When Marka saw the fire suddenly rush out of the building in the distance, he immediately reacted - it was the Woolworth Building, the seat of the American magic Congress.
Unlike the British Ministry of magic, the United States did not hide its head office underground. Although they have also covered up the location of the organization, several relocations make their cover up look a little flawed.
"Have all the silent people gone to the magic Parliament?" Marca shook her head. "But I'm not qualified to say that. Isn't there a Death Eater in the British Ministry of magic?"
At the moment, he was not in the mood to meddle in other people's business. Needless to say, he didn't delay any more and immediately turned back into the entrance of Jackson Square.
This time, it was not beyond Maka's expectation. In the west side of Jackson Square, which seemed a little heavily guarded, he saw the figures he was looking for when he entered the shed.
"Oh! It's Mr. McLean!" urged Abigail, who opened the door for him immediately. "Come in and talk about the others first..."
When Marca passed her by mistake and stepped into the house, Abby Galton quickly closed the door of the shed. There are wizards patrolling outside day and night these two days. She doesn't want people to see so many people hiding inside.
"To be honest, we can't hide anymore..." she turned back and whispered to Maka, "we were just discussing where else to go!"
"Don't discuss it, everyone, go with me to England right away!" without saying anything, Maka took out some kind of cloth made into a door key. "This is the door key located in front of the main door of Hogwarts."
"I know the truth," Sirius, half leaning against a pile of barrels, looked at Maka with a strange look, "but why..."
"Of course it's easy to hide," Marca said naturally. "If I didn't say it, who would have thought it was a door key?"
He paused and then said, "OK, hurry up! Everyone get together and we're leaving -"
Before he finished, he suddenly stopped.
"The boy... Um... Where's Joshua?"
Maka looked around the small hut. All the children he had brought out of the dungeon were here, but she didn't find the big boy who always looked timid.
When he asked, the children's faces looked a little gloomy.
"... we don't know exactly," Sirius frowned, "but he should have encountered an accident on his way back here."
"Back here?" Marca repeated suspiciously.
"Yes," Sirius nodded. "It might be more appropriate for you to ask these children directly for details. He had disappeared before we came here, but we found this on the path in front of the door."
As he spoke, he pointed to the small round table in the middle. On the small table, there was a broken cake.
"What's the matter?" Marca looked at the children.
Most of the children were silent, but almost all their eyes looked at one of the little boys. When Maka saw this, she also looked at him.
"... sir," the little boy stammered, "yes... No, it's... I'm not good."
"Don't apologize, let's talk about what happened first," Maka said calmly.
After that, the little boy's words made Maka roughly understand the whole story.
In fact, it's very simple - yesterday was the little boy's birthday. Even if he is young, he knows that this is not the time to care.
But sometimes, it is difficult to suppress his emotions, not to mention that he is only a young child. Depressed, he couldn't help crying.
Joshua, who never knew how to communicate with others, naturally became a little overwhelmed - he was the oldest person here, and he should be responsible for comforting these younger children.
But where does he know how to coax children?
Maka did leave a lot of food and water here, but he didn't leave a book to teach others how to coax children?
It's just that it's obviously not the case to let it cry.
Maybe Joshua moved his heart, or maybe he thought of his past, or maybe he was afraid that someone would pass by and hear crying.
In short, he promised the boy on impulse to buy him a birthday cake!
So Joshua, who hesitated again and again, left the hut alone and ran to Jackson Square outside to find out where there was a cake.
And as soon as he went, there was no news again.
After listening, Maka first looked at Sirius. He didn't have to think about it. The guy's expression seemed to say - if I hadn't been able to move more, I would have gone to find someone.
He swept another kind of children, and the expectation on their faces was almost ready to come out.
"OK! I see..." Maka sighed. "You go back with me first, and then I'll come back to him. Do you understand?"
The crowd nodded at the same time.
"Come here when you understand!" he urged again. "There are a large number of people. Just stretch out your fingers to touch them. Hurry up!"
When everyone made a circle and put their fingers on the door key, Maka looked at Sirius again. Because Sirius was still weak, everyone squatted beside him and looked very crowded.
"How is it?" asked Marca. "Can you hold the movement of the door key... If it weren't for this emergency, I'd like you to stay in the United States and recover more!"
"It's all right," Sirius said decisively. "I can't help this little discomfort."
"Well, then -"
Maka said and started the door key. With the expansion and contraction of the space, such a group of adults and children close together suddenly disappeared in the hut.
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Almost as Maka and others crossed the North Atlantic in an instant, the Woolworth Building was still in chaos.
The American Aurors stationed at the headquarters immediately took action as quickly as possible, arranging defense and immediate attack in charge of pursuit, while other staff hurriedly moved the injured people to the infirmary in the building.
As for the location of the incident, that is, Zoe's office, only Auror's head brought someone to quickly inquire about it. After leaving a person to guard here temporarily, he hurried away again.
Of course Zoe didn't know anything, and so she had to be taken care of like a prisoner. Obviously, she was wronged.
"... forget it, it's an emergency after all," she sat in her chair, looked at the Auror standing at the door and thought helplessly, "but it was terrible just now... I thought I was dead! Fortunately, the attacker has escaped..."
However, there was no doubt that she was relieved too early.
Just when she was sighing in her heart, suddenly there was a dull hum at the door. Then she saw that Aoluo fell to the ground quietly without making any sound.
Then, a wizard wrapped in a black robe came in from the broken door hole. Next to the wizard, there were two guys with a gloomy smell all over their body.
"Hum... Hum... Little girl..." the black wizard smiled sadly. "This is the filing office of the archives and records department. Am I right?"
"You --"
Zoe was stunned. She immediately found that her talent for taking God and reading was not working this time.
"Don't ask me who I am," sneered the black wizard. "You'd better put such a stupid question in your stomach! Now, give me all the recent important meeting minutes immediately - of course, don't miss the most important auro layout documents!"
"We won't keep that stuff here," Zoe replied tremblingly.
"Really?" the black wizard snorted coldly, "are you sure?"
He walked to Zoe step by step, ignoring that Zoe had shrunk into a ball on the chair and almost came close to each other.
"Since Lord greenward had been lurking in Auror's office for a long time, such documents have been hidden here... Do you think I wouldn't know?"
The old and cold voice was close to Zoe's ears, and the inexplicable sense of danger made her hair stand up at the back of her neck.
"No, it's really... Really not..." Zoe shrunk her neck and said, "the Minister of law enforcement has come just now - he took all the important information away."
"Hmm?" the black wizard's face hidden in his hood showed a trace of hesitation. He narrowed his eyes and looked at Zoe's expression. After a while, he snorted heavily, "if so, then..."
He straightened up suddenly, waved his long robe sleeve, reached out and pulled out his wand.
"Take God and read!"
The black wizard cast the spell with great determination and tried to read Zoe's memory directly. But the next second, he couldn't help but change his face.
"Brain closure?" he glared at Zoe. "Unlock your brain closure! Now!"
"No, I didn't --" Zoe shook her head hard and hurriedly said, "I don't know that... I'm born..."
The black wizard stared at Zoe coldly and waved his hand impatiently.
"Really? Born?" he said fiercely, "funny! What a funny joke -"
Before the words fell, he suddenly turned and rushed to the door. When he passed the two people who followed him, he waved to them with a little annoyance.
"Take it away!" ordered the black wizard. "Take this woman and the damn Auror on the ground!"
As soon as she said this, Zoe felt a black fog in front of her, and she lost consciousness for a moment.