This explosion made Maka feel an inexplicable sense of familiarity. Peter Pettigrew had also used this magic many years ago. At that time, he used the spell taught to him by Voldemort to blow up an entire Muggle street, and took the opportunity to escape by cutting off his fingers, and he framed the charges of betraying the Potters on Sirius.
But although this magic is quite powerful, it is actually just a deception, and is usually used for emergency retreat. Only those who have experienced it personally will understand that any wizard who has time to cast a defensive spell can survive the explosion unscathed.
But this time, Maka discovered that the wretched-looking Death Eater failed to escape through the explosion, and instead blew herself up directly.
"So simple?"
Maka stepped forward, stretched out her foot and pulled the body covered in black smoke.
The whole-body binding spell he had cast in advance prevented the other party from moving even a finger, but even so, he would not use the secret method to blow himself up so decisively. Since when did these Death Eaters, who are always full of malice and selfishness, have the spirit of sacrifice
"Maka?" Sirius and Tonks had already caught up, "What's going on?"
"I think you must be familiar with magic that can blow up a street, right?" Maka pointed to the ground, obviously talking to Sirius.
"That magic that Wormtail used?" Sirius reacted immediately.
"A very decisive act of suicide," Maka shrugged. "It seems that the Death Eaters have also learned to die heroically."
Tonks tilted her head with a confused expression, obviously disapproving of his statement. In the impression of most wizards, Death Eaters are the kind of guys who do all kinds of evil for their own benefit. It is really unbelievable that self-sacrifice happens to them.
"Let's go! Go back to the area just now -" Maka no longer hesitated, he made a move, "Although I controlled the explosion range just now, the movement must have spread out, and the Aurors soon Will come here to check. I think this guy was sent out to find out the situation, maybe with the mission of looking for opportunities to cause trouble... Unfortunately, he was unlucky and met us... Those Death Eaters' hideouts should be It’s not too far from there.”
Indeed, those Aurors arrived very quickly. Not long after the three Makas left, they all gathered together like wild cats that smelled the fishy smell. Except for one team that continued to patrol and guard, the other three teams immediately surrounded the explosion site.
"Shacklebolt, a body was found here—"
Three teams surrounded the place, and one of them, a thin Auror, took a look at the pile of sparkling wooden boards and quickly found the dead Death Eater Mulciber.
"I've seen it." It was Kingsley who spoke. Judging from his energetic appearance, it was obvious that he had completely recovered from the initial weak state of poisoning, and his recovery was not ordinary. "We don't need so many here." People, you..."
He was about to dispatch two of the teams to avoid falling into the enemy's plan, but after taking a few more glances, he stopped what he almost blurted out.
"Well... find out his identity and don't miss anything." Kingsley paused, pointed at the body on the ground and ordered.
Needless to say, based on the suspicious explosion marks on the ground, he had already judged some signs. Especially the nearly perfect circular separation, which is clearly black and white inside and outside. God knows what magic spell was used to limit the explosion? At least with his own ability, it might be more than enough to block one direction, but this kind of all-round sealing method is simply unimaginable.
Based on the situation at hand, and recalling that Black's old house had asked about news about this place before, I'm afraid that guy Maka has already come over.
…
"Maka, did you find anything?"
On the other side, the three of them had returned to the location where they met the Death Eater before, but after a careful search, they found nothing suspicious.
It's not that this place isn't suitable for hiding. On the contrary, there are simply too many places to hide here. If I have to talk about a shortcoming, it is that too many people cannot be hidden in any place, but if the Death Eaters spread out and hide, it can be said that they can hide anywhere.
"No signs of wizards hiding, only Muggles." Maka shook her head.
It's not like he hasn't thought about it, maybe the other party will choose to hide in a container with a traceless stretching spell cast on it to avoid detection by others. But that thing is really hard to find, because the function of the Traceless Stretch Curse itself is to steadily expand the space. The fluctuations of magic power it emits are quite inconspicuous, and it is very difficult to sense them.
The Auror office also has alchemy tools for detecting magic fluctuations. Although the inspection range is much smaller than his sensing ability, so many people have searched and searched but still haven't found it, which shows the problem.
"What should we do? Do we want to go to other areas and have a look?" Tonks asked.
"We can't talk about it for a while! I think the possibility is greater here..." Maka thought for a moment and said, "At least the Death Eater just now has made us understand that they should be hiding here. Somewhere in Fuji, instead of already escaping somewhere else.”
"Then keep looking!"
Sirius said, his body shape suddenly changed, and in the blink of an eye he turned into a black dog. In Animagus form, his body's senses will change accordingly, especially the sensitivity of the sense of smell will increase sharply. This is one of the reasons why he was able to repeatedly escape the pursuit of Aurors.
Of course, there are still many gaps compared to real dogs.
After he nodded his head towards Maka, he threw off his limbs and ran out nimbly. I saw his figure flash among the messy shacks, and disappeared after a while.
This Animagus transformation has helped him a lot in the past, and it is also one of his most proud abilities. It is obvious that he has spent a lot of time practicing on it.
"This dog's nose is really nice." Maka smiled at Tonks and joked casually.
In fact, he really envied this practical ability. You know, although his Animagus form can fly flexibly, his sense of smell is... Forget it, hummingbirds have no sense of smell at all!
In the next ten minutes or so, none of them achieved much. Except for Sirius who followed each other's scent for a certain distance, Maka and Tonks just continued walking around for two more laps.
This place is so messy that it’s extremely difficult to find people or things.
But just over ten minutes later, an incident occurred and they no longer had the time to search the surroundings step by step, because Maka sensed several rapidly moving magic sources in an instant. They were far and near, but they were all very conspicuous, as if they had run out on purpose.
There are generally only two ways to break through this situation where there are several Auror teams patrolling and searching with tools. One is to break out of the encirclement as a group, concentrating their strength to forcefully open a breakthrough; and the other is to spread out completely, and when the search team cannot take into account all directions, they can escape as many as they can.
It seemed that the Death Eaters chose the latter.
Sirius moved very quickly. He did not change back to his human form, but ran hard in the form of a big black dog. He stared at one of the Death Eaters and ran away.
But Tonks and Maka hesitated for a moment. One of them was hesitant because of the Auror who also started chasing, fearing that he would be caught by his colleagues accidentally; while the other immediately turned around, thinking With a trace of suspicion, he glanced at the direction where those guys appeared out of thin air.
"You chase Sirius. If he messes around, remember to stop him." Maka hurriedly warned, "If necessary, use the Immortal Hidden Potion immediately without hesitation."
"OK."
Tonks also knew that Sirius had a bad temper. A wizard who usually seems to be quite shrewd is prone to be reckless when his passion is overwhelming. Sometimes this can be an advantage, but more often it will bring trouble to himself.
After Maka told Tonks, she took off and ran away in a certain direction. It was similar to what he had guessed at first. Although it was not very close to here, it was actually not that far away. If that incident hadn't happened just now and they had expanded the search area, they would have found the right place soon.
Not long after, he saw a shack with a closed door. It can be seen that there are no traces left here, but the more this happens, the more sure Maka becomes of her guess.
Because now only he knows that those guys did suddenly appear from one place, and they were within the range of his magic induction. If it had been anyone else, he might have been deceived by the false breakout they created.
Yes, Sirius and the two teams of Aurors just now are the best proof.
"In the end, it was Kingsley who led the team and knew that two teams should be left behind to stay in place."
Maka glanced in the direction of the previous explosion, then waved her hand and opened the old wooden door of the shed, and immediately a musty smell rushed out from the dark shed.
He stretched out his hand to fan his nose and walked in with a frown.
It was dark inside the shack, with only the holes in the old wooden walls letting in some light. Maka squinted her eyes to adjust to the darkness, and then used the few rays of light to look at the interior of the shack.
He could sense that there seemed to be a person hiding inside, in the shadow in the corner of the shed. There, there was a curtain made of disassembled cardboard boxes, and the other party was hiding behind the paper curtain.