Chapter 432: Behind the Chaos

( ) When Maca saw the blaze rushing out of the distant building, he immediately realized that it was the Woolworth Building, the seat of the Magical Congress of America.

Unlike the British Ministry of Magic, the US did not hide their headquarters underground. Although they also concealed the location of the organization, the several relocations made their concealment seem a bit full of loopholes.

"Have all the silent people gone to the Magic Congress?" Maca shook his head, "But I'm not qualified to say that, isn't there a lot of Death Eaters hidden in the British Ministry of Magic?"

Right now he had no intention of meddling in other people's business, needless to say, without further delay, he immediately turned around and entered the entrance of Jackson Square.

This time it was not beyond Maca's expectations. In the heavily guarded West End of Jackson Square, when he entered the shed, he saw the figures he was looking for.

"Oh! It's Mr. McLean!" Abigail who opened the door for him immediately urged, "Come in, come in first and then talk about other things..."

After Maca passed her by and stepped into the house, Abigail quickly closed the door of the shed. There have been wizards patrolling outside day and night for the past two days, and she doesn't want people to see that there are so many capable people hiding inside.

"To be honest, we can hardly hide anymore..." She turned around and whispered to Maca, "Just now we were discussing where else to go!"

"No need to discuss, everyone, follow me to England immediately!" Maca took out some kind of cloth piece that he made into a portkey without saying a word, "This is located in front of the main entrance of Hogwarts." door key."

"I understand the truth," said Sirius, who was half leaning against a pile of wooden barrels, looking at Maca with a strange look, "but why..."

"Of course it's easy to hide," Maca said as a matter of course, "If I didn't tell you, who would have thought it was a portkey?"

He paused, and then continued: "Okay, hurry up! Everyone gather here, we're about to leave—"

Before he finished speaking, he stopped suddenly.

"Where's that boy... um... Joshua?"

Maca looked around the small shack, all the children he brought out from the dungeon were here, but he didn't find the big boy who always looked cowardly.

After he asked such a question, the expressions of those children seemed a little sad.

"...We don't know the specifics," Sirius frowned, "but he must have encountered an unexpected situation on the way back here."

"'Back here'?" Maca repeated in doubt.

"Yes," Sirius nodded and said, "Perhaps it would be more appropriate for you to ask these children directly for the details. He disappeared before we came here, but we picked this up on the path in front of the door."

As he spoke, he pointed to the small round table in the middle. On the small table, there was a smashed cake.

"What's going on?" Maca immediately looked at the children.

Most of the children were silent, but almost all eyes were on one of the little boys. When Maca saw this, he also turned his attention to him.

"...Sir," the little boy stammered, "I'm...sorry, it's...I'm not good."

"No need to apologize, let me tell you what happened first." Maca said calmly.

After that, the little boy's words let Maca roughly understand the ins and outs of the matter.

It's actually very simple - yesterday was the little boy's birthday. Even though he is young, he knows that now is not the time to care about this.

But sometimes, it is difficult to suppress emotions, not to mention that he is only a young child. Under the depressed mood, he couldn't help crying.

And Joshua, who never knew how to communicate with people, naturally became a little at a loss—he was the oldest person here, and he should be responsible for comforting these children younger than him.

But where does he know how to coax a child?

Maca did leave a lot of food and drinking water here, but he didn't leave a book teaching others how to coax children?

It's just that it's obviously not the case to just let him cry like that.

Perhaps Joshua was moved with compassion, or maybe he used this to recall his past, or maybe he was afraid that someone passing by would hear the crying.

In short, he agreed to the boy on impulse, buying him a birthday cake!

So, Joshua, who hesitated again and again, finally left the shed alone, and ran outside to Jackson Square to find where there was a cake.

And when he left, there was no more news.

After hearing this, Maca first glanced at Sirius. He didn't need to think about it to know that this guy's expression seemed to say - if I hadn't been able to move more, I would have gone to find someone a long time ago.

He glanced at another type of child, and the expectation on their faces was almost ready to be seen.

"Okay! I see..." Maca sighed, "You go back with me first, and then I'll come back to find him, understand?"

Everyone nodded at the same time.

"Come here if you understand!" He urged again, "There are a lot of people, just stretch out your fingers and touch them. Hurry up!"

After everyone gathered in a circle and put their fingers on the portkey, Maca looked at Sirius again. Because Sirius is still very weak, everyone is squatting beside him at the moment, which looks quite crowded.

"How is it?" Maca asked, "Can you support the movement of the Portkey... If it wasn't for this unexpected situation, I would still like you to stay in the United States to recover!"

"It's okay," Sirius said decisively, "I can bear this little discomfort."

"Well, then—"

As Maca spoke, he activated the Portkey, and as the space expanded and contracted, such a group of adults and children who were close together suddenly disappeared in the shed under twists and turns.

...

Almost at the same time when Maca and others crossed the North Atlantic in an instant, the Woolworth building was still in chaos.

The American Aurors stationed at the headquarters immediately acted at the fastest speed, those who deployed defenses arranged defenses, and those who were in charge of pursuit attacked immediately, while other staff members also rushed to move the injured person to the infirmary in the building to go.

As for the place where the incident happened, which was Zoe's office, only the leader of the Aurors brought someone over to quickly inquire about it, and left in a hurry after leaving one person to guard the place temporarily.

Of course, Zooey didn't know anything, and she had to be kept under temporary custody like a prisoner, obviously feeling aggrieved in her heart.

"...forget it, it's an emergency after all," she sat on the chair, looked at the Auror standing at the door, and thought helplessly, "but it was really scary just now... I thought I was going to die Fortunately, the attacker has escaped..."

However, she undoubtedly reassured a little too soon.

Just as she was sighing secretly in her heart, suddenly there was a muffled groan from the door, and then she saw the Auror fell silently on the ground without making a sound.

Immediately afterwards, a sorcerer wrapped in a black robe walked in through the broken doorway Shi Shiran. Beside the wizard, there were two guys who exuded a gloomy aura all over their bodies.

"Huh...huh...little girl..." The black-robed wizard smiled sullenly, "This is the filing office of the Archives and Records Department, am I right?"

"you--"

Zooey was taken aback for a moment, and she immediately realized that her Legilimency talent was not working well this time.

"Don't ask me who I am," the black-robed wizard sneered, "You should keep such stupid questions in your stomach! Now, immediately hand over the recent important meeting minutes to me—of course, the most important Don't miss the Auror layout file!"

"We don't keep that kind of thing here." Zoe replied tremblingly.

"Really?" The black-robed wizard snorted coldly, "Are you sure?"

He walked towards Zooey step by step, ignoring that Zooey was already huddled up on the chair, and almost moved in front of her.

"Back then, since Lord Greenwald lurked in the Auror's office for a long time, all such documents were hidden here... Do you think I don't know?"

The old and cold voice hit Zooey's ears, and the inexplicable sense of danger made the hair on the back of her neck stand on end.

"No, there's really... really nothing here..." Zoe shrank her neck and said with a shy face, "The Minister of Law Enforcement has come just now—he took away all the important documents."

"Huh?" The black-robed wizard's face hidden in the hood showed a trace of hesitation. He narrowed his eyes and looked at Zoe's expression, and after a while he snorted heavily, "If that's the case, then... "

He straightened up abruptly, waved his long robe sleeves, and drew out his wand.

"Legiliency!"

The black-robed wizard cast a spell extremely decisively, trying to read Zoe's memory directly. But in the next second, his expression changed involuntarily.

"Occlumency?" He glared at Zoe with glaring eyes and said, "Remove your Occlumency! Immediately!"

"No, I didn't—" Zooey shook her head vigorously, and said in a panic, "I don't know that... I am, I was born..."

The wizard in black glared at Zooey coldly, and waved his hands impatiently.

"Really? Naturally?" he said sternly. "Interesting! What a funny joke—"

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly turned around and walked towards the door. When he passed the two people who were following him, he waved to them with a little annoyance.

"Take it away!" the black-robed wizard ordered, "I'll take this woman and that damned Auror on the ground!"

As soon as these words were uttered, Zooey felt a black mist around her eyes, and she lost consciousness in an instant.