Chapter 337 The Misfortune of Ordinary Couples

( ) This is undoubtedly the messiest living room Maca has seen so far. All the furniture has been pushed down to the ground, and the tapestry that should have been hanging on the wall has also been torn and scattered randomly in the corner.

And the place where Maca came in was next to the dining table in this living room, and all kinds of ceramic tableware were smashed to pieces under his feet.

It can be seen that this place has experienced a storm-like destruction.

"Ok?"

He looked left and right, and found that there was still a crooked picture frame hanging on the wall. After straightening it casually, he looked carefully at the photo behind the broken glass.

In that magical photo, a young wizard couple were standing peacefully together, ordinary in appearance and clothes.

Only occasionally... Occasionally, the wife would glance at her husband, but she would quickly look away again. The look in her eyes when she peeked at her husband made Maca feel a little hesitant.

All in all, this doesn't look like a normal couple by any means.

"...As far as the description of the information is concerned, it should be the wizard's fault." Maca nodded slightly.

His eyes left the photo frame, and looked around the living room like a hurricane again, but he didn't find anything particularly strange.

Um, or in other words, it's all so messed up, can there be anything weirder than this?

Of course there is.

After Maca took a few steps forward, his feet stopped suddenly, because he seemed to hear an extremely faint voice... No, it was two!

"……above?"

Maca subconsciously glanced at the ceiling, listening to the two faint voices.

But in the next instant, the voice disappeared extremely abruptly.

After thinking for a while, he raised his leg and walked towards the stairs on the side of the living room. At the same time, he went through the previous information in his mind again.

In fact, the people living here are a very ordinary couple.

My husband works in a medium-sized employment team in the black market. Of course, most of the tasks in the black market are not serious, and the wizards in this line of work are naturally not very serious;

However,

His wife is a gentle and weak woman who can't even scold others smoothly.

Although it is not clear how the couple came together, the life between them is not difficult to imagine.

The husband leaves early and returns late because of his livelihood, so he can only leave his wife to guard the house alone. And because the husband is not strong enough, the completion rate of the task has not been high, so the money earned and the energy put in are completely unequal.

The excessive pressure made her husband increasingly haggard, and the couple never had children of their own.

It's just that this family is different from other old-fashioned stories. Although the husband has a bad temper, he never beat or scolded his wife.

From the point of view of the person who provided the information, this is a small but very stable family despite hardships.

However, not long ago, the family suddenly collapsed.

First, my husband fell ill, and his mind became blurred, and he could only lie in bed all day in a daze. And without the only source of income, life becomes more and more difficult.

In order to make ends meet, the wife sold the house left to them by her parents, and then moved to this rented house with her husband.

Although renting a house in the black market is not cheap, she cannot take her husband to move outside. This was only because her husband had been on the black market's employment team for so long, and had already been included in the list of dangerous persons by the Ministry of Magic.

But even so, the family's bad luck still hasn't left.

After a period of time, the husband who was only in a daze suddenly attacked his wife. While his wife was in a coma, he ran into the black market and made a big fuss, even attracting the order maintenance team of the black market.

That should be the first time this man had symptoms of "crazy".

After that, his wife took a lot of effort to get her husband back home, as if she wanted to find someone to treat her husband.

But after going through several useless back and forth, she finally imprisoned her husband at home.

At that time, the person who provided this information told Maca this story in the form of small talk, and some of the details were very clear, but one could not help but doubt its authenticity.

But for Maca, the key point of this story is not the warm and sad background, but the follow-up of this story.

Because this is a story with a beginning and no end.

Just a few days later, everything seemed to settle down. My husband went out to work again, and he still left early and returned late, and even seemed to be more active than before.

And the wife is still as usual, taking care of household affairs during the day, leaving a lamp for her husband at night, and quietly waiting for her husband's return.

It was as if that period of nightmarish days ended inexplicably.

Among them, what happened? Had some good potions master cured her husband, or was there some other reason?

With a touch of curiosity, Maca walked up the stairs gently and came upstairs.

Standing in the corridor on the second floor, he sensed it intently, and soon found that there were regular fluctuations that had been cast in the room on the left side of the stairs.

"...a silencing spell?"

He stood in front of the door to confirm, and then nodded in understanding. The faint sound just now was probably due to the nullification of the silencing spell; and the sudden disappearance of the sound must have been made up again.

After habitually confirming the touch of the wand in his hand, Maca tapped the doorknob with the tip of the wand—the door opened silently.

The first thing he saw was a double bedroom that was even more messy than the living room. And in this bedroom, a puzzling scene is being played out silently...

On the bed in the bedroom, a man in pajamas was tied up with a cursed rope, his mouth opened and closed, his expression was in a trance;

And on the floor next to the bed, a woman was lying there, and the ground was covered with brown potion bottles.

Her expression looked manic, and she was still holding the same potion bottle tightly in her hand, pouring it into her mouth continuously.

At this moment, Maca's reaction could not be described as unpleasant. He stretched out his wand and pointed, and the power of the floating spell was immediately exerted on the woman.

Afterwards, he lightly picked up his wand again, and the potion bottle in the woman's hand floated steadily in front of him. There was even half a bottle of potion in it, and not a little bit of it was spilled.

The eyes of the woman who lost the potion bottle became even more violent, but under the control of Maca, she couldn't move a bit.

Maca ignored the woman, he quickly reached out and grabbed the potion bottle in his hand, put it under his nose and shook it. With a slight movement of the nostrils, his floating charm actually failed for a moment, causing the woman to suddenly sink a few inches.

In the next second, a trace of shock flashed in Maca's eyes.

What surprised him wasn't his momentary loss of consciousness. Although the potion that could make people trance just by smell must be very powerful, it didn't shock him.

What surprised him was the effect of this potion, which made him have an inexplicable doubt.

"Is it a sense of disobedience? Or a sense of familiarity?" Maca couldn't help frowning, "This feeling...I always feel...something is wrong..."

He cast a full-body binding spell on the woman, and then he took a few steps inside, picked up a bottle stopper from the ground, and put it back into the mouth of the potion bottle in his hand.

After stuffing the half bottle of potion into his waist, he tapped the woman's mouth with his wand again.

"Ok?"

I saw that after he untied the restraint on the woman's mouth, he could only see her mouth moving, but no sound came out. He was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that the silencing spell in this room was still there!

However, after the silencing spell was released, the male and female voices in front of Maca immediately exploded in his ears.

"...Goddess! Don't... don't leave me, Goddess..."

"Goddess... please forgive your servant..."

Although the shouts of these two people seemed to be full of passion, but the content was extremely monotonous. It was nothing more than a few words being said upside down, which made the noise a bit unbearable.

It's just that most of those who have lived in Black's old house have long been immune to this annoying howling. Maca just listened to their shouts, frowning in thought.

At this moment, there was a sudden "pop" sound in the room, followed by another light "huh".

"I just heard a burst of shouting from the second floor, and subconsciously apparated in..." Tonks stood behind Maca, looked at the man and woman in front of him, and said with surprise on his face, "They What is this called? Goddess?"

"Well, goddess."

Maca nodded, and added a body-binding spell to the two of them, and the whole world became quiet immediately.

"Although I don't know what the 'Goddess' they called refers to, but it must be related to this potion." He flicked the empty potion bottle on the ground with his foot, "or... this should be a symptom, right? ..."

"Is this the kind of potion?" Tonks asked in surprise, "So many bottles?"

"Yes," Maca said thoughtfully, "so many bottles..."

Tonks thought for a while, then hesitated and said, "Then what should we do next, should we take them away?"

"I probably can't ask anything right now, so I can only take it away first, and wait until I go back... huh?"

He was about to put a disillusionment spell on the couple, but when his eyes passed over the wife's face, the movements in his hands stopped.

"What's wrong?" Tonks asked suspiciously.

Maca didn't answer, he just looked into the woman's eyes, as if to confirm his guess in his heart, he released the restraint on her face again.

"...you, you...who are you?"

A weak but calm voice sounded from her mouth, causing a slight change in Maca's expression.

"Good evening, Miss Betsy. How offensive it is to come uninvited at this late hour."