A heavy door slam passed from Sirius's bedroom through the three floors to the living room on the first floor.

At this time, Lupine said helplessly: "Otherwise, let's hide Padfoot's motorcycle, otherwise it will only take him half an hour to get to Inverness from here."

"If he really wants to rush over secretly, just hiding his motorcycle will not help." Regulus said, "He is no longer a child, he should know the priorities of things... Moreover, we are not direct this time When we entered the Dark Lord's lair, according to the Ministry of Magic, we were just going to 'investigate' the local situation..."

"Then...if we really went to capture Voldemort, would you still stop him?" Lupine asked seriously.

"of course not."

There was another short silence.

Sirius, who was quietly hiding at the corner of the stairs, finally removed the supersensory spell cast on himself and truly returned to his bedroom.

What he didn't know was that Regulus and Lupine exchanged a look in the living room.

"...I want to know why you want to go to the moors of North Yorkshire. If it's a trivial matter, there's no need to make a special trip." Regulus asked his real question.

"Because someone was attacked there, a wandering wizard and a few Muggles." When Lupine answered, there was a sadness that could not be concealed in his tone. "When they were discovered, they were like walking corpses, alive. But the soul is lost.”

"Dementors." Regulus immediately knew the identity of the attacker.

"Obviously, the out-of-control dementors are not the only ones in Azkaban..." Lupine sighed, "I just don't know how many of them have come to England, let alone whether they have come to find a new nest. Or... looking for someone."

"If you can catch them, you may be able to get the answer." Regulus said, "Did Mad-Eye or Kingsley tell you who the prisoner of the Dementor attack was?"

"One is Travers and the other I don't know." Lupine replied, "I only found out about it earlier today. On the way here, I was still thinking about whether I should tell Padfoot about it... After all, we had a good relationship with Marlene MacKinnon when we were in school.”

Regulus was familiar with the name Travers.

Once in the Death Eater ranks, Travers had a high status and was very active.

As a relatively radical pure-blood family, the Travers family has always left its mark on the British wizarding world in various eras. A few decades ago, Travers' grandfather Torquill Travers once Served as Director of the Legal Enforcement Department of the Ministry of Magic.

In Regulus' impression, Travers was a harsh, surly, and unusually arrogant guy. Except for pure-blood wizards, he treated all other creatures in a condescending manner. Attitude treatment.

According to Sirius' description, a few months before the murder of James and his wife, Travers planned and participated in a horrific attack that killed Sirius' friend Marlene MacKinnon and her family.

"It seems that things are starting to get out of control... You know, now I really hope that Dumbledore will become the Minister of Magic." Regulus said gloomily, "Perhaps, I should make a suggestion to him, let He... puts the overall situation first?"

"I think Dumbledore hears this kind of advice at least five times a day, but he seems determined to stay away from power." Lupine replied with a wry smile, "Maybe he has something to hide, to be honest, we don't care about him at all. Don’t understand…”

"Okay, I'm just talking... let's focus on what we can do..." Regulus also smiled again, "Well, see you in Inverness."

One night five days later, a small tent suddenly appeared in a woodland somewhere in northern Scotland.

From the outside, the tent looked very simple, but inside it was quite luxurious. It was an old-fashioned three-bedroom house with a bathroom and a kitchen.

There were five wizards, four men, one woman, sitting in the living room.One of the oldest wizards with a scarred face and a magic eye and prosthetic legs was the famous Alastor Moody. He was holding his own curved wine bottle and enjoying the unknown liquid inside.

"Mad-Eye, I don't understand why you have to camp in this ghost place for one night. Our time has been wasted long enough." A wizard with glasses, a short brown beard, and a ruddy complexion said. Said rudely to Moody.

"There are dangers everywhere ahead. What do you think we are doing? Are we traveling?" Moody stared at the wizard with his blue magic eyes and retorted in a rough voice, "Or do you think that in the dark night, your eyes Can you see better than me?"

"Amos, Mad-Eye is also doing it for safety reasons..." Another wizard wearing bloomers, a bit blue in the face and unshaven, tried to smooth things over, "Mad-Eye, actually I also have a question, why do we have such There are many more comfortable places to stay, but you have to come to this ghost...remote place?"

"Obviously because of some of his quirks." A large man with a black moustache in the corner said sinisterly. "We all know that Mr. Moody suspects that everyone in the world wants to harm him."

Moody did not look back, but the magic eye had already swung into his head, and his gaze was aimed at the big wizard through his skull. His left hand was still holding the curved wine bottle, and his right hand had already pulled out the wand.

Amos Diggory and Arnold Peacegood in knickerbockers immediately became nervous.

They all knew that McNeil was once a Death Eater, and they also knew that the most famous part of all Moody's deeds was capturing enough Death Eaters to fill half of Azkaban.

Both secretly drew their wands, preparing to prevent a possible duel.

"McNeil, others forget what you have done, but I will never forget it." Moody said rudely in a threatening tone, "I can tell you, if you give me any reason, I will send you back to Albany." Zkaban, that's where you should be."

McNeill snorted coldly and did not reply, but the white knuckles on his right hand holding the ax revealed that he was not as calm in his heart as he looked.

Tonks had no interest in the discussions of these people. She lay facelessly on the sofa, humming a tune, her hair changing colors, and she seemed completely unaware of the tense atmosphere in the tent.

"Why hasn't that guy named Lupin come back yet... He must have encountered some danger." Seeing that the atmosphere in the tent was a bit tense, Amos Diggory started a new topic.

"Maybe I should go out and look for him?" Arnold Peacegood said, making a gesture to get up and leave the tent.

"Sit down!" Moody shouted.

Valley Veins</span>Peasgood had just stood up and had only taken half a step. When he heard Moody's roar, his foot was hanging in the air and had not yet touched the ground.

Tonks couldn't help but burst into laughter.

"Where are you going to find him? If you just go out and he comes back, do we still have to look for you?" Moody said, "If he is in danger, we will all receive the signal."

"What if he was killed by the troll before he could send a signal?" McNeil said sadly, "I don't know why you want to find such a homeless man to join us... He is wearing something like Lucius's house elf..."

At this, Tonks jumped up from the sofa, her hair turning a dazzling bright red.

"If he hadn't come with us, some idiot who was running around with Xinkpunk would have been drowned in the swamp yesterday!" Tonks accused McNeil excitedly, "You ungrateful guy, you actually You’re still talking bad about him behind his back!”

"What did you just say about me?" McNeil stood up angrily after being poked into the scar. He was holding a big ax in his right hand and his left hand reached to his waist to touch his wand. "Look at Moody's age. For his sake, I don’t care about him. How dare you, a young trainee Auror, teach me a lesson?

"Everyone, calm down!" Amos Diggory hurriedly stood in front of Tonks, "Nymphadora, now is not the time for a quarrel!"

Peacegood finally put his foot down and walked towards McNeil and said, "She is not an ordinary trainee Auror. Don't forget who was the first one when we met the two dementors who ran out. The Patronus spell that was released...Mad-Eye, did you teach her this? I remember that this spell is not taught in school."

"That was when you were at school. Last year's Professor Black taught us this spell in the first month of school..." Tonks said proudly, then turned to Amos Diggory and said: "Don't call me Nephi. Dora.”

"Okay, Miss Tonks..." Amos Diggory said helplessly, "Actually, I heard Ced talk about you and about Professor Black. To be honest... I really want to meet him. His, Seid said he learned a lot in last year’s class.”

"There will be a chance," Tonks said, "But speaking of which, don't we really need to go find Remus? He has been out for two hours."

Neither Amos nor Peacegood answered because they knew the question was meant for Moody.

"Remus Lupine is a powerful wizard, an expert in the dark arts, and has extensive experience in surviving in the wild." Moody said, "No one is better at operating in such a place."

The meaning is obvious, so that Tonks and others don't have to worry about it.

at the same time.

"Sneeze!" Lupine sneezed somewhere in the dark forest.

"You have a cold?" Regulus, who was wearing a cloak, asked. "Scotland is much colder than London, especially in the woodland."

"I know...I have traveled almost all over the UK over the years." Lupine smiled bitterly, "Let's get down to business...According to what I and Padfoot did last time to explore, there are about a hundred people to the north of this forest. Miles is where those five-legged monsters live... It's difficult to find evidence of their attacks, because they will eat their prey completely, leaving no bones... I'm not sure if they have come to this area. Forest, because so much time has passed.”

"You don't have to worry about this... because I have already checked the situation around here while waiting for you to come here." Regulus said, "Except for a few stupid mountain trolls , there is nothing to be afraid of.”

"Hahaha... Sorry, I was delayed for a while in York County." Lupine explained, "You know our team... the tacit understanding is not enough and needs to be broken in. But fortunately, the few dementors who ran out have already He was caught and sent to the Ministry of Magic for investigation.”

"They can't find anything, but I think..."

At this point, Regulus suddenly stopped.

Lupine originally planned to ask, but his many years of traveling experience told him that Regulus might have discovered something, so he immediately extinguished the light at the top of the wand.

In the darkness, Regulus's eyes glowed green.

Lu Ping suddenly felt that the person in front of him was more like a wolf than himself.

"Stay here, that thing hasn't found us yet." Regulus said softly, "It should be a sentry. I'll kill it...otherwise you will definitely be discovered."

After saying that, he went straight into the dark forest, moving so quickly that he seemed to be completely unhindered by the night.

After a few short but long minutes, just when Lupine was wondering if it was time to chase him, Regulus came back and without saying a word, grabbed one of Lupine's arms and disapparated.

"Where is this?" Lu Ping looked around. They seemed to have arrived in a cave.

"The place where I sleep at night." Regulus waved his wand, and a ball of light floated into the air, illuminating the cave. Then he pointed to the forest in the distance and said, "We were there just now."

"What did you just find?" Lupine asked.

"This thing." Regulus threw a stone to the ground, then waved his wand to lift the transformation spell, and the corpse of an ugly creature suddenly appeared.

"Is this... a ghoul?" Lupine, as an expert in dark magic creatures, quickly recognized the identity of this creature, but soon he fell into doubt again, "A very strange ghoul... this The claws... the shape of the spine, and the number of teeth in the mouth are completely different from ordinary ghouls... I bet if this thing appeared in someone's attic, it would scare the children... I This is the first time I have seen such a ghoul..."

"But this is the second time I've seen it," Regulus said. "The last time was in a secret passage in Hogwarts, the one behind the statue of the toady Gregory."

"Oh my god... I walked that road hundreds of times when I was in school... but I didn't find anything unusual." Lupine said regretfully, "It seems that I missed a lot of good things... By the way, you just You say 'sentinel', are there a lot of them around here?"

"No... when I came here yesterday, there wasn't even one around here..." Regulus stared at the ghoul and said, "And this guy was obviously sent here."

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