Chapter 1547 Careful Planning
"McLean?" Haierbo stood on the top of the tower, lightly pressing Harry's shoulder and said, "I found that it seems necessary for me to ask you a question first."
As he spoke, he raised his other free arm and waved his hands towards the spiral town below to give a slight gesture.
"The people in this town...where have they all gone?"
It is not surprising that Hai Erbo has such doubts, because although he does not seem to be very interested in Spiral Town, he is actually "listening" to various actions and changes in the town all the time.
Therefore, when he entered Spiral Town himself and found that the facts were completely different from what he knew, he would naturally be surprised and amazed accordingly.
As for the specific means by which Hai Erbo pays attention to the situation in Spiral Town, and where the gap between the reality and the situation he understands comes from, it depends on the fact that Hermione and Ron received in the temporary residence not long ago. Maca's message started.
Although, Maca's preparations for this are obviously much earlier than that.
...
"Ron, what's on it?"
Just as the dust in the temporary house suddenly turned into a human form and handed a thin paper to the two, Hermione on the stretcher couldn't help but stood up and asked.
"Uh," Ron stared at the first sentence on the paper for a while, and then said in astonishment, "Maka said, the two survivors in the observation room were actually dead long ago, but they still It's just that I didn't realize the fact that I was already dead... Is there such a thing in this world?"
However, facing the astonishing fact that Ron said, Hermione just raised her eyebrows, and even showed a little surprise on her face.
"Ron," she paused for a moment, and then urged, "What else? There should be other more important things written on it, right?"
"Ah! Yes!"
Ron was just a little stunned by the message, and he continued to read it after Hermione reminded him. Not long after, the surprise on his expression gradually turned into worry.
"Maka said that they were actually 'living corpses', and...it was very likely that Hai Erbo deliberately let them be discovered by the patrol team. Although they didn't know it, they came to Spiral Town In itself, it is to serve as Hai Erbo's 'ears'."
Hearing this, Hermione nodded and said softly:
"That's why they have completely different symptoms from the old Death Eater in Faversham..."
While whispering to herself, she was also secretly thinking about Maca's complete intention of concealing these situations. After a while, she continued:
"...That's right, that's right! It seems that Maca deliberately locked them in the observation room and let us stay there as much as possible! He did this to let us, who don't know it, behave in the most natural way." He revealed the situation and actions of the battle to Hai Erbo, and did not hand it over to Delphine until the end... Ron, what else? There should be something below!"
Ron, who was listening to Hermione's step-by-step analysis, saw her asking, and then turned his gaze back to the paper, and read the most critical paragraph of the first three paragraphs:
"After reading this note, be sure to inform Lupine immediately, and lead all the refugees in the town to the central square. At that time, the secret passage will be opened, and the whole town will be evacuated urgently."
After reading the above text, Ron couldn't help but said in a daze:
"Evacuate? Now?"
When the two arrived at the temporary residence, the fog had already shrouded the entire Canterbury, and the army of living corpses was already on their way. Beginning to retreat at this most urgent time, of course, will make people worry about whether it will be too late.
then,
If you want to transfer all the refugees in the whole town without being noticed by Haierbo's "ears", you probably have to choose to fight at this most dangerous time.
However, with regard to the plan to evacuate the whole town before the enemy attacked, Hermione still had one last doubt in her mind, what was the purpose of Maca making these arrangements so painstakingly?
Is it just to send everyone away from Haierbo's nose in the most sure way? No, if that was the case, why did everyone rush here to take refuge in the first place?
"Hermione?"
Seeing that she seemed to be alone on the stretcher, Ron waited for a while, and finally couldn't help asking:
"Maka told us to go to Lupine after reading the note... Should we go?"
"Ok?"
When Hermione heard this, she recovered from her thoughts, and then Ron saw her immediately wave her hand to the door behind.
"Sorry, I'm a little distracted... Let's go! We'll go there right away!"
Maca's plan was obviously cautious and complete. He separated the changes one after another, and only let different executors know part of the actions each time.
For example, Delphi naturally didn't know the content of the note between Hermione and Ron, but she was told by Maca to call the two to a temporary residence at a specific time;
For another example, when he changed the plan with Lupine earlier, he mentioned that Spiral Town should make preparations for retreat at any time as early as possible;
For another example, only Delphi and Luna, who knew the details of the whole town in the mercury statue, knew the entrance to the secret passage.
And when all the parts of the whole plan are gradually connected together like this, a complete action plan can be pieced together, lest a certain link in it be exposed and all his plans will be scrapped.
When Ron took Hermione to the lobby of the New Ministry of Magic and informed Lupine, due to Maca's prior reminder, the retreat became quite rapid. With the assistance of Luna in the mercury statue, all the asylum seekers left from the large secret evacuation passage hidden under the central square to the east coast.
This retreat was undoubtedly extremely thorough, including Kingsley and other fighters, as well as Hermione, Neville and some other key defenders in this plan.
It can be said that Maca intends to leave most of the protective measures open and leave it there.
However, there are still people who still need to stay in the end. In addition to Maca himself, there are Harry who has been by his side since he resisted the army of living corpses, Luna who needs to maintain two layers of magic shield... and Maca has clearly asked him to fight against the zombies in the last period of time. Delphi stayed in the observation room to confuse Hai Erbo.
This time, Delphi, who hadn't been able to go to the front line to help clear up the living corpses when necessary, finally fulfilled Maca's request seriously. Although... even Maca didn't know why she hadn't acted in the town before.