didn't just leave just now... Whether it was to go back to deliver the news or move reinforcements, it would be more useful than staying here and talking to him so much nonsense.

"Wait, who are you?"

At this time, Lenis finally discovered Kyle behind Moody.

"An innocent passer-by who happened to pass by here." Kyle raised both hands, "Well... then, just go ahead and pretend I don't exist."

"Are you insulting my IQ?" Lenis sneered. "No matter who you are, since you are here, please stay and keep Alastor company."

Lenis didn't pay attention to Kyle's sudden appearance, mainly because he was too young. A wizard who looked less than twenty years old was really as insignificant as a passerby in his eyes.

He just looked at Moody, with a flash of unconcealable excitement in his eyes, "It's so exciting. I didn't expect that the legendary Auror who filled half of Azkaban would die in my hands, and so will you." Didn’t expect that, Alastor.”

Moody did not speak or respond to his taunt, but quickly closed his eyes, and even the magic eye penetrated into the back of his head at the same time.

Because Kyle just whispered to him from behind, telling him to close his eyes.

Under normal circumstances, Moody would never have made such a move that was tantamount to suicide during a battle, but his body's instinct made him make the decision to trust Kyle at a certain moment.

Then, Moody vaguely felt something slipping past him, and there was a cold feeling on his only remaining leg.

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(End of chapter)