London is foggy.
To tell the truth, London has never had such a thick fog since the serious pollution caused by the massive combustion of coal in the industrial revolution was gradually treated and improved.
When the incident broke out, as many as 6000 people in London, nicknamed the "fog city", died due to the siege of the city in only four days, and 8000 residents died due to respiratory diseases in two months.
It is only a few decades away from today.
However, after the anti fog plan was urgently put on the agenda, the London municipal government immediately launched a series of measures and actions. Over the years, it was not easy to gradually take off the hat of "fog city".
But today, London is foggy again.
No one knows where the fog in London comes from. Muggles don't know and wizards don't know. But at least after the detection, neither side detected any harmful components from the fog, which was a little relieved for the time being.
Only in the middle of the Thames River shrouded in smoke, people who live in the fog can't see the road as soon as they go out. Even in the house, they only have a few steps around.
This kind of situation like a blind man has greatly affected people's daily life.
However, it was soon found that the worst thing was not that the fog could not disperse, but that its scope was still spreading out. According to the speed of its spread, the fog will completely cover the whole city of London in up to four days.
What the hell happened?
"Lupin, you and Tonks don't have to go in with us - go to 'home' and contact the people below! I think many people are studying the source and composition of this fog now... If you have information, remember to send it to Hogwarts immediately."
At the edge of the thick fog, Kingsley told lupin to return to black's old house and be responsible for transferring the news up and down. And he himself will lead a small team of Aurors to go deep into the fog to find out what's wrong in the fog.
Although the fog seemed harmless, he and the rest of the Auror team still wore a magic mask to filter the air.
After a while, he separated from lupin, and Kingsley gradually stepped into the thick gray fog with a magic wand hidden in his sleeve.
Around, it suddenly became much quieter.
"Roommaster -"
"Just call me captain at this time," Kingsley waved. "Needless to say, I know - pay attention to distinguish Muggles and try not to get hurt by mistake."
It must be said that this environment with extremely limited vision, not to mention Muggles, is a considerable obstacle to wizards.
Therefore, Kingsley and a group of people can only move forward slowly, for fear that they will hit something soon.
However, the efficiency of such action is obviously too low.
A moment later, Kingsley divided the people into two teams after all, and repeatedly told them to contact other teams in time in case of any situation.
Because Kingsley felt that the sudden fog was mostly caused by Haier Bo.
……
"They haven't come back yet?"
Early the next morning, Hermione looked through the latest news in London in the Daily Prophet and worried about pansy and the windbreaker.
On the other side, Maka is also sitting at the Gryffindor table, hurriedly solving today's breakfast.
"Don't worry, it'll be all right."
Not to mention pansy, at least he is very relieved of the ability of the windbreaker wizard. Compared with those two people, Maka cares more about Neville who has gone to San mungo.
However, according to Lupin's report from black's old house, the fog in London is indeed as written in the Daily Prophet, and no harm has been found yet.
"Hermione, you don't have to worry about it for the time being. After breakfast, we'll hurry up and make all the preparations as soon as possible. If there's anything unusual in London, we'll be able to help."
If it hadn't been for the meteorite falling to the ground, Maka would have gone to check it himself. But now, knowing that the thick fog in London may be related to Haier Bo, he can't leave the matter at hand and run to deal with it.
Of course, even he could not directly guess that the fog originated from Muriel this time - he thought pansy and the windbreaker were treating Muriel at Martin's side!
"I knew that guy would take advantage of this opportunity to do something..."
Put down the fork in her hand. Maka wiped her mouth and walked outside the auditorium door. Before leaving the auditorium, he turned around and told Hermione and others:
"Remember not to run to London. I'm prepared."
……
"Did you find anything?"
In the fog, Kingsley met another two man team. However, it seems that what we have seen is actually the same.
Because the fog is too thick, Muggle pedestrians are much less on the busy streets on weekdays, let alone vehicles. People seem to be hiding at home and thinking restlessly.
It is worth mentioning that through the observation of Muggles, Kingsley finally found another feature of this fog - they also seem to affect Muggle TV and radio!
Unable to appease the people in the most efficient way, the government has dispatched special radio vehicles.
Those vehicles equipped with loudspeakers are driving slowly in the streets and alleys at a very slow speed, playing emergency notices again and again.
It can be heard that the Muggle government first announced the warning of non-toxic fog. Although they are only preliminarily tested to be non-toxic, at least this can prevent people from immediately causing riots due to panic.
After that, it is nothing more than to let the majority of Londoners hide at home and don't go out casually.
Unfortunately, whether people are willing to listen to such suggestions depends on what people think.
"Captain, some roads in the periphery have been blocked. Many Muggles want to drive their 'cars' to leave London... You know, there are always a few who drive faster and then hit each other..."
"Muggles are the same as wizards," Kingsley seemed to have expected for a long time, and didn't relax his shoulder very much. "Our main task this time is to check whether there are traces of magic... Including magical creatures and spells, as well as black wizards... The situation of Muggles is ignored for the time being."
"Well, I see."
"Then keep looking separately!" Kingsley nodded and finally added, "and then try to find the source of the fog."
After that, the two teams separated again. Kingsley took his auro teammate and went to the area he had not visited.
But he didn't know that just after he left the street, two figures came out in an alley along the street.
"Why don't we go to school? We have to tell McLean as soon as possible, don't we?"
That was pansy's voice. Needless to say, the windbreaker wizard who came with her was walking beside her.
Hearing Parkinson's question, the windbreaker wizard shook his head gently.
"No, I don't think we need to talk about it... It's been all night, and he can't have known about it," she whispered. "And wouldn't it be better if we could find Martin earlier than this? At least he might be able to tell us how it all happened."
"But... We've been looking in the black market all night..."
Pansy followed the windbreaker, and it could be seen that she actually wanted to go back to Hogwarts and ask Maka what she thought, rather than looking for it without a clue.
Yes, they had been to Martin's room yesterday, but no one was found in it except the thick fog.
In fact, long before entering the black market, they had found the fog that had pervaded the whole black market. The remaining residents in the black market are running out, and the channels of those goblins in the dark spirit pavilion have once again become the main route of evacuation.
Because there were so many people who wanted to come out, pansy and the windbreaker had to wait outside for a long time to see if there was a problem with the fog that had leaked out along the channel.
When they learned that the fog was not dangerous, it was almost three o'clock in the afternoon.
After that, it was a whole night of searching. They didn't know where the fog came from, because the thick fog didn't make much difference. The black market had been completely shrouded, so even when I went to Martin's bedroom, I didn't realize that the fog came from there.
However, although they were not aware of the real source of the fog, they had the same view of who created it.
Up to now, it's right to throw all this mess of abnormal conditions on Haier Bo.
Realizing that it might be halbo's trouble this time, the windbreaker decided to at least find Martin first. Because although it's unlikely that Martin did it - he must have been out of that mind, he's still hailbo's man anyway.
In this way, if we can find Martin who disappeared with Muriel, it may provide great convenience to solve these special fog.
But now, after searching all night, pansy thinks it's probably impossible to go on like this - just two people running around like headless flies, can you really find Martin and Muriel?
"In short, look for it again!" the windbreaker wizard didn't stop from beginning to end, and heard her walking. "Miss Parkinson, do you remember other potions? I still think Martin can't wait, so he took the patient to take the initiative to find someone for treatment..."
"Well... Let me think again..."
They drifted away in the fog and soon melted into the fog and could no longer be seen.