"... how long do we have to go? Where is the venue of the trial meeting?"
"The venue is on the ground floor."
"What floor are we on now?"
"Five floors underground, that is, the last floor underground."
The conversation between Luna and the receptionist echoed in the deserted corridor and spread to a deeper place in front.
As the receptionist witch said, this is the underground part of the headquarters building of the International Federation of wizards, and it is also the deepest underground. Not to mention that there seems to be no one here now. In fact, even when the Ministry of magic of various countries sent people to deal with official business every day in the past, it is usually idle for several months.
After all, now... At least before the current disaster, the two deepest underground floors have not had a chance to use them for a long time.
However, it is worth mentioning that this long underground corridor is unexpectedly not as dark and gloomy as other similar places. Under the illumination of a magic mask lamp every short distance, the corridor with white walls still looks quite bright.
In addition, the corridor seems to be under the curse of automatic cleaning. Although it is inevitably old, it is spotless everywhere. Walking in it will not make people feel any discomfort.
"Five floors underground?" Luna listened to the receptionist walking in front and looked at each other's back again, "Oh... Mr. aginbad asked you to bring me?"
As soon as Luna said this, she immediately made the receptionist step a little, and subconsciously looked back at her. Then she continued to walk back and said:
"Yes, Mr. President wants me to take miss Lovegood to meet you before the trial officially begins... Oh, no, it's two people."
"All right!" Luna nodded immediately after hearing the speech.
Obviously, she was not worried about the other party taking herself to any dangerous place, because she could feel that the receptionist did not mean any harm to herself.
Not long after, the two of them walked along the corridor and passed a series of closed silver gray metal doors. The receptionist who led the way finally stopped in front of another door. She glanced back at Luna and whispered:
"Miss Lovegood, just a moment, please."
"Well."
Luna nodded and answered. But at the moment when the other party turned around and took out his magic wand to open the door, I didn't know if it was accidental, so I heard a sudden bang from the door.
Because of the silver metal door, and the door leaf seems to be thick, the sound is not big. It's just that the corridor is very quiet, so it still sounds very clear.
"Eh?"
For a moment, Luna seemed to be aware of something, and suddenly gave a light sigh, and the receptionist involuntarily stopped the action of casting a spell to open the door. And almost at the same time, in the shadow behind Luna, a black blade came out quietly.
Aware of the black blade floating, Luna quickly waved her hand to the shadow, which made silly Bo retract the blade again.
Then she heard the receptionist in front of the door say again:
"By the way... Miss Lovegood, I think I must remind you first. There is a special corpse locked here. Although Mr. aginbad has asked people to limit its movement as much as possible, we must be careful where we should be careful."
"Well, I know." Luna nodded again immediately after hearing this, "but... Who was the corpse? How do I seem to... Feel a little familiar?"
"Well --" the receptionist paused hesitantly. "Anyway, you'll know when I open the door."
Before the words fell, she finally rowed her wand back and forth in front of the gate, and finally pulled it gently. The next moment, with a "click", the silver door opened slowly and automatically.
"Bang Dang!"
Just as the gate was opened, there was a sudden crash inside. This time, without the thick door barrier, the sound suddenly became much louder, and even made people feel a little shocking.
However, on this news, Luna obviously has no time to care.
"Mrs Maxim?"
The space inside is not too big, and because there are not too many unnecessary furnishings that hinder the eye, you can look to the end by standing at the door. At the moment of opening the door, Luna had seen a small black cage, so suspended in the deepest part of the room.
Just below the cage, there is a pool that is only a little larger than the cage - you can't see how deep the pool is by your eyes alone, because the pool contains not clear water, but a strange liquid like mercury.
Under the influence of magic, this silver liquid seems to have its own life and is automatically flowing back from the pool to the air. They are like metal tentacles, winding around the cage in the middle, slowly undulating and flowing.
To tell you the truth, the scene looks a little scary.
"Clang -"
As Luna watched carefully, the figure curled up in the black cage... That looked like Mrs. Maxim suddenly moved again and made a loud noise. The huge force twisted the apparently strong cage, and then shook it slightly.
But just then, another voice suddenly sounded from the room, which immediately attracted Luna's attention.
"Miss Lovegood?"
"Ursula? Oh, it's you... No wonder I just felt like I felt another familiar magic."
Yes, Luna didn't expect that Ursula, who had just heard of leaving busbarton, came to the Federation.
Of course, if the professor at the school gate had made it clear earlier, she would not be so surprised now.
"Are you also invited by Mr. aginbad?" Luna put the black cage aside as soon as she saw Ursula, raised her feet and went straight in. "You don't know, I'm looking for you!"
At the same time, the receptionist who was responsible for leading the way also followed into the room and conveniently brought the silver gray door back.
"You two, please have time to talk about the past! Miss Geoffrey, after this morning, do you have any harvest? You know, it's about Mrs. Maxim. How's she doing now?"