"Best, friend?" Zooey thought out subconsciously.

"Hey," said a playful female voice, "Who are you?"

The strange voice coming from behind startled Zoe's head, and accidentally bit her tongue, "Hiss—God!" She exclaimed.

Turning around suddenly, the girl named Anna just stood there quietly, with an innocent expression on her face—she opened the door silently, walked over silently, observed silently, and then suddenly made a sound After doing all this, she seemed not expecting such a big reaction from others.

Anna showed a kind smile, "Sorry to scare you, you belong to Professor Snape..."

She looked at Zoe's thieves uniform without any trace, and chuckled, "Are you friends?"

Zoe's mind was blank, the thief's suit on her body was hot, and the black mask on her face seemed to be burning her face, she didn't know how she could shamelessly pretend to be a friend of the owner of the stolen house in such a suit .

"I, I am! You can see, I, uh..." She really had no choice but to talk nonsense.

Unexpectedly, Anna was understanding, even a little too understanding, which made people afraid, "Hello ma'am, but I have to say, such a dress is not welcome in the Muggle world, you'd better change a dress Last time, a wizard friend who was wearing a miniskirt was almost caught by the Aurors in the Muggle world, and we can't dress indiscriminately in the Muggle world."

Yes! Some wizards don't know the rules of the Muggle world! Zooey's eyes lit up, and she stepped down the steps Anna gave her.

"So it is! No wonder those Muggle eyes are not friendly, thank you for reminding me! Uh, I think I should leave now..."

Anna smiled and nodded, turning sideways.

She hadn't thought that thieves would enter Snape's house at all, which was totally unreasonable, but the lady thief in front of her could still stand here panting, so there must be something special about her. As for Did she steal something from Snape, well, Anna wasn't very interested.

"Goodbye ma'am..."

【Ding! 】

A crisp notification sound exploded in Anna's head, and very unexpectedly, a task that had been idle for almost a year suddenly indicated that it was completed.

[Little girl who sells potion: Find the girl who sells potion (1/1) quest completed; quest reward: ventriloquist +30, trigger hidden branch: Silent end alley]

This is the task Anna received in Diagon Alley before school started. She thought she would have no chance to complete it, but she didn't expect to find the task object here.

[Silent End Alley: You found her, Zoe Akasna, the only Zoe Akasna in the world at present, she has extremely beautiful long red hair, a tragic life experience, and the determination to never admit defeat , she is so kind, beautiful and compassionate, but it is a pity that if there are no good people left today, she will die as a sacrifice soon, and this town will soon fall into an endless abyss. 】

[Mission prop 1: The narrative poem "Creation of the Gods" - they once knelt down to that void, the man offered a dripping octopus with his eyes blindfolded, the woman held up the ears of wheat in tears, and prayed one after another, if "God" could To save this world swallowed by sorrow, they will give everything they have, so He was born from pain, with horns, deer ears, and new fish scales all over his body. He only sympathizes with the eyes of the world, and everyone hopes to get His love, but His love is only given to those who suffer. 】

[Mission Prop 2: A recording—don’t you know? This small town is inhabited by killers, who specialize in killing red-haired women. From ten years ago to now, there have been six deaths in total. Each of them has been disemboweled like a pig or sheep. It's scary... What... Of course there are no internal organs Yes, I heard that it was sold for money, and some people said that it was eaten by that pervert... You ask why I didn't leave? Stupid, do you think I look like a woman? And I'm not a redhead...]

[Mission prop 3: Rusty key. Zoe Acasner dropped a key. 】

[Special Reminder: This task requires psychological endurance, please pay attention to ** fear, despair, please be careful *** the dark side ** death, if you give up the branch line, please do not pick up the key, and leave the small room before six o'clock in the evening town, otherwise the mission will be forced to open. 】

[Conditions for completing the mission: Avoid the death of Zoe Akasna; Mission rewards: Magic power control accuracy +50, a beautiful miniskirt, the lives of the townspeople, unknown. 】

So complicated…

Before Anna read the long series of mission introductions, Zoe had already rushed out of the door and disappeared without a trace. Anna stared at the key that fell on the ground with a lot of emotion, and finally turned it into a sentence, "F** k"

This side mission is completely different from the previous ones. If the vampires, red giants, and the Ministry of Magic's time-turner you met in Little Hangleton before are not considered to be out of the original setting of the Harry Potter world, then this time On the mysterious and weird roads, the branch line is like a runaway wild horse, and Radu can't pull it back.

Anna remembered the reminders that popped up from the system before, if she tried to change the ending of the characters in the "Harry Potter" story, then Rowling's protection would disappear, which meant that the original weirdness of this world Things will pop up one after another, such as this mission, Silent Alley, the painting style can’t wait to break away from children’s literature, and it’s gone forever on the road of novelty hunting, which is definitely not a good thing.

"Hey! I'm going to tell Ms. Lianna that you're swearing." When someone is distressed, there is always someone who lives easily, such as George, who walked over with a smile, still in the style of children's literature.

He's been really, really dutifully playing the naughty kid, and oh, he's a kid.

"George, you complainer," Fred paused for a second, but he didn't agree with him as usual.

This made George look unbelievable. He widened his eyes exaggeratedly, grabbed Fred's shoulder and shook for a while, "You have changed Fred, you have changed, you were not like this before..."

Sighing, Anna picked up the key on the ground.

If you ignore the rust on it, it is a very delicate key, with an octopus carved on the top, its tentacles coiled downwards, it is hard to imagine what kind of door this thing can really open.

"Zoe Akasna..." Anna thought as she pronounced the name. She didn't remember that there was such a character living in Cokeworth in "Harry Potter", and the name Zoe, Not very British either.

Anna began to think.

From the conversation with Zoe just now, I didn't actually gain much information. After I used the eye skill, I didn't see pink bubbles on her body, indicating that she didn't have any magical objects.

At the same time, Zoe didn't feel nauseous, which meant that she was not a vampire-like creature, and there was no specific magical reaction in other parts of her body.

So if it's not a mysterious creature, if it doesn't have a magical reaction, then it's most likely a Muggle. In addition, she knows about the wizarding world, so it can be logically speculated that she is a squib.

It's unbelievable that a Squib went to Snape's house to steal things and was not found. This is Professor Snape who is so sleepy after getting up!

There must be hidden secrets in this.

"Work done? Speaking of which, you guys mentioned that there was a street exactly like this? Even the location of the broken streetlight?"

Without clues, the investigation could only start from the most unusual places, Anna put the key in her pocket.

The twins glanced at each other with excited smiles on their faces. That smile was so familiar, just like some villains would always laugh two or three times before doing bad things.

"Would you like to take a look? I'll take you there!" Fred was too active, he really didn't want to deal with Snape's pile of books.

There are too many books without names, and he is not easy to sort them. He can only open the books to look at the general content, and then write a few names according to his feeling, including but not limited to "A Few Plants of Herbs", "Can Be Throwed into a Pot Gulu Gulu" Some kind of very abstract and very specific titles such as "The Complete Medicine of Herbs", "Why the Dark Wizard Is That Way", "The Wild Witch and Her Seven Dragons", etc., would make Professor Snape's eyes dark.

George's work in the kitchen was not going well. This was the first time he felt the hard work of his mother, Ms. Molly. The kitchen in Snape's house was not big, but it hadn't been used for a long time. The thick dust looks gray, and there are dense spider webs in the corners. Occasionally, shriveled cockroaches can be found under a bowl with a missing corner.

"We can go now," George looked behind mysteriously, "The pile of pizza boxes have been thrown out, I didn't expect our professor to eat so unhealthy, my work is almost done, hey, you What about the pile of books? Are you done sorting it out?" He patted Fred on the shoulder.

"Basically," Fred shrugged. "Actually, most of the books are neatly placed. It's just that I need to worry about a few untitled ones, but what can bother me?"

Several people left Snape's house noisily. No one noticed the silent gaze of the old bat on the stairs on the second floor, but Snape didn't stop them either. His gaze mainly focused on Anna, who had a strange identity.

After Anna walked out of the house, Snape even took a bottle of potion and sprayed it around, as if to remove bad luck.

"Crack," the door was closed, and the little troublemakers came to the street. When the wind blew, they felt that the place was incredibly deserted.

It's summer now, but the alleys are full of gloomy winds, and there is no other car in the street except Sirius' ostentatious car, as if Snape is the only one living in the whole street.

"Are there no people living in these houses?"

George walked to the edge of Snape's neighbor's house and looked in through the dusty glass window. He could only see that it was dark inside and there was no furniture. It didn't look like anyone lived here.

Anna also walked over and glanced through the window, "Is there something written on the wall on the left?" She couldn't see clearly.

There used to be wallpaper on the wall, but it was artificially torn to pieces, leaving only some lingering.

"Let me see," Fred also squeezed over, his eyes are quite good, "what is written... er, cut off the flesh and blood? His gaze... pray for... happiness? There is also a symbol drawn next to it... I'll go! Sit there Someone!"

Fred almost jumped away, he pointed, and everyone saw the figure in the darkness clearly.

He was a very thin old man, sitting on a wooden chair at the end of the corridor next to the stairs, wearing a decent black suit, hiding in the darkness, staring fixedly at the group of children outside the window, he didn't do anything, just watched with.

It's like a dressed skeleton with just eyeballs on.

He saw that Fred had spotted him, so he laughed, showing his yellow teeth, shaking his body, as if he was about to stand up from the wooden chair, and everyone hurriedly backed away, feeling panicked.

"Sorry," Anna mouthed, and she didn't know if the old man saw it, so she ran away with the twins.

Peeking at other people's private houses is indeed not an aboveboard act, and adults would feel horrified when encountering such a weird thing. The three children quickly evacuated from here, and ran in one direction with lingering fear, rather panicking.

"Huh—has he chased him?" George gasped heavily.

"He definitely can't run like Filch," Fred propped himself up on his knees, "Filch is, professionally, hu—"

"Didn't come over," Anna frowned.

After running for so long, they really didn't see anyone on the road. Thinking about it carefully, from the time they arrived in the town, including Snape, they met no more than seven people, and there were still some people at the gate. The alley is really too deserted.

As expected of Professor Snape, the accommodation environment can be chosen so uniquely—Anna praised Professor Snape for no reason to relieve the pressure in her heart.

Anna, who calmed herself down, raised her head and looked at the place they ran to in a panic.

This should be the weird alley that the twins were talking about. It is very close to Spider's End Alley, and it looks exactly the same as Spider's End Alley, whether it is the color of the house, the windows nailed up with wood, or even the weeds in front of the house. , the stains on the roof are all eerily similar.

Anna looked at the house in the same location as Snape's house on this street, um... She even wondered if there would be an identical Snape in it, if there was, it would be too bad.

When Anna was about to take a closer look, she caught something out of the corner of her eye.

A chill ran up her spine.

She noticed that the old face she had seen before was now crowded behind the window of the next room, and the skeleton-like face was pressing against the window, squeezing the only face out of shape, and the eyes were about to protrude. But still staring at them.

With such a weird posture, the old man didn't know how long he had been standing there watching them. Anna stopped her steps and tried her best not to look over.

what happened? She knelt down and tied her shoelaces, pretending nothing happened, but cold sweat was already streaming down her forehead.

"Did we come to this street before? No way... Where is this?"

Fred seemed to have noticed something, "It seems that I went wrong, why are the street lights on the street gone?"

As soon as Fred finished speaking, Anna, who was squatting on the ground, noticed dense and small knocking sounds around her, as if something was constantly beating behind the windows sealed by wood.

"Boom..."

"Hurry up, let's go," Anna stood up abruptly and pulled the twins while stepping back, "Let's get out of here..." Click, she stepped on something, and looked down, it turned out to be an iron road sign.

Silent alley.

Anna rubbed her eyes, and suddenly felt that something was blurred in front of her eyes. After she heard the twins' exclamation, she raised her head and realized~lightnovelpub.net~ The dense fog has moved at an extremely fast speed. The speed surrounds them.

The line of sight was blocked, and those dense knocking sounds became more and more harsh. The current situation made the three of them extremely disturbed.

"Hold your hands and don't let them go!" Anna took out her wand, grabbed Fred with her left hand, and asked him to hold George tight. They groped the surrounding walls, and were going to squat down in the corner first, and then try to solve the problem. immediate crisis.

"F! Woo!" George covered his mouth and swallowed back the scream that was about to come out. He desperately signaled Fred beside him to look in one direction.

Anna also noticed George's gesture. A few tens of meters away from them, there seemed to be something moving in the white mist.

Occasionally, the hair is exposed, and the arms are occasionally exposed, but it is not very human-like, because except for the hair and arms hanging on it, its whole body is twisted like a piece of bread chewed by an old grandma, and it is so disgusting that no one will feel sick. appetite.

The three breathed lightly, waiting for this weird bread to pass by not far away.

Breathe, breathe, breathe, exhale.

"Why are you panting so loudly?" George couldn't help but whispered to Fred, "I'm afraid that monster is deaf and can't hear?"

"What nonsense are you talking about! I was obviously holding my breath just now!" Fred glared at George in the fog.

Then he saw an extra head between his and George's.

With a gloomy smile and thin cheeks, Fred could even see his yellowed teeth clearly, and his beard that he didn't know how long he hadn't shaved.

It was the skeleton-like old man I saw in the old house just now.

Now behind them.