"Tuk-tuk... click."
Two knocks came from the door of the living room. Not long after, the door was gently opened by a servant waiting outside, and the old housekeeper walked in from the outside.
"The head of the family, Mr. McLean, the latest report document has been sent over. Do you want to see it now?"
Blois and Maca, who had just finished discussing the previous topic and were deep in thought, turned their heads and looked at the information in the old housekeeper's hand. The next moment, Mr. Blois glanced at Maka again, and the latter nodded.
"Bring it here!"
Waiting for the old butler to quickly come to the sofa and put the documents he had sorted out on the coffee table in front of the two of them, Mr. Blois immediately picked up the summary on the top and started reading from the beginning. .
On the other side, Maka was immediately attracted by a small stack of magic photos.
"Mr. Blois, have you sent people into the foggy area to investigate?"
The reason why Maka asked this was because after looking through it for a while, he discovered that at least half of these photos were covered with a layer of gray fog. Due to the low visibility, the photo content is basically close-up objects, and the information that can be presented is quite limited.
When Maka asked, Mr. Blois nodded while reading the information.
"Three five-person teams have been dispatched, each heading in from different edge locations of the fog area, but currently they are only limited to exploring the periphery..." As he said this, he suddenly shook the summary document in his hand. , "Moreover, these three teams have completed their missions safely and returned to their temporary base... Of course, it can be said that they basically found nothing."
Maka took over the information that Blois had read and quickly scanned it, then shrugged and said:
"It's pretty good - obviously, 'getting nothing' is a big gain."
According to the description in the report, some towns outside the foggy area are basically empty, and a large number of Muggle residents are missing. In addition, various minor signs of damage were found at the scene. In fact, it is not difficult to guess that the missing Muggles smashed the doors, windows, and guardrails and left "by themselves".
"Um."
Mr. Blois responded with approval, and then picked up the stack of photos and looked through them one by one. But soon, I saw him frowning at a dozen consecutive photos of the street.
"How is this going?"
As you can see, those photos show brick roads stained with pools of blood. There were a lot of blood stains, not only of different shapes, but also overlapping with each other in some places. The most bizarre thing was that most of them appeared very regularly on the sidewalks next to the road.
When Maka heard Mr. Blois chuckle, she couldn't help but glance up, and then said casually:
"It was probably thrown out when they fell from the building - the fog was too heavy, and none of the three teams had gone to the nearby buildings to look, so they didn't think of it for the moment! If we go to the upper floors on the roadside and look, it should be possible I found a lot of windows smashed in and things like that.”
This would happen if those Muggle residents had turned into early zombies. Because the living zombies that have not yet grown up have almost no intelligence. If they suddenly receive Haierbo's summoning command, the living zombies upstairs are very likely to instinctively choose to break the window and climb out.
After a while, Maka turned over all the information, and then spoke again:
"If you want to send a second group of teams to explore, remember not to go too deep. I think those 'residents'...or 'former residents' have probably gathered in the center of the fog area. And Haierbo, very soon Maybe he’s waiting there!”
After saying this, he briefly spread his hands.
"In short, just walk around the outside first and ensure that the exploration report is sent back on time. I have to make some preparations here, and then I will go there for a 'shopping' as soon as possible."
Before he finished speaking, Maka put the information in her hand back on the coffee table, and then stood up from the sofa.
"Mr. Blois, it's time for me to talk to Hermione and Willie. It can be seen that they have never been at peace in their hearts." He walked towards the door and said softly, "Well... I'll take a look by the way. Let’s see if the atmosphere will become better than before with the addition of Noah.”
But before Maka could reach the door, he heard Blois' words floating behind him.
"Mr. McLean, I'm afraid you kept the fat boy from the Hohenheim family for more than just to adjust the mood of those children, right?"
And after hearing Blois speak, Maka couldn't help but pause.
"But Noah's father asked him to visit Blois Castle, isn't it just to tell us that 'Noah has obtained part of Nico Flamel's inheritance'?"
He did not deny Blois's guess about him, but he also brought some of the deep meaning of Noah's father to send his son over to the surface.
"He asked Noah to come to us because he hoped to use our power to ensure that his 'lucky' son would not be coveted by others, and the reward he gave was obviously the small part of the magic stone that Noah owned. The inheritance content.”
At this point, Maka turned around and shrugged at Blois.
"To be honest, I am not completely sure that Noah will not have any accidents at the moment, but I really need a rough embryo of the magic stone now - you know why! Therefore, I can only let Noah Go and see for yourself that someone is in need of his strength, and then it’s up to him to make his own judgment.”
"'Not completely sure'...?"
Seeing Maka leave from the door after finishing speaking, Blois couldn't help but repeat the words gently, and then shook his head slightly.
There are indeed many people who are greedy for Nicola Flamel's alchemy inheritance, but those are actually nothing. The power of the Blois family alone can warn those greedy people not to act rashly.
Therefore, what Maka is worried about is not such "little things" at all.
It's just that the Blois family is now helping Maka - Blois first brought all the refugees to the French magic world, and then brought Maka and other friends directly to their home. This is obviously his plan. Became an enemy of Haierbo.
It is conceivable that once Herbo recovers from his injury and becomes free, after he has laid a solid foundation in the UK, his next target will inevitably be France.
Not only that, if he wanted to pick a time to raid during this period, Blois Castle would obviously be the best choice.
To put it bluntly, this place is actually not safe at all. Noah may be able to avoid those jealous wizards by coming here, but he is likely to encounter a greater threat than that.
"Go! Continue arranging the team to investigate. I won't consider anything else for the time being. Prepare to start strengthening the castle's defense!"
Mr. Blois thought about it again and again, and finally said this to the old housekeeper.