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Chapter 170 Department of Mysteries

"Is he being hunted by the Ministry of Magic and the Death Eaters?"

Sophie fixed her eyes on Sherlock, and the tension in her tone was extremely obvious.

This witch must have a story with Eddie, and when Eddie said they broke up in school, and Amy's mother didn't know who it was, Sherlock couldn't help thinking of a lot of love-hate entanglements in his mind The story of a love triangle.

But now is obviously not the time to think about these messy things.

"That's right, so you have to take me to find Mrs. Selwyn from the Department of Mysteries as soon as possible. If you find her sooner, Eddie's situation will become safer sooner!"

Sophie hurriedly put a robe over her pajamas, grabbed Sherlock's arm and took him with her, apparating into the Ministry of Magic.

There is also permanent anti-apparition magic within the Ministry of Magic, but it is not effective for regular employees, but unless it is an extremely urgent situation, no wizard will apparate directly to the Ministry of Magic.

That's very impolite, and employees usually flush the toilet in when they go to work (in the original book, when Voldemort was in power, Mr. Weasley used Apparation to go directly to the office when he went to work).

Of course they couldn't care less now, and the apparition landed directly on the sixth basement floor of the Ministry of Magic.

"I've never been to the ninth floor where the office is located, so I can only go to the sixth floor and then take the elevator!" Sophie explained, and then she took Sherlock to run all the way like that elevator, where they passed, Lights suddenly came on everywhere.

The entire Ministry of Magic seemed very lonely. At this hour, there were not even wizards on night shift. Except for the Aurors patrolling the Ministry, it was empty and there was no one there.

Before they came to the elevator, they suddenly discovered that there was a motionless person lying on the side of the corridor!
Sophie walked forward with a pale face, and saw the face of the wizard who didn't know whether he was dead or alive.

"It's Brook! There are only two teams left in the Auror Command, and they will be on duty tonight!"

The wizard named Brooke was not dead, he was just lucky to be stunned, and Sherlock frowned as he watched him.

"Those undercover in the Ministry of Magic have already started their operations, and the Death Eaters in Sheffield helped them draw most of the attention of the Aurors. Now the entire Ministry of Magic's defenses are empty. How much food did the traitor bring?" The Ministry of Magic where the Dead Apostles come is not allowed to do so for the time being."

"What should we do now?" Sophie said in a trembling voice, "Should we find a way to inform other people in the Ministry of Magic first, or go directly to the Department of Mysteries?"

She is just an ordinary civilian in the Ministry of Magic, has no combat experience, and can't even use the Iron Armor Curse, so she can't form combat power at all.

Sherlock didn't count on her either, he continued to run towards the elevator.

"Is there a way you can notify all the Ministry of Magic staff and have them rush back to the Ministry of Magic within three or ten minutes?"

"Even the Minister of Magic can't do that!"

"Then there is no need to notify. There is no time at all. Let's go and see the situation first."

Sherlock released the control magic. The Ministry of Magic obviously has a very special magic protection. The control magic that has always been invincible has been faintly restricted and squeezed. There is no way to extend it to the maximum distance of ten meters, and it can only be barely reached. Eight meters away.

But even if it is only eight meters, this perception range is enough.

They got into the elevator and started going down.

Sophie was very nervous, but she pursed her lips tightly, and didn't express any intention of retreating, and still followed Sherlock down.

When they came to the hall of the Ministry of Magic on the eighth floor, they saw two Aurors lying on the ground, which made Sherlock's heart sink slightly.

There must be more than one Death Eater in the Ministry of Magic!
Finally, in the darkness and silence, they reached the ninth floor, the floor of the Department of Mysteries.

Sophie tightly held the spell in her hand. After Sherlock stepped out of the elevator, he took out the bag containing the wand and scattered more than 30 wands around.

No more, the corridors in the Ministry of Magic have limited space, and Sherlock's range of magic control has been suppressed. If there are more, the densely packed wands will be crowded in the narrow corridors, and the effect will be compromised.

After getting out of the elevator, there was only a straight corridor in front of them. Walking along the corridor, they saw another Auror lying unconscious on the ground.

According to Sophie, there are currently two teams of Aurors staying in the Ministry of Magic, that is, ten people. There are eleven Aurors including Scrimgeour, the director of the Auror Office. They found that they had been cursed. There are four dizzy!
After walking along the corridor for about 2 minutes, they came to the end.

There is a black door here, the door is very simple, there is no door handle or any logo on it, and a gap was opened by someone.

Sherlock walked to the door, controlled the magic to detect the scene behind the door in advance, and after confirming that no one was ambushing at the door and it was safe, he pushed open the black door.

Behind the door was a huge circular room, everything in it, including the ceiling and floor, was black.

There are twelve doors on the wall that are as black as when they came in. After both Sherlock and Sophie walked in, the circular wall turned around quickly, making it impossible for them to tell which door they came in from just now. , Which door should I enter now.

Sophie asked out of breath.

"Nobody here? They're not here?"

Sherlock didn't answer her question, because the rotating wall had stopped at this time, and he walked along the circular wall door by door, trying to detect the scene behind the door with the control magic.

But this time he can't "see" anything, there is nothingness behind all the doors, as if the black round room they are in now is independent of all spaces.

Thinking of this, Sherlock suddenly showed a comprehension expression.

That's right, they are indeed independent of the space now. The hall of the Department of Mysteries is a space that has been opened up alone, and those black doors are not really doors in the true sense, but are connected with another space. Entrance!

That's why his control magic couldn't detect the situation behind the door.

After Sherlock figured it out, he had no better way, thinking of knowing which door the Death Eaters had entered, he could only open one door by one to have a look.

Dozens of wands floated behind him as Sherlock walked to a black door.

"Get ready." He reminded Sophie.

Sophie was sweating warmly from the palm of her hand holding the wand. She nodded, signaling that she was ready.

Then, Sherlock slightly pushed open the door in front of him.

This square room looks very bright, the room is almost empty, there is only one table, and in the center of the room there is a huge glass water tank filled with dark green liquid, big enough for people to swim in it.

Many white things are slowly floating in it. At first glance, it will make people think that these things are some special species of jellyfish, but after careful observation, it will be found that those things floating in the water are actually all It's the brain!
Sophie said with trembling lips, looking at the scene inside.

"I seem to have heard of this place. This is the brain hall, where the silent people study the human brain."

Sherlock only took a few glances, then looked away from this brain hall.

Those brains in the glass water tank are all like living things, and it makes people feel creepy after watching them for a long time.

There are many other doors in the Hall of the Brain, but Sherlock has no intention of opening them one by one to confirm. Now he must first make sure whether the Death Eaters are behind the twelve black doors.

The door of the brain hall is not closed, and the round wall with the black door will not rotate anymore.

Sherlock didn't stop, he quickly came to the next black door, and the wands floating beside him also changed the aiming positions of the wand tips.

He pushed open a second black door.

This is a room full of planets, pitch-black, with no boundaries, ceiling or floor.

Even Sherlock, who doesn't know much about astronomy, can see the remarkable solar system at a glance. The nine planets rotate around the big fireball in the middle according to their own orbits and speeds (in 2006, Pluto was downgraded to It is a dwarf planet, and now there are only eight planets in the solar system).

Even if Sophie didn't mention this room, Sherlock could guess its name - "Planet Hall".

Then he opened the third door.

The space behind this door was large, dimly lit, square, and sunken in the center, forming a gigantic stone pit, some twenty feet deep.

Stone steps surround the entire room, like stone benches, gradually descending step by step, each step is very steep, like a lecture theater.

In the center of the stone pit was a raised stone platform, on which stood an arch, which looked very old and dilapidated, with no walls around the arch, and a tattered black curtain or valance hung on it.

Although the air here is cold and there is no wind, it is shaking gently, as if it has just been touched.

This room gave Sherlock a very bad feeling, he didn't go to study what kind of hall it was, but continued to open the fourth door.

The room is filled with beautiful, diamond-like sparkles of dancing light, and clocks can be found on every surface.

They vary in size from as large as a grandfather clock to as small as a pocket watch.

The "tick" sound of the rotation of the hands on countless clocks sounded like thousands of tiny footsteps marching in line.

And at the same time that the door opened, in the middle of the room, a wizard with a wand and a hideous iron mask on his face met Sherlock's eyes!

(End of this chapter)