Chapter 117 [Predict the enemy's plane first (blue)] [Celebrities (green)]
"Daily Prophet", the largest-selling newspaper in the British magic world, has a large photo on the front page that takes up half of the page, the kind that moves.
On the left is the burly and terrifying bear goblin, behind him there are several goblins showing their faces, and there are two fallen murlocs on the ground.
On the right are Mr. Weasley and several wizards in the lead, and Ted and the others behind him.
It turned out to be the photographer who took pictures of Lockhart. Instead of running away after the incident, he hid to take pictures and grab materials.
Don’t say it, it’s quite professional. The angle and composition of the shot are very good.
It's a pity that it's black and white. If it's in color, he can get an award.
It’s the 1990s, and black and white photos are still used, so you can say that the magic world is so backward!
The entire emergency issue is talking about the monsters attacking Knockturn Alley and Diagon Alley this morning.
It is said that the monster appeared from Knockturn Alley. It was preliminarily determined that it was caused by a dark wizard smuggling magical creatures. The Aurors are now tracking it down.
All escaped monsters have been cleaned up.
In the whole incident, there were seven casualties, four were dead, including a goblin, and three were injured.
The most seriously injured one had two broken legs and almost died.
The head with the least injury was smashed, and he was fine within ten minutes after arriving at the hospital.
In addition, the two most prosperous magic commercial streets in the UK were damaged, and many shops suffered losses of varying sizes.
The biggest loss was the Bojinbok store. A monster took advantage of the chaos and lit it on fire. Fortunately, the loss was not large. After all, the magic protection in the store was still very dense. But it was unavoidable to be burned black and smoky.
This is really a big deal!
Although there are wizards who die at every turn in the magic world, they die. Such as spell out of control or something.
It's been a running joke among wizards ever since, for years.
But like this, three wizards and one goblin died all at once, but it was quite shocking.
This is also one ten-thousandth of the population of the magic community in Great Britain!
Although it has only been a few hours now, the newspapers are talking about this matter like crazy.
A large group of people slammed the Ministry of Magic, saying that they are doing nothing, taking taxpayers' money and doing nothing.
There are also radical pure-blood wizards who call for strict monitoring of visitors from other worlds.
There are also those who say that the murderer will be severely punished, and those who clean up the black industry in Knockturn Alley.
Of course, there are also a small number of people who say that thanks to Weasley and his group...
You think that the magic world is usually calm and there is no big movement. Ted makes a salted fish net and can attract 20 or 30 people to drink tea and eat melon seeds every day to watch the excitement.
This suddenly caused such a big event, the dried bamboo shoots exploded!
Since Voldemort's defeat, nothing happened in Diagon Alley for more than ten years. Now he was attacked by a group of monsters? !
Ted read it from beginning to end, from newspaper reports to statements by Ministry of Magic officials, to the opinions of wizards who were invited to comment or write directly.
Very good, I just mentioned my name once, and was praised a few words with everyone.
Although there are two lines that say that Ted "reformed the special freezing spell works well", there is no more.
This is very good, so as not to attract the wind.
Ted felt that his decision was indeed correct.
Send Hermione home in the afternoon, and Jerry also goes home.
School is about to start, and Xianyuwang was supposed to be temporarily closed for the last few days, not to mention that Diagon Alley is deserted after this kind of thing happened.
The Leaky Cauldron Bar is also very deserted, how can anyone come to drink?
Old Tom is not annoyed by this, he has lived for decades, and he has never seen any storms, and they are all temporary.
Ted went back to his room, Ted fell on the bed.
"Good job Parker," he complimented Psicrystal Parker. At that time, the goblin bear could be frozen, thanks to Parker's assistance.
"My pleasure~" Parker jumped up and down on the table excitedly.
"And Ansu, this fire is enough to relieve the anger. Water and fire are ruthless, I hope Mr. Bojin Burke will pay more attention in the future."
Ted took out some beef jerky to lure Ansu away, because Ansu wanted to peck twice when he saw Parker's triumphant movement. Ravens are very interested in shiny things.
Ted lay on the bed and began to observe the two newly acquired cards.
【Predict the enemy first (blue)】
Spell Card
Psychic power will be extremely active within 10 minutes after use, and can respond to sneak attacks and accidents with a high probability in advance.
Cooling time is 6 hours.
This card is a bit interesting, it turned out to be a card about psionic energy, which is rare!
Ted tried to use it, then closed his eyes, picked up an apple and threw it above his head... When the apple fell on his head, he suddenly dodged, dodged and reached out to catch the apple without vision.
"This feels kind of weird!"
Ted was overjoyed, not only because this card worked well, but also because he could simulate this psychic card to develop similar psychic powers.
Second card:
【Celebrity (Green)】
Spell Card
Use: +2 Charisma for 30 minutes.
Chill for 12 hours.
Remarks: I get attention everywhere I go, and life under the spotlight is not so easy~
"Could it be that I was a celebrity last time I was in the newspaper?" Ted felt a little funny.
Actually, on this point, he was really wrong.
After all, when Ted traveled here, it was already the age of the Internet. Newspapers are already extinct, no one reads them, and the ones with low influence will not work.
In the current world, newspapers still have a certain influence. Although a large part of it is taken away by TV stations, many people still read it. The British are notoriously fond of reading newspapers.
In the magic world, there are only paper media, mainstream newspapers such as "Daily Prophet", almost every household must subscribe to a copy.
The magic world has a small population and cannot support many newspapers, so there is only one that dominates.
Many wizards are scattered and living all over the country. If you want to know the changes and information in the magic world at the first time, you really can't do without the "Daily Prophet".
So, Ted’s name is actually known by 80 to 90% of wizards in Great Britain. Although not all can be remembered, but it is also very remarkable.
…
A few days after “Monsters Siege,” Diagon Alley was under martial law.
Ted saw four or five wizards in Diagon Alley with serious expressions, alert eyes, and hands ready to pull out their wands at any time.
These are the violent divisions of the Ministry of Magic - Strikers and Aurors.
Strikers are probably equivalent to civilian police, and Aurors are equivalent to martial arts.
Most of these people are at level 7 to 9, which is higher than the average wizard.
Some of the elites even have level 11 or 12. This is Elite Aurors.
Mainly, Aurors and strikers have special training, and they will learn a lot of attack and defense magic.
Now the Ministry of Magic has been slapped in the face, so they sent people to patrol the streets.
During this period of time, Knockturn Alley was launched a special anti-crime operation, and many gray-zone wizards who lived in Knockturn Alley were arrested. However, the charges are usually the ones of staying in Azkaban for a few months or one or two years.
Ted couldn't let go of this good opportunity, and secretly controlled Parker to make a lot of camouflage marks at the entrance of Bojinbok's store, which led to Bojinbok's shop being blocked.
Although it won’t take long for them to recover based on their family’s relationship and contacts, it will definitely be very troublesome during this period of time.
Alas~ It's very comfortable!
But Ted doesn't pay much attention to Diagon Alley, because school is about to start.
I have to pack my things quickly, especially to clear the basement.
After more than two months, this place will become a laboratory. A lot of things had to be disposed of, and traces had to be restored.
Some alchemy experiments and potion cooking waste should be disposed of properly.
Where wizards live, it is easy to "breed" some magical existence. Like boggarts, ghouls, potato spirits or something.
Because they are all born of magic power, the existence of wizards will condense magic power.
So these things always appear where wizards live.
If Ted doesn't deal with it well, it might become a "haunted bar" after a while.
…
Ted opened his eyes, and the system prompt arrived.
That’s right, today is September 1st, the day of school, and it’s also the time to refresh new knowledge about other worlds.
"Ding~ The talent [Knowledge of Other Worlds (Gold)] is triggered, and I found [Yanhuo Village Cat Rice Recipe (Green)]."
【Yanhuo Village Cat Rice Recipe Encyclopedia (Green)】, which records the cooking recipes of the cat rice made by the cats in Yanhuo Village. It needs to consume 190 experience to exchange.
"Huh? Cat food!" Ted was stunned, remembering the fear of being dominated by cat cars.
"No way... ordinary luck!" Ted shook his head.
It’s okay, it’s finally useful.
Eating and adding buffs, isn’t this together with Azeroth cooking?
It was exchanged, and I will go to the school kitchen to study it after school starts.
Well, maybe Professor McGonagall will like it~
Ted's luggage was reduced to the size of a fist with the newly learned "item reduction spell", and he stuffed it into his trouser pocket.
Take Ansu and Parker, say goodbye to old Tom, take a taxi to the train station.
Ted came earlier this time, and when he walked through the wall to platform 9 and 3/4, there were not many people there.
Ted got in the car directly and occupied a box.
About forty or fifty minutes later, Hermione arrived at the station.
Seeing Hermione happily pushing the luggage cart away with a smile on her face, her old father, Mr. Granger, couldn't help but feel a little hot in his eyes, the padded jacket doesn't fit well~
(end of this chapter)