69novels Chapter 234 The Ministry of Magic
Chapter 234 The Ministry of Magic
Chapter 234 The Ministry of Magic
When he woke up the next morning, it was already past nine o'clock. Alton had prepared breakfast and was sitting in a chair reading a book.Maureen took a piece of bread from the table, and took out the Loken magnet report on the table to look at it for a while.
After a while, Alton's pocket watch vibrated, and Anderson's voice came from inside: "Alton, Douglas, the director of the Department of Dangerous Dark Magic Items, is missing, and a strange spell has been cast on the door that enters the warehouse of dark magic items. , we can't open it, can you take a look?"
"Douglas is missing?" Alton put down a glass of oat milk in surprise, "Isn't he on vacation? You didn't find him at his house?"
"I didn't find it, Alton. Anyway, it's a bit chaotic here. The magic spell on the warehouse door is hard to break. They asked me to contact you. I'll wait for you at the entrance of the employee emergency passage." Anderson said.
"Okay, I'll be there right away." Alton closed his pocket watch and hurriedly put on his shoes, "Molin, I'll go out for a while, you should be obedient at home."
"I am coming too!"
"No, it's about work."
"I'm going to blow up my house if I'm bored!"
"Okay, okay! Then you have to be quiet and don't make trouble."
Maureen quickly gulped down the oat milk, changed into clothes, and followed Alton's pace.Alton directly took Maureen to apparate into a small alley in London. This alley looked very dilapidated, the stone pavement on the ground was smooth and round, and weeds grew in the cracks between the stone slabs.
"Why don't you use Floo powder?" Maureen hasn't been to the Ministry of Magic for a long time. In the past, he basically grabbed a handful of Floo powder directly from home and called "Ministry of Magic" and it was over.
"Since the Department of Mysteries was invaded, Floo fans have been restricted, and there are various censorships to go that way, which is troublesome." Alton glanced left and right, pedestrians were hurrying outside the alley, and no one noticed the sudden appearance here two people.
He walked quickly to a utility pole, which was covered with various small advertisements and many ugly graffiti. There was also a street lamp tied to the utility pole, but the bulb had been smashed.
Alton found an expired bottle of strong detergent in the trash can next to the pole and sprayed it under the pole, but instead of detergent, what came out was a sticky mess, like petroleum. .
"Step on it." Alton gestured to Mo Lin.
Maureen knew that there were many ways to get to the Ministry of Magic, either through the phone booth or flushing the toilet, but in order not to attract the attention of Muggles, he had to change the method from time to time.
He and Alton stepped on oil, or at least he thought it was oil, and then Alton kicked a utility pole, and suddenly the street lamp without a light bulb on it came on and shone on them, and then Maureen felt unsteady, and the soles of his feet felt numb. Oil is like a swamp, swallowing them all at once.
He felt himself falling continuously, surrounded by darkness, only a staid female voice was reporting: "You have entered the special channel of the Ministry of Magic, and the Ministry of Magic welcomes you."
Then the speed of his fall began to slow down, as if he had been cast with a levitation spell, and he stood firmly on the floor, with the hall of the Ministry of Magic in front of him.
The marble on the ceiling radiated bright light, illuminating the entire hall. Countless noisy voices came in. Many wizards in robes came and went, looking hurried. Many of them were carrying briefcases. A man in a dark green robe When the wizard was walking, he kept talking, and there was a piece of paper and a pen floating beside him, quickly recording what he said.
There are still newspapers and beliefs flying around in an orderly manner in the air. The hall is very spacious. There are nine doors on the light blue wall. Many people are lined up at the door. It seems that there are too many people because they just went to work in the morning. .
Alton led Maureen to a door with fewer queues. In front of him was an old hag wearing a hat decorated with wisteria flowers, showing off with another wizard in a brown dragon leather jacket that she had just returned from the goblin. Bought red dry stone teeth, Maureen noticed that the old witch's two doors were red, like a branding iron being burned red, it looked very eye-catching.
"Yes, it cost me fifty Galleons!" The old hag looked very happy. "But it's worth the price. These are the popular dentures in Ireland recently. I like this kind of teeth."
Mo Lin held back his laughter. The old witch's red teeth were really weird, not as real as the gold teeth inlaid. He saw the wizard's expression was also very weird, obviously he couldn't agree with the old witch's aesthetics.
"Alton, there is no need to line up, this way! Anderson asked me to wait for you here." Turman waved to Alton from a distance.
Alton walked towards Turman. Turman seemed to have been waiting for a long time. He rubbed his hands, with dark circles on his face, and said, "I worked overtime late last night and didn't go home. I slept in the office." Yes, how is your knee?"
"Fortunately, tell me about Douglas first." Alton said.
"The situation is very complicated. We are not sure whether the Loken Lodestone has been stolen. Only Douglas knows how to open the warehouse of the Dark Magic Items Department, because it is managed by him, but he disappeared. It is very strange. You know us They all carry a communication pocket watch with them, so they can be contacted anytime and anywhere, but Douglas keeps the pocket watch at home."
Turman walked towards a door. This door was red, and there was no one in line. Building, Minister's Office", "Second Basement, Department of Magical Law Enforcement", "[-]rd Basement, Department of Magical Accidents and Disasters", "[-]th Floor, Department of Mysteries", etc. The hall they are in belongs to the eighth basement.
Turman took out his wand and poked the button of the "Second Basement", the button immediately lit up, and a voice came from "Auror field staff, Turman Frick, walnut wand, dragon Tendon nerve, twelve inches, identified."
Then the door opened, revealing a corridor. Turman and Alton walked into the corridor quickly, and Maureen quickly followed, and the door was quickly closed behind them.
Maureen has been to the Ministry of Magic many times before. He knows the function of these doors. He used to use the elevator to go to other floors, but some people think that the elevator is always too crowded, sometimes they can't wait, and the efficiency is low. So now they have replaced all the elevators with a kind of magic door, but they need to register their identity to use this kind of portal.
Just find a random door in the hall, poke the wand on the floor you want to go to, the door will turn directly to the floor you want to go to, and at the same time, the wizard wand using the magic door will also be recorded, which is equivalent to certainty The identity of the wizard.
After all, for wizards, wands are their ID cards, which is the same as Muggle ID cards.
"So don't you know what black magic item is missing now?" Alton asked.
"That's it. It's hard for us to imagine that the Loken Magnet guarded by magic will be stolen. I hope Lucas just took another piece, otherwise the safety of the Department of Dangerous Dark Magic Items will be questioned..."
"One Loken lodestone is terrible. Do you still expect a second one?" Alton shook his head. "Now everyone who enters and exits the Might and Magic Gate must be registered. Have you checked the strangers who enter and exit this building?"
(End of this chapter)