"It's unbelievable... Look behind us! The crowd outside the school gate is like the auditorium at the Quidditch World Cup, but once we get inside, we can't even see half a living corpse? This... is Who knocked over this sardine can that was supposed to be filled with fish? Why is the 'fish' all outside the 'can'?"
After a lot of hard work, everyone finally crossed the front bridge that was repaired with ghoul net vines, and broke through the enemy blockade in one go, rushing straight to the long-lost campus.
Nowadays, Ron's speed is really extraordinary. After Maka and Harry, who were the first to step into the vestibule due to their sheer strength, he was the third one to jump through the door.
And after taking a closer look to see clearly the situation inside the door, he couldn't help but be the first to speak in surprise and exclamation. Naturally, he was also the same.
"What kind of fish? It's canned. Stop talking nonsense!"
Harry pulled Ron and dragged him behind the bushes at the base of the wall where he and Maka were hiding together. Maka on the side was doing the same thing to other people who came in afterward.
The front yard of Hogwarts is really too empty, especially near the school gate. Apart from lawns, there is almost no cover available. That is, squatting behind the trees in front of the fence wall, it barely looks so dazzling from a distance.
After a moment of free time, Harry couldn't help but turn his head. The densely packed living corpses outside the iron fence were still right in front of him. To be honest, it's no wonder Ron couldn't help sighing just now.
"Is there any force preventing them from entering the school?" He stared at the horrific scene outside the fence and whispered to himself.
Not far away, Maka's attention was obviously no longer outside the campus.
From here, you can actually see the entire front of Hogwarts Castle very clearly. It can be seen that the current campus as a whole is showing a very strange atmosphere.
First of all, as mentioned before, when looking from a distance outside, you can see that the castle is almost "immersed" in a kind of black smoke. It still looks like this from a close distance.
It's just that the tall main gate of the castle that can't be seen in the distance is still wide open for some reason. The door seemed to be filled with black fog. Just like the open windows on the castle, thick black smoke flowed out, and went down the steps in front of the door, until it connected to the brick road and grass in front. They were all covered with slightly undulating black air.
However, the strange thing is that after leaving the castle itself for about twenty feet, the black smoke that covered the nearby lawn like a carpet seemed to have hit an invisible wall, and was all restrained around the castle. Within a certain range, it could not continue to spread outwards.
This also makes the entire vestibule generally "clean". Inside and outside the clear boundary, it seems that there are two completely different worlds.
But what surprised Maka the most was actually not this. What he is most curious about is the current state of the various trees and vegetation in the front yard.
It must be said that apart from the terrifying appearance of the castle, the ecological environment in most areas of the entire campus is actually amazingly good, even so good that it makes people feel a little weird -
The lawn in the front yard is fresh and green, and the woods in the direction of the Forbidden Forest are still lush. The vegetable field in the backyard of Hagrid's hunting cabin is full of seasonal vegetables and fruits, and the row of greenhouses further away It seemed to be equally full of life.
Even the Whomping Willow, the cocoons that originally covered its body have long since disappeared. A large number of new buds were pulled out from the note, and it swayed its waist gently in the wind, and the whole tree was filled with a sense of warmth. Vitality and comfort.
Compared with the scenes of desolate disasters that everyone saw along the way, the scene here is in stark contrast, making people feel that it is fresher and more beautiful than the Hogwarts of the past!
"I saw grass that was not withered yellow again! But I never expected that the place where you can see fresh green in the entire disaster area would be here - I thought it would be the least likely place to see this scene. Place!" Neville, who was squatting not far from Maka, was obviously surprised by the vitality here and couldn't help but say this at this time.
On the other side of Maka, Willie, who always liked plants the most, was already lowering his head and turning over the bushes and grass blades at his feet at some point. She seemed to be very curious as to what allowed the vegetation here to grow so healthily in a heavily polluted magical environment...
"I have a proposal."
Just when everyone was shocked by the various scenes in the school, Maka's voice suddenly sounded, breaking the silence here.
It was probably at this time that everyone, including Maka, realized with some hindsight that there was something very wrong within the campus:
It’s so quiet here!
In this campus, there is such a vibrant scene, but not even the slightest sound of insects or birds can be heard.
Even the fact that the core area that was supposed to be a dead place is now bustling with life is strange enough. But in the school's front yard, which is lush with vegetation and full of life, there isn't even a single bird, animal or insect, which makes people feel even more weird and abnormal.
Just coming all the way here, except for the sounds of fighting with countless enemies, there was indeed no other movement in this disaster place. It was probably because she was already used to the dead silence environment that even Maka was not able to notice it in the first place.
"There is life everywhere, but there is a hint of death everywhere..." Maka, who briefly interrupted the previous topic, murmured, and then continued, "Anyway, I have a suggestion, which is to let I... um, just me and Harry! Let's go to the castle to have a closer look at the situation."
He might have just wanted to explore alone at first, but after considering what most people thought, he still took Harry with him.
After saying this, Maka turned to look at Sarah next to her, stretched out her hand to her and said:
"Give it to me! You wait here and prepare to contact the Hogsmeade village resident according to the situation. If you can't be contacted here, let Miss Geofine escort you out and try until Hermione and Luna are successfully notified. "
"good."
Sarah obediently handed over the broken doll that she had been holding in her hand, and nodded gently. Although Safina on the side did not speak, judging from her posture, it was obvious that she had acquiesced in Maka's assignment to her.
And in the end, it was Harry who, after thinking for a while, slightly raised the sword in his hand, and silently agreed to the proposed action of this expedition.