Chapter 1102 Ideal and Reality
? For Martin, it is obviously not a very easy task to call "believers" and hold underground meetings. Not to mention, in order to further deter the congregation, he deliberately chose London as the venue for the meeting.
Yes, even if it was considered to be in the suburbs of London, it was still within the scope of the city of London. Similar to the Muggle world, the City of London is also a center of power in the British wizarding world.
But to be honest, although Martin's approach did achieve good results-at least many believers were threatened by him in many ways, and none of them dared to resist.
But in fact, after choosing this underground church in the outskirts of London, it also made it difficult for Martin to hold frequent meetings.
After all, he has to avoid people's eyes and ears as much as possible, so as to reduce the discovery by Aurors, dark wizard strikers, and even Namaka McLean.
However, precisely because this secret meeting was not held at will by Martin, every opportunity to call these people here will be particularly precious.
When Pansy Apparated to the last cemetery, she saw Martin waiting there.
"Sir...good evening."
When she had to go up to say hello, Pansy couldn't help but feel a little regretful—it was all because of Malfoy's repeated urging, and she obviously came earlier, so that there were only her and Martin on the cemetery.
As a result, she couldn't help but muttered in her heart:
"If I knew it earlier, I should at least choose to reveal myself on the road outside the cemetery. That way, I can at least come in after the invisibility cloak takes effect again."
There was no way, even though she had put on the Auror invisibility cloak before coming here, but when she cast the Apparition spell to move, the invisibility effect would temporarily disappear.
So usually when Aurors use them, they usually don't directly arrive at the destination of the mission, but will pick a nearby place to show up.
It's a pity that Pan Xi, who has never used this thing before, is only a little familiar with the method of use, and she doesn't know the points to pay attention to these experiences.
"Oh, it's Miss Parkinson... yes, good evening!"
As soon as Martin saw Pansy's arrival, he immediately broke away from the state of being slightly dazed in front of the tombstone, and there was a smile on his face, intentional or unintentional.
"I'm glad to see you here early,
I think this not only proves that you have enough contract spirit, but also have a lot of enthusiasm. "
Based on Martin's mildness at the moment, it is not difficult to see that Maca's guess about him is almost indistinguishable.
After these days of consideration, he understood the importance of Pan Xi, so his attitude towards Pan Xi suddenly improved.
On the other side of another grave not far from him, with Martin's pretentiously kind words, Pansy also remembered some instructions mentioned by Malfoy and Maca respectively.
That's right, even though she was afraid and hated the man in front of her, her task was to try to penetrate into the man. And only in this way can she complete the task Maca entrusted to her as soon as possible.
As for the "plan" Malfoy mentioned earlier, Pansy still didn't know anything about it, so he could only put it aside.
But where did Malfoy go? What did McLean tell him?
Speaking of which, as Malfoy said before, he had no intention of getting into this organization with Pansy at all. When the two of them cast the Disappearing Curse at the same time just now, Pansy did come to this cemetery, but Malfoy didn't know where he went.
These thoughts flashed through Pansy's mind, but she didn't think about it any more, but continued following what Martin just said:
"Well... I thought about it after I went back last time, and I still really want to have a stronger power than I have now. Obviously, this kind of power will not be easily obtained-I must have it. Give something."
"...So, Mr. Martin, I am ready to contribute my insignificant strength to the mighty Mr. Haierbo."
For Pansy, who was born in the Parkinson family, such flattery is not in line with her personality, but it is not something she knows nothing about.
At least in the family social occasions in the past, such expressions of loyalty can even be said to be seen everywhere.
"Oh, really?" Martin raised his eyebrows when he heard the words, "It would be great if you think so...Miss Parkinson, I think you understand, in fact, I don't want to always To coerce you with those "means of last resort". In fact, doing things for the teacher itself is a very honorable thing."
While he was talking, he suddenly spread his hands and said with a smile:
"Look! The teacher is a genuine ancient wizard. So far, his age alone is beyond the reach of anyone—even the only master alchemist in modern history, Ni Ke Flamel, he lived only a fraction of the teacher's life."
"As far as I know, the teacher seems to be able to continue to live, and will never usher in the day of death!"
Speaking of which, Martin himself couldn't help getting a little excited, but he waved his hand and said:
"Think about it! This is real 'immortality'! It is something that Voldemort has been chasing for all his life but has not been able to obtain...but the teacher has obtained it a long, long time ago..."
When it comes to the allure to ordinary people, immortality is obviously stronger than any power or personal strength.
Therefore, Martin obviously came up with this rhetoric not only to attract Pan Xi, because even he himself came for eternal life.
Hearing this guy talk more and more excited, Pan Xi couldn't help but feel a little ridiculous.
That's right, the power of eternal life is indeed very attractive, and she is naturally not exempt. But think about it carefully, will Hai Erbo tell others his biggest secret?
The possibility of getting immortality from Hai Erbo who is named "Despicable" is too small.
What's more, it is still unknown who will have the last laugh between Hai Erbo and Na McClain. Judging from what the two have done so far, Pan Xi would rather choose to believe the latter.
However, she thought so in her heart, but she couldn't say the same with her mouth.
The next moment, I saw that Pan Xi forced himself to express some anticipation, then nodded and said:
"That's right! Mr. Haierbo is an ancient wizard who has survived from ancient Greece to the present. His power must be beyond our imagination... Oh, yes, I can almost foresee the great Mr. Haierbo standing here The pinnacle of the era!"
Just as the two of them were chatting happily, more and more figures appeared in the cemetery. Noticing this, Pansy quickly flipped the hood over his head, quietly covering his face.
Martin obviously didn't care about this, and he was still trying to stir up Pansy's enthusiasm with his words.
After a while, there were more and more people in the cemetery shrouded in night, and there seemed to be quite a few wizards who had attended the rally last time.
Naturally, it is impossible for these wizards who became the "religion members" under Hai Erbo's name to come willingly. Rather, there are many people who want to leave this organization as soon as possible.
But unfortunately, the hidden danger of the ancient magic ritual may not be so easy to solve.
Realizing that most people had already arrived, Martin temporarily stopped persuading Pan Xi, and turned to face the believers who were standing in the open space.
After briefly counting the number of people, he finally spoke again:
"Welcome everyone to come to our second gathering, but before going in, I have to say something—next time you can choose to manifest directly in the church, there is no need to gather here first."
After being reminded like this, he didn't open the passage under the tombstone last time, but directly cast Apparation and disappeared in place.
In the following time, Martin waited for everyone to take their seats in the underground church, and then began a well-prepared speech. He talked about the current situation of the global magic world, the past of everyone including himself, and the future that Haierbo can bring to everyone.
It’s not that no one understands his idea—in fact, since people usually value benefits, if there is a rich return that can match the risk, most of the people here will be tempted.
However, although Martin said he was doing things for Haierbo, Haierbo didn't give him too many resources. In the case of insufficient benefits, it is somewhat difficult for others to rely on drawing cakes to satisfy their hunger.
However, under the strong binding force of a certain threat, no one dared to make trouble in front of him until now.
So until the end, the whole rally was actually a success...at least on the surface!
As for Pansy, of course she sat down there like everyone else.
Because of Maca's previous advice to "make friends", she tried to exchange a few words with the people around her, trying to find some connections with the headgear.
However, most of the people sitting here are very guarded, and deep in their hearts are even more preoccupied, so how can they talk too much to her.
After about half an hour, Panxi couldn't help feeling a little distressed—the task Maca entrusted to her seemed easy, but it was actually very difficult to carry out.
But just as she was listening to Martin's speech on the stage and thinking about what to do, a series of slight crackling sounds suddenly sounded from around the underground church.
"It's the sound of Apparition!"
At that moment, this thought passed through everyone's minds.