This world never revolves around one person, everyone has their own life. While Maka was busy with one thing or another, the Blake old house was also passing by day by day.
Recently, as the days have gradually become duller, the children who stayed here have slowly regained some sense of being alive. Although it was only occasionally, occasionally, the childish and innocent laughter finally sounded here.
But the most noteworthy one is probably Leni, the younger sister among the werewolf sisters.
She is not very old, and she is usually very noisy. At first, when these children about her own age came to the old Black house, she thought she was about to have a large number of companions with whom she could play mischief. But when she discovered that the people who came here were actually a group of lifeless children, she was undoubtedly very depressed.
But after a period of time, something surprising happened to Lupine and the others - Leni somehow pried open the locked hearts of several children. Although the children still didn't speak much when they were with her, they could They were at least willing to run around the house with Leni.
And now, even Lupine, who has been trying to guide the children out of the shadows, has to admit that Leni is really responsible for the fact that these little guys can gradually become more cheerful.
In fact, Leni has become the king of children in Blake's old house now. Except for the little girl named Isla, who only wanted to stay with Helen Schon, the other children all followed Leni all day long, and sometimes even went for a short walk on the street outside. A small circle.
"If this continues, Hogwarts may have a group of special new students next year. When they make more friends in school, they may be able to move on to their own lives like other children."
In the reception room on the first floor, Lupine was reading the newspaper leisurely and talking happily. Opposite him, Sirius, who was sitting on the other side of the long table, also nodded and seemed to be in a good mood.
They finally had nothing to do in the past two days. Since they followed Maka to the magic world of Iran, they would go out for a run every day after coming back to keep abreast of some situations in the UK.
In fact, these two people are the kind of guys who can't take any time off, especially Sirius. It would be more uncomfortable for him to sit around all day than to kill him.
It's the same today. After the children come back from playing with Leni, it's time for them to go out again to find out information.
The seat at the long table closest to the door basically always belonged to Lena.
Because of her low-key and reserved personality, she always maintained a certain distance from everyone even in the old Blake house, which was based on cordiality and harmony. Coupled with her personal preference in cooking, she prepared three meals and tea for everyone when Mrs. Weasley was away.
To be honest, if Sirius, the owner of the mansion, didn't always seem to be indifferent, Lena's existence would be almost the same as that of a servant here. Of course, no one would think so about this.
However, even Lupin and the others wanted to be polite to Lena from time to time, trying to remind Lena that everyone was equal here. But if Lena immediately became more polite than them, it would undoubtedly be putting the cart before the horse.
So, in desperation, the others had no choice but to follow Lena's lead.
For example, in this seat now, Lena will always sit in the corner, or sometimes even stand directly. And when Lupine was having a conversation with Sirius, she would never get involved, let alone interject casually.
When it comes to people who don't know how to get along, Lena will definitely be ranked number one by everyone.
But today, at this moment, when Lupine and Sirius were casually discussing where to go to get information first in the afternoon, Lena's sudden words suddenly shocked the two of them.
Because it was so sudden, they didn't hear much of what Lena said, so they were just surprised.
"What?"
Sirius put his feet down from the chair next to him, and Lupine also subconsciously put down the "Daily Prophet" in his hand. The two of them looked at Lena who suddenly stood up.
"It's Leni... Leni is in danger."
Lena's expression was almost the same as usual, but her brows were slightly frowned. But her hands tightly twisted in front of her body clearly revealed her inner anxiety.
"Where? Can you feel it?" Sirius asked immediately.
"In..." Lena pursed her lips, then suddenly turned around and walked towards the door, "I can't tell the exact location, but Leni wanted to transform just now... Although it probably didn't succeed, I did feel it. Please come with me, I know the direction..."
Logically speaking, Leni would not run far away with those children. And in this community, there are alien Acromantulas wandering around and patrolling, so no matter what you think, nothing should happen.
However, when Lupine and Sirius followed Lena through two blocks in a straight line, they understood. Somehow, Leni actually ran away today.
"The two of us have been out exploring the situation every day for the past two days, but we didn't find that someone had touched the area near the old house. This is really a huge irony."
While hurrying on his way quickly, Sirius said something angrily.
So the answer is obvious. The two senior members of the Order of the Phoenix, who have experienced two Death Eater battles, are completely incomparable to each other in terms of tracking and searching. It is even very possible that those guys who wandered here were simply brought here by them unintentionally.
Since Lena failed to sense the specific location where Leni was trying to transform, the three of them had to correct their direction while running on their legs.
Regardless of the specific strength of the three of them, at least based on their running speed and endurance, Lena, who is an innate werewolf, is obviously much stronger. While Lupine and Sirius were both gasping for breath, Lena was still able to suppress the anxiety in her heart and restrain her speed a little to prevent the two from chasing her.
"This way—"
After passing another alley and running along a somewhat deserted street for a while, Lena suddenly turned around and kicked open the iron door of a large warehouse.
It was once an ingredient storage warehouse for a light industrial factory. Of course, it was completely empty after it was abandoned in the early years. Now when Lena and the other two stepped into the place, they saw that apart from some cold shelves, there were only plastic baskets and transparent packaging bags scattered everywhere.
At this moment, the warehouse door was kicked open by Lena, and the wind from the street outside suddenly rushed into the rather empty warehouse, causing the packaging bags on the ground to fly in all directions.
"There were signs of a fight there—"
Lupine looked deeper and soon found several shelves that had fallen to the ground.
The shelves here are very large, and they obviously needed to stack heavy goods when they were used in the past, so those steel shelves are quite strong and hard. However, the fallen shelves were all deformed, and it was obvious that they had suffered a considerable amount of heavy blows.
The three of them hurried over to check, and then Sirius immediately discovered other clues.
"Look at these two sides," he pointed to the large windows on the left and right sides. "The windows on both sides are broken... Lena, you noticed that the place where Leni tried to transform is indeed right here, right?"
Lena nodded quickly after hearing this.
"Well, she probably rushed into the warehouse through a window on one side and tried to transform while avoiding someone. But the transformation failed, and the enemy followed her in, so she immediately escaped through the window on the other side. Out..." Sirius said, and then looked at the broken glass on the ground, and then continued, "It went out from here, let's continue chasing!"
Sirius's guess was very reasonable, and Lena immediately agreed and ran to the window on the right first. But at this moment, Lu Ping waved his hand quickly.
"You guys chase first, I'll look in the opposite direction -" he said, "Leni is obviously alone, so she must have hidden the children somewhere, and then acted alone to distract the other party. ."
In this case, Lena would definitely prioritize ensuring the safety of her sister, but Lupine must also take responsibility for those children. In fact, half of his judgment can only be said to be speculation, but the possibility of the other half is the development he least wants to see.
"Well, I leave it to you, but you have to be careful yourself!"
While Sirius was speaking, Lena had already jumped out of the broken window. If it weren't for the limitations of the werewolf itself, which made it difficult for even the innate bloodline to transform during the day, she would have left the two of them behind and ran to save others.
But she also knew very well that under the blue sky and white clouds, her fighting power was definitely not as good as the wizard holding a wand to cast spells. To save her sister, she must rely on the power of others.
It is definitely not a trivial matter for the children to be attacked, not to mention that those children were rescued by Maka in the first place. While Lupine was running towards the window on the other side, he was also thinking in his mind that as soon as he found the children, he would have to go back to the Black Mansion to send a message to Hogwarts.
Suddenly, a roar caused Lupine, who had just jumped out of the window, to turn his head subconsciously. He thought about it, and then he couldn't help but feel a little reassured. Judging from the distance, Lena and Sirius shouldn't have run that far yet, so maybe it was the noise caused by Leni.
At least, it seems that we can first identify a person who is still alive - even if that person may be like him, a kind of alien who looks like a normal person on the surface, but in fact cannot be called a "human".
Putting aside the complicated emotions in his mind, Lu Ping sped up his running speed while observing his surroundings carefully.