"... It still doesn't work! Sure enough, the magic node at that time can no longer be found?"
Slowly flying out from the cave that led to somewhere underground, Maka frowned and thought about it for a moment, and finally shook her head helplessly.
It was certainly not without reason that he wanted to return to that black and white space. Because no matter how you think about it, there must be a very important clue hidden there.
However, once he got out of trouble, he could never find his way back.
"Ahem... How about we look elsewhere?" Probably seeing that Maka was a little bored, the windbreaker wizard who followed him asked hesitantly.
When Maka heard this, she quickly waved her hand.
"No," he said, "If it could be found by perception, I should have found its existence when I first tried half a month ago. I still can't find it now, which means it is purely a method of searching. Wrong…”
In order to get out of trouble, he used spiders to build a huge magic web. After that, he tried to find it again in the same way.
But obviously, even though he had included the location below the ground within the range of induction exploration that time, he still failed to gain anything.
The magic node must exist, otherwise Haierbo himself would not be able to enter. But this time, he must have completely covered up the node.
Even for Maka, it is no longer very difficult to find it.
"Let's go! Forget it for today, let me think about it carefully before talking about it!"
In fact, it was already afternoon.
Since early this morning, Maka had taken her to the Ministry of Magic. After chatting with Scrimgeour about the current situation of the British wizarding world, he went to the Black Mansion to pick up a thick piece of information.
Those documents are all information about the Muggle world and the British wizarding world. They were compiled by Mundungus and his other intelligence dealers.
Subsequently, from the time she left her old house in the morning until she came here to investigate the magic node, Maka had been running around the UK based on some special information in the data.
From the coast to the inland, from the city to the countryside, we even visited some Muggle farms in the wilderness a few times.
That is to say, the UK is not a big place, and Maka is just for a walk, otherwise I would not be able to finish even half of it in half a day.
It can be seen that Maka did this just to personally examine the general situation in the entire UK, including the magical world and the Muggle world, and did not let go of either side.
However, knowing that Haierbo would never give up, there is still no gain today - this is probably what the so-called waste of time refers to, right
Seeing Maka wave her hand lightly and continue walking forward, the windbreaker wizard couldn't help but ask:
"Where are you going next? Yes... ahem, are you going to continue patrolling?"
"Huh?" Maka stopped, then shook her head and said, "Oh no, that's the end of today's 'hanging out' - it must be boring to follow me around, right? Don't follow me tomorrow, and Wouldn’t it be nice for Luna and the others to go to class together?”
"No, it's not boring at all," the windbreaker wizard said immediately, "Really... If there's no problem, let me follow you tomorrow!"
"Yeah?"
"Yes!"
Although he knew that Maka would definitely feel puzzled by her insistence on following her, this was not something that could be explained. So, she just nodded.
"Does that mean it's time to go back to Hogwarts today?"
"Yes, that's right." Maka said, "I thought it would take more time, but actually walking around was faster than expected..."
As he was speaking, he immediately shrugged and said:
"Of course, before we go back, let's settle the lunch issue first! I'm sorry to say it, but it's already afternoon... Are you already hungry?"
"No, it's okay. It's good to have something to eat every day..."
As soon as these words came out of her mouth, the windbreaker wizard felt a little regretful - logically speaking, she should have paid more attention to her mouth.
But as for some of the information hidden in the windbreaker wizard's casual words, Maka just pretended that she didn't notice it at all. I saw him walking forward lazily as before, without even turning his head.
The windbreaker wizard took two quick steps, followed Maka again, and returned to the nearby Muggle town.
"There is a tavern here opened by wizards, just in a corner of this Muggle street," Maka said while walking on the street, "The owner of that tavern is also a Hogwarts graduate. Last time Sirius and I mentioned—"
The streets of this Muggle town were sparsely populated with not many pedestrians. After the two of them walked forward for a while, Maka saw a slightly sunken brown storefront.
The wooden grille windows, old shop doors, and the strange signboard nailed up with old wooden boards make people want to go in and find out.
"...The Hanged Man Tavern?"
"Well," Maka said casually, "a card in a Muggle card game. Muggles use them for divination. Of course, whether it is accurate or not depends on luck... "
After saying that, he stretched out his hand and opened the door with a creak and walked in gently.
"jingle."
"Welcome, two guests."
As soon as she entered the door, Maka heard an old man's voice next to her. He turned around and saw a portrait hanging on the wall by the door.
"Oh, hello..." He looked at the nameplate below, and then continued, "Mrs. Grayman."
"Hello, young guest." The old woman in the portrait squinted her eyes and said, "Please take a seat, Ted will bring his menu - of course, you can also order from me, I will Go tell Ted over there in the kitchen."
"No need to trouble you," Maka said with a smile, "We are not in a hurry, just wait!"
With that said, he turned around and walked inside.
As you can see, this is an old tavern with simple decoration.
Many places are decorated with inlaid wood, but those decorations that were supposed to be exquisite have now been changed due to years of wiping, and they no longer look like they did at first.
Probably because it was not lunch time, there were only two or three guests in the tavern, and most of them were drinking alone in boredom.
Not long after the two sat down at the mottled table, a man in his thirties at most walked out of the small tavern.
"Sorry, I actually heard it just now, but I still have some work on hand, so I wiped my hands first... I didn't keep you two waiting for a long time, right?"
"It's okay!" Maka waved her hand and then said to the other side, "Come on, have some! You can decide what you want to eat."
After asking the boss to give the menu to the windbreaker wizard, Maka said to the boss:
"Sirius Black told me about you here. He said that if I want to know about the news around here, I can ask you?"
When the windbreaker wizard sitting on the other side heard this, he couldn't help but secretly said "Sure enough" - there was a reason why Maka would choose this place.
Because the node we came out of before is located near this town, it is undoubtedly a natural thing to come here to inquire about information.
However, even Maka, who can sense magic, cannot find the magic node. Can such a tavern owner know it
"Oh, Sirius?" The boss named Ted smiled cheerfully and said, "No problem - just ask whatever you want! If it's something I've heard of, of course I can tell you!"
"No, on the contrary, I want to hear what you know." Maka said, "Anything is fine. If something strange happened around here, you can tell me..."
"Something strange?" The boss tilted his head and said, "It's such an ordinary Muggle town all day long, what can be so strange..."
After thinking about it carefully, he said again:
"If I really want to talk about it, it must be the terrible disaster not long ago... Although it happened in downtown London, it can be seen from here. At that time, I almost packed up my clothes and ran away!"
Although this town also belongs to London, it is already considered a "suburb of the suburbs". The disaster that originated in London never affected this place from beginning to end.
But listening to what the boss said, you can understand that for ordinary wizards and civilians, it is definitely a very terrible disaster.
"Yeah, yes!" Maka nodded, "It was during that time, were there any special situations here - for example, were there any magic spells such as Muggle expulsion spells in some places around the town? ?”
"Expelling the Muggle curse?" The boss followed his words and thought about it for a while, but finally shook his head and said, "As you can see, there are originally few residents in this place - fewer Muggles and even fewer wizards. Compared to In terms of terms, the area around the town is quite big... "
Although the other party didn't finish speaking, Maka could understand the meaning.
However, originally he just wanted to try his luck.
Although he felt that as long as Herbo had done something here, in order to ensure nothing went wrong, he would inevitably prevent Muggles, who are almost everywhere in this era, from approaching. But just trying to find some clues with just this idea is like getting lucky.
After inquiring to no avail, seeing that the windbreaker wizard had already ordered today's belated lunch, Maka put these incidental matters aside for the time being.
"Boss, I'm fine here!" he said. "I heard that the boss is also a Hufflepuff. I'm looking forward to your cooking skills!"
"Of course! This is my ability to eat. Please wait a moment, guests. I'll be there in a moment..."
"ah!"
Suddenly, the boss's eyes lit up as if he remembered something.