For Hermione and others who returned to the Burrow stronghold, it is probably an impossible task to find a Ron Weasley who does not actually exist within the expected range; For Ron, who transported the ice coffin containing his best friend and mentor to Hermione and others, it seemed quite difficult to travel a long distance and end the trip as quickly as possible in a short period of time.
Therefore, it is destined that the two sides will not meet again soon.
Hermione and the rest of the search and rescue team, which originally consisted of four people and then added Sarah, became a five-person search and rescue team. They searched inside and outside the half-ruined stronghold for a long time. Sarah even made some relatively crude tools for this purpose on the spot. The alchemy doll was rummaging around. In the end, Ron was definitely not found, but rather unexpectedly, he found two lucky people in a half-collapsed tent who were seriously injured and could not escape. They were already dying but at least not dead.
Safina, who was already good at healing spells, tightened her face, which seemed to have become more and more accustomed to coldness recently, and took action to save the lives of the two people.
When half a day of non-stop searching passed quietly, Hermione and the others, who had not slept, and the previous strenuous fighting and retreat, actually felt quite exhausted.
However, what made Hermione finally decide to give up the search temporarily was not the physical and mental fatigue that even potions could not alleviate, but the same warning that Delphi and Sarah issued to her in a short period of time - There are powerful magic waves coming faintly from the north!
"...It's a devil!"
Although it is obviously still far away, even Delphi and Sarah, the real source of magic power, have not yet sensed it. But precisely because of the abnormal fluctuations of the magic power, after being sensed by them, the target has not officially entered their sensing range yet... Apart from demons, is there any other possibility
"Agree," Sarah agreed after Delphi made a decisive conclusion, "and there may be more than one... Miss Granger, it's time for us to return."
To be honest, Hermione actually didn't want to give up just yet. After all, when she thought about Ron's self-healing ability obtained from the ashes of the Phoenix, maybe he was still alive like the two lucky ones before
However, when she knew that there was a demon approaching, even if there was actually only one instead of "more than one" as Sarah judged, their search and rescue team, which only had five people and had not been prepared in advance, was definitely not going to do it. We should continue to stay.
Therefore, considering the overall situation that was not far away in the future, Hermione finally bit her teeth and nodded.
"Return to the beach evacuation point and evacuate the UK." She thought for a while and then said, "However, continue to search along the way on the return trip, and be sure not to miss any companions who may have survived."
"certainly."
Delphi, Sarah and others looked at each other for a few times, and then nodded in agreement.
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Ron's disappearance will of course be quite bad news for many people, but no matter how worried and sad this incident is for those involved, it can only be regarded as an inconspicuous thing in the context of resisting this disaster. It's a trivial matter.
At the moment, the most worrying event is undoubtedly the collapse of the Burrow stronghold and another defeat of the resistance forces who first held on and then retreated.
Just like in Camp Granger now, most of the camp wizards who had just ushered in the large number of retreating teams did not notice the solemnity and dullness in the tent at the central command post of the camp.
"Dad... don't worry too much, Hermione and the others have already gone to find him. Besides, Ron also has the ability to protect himself now. It's not that easy..."
At this moment, in the large tent, Ginny was comforting her father, Arthur Weasley. It's a pity that even she herself is still disturbed by Ron's loss of contact. How can she possibly comfort others
Looking at his daughter who was a little distracted just now, now she put on a forced smile to comfort her heart. As a father, Arthur naturally felt sour in his heart - poor Ginny, poor Ron, and of course Poor Percy.
Arthur nodded gently to prevent his daughter from worrying about his brother Ron while also taking into account his feelings as a father, but he still sighed heavily deep in his heart.
Of course, there must be more than just the four Weasleys, including Bill and Charlie, sitting in this tent right now. Among the people who came back from the other side of the strait, in addition to Ginny who came here to meet her family, there were actually several friends such as Luna, Hannah, and Neville who also came over; and on the other side, people who came with Arthur before Lupine and Kingsley were also at the table.
Everyone is sitting or standing around this conference table, talking softly.
Although, everyone's interest is obviously not very high.
"...Yes, this is the new Marauder's Point map. It was originally scheduled to cover the entire land of Britain... Well, it is still a semi-finished product, or actually it cannot even be considered a semi-finished product. But if this can be completed, it will be useful for preventing surprise attacks. , or starting a counterattack, or even understanding the situation will play a very big role... Forget it, let's wait until Miss Granger and the others come back to talk about this together!"
It can be seen that Lupine on one side is holding the half-finished version of his new Marauder's Map in his hand, explaining it softly to Luna and the others. Luna seemed to be very interested in this stuff. Even though Lupine planned to stop for now, she couldn't help but ask a few more questions about the follow-up production.
But to be honest, so far, the group of people sitting here are only talking about topics that are not very important. It looked like they were still waiting for something.
Are you waiting for Hermione's search and rescue team to come back
No, of course not. According to what Hermione said when she left the evacuation point, it might take several days before they return at the earliest, and they would never return today.
After all, in addition to rescuing Ron, Hermione also had to conduct a lot of searches along the way to give a precious life to more companions who were injured and left behind during the evacuation, but might still be alive.
As for what exactly everyone is waiting for now, or who they are waiting for—
"Ta...ta...ta."
There was a vague sound of footsteps, suddenly approaching outside the tent, and then a figure immediately walked in from outside the door curtain.
"Sirius, you're back!"
Lu Ping's greeting made everyone turn their heads and look over.