"I can feel that we're getting close to it, one by one," Dumbledore said excitedly.

Ethan and Dumbledore walked over a wooden signpost sticking out of the thorn bush on the left side of the path.

A wooden signpost with two directional arrows in the direction of the road the two came from reads: Greater Hangleton, 5 miles.

On the other side it reads: Little Hangleton 1 mile.

The two walked along a path lined with tall hedges.

Then, the path turned to the left and descended steeply down the hillside, and a valley appeared in front of the two of them at a glance.

Ethan saw a village, undoubtedly Little Hangleton, nestled between two steep hills, with churches and cemeteries clearly visible.

On the hillside opposite the valley, there is a very dilapidated mansion surrounded by a large area of ​​tall weeds.

And this is the destination of Ethan and Dumbledore's trip, the old house of the Gaunt family.

The road to the old house was a narrow dirt road, and the hedgerows on both sides were taller and denser than those they had just passed by.

The dirt road was winding, potholed, and rock-strewn, as steep as the path just now, and seemed to lead to a small patch of dark woods below.

This old house looks extremely decayed. A huge tree in the yard blocks all the sunlight of the old house. The old tree casts a cool dark and dense shadow which makes the old house look gloomy.

The walls were covered with moss, and many of the roof tiles had fallen off, revealing the rafters here and there. All around the house were thick nettles, tall nettles up to the windows, which were very small and thick with old grime.

Ethan found an obvious big hole in the roof, and a plant protruded from the hole. It could be seen that the house was indeed unoccupied.

Most notably, a dry, dead snake corpse was nailed to the door of the house.

As soon as he approached the house, the pendant on Ethan's neck vibrated wildly.

This means that in this old house, there is a lot of magic.

In fact, there was no need for a pendant to remind him. Ethan, who was standing in front of the old house, could feel the dark magic aura that was playing around.

Ethan twitched his nose exaggeratedly, "The stench of black magic." Ethan muttered.

"It seems that Voldemort doesn't want us in." Dumbledore said lightly.

"All curses end," Dumbledore raised his elder wand and whispered to the old mansion.

As soon as Dumbledore finished speaking, a dense crackling sound was remembered in the old house.

The old house made an overwhelmed creaking sound, and the dust was flying, as if it was about to fall in the next moment.

But in the end, the old house survived.

"I think we can go in and have a look," Dumbledore said.

The two walked forward, and just as Ethan's foot stepped on the wooden floor of the porch, he stepped out of a hole.

The wooden floors are now completely rotted over time.

Ethan and Dumbledore came to the door with one foot deep and one foot shallow. Dumbledore was just about to push the door when Ethan stopped him.

Dumbledore looked at Ethan with some doubts, and Ethan pointed his finger at the top of the door frame.

There is a very imperceptible thin line there.

"All incantations can only solve magical traps in the end. Obviously, Voldemort also placed a lot of traps in the house." Eason said.

Saying that, Ethan gently untied the knot, and there was a rustling sound from behind the door.

At this time, Ethan carefully opened the door, and there were several slender crossbow arrows scattered on the ground at the main entrance of the door.

It seems that this is the mechanism that was just cracked by Ethan.

The house seems to consist of three small rooms, the large one in the middle doubles as a kitchen and living room, and two doors lead to other rooms.

Gu Chang

Ethan covered his nose, everything in the room was rotting, and the stench filled the room.

The ground was sticky and dark.

The room was covered with spider webs, and the black spiders looked fat and big, and the room had become a paradise for insects.

A large iron pot with a broken bottom was upside down on the stove in the kitchen.

And the sink to the left of the stove was full of jars of all sizes, all of which were cluttered together, and some of the jars seemed to have something squirming in the dark.

Others were filled with unknown, foul-smelling liquids, and Ethan didn't even want to know what those were.

The two carefully probed the broken room, Ethan bent down or raised his hand from time to time to solve one trap after another.

At this moment, an extremely strong sense of being watched suddenly flashed through Ethan's heart from behind.

Ethan turned his head in an instant, and a figure seemed to flash past in the depths of the corridor.

"I'll take a look!" Ethan said to Dumbledore.

He drew out his long sword, the sword in his right hand, and the stick in his left hand, and walked carefully towards the depths of the corridor.

At this moment, Ethan's demon hunting senses are fully activated, and he carefully scans every inch of the ground in this room.

It's a pity that Ethan didn't feel any living thing except mosquitoes, rats and toads.

Ethan finally reached the bottom of the hallway, where several rooms were empty.

The furniture inside was also completely rotten and out of shape.

And Ethan finally found the source of the silhouette just now, it was a mirror.

This mirror is already blurry, even if Ethan is standing in front of the mirror, it will be blurry according to Ethan's appearance.

Ethan was puzzled, his hunch was not wrong, and someone was really spying on him just now.

Dumbledore scoured every inch of the room, trying to find Gaunt's ring.

This was so important to Dumbledore.

At this moment, Dumbledore suddenly heard a voice that he was thinking about day and night and was extremely familiar.

"Brother one by one" Dumbledore looked forward in disbelief.

A girl with blonde hair in a blue dress looked at him blankly and tenderly.

"Brother, have you finally come to me?" the blonde girl said softly.

"Ali-Anna?" Dumbledore murmured.

"However, how is this possible?" Dumbledore said in confusion.

"Brother, help me!" The girl's voice suddenly became shrill, and she reached out to Dumbledore.

Dumbledore subconsciously wanted to hold the girl's hand, and he stretched his hand forward.

When Ethan heard Dumbledore's voice, he knew something was wrong.

He hurried to Dumbledore's front, just in time to see Dumbledore preparing to put on a gold ring with black gemstones on it.

"Alder!" Ethan didn't even think about it, and sent a seal to Dumbledore.

The seal slammed into Dumbledore's body, knocking him to the ground, and the ring rolled to the ground.

"You!" Dumbledore roared, and he looked at Ethan angrily, his expression distorted with anger.

(I have been laying the groundwork for the plot recently, the next chapter starts, and finally the climax can be reached)