Chapter 1894 Changes in the Ancient City

In the south of England, there is a river that cuts into the land from the Solent Strait, meandering from south to north, until it passes through Winchester before turning to the east and gradually weakening.

This river is called the Yiqin River.

To be honest, this river is actually not too long, and it's not too famous. It doesn't even rank well in the UK where there are already many rivers.

But this time, its existence just happened to bring great convenience to Hermione and her group's itinerary.

"We go into the water."

After re-entering the mist along the river, Hermione decided to start traveling underwater as she encountered more and more groups of living corpses.

The flowing river will naturally hinder the movement of the living corpses, so there are not many enemies underwater. As long as the breathing problem is ensured, the safety will be greatly improved immediately.

And speaking of breathing underwater... For the current Hermione and the others, it is obviously just a trivial matter.

After all the members of the team, including Harry, cast the head-soaking curse, everyone put away their brooms and sank into the water of the Itchin River.

In fact, the weather has been quite warm recently. Unfortunately, the UK has not seen the sun for too long, and the temperature has been very low. Now the big guy is soaked in the water, and he can't help shivering.

However, after experiencing the near-fatal crisis before, he was more worried about the horror of dying on the battlefield at any time than fighting hard, and being a little frozen in the water seemed nothing at all.

"Puff..."

Hermione, with a big bubble wrapped around her head, turned her head to look at Harry, and after confirming that there was nothing wrong, she made a "go" gesture to her friends.

The next moment, she suddenly waved her wand and pointed behind her.

"Boom!"

As a cloud of air blasted from the tip of her staff, she rushed forward suddenly. Although the speed was much slower than that of a broomstick, at least it was much better than swimming by herself.

Seeing this, everyone imitated her and followed her up, all the way along the river to Winchester in the north.

...

"Wow!"

By the time Hermione and the group surfaced for the first time and reapplied the Bubble Curse, the sky had gradually turned dark. Looking left and right in the middle of the river, the surrounding space became dizzy again, and it was impossible to see far.

"Stay here for a while, I'll go to the shore to take a look."

Panting slightly, Hermione paddled slowly to the river. And as she gradually approached the river bank, a large number of shadowy figures in the shadow of the thick fog came into her eyes again.

The density of living corpses here is already quite high, even higher than when they were besieged by a large group of living corpses in Downton. Going ashore here to find recognizable signposts is by no means a good choice.

Hermione didn't even dare to get too close to the shore, because those living corpses were very sensitive to the fluctuation of magic power of living people, and once they got close, they might be noticed at any time.

Fortunately, she soon discovered that she was lucky this time, because there was a road along the river on the shore, and there was a road sign not far ahead.

"Here we are! Winchester is ahead!"

When Hermione could barely make out a few letters on the road sign, a look of joy appeared on her tired face—even if she was traveling underwater by magic spells,

But in order to maintain balance in the water, such a long journey still takes a lot of physical strength.

"Further ahead, when we really enter the area around the ancient city of Winchester, the number of living corpses will be greatly reduced." Neville, who also swam over, said, "It was like this when we came last time— —Maka has sent people to clear out all the living corpses in the ancient city, and there are wizards who can manipulate black flames patrolling everywhere, and soon we will be completely safe."

"Ok."

Hermione nodded, then followed Neville back to the middle of the river, beckoning everyone to move on.

However, when they emerged from the water again, Hermione found that the situation didn't seem to be exactly what Neville said...

"Here... you should have reached the ancient city area, right?" Hermione held onto the stones by the river and looked a few more times towards the bank, but suddenly felt a chill on her skin, "What are those?"

That's right, there seemed to be many figures walking and patrolling on the shore, but... Black Flame Wizard? No, no, those guys who can use black flames to fend off enemies may look a bit weird, but Hermione heard from Harry that, except when they are fighting, they usually express themselves as normal people.

However, those figures on the shore all have the appearance of human beings, even though the specific appearance cannot be clearly seen through the fog. But the very stiff and weird walking posture of those "figures" made Hermione look like no one at all.

To be honest, compared to those guys above, Hermione felt that the living corpses outside were more human!

After hesitating by the river for a while, she quietly returned to her companion and told everyone what she had seen.

"...Have you seen puppets? To be honest, when I saw those figures on the shore, the first thing I thought of was puppets controlled by a puppeteer with silk threads."

Friends who have faced too many terrible realities now, naturally they will not have much fear of this scene.

It's just that when I think about it, this place should be Maca's territory, and some of them just came here not long ago. This time I came back, but such a big and rather weird change happened again, which made everyone very uneasy.

"Oh! What the hell is Maca doing here!" Ron wiped the cold river water on his face, and muttered in a low voice, "I came in 'lying down' last time, but I saw a lot Thing... I think those black flames are actually scary enough - they all look like dead people. But this time... Hermione, what did you just say? Dolls?"

However, Neville on the side shook his head and said:

"Actually! I think it shouldn't matter... Anyway, this must be Maca's territory, and this will never change, right? When I came here before, I thought that he should be planning to stay here for a long time - and as long as this is still Maca's place, we don't have to worry too much."

"Ok……"

Hermione couldn't help but nodded when she heard the words. She pondered for a moment before saying:

"That's right! Besides, we've all come here, so we have to go up and have a look—how about it! Neville, protect everyone here, and I'll go ashore first to try it out."

After all, seeing that other people wanted to speak, she immediately waved her hand to signal that there is no need to say more.

"give it to me."

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