Seven places.
"Raidho, this is a protection, a talisman that protects the protected person."
Alec Hopkins, also known as Snape, pushed the translated rune notes to Mycroft.
Mycroft picked it up, flipped through two pages and put it down. He looked at the occult professor opposite.
"Do you think this thing has any effect, Professor Hopkins?"
He was still testing the occult professor.
Snape put his index finger together and touched it lightly under his lips. He was also looking at Mycroft with a careful look.
"If your information is correct, runes have many functions in mystical applications, and protection is only one of them." Snape touched Mycroft's eyes and said in a long tone, "Yes. , it works.”
Mycroft subconsciously opened his eyes, feeling a strange feeling in his heart.
Suppressing that feeling, he nodded, took out new wood chips, and said, "Please take a look at these."
Snape took it, looked at the material on it, frowned, and said, "This is not sorbet."
"Oak." Mycroft said, "A new material discovered in a major accident."
"Oak is called a magic tree and is considered to have magical effects," Snape asked. "Do you suspect a wizard did it?"
"Professor Hopkins, I need to remind you," Mycroft said noncommittally, "the more you know, the worse it will be for you."
"I don't care."
Snape said calmly: "You want me to come here and pretend to be a deaf mute?"
"It's interesting." Mycroft leaned forward and smiled, "Many people who work with the government are afraid of knowing too much, but you are an exception."
"Seeking knowledge," Snape said without changing his expression. "For me, the more knowledge I can know, the more I can prove what I have learned."
"Good reason."
Mycroft seemed to be convinced. He saw his men standing outside, straightened his clothes and stood up, "I think I can provide you with more."
Snape subconsciously raised his head to look into Mycroft's eyes, but Mycroft looked away, walked to the door and smiled: "Please, Professor Hopkins."
Standing up and following him, Snape had a vague suspicion that the other party did not trust him.
Legilimency requires eye contact.
But Mycroft didn't give him a chance.
This is the terrible thing about smart people. Once a certain suspicion is established in their hearts, they will quietly avoid these possibilities.
The two walked out of the room and walked forward.
Finally arrived at the destination.
A car is parked in what looks like an underground garage.
The car door opens.
The person who came out of it was stunned.
"This is Professor Alec Hopkins, a professor of occult science." Mycroft walked over, "Watson Wake, maybe you don't know him."
While saying these words, Mycroft kept observing the two of them.
Watson's brief and rapid pause did not escape the smart man's keen observation, but he pretended not to see anything and introduced the two of them with a smile.
"Hello, Professor Hopkins," Watson said strangely.
Even though this man had changed his clothes, Watson still recognized Snape as someone who had been caught before.
He didn't understand when the professor at Hogwarts became an occultist, and Snape also saw Watson's clear and stupid expression.
"Hello, Mr. Wick," drawled Snape, a veteran undercover professional with no flaws at all.
The two shook hands.
"Okay, I think we should change places." Mycroft's eyes flashed with a look of control.
He led the two of them to their destination.
Bodies and numerous items recovered from the Birmingham factory explosion.
On the way, Mycroft talked with Watson, it seemed like an exchange between ordinary friends.
"Watson, did you enjoy the journey?"
"I didn't want to be happy. Those guys knocked on my door so violently and there were three people in the car staring at me. I almost thought I was a prisoner."
"As is their wont, your request must remain secret."
When talking about this, Mycroft deliberately led Watson to speak out in order to test how much Watson knew.
"I heard that MI6 has been doing a lot of things outside recently," Watson said without warning, "Poland is also very lively."
"Yes, it's really lively." Mycroft took out his permission card and opened a door that could withstand the impact of tanks, and said, "Some guys who are hiding in the crowd but are not known to others have exposed their secrets. You may be right That name is not unfamiliar.”
"Beep——"
The last door opened, and Mycroft said calmly: "Wizard."
Hearing this, Watson looked towards the open door.
Over there, a corpse was on the pure white stage, his abdomen hollowed out.
"These people seem to be no different from ordinary people, but they possess strange magic."
This meal scene did not affect the three people present.
"The structure is the same as that of humans, the only thing extra is the magic." Mycroft walked inside and looked at the corpse and said, "But in some aspects they have strange characteristics."
"Their physical structure is the same. For example, their bodies are like the bodies of athletes, and their quality is better than that of ordinary people."
"Human beings are the same?" Watson walked over with a strange look on his face, "You mean, they are not human beings?"
"We can't confirm it yet." Mycroft nodded and pointed to the golden mark placed on the table.
"There should be hostility among wizards. They kill each other. This is a sign of one of them."
Snape's pupils narrowed when he saw the symbol.
Watson didn't know much about the saints, and he was still struggling with the fact that wizards were not human.
"Wizards are human beings, aren't they?" Watson explained. "I mean, in the story, those wizards are human beings."
"They have powers that humans don't have, Watson." Mycroft said noncommittally, "The witches who were executed in the Salem Witch Trials, the witch hunts in the Middle Ages."
"Wizards and humans are not necessarily hostile." Watson denied. "You also said that there are good people and bad people among them."
"I just said that they have factional conflicts." Mycroft turned to look at Watson and said seriously, "These guys are unknown to us."
Watson didn't answer him.
"Okay, besides these, there is more." Mycroft led the two of them out of the room.
The wizard's body was dissected like an experiment.
"You should understand that I am showing you this not just because of the help you gave me, Watson."
Mycroft walked in front and said: "Wizards, a group of mysterious guys, the most likely place they hide is in places that are not visible to the light."
"And you, Watson Wake, you are the leader of those places, and you need to understand the dangers of those guys."
Snape listened to his words with a strange expression.
Are you asking his father, the second king of the wizarding world, to deal with wizards?
That wonderful feeling is like you are asking the Supreme Emperor to rebel.
Simply unbelievable.
The rooms where wizards are imprisoned are all pure white rooms like cabins.
Watson looked at the imprisoned man and felt awkward in his heart.
"Those wizards are hidden in our world. They are mysterious and come and go without a trace." A glint flashed in Mycroft's eyes. "Maybe some of them are not interested in invading our world."
"But by not showing goodwill to us, they are promoting the progress of becoming enemies."
“Their struggle ripples out into our world, which must make us fight back.”
Mycroft seemed to be saying it to Watson, but also to Snape.
"The world is starting to take notice of those people, and we need to know more before we can make a judgment."
"The unknown is natural hostility. In the forest, when a hunter sees the trembling jungle, his first choice is to set up his gun, instead of guessing whether the other person is the same as him."
"not to mention……"
Mycroft turned around slowly, his voice calm but threatening.
"The scary ones in the forest are often hunters with guns just like me."
Snape looked solemn, saying this to himself and all wizards.
Mycroft asked Konrad to get up as if nothing was wrong.
He showed Watson the magic and also warned him that he needed to manage those shady places.
This demonstration is not only a warning to the underground president, but also an ultimatum to those wizards who have sneaked into the human world.
Human beings will not have enough patience to explore unknown threats. In the face of threats, the best way is to destroy.
Snape took the wood chips away to study.
Watson was also sent away.
Mycroft looked at the golden mark alone. He needed a wizard who could work for him.
At the same time, an information channel needs to be established.
Yes, he suspected Alec Hopkins.
Don't doubt human intelligence, they can always find loopholes where you don't notice.
This is why John is unwilling to use the Forgetting Curse to solve the problem.
This is a relationship between use and exploitation.
Snape can get the answers he wants through Mycroft, figure out attitudes, and find Grindelwald's allies.
Mycroft also needs Snape to popularize science knowledge for him and to attract more wizards.
A win-win situation, in that tacit understanding.
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