Seeing too much of the devastated scenery will make you numb. But even if you are used to seeing such cruel scenes, as a child who has grown up in this land, you will still feel heartbroken.
Looking at the buildings destroyed by the zombie tide on both sides of the road, everyone's expressions looked very dull.
"Hermione, why don't we take a boat? The route eastward along the coast has been explored before, and it is unimpeded all the way to Southampton Bay."
Seeing that Hermione still seemed to be planning to travel by land, Harry couldn't help but ask casually.
"No," Hermione heard this and immediately shook her head, "Before, I only considered taking the water route because I wanted to be alone... and you would only be able to take two people with me at most. But if I have enough combat power, I would still I hope we can take this opportunity to travel eastward to observe more and gain some information about the distribution of living corpses."
As she spoke, she looked left and right, carefully paying attention to her surroundings through the fog.
It can be found that the number of living corpses has been greatly reduced due to the clearing and sweeping of the Black Flames not long ago. On the way to Weymouth, which was still close, they could walk very fast without even using a broomstick. It was really only occasionally that they encountered some remaining living corpses wandering around.
This reminded Harry of the sparsely populated and desolate ruins when he first came to investigate.
However, the further east they traveled, the more they gradually felt that the living corpses were reoccupying the area. Just a sweeping sweep cannot completely wipe out the overwhelming number of ordinary living corpses... What's more, they can still be revived and "reborn" in a certain sense in the fog.
"It's starting to increase again." Neville said, holding his wand tightly and looking ahead.
Fortunately, if they are just ordinary living corpses that have not yet evolved, there is no need to worry too much based on the strength of their group.
"Let's get on the broom!"
Hermione looked at the groups of living corpses that were pouring out of the alleys on the side of the street, and then asked everyone to get on the broomsticks they had prepared. As soon as they kicked off the ground, they immediately jumped into the air, heading straight to the other end of the street. Rush away.
However, they did not fly too high, because Harry and the others knew very well that there were also a large number of flying zombies in the high sky obscured by fog - those were all evolved individuals, and they were definitely better than those on the ground. Ordinary living corpses are much more difficult to deal with.
I remember that when they went to Winchester last time, if Mr. Blois hadn't summoned the flame dragon to attract the attention of most of the flying zombies, Ron would probably have been injured in the end.
But it turned out that even if Hermione and others were limited to collecting intelligence and rushing on their way this time, they had no intention of asking for trouble, but trouble would come to them on their own.
After more than half an hour's flight, they had already left behind several small and large towns along the way. But at the same time, the density of the living corpses below was obviously getting higher and higher.
Soon, the group of them finally had to face the first difficulty of the trip—the special individuals among the living corpses that had evolved to release magic.
Seeing that one or two magic beams would occasionally be thrown from below, everyone began to use their Quidditch flying skills and dodge left and right.
"Hermione, going forward there will be more advanced zombies with long-range attack methods, and they are not limited to this kind of talent spell. Last time we met some guys who can project bone spurs. In the thick fog, It’s difficult to detect in advance under cover, so everyone be careful!”
Harry holds a sword in one hand and a wand in the other. He can control the flying direction of the broom with just his two legs and body weight, and accurately avoid the magic beam coming from below. With just this move, his talent in flying technology was fully revealed.
"Oh, I see."
Hermione nodded, and as she spoke, she moved the broomstick from left to right, skillfully dodging two successive attacks in an "S"-shaped arc. The intense training she and Luna did back then was not the same as before. What a waste of time.
But at this moment, Luna, who was flying not far from her, turned her head and looked in a certain direction with Harry. The two of them seemed to notice something at the same time.
"There's a guy who feels different approaching!" Harry reminded subconsciously.
"It's a sneaky enemy!" Luna then added.
"sneaking?"
Hermione was startled for a moment, and the next moment she quickly took out a rune card, and at the same time stared in the direction the two of them were looking at.
Perhaps in order to avoid being distracted, she simply stopped dodging the attacks thrown up from below, and directly put an iron armor spell on herself to prepare to resist the scattered attacks.
only…
"It's moving," Luna suddenly said again, "It's moving so fast... Neville, be careful!"
Before he finished speaking, only a few people, including Hermione, caught a glimpse of a gray shadow flashing through the fog, and then Neville felt his heart beat suddenly. When he heard Luna remind him, he immediately turned over decisively and slid off the broom, falling straight down.
And at the next moment, everyone only heard a soft "swish" sound, and the broom dropped by Neville split into two parts in an instant, with a frighteningly neat section.
"Call the gods to protect you!"
Neville, who was falling, summoned his lion patronus in time and carried him back to the team. However, he couldn't help but feel a layer of cold sweat break out on his back as he looked at the two sections of the broom that fell to the ground.
"Neville, are you hurt?" Hermione asked. Seeing that he seemed fine, she frowned and said, "Did you see clearly? What was that that attacked you just now?"
"I didn't see it clearly," Neville answered, his eyes constantly looking around, obviously a little scared, "Hannah, go to the middle, don't get close to the periphery of the team - if the target of that guy's attack is you, I don’t have the confidence to help you stop it.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Luna reminded him again:
"Everybody be careful, it's still around."
Because there was thick fog all around them, they soon understood that they could not find the location of the unknown attacker with their eyes alone. In this way, Luna's reminder, which had just been confirmed once, immediately became a hope for everyone to escape in advance.
So after that, everyone became quiet. Only the magic attacks from time to time are still disturbing everyone's attention.
"Should we try to speed up? Maybe we can get rid of it?" Harry thought for a while and suddenly suggested.