"McLean?" Haierbo stood on the top of the tower and gently pressed Harry's shoulder. "I find that it seems necessary for me to ask you a question first-"
As he spoke, he raised his free arm and waved his hand towards the Spiral Town below to make a slight gesture.
"Where have all the people in this town gone?"
It's not surprising that Haierbo would have such questions, because even though he doesn't seem to be very interested in Spiral Town, he is actually "listening" to the various actions and changes in the town all the time.
Therefore, when he personally entered Spiral Town and found that the facts were completely different from what he knew, he would naturally be surprised and surprised.
As for the specific means through which Haierbo paid attention to the situation in Spiral Town, and where the gap between reality and the situation he learned came from, it must be learned from the information received by Hermione and Ron in the temporary residence not long ago. Maka's note came up.
Although, Maka's preparation for this was obviously much earlier than that.
…
"Ron, what does it say?"
Just as the dust in the temporary residence suddenly turned into a human form and handed a piece of tissue paper to the two of them, Hermione on the stretcher couldn't help but stand up and asked.
"Well," Ron stared at the first sentence on the paper for a while, and then said in shock, "Maka said that the two survivors in the observation room were actually dead long ago, but they were still alive. I just didn’t realize that I was already dead... Is there such a thing in this world?"
However, facing this shocking fact told by Ron, Hermione just raised her eyebrows, and even showed a little surprise on her face.
"Ron," she paused for a moment, then urged, "What else? There should be other more important content written on it, right?"
"Ah! Yes!"
Ron was just stunned by the message. After Hermione's reminder, he continued reading. Not long after, the surprise on his expression gradually turned into worry.
"Maka said that they were actually 'living corpses', and... it was most likely that Haierbo deliberately let them be discovered by the patrol team. Although they didn't know it themselves, the fact that they came to Spiral Town itself , just to serve as Haierbo’s ‘ears’.”
Hearing this, Hermione nodded and said softly:
"I see, that's why their symptoms are completely different from those of the old Death Eater in Faversham..."
While whispering to herself, she was also secretly thinking about Maka's complete intention of concealing these situations. After a moment, she continued:
"...Yes, that's right! It seems that Maka deliberately locked them in the observation room and asked us to stay there as much as possible! He did this to allow us who were unaware to behave in the most natural way The method revealed the battle situation and actions to Haierbo, and only handed it over to Delphi at the end... Ron, what else? There should be content below!"
Ron, who was listening to Hermione's step-by-step analysis, saw her asking, then put his eyes on the paper again, and read out the most critical paragraph of the first three paragraphs:
"After reading this note, you must immediately inform Lu Ping and lead all the evacuees in the town to gather in the central square. At that time, the secret passage will be opened and the whole town will be evacuated urgently-"
After reading the above text, Ron couldn't help but said blankly:
"Evacuate? Now?"
When the two arrived at this temporary residence, fog had enveloped the entire Canterbury, and the army of living corpses was already on its way. Starting to retreat at this most urgent time will naturally make people worry about whether it will be too late.
However, if you want to evacuate all the refugees in the entire town without being noticed by Haierbo's "ear", you may have to choose to take action at this most dangerous time.
However, regarding this plan to evacuate the entire town before the enemy attacks, Hermione still has one last doubt in her heart - why did Maka go to such trouble to make these arrangements
Is it just to send everyone away from Haierbo's nose in the most reliable way? No, if that was the case, why did everyone come here to take refuge in the first place
"Hermione?"
Seeing that she seemed to have lost her mind alone on the stretcher, Ron waited for a short while and finally couldn't help but ask:
"Maka asked us to go find Lupine after reading the note...should we go?"
"Um?"
Hearing this, Hermione came back from her thoughts, and then Ron saw her immediately wave her hand toward the door behind her.
"Sorry, I was a little distracted... Let's go! We'll be there right away!"
Maka's plan was obviously careful and complete - he separated each change, and only let different executors know part of the action each time.
For example, Delphi naturally did not know the content of this note from Hermione and Ron, but she was told by Maka to call the two of them to the temporary residence at a specific time;
For another example, when he and Lupine changed the plan earlier, he mentioned that Spiral Town should be prepared to retreat at any time as early as possible;
For another example, only Delphi and Luna, who is in the mercury statue and knows the details of the whole town, know the entrance to the secret passage.
And when all the parts of the entire plan are gradually connected like this, a complete action plan can be pieced together, lest any link in it is exposed and all his plans will be scrapped.
When Ron took Hermione to the new Ministry of Magic Hall to notify Lupine, the retreat became quite rapid due to Maka's prior reminder. With the assistance of Luna in the mercury statue, all the evacuees left the eastern coastal area through the large secret evacuation passage hidden under the central square.
This retreat was undoubtedly extremely thorough, including Kingsley and other combatants, as well as some key defensive personnel in this plan such as Hermione and Neville.
It can be said that Maka planned to leave most of the protective measures alone and leave them alone.
However, there will naturally still be people who need to stay in the end. In addition to Maka himself, there are also Harry who has been with him since he fought against the zombie army, Luna who needs to maintain two layers of magic shield... and Maka, who has been explicitly asked to do it in the last period of time. Delphi stayed in the observation room to confuse Haierbo.
This time, Delphi, who had not been able to go to the front line to help eliminate the living corpses when necessary, finally fulfilled Maka's instructions seriously. Although... even Maka doesn't know the reason why she stayed in the town before and never took action.