The street was very quiet. Except for the group of refugees who came out of St. Mungo's, there was no one in the formerly noisy streets.
Yes, even the constant fighting these past few days no longer happens. If it weren't for the mottled bloodstains on the street and the collapsed and damaged buildings beside the road, which are always reminders of what happened not long ago, everyone would almost think that the danger in the past few days was just a terrible dream.
However, the reality is cruel. Walking along the street, everyone can't help but feel frightened by the scenes of chaos around them.
Hermione, Luna and others followed the long queue and moved forward without saying a word.
This time, according to what Maka sent Delphi to say, the dean and President Akinbad of the Federation gathered everyone in St. Mungo's and divided into two groups to head towards the suburbs of London.
Right now, Hermione and the others were following the first group of people led by Mr. Dean and Delphi.
By now, their first team was far away from St. Mungo's - since they did not encounter any obstacles in the streets, they traveled surprisingly fast along the way.
"…Ginny, are you okay?"
As Hermione was walking, she suddenly noticed that Ginny who was following her had a very bad expression on her face. She hurriedly stepped forward and asked worriedly.
"Well?"
Hearing this, Ginny responded absently at first, then seemed to realize that Hermione was asking her, and shook her head again this time.
"I'm fine, I'm just... you know, just worried about Harry."
"Harry must be fine," Hermione said. "Look... although there are terrible marks everywhere on the street, the battle is obviously over. Although we don't know what will happen next, at least for now It’s still very safe.”
"Oh, I know... I just can't help but feel worried."
The two of them were talking casually when they suddenly heard an exclamation of "ah" coming from behind the corner in front of them, causing them to stop talking.
The next moment, the two of them saw shouts and screams coming from the other side of the corner.
"what happens?"
Hermione and Ginny both put aside the content of their previous conversation and walked forward quickly, following Luna who was also curious.
Obviously, there must be some problem ahead, causing the entire team to temporarily stop.
Before the three of them reached the corner, they were about to turn around to see what was blocking their progress.
"etc."
As expected, when Delphi, who was standing there to prevent others from passing by, saw them coming, she immediately stretched out her hand and said:
"Wait here for a moment. There is something blocking the way over there. Mr. Dean is leading people to clean it up."
"Uh... we can help too!"
Seeing Hermione say this, Delphi couldn't help but hesitate for a moment, and then waved her hand.
"No need to go," she said, "it will be cleaned up in a while."
"Oh alright!"
Seeing this, Hermione could only nod her head, but she still couldn't help taking a step forward, turning around and glancing at the other side of the corner.
Delphi naturally saw Hermione's little move, but she still didn't say anything more. Because she saw that Hermione must have seen something in that glance, her expression became even worse than Ginny's just now.
"That-"
Hermione's mouth was half-opened, her face full of doubts and panic, and it took a while for her to finally calm down.
"Hermione, what did you see?"
Seeing Hermione's appearance, Ginny wanted to poke her head in to take a look, but this time she was pulled by Hermione's arm, who had already seen it.
"Ginny, there's no need to look - we'll just go back and wait."
Ginny was obviously a little puzzled by this. Just now, Hermione wanted to know the situation as much as she did, but it didn't take long for her to stop her from seeing it.
"Hermione?"
"Don't ask yet." Hermione's expression looked very complicated, "Let's go back to the front of the team! There is some lack of defense there, so we'd better not leave for too long - Luna, come here quickly!"
She didn't say much at first because she was still far from calming down.
But what exactly did Hermione say just now, and what exactly did she see... In fact, what she saw was a scarlet glow in that neighborhood!
From what I could see just now, although it was still an ordinary street, there should have been at least a medium-sized battle there before.
And the battle looks set to be thrilling.
There was blood and mutilated limbs everywhere, nearly half of the houses along the street had collapsed, and the road was full of potholes and terrible marks.
Although the battle was over long ago, you could smell the pungent smell of blood just by getting closer.
Probably because the team behind were ordinary refugees, and in order to prevent them from seeing it and causing panic, the dean led a group of therapists to personally clean up that section of the street.
The distance from that street to the outskirts of the city was relatively short, and they didn't want to take another detour.
"Hermione, what did you see just now? Why-"
"Ginny, stop asking."
On the way to the end of the line, Ginny couldn't help but ask again, but Hermione still just shook her head - she still felt a little sick after reading it, but she didn't want Ginny to feel uncomfortable too.
As for Luna beside them, she didn't ask any more questions.
The dean and the others cleared the battlefield very quickly. In a short time, they had basically finished cleaning up there. Although the terrible scene before has not been completely cleaned up, it at least seems to be acceptable to ordinary people.
A few minutes later, Hermione and others who were following behind continued to follow the team and soon stepped into the street that was still covered in blood.
While walking forward, Hermione couldn't help but move her nose and sniff carefully - she could smell it. Although the dean and the others had cleaned it up, the thick smell of blood could still be faintly smelled to this day. See.
It wasn't until they passed that section of the block that everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"Eh?"
Suddenly, Luna who was walking next to her suddenly raised her head and looked towards the fog in the sky. Her eyes looked extremely bright, as if she could see through the gray fog.
"what is that… "
"What?"
Upon hearing this, Hermione immediately raised her head and looked over there, and then she saw that something behind the fog in the sky seemed to be heading towards the suburbs.
When the thing got closer, she seemed to have seen some clues and said clearly:
"That's a carriage, and it should be pulled by the Thestral... Hmm? The emblem of the Ministry of Magic?"
Hermione could tell that it was the Thestral carriage of the Ministry of Magic, which was generally used to pick up and drop off some guests of the Ministry of Magic with special status.