Chapter 385 Rita Skeeter's Escape Journey 2

Chapter 385 Rita Skeeter's Escape Journey 2

Rita Skeeter had never been so grateful for learning Animagus.

She lay on the ground to rest for a few minutes, and vaguely heard the messy footsteps and the barking of dogs. Rita grabbed the wand, but still couldn't use magic normally. At the last moment, the world in her vision suddenly became hundreds of times larger.

She turned into a beetle.

Animagus, this special magic that can be transformed without using a wand, Rita used to think that it was useless except for eavesdropping, but now it saved her life again.

She hid under the leaves and trembled, watching a dozen hounds sniffing around in the jungle, growling in her throat, but still couldn't find her trace.

The black-clad soldiers searched in the woods for a while with dangerous Muggle weapons in their hands, and then one of them pressed his ear and said, "The woman disappeared."

After a moment, he said to the others, "Keep searching, and the magnetic field will be turned on again in half an hour."

"Understood!"

Everyone responded and dispersed.

They didn't even spare the treetops above their heads and the bushes under their feet, but no one noticed a small beetle.

Rita was so scared that her heart was pounding. She forced her six weak legs to crawl carefully along the grass for a while, then flapped her wings and flew up.

A black hound suddenly looked up, looked at the chubby beetle, and sniffed.

Rita was so scared that she almost fell from the air. She barely stabilized and flapped her wings desperately to fly forward, but she could only fly about two meters per second. The hound could easily catch her with a pounce.

Every moment, she seemed to be able to feel the breath of death.

Fortunately, the black soldier suddenly pulled the hound: "Okay, man, there's nothing fun about bugs, come this way."

The hound looked back at the beetle, turned around and followed his master to look in another direction. Rita breathed a sigh of relief and tried harder to escape.

She knew that she only had half an hour at most.

However, when she saw the huge white building complex that looked very holy in the sun, she desperately found that she had gone in the wrong direction.

It was too late to turn around at this time, so Rita simply made up her mind and flew over the wall.

No matter where you go, there are sewer pipes and ventilation pipes.

The beetle crawled into the dark gap, ignoring the stinking smell around, and found a dry place to lie down, panting.

Even in the Animagus form, such intense exercise consumed a lot of her physical strength.

Half an hour later, the buzzing sound came as expected, and the magic power that was usually like a part of her body suddenly became agitated. Rita wailed and turned back to her original form, then bit her lips and endured it bitterly.

She tasted the taste of blood.

This time the buzzing sound lasted longer than before, but perhaps the pipe played a certain protective role, and the pain was less than before.

Then it was another escape.

She stumbled forward along the pipe. The closed environment around her was quiet and dark, which made people feel a little more secure.

Rita pulled out her wand and whispered, "Fluorescent flash."

The faint light illuminated the pipe and sprinkled on the woman's embarrassed body.

Rita breathed a sigh of relief - fortunately, such a simple little spell can still be used.

She bit the wand and crawled forward along the pipe - turning into a beetle was concealed, but she was tired and hungry at this time. In the beetle state, she just wanted to obey her instinct and lie still, but the human body could still move under the compulsion of will.

The ground was covered with dust, and there were some insects and mouse corpses.

An ordinary woman might scream in fear of mice, but for wizards who would use frog brains and leeches and cockroaches to make potions, such things were not worth distracting her attention.

She crawled along the dirty pipe, not knowing where she could escape, but the sense of crisis made her dare not stop.

Rita, who knew almost nothing about Muggle technology, did not realize what the slight sinking of the pipe meant when she crawled.

……

In the laboratory, a row of small green lights lit up one by one. On the screen, an area began to sound an alarm.

"The pressure sensor of the ventilation duct sent a signal - the intensity does not look like a mouse." Someone said in a normal voice.

"Send a scorpion-shaped car in." The ponytail man smiled and said, "I saw that the protagonists in the movies always escape through the ventilation duct, so I installed the sensor. In the past, I could only kill a few stupid mice, but today, it seems that I finally got something."

The woman in red smiled and said, "Caught a mouse that can do magic?"

"Yes, a brave mouse."

...

When the strange "buzzing" sounded, Rita Skeeter's hair stood up all over her body and she almost had a stress reaction.

But then, she found that this was not the kind of weird thing that made magic go out of control, but a toy car.

The toy car shaped like a scorpion with a cylindrical device on top drove in front of her, and a dazzling light came from the front of the car.

Rita was stunned for a moment, then she pointed with her magic wand: "Shatter into pieces!"

With a "bang", the toy car exploded, and parts flew everywhere. The cylinder rolled to Rita's feet and suddenly began to emit white gas.

Rita took only one breath and felt dizzy.

She quickly held her breath and moved away from that area, her hands trembling slightly as she searched in her crocodile leather handbag.

When she escaped from England, she took many necessities with her, including the antidote.

The woman pulled out the cork and drank the potion in one gulp. Her brain suddenly became clear. Then she took out the invisibility cloak from her bag and put it on herself.

Rita believed that with Muggle technology, it was impossible to see through wizards' invisibility.

But she was too tired to escape further. He took out a few pieces of chocolate from his bag, ate them voraciously, and drank a bottle of mead. Only then did he feel like he was alive.

——How long has it been since this half hour?

Rita was about to check the time when she suddenly heard the "buzzing" sound again.

This time, sounds came from both ends of the pipe, and more than a dozen vehicles began to surround her with clear targets, some of which had gun barrels adjusting their angles - they were the only Muggle weapons Rita knew.

Rita was shocked - she was wearing an invisibility cloak, so why could these ghosts still find her?

"boom--"

The sound of the explosion followed the pipe and spread far and wide. People in the underground cells heard the sound and raised their heads in confusion, not knowing what happened.

…

A few minutes later, there were several things in front of the ponytail man——

Broken, blood-stained coat.

Dragon skin women's short boots with broken soles.

and a damaged invisibility cloak.

After the invisibility cloak is damaged, the invisibility effect disappears, and now it looks like just a simple cloak made of gray animal skin.

On the big screen, a short video was played——

The scorpion-shaped vehicles surrounded an empty place. While they were waiting for the order to attack, a bright light suddenly burst out from the center of the encirclement. The invisible attack force instantly tore several scorpion-shaped vehicles into pieces. Then the scene continued It turned into a flickering snowflake.

The technicians adjusted the video. The picture was frozen at the last moment, and a figure in green clothes could be vaguely seen.

The pony-tailed man laughed angrily: "Why can't these wizards just give up and have to fight to the death?"

No one was around to answer.

"Turn on the magnetic field." The ponytail man said coldly, "I don't believe she can hold on for a few more times."

"The cooling of the magnet has not been completed yet." The man in glasses reminded in a low voice: "I'm afraid it will take about ten minutes, otherwise the instrument will be easily burned."

The man with the ponytail said angrily: "I told them a long time ago that they should change their bit tablets. Those guys above would rather spend money to find women than invest more in longevity projects. They will have to pay the price sooner or later."

"Don't be angry." The woman in red said nonchalantly: "That little mouse can't escape. It just so happens that you can use this as an excuse to apply for another fund."

"You're right." The man's anger went away as quickly as it came. He softened his tone and said, "Then do it again in ten minutes."

"No, wait twenty more minutes." The woman in red said, "Wouldn't it be more interesting to suddenly suffer a serious blow when she thought she was safe?"

…

Rita cowered in the pipe fearfully, but the invisible torture she expected did not come.

She waited for another minute, then finally couldn't hold it any longer and ran out of her hiding place.

Rita, who had recovered some of her strength, had transformed into a beetle again. At this time, only this form could make her feel safe.

She crawled along a section of the pipe, sometimes looking through the bars to see where she was.

She saw all kinds of strange instruments, owls locked up for research, busy researchers, messy storage rooms, and densely stacked warehouses.

After seeing a bunch of fake friends' books piled on the shelves in the warehouse, Rita suddenly stopped and wandered several times, but couldn't get rid of her thoughts.

As for what Rita Skeeter regretted most about this encounter, it must be that she left her friend's account with Wade Gray in the UK.

Before, Rita's idea was very simple - she could not complete Vader Gray's commission, and she was worried that he would take back the invisibility cloak, so she unilaterally cut off contact with Vader Gray.

She knew that some Friends' Books had the function of positioning, and she was worried that the one Wade Gray gave her was the kind of Positioning Friends' Book, so she left it at home when she left.

In fact, Rita Skeeter still has a stack of friends in her bag, but she has no friends. Those contacts are either caught by her, or they are just plastic colleagues.

She knew very well that these so-called "friends" were quite effective at helping her find out information, and some could help smoothen the relationship, but no one was willing or able to rescue her.

Vader Gray was still a child and probably couldn't, but he had Dumbledore behind him.

No matter how much Rita Skeeter slandered and belittled Dumbledore as a confused old lunatic, she knew in her heart that the only one who could lend a helping hand to strangers or even enemies, and who could save her in such an environment, was Dumbledore. Thoughts Dumbledore.

But she lost the only possible way to connect with Dumbledore.

Regret gnawed at her heart like a bug. Rita Skeeter hesitated for a moment and suddenly took out a very precious potion from her handbag, only a small sip of it.

Its color is like molten gold, and the golden light shines in the flow, which is very attractive.

This is the Elixir of Fortune, a lucky potion that brings good luck to the person who takes it. It is very strange and very expensive.

Rita also got such a small amount by chance. The effect of the medicine only lasted about an hour, and she was always reluctant to drink it.

At this time, Rita raised her head and drank the potion. Then, she closed her eyes. An extremely uplifting feeling flowed through her body, making her feel that her mind was extremely clear, her magic was smooth and powerful, and she seemed to be able to do anything.

No... not everything can be done...

Rita opened her eyes, her eyes looked extremely calm, without any panic or fatigue.

She clearly realized that she could not escape from this place within an hour - she didn't even know what the surrounding environment was like, whether there were ordinary people.

- But there was a countermeasure.

Strange confidence and intuition urged her to act immediately.

She immediately turned into a beetle, drilled out of the fence, and fell into the warehouse.

The warehouse manager just turned his head and turned to sort out the items on the shelf, and didn't notice that there was an uninvited guest in his territory.

Rita quickly stole two fake friend books, then hid her crocodile leather handbag in the corner of the bottom shelf, and only stuffed a few bottles of potion into her pocket.

——The remaining things in the handbag are of no use to her at present, but the interview notes inside are the precious treasures accumulated by Rita over the years. If she loses them, she will be heartbroken.

Then, Rita used a small floating spell to send the fake friend book through the fence into the ventilation duct. Before the administrator turned around, she turned into a beetle and flew away again.

This time, she took the friend book back to the room where the owl was imprisoned.

Fortunately, there was no one inside.

"Of course." Rita thought confidently: "Luck is on my side now!"

For these animals, the management is much looser. The owls are locked in ordinary cages, and an unlocking spell can easily release them.

Intuition made Rita choose an owl that looked the thinnest, rolled up a friend book and tied it to its claws. The owl looked at her quietly.

Rita wrote down the name and address of Weed Grey, leaned over and touched the top of the owl's head with her forehead.

"Please... you must deliver the letter."

The owl cooed twice, as if to agree.

"Alaho!"

More than a dozen owls fluttered up, got out of the room through the narrow window, and returned to the free sky.

There was a noisy sound outside.

Rita Skeeter turned into a beetle and landed on the back of a hairy-legged fishing owl in time, and passed through the window with it.

"Bang!"

The gunshot rang out, and the fishing owl fell with a wail, hitting the ground heavily, accompanied by splashing blood and feathers. A beetle quickly crawled to a gap in the corner of the wall.

As soon as it found a hiding place, the buzzing sound rang again.

In the silent struggle, Rita opened her eyes wide and saw the scattered owls being pierced by bullets and falling like raindrops.

But the thinnest owl shuttled flexibly, carrying Rita Skeeter's hope of survival, and flew away.

The buzzing sound had no effect on it, but if Rita had just been lying on its back and trying to escape, both the person and the bird would have fallen like a kite with a broken string.

In the agony, she showed a twisted smile.

When this difficult time was over, Rita jumped up again without hesitation and crawled deep underground following the guidance of the potion.

The air gradually became turbid, and she saw narrow cells and many children who looked very young in the cells...

A little explanation:

The sea was not boiled, it was the cooling water discharged, and the article said there was a pipeline.

Water-cooled magnets were the first type of magnets used by scientists. In 1996, the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory of the United States increased the magnetic field level of water-cooled magnets to 33T. Such a strong magnetic field was not actually needed in the article.

It was not a large magnetic field covering the entire island, but a dotted distribution like a lot of sesame seeds sprinkled on a cake, resonating at the same frequency.

In addition, the water-cooled magnetic field can actually be maintained for a long time with high intensity. In order to increase the coverage area, this article shortened the duration and can only be turned on for one to three minutes each time.

The author's knowledge of physics is not enough to make more detailed settings. If there are errors, please treat it as the different rules of the magic world.

In the end, did the Muggle government participate in this? If the Muggle government knew it, why didn't the Ministry of Magic know it?

First of all, there is no close relationship between the Ministry of Magic and the Muggle government in peacetime. Fudge will occasionally jump out and say, "We have a dragon entering the country, you guys prepare."

Secondly, not every Muggle government has strong control over its own country. Don't substitute China's situation for other countries.