Chapter 3: The Unreliable Boy

Streets of London in 1938

On the streets of London at five o'clock in the morning, the dim lights can only see halos under the shroud of fog.

Fog deserves to be called the city of fog. Take two breaths of this smog to refresh your mind, and another two breaths to make you feel ecstatic. Take two more breaths...Learn about it at the Brothers Garden Cemetery.

A sound burst resounded in the silent street, and then two figures, one tall and one short, walked out of the fog.

"I'm going! Horse manure!?"

Qin Weijie yelled and cursed, and rubbed the horse dung on the soles of his shoes with a look of disgust on the road paved with stone bricks.

Just now, Qin Weijie and Dumbledore came to London from Southampton in an instant through the Portkey, but it was a pity that Qin Weijie stepped on horse dung on the roadside unfortunately when they landed.

To be honest, London, England during this period was a bit of a mix-and-match.

The urban planning is close to the modern society, the roads are wide, and there is an endless stream of cars on the streets during the day, but at the same time there are also many horse-drawn carriages.

There are even historical records that from the beginning of the 20th century to the middle of the 20th century, there were still a large number of shepherds on the streets of London.

"Professor, the position you chose is really good..."

Qin Weijie spoke to Dumbledore angrily.

Dumbledore didn't answer at this time, but made a gesture to silence Qin Weijie, and at the same time frowned and looked at the darkness and fog ahead.

"protect yourself!"

Dumbledore yelled at Qin Weijie thoughtlessly.

Qin Weijie hadn't recovered from it when he saw a burst of red light suddenly glowing in the darkness and mist ahead.

The red light is as graceful as a wandering dragon, coming straight to Qin Weijie's face.

Qin Weijie was shocked when he saw this, he hugged Ergou tightly, rolled to the side, and happened to hide behind Dumbledore.

Dumbledore had already drawn out his wand, and with a wave of the wand, an invisible barrier appeared in front of the two of them.

"Woof~" Ergou barked, Qin Weijie's face changed and he said loudly: "There are people behind too!!"

As soon as the words fell, black smoke circulated in the mist behind the two, and then a man in a black robe and a strange mask appeared in the mist.

The visitor did not launch another attack, but walked slowly towards Dumbledore and Qin Weijie.

At the same time, people gathered around the two of them.

There are six people in total, each of them is wearing a robe and a mask shaped like a beak, which looks a little funny and a little chilling.

"Professor Dumbledore, we don't want to embarrass you, please give this child to us..." One of the mysterious attackers said to Dumbledore.

Dumbledore also communicated with this group of mysterious attackers.

The two parties communicated in English, and because the speed of the speech was too fast, Qin Weijie could only understand the general idea.

The general meaning is that this group of mysterious attackers seems to belong to a certain employment organization, which is similar to the killer organization or mercenary organization in the Muggle world, and will complete the employer's tasks based on remuneration.

And the target of this group of people is Qin Weijie.

As for who the employer was, Dumbledore did not ask.

After all, they are all professionals, and most of the people who do this kind of business are professional.

The current negotiation is a bit embarrassing, Dumbledore is unwilling to hand over Qin Weijie, and the other party is also unwilling to disclose the information of the employer.

Ever since, the talk fell apart.

The result of the collapse of the talk is, fuck it!

For a while, more than a dozen magical halos emerged one after another, attacking Dumbledore and Qin Weijie like bullets.

Dumbledore is worthy of being a powerful figure at the boss level. In the face of the aggressiveness of the six mysterious attackers, he was not at all inferior, and he even protected Qin Weijie very comprehensively.

However, no matter how powerful Dumbledore was, he still missed a step.

Who said there were only six mysterious attackers?

Just when Dumbledore was going back and forth with the six attackers,

Under the eaves of a corner, a blue magical radiance seemed to appear from the void, and went straight to Qin Weijie.

At this time Dumbledore wanted to rescue him, but Naihe was entangled by the other six people.

The magic curse fell on Qin Weijie in an instant.

The experience of being cursed for the first time was extremely bad. Qin Weijie first felt as if someone had hit his chest with a basketball.

Immediately, a cold feeling spread from his chest.

Qin Weijie felt as if his internal organs were freezing rapidly, he struggled but his body froze completely.

"I rely on it!"

Qin Weijie only had time to sigh helplessly, and then his whole body was completely frozen, his face was ashen, and the ice crystals basically covered Qin Weijie's whole body.

"Invisibility cloak!?" Dumbledore's face changed slightly, and he hurriedly checked Qin Weijie's condition.

Seeing that the group of mysterious attackers had succeeded, they stopped staying and turned into a puff of smoke, blending into the mist.

"Quickly thaw ~ the curse is gone..." Dumbledore kept changing the spell, hoping to cast Qin Weijie in time.

But obviously, the blood and internal organs of Qin Weijie's body were completely frozen, and it was already hopeless.

"Damn it! Who did the Fuli family offend?"

After a long time, Dumbledore stopped trying to treat him, but sighed, and squatted beside Qin Weijie silently, helping Qin Weijie clean up the "remains".

"Woo~Wow~"

For some unknown reason, Ergou suddenly barked at Dumbledore, pushed Dumbledore's hand away fiercely with his head, and then lay beside Qin Weijie, looking curiously, and licking Qin Weijie's hand from time to time.

After an unknown amount of time, when Dumbledore was about to collect Qin Weijie's body, a vision suddenly appeared.

Qin Weijie's body was inexplicably covered with a blue mysterious light.

Together with Xuan Guang, Qin Weijie's stiff body gradually regained its softness, and the ice crystals around him gradually dissipated.

Dumbledore was stunned, and a mysterious and mysterious whisper came from his ear, like the voice of a great god, it was inaudible in detail, but it sounded like a bell.

"The heavens and the earth are natural, the filthy qi is scattered... the evil filth dissipates, the dao qi always exists, and the urgency is like a law!"

With an order, the blue light flourished, and Qin Weijie took advantage of the opportunity to sit up, which really shocked Old Deng.

Old Dengtou has lived for almost fifty years, where has he seen such a formation?

It is completely unscientific, not even magical, that a person who is obviously lifeless can come back to life again, transcending life and death!

At this time, our Professor Dumbledore couldn't help but start to believe that Howard Lovecraft, who was hailed as a "mad scholar" by the international magic circle, put forward an unbelievable statement in his book-the mysterious East The empire, with its immortal Chinese people, is the last barrier against the invasion of evil gods.

It's a pity that this 'mad scholar' had passed away a year ago. If not, Dumbledore would have gone to America to pay a special visit to this mysterious scholar after this incident.

"Cough cough cough... I'm freezing to death~"

Qin Weijie coughed a few times, spat out a mouthful of ice balls, and his whole body couldn't stop shaking, obviously he was very cold.

"Are you okay? You just clearly..." Dumbledore asked cautiously.

"What? What's the matter?" Qin Weijie looked at Dumbledore in confusion.

Seeing that Qin Weijie's expression was not pretending, Dumbledore thought for a while and didn't intend to ask any more questions. After all, in Dumbledore's opinion, Qin Weijie was just a child in his early ten years.

Dumbledore can only temporarily attribute Qin Weijie's resurrection to the mysterious power from the east.

"It's okay." Dumbledore pulled Qin Weijie up, and continued to call Qin Weijie to follow him closely.

"Professor, who are those who attacked me? Why did they attack me?"

"I'm afraid I shouldn't tell you this. I don't know much, but you can go back and ask your grandfather. I think Old Fuli must know more details than I do."

Dumbledore obviously did not intend to discuss this matter further, so Qin Weijie had no choice but to give up.

But at this moment, Qin Weijie is still trying to recall a memory after being cursed just now, there seems to be a gap in that memory, no matter how Qin Weijie recalls it, he can't recall it.

But his intuition told him that that memory was very important, but he didn't know why it was so important.

"Professor, were those people beaten away by you?"

"no"

"Then how did they leave?"

"have no idea"

The awkward conversation made Qin Weijie a little upset. Dumbledore obviously had something to hide from him. Although Qin Weijie was eager to know, he knew in his heart that Dumbledore would not tell him.

After all, no adult is willing to communicate unreservedly with a ten-year-old child. No matter how knowledgeable and kind the adult is, he cannot avoid this kind of "elderly superiority" that comes from the origin of human nature.

I can be nice to you, but you are never equal to me, because you are still too young.

...

After the attack just now, the pace of Dumbledore and Qin Weijie was delayed a lot.

It wasn't until around 6:30 in the morning that the two arrived at their destination - an orphanage that looked a bit depressing

Wu's Orphanage, located in an unknown street in London (Anyway, Qin Weijie doesn't know what street it is)

When Qin Weijie saw this orphanage for the first time, two words appeared in his mind: depression

Standing at the gate of the orphanage, looking inside the main building of the entire orphanage, it is a square building with sharp edges and corners, and the sharp edges and corners are somewhat eye-catching to Qin Weijie.

What made Qin Weijie feel the most depressing was the periphery of the orphanage.

The periphery of the entire orphanage is blocked by high railings, which surround the square main body of the building and are also distributed in a square shape.

"What a broken place, a layer is being added above the railing, it's like a cage! Is this an orphanage, or a prison?"

Qin Weijie couldn't help complaining, Dumbledore was obviously a little absent-minded at this time, and ignored Qin Weijie at all.

At this moment, a plainly dressed woman in her thirties walked towards the door.

"Who are you two?" The woman looked at the two strangely dressed people vigilantly, looking up and down.

In this woman's eyes, a man in his forties or fifties, wearing a fuchsia and very high-profile suit, looked a bit old and disrespectful.

And another child in his early ten years was holding this sick puppy in his arms. He had an oriental face, but he was wearing a strange long-sleeved robe and a rag bag on his back. Cheng's burden.

The two people, one old and one young, looked incongruous, not only when they stood together, but also with the entire London street scene.

"I think you must be Miss Martha. I am Albus Dumbledore, a professor at Hogwarts School. I have written with Mrs. Cole. I said I would come to visit today." Dumbledore seemed completely Not caring about Martha's looking up and down, she said with a smile.

"Oh, I'm sorry Mr. Dumbledore, I thought you would come later, you know, it's too early now..." Martha apologized slightly.

"Don't be sorry, I changed the itinerary in advance"

"Mrs. Cole and the children are still resting now, look...how about you come back later." Martha apologized

"Okay, I can come back later, I just have some things to deal with, but I want to let this child wait for me here for the time being. He hasn't eaten for a day, can you find him something to eat? I can pay you."

Speaking of which, Dumbledore took out some money.

Seeing that Dumbledore paid, Martha readily agreed to Dumbledore's proposal.

"Professor, where are you going?" Qin Weijie roughly understood the meaning of the conversation between the two, and asked.

"I have some things to deal with, I will pick you up later."

Dumbledore gave a few instructions in Chinese, and then turned and left after speaking to Martha.

...

Following Martha into the orphanage, Qin Weijie kept thinking about what Dumbledore was going to do and why he suddenly put himself in a strange orphanage.

But obviously, this is doing futile work.

"Don't you speak English?" Martha said suddenly

"A little bit, not fluent"

Speaking of which, the two of them had already entered the room, and the inside of the room was relatively clean and warm, but thinking about the prison-like layout outside, no matter how clean and warm it was, Qin Weijie would feel a little uncomfortable.

"You wait a moment, I'll get you some bread."

"good"

Martha turned to get the bread, and Qin Weijie began to observe the entire orphanage.

"Clashing against the evil spirit, a big evil... The air mechanism is locked, the feng shui is blocked, and the place is not good. I am afraid that the children who live here will not be in good health~ If I grow up in this environment, I will be abnormal if I am not crazy. It is still me The layout of Huaxia's house is good, the north and south are transparent, facing south, it is bright..."

After briefly evaluating the orphanage, Martha came back, holding a piece of rye bread with a thin slice of bacon in her hand. This was Qin Weijie's first meal after setting foot on the land of the British Empire.

After handing the rye bread to Qin Weijie, Martha turned around to prepare breakfast, leaving Qin Weijie sitting alone in the dining room.

"Damn! Old Deng cheated on me. He promised me to eat in three minutes. Now it's almost an hour late. Bad old man, bad..."

Just when Qin Weijie was about to eat, a small pale hand snatched the bread from Qin Weijie's hand.

Qin Weijie turned his head in dissatisfaction, and saw a slightly pale, handsome, ten-year-old boy standing behind him with the expression of being owed five million by others, holding the piece of rye bread in his hand.

"Are you new here?"

The handsome young man said with a haughty face, completely ignoring Qin Weijie's dissatisfaction.

"What do you want to do? Why grab my bread?" Qin Weijie resisted the urge to kill him and asked.

"I'm hungry" still with a flat face

"Then won't you take it yourself?"

"I just like what you have in your hand."

"..."

There seems to be nothing wrong with this logic, and Qin Weijie was choked to death for a while.

And the following scene made Qin Weijie dumbfounded. He saw that the boy didn't eat the bread, but threw the bread on the ground casually.

"Go pick it up." The boy said in a commanding tone.

Qin Weijie frowned. He has been happy for more than thirty years in his two lifetimes, and he has never seen such arrogance.

Qin Weijie really wanted to ask him, what is so arrogant about you.

"Go pick it up!" Seeing that Qin Weijie was unmoved, the boy ordered again.

Qin Weijie smiled wryly, knelt down and picked up the bread, watching Qin Weijie pick up the bread, there was a trace of complacency and contempt on the face of the squishy boy.

And would Qin Weijie be the kind of soft-spoken person? The answer is impossible.

"You, what is there to be arrogant about!?"

Qin Weijie cursed loudly, picked up the hard and rough rye bread, and stuffed it into the mouth of the young boy.

A whole piece of rye bread, the thinnest part was the size of an adult's fist, at this moment Qin Weijie forced it into the boy's mouth.

The young man had never seen such a thing before, and he struggled desperately, but he couldn't get rid of Qin Weijie's hands no matter what.

"Aren't you hungry? Don't you like the bread in my hand? Eat it, eat it for me, I can't cure you!!"

Qin Weijie stuck a piece of bread into the boy's mouth, cursing at the same time.

The young man was also furious, pushed Qin Weijie away, took a step back quickly, and coughed twice quickly, the one just now almost choked this guy to death.

After calming down for a long time, the boy looked at Qin Weijie. At this time, his handsome face became extremely ferocious, staring at Qin Weijie like a sinister cobra.

"I'll kill you!!" the boy said, his eyes turned blood red, and Qin Weijie could clearly feel the killing intent.

The boy clenched his fists tightly, and he actually floated up on the spot. At the same time, the chairs and benches in the whole room also floated up.

Qin Weijie's face changed slightly: "I'll go, he can't be the student Dumbledore wants to recruit, right?"

"I am going to kill you!"

With a loud shout, countless tables, chairs and benches rushed towards Qin Weijie.

Of course, Qin Weijie would not sit still and hastily run his body to evade.

Qin Weijie simply dodged the attacks that seemed to have nowhere to hide.

Seeing this, the young man was also a little puzzled, but he had never missed a shot, so he lost his mind for a moment.

Seeing the opportunity, Qin Weijie stretched out his hand to pick up a low stool, thinking about throwing it at the boy.

"Snapped"

Right in the heart!

The boy was knocked down from the air, Qin Weijie picked up the stool again and rubbed it against the ground.

"Flying cow B? You still want to hit me! Do you think you have returned to the clan with ten thousand swords?"

Coincidentally, Martha heard the voice and came in, and saw Qin Weijie riding on the boy beating him, hesitated for a while, and then shouted: "What are you doing?"

"It was him, it was he who robbed me of food and beat me, so I fought back..."

Qin Weijie showed his shameless spirit and spoke directly. The villain complained first, and pointed at the seats and benches that flew aside.

Although Martha wondered how the fight between two children caused a pile of tables, chairs and benches to overturn like this.

But after thinking about it, I felt relieved, any weird things that happened to that child were no longer weird, after all, the child was already weird enough.

"Tom, are you okay!?" Martha didn't blame Qin Weijie either, but stood there and looked at the young man on the ground. She didn't intend to reach out to help, but asked perfunctorily.

"None of your business!" said Tom, ignoring Martha, obviously unwilling to stay here any longer.

He just stared at Qin Weijie fiercely, then turned and left.

And just when he turned around, a badge fell to Qin Weijie's feet. Qin Weijie picked up the badge and wanted to return it to the boy, but he was nowhere to be found.

Qin Weijie shook his head and glanced at the badge.

'Tom Marvolo Riddle'

"Tom? Riddle? This name is a bit familiar..." Qin Weijie murmured.